exocortex 4d ago • 100%
"Meteor" by Dan Brown (could be a different name in the original language). It was the first time I read something that was bad. Up until then book were cool and fun and interesting. It was a puzzling experience.
Edit: it's called "Deception Point" in the original.
exocortex 4d ago • 100%
I really would like to see some studies on that topic "does cognitive decline skew your position to the right". If it does it's usually slowly over many years. But fetterman had a huge decline suddenly and basically in love with genocide now. (I still believe he didn't think like that before).
Would make sense in a way - stripping away all nuance from the world by means of deteriorating perception makes people only see good and bad or my team / their team.
exocortex 5d ago • 100%
Moon !
exocortex 5d ago • 100%
There was a forgettable remake though.
exocortex 5d ago • 100%
Only the first season unfortunately
exocortex 1w ago • 100%
Ok nice job! It actually took me a while to be sure if this was satire or not. I was pretty close to believing it.
exocortex 1w ago • 85%
AI in general is a shitty term. It's mostly PR. The Term "Intelligence" is very fuzzy and difficult to define - especially for people who are not in the field of machine learning.
exocortex 1w ago • 100%
The market for backwards-milage-monetization has yet to be tapped!
exocortex 1w ago • 100%
Still it would be a nice touch if the city would require advertisers to provide an old ad for their product (if available) or create one stylistically fitting. A "historically accurate" ad for an iPhone would probably be more of an eye catcher than a typical one on this tram.
It should be a privilege to advertise on this nice tram. So advertisers should work a little harder for it.
exocortex 1w ago • 95%
We need Paris-Pickup-Parking-Prices everywhere. They're 18€/h. If you want your stupid tank within city limits pay for it.
exocortex 1w ago • 83%
Schon mal im Laboratory?
exocortex 2w ago • 80%
Well in a way all Art is being done indirectly by some sort of instrument. Only the degree of sophistication or degree of separation of this instrument is different. A pencil drawing is in principle also done by the pencil, but I provided a lot of guidance through my hand. A pencil - almost no sophistication - is on one side of the spectrum and Midjourney/Stable Diffusion etc is on the other side of the spectrum.
I don't want to judge AI "art" in general - there's so many awful traditional artworks that AI art doesn't really stand out.
What rubs me the wrong way is that it is a tool that no human can understand reasonably well. Everybody can understand a pencil. It's possible to understand a computer renderer that renders digital art. But no one can understand the totality of an LLM which was trained on terabytes of images. It's a lot of trial and error, because what the tool does generate random images even with precise directions. It's throwing dice until one likes the result.
The one thing I give this "artist" credit for: he was very early (maye even the first?) that entered AI art into a contest and fooled the jury. Being the first is often enough historically to make "great art". Where art is more measured n the impact it has on a societal discussion. So I give him that.
But a court already decided you can't copyright AI art, because it's trained on other art without permission. So he can get fucked.
exocortex 2w ago • 100%
"Famous" A"I" "Artist"
exocortex 3w ago • 100%
I was only talking about the doctors that I know personally. I wasn't making a point about all doctors. I'm pretty sure they're not that representative. I'm not sure why I brought it up, as it doesn't have any statistical weight. I was just trying to give a perspective from the other side. Not all doctors are like that monolithic group of uncaring assholes that OP puts them in. Even if they might appear that way. It's simply the external constraints that make it necessary for them to act that way. Most doctors don't choose their profession, because they want to make tons of money and can be mean to desperate people. They're idealistic and their dream turns into a nightmare - because of unhinged capitalism. With lots of other jobs - bullshit jobs - it's easy to quit. But as a doctor quitting would mean throwing many years of very hard work around the clock away AND have an immense negative impact upon the patients most desperate for help (and also leaving your colleges (friends?) with even more work). If I'm stopping to be an Uber driver because it doesn't make me unhappy nobody would get hurt. The societal impact of that would be: "who gives a shit?"
So they are much less likely to quit and have a strong incentive to keep living in that hell. They might not appear to be the nicest people.
exocortex 3w ago • 100%
Maybe you can dip your toes into using lineage os or graphene os?
exocortex 4w ago • 100%
The guy who wrote Winamp Sold it decades ago. So you should clarify who is defensive about their code :-) The original coder is really good - he also wrote the awesome AVS visualization plugin for Winamp which among other things utilizes a special programming language called "eel". After selling Winamp he went on to create Reaper which also uses eel I think.
exocortex 4w ago • 100%
I feel slightly angry with you punching on the people working in healthcare that actually provide the care.
Nurses, but also doctors are working nonstop to keep the patients and also the system running as good as possible within the constraints that they're given. They cannot afford the time to try and change the broader political environment in which they have to operate. Doing so would cost lives. I'm not American, but German and I know a few doctors personally. They're pretty decent and even very left leaning people. The shit, human misery caused by a broken system, privatization/monetization of healthcare they have to deal with necessitates a certain dark humor, fatalism or cynicism to just stay sane enough to continue doing it. We as a society have failed to address this problem - the conditions that we put on them - and their only option is to develop a defense mechanism. You may not like it, but this defense mechanism against all this shit is better than the alternative - them all giving up and quitting. At least short time. Maybe the only way to fix it would be a mass walk-off/strike that actually causes a lot of deaths for us (society) to actually wake up and fix it. Unfortunately the majority only has to experience health care in exceptional circumstances. Otherwise it's pretty invisible to us. We only know about the overworked nurse or the uninterested uncaring doctor. We don't know the rest of the story - all the other patients they have to deal with at the same time. The bad news that they have to bring and the angry responses they get a thousandfold from unlucky patients, the treatment they have to deny because of asshole CEOs of insurance firms and the politicians who enable them (that we as a society don't remove with some pitchforks). We only see the end product of a person that has been molded by this broken system and we get angry at them. But they are not the problem. Doctors don't start their job wanting to be this cynic version of them. That's just the shit they have to deal, because we as a society don't help them that makes them so.
And yes they get tons of money and all that (the doctors), but I'm not convinced that they get to enjoy it that much.
exocortex 1mo ago • 100%
Everybody has to support the new new underdog Intel.
exocortex 1mo ago • 100%
I'm really sad oabout his passing. He always seemed like a very fine gentleman even without knowing about this. This makes me even more happy and sad at the same time 🥹
exocortex 1mo ago • 100%
There are still phones that have it. Sometimes even pretty good ones. It's just that they are not advertised so heavily. I recently learned about HTC U23 or 24 or something. Now I feel dumb because I never bothered to check because I always thought all good phones don't offer headphone jacks anymore.
First of all: Please don't tell me how impractically this might be or confusing or whatever. This is like a thought experiment and let's be honest: We don't *JUST* want efficiency when modding our desktops -- we also want it to look sick and individual and have people watch in admiration -- or something like that. So keep that in mind before dismissing rightaway :-) thanks! - I recently thought about a concept of tiling window managers. I don't know If this already works out of the box in some window managers. It was originally how I understood the concept of "tiling window managers" before I really got to know how they worked. My general idea: Everything is just tiles on a larger canvas - with some exceptions everything visible can be laid out as a position on the screen. Also widgets are just tiles placed next to each other. There can (imho should) exist some rules for easy sizing of tiles / widgets, but that's details. I sometimes have the problem of working with one main application, but having to look up two other things A) and B) one after the other. I would switch between two screens all the time, but more ideally I would only move my screen *slightly* to get a look on either A) or B) while in both situations still having my main application in view. Moving between apps can be done simply with arrow keys (e.g. super + arrows) or mouse. There's also quickjump-positions. For example pressing 1 2 3 4 etc would move the screen to a previous set position (and could also preset the focused application) Similar to a smartphone the background can move along in a more subtle way. The login screen would just be a different place on that canvas - for security the rest outside the view has to disappear even when invisible while logged out (to avoid weird security issues :D possible exception: An exception to "everything is in the canvas" could be when maximizing a focused application: Then the actual application is moving in front of the view (while the rest of the canvas is getting slightly further away). Some nice blurring could make that really nice. If the application tile isn't in the screen's aspect ration before it will change its aspect ration in the same motion while moving. So in short: Instead of having tiles fixed to screens why not have tiles everywhere and move the screen step by step. A lot of hotkeys need to be thought about here of course. Also specialized behavior to resize tiles. Increasing the width/height or changing the aspect ratio would require moving surrounding tiles around in certain situations, but these shouldn't bee too complicated. Again: some rules about minimum/maximum values for width/height/desired aspect rations could help. Even the angle of viewing could be changed in some situations not in situations where switching often is required. But I'd love me some nice rotation and translation when locking my screen :-) What do you think? ( I might cross post this to reddit's unixporn subreddit later as well)
Hi, I've got an old netbook from Samsung that has an old Intel Atom CPU (Intel Atom N455 1.66 GHz). I installed Arch on it and am now thinking of a suitable window manager. I tried Hyprland (kinda expecting it to not work really) whick didn't start at all. Before I had Debian with Gnome, which technically worked, but everything was extremely slow. I've used Gnome for a long time, but I know that there are a lot of other window managers out there. I would like to have one that avoids graphical gimmickry in order to be fast. (I like some nice little graphical details, but only if it's still running buttery smooth). If you have some tips that would be very nice! EDIT: thank you for all the recommendations I'll try out a few!
Hi! I tried out yew last night and was going through the tutorial (the link). At the end the tutorial is using a link to an external resource. My guess is that the tutorial app shall create a website with a list of (empty) videos that is created by reading an external json-file from the yew-website. The problem is that this doesn't work for me, the list stays empty. I also don't find the full source of this example somewhere. On the site it is only iteratively described. I am pretty sure I have everything like on the website.
**The Matrix** is an often used example, but for me it's the Alien Prequels - especially **Alien: Covenant** really makes the Original **Alien** much worse. When the original was released in 1979 it had the perfect Monster. A dangerous killing machine of *unknown origin*. The missing background of the alien is a big part of its scary mess. It's a blank space in its mythology that the viewer can fill with *many* explanations. As these explanations are not precise they don't have to be logically coherent. **Covenant** (and to a lesser degree **Prometeus**) wanted to fill this blank space and tell us the aliens origin. But once you fill out this missing piece of information it is fixed and can only be one piece. There exists now only one *singular* explanation. And its a boring: The Xenomorph is basically a creature with it's origins on earth (because David, who's origin is on earth created it). I find this hugely dissapointing. The biggest dangers of deep space are all human in origin is extremely small minded. (Star Trek: Beyond had the same boring plot - the mysterious villain turned out to be a human after all. As if only humans are capable to pose (or create) a serious thread to humans.). What are your examples for franchise-movies that somehow made the original worse?
Ein sehr interessanter thread, in dem ein Entwickler ein paar Analysen beschreibt über die Preisentwicklung von Waren in österreichischen Lebemittelketten.
I'm not a fan of outright blocking certain communities and would rather have a kind of "relevancy-factor" or "weight" with which i could tune the frequency of seeing posts from certain communities. A factor of 0 would be the same as blocking a community. 1 would be normal. I am not familiar with the exact method with which posts are displayed in "Everything" or the ordering thereof. But I'm sure it's taking the up votes into account. A relevancy factor of 0.5 would treat a post with 1000 up votes as if it had 500 and there for position it lower. This way highly up voted posts from certain communities would be able to appear.
Using filters is very useful. Though I like them I often fear that I forget about them after a while and don't know what I'm missing. In other applications that are more structured as fixed channels like discord, or messaging apps like Signal etc I am able to mute notifications for a limited amount of time. For people who are hesitant about filters (like me) it would be nice, if I could set a filter for e.g. "Linus Tech Tips" with a timeout of 2 weeks. I don't care about this sub/community that much, but blocking them completely because of the recent drama seems strange for me. Another thing that I would love would be a way to still see the filtered content. The filters would then be like automatic labels/tags that would be attached to posts. The normal view would be only "unlabeled/untagged" items. But for every filter there would be a button clickable to show **only** the filtered items.
Lemmy (and by extension the fediverse) is theoretically more robust against powerhungry individuals because people can move to another server. But if users loose all their data (their liked / saved posts and subscribed communities) when moving to another server they are less likely to do so, which increases the power of the people who run the servers over the users of those servers. So if there's some time in the future I'd love to have a feature that is making it simple to "move my stuff".
I'm trying to run an LED matrix display (with a Max7219 controller) from a raspberry pi pico using rust. There is a max7219-crate that I used. But i am unsure about how to prepare the pins I want to use. Can I Use any of the pins? Do I have to set them to push-pull-output?
Super krasses Thema. Unbedingt mal anhören und mit beschäftigen! Undurchsichtige internationale Private Equity Management-Firmen kaufen gerade massenhaft Arztpraxen. Was das für uns alle bedeutet wird in dem Podcast ein bisschen erklärt. Ziemlich krass. Schickt das vielleicht mal weiter an eure Eltern, die werden zuerst die Auswirkungen zu spüren bekommen. (Die werden dann euer Erbe in dieses Geschäftsmodell versenken ;-) )