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submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

The experience seemed roughly on par with trying to advise a mediocre, but not completely incompetent, graduate student. However, this was an improvement over previous models, whose capability was closer to an actually incompetent graduate student. It may only take one or two further iterations of improved capability (and integration with other tools, such as computer algebra packages and proof assistants) until the level of "competent graduate student" is reached, at which point I could see this tool being of significant use in research level tasks.

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submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

What do y'all guys use for cloud storage, like DropBox, Google Drive, and so on? Ideally something which works even when offline.

I'd like to de-google of course.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

(Please don't downvote just because I need some help.)

I was once a privacy nut. But it's getting so hard nowadays, and there are so many more important problems -- global warming, AI, the inevitable collapse of the current world order... how does privacy improve the world? Please help remind me.

I do approve of privacy, of course. All this protect-the-children flak is bullshit. I just can't remember why I thought it was something worth fighting for and preaching about.

[-] [email protected] 92 points 1 month ago

Please call it Twitter in the title unless there's a good reason not to. I thought this was Xorg.

[-] [email protected] 84 points 3 months ago

I hate that people never say "bye" on the phone.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago

I'd prefer to see downloads per country per capita.

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submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

In a poll on hexbear (see link), it was observed that there are very few cis women on Lemmy. I think this is the intersection of several problems:

  • engagement of women on Reddit was always low
  • fewer women in computer science
  • I'm hesitant to recommend anything fediversy to people who don't tinker with computers like I do and thus might need a more handholdy UX.

I gather that transgender people tend to be more into CS, though I don't see why that explains entirely such an astonishing presence of the transgender community on Hexbear.

Anyway, I just thought I'd open the floor to brainstorming.

[-] [email protected] 57 points 4 months ago

They made the right call. Macaroni and cheese is definitely that good.

[-] [email protected] 50 points 4 months ago

I laugh because this is funny but then I think, oh god what if she's serious and now there's going to be a twitter campaign to remove satanic language in tech.

[-] [email protected] 65 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yes, it really is this bad. One third of women in my country are sexually assaulted in adulthood. This is a bad conversation starter.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

The fool jingled miserably across the floor

(Art by canisbeans. Text exerpt from Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett.)

[-] [email protected] 59 points 5 months ago

Yes. They skipped right over. It confused many people at the time: a whole year of their lives, gone. Many centuries later when zero was invented, an explanation was finally offered as to why that happened.

[-] [email protected] 41 points 5 months ago

No, it's unreasonable to expect the servers to stay online forever. Instead, they should be required to hand the keys over to the community if they stop providing the online service.

[-] [email protected] 60 points 5 months ago

Addictive? Factorio.

[-] [email protected] 48 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

TIL that there exist people who aren't bothered by obnoxious watermarks superimposed on an image. I find them aggravating, and I'm not the only one -- That's shutterstock's entire business model.

AI is already making people's lives worse. Let's not make human art harder to enjoy in a fruitless effort to resist it. Instead, let's solve the root of the problem.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago

If we have a social safety net, Universal Basic Income, then we can finally eliminate the need for a minimum wage.

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[-] [email protected] 150 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Reminder that poor Gary Bowser was jailed for a year and owes 30% of his income to Nintendo for the rest of his life. He uses a wheelchair and has two kids.

It would be morally wrong to pirate all future Nintendo titles and pay the cover price to Gary's gofundme. Please don't do that.

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