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on Liberals be like · c/leftymemes · 2 pts · 1y

There was apparently an insane number of attempts that weren’t successful, so this plan may not work out

While a fair idea there are two issues with that even still - Hallucinations and the cost of running the models.

Unfortunately, it take significant compute resources to perform even simple responses, and these responses can be totally made up, but still made to look completely real. It's gotten much better sure, but blindly trusting these things (Which many people do) can have serious consequences.

I’ve read this a few times and I’m genuinely not sure I understand what you’re saying.

4/6th is a smaller ratio than 5/6 the only way for 4/6 to be greater would be for the area to increase.

Expressed as percentages it would be 66% (approx) eaten vs 83% (approx) where the person that ate 66% ate more pizza. The only way that’s possible is if the area of the pizza that 66% of was consumed was greater. (Strictly speaking the volume could be at play here too but I’m going to assume they’re the same height for the question).

I genuinely don’t see any way his thinking was wrong, or how this could be answered another way.

I might genuinely be missing something but if so this question is poorly worded.

on me_irl · c/me_irl · 9 pts · 1y

I don't see the problem?

The article clearly demonstrates how the web became unreadable with a handy diagram...

/s

on Flawless strategy · c/funny · 2 pts · 1y

I’m saving for retirement, and it’s not that I scrimp and save for it, or do I have any disillusionment about my body betraying me.

It’s because I know if I don’t have something saved, then not only will I be in decline and unable to work, but also unable to survive.

on Linux is too hard · c/linuxmemes · 2 pts · 1y

Years ago this is exactly what happened with Windows XP. I still see the odd one hanging around somehow. I suspect this will be very similar.

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/technology · 33 pts · 1y

Fortunately platforms like docs are providing sufficient competition that I don’t think they’d be able to lock it down as effectively as they once could.

on Time is math I think · c/mathmemes · 5 pts · 1y

I guess I truly don't understand this comment, like I accept that hours divide our day into 24 segments, of which 12 are represented on the face of a clock.

I also accept that these hours are divided into 60 segments of which 5 are expressed between each of the 12 hours - which of course logically follows through basic division.

I even know the origin of O'Clock "On the clock" and contrary to the post why 6 means 30 (again this part is just math).

What I am referring to are the finer points of why 12 and not 24, or even why divide the day as 24 and hours into 60 minutes. I guess perhaps I do live in a different world, I can of course easily obtain the answers to both these questions through a simple search. My comment was more in regard to how such knowledge is something I didn't have on a holster, given that my day-to-day isn't predicated on knowing it.

I will also say, all knowledge is acquired. You by default, don't know anything, and have to learn it through experience and education. I make a point of being excited when people don't know something, especially if it's something I'm passionate about. This is actually a concept expressed well in this comic.

on Time is math I think · c/mathmemes · 6 pts · 1y

I'm actually a millennial and when I first read this post, it occurred to me I didn't really "get" why clocks were 12 hours. I think years ago, I had seen a video on it, but for the most part, I didn't have a working knowledge.

The fact is, we take a lot of things for granted, everything from mundane things "Why do clocks have 12 hours?" through to complex ideas. "What do LEDs light up?"

This post (the OP) reflects the opposite of what you're suggesting, that the devices are making people stupid. This post is the start to curiosity. I suspect the author likely took time to look up exactly why clocks have twelve hours, and by extension likely caused many people who viewed it to do the same (myself included actually).

Device exposure has it's problems, certainly, but I don't see this specific post as an example.

Obviously, everyone is entitled to enjoy the drinks they like, but at least in Canada where I am from, Tim Horton's reigns supreme, and before I started drinking my coffee black I drank their coffee all the time, but as soon as I took all the sugar and cream out of it I realized it was frankly pretty terrible.

I think that's what Whitebrow is referring to (not even Tim's specifically, just lower tier coffees from such chains) I also see Folgers, and Maxwell House get consumed a lot here, and I find those particular brands to be fairly low quality as well.

A Cappuccino made correctly with espresso is quite delicious, but that's a very different beverage from brewed coffee with a lot of cream and sugar.

I don't know if it was so much "Make fun of" as the sentiment was "They can't handle it" similar to how certain cultures eat relatively spicy food tease those who can't handle it. I don't have direct evidence for that part, and my source was a friend of mine who was a foreign exchange student from France who explained it to me as such.