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  • masterspace@lemmy.catoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    Yeah, it 100% is. Im guessing that the biggest difference for me being out of shape to me being in shape was like 2 point difference on the 10 point attractiveness scale, and there’s a night and day difference with how people treated me.

    A bit of that is just being naturally more confident when I’m in shape and better looking, but outside of that there was everyone treated me, even before I interacted with them. And that’s everyone, from romantic options, to colleague, to random strangers, to close friends, to family.

    The first time I got in really good shape I actually got really depressed for a while because of how much better people treated me just because of how I looked… Though of course even then, it was easier to come out of a depression when you’re in shape and everyone wants to fuck you.



  • Bruh, I get how you feel, but your complaints are with capitalism, not algorithms that are wildly better than previous ones at fuzzy pattern matching.

    Here is an example of how AI has already literally revolutionized science through one targeted project:

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P_fHJIYENdI

    This work won the Nobel prize in chemistry.

    And my best friend literally did his PhD in protein crystallography, is at MIT doing a protein structural analysis Post Doc, and the work of the new AI based protein structural predictions has literally completely changed the direction of their lab’s research, basically overnight.

    Because, yes AI algorithms literally are able to solve a new class of problems. It’s literally what this old pre-LLM xkcd is talking about: https://xkcd.com/1425/ and while it’s asking for confirmation of a ‘bird’, identifying photos of say, cancer, is the literal exact same problem from an algorithm standpoint, and is a huge amount of other fuzzy pattern matching problems.

    Yeah there’s a lot of dumb tech bros over hyping AI, and a lot of giant corporations that care about using it for literally nothing but getting personally richer, but you’re going to be misinformed the other direction about its genuine usefulness if you just read nothing but AI doomer blogs from people who don’t actually bother trying to use or understand the technology.


  • The AI technofacists building these systems have explicitly said they’ve hit a wall. They’re having to invest in their own power plants just to run these models. They have scores of racks of GPUs, so they’re dependent upon the silicon market. AI isn’t becoming “ever more capable,” it’s merely pushing the limits of what they have left.

    While I agree that this paper sounds like a freshman thesis, I think you’re betraying your own lack of knowledge here.

    Because no, they havent said they’ve hit a wall, and while there are reasons to be skeptical of the brute force scaling approach that a lot of companies are taking, those companies are doing that because they have massive amounts of capital and scaling is an easy way to spend capital to improve the results of your model while your researchers figure out how to make better models, leaving you in a better market position when the next breakthrough or advancement happens.

    The reasoning models of today like o1 and Claude 3.7 are substantially more capable than the faster models that predate them, and while you can make an argument that the resource / speed trade off isn’t worth it, they’re also the very first generation of models that are trying to integrate LLMs into a more logical reasoning framework.

    This is on top of the broader usage of AI that is rapidly becoming more capable. The fuzzy pattern matching techniques that LLMs use have literally already revolutionized fields like Protein Structural Analysis, all the result of a single targeted DeepMind project.

    The techniques behind AI allow computers to solve whole new classes of problems that werent possible before, dismissing that is just putting your head in the sand.

    And yes companies are still dependent on silicon and energy, which is why they’re vertically integrating and starting to try and produce that on their own. That’s not a sign that they see AI as a waste of time.





  • You say “marketing person” or “marketing quote” as if that means nothing - reporting factual information from them is standard practice in all news. Maybe there should be literally nothing posted by any news website in the world then?

    Bruh, do all the news sources you read just repost marketing statements? I don’t think you realize what an own-goal that statement is.

    Journalism involves reporting on true information, including determining whether or not information is true, or likely to be true, it’s not just reposting corporate fluff.

    In fact, why even post reviews? Obviously nobody wants marketing fluff like “phone has 12GB RAM”, those damn capitalist corporations are faking that too, there’s only one person in this world who’s woke enough to understand that. These idiots should realise that [phone 2025] is obviously going to be better than [phone 2024]. Maybe those scrubs should realise that before writing a sham of an article.

    Here’s a fun fact for you: there’s a fundamental difference between reposting a claim someone else made, and evaluating and testing something and making your own claim about it.


  • masterspace@lemmy.catoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    11 days ago

    Fair enough, this is what my parents did in high school, I just kind of feel like you shouldn’t have to appease people like that so I’m torn.

    For me in high school, in one situation we had already been sleeping over at her house with her mom’s full knowledge, so by the time we asked my parents to sleep at my house, they talked to her mom and it was pretty brief and easy.

    In the other, her parents wouldn’t let us be in a room alone together, so when we asked my parents about sleeping over and they said they would have to call, we stopped them, said forget about it, and just had a lot more day-time, risky, might-get-walked-in-on sex.

    In neither situation did the call seem particularly productive towards anyone’s goals, but on the other hand, my parents never had drama with other parents so maybe I just need to think on that more.


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    11 days ago

    This feels somewhat toxicly parental rights to me.

    When I was in high school I had a friend who ran away from an abusive home and ended up living with another friend.

    The parent is not always right, so I have a hard time accepting that you should always side with the parent if they’re under 18.




  • masterspace@lemmy.catolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldVim > VSCode
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    11 days ago

    Have you tried using VSCode / VSCodium? I’ve tried using a VIM based workflow and found myself missing many graphical dev features in VSCode.

    And sure, there’s nothing wild about continuing to use a process that works for you, but it is a little wild to insist that your process is the best and other people should learn it, if you also know that it has inherent limitations that alternatives don’t.


  • So it does quote someone who’s quote you are going to ignore because you don’t like it. Genius, absolutely genius.

    No, I’m ignoring it because the author of the piece is trying to get engineering, manufacturing, and costing information about multiple different products from multiple different brands, based on an off hand comment made by a marketing person from one of them about one of their products.

    Yes because the author is obligated to report this when writing the article by going undercover as a Chinese defector, working up from the factories, becoming CEO of China and then finally putting this information out to public. Who would have thought becoming an Android news reporter requires such sacrifice. No wonder no one wants to work in this field.

    Maybe “Android News Reporter” isn’t a job that attracts the best and brightest from journalism school.

    It has information on THREE brands with three different technologies attempting to make a change, with information about multiple variables about why they think they can replace Corning. I didn’t realise the author had to create a new Wikipedia before putting this out. Maybe he should’ve started a GoFundMe?

    No, it has “information” that three brands are sometimes not using Gorilla Glass in some of their phones, it then has a marketing fluff quote from one of them.






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    11 days ago

    Mostly agree, but don’t know if agree about talking to her parents.

    They’re 17, they’re old enough to make their own choices around whether or not they want to fuck, and whether or not you let them fuck in the comfort of a home isn’t going to stop them.

    Talking to her parents seems honorable, until you find out her parents are nut jobs who flip out when they find out she’s even talked to a boy alone.

    Though I don’t know if it’s different if you’re in the US with crazy sex laws.


  • masterspace@lemmy.catolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldVim > VSCode
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    But it’s literally doing that in your image. When a horizontal and vertical line cross the horizontal line breaks.

    Yes, as an intentional graphical choice to illustrate the crossing of two paths.

    In lazyvim a vertical line, with no crossings, is still broken, as it is two pipes separated by the line space height.

    Oh, did you mean the points that represent actual commits? You’re arguing it’s trash because there’s no line between two adjacent commits? Really?

    No, I’m saying it’s trash because it CANNOT do something basic like drawing a continuous vertical line, because it is hamstrung by using the interface of a typewriter. A git branch is just one readily available example of a situation where something extremely basic like drawing a continuous line would make sense.

    You’ve brought it up multiple times now so I think it’s time you also source that claim. Cmon, source the claim where the code editor with better visual fidelity increases productivity.

    I can’t cite internal market research that is under NDA. I can point you to basic courses on design and UX, point you to information on concepts like cognitive overload, and point out to you the multiple trillion dollar software companies that got to where they are entirely through paying attention to little UX details that backend nerds previously claimed didn’t matter and were user skill issues.

    Yes, terminal can’t do everything, but I don’t think anyone is using VS code to look at a cube either. Actually, I’m not even sure if there is a VS code extension that draws cubes? So you wouldn’t use VS code for that either.

    Bruh, why would you even try and talk out of your ass like this? I am literally using jsCad and VsCode to do my personal 3d printing modelling, and I literally got my start programming using first VS, then VSCode, to build 3d modelling software for Autodesk. Not sure if you’re aware of this but modern websites have this little thing called WebGL that lets them display these little things called jraphics.

    Again, VsCode can do everything VIM can do, but not vice versa.