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froggit commented on Our approach to age prediction openai.com/index/our-appr... · Posted by u/pretext

maest · 22 days ago

Mandatory adblock for children is something I could support.

froggit · 22 days ago

> Mandatory adblock for children is something I could support.

And adults.

froggit commented on Don't fall into the anti-AI hype antirez.com/news/158... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

biophysboy · a month ago

I feel differently! My background isn't programming, so I frequently feel inhibited by coding. I've used it for over a decade but always as a secondary tool. Its fun for me to have a line of reasoning, and be able to toy with and analyze a series of questions faster than I used to be able to.

froggit · a month ago

Ditto. Coding isn't what i specifically do, but it's something i will choose to do when it's the most efficient solution to a problem. I have no problem describing what i need a program to do and how it should do so in a way that could be understandable even to a small child or clever golden retriever, but i'm not so great at the part where you pull out that syntactic sugar and get to turning people words into computer words. LLMs tend to do a pretty good job at translating languages regardless of whether i'm talking to a person or using a code editor, but i don't want them deciding what i wanted to say for me.

froggit commented on Adafruit: Arduino’s Rules Are ‘Incompatible With Open Source’ thenewstack.io/adafruit-a... · Posted by u/MilnerRoute

AlexeyBrin · 2 months ago

Honest question, if you buy (just a hypothetical, I assume most parents can't afford to buy one) a Chromebook for your kid that will be used in school, do you have to lock it down or can you enable the Linux system (assuming that you want to do that and that your kid is interested in learning to program).

froggit · 2 months ago

> (just a hypothetical, I assume most parents can't afford to buy one)

It used to be that high school students were required to have a graphing calculator. These had to be purchased by the student (iow by their parents) and without factoring in 20+ years of inflation costed more than some Chromebooks available today. I suspect there were (and still are) financial assistance programs as i've known students living below the poverty line and they were able to meet that requirement.

froggit commented on Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable theverge.com/tech/823337/... · Posted by u/throwaway270925

whatevaa · 3 months ago

GPU sharing for consumers is available only as full passtrough, no sharing. Have to detach from host.

froggit · 3 months ago

MS has supported doing gpu virtualization for years in hyper-v with their gpu-pv implementation. Normally it gets used automatically by windows to do gpu acceleration in windows sandbox and WSL2, however it can be used with VMs via powershell.

froggit commented on Steam Frame store.steampowered.com/sa... · Posted by u/Philpax

andybak · 3 months ago

Most people in what age group?

I'm 53 and the Quest 3 is perfectly good as a monitor replacement.

froggit · 3 months ago

Are you saying ppd requirements for comfortable usage vary with age?

froggit commented on Learn Prolog Now (2006) lpn.swi-prolog.org/lpnpag... · Posted by u/rramadass

mkirsten · 3 months ago

Can you try calculating 101 * 70 in your head?

froggit · 3 months ago

I can absolutely try this. Doesn't mean i'll solve it. If i solve it there's no guarantee i'll be correct. Math gets way harder when i don't have a legitimate need to do it. This falls in the "no legit need" so my mind went right to "100 * 70, good enough."

froggit commented on Steam Machine store.steampowered.com/sa... · Posted by u/davikr

nickstinemates · 3 months ago

Escape from Tarkov is the only reason I have a Windows Hard drive still. It doesn't have anything else on it.

froggit · 3 months ago

EFT has a pretty ridiculous history with attempts at anticheat. Several years ago they set up their servers to kick anyone with virtualization enabled because cheaters had been using VMs to intercept network traffic (the network traffic wasn't encrypted for tarkov then). The response from cheaters was to use a seperate bare metal build to intercept the traffic. The devs "fixed" it right before windows 11 came out with virtualization on by default.

froggit commented on A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-co... · Posted by u/nvahalik

smokel · 4 months ago

It might be empirically sound, but it does not make a priori sense that exercising a body will improve it. If I use almost any object in the universe frequently, it typically degrades rather than improves.

The health benefits of exercise are most likely due to improved blood flow and related physiological effects. In principle, pills could theoretically achieve similar outcomes by enhancing circulation or other underlying mechanisms.

Not taking sides here, just reasoning out loud.

froggit · 4 months ago

Excessive exercise might not be healthy? No shit?

froggit commented on A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-co... · Posted by u/nvahalik

iamacyborg · 4 months ago

People should probably try improve their CV health via exercise, rather than pills, wherever possible.

froggit · 4 months ago

Kinda seems like taking boner pills encourages certain types of physical activity.

froggit commented on A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-co... · Posted by u/nvahalik

tialaramex · 4 months ago

Rather more like "Guy fell over looking into the volcano but fortunately there's a metal fence". The most immediate danger to you is that you'll drown because radioactive water is water and you can't breathe. So the life vest avoids this. In contrast volcanic lava absolutely can kill you before you drown, no problem.

Yes, radioactivity isn't good. You should not, for example, drink this water, or swim in it once a week for good luck. But, it isn't magic death fluid, the worker will have been decontaminated - destroying clothing, washing skin and so on, and the additional exposure means they might get more monitoring, but they're probably fine.

froggit · 4 months ago

Not sure how fortunate that metal fence would be. Apparently those things conduct heat. "Fortunately guy who fell in volcano landed on the white hot chain link safety fence deep inside and was grilled to death over a span of several minutes. His last thoughts were on how lucky he was that at least he hadn't fallen in a reactor pool without a life vest."