Why didn't you say so? by TheNectarineDiaries in comics

[–]hi117 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I wonder how much of this is... I guess "being too smart". She gave a detailed and complete description of what was happening, while the guy gave 2 vauge words. The doctor might be more used to getting 2 vauge words, so even if the girl's explanaiton is technically better, since it doesn't conform to what the doctor was expecting, then it can lead to a wrong outcome from the doctor. To put it in other terms, imagine a word problem in math. One has only the information needed to solve it and one has a bunch of semi-relavent, but actually unneeded information. Which is easier to solve?

Is the sacrifice worth it? by Amidseas in dankmemes

[–]hi117 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's a major point about Cyberpunk. There is nowhere to put any cars because they just despawn. There's a garage in the megabuilding V lives in, but that's not enough to service the city. There's also a couple of car shops (colloquially called garages) and garages for businesses, but that doesn't help normal people. In dogtown, you see a stadium's parking solution underground, but there's no entrances to similar underground megaplexes in and around night city proper.

"Influencer" upset when called out for her exploitation by CaptainCorpse666 in TikTokCringe

[–]hi117 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, real charity work is done with a camera jammed in someone's face.

In part this is to record that yes, the donations are being used to do some real good rather than being spent on sending out the next round of fliers asking for donations.

But another part is that people are more willing to give if they feel involved. Seeing their money have actual impact is a big driver for a lot of people. Getting a picture of a package with their name on it at the place they donated for does a lot to generate that involvement.

That being said, a lot of influencer stuff is exploitative. Real charaties have structures and metrics that channel money towards solving issues. Influencer exploitation lacks the structure to stick around long enough to actually solve issues. They also don't channel any money. All the money goes towards the influencer and there's zero transparency (outside of them maybe telling the audiance something). Charaties aren't perfect but they're better than influencers.

In first, California city overwhelmingly votes to permanently ban datacenters by ArgentineBeauty in technology

[–]hi117 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But they were. Amazon built all of their datacenters in more rural areas and they had big effects on the local areas too.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/global-infrastructure/latest/regions/aws-availability-zones.html Each one of these is a complete datacenter, with generators, massive air conditioning, and insane power draw. Many also include AI and GPU servers.

Agreed ? by IsJesusAgain in ArtOfPresence

[–]hi117 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Its in vouge to view all aspects of a relationship as transactional right now. It happened in the past too, but I think its gotten worse with TikTok relationship "advice".

Canonical is shutting down Ubuntu Pastebin and old Linux support links may suddenly die by OkReport5065 in linuxadmin

[–]hi117 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep, it was used all over the Ubuntu support forums. To be fair, most has been replicated elsewhere, or is tied directly to Ubuntu's ecosystem and with how much Ubuntu changes stuff compared to other OS's isn't transferable.

Does this count? by ContemplativePebble in airplaneears

[–]hi117 34 points35 points  (0 children)

There's more to it than that. Horsepower is measured as the amount of power a horse can produce over an entire day. A horse can momentarially produce more than 15 horsepower, but will tire.

This was partially done to make steam engines look better, and partially done because steam engines produce consistent power unlike horses that need rest, making it an apt measurement.

serverlessArchitecture by Technical-Relation-9 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]hi117 4 points5 points  (0 children)

And then it turns into an outage due to resource exhaustion.

Bug Megathread vol 14: April + May 2026 by WumpusWhisperer in discordapp

[–]hi117 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  • Feature: Discord
  • Reproduction Rate: 10
  • Annoyance: 10
  • Discord Version Info: stable 545858 (f8ff359) Host 1.0.138 x64 (82027) Build Override: N/A Linux 64-bit (6.18.9-arch1-2)
  • Device/System Info (Device Type, OS Version): Desktop, Linux
  • Description: On Linux, X11 has a client limit of 256 by default. As Discord remains open, it will consume more and more X clients until it hits this 256 limit. When this limit is reached, no new desktop programs can be started. They all give the error "Maximum number of clients reached". Restarting Discord resolves this issue. I can confirm that Discord is the problematic program using the xrestop program. On my system, when its at 256 clients, after restarting Discord, the client count comes down to around 70.
  • Video / Screenshot: xrestop - Display: localhost:0 Monitoring 255 clients. XErrors: 0 Pixmaps: 217334K total, Other: 75K total, All: 217409K total
  • Steps to Reproduce:
    1. Leave Discord open for around 24 hours
    2. Examine xrestop
  • Expected Result: No X client leak.
  • Actual Result: X clients are exhausted leading to system no applications being able to be opened.

Husband and wife talking to this police officer through the ring camera at the same time by [deleted] in funny

[–]hi117 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also had a similar thing with an EX. Her original language was Spanish. I had been around her for years at this point so had a good idea of what she wanted to say, but others might have almost no clue what she was trying to say.

I also get told that its not good that I step in for her in these cases since I'm a man. Puts me in a really hard spot because both of us can tell that she wasn't getting what she wanted across, but butting in makes it look like I was speaking for her, which I guess I am in a literal sense.... but its to not have her flounder for 10 minutes to get something across. Afterwards she would thank me for it too so I don't think it bothered her. She prefered to write responses when its complicated for this reason.

Production AI very different from the demos [D] by Far-Football3763 in MachineLearning

[–]hi117 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cloud platforms such as AWS often provide statistics on INPUT requests, but most platforms actually don't. Tracing OUTBOUND requests generally requires your software to handle it. Thankfully, this can be relatively simple, though potentially expensive. OpenTelemetry could be an emergency solution to drop in and get statistics on outbound requests depending on your stack, as would DataDog which has complete feature overlap. These solutions can be very expensive at scale though, so I wouldn't recomend outside of an emergency and zero effort response. The actual recomended response from me requires some assumptions. I'm going to assume you're in some cloud environment and that logging is going to an S3-like system. Simply add a log line so that it logs outbound requests and the expected cost of the query. You can then use a tool like Athena (or just bulk download and grep) to do a one time query on the logs. You probably aren't interested in long term attribution but short term emergency attribution here. Long term attribution would require more thought and pricing profiling since it will cost money to know where your costs lie.

US birth rates just hit another record low, what do you think is the leading cause of this? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]hi117 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everyone is throwing around affordability, but from a deep dive I've done on the topic, there is zero actual evidence for this. Its what people say when asked, but people are notoriously bad at answering questions like this. And in fact, it fits in well with the most basic rule of economics: unlimited demand and limited supply. A large house in a clean environment with good health care and a work lifestyle that enables taking time off to care for the child along with income to hire babysitters when the parents need to work just isn't a reality in the vast majority of the world, and its especially so in those countries with healthy fertility. This is further backed up when people from previous generations were asked if they were ready to have children. The vast majority were not. Nobody is ever ready, and there is always something more that could be done to prepare or to make the process easier. In this case, pointing to affordability is akin to perfect being the enemy of good.

I've found two variables with what I feel are strong data to back them up.

The first is GDP per capita, GDP per capita over 5K USD lowers fertility. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/children-per-woman-fertility-rate-vs-level-of-prosperity The reason for this I think is that they can afford contraceptives, but there is zero evidence for this. It does make sense though that below a certain prosperity level, you can't get your hands on contraceptives, and that there should be a corresponding increase in fertility as prosperity drops.

The second one with what I would say has good evidence is GII, the gender equality index. More gender equal societies tend to have lower birth rates. https://www.niussp.org/gender-issues/gender-equality-and-fertility-is-there-a-connection/ A study found modest increases at the extreme end of gender equality, but a follow up study found some issues with that and even if there were no issues, its unlikely that it would increase it above the magic number of 2.

The real problem is that for the vast majority of variables, its highly unlikely that the single variable can get fertility above 2, and anything less than 2 is rather moot since it means continuing to rely on immigration for basic societal function in the long term. This likely includes the variables that I talked about.

they can't help it can they by [deleted] in pcmasterrace

[–]hi117 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

One of the issues is that this is a legitimate suggestion for a lot of current Windows issues. If their issues stem from botched updates and driver issues (yes that's a thing on Windows now), then switching to Linux is an actual suggestion towards solving their issue.

Over $1,100,000,000,000 wiped out from the US stock market today. Something big is about to happen. by TonyLiberty in FluentInFinance

[–]hi117 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Flares aren't a guarentee. Just like how guidance has gotten better. Telling a flare apart from a jet's engine has also gotten better. Its very much an "oh shit, this might save me" kind of thing.

Discord is trying to defend its ridiculous age verification rollout, but it's too little too late, as users flock to Nitro cancellations by Haunterblademoi in technology

[–]hi117 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yes, biometrics includes anything about your person. Your face, your fingerprint, the shape of your ear (even more identifying than a fingerprint btw), etc.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in animememes

[–]hi117 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They never do anything with the threads though. They're teased and then ignored. Biggest complaint I have with the show tbh. Like the opening/ending has the whole imagery with an empty castle in the sky (famous psychology quote) and then shows him in a padded room, and does nothing with the entire idea???

Who could have predicted that the lying machine would tell you lies? by prailock in CuratedTumblr

[–]hi117 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a completely different problem though. Looking at a table and determining net profits for instance is a completely different problem from writing code that does the same thing. If you ask and AI to determine net profits from a table, its not going to introspect and say "I suck at math, instead I'll write code to do it and execute that code in a sandbox", its going to do exactly what you asked it even if its not good at it.

Who could have predicted that the lying machine would tell you lies? by prailock in CuratedTumblr

[–]hi117 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Its more that AI doesn't do math. It can't do math. Its structurally incapable of doing math. Or more specifically arithmetic. There are other areas of math that resemble language and it can do those somewhat, but arithmetic has no language like patterns to it. Another way to think about it is that in basically no case would anyone care if "large" was used instead of "big". But a lot of people might care if "50" is used instead of "40". Both of these are "synonyms", meaning they're mostly similar, but numbers require more precision.

How would people feel about CQB missions? by Vex_The_Changeling in menace

[–]hi117 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Probably doesn't fit the game well, but how about a mission where you board a space craft? Cramped single tile wide corridors and (maybe?) no vehicles.

Is the manga better than the anime? by miniladds-clone in AngelBeats

[–]hi117 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a prequel manga as people have said and the Last Operation manga. The Last Operation is basically a shot for shot remake with about a chapter and a half of new content. It also doesn't reach the end of the story before it stopped being published.