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  • SmokeyDope@lemmy.worldtoFound Satan@lemmy.worldTrolling fit bros
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    22 hours ago

    But is it a figurative burying or a meta-literal one? I mean if you really think about things entomologically and we pick apart the Latin root words of “bury” and “dogpile” we might just find that the meaning of lemmy dogpile changes completely depending on context, literally figuratively.

    Language is fucked. We really need telepathically beaming abstract concepts directly into brain matter so I don’t have to crawl through linguist brainrot reply chains.



  • “Look, I didn’t spend months hyperobsessing on /x/, digging through thousands of succubus tupla summoning post and self-inflicting disassociative psychosis to vizualize a vampire GF only to deal with my problems in a healthy normie sheeple NPC way. Fuck that. I mean how would I even tell them about the goat sacrifices? Oh I can still hear the bleeting sometimes. Now shut up, Lumali is warning me about the reptillians under the flat hollow earth slowly replacing my loved ones with robot clones to spy on me again.”


  • SmokeyDope@lemmy.worldtoFunny@sh.itjust.worksDefine Greenwashing
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    2 days ago

    Im an extremest “No the glass is at precisely half capacity. I meticulously found a geometric proof to show its the fill line is exactly at half of the glass. I counted the fucking molecules one at a time and statistically compared them with a full glass and a empty glass. Its half, no more no less. Both of your perceptions of the world are deeply warped by internal biases.” Kind of guy myself. Or in Lemmy speak, a FiLtHy CeNtaRist!!!




  • Some people need something to rage and virtue signal against. Those who work in private STEM sectors or took machine learning classes years before the LLM craze already understand the tool is here and are willing to learn to work with it if applicable in their job or daily life.

    Those who don’t understand anything about the science of machine learning and are angry at the how megacorporations got away with unconsentually scraping their copyright infringed data off the internet for the first iterations of training data still get to let off some steam by calling it ‘hyped autocomplete just as bad as NFTs that will never do what a person can’.

    If I were an artsy type whos first exposure to ML was having my work stolen followed by the thief bragging to my face about how copy protection laws dont matter to the powerful and now they can basically copy my honed style 1 to 1 with a computer to sell as an product, I would be unreasonably pissed too and not interested this whole 'AI’thing. Megacorps made chatGPT and stable diffusion using my work therefore AI bad. I get it.

    That said, I’m not an artsy type or an idealist. I’m a practical engineer who builds systems to process the flows of information and energy with the tools available at my dispersal. Theres more to machine learning than proprietary models made with stolen information to be sold to th masses. Instead models are just the next new way to process large datasets full of complicated information. Its just that now were taking cues from natures biological information processing systems. Whether such processes prove more certain and effective to the old analog and digital ways have yet to be seen. Perhaps using these new tools will open up entirely different ways of treating information for all of society. Perhaps it will be just another niche thing for researchers to write papers about. Time will tell.


  • The inefficacy of current public education system is a feature not a bug. The rulers want workers just smart enough to measure inches and run the machines to keep the money printers flowing. But not smart enough to realize just how badly they’re getting fucked over by a system that sold out and threw them overboard before they were even born. You need high level language and a general understanding of history to comprehend high level abstractions that govern human hierarchy. Ill bet 5$ on which subjects are getting most cuts in public schools.


  • SmokeyDope@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldZoomers & Boomers are the same
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    4 days ago

    I was going to say it sounds like linux mint would be your dream OS its stable and bullet proof. Download everything through package manager if you really need up to date program flatpaks or appimages have you covered. Never have the computer force an update on you or change things around again. Both my elderly parents use LM every day for years not one complaint after I set everything up for them with like web app shortcuts to banks and stuff. I think youll like it, modern linux is so much better than years ago its unreal. Look for a cheap used thinkpad if you a laptop user.



  • SmokeyDope@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldcaught by surprise
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    6 days ago

    In the winter my home can go down into the 40F-50F range with all available heating running on full. Even with electric blankets its better to layer up with thermal underwear, hats, coats, three layers of pants, and gloves.

    My mom says she can’t stand a bunch of fabric on her which I guess is fair. I personally can’t stand freezing to death while I sleep myself so its a fair trade.



  • SmokeyDope@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldWe are a strange bunch
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    6 days ago
    > kaiju demon cleaves Tampa
    > prehistoric kaiju sized mega-crocodile erupts from crack in ground
    > they battle it out, croczilla wins by continuous death rolling 
    > "Oh I must have switched on the sci-fy channel by accident"
    > mfw its national news station with live coverage
    

    Twitter: “lmao this new retcon of Godzilla is wild”


  • SmokeyDope@lemmy.worldtoMemes@sopuli.xyzWe had a deal
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    6 days ago

    System Operator. In non-nerd speak, it was the person who owned and ran the local public fourms website on their home computer. Lemmys instance admins are usually sysops for example, as they have root admin privleges or direct hardware access to the computer that the Lemmy instance software runs on.

    This person is talking about an admin of a local fourm site early internet users used before centralized social media like MySpace and Facebook made Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) irrelevant.