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Kache@lemm.eeto Technology@beehaw.org•Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet11·2 months agoPerhaps open federated systems should have recommendation algos too, just optional and open
Maintaining vacuum is difficult and most likely more expensive than just using a cheap energy source
For example, a solar salt distillation system can be totally passive, even if slow and space inefficient: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_still
If the goal is evaporative distillation, it makes no sense to use a process that begins with filling and conaminating the entire system with contaminated water
You’d have more success keeping the container clean (full of air) and pumping all the air out of it, which is still probably less efficient than other means like boiling
Kache@lemm.eeto Gaming@beehaw.org•[UFO 50] we've found the worst way to beat bushido ball1·2 months agoThought it was possible to lob the ball up and over?
Kache@lemm.eeto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•I (M32) gained 140lbs in a year from bad choices, almost all in my belly (now 69-inches) due to rare genetics. With my unique proportions, I’ve outgrown most off-the-rack clothing options. Advice?73·2 months agoIMO wardrobe concerns should come far behind health. Is this not a serious “all hands on deck” health situation? Are you sure considering custom tailoring is the correct life prioritization to take right now?
Kache@lemm.eeto World News@beehaw.org•Germany designates AfD as right-wing extremist organization, citing threat to democracy0·2 months agoBravo, a proper application of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
I’ve had to resort to “do not disturb” 100% of the time, with the “allow contacts to bypass DND”
Kache@lemm.eeto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Could all US copyright holders somehow file a class-action suit against LLM makers?51·3 months agoIMO it’s time for a reckoning of what’s systematic/automated vs what’s not.
For example, “no expectation of privacy in public” meant you should be okay with appearing in someone else’s (manual) photo while out in public. However, I don’t think that should extend to persistent systematic surveillance, e.g. suppose every Tesla’s camera captures were combined with person recognition systems and tracking.
Just because something is theoretically okay at a small scale doesn’t mean the same applies at large scales.
Another example: Society funds public roads via government taxes for personal use and for regulated commercial use. Uber systematically consumes public road space under the guise of personal use vehicles, for commercial use.
It’s a container with certain behaviors and guarantees making them easy and reliable to manipulate and compose. A practical example is a generic List, that behaves like:
List[1, 2, 3]
, i.e. (“new”, “unit”, “wrap”) to create, containing obj(s)map(func)
to transform objs inside, List[A] -> List[B]first()
, i.e. (“unwrap”, “value”) to get back the objflat_map(func)
, i.e. (“bind”) to un-nest one level whenfunc(a)
itself produces another List, e.g.[3, 4].flat_map(get_divisors) == flatten_once([[1, 3], [1, 2, 4]]) == [1, 3, 1, 2, 4]
Consider the code to do these things using
for
loops – the “business logic”func()
would be embedded and interlaced with flow control.The same is true of Maybe, a monad to represent something or nothing, i.e. a “list” of at most one, i.e. a way to avoid “null”.
Consider how quickly things get messy when there are multiple functions and multiple edge cases like empty lists or "null"s to deal with. In those cases, monads like List and Maybe really help clean things up.
IMO the composability really can’t be understated. “Composing” ten
for
loops via interlacing andif
checks and nesting sounds like a nightmare, whereas a few LazyList and Maybe monads will be much cleaner.Also, the distinction monads make with what’s “inside” and what’s “outside” make it useful to represent and compartmentalize scope and lifetimes, which makes it useful for monads like IO and Async.
Kache@lemm.eeto Technology@beehaw.org•TikTok now lets parents see their teen's follower/following list, block access during certain hours6·4 months agoFirst suggestion is impractical. Not going to be able to memorize 100 names to look up and research later
Second suggestion should already be happening, but doesn’t capture the desired use case.
The use case is this: in physical life, there is a gradient of “boundaries/leashes” to match maturity and development. For example, the gradient of movie ratings, or:
- Very young - stay within arms reach/sight
- Young - stay in the yard/park/neighborhood
- Child - stick with what’s familiar, I’ll be nearby
- Pre-teen - go and try it, I can be right there
- Teen - go and try it yourself, call me if needed
We could argue about whether a gradient is too steep or shallow, but the point is that one exists.
In contrast, digital in many ways is very often all-or-nothing
Not saying digital should be “gradient-ed” in all cases, that leads to tone-deaf rules and bad security practices. Just trying to show what the problem is
Kache@lemm.eeto Technology@beehaw.org•A quarter of startups in Y Combinator's current cohort have codebases that are almost entirely AI-generated10·4 months agoI think there is a difference. Because software is so flexible and quick to build, it’s orders of magnitude easier to build something known and understood.
A promising startup with its systems in a knot, but their initial team is still on retainer? Brains can be picked, abstraction boundaries placed, surgical rewrites deployed. Despite the mess, they still understand it, and development can expand.
It remains to be seen if AI-generated code is recoverable, if any existing strategies can be applied so humans can contribute, or if the company is forever beholden to AI providers to release a better AI to manage/improve what they’ve already got.
In my experience, LLMs aren’t really that good at summarizing
It’s more like they can “rewrite more concisely” which is a bit different
Yes, I’ve seen a video file that changes resolution mid-video, but it’s more of a party trick since not all players handled it well
Specifically, I saw a group chat program rendered it “correctly” (Discord? I don’t remember), so the embedded video would re-flow the rendered chatroom while playing
Also have the option of selectively/strictly enforcing in CI, to get an experience & protections similar to “compile-time type checking”
it lacks clear and enforced type restrictions which help with clear code contracts
Not anymore! Gradual typing is supported by the core language and pyright is a fantastic incremental type checker that you can use both in your editor and in CI.
Kache@lemm.eeto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•effective ways to indicate satire without insulting your audiences intelligence?1·6 months agopeople think im stupid all the time so what can i say or do in my posts so that when people get mad or call me names or call me stupid i can just say hey it was satire that way i dont look stupid thats pretty smart right heres an example for you for example i talked about how minion butts …
- Satiric jokes tend to be clever and are to be taken lightly/not seriously. Toilet humor and being offensive/getting offended is the opposite. Try some self-deprecating humor first.
- write english good because youre post will sound clearer you know with good english than for example bad english since you really cant have sentences that run on forever with no commas and no structure it sounds really not smart like a word salad or accident
- Satire and surrealism swiftly subvert societal standards, systematically suggesting subtle surprises. Setup serves as the stage, securing the space for subversion – strategically shifting the spectator’s sense, so as to swiftly shatter their expectations.
(I’m bad at jokes, so just wanted to make sure my S was obvious enough)
Kache@lemm.eeto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•How to deal with Mom who CANNOT learn how to use a password manager, but demands I "fix it"7·6 months agoThen tell her the only way to log in is via email magic login links?
Edit wait that won’t work, some services send “password reset links” that don’t log you in
Kache@lemm.eeto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Does the colour of an appliance like smartphones matter in the aspect of efficiency or use?4·7 months agoPerhaps a lighter/reflective color can keep its temperature lower for longer if you think you might leave it lying under the sun? Overheating damages the battery
But IMO that’s one reason weird UX/design is not uncommon and can persist in dev ecosystems. The intended users are more proficient than average and most are able to work around most issues.