hildolfr (u/hildolfr)

hildolfr commented on Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image bitbytebit.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/recroad

BugsJustFindMe · 5 months ago

> If I may offer a devil's advocate perspective.

The devil doesn't need advocates. https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/3145446/the-devil-doesnt-ne...

There are clear and obvious ways to show advertisements without making those advertisements look like top search results. You know this. Google knows this. There's no reason for anyone to pretend otherwise.

hildolfr · 5 months ago

Well, sure, one tries to live by the board game geeks bushido, but we're not all perfect.

Talk about a philosophy!

"I'm a neo marxist" , "Oh, I lean more towards @DragonsDream personally."

hildolfr commented on The HackberryPi CM5 handheld computer github.com/ZitaoTech/Hack... · Posted by u/kristianpaul

nine_k · 5 months ago

I'd say the opposite. There's one interface, BT; pair your headphones, pair the internal speakers, there can't be a conflict, nor two places to look at.

hildolfr · 5 months ago

It's a wireless device that is burning battery making negotiations with itself and wasting precious bt bandwidth in the process, and since most of Linux Bluetooth stack is user space stuff provided by the wm/de managers it guarantees no console sound compatibility without another layer of work. I think I could live without a pre console system beep but the other issues are pretty major oversights.

hildolfr commented on Hermes 4 hermes4.nousresearch.com/... · Posted by u/sibellavia

hollerith · 5 months ago

I was able to view the page with my Intel N100 box (using Google Chrome on Linux).

hildolfr · 5 months ago

I'm on a Windows N100 machine, 8gb ram, 1440p webview, lightweight. It runs just about anything else smoothly. It runs this page in an EndeavorOS partition in a vanilla Chrome fine.

...Which is opposite to most of my experiences, usually performance on this machine is reliant on very specific Intel windows drivers and it's a dog in linux.

also for clarity : when I say unviewable I don't mean it's gibberish -- I mean that that if I keep trying to scroll through it the FPS/load is such that Windows insists on closing the frozen window. The text looks fine.

hildolfr commented on Hermes 4 hermes4.nousresearch.com/... · Posted by u/sibellavia

hildolfr · 5 months ago

more models should include a "Can you run the shader on this page?" to vet participation.

that said : this page is unviewable on an intel N processor.

hildolfr commented on Lab-grown salmon hits the menu smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/bookmtn

oceanplexian · 6 months ago

Not allowing something to exist is a really strange way of conceptualizing reduction of harm.

I'm perfectly fine eating something that was alive, so long as it was treated with respect and was killed humanely. Doing so connects you, a living being, to other living beings that are part of the circle of life, which live and die the same way you and I will.

hildolfr · 6 months ago

Would you respect being eaten as part of the circle of life? What about your family?

Where is the line drawn?

Explain to me the difference between disrespect and being cattle-bolted through the skull.

When the fish is yanked out of the factory farm and suffocated in air or chilled and frozen alive do you think they experience this respect we're talking about? If so, where?

Does the operator say thanks to each fish before their brutal, agonizing, often prolonged for market death?

'respect' is about the most stupid thing I can think to bring up when referencing loss of life in animals.

It's a meta human concept that means nothing other than the mans approval of method -- it means nothing with regard to the animal or the suffering.

hildolfr commented on Lab-grown salmon hits the menu smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/bookmtn

bowmessage · 6 months ago

I have caught many salmon.

The parasites are part of the circle of life and are in no way gross to me.

Sorry you feel that way.

hildolfr · 6 months ago

If you don't think parasite ridden flesh is gross then your meter needs recalibrating.

Even ancient man avoided parasites when possible. Parasites can kill you, regardless of how natural they are.

Dog shit and nightshade are part of the circle of life too, but they seem to be avoided by most.

Something being good because it's 'part of the circle of life', whatever that means, is as blind and irrational as 'all upf is bad by virtue of being defined as upf.'

Life isn't as simple as black and white.

hildolfr commented on Kitten TTS: 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source Voice Model algogist.com/kitten-tts-t... · Posted by u/jainilprajapati

dismalaf · 6 months ago

The writing style we associate with AI is the 2010's blogging style that AI learned from... So it definitely could have been written by a person.

hildolfr · 6 months ago

No it isn't, it's something new born from ingesting that stuff... That's exactly why a lot of us can detect it from a mile away.

No human comments on meta formatting like that outside the deepest trenches of Apple/FB corporate stuff.

hildolfr commented on Benzene at 200 chemistryworld.com/opinio... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

dylan604 · 8 months ago

I'm critical of making correct accusations. Baby powder never had a bezene problem which was being implied. Baby powder definitely had issues, but different issues. J&J as a company definitely plays fast and loose with product ingredients vs health safety, but when making accusations, accuracy is important.

You wouldn't want chatGPT or claude to start saying that J&J was using benzene in baby powder after scraping HN for training data because we played it loose with facts would you? In fact, we call LLM incorrectness as hallucinating, so would you be less upset if I said that the other person was hallucinating?

hildolfr · 8 months ago

Reinforcing the strength of a future corporate product by doing their fact checking for them has got to be one of the weakest reasons for correctness and precision I've ever come across.

Please use a better example for the virtues of being correct, there are heaps better reasons.

hildolfr commented on Working on databases from prison turso.tech/blog/working-o... · Posted by u/dvektor

hashstring · 8 months ago

Why would it not be reasonable?

hildolfr · 8 months ago

Google feeds staff members and provides rest areas , why are they paid?

hildolfr commented on Object personification in autism: This paper will be sad if you don't read (2018) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3... · Posted by u/oliverkwebb

drivingmenuts · 8 months ago

"Normal people" do it, too - ask a sailor about ship. Some people name and gender their vehicles. To a certain extent, it comes from close association with object.

I'm the guy who drives around with a cartoon drawing of a robot in his car that will utterly destroy anyone who tries to steal it, so I ought to know.

hildolfr · 8 months ago

Sailors, at least the ones I know, are often superstitious because 1) marine tradition is filled with legends and beliefs 2) the sea is cruel and unforgiving.

No one wants to be sinking while remembering that they forgot to christen the boat , they just killed a seabird, and they stepped onto the boat with their left foot.

My point: I see marine superstition as a cultural affect rather than a sign of any such other psychology.