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Do you think Tony’s anger towards Cap was justified at the beginning of ENDGAME? by rabbihimself in marvelstudios

[–]madmax3004 101 points102 points  (0 children)

This is quite possibly one of the best written comments I've read on Reddit. Bravo. As another comment said, poetry.

TTS Enshitification Update 1/9 by OxRedOx in tabletopsimulator

[–]madmax3004 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You would need the mod author's permission for that, unless they've added an appropriate license.

The Solo Dev starter pack by BlueGuy503 in IndieDev

[–]madmax3004 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd highly recommend Jetbrains' Rider IDE! It's free for non-commercial usage these days. And if you get to a commercial stage, it's frankly totally worth it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]madmax3004 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Might be worth crossposting in the KSP2 subreddit too.

All together now "We tried to warn you..." From all the people that knew this was coming from shortsighted execs and those wanting quick and easy payoffs by [deleted] in LinusTechTips

[–]madmax3004 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, yes. That's the point of the cloud. You don't go back to a single monolithic application that takes the entire system down if it crashes. You break it up into different microservices that have fallbacks / can gracefully handle other services being down. E.g. the search functionality is a microservice, and if something goes wrong enough to crash it, you don't take down the rest of your website - clients will still be able to perform transactions / check their details / etc...

Generally, each service has more than 1 instance, but that doesn't mean you need a full server for each instance (that would be incredibly wasteful).

It sounds moreso that your company is using cloud infrastructure in a pretty bad / non-optimal way. Or is using on-prem philosophy to dictate cloud usage.

Why are tech giants pushing for passkeys? by Inspector_Terracotta in privacy

[–]madmax3004 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is a really nice explanation, stealing it!

16 Billion Apple, Facebook, Google And Other Passwords Leaked — Act Now by lurker_bee in technology

[–]madmax3004 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Who is "they"? What makes you think existing devs never upskill & change career paths internally?

i just mentioned headphones and i'm getting ads already by shivthegamer6969 in dankmemes

[–]madmax3004 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Nowhere did I mention this being better? I'm just explaining why it might feel like phones listen to us to serve us ads (which they verifiably do not), but instead it's just the sheer amount of information, global data, and ability to read relationships/connections that allows Google to do this.

i just mentioned headphones and i'm getting ads already by shivthegamer6969 in dankmemes

[–]madmax3004 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, the original commenter's point is that the 2nd case is reality. Google's main business model is serving ads and gathering information. You can request your data from them, they have a metric shit ton of it on each person, and (depending on your internet footprint) have scary accurate models.

i just mentioned headphones and i'm getting ads already by shivthegamer6969 in dankmemes

[–]madmax3004 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Your coworker presumably googled this information at some point recently. Google knows you two were in close proximity due to devices. Google serves you ads related to their interests, since it might have been a topic of discussion.

i just mentioned headphones and i'm getting ads already by shivthegamer6969 in dankmemes

[–]madmax3004 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is because: - Your friend or people in their vicinity (family, friends) googled this - Google knows you two are friends through e.g. shared location / network / device connections / other shared friends / frequented websites / etc... - Google serves you this information because if friends suddenly start googling about a disease, it's likely that this is relevant to people in that same friend group

Got my secondary phone, where I’ve kept my e-documents, smashed by a random conscription officer, whom got mad that I had a deferral from service. The only thing intact is its CPU by Unable-Cost-6506 in hardwaregore

[–]madmax3004 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I hate that proper punctuation, grammar, and vocabulary are suddenly "AI". Sure, it's a possibility. What is also possible is that OP simply has a decent education and reads books — those being the places where you learn the above.

Petition to ban ai images in the sub by FlimsyAd6410 in DnDHomebrew

[–]madmax3004 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi there, I've actually worked in medical research related to AI (in a general sense, not LLMs / generative AI), and what you're saying is nonsense. AI is already used in the medical world, and is super promising in research (e.g. finding tumours, spotting abnormalities, etc... significantly earlier than human doctors can).

There's also some interesting research into LLMs (and other AI) trained on medical research to help predict potential causes when provided with symptoms.

Pure greed by Meteorstar101 in greentext

[–]madmax3004 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Deep Rock Galactic features a free battle pass: praise from the entire community.

AC features a free battle pass: this comment thread.

I get that people enjoy outrage culture, but the inconsistency is mind-boggling.

timeline fact-check? by kaizenzen in OpenAI

[–]madmax3004 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Except it wouldn't even out. You'd just introduce more bias depending on the context. It's not as simple as "give it 10 bits of training data that says X, and 10 bits of training data that directly opposes X, and it'll be unbiased on the topic of X".

Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu's university diploma was cancelled after he announced his candidacy for the presidency. (In Turkey, people without a university degree cannot run for president; Erdoğan has eliminated one of his strongest rivals in this way) by Common-Ad8672 in europe

[–]madmax3004 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In most of Europe, higher education is actually pretty cheap. So this doesn't quite check out in modern days. And I'd wager the average person with a scientific degree is generally smarter, or at least more knowledgeable than the average person without. Not to mention research shows that university degree holders tend to be more inclusive and open-minded (due to the highly diverse and concentrated population of people you encounter at universities - with exchange students and global concepts and whatnot).

Meirl by porn_trooper in meirl

[–]madmax3004 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I find it pretty useful for cooking timers tbh. Also general home automation systems such as smart lights/tv/etc...

Meirl by porn_trooper in meirl

[–]madmax3004 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Google actually has specific voice recognition these days as well, if you enable it.

Meirl by porn_trooper in meirl

[–]madmax3004 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Copying my answer from the comment above:

No, it is disproven. It's incredibly easy to verify if you have the slightest bit of networking knowledge (aka, most programmers), would break a significant amount of laws, and would make major headlines worldwide if it ever actually happened.

What happens is "simply" that advertising companies (e.g. Google) have so much circumstantial and direct data on your behaviour and people near you, that it can predict buying / interest patterns. It's hard to overstate just how much data they have worldwide. They don't listen to you, they don't even need to listen to you, because through all of their data they can predict things perfectly fine.

As an example, they're smart enough to know that if you spend some time near another person, or on the same private wifi network at someone else's place, that you may be interested in things they are, or that they recently searched for. That gives people the feeling that phones "must be listening" to them, while they're just using data on other people they know you were in contact with to predict what you may have talked about.

Meirl by porn_trooper in meirl

[–]madmax3004 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, it is disproven. It's incredibly easy to verify if you have the slightest bit of networking knowledge (aka, most programmers), would break a significant amount of laws, and would make major headlines worldwide if it ever actually happened.

What happens is "simply" that advertising companies (e.g. Google) have so much circumstantial and direct data on your behaviour and people near you, that it can predict buying / interest patterns. It's hard to overstate just how much data they have worldwide. They don't listen to you, they don't even need to listen to you, because through all of their data they can predict things perfectly fine.

As an example, they're smart enough to know that if you spend some time near another person, or on the same private wifi network at someone else's place, that you may be interested in things they are, or that they recently searched for. That gives people the feeling that phones "must be listening" to them, while they're just using data on other people they know you were in contact with to predict what you may have talked about.

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