faintbeep

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[–] faintbeep@lemm.ee 34 points 7 months ago

Sorry but I'm on the mod's side here. Some content doesn't belong on some communities. Most people upvote from their front page without even checking what community you posted to. If you allow things based on popularity, every community devolves into deep-fried shitposts

[–] faintbeep@lemm.ee 18 points 7 months ago

Also since companies are adding AI to everything, sometimes when you think you're just doing a digital zoom you're actually getting AI upscaling.

There was a court case not long ago where the prosecution wasn't allowed to pinch-to-zoom evidence photos on an iPad for the jury, because the zoom algorithm creates new information that wasn't there.

[–] faintbeep@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago (9 children)

I always think it's unfair to compare things to video games. Video games are so inefficient they had to invent a separate processor with hundreds of cores just to run them. Of course they end up running well.

If cheap phones had a 128-core JavaScript Processing Unit, websites would probably run fast too.

[–] faintbeep@lemm.ee 26 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I'm a web dev and yes they could. It's annoying that web devs get blamed for it though, the reason for all the javascript is mostly business decisions out of our control.

Mainly the tracking scripts which the marketing department adds against out will. But also it's a lot cheaper to have a client-rendered web app than a traditional website (with client side rendering you can shut off all your web servers and just keep the api servers, our server side processing went down 90% in the switchover). And it's more efficient for the company to have one team working in one programming language and one framework that can run the backend and frontend, so the frontend ends being a web app even if it's not really necessary.

[–] faintbeep@lemm.ee 37 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

I bet a lot more people know what 0°C feels like than 0°F. One is freezing point, one is a completely arbitrary temperature which only gets called "the lowest you'll experience" as a post hoc rationalisation of Fahrenheit. Most people will never experience anything that cold, some people experience colder.

I even bet more people know what 100°C feels like than 100°F. One is accidentally getting scalded by boiling water, the other is a completely arbitrary temperature which is quite hot but not even the hottest you'll experience in America.

[–] faintbeep@lemm.ee -2 points 8 months ago

Yeah, like who needs to tell quickly whether road conditions will be icy? It's much more useful to know how much warmer it is than the arbitrary temperature Americans say is the lowest you can survive

[–] faintbeep@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

The most fair thing to do, oddly, is to leave the seat in the opposite position it was when you got there; everybody flips it once, it may be before or after you use it. Fair.

I'll remember this one, I love it when people are actually logical about things.

Reminds me of canal locks. The etiquette is to always close the doors after you leave, and people get angry when you don't. But it's infuriating because it actually creates more work for everyone. If you leave the doors closed then the next person always has to stop their boat to open them, but if you leave them open there's a 50% chance the correct set of doors is open for the next person to sail right in. If you're in the unlucky 50% it makes no difference, because you had to stop to empty the lock anyway and afterwards you get to sail off without closing them.

People also think closing them saves water, which is another can of people-not-understanding-physics worms.

[–] faintbeep@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

There's a generation of internet debate guys who seem convinced that correlation disproves causation

[–] faintbeep@lemm.ee 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The dude who owns the election server won’t be able to manipulate results in any way.

Sure he will. He can just ignore votes for one candidate and not add them to the chain. Blockchains are only resistant to manipulation if they're distributed and people agree on the canonical version. Even then if enough people agree to manipulate them they can, like they did with Ethereum.

[–] faintbeep@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah that's another difference. When something breaks on Windows people will do anything to fix it, including reinstalling Windows or buying another machine.

When something goes wrong on Linux they decide Linux doesn't work and reinstall Windows.

I've had Windows installs slow down till they take 15 minutes to start. I once clicked the wrong button in Visual Studio and the computer became some kind of remote driver debugging target, permanently. Half the settings broke and every startup it would autologin as a debug user.

If anything like that happens on Linux it's proof Linux is too complicated, but on Windows it's just one of those things.

 

I felt ok after the appointment but today I remembered we didn't talk about the problems I have keeping a job.

He only mentioned work once to ask if can comfortably discuss work in a work context and I said that would be fine. But I was only thinking about discussing a programming algorithm or something with no conflicts. I've actually had lots of trouble with conflicts at work, or getting upset and walking out of jobs. I've only had one job I kept more than a few months.

Also he didn't ask anything about living independently. It feels like we spent the whole session talking about socializing.

I'm worried he's going to think I don't have any problems in my life apart from socializing and that's not important enough for a diagnosis and I won't be able to access any support.

Is it normal to feel like this the day after?

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