The manager should have Molotov cocktails smashed in their face. /s

The “/s” is there only because it would end up killing them or end up causing irreversible damage. If the above was not the case, then yeah, fuck them.

A definite yes by people close to me. Not so much by strangers. I’m good at masking.

Ehhh naming stuff after individuals just sounds very icky to me

This is why consumer coops are so so important for stuff like this.

The insurance of a person I’m close to from their coop is around 9% cheaper than other non coop alternatives.

Consumer coops (irrespective of sector) always tend to have top notch customer service in my experience.

Really? For some reason, I really prefer DDG’s results over Google’s. Too much SEO spam for Google now (especially with AI).

DDG has this Reddit+ stack overflow thing that I quite like!

For generic factual stuff, I default to wikipedia. For opinions, it tends to be Reddit/Lemmy. If I have questions that are more of “tell me why my understanding of XYZ is wrong”, then LLMs (the big ones) tend to be quite useful (yeah yeah, hate on me for this as much as you want).

Then you have the American getting an STD from their fin Dom and blaming it on the Canadian

In an environment with repeated interactions, the winning strategy in game theory has always been a tit for tat strategy.

“When they go low, we go high” is just virtue based jerking off.

While this person hilariously failed at what they were trying to do, it still doesn’t make what they were trying to do any less nefarious. Them getting bullied and laughed off this community is funny and also necessary to ensure that such actors don’t rise without fear of consequence.

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What a loser.

Yes, developing FOSS can be a very thankless job. There is absolutely nothing wrong with having political disagreements with people.

BUT, not having explicitly disclosed client wide blocklists is such a shitty thing to do. The fediverse is supposed to be FREE from shadowbans and secretive political manipulations. And the DDoS script? Ew.

While this person definitely doesn’t deserve death threats, they definitely deserve all the bullying directed at them.

Ignorance: Lack of information. Stupidity: Inadequate usage of logical reasoning to seek and process information.

That’s how I understand it

Calgary, Canada.

Beverage containers are sold with:

• Deposit: Depending upon the size of the container, your deposit is calculated. You get that deposit back when you submit the container to a recycling facility.
• Recycling fee: Depending upon how easy/difficult it is to recycle a container, you get charged a recycling fee. Metal containers I think charge 0. Plastics charge a little more.

It’s kinda neat I guess. Haven’t researched recycling systems around the world, so don’t know if there are any better approaches than this one.

Idealism is intellectual jerking off. Quite fun!

Haha naah, the code that sees if you have enough tokens or not isn’t an LLM.

It (from what I understand) just sits between you and the LLM.

No tricking it haha

LLMs predict the next best “token”. So what’s a token? It can be a word, a simple punctuation mark, or sometimes even a phrase.

So basically, here’s what an LLM works like:

1. An
2. An apple
3. An apple is
4. An apple is red

Basically, it feeds in tokens to itself to predict the next best token. Then, that entire chunk of tokens is fed back in to predict the next token.

As you can see, tokens kinda correlate well with energy consumption, hardware wear and tear and so on.

So, a low token request will consume less resources than a high token request. Hence, it makes sense to charge per token.

Looks like he got this life hack from Epstein when he asked him for an invite to the island

Sockpuppeting an argument with yourself is just masturbation though.

I would disagree. How else is one supposed to understand the limitations of a statement? The completeness of a position? Areas for further study? A confidence rating of sorts in a position?

No. Not unless the other party clearly knows that I’m arguing for a position that isn’t mine. Haven’t really had the opportunity to do that on Lemmy.

That being said, I do most of the counter argument stuff with myself to arrive at a given position. Or, read other people’s debates on the matter.

Definitely want kids in the future (adopted AND birthed if that’s a word)!

The world has tons of beauty to witness and look at. So many things to do! So many amazing people to meet, be friends with and chill out with! So many celestial bodies to learn about! Just so much of cool stuff to do.

That being said, I highly doubt I’d be comfortable having kids for at least 7 more years. I kinda want to live the fuck out of my “no responsibility”/edgy phase, while create the material conditions necessary to raise kids.

I know I’ll get there eventually though. Having kids is expensive, but not prohibitively expensive (at least where I live).

Mostly, yes a lot!

Writing about my thoughts, opinions and positions has helped me understand them even better!

You’re rarely going to change anyone’s position online, as sadly most aren’t arguing in good faith. BUT responding to rebuttals from others and questions (good faith or bad faith) leads to a very cool intellectual exercise where you get to probe your positions from so many different angles.

If things become toxic or brain-rotty, then you can just disengage without explanation! Kinda cool actually!!!

Sorry, it was more of a reply to the discussion going on in the comments rather than your post specifically.

But in short, demonstrating the failure of “communism” by giving examples of objectively NON communist places isn’t logical if we’re having a good faith conversation. Yes, certain socialist economic, political and social policies MUST be criticised straight into the ground.

HOWEVER, criticizing “communism” while pointing at North Korea, China, the USSR and so on is like criticizing democracy and republicanism by pointing at Athenian slaves and the totalitarianism of the first French Republic.