thebestaquaman

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[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago

I have no idea what you're talking about... humans are around 1-2m tall, weigh about 40-80kg, have a body temperature of about 37 C, and need to drink a couple litres of water per day. How are these units not the proper order of magnitude for measuring things "on a human scale"?

[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

Lo be unto the metric users, that the units of length and volume conveniently sync up!

How many cubic inches is a gallon btw?

[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

I'm upvoting just to counterbalance the people downvoting because they dislike someone else's subjective opinion.

[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The damaging kind necessarily carries enough energy to cause damage, what's preventing it from being harvested?

[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Isn't a major challenge of trying to surpass Voyager 1 that it had extremely good conditions for slingshotting off a lot of planets?

[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Guy had 97 priors including DUIs.

Hence the photo, which should make it pretty easy to figure out who the guy is when he's already registered in the system. Once you know who he is you quickly find out where he's living, because again, the guy has 97 priors, so the cops should have a solid database on where he tends to reside and who he knows.

The fucking day he got out he bought a cheap used car, slapped an old out-of-state license plate on it, and went right back to driving around drunk as shit.

That's absolutely horrendous... hope he gets caught again before he kills someone...

Besides that: That could quickly be a situation where whoever is apprehending him recognises that he's drunk-driving and that he's a big enough threat to the public to warrant chasing him down instead of letting him go and apprehending him later.

[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Or, hear me out: The cops that are well enough educated and trained to recognise that it's safer to just track down the guy later will also be well enough educated and trained to not do that. Because doing that would be stupid, and the whole point here is that you can and should select and train people with a monopoly on violence to not do stupid shit that gets people killed.

[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The only research I've seen on using LLMs in a school setting found that the kids that were given access to an LLM performed a bit better on exercises that those without. At the same time their experienced learning was a lot better. When they finally got a test assignment, the kids that had been using LLMs during exercises flopped and performed significantly worse than those that hadn't.

[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Or, as is commonly done elsewhere, get their plates and a photo, and drop by their house later (unless they're an active threat to public safety of course).

This is literally the SOP in a lot of other countries: You don't chase someone in a vehicle unless you absolutely have to. You rather just identify them and apprehend them at a later point.

[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The worst conceivable argument: When someone tries to shut you down by claiming that "you're always so combatative, why can't you just let this go?"

My brother in Christ... you are arguing with me. You are provably being at least as combative as myself. Why can't YOU just let this go? And of course, if you do anything other than let them have their way, they take that as proof that you never let anything pass.

[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Which is still utterly absurd, because it implies that a harder working dev would be spending more time chatting to a bot.

[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Awesome, thanks!

 

Normally, I use YouTube very little (watch a couple videos a month). However, I've been in bed with an injury for some time now, which has led me to watch quite a bit of YouTube. The thing is, I subscribe to a small handfull of channels that I enjoy content from, but after a relatively short time I had watched pretty much all the new content from those channels.

Now, I would expect that the YouTube algorithm, which is supposedly designed by competent people to get me to stick around, would be able to suggest some decent content to me based on my subscriptions. However, the past week, I've opened YouTube only to find the same old videos being suggested over and over. Even worse: Whenever there's something interesting-looking from a channel I don't recognise, it always turns out to be some shitty AI voice over some generic animations or footage.

I know for a fact that thousands of hours of content are created on YouTube daily, but it genuinely feels like there are maybe five creators out there that are making anything worth watching. It's either that, or the YouTube algorithm is just complete crap at suggesting creators that are in any way similar to what I'm already subscribing to.

What's going on here? Why does it seem like there's no real content out there?

As a "funny" side note: What's with the "aggressively American" AI narrator-voice? I've heard it before, but thought it was some dude until I realised it's the same voice in a bunch of unrelated videos. It reminds me of the Discovery-channel "action-narrator"-voice from back in the day, but now it's showing up in all kinds of crap videos.

 

Inspired by the linked XKCD. Using 60% instead of 50% because that's an easy filter to apply on rottentomatoes.

I'll go first: I think "Sherlock Holmes: A game of Shadows" was awesome, from the plot to the characters ,and especially how they used screen-play to highlight how Sherlocks head works in these absurd ways.

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