The catarrhine who invented a perpetual motion machine, by dreaming at night and devouring its own dreams through the day.
Next on the news: “Hitler ate bread.”
I’m being cheeky, but I don’t genuinely think that “Nazi are using a tool that is being used by other people” is newsworthy.
Regarding the blue octopus, mentioned in the end of the text: when I criticise the concept of dogwhistle, it’s this sort of shit that I’m talking about. I don’t even like Thunberg; but, unless there is context justifying the association of that octopus plushy with antisemitism, it’s simply a bloody toy dammit.
The key to adquire vocab is to find a method that you’re comfortable with, and that you don’t mind repeating in a timely manner. Two that I personally like are:
semantic map
As you learn a new word, you write it down, with an explanation (translation, drawing, up to you), and then connect it to words that are conceptually related, that you already learned.
So for example. Let’s say that you were learning English instead of Korean. And you just learned the word “chicken”. You could do something like this:
You can extend those maps as big as you want, and also include other useful bits of info, like grammar - because you’ll need that info later on. Also note what I did there with “(ptak)”, leaving a blank for a word that you’d be planning to learn later on; when you do it, you simply write “bird” over it and done, another word in the map.
It’s important to review your old semantic maps; either to add new words or to review the old ones.
flashcards
Prepare a bunch of small pieces of paper. Harder paper is typically better. Add the following to each:
Then as you have some free time (just after lunch, in the metro, etc.), you review those cards.
I partially agree. I do think that people in Lemmy (including me) are getting more hostile than before, but I also think that this doesn’t tell us the whole picture, and there are other potential factors at play. Such as:
[EDIT - cut off verbose example. Added another potential factor.]
I know that I shouldn’t, but here’s what I think about this whole deal, illustrated with a single image macro:
Get wrecked, Microsoft.
I think that the article does a good job highlighting how much of a trainwreck this is, because Microsoft is not to be trusted. The Windows users hysterically complaining about this are not expecting Microsoft to behave in some outrageous way; they’re expecting Microsoft to behave as usual.
Not just corrosion, but also to prevent precipitation in evaporative cooling systems (the most common ones).
Evaporative systems require constant input of new water; if you’re adding saltwater the salt will concentrate and it’ll become a saturated brine, and once the brine evaporates a bit the salt precipitates. It’ll happen mostly on the cooling fills (that will need to be replaced more constantly), but the main issue is that some precipitate does get carried by the brine and clogs the pipes.
So instead of “look ma, I’m cool”, it’s “look potential hirer, I’m profitable!”.
Then it makes sense why they’d translate their stuff in EN/RU/AR even being potentially not speakers of any of them - because their hirers might.
They can be closed-loop as in your region but they usually aren’t - besides the problem that you mentioned, a closed loop increases electricity consumption (as you’ll need a heat pump instead), and electricity consumption is also a concern. Not for the environmental impact (corporations DGAF), but price.
That other poster is using a disingenuous debate tactic called “whataboutism”. Basically shifting the focus from what’s being criticised (AI resource consumption) to something else (other industries).
Your comparison with evangelists is spot on. In my teen years I used to debate with creationists quite a bit; they were always
always to back up something as idiotic as “the world is 6kyo! Evolution is a lie!”.
Does it ring any bell for people who discuss with AI evangelists? For me, all of them.
(Sorry bolexforsoup for the tone - it is not geared towards you.)
“Could”. More likely it was closed loop.
Nope. Here’s how data centres use water.
It boils down to two things - cooling and humidification. Humidification is clearly not a closed loop, so I’ll focus on the cooling:
Since some evaporates you’ll need to put more water into the system. And there’s an additional problem: salts don’t evaporate, they concentrate over time, precipitate, and clog your pipes. Since you don’t want this you’ll eventually need to flush it all out. And it also means that you can’t simply use seawater for that, it needs to be freshwater.
Water isn’t single use, so even if true how does this big number matter.
Freshwater renews at a limited rate.
What matter is the electrical energy converted to heat. How much was it and where did that heat go?
Mostly to the air, as promoting the evaporation of the water.
Can you say non sequitur ?
More like non sequere than non sequitur. Read the whole paragraph:
Moreover, when significant energy resources are allocated to tech-related endeavours, it can lead to energy shortages for essential needs such as residential power supply. Recent data from the UK shows that the country’s outdated electricity network is holding back affordable housing projects. This will only get worse as households move away from using fossil fuels and rely more on electricity, putting even more pressure on the National Grid. In Bicester, for instance, plans to build 7,000 new homes were paused because the electricity network didn’t have enough capacity.
The author is highlighting that electrical security is already bad for you Brits, for structural reasons; it’ll probably get worse due to increased household consumption; and with big tech consuming it, it’ll get even worse.
I’m checking the Xitter page of the alleged source of the attacks, SN_Blackmeta. But what caught my attention the most was another message. And overall the account.
If I had to take some bets: the group is from Western Europe, not Russia or any country where Arabic is the dominant language. They’re likely skript kiddos trying to take the “glory” of attacks conducted by someone else; if they aren’t, my second guess would be that they’re doing it just to call attention to themselves (“look ma! I’m a haxor!!! I’m so cool!! X-D” style).
Mum: if she passed away and I found her porn I’d simply burn/delete it for her privacy.
My other parent (already dead): no idea. My first instinct would be to carefully select the nastiest bits of it, and then make sure that his family (technically “my” family too, but… meh) knew about it. But on a second thought that piece of trash already kicked the bucket, I wouldn’t be harming it but rather upsetting common relatives, so… why bother? TL;DR probably burn it too.
I think that the ranking algo is a catalyst, but the underlying phenomenon is natural, due to two counterpoints:
I think that this is important because, if the Arsehole Social Shift (A.S.S.)* is a natural phenomenon, just avoiding a ranking algo isn’t enough; you need active measures to counter it.
It might also have to do with community size, given that everyone has some triggers that makes them behave like arseholes, and they’re more likely to be triggered in larger communities.
*sorry for the silly coinage. I couldn’t help it.
I’ve been thinking about social mechanics in online environments for a few years, and this arsehole filter definitively sounds true for me. I think that it has a twofold mechanism:
So arseholes have a higher re-incidence and proliferation than nice people.
I also think that this applies to assumptive/dumb/disingenuous vs. smart, and entitled/whiny vs. contributive people. If that’s correct then the phenomenon is likely wider, and we could actually measure it for something else. It wouldn’t prove that the arsehole filter is true, but it would strengthen the hypothesis.
Meh. Usage is cringe, but so is the hate.
Modlog to the rescue. It stinks scam from a distance. And spam. Scam spam.
And I supposed to care that the poor SEO assholes that need to get their ads more visibility weren’t being given all the instructions on how to do that by the search engine?
No. You’re supposed to care that a company is pointlessly* lying, thus it’s extremely likely to deceive, mislead and lie when it gets some benefit out of it.
In other words: SEO arseholes can ligma, Google is lying to you and me too.
*I say “pointlessly” because not disclosing info would achieve practically the same result as lying.
I’m almost sure that they use the same model for Gemini and for the A"I" answers, so patching the “put glue on pizza” answer for one also patches it for another.
If they’re going to keep this, they need it to cite its sources at a bare minimum.
Got a fun one for you then. I asked Gemini (likely the same underlying model as Google’s AI answers) “How many joules of energy can a battery output? Provide sources.” I’ll skip to the relevant part:
Here are some sources that discuss battery capacity and conversion to Joules:
- Battery Electronics 101 explains the formula and provides an example.\
- Answers on Engineering Stack Exchange [invalid URL removed] discuss how to estimate a AA battery’s total energy in Joules.
The link to the first “source” was a made up site, https://gemini.google.com/axconnectorlubricant.com. The site axconnectorlubricant.com does exist, but it has zero to do with the topic, it’s about a lubricant. No link provided for the second “source”.
Don’t get me wrong, password managers are fucking great. But sometimes you need to remember a password. (Including one for Bitwarden itself.)
They’re mostly safe. Don’t taunt them, don’t get too close to them (specially not to veals and bulls), and eventually they’ll see you as “safe to ignore”.