What the fuck is a metaverse?

Rarified salami, hahaha, that got a good chuckle out of me

Will you sign my petition?

Convinced a long distance friend to change their major from Acupuncture to Computer Science before they ruined their life.

They’re doing better than I am, now.

That seems to require a level of foresight and planning that most corporations don’t have. That’s almost like a blueprint for failure when some middle manager changes the scope of a project with a hard coded time limit, IMO.

Anyone interested in not-agile development? Maybe we can call it “Ship it when it’s ready” lol

Ancient developer here / not really a coder, but what the hell is “Agile” software development?

Is it some kind of pseudonym for pushing buggy, untested code to a production server or something?

Like a speed run category for software development?

TLDR: He doesn’t like it and says it tastes exactly like any other $3 cup, lol

Never ask what the hot dog is made of :>

I know you’re going to be downvoted, but you really underestimate how good hot dogs are at a barbecue.

Serving people salads at a grill outing is a way to lose friends, giving them vegan hot dogs without telling them is a way for them to consider eating less meat. C:

Try using a 1-bit LLM to test the article’s claim.

The perplexity loss is staggering. It’s like 75% accuracy lost or more. It turns a 30 billion parameter model into a 7 billion parameter model.

Highly recommended that you try to replicate their results.

Remember, this is why your party needs the Bard. It’s not because of the Lute. ;)

I have unironically used Winamp since 2003, and I continue to do so now, even with a lossless passthrough DAC, lol

I love Lemmy

The sky was tuned to the color of a dead channel

The rich have problems paying just their regular owed taxes, nothing even exceptional; they draft legislation to lower their own tax rates while keeping taxes on labor the same.

Why is capital gains taxed at a lower rate than income? Is sitting on a pile of money and watching it grow somehow more noble than sweating and hard work?

I think a carbon tax is necessary but I think getting the responsible parties in our industrial world to actually pay it, would be extremely difficult. You’d never see such bipartisan cooperation in various governments until someone threatens the subsidies for the liquid black gold.

Yeah, it’s pretty odd but it fits with the M.O, lol

The Overview Effect is real, but there is a certain percentage of our species that is so brain damaged that it does not work.

I was watching the Blue Origin test launch and a teary eyed William Shatner was beyond words at seeing his planet from the outside for the first time, and was holding onto Jeff Bezos in gratitude for the opportunity to have done so (who was also on the same pod/shuttle) –

And Jeff Bezos just stared. Into the void. Past Shatner. Unaffected. I thought he was in shock at seeing the Earth as well as first but… that’s when it really sunk in. He wasn’t in shock, he truly didn’t feel anything.

Cognition is so vastly different, and sometimes it breaks - some people are fundamentally unaltered by such an experience and they operate on a lower level, like praying mantises, observing prey.

There used to be a word for it in the Diagnostic Service Manuals before they removed it: Psychopathy.

The overview effect is the purest litmus test for psychopathy.

What, is the game really that good?

Card games have never appealed to me personally

I think the Redditors managed to fully come over to Lemmy and the overall theme there prior to leaving late last year was one of depression, apathy, surrender, and overall doomerism.

Lemmy was/is filled with Linux nerds and trans people.

The cross section, I guess is this?

I don’t know. I also hope ya’ll are doing well.

Drink some water. Read a book. Go for a walk. Observe nature. Call your parents/grandparents (if they’re alive)… etc.