colonial 5mo ago • 85%
> online gambling
Cry harder
colonial 6mo ago • 100%
It's hard to choose, but I would say the Haber-Bosch process for ammonia production. It's a miracle of chemistry that almost single-handedly vaporized the population doomers. As much as half of the nitrogen in your body comes from Haber-process-derived synthetic fertilizer!
colonial 6mo ago • 100%
I mean... you're surrounded by trillions of perfect nanotech devices. They're called MOSFETs, and they make literally the entire modern world go round.
colonial 6mo ago • 80%
We need better alternatives
We'd need a quantum leap in storage and bandwidth first - orders of magnitude better, if we want competing to be financially sane 😮💨
Maybe when Google is (hopefully eventually) shattered into a million pieces by some US judge, YouTube could be splintered into several smaller companies, each with some portion of the infrastructure and channels/videos - thus forcing competition. Vaguely similar to the Bell divestiture.
colonial 6mo ago • 100%
I suspect I get mild SAD in the winters. Not enough to feel truly depressed, just more of a constant low-level "damn, I wanna nap right now."
It's probably different from your case, but what helped me was a sunlight lamp (light therapy) and a grab bag of supplements - standard multivitamins as well as magnesium pills and vitamin D fortified milk.
colonial 6mo ago • 100%
Oof. Looks like this affected some other languages as well - somebody at Microsoft needs to up their documentation game, methinks.
colonial 7mo ago • 100%
Snowball throwing was banned because a nephew of a friend of a friend of a teacher was supposedly blinded by one.
FWIW, this can actually happen, although I still think that's an overbearing rule. One of my younger siblings had a teacher who was blind in one eye - ice shards from a snowball when she was in elementary.
colonial 7mo ago • 100%
Chevy Suburban. I volunteered to drive for a university course field trip and it's what I got stuck with.
- Unresponsive fatass brick of a vehicle. I mean, come on, a minivan has more cargo space and the same passenger capacity without three light aircraft worth of inertia.
- Dashboard sucked. It took me a solid three minutes to find the button shifts. (I know these can be done well - Honda does them right - but the PRNDL was fucking laid out in a thin row at the side of the dashboard. Huh?)
- Overtaking damn near anything would redline the (very new, less than 10k miles) engine.
colonial 7mo ago • 66%
I'm not well versed in the machinations of the Chinese government, but if a relatively "normie" VPN like Nord works in China... it's probably controlled opposition (i.e. they're logging everything to a government server.)
colonial 8mo ago • 100%
I understand the sentiment, but... HTML and some light CSS is just as fast and much more accessible. It just strikes me as something that defines itself in opposition to "thing everyone uses" for no good reason.
colonial 8mo ago • 95%
set timers
This broke for me a few months ago. It just randomly... won't start, despite saying otherwise.
colonial 8mo ago • 83%
That sounds like more effort than just... writing the code.
colonial 9mo ago • 100%
A large language model has no concept of good or bad, and it has no logic.
Tragically, this seems to be the minority viewpoint - at least among CS students. A lot of my peers seem to have convinced themselves that the hallucination machines are intelligent... even when it vomits unsound garbage into their lap.
This is made worse by the fact that most of our work is simple and/or derivative enough for $MODEL
to usually give the right answer, which reinforces the majority "thinking machine" viewpoint - while in reality, generating an implementation of &
using only ~
and |
is hardly an Earth-shattering accomplishment.
And yes, it screws them academically. It doesn't take a genius to connect the dots when the professor who encourages Copilot use has a sub-50% test average.
colonial 9mo ago • 88%
My guy, see a doctor. Temporary blindness/blacking out is not a normal reaction to nicotine, even in excess. "Nic sick" should just mean nausea/vomiting, dizziness and headaches.
colonial 11mo ago • 94%
Can't beat Iosevka in my opinion. I use the Term variant for my shell as well.
colonial 12mo ago • 100%
A few posters I bought from the campus poster sale at the start of the year. (Specifically, a woodblock print, a solar system map and a Cowboy Bebop poster.)
I have a huge window with a nice view (in a university owned apartment no less!) so I can afford to skimp on the other walls.
colonial 1y ago • 66%
Too late, already moved to Garmin after my third dead Charge 5 in ~1.5 years.
colonial 1y ago • 100%
$0.26/hour is pretty good!
colonial 1y ago • 50%
At least five years. Even if the company goes under tomorrow, it'll be a while before the mainboard is truly obsolete. The main "consumable" would be the battery, which I can probably hack a replacement for if official parts are no longer available.
Inspired by the comments on [this](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/08/openai-details-how-to-keep-chatgpt-from-gobbling-up-website-data/) Ars article, I've decided to program my website to "poison the well" when it gets a request from `GPTBot`. The intuitive approach is just to generate some HTML like this: ``` <p> // Twenty pages of random words </p> ``` (I also considered just hardcoding twenty megabytes of "FUCK YOU," but that's a little juvenile for my taste.) Unfortunately, I'm not very familiar with ML beyond a few basic concepts, so I'm unsure if this would get me the most bang for my buck. What do you smarter people on Lemmy think? (I'm aware this won't do much, but I'm petty.)
I was 11 when I took this screenshot - Ubuntu 14.04 running on my very first (incredibly bad) PC. As I recall, I couldn't install Windows 7 without a DVD drive, and that was out of my budget :p Pretty sure I had it riced out with the Compiz cube and everything.
Reposting my all-time best performing squid game meme from Reddit. Originally posted 1/3/21.
Hey all, I just hopped on the Lemmy train, and needless to say, I'm hooked. It's a breath of fresh air compared to the corporate hellhole that Reddit has become, and I'd like to at least pay a *little* bit for it. Unfortunately, I'm a broke uni student with enough subscriptions as is, so I can really only justify a buck or two a month. This is where my indecision arises - should I donate to the instance that my account lives on, or to the LemmyNet project itself? I've been digging around, looking at operating costs and such, and I can't figure out which one needs it more (for want of a better term.) So, what are your thoughts? Or am I just *wildly* overthinking this?
Copying over some of my posts from Reddit, since I'm probably gonna nuke my account. Originally posted 10/01/2021.