The catarrhine who invented a perpetual motion machine, by dreaming at night and devouring its own dreams through the day.
you don’t want it advising people how to make napalm or writing Mickey Mouse fanfic, and those two versions of “safety” come under the same header somehow
“Safety” is a good word, but if not used carefully it quickly becomes a weasel word, like here. Doubly so if you never say who is safer by those measures.
This was an enjoyable read, by the way.
Betteridge’s Law of Headlines
It’s more like a myth than a real thing. Or rather, a pattern that is false so often that you can’t use it to guess if it’s true.
Skimpflation is talked about less because it’s hard to put a number on it, but it hits hard in a way that numbers can’t.
I think that this is spot on.
In my country we got hyperinflation some 40~30 years ago. I was too young to get it, but Gen X got it fully. And one thing that I notice among those Gen X’s is a “better buy it now” mentality, as if afraid that things will get more expensive and their money goes to waste.
Skimpflation might have similar social effects - but instead of “better buy it now”, it would foster a “what’s the point? It’ll turn into crap later anyway” mentality. And this might be tied with your USA example, of people not voting on democrats because they felt that it was pointless.
This shouldn’t be surprising for Lemmy users. Nor why it happened (enshittification).
Funny situation or not (I agree, it’s funny), that’s a great comparison because this bot does right what most Reddit bots do wrong:
Unbundling is clearly not enough. And it’s so obviously not-enough that Google’s proposal is an insult at the intelligence of anyone reading it.
So my question is: why is Google proposing this?
People use the word “inflation” to refer, of course, to actual inflation, but I also think it means something broader, along the lines of “I’m paying for garbage that has gotten a lot worse and costs more.”
Skimpflation. And yes, it’s yet another aspect of traditional inflation, just like shrinkflation is:
Due to the nature of digital goods and services, enshittification typically results into skimpflation.
The smartphone in its current form is a mistake. Social media in its current form is a mistake.
Aye. Can’t help but agree with it.
You had a rough time then. Glad to see that it was addressed quickly.
Israel itself is unable to be humane, as it is a state/government/country and not a person. And you can’t lose what you don’t have.
What the editorial is talking about is not Israel losing its humanity, but the Israeli individuals working for Israel. But the state doesn’t care, as it’s also unable to care. It simply uses those Israelis as much as it would use anyone else, that lowers oneself from a human being to a citizen.
If Israel’s bidding is successful, and the genocide is complete (I hope not), those people will become a problem to other Israelis.
What I’ve seen plenty of those alleged “centrists” doing is the opposite - removing the nuance. For example, conflating the four sides (Israelis, Palestinians, State of Israel, Hamas) into two.
Aluminium-safe dishwasher detergents do exist, using sodium silicate, but they’re damn expensive. Sadly you’re better off cleaning aluminium cookware by hand.
That tarnish happens because aluminium is way more reactive than it looks like. It’s amphoteric, so both acids and bases attack it. And, in a simplified way, soaps and dishwasher detergents tend to be basic enough to attack aluminium.
Typically this is not a big deal because there’s a neat layer of aluminium oxide covering metallic aluminium (that’s why it looks dull, instead of shiny). But if the aluminium or the solution are hot enough, that layer itself gets quickly corroded. And, well, dishwashers heat things up, right?
Weirdly enough I believe that the tarnish and white powder are also a mix of aluminium oxide and hydroxide. But since the tarnish isn’t in a neat crystalline structure, but a porous one, it gets dark. You can remove that layer of oxide with some weak acid, like vinegar; the metal will regenerate a neater one.
So, ~30kya? It makes sense actually, given the diversity of the languages in the Americas.
The main current hypothesis (10k~15kya) feels fishy. Around those times, around the globe, Proto-Afro-Asiatic was being spoken; and you still do see a few family features in its descendants, like the feminine suffix (typically -t), that “consonant roots, vowel infixes” world building template, or even the “emphatic” series. You don’t see anything remotely similar in the languages of the Americas, even if you give the founder effect some leeway and say that the Americas were initially settled by speakers of, say, five or six unrelated languages.
I will! I’ll probably swap the vegs with ones that they typically see in soups, but follow the blanching closely.
As I’m reading this I’m getting angry. Not because of Labov himself (he’s simply denouncing this crap), but because this sort of adult that he’s describing is the one that I’d expect screaming with children.
And I’m glad that nowadays this sort of researcher would be barred from doing field work.
The rabbit approach was genius. Just like hiding himself behind the cloth hangers in another study; sure, nowadays this raises ethical concerns, but in his times it was the way to register spontaneous speech.
For me typically “High” means mountains and “Low” means lowlands. It fits well enough for German.
requesting permission to use it if Palworld doesn’t? It’s for a book.
You’re welcome to use this idea for whatever reason you want, mate.
A new papercut always hurts more than an old one. And all systems have papercuts. As such I’m not surprised that you’ve zig-zagged between systems.
Myself did something similar some 20 years ago, by the way. I actually started with Linux in 2003; I tried to use Mandriva, outright hated it, went back to XP. (Nowadays I know the DE that I was using, it was GNOME 1.0). Then I tried it again some two years later, with Kurumin (maaaan, I miss KDE 3.5!), dual booted it for years, then deleted the Windows partition because it was using too much space. And here I am.
Nowadays I don’t even consider a Windows partition for games, the ones that I play either have native Linux versions or run really well through WINE. My job is mostly writing so any office suite works fine.
By the way. If you’re going to dual boot again, I strongly suggest to let GRUB handle it. It’s simply less headache; it won’t corrupt your data (GRUB is really solid nowadays), and you can even keep each SSD with a system if you want.
The only ones not calling it a genocide are paid to say that.
Plus ignorant fucks parroting what those people being paid say.
So yes, I agree with you on this. What I’m going to say is mostly focusing on a single detail.
There’s video clips of military leaders and Netanyahu being very clear about their genocidal intent.
The trick here is that there’s no record of the intent itself, as this is impossible. There’s only videos of what Nazinyahu and the military leaders say. As such if we focus on intent there are multiple ways to distort what they say to claim that it was something else, or say that it was forged, or shit like this.
So I think that it’s simpler to look at their responsibility, their actions, the outcome of those actions, and the professed knowledge. Unlike intent those things are fairly objective, and more than enough to call out their genocide.
You know what, I’m going to try a pork-based soup, and see what my folks think about it. They typically go “eeew” at the idea of a pork soup but I feel like it’s due to the lack of techniques like this - I mean, my family’s roots are mostly in Veneto, in their head pork for soups needs to be cured meat, and you hide the strong flavours with even stronger ingredients (like kale. I have no idea why my folks like kale so much.)
And for that I’ll need this technique so TL;DR thanks for sharing it!
And the author fails to mention the most important reason:
Maths is so universal that the ability to perform simple maths is required for any decent output, regardless of “FEEL THE AGI! IT IS COMING!!!” shite or human tendencies.
And it doesn’t take a bloody genius to realise that.
I’ll give you guys an example. The author themself listed LLMs as able to write poems… except that they can’t even get the number of syllables right, because guess what, they suck at counting! Like this:
The prompt is “Please, write a sonnet in Portuguese about margarine pots. Use verses with ten metric syllables each, and ABBA CDDC EFE GFG rhymes.” The first line already fucks it up - it has 11 metric syllables, not 10.
(The rhymes are also fucked up. I won’t judge it on semantic grounds because the prompt was silly, but “tradition”? Margarine??? Pffft.)
But WhY ArE We UsInG LlMs As CaLcUlAtOrZ, right?
It doesn’t take into account your “ackshyually” because your “ackshyually” is a bloody red herring.
I’ve stopped reading this idiocy here, as I’ve already wasted too much time with it.