SkoomaDentist
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SkoomaDentist
1yr ago
Facebook is equally bad or worse
Facebook has effectively zero effect on the political discourse in Finland now that Covid is just another flu (it had a very small effect as a breeding ground for fringe groups but their actual effect was minimal). As for what effect Facebook has on that side of the pond, I simply don't care.
SkoomaDentist
1yr ago
Not in vogue, you say? (That's the 2020 winner)
SkoomaDentist
1yr ago
Thus my observation that all the examples I've seen of how ChatGPT is supposedly oh so helpful in programming are really examples of what'd be better called scripting.
Good luck getting ChatGPT to write you the required initialization code for ffmpeg mp4 encoder with sensible quality and speed settings since the defaults are utterly braindead (the required code is ~100 lines of largely undocumented structs and function calls).
SkoomaDentist
1yr ago
What?
You set up the development environment, repositories and libraries once and don't have to deal with any of that until a non-trivial change / upgrade comes up in a year or two.
SkoomaDentist
1yr ago
More or less every example I've seen of ChatGPT's touted benefits to programming has had little to do with programming and has ended up being just fairly simple scripting.
SkoomaDentist
1yr ago
Like why would we need debugging skills if ChatGPT can solve that problem?
Because there are lots of problems where ChatGPT is not helpful or gives outright incorrect information that a layman won't even recognize as incorrect.
SkoomaDentist
1yr ago
I dearly hope you're right. Twitter has been the worst thing that's happened to the political discourse in Finland by a large margin. I've said for years that politicians and journalists should have been forbidden from writing, reading or discussing anything on Twitter or seen there with the threat of a heavy fine or jail sentence.
SkoomaDentist
1yr ago
I've seen maybe one or two persons wearing a mask in the workplace, like in reception, but it could be the case where they had some medical reasons.
I've seen people do that for two reasons: pollen allergy (a friend claims this helps him quite a bit) or if they have a cold but need to visit the office / doctor's / some other similar place.
SkoomaDentist
1yr ago
Is there any good Christian music (rock, folk, country) out there?
Uh, more or less everything U2 made up to Achtung Baby?
SkoomaDentist
1yr ago
A better question is, why do random Eastern European towns let an NGO (aka a lobbying group) do anything whatsoever to public property?
SkoomaDentist
1yr ago
I always get a laugh when people try to redefine the countries best representing the "blonde hair and blue eyes"-stereotype as "not actually white".
SkoomaDentist
1yr ago
Thank you for validating my choice to stick to listening purely to established 80s artists.
SkoomaDentist
1yr ago
OTOH Season 4 did have that song...
SkoomaDentist
1yr ago
You still need a cable all the way to the surface, whether that's a single long one or multiple shorter ones (much more likely to break). There's a reason deep sea dives have traditionally had the support ship right above the sub.
SkoomaDentist
1yr ago
the sub vanished from communications 2 hours into the dive
The only way the sub could have any communications while in actual dive would be with a long cable (at which point the almost exact location would have been known all the time). Radio doesn't penetrate deep in water without extreme measures (antennas tens of kilometers long with megawatts of transmission power - obviously limited to ground to sub transmissions only).
SkoomaDentist
1yr ago
Proper real time communication with the mothership
This would require a cable connection which gets tricky for 4000 meter deep dives. Radio communication rather famously doesn't work underwater. You can only get ground to sub data transmission at a few bits per second and even that requires tens of kilometer long antennas with megawatts of transmission power.
SkoomaDentist
1yr ago
Linking it to some fashionable phenomena does not look very useful
Except for the very important point about how Putin clearly started the war on a completely false premise he had been fed due to everyone being afraid to report anything other than "things are great". IOW, a perfect example of what Hlynka wrote about.
SkoomaDentist
1yr ago
TBH, that has always applied to a significant portion of posts here, on /r/themotte and way back on /r/slatestarcodex.
SkoomaDentist
1yr ago
What’s bizarre is people expecting a language model to not just make up data. It’s literally a bullshit generator. All it cares is that the text seems plausible to someone who knows nothing about the details.
SkoomaDentist
1yr ago
I live in Northern Europe and if there is a button to close the doors in the first place (there isn”& always), it works much more often than not.
SkoomaDentist
1yr ago
Ooh, flashbacks from 20 years ago! I ran into Monster Magnet’s Dopes to Infinity album and liked it enough to buy it (remember when people used to actually buy physical albums?). I even saw them live when they made it to Finland two years later although that gig wasn’t particularly memorable (probably not helped by the fact I spent the entire festival suffering from sinusitis). Still, good times when I was young and naive enough to be affected by just one or two songs from an artist I’d never heard before.
SkoomaDentist
1yr ago
The hierarchy of wokeness makes little difference when it encounters a wall that simply does not care about criticism and has a lot of financial power. Unlike in North America, twitterati & such have no power to cancel Chinese entities with a large financial clout, including the government itself.
SkoomaDentist
1yr ago
some people essentially consider their public behaviour a (gendered) performance they put on because it is necessary.
I can't help feeling that this is yet another example of people too in the autism spectrum thinking their own general weirdness applies to the wider population and not realizing or refusing to admit it. This is pretty blatant when it comes to the trans issue where a lot of the time the people complaining about being "forced into gender typical box" turn out to also have obvious asperger symptoms.
SkoomaDentist
1yr ago
We should use this as an excuse to take advantage of our new NATO membership to divide Sweden between Finland, Norway and Denmark.
Politicians' FB pages are used more or less exclusively for preaching to the choir - that is, people who would vote for them anyway. Almost nothing on them enters the wider discourse in any meaningful way. Meanwhile most journalists and far too many politicians are constantly importing stupid ideas from US Twitter or reporting what this or that person posted on Twitter (to the extent that US domestic politics are given more space in papers than the rest of EU combined).
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