Ahh thank you for that information! In all seriousness, I appreciate you correcting my ignorance.
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List and Array terminology also bothers me … Why not just call it an array?
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Technology@lemmy.world•‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.English
39·9 months agoNot remotely surprised.
I dabble in conversational AI for work, and am currently studying its capabilities for thankfully (imo at least) positive and beneficial interactions with a customer base.
I’ve been telling friends and family recently that for a fairly small amount of money and time investment, I am fairly certain a highly motivated individual could influence at a minimum a local election. Given that, I imagine it would be very easy for Nations or political parties to easily manipulate individuals on a much larger scale, that IMO nearly everything on the Internet should be suspect at this point, and Reddit is atop that list.
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Technology@lemmy.world•How long will it be until we realize AI is detrimental to society?English
2·1 year agoIt’s saving me a hell of a lot of man hours on incredibly tedious tasks that would require looking up individual items in a wiki or the like and then directly populating the answers into a spreadsheet… Our team doesn’t have the budget to hire someone to do it, so it basically just wouldn’t get done without it.
Useful party trick for me!
Other people don’t? It is a separate entity in many ways, from my understanding there are portions of the brain that react much more like an organ than what we perceive as our “consciousness.”. I was actually taught to separate myself from my brain the “organ” and how it responds to situations differently than I would prefer haha
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•We might be living the final moments of not being terrified what the US President is going to do
5·1 year agoAdding to this, the wealth disparity is going to continue to increase with those who have equities dramatically increasing their personal capitol, while the middle class is going to fall further behind.
I’m convinced a major part of inflation that goes completely ignored is the staggering amount of wealth generated by equities. People have literally seen 1 million become 2 or 3 over the last few years. They have been spending money with complete disregard… Watching what people buy at Costco is insane!
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News@lemmy.world•Treasury warns that anti-woke banking laws like Florida's are a national security risk
6·1 year agoI don’t understand this map, I live very close to the coast and am 20+ feet above sea level. 5 meters is 16’ 4.85".
The highest point in Pinellas county is 110’, for those who don’t know, it’s the peninsula on West Coast of Florida.
I’m not under the impression there will be a consistent land mass, but something more resembling new islands, keys and beach fronts makes more sense than showing areas entirely underwater.
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World News@lemmy.world•Nato summit: Ukraine on 'irreversible path' to membershipEnglish
124·2 years agoPlease don’t ban me… I joined .ml because it was privacy, security and FOSS focused! I had no idea about the ancillary political focus now associated with it.
Assuming this isn’t an attempt at trolling, Trump ran up the deficit nearly double that of Biden. Given that the argument is generally government spending leads to inflation, how exactly would that not indicate who is more responsible for inflationary costs?
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News@lemmy.world•PAC behind 'dictator' billboard comparing Trump to Fidel Castro says more is coming
12·2 years agoThey need these every block in Miami. I absolutely cannot comprehend how some people don’t see Trump is a dictator. Left, right, center, it doesn’t matter, a dictator is a dictator and no political ideology is safe from them…
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You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK: lemmy.ml is managed by tankies, and lead lemmy developer is a tankie
1·2 years agoHonestly, I joined Lemmy pretty early on… So I have no idea if I even had to type that, if I did, I have no recollection of it.
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You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK: lemmy.ml is managed by tankies, and lead lemmy developer is a tankie
203·2 years agoHere I am… Joined Lemmy.ml because it was supposed to be a security, privacy and FOSS focused community. Now people are probably going to block seeing my comments.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AIEnglish
61·2 years agoThe people here are such fucking morons… Yes, let’s ban WIND POWER, literally one of the oldest forms of clean energy generation. I swear if I didn’t have family here I’d be gone.
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Technology@lemmy.world•We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problemEnglish
392·2 years agoThe simple solution is not to rely upon AI. It’s like a misinformed relative after a jar of moonshine, they might be right some of the time, or they might be totally full of shit.
I honestly don’t know why people are obsessed with relying on AI, is it that difficult to look up the answer from a reliable source?
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News@lemmy.world•The cost-of-living crisis is so bleak that some Gen Zers genuinely fear becoming homeless
16·2 years agoI have news for you, as an old millennial, it’s not just G Zers.
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Technology@lemmy.world•House approves sell-or-be-banned TikTok measure, attaching it to foreign aid billEnglish
171·2 years agoI have to tell you, I know many intelligent people that have succumbed to propaganda, and outrage porn addiction. I see it continue to happen on all sides of the political isle. (This isn’t a both sides kind of statement, simply acknowledgement that the same tactics work on our brain, indifferent of political ideology.)
Whether they are hooked on the dopamine rush of rage baiting up votes, likes or comments; or only seeing everything in the world through a myopic lens of negativity, it has captured many of my friends and family, including myself for a time.
For some their drug is Fox News, others it’s Reddit, Facebook or TikTok, the results are often the same.
I have yet to figure out a manner in which to communicate with individuals who spend considerable amounts of time in echo chambers, constantly having their personal beliefs reinforced. Evasion of cognitive dissonance and social conflict are very powerful psychological motivations. I wish I knew the solution.
Now that we have a six week abortion ban, with abortion on the ballot as a state constitutional amendment, and one for legalized recreational marijuana, there is a very significant chance for Florida to be in play.
Many people here are very upset with the state of insurance, especially homeowners. The Biden campaign just came out and said they will be targeting Florida to flip it.
Every vote will count, remember a few thousand votes gave us Rick Scott, we have a chance to remove him as well. There’s a lot at stake this year.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Windows users don't want copilot on their taskbar
30·2 years agoGiven the reality that Linux simply isn’t viable for some people (including myself), I highly recommend using this tool.
https://christitus.com/windows-tool/
Between this, and manually uninstalling a lot of bloat (or using a specific type of windows install) and a few other tweaks, windows becomes significantly more usable.
Disabling garbage in the task bar, removing Cortana and indexing services, etc etc, it can also add a fairly decent uplift in performance.
I’m sure there is still telemetry being collected but significantly less and less impact on my user experience and day to day performance.
Oh and make sure you turn off auto/feature updates!




I would disagree, 100 millionaires don’t own F1 teams or have boats so large and so much money they can take down bridges to get them out of port.
The problem is people like myself and many other can’t fathom even desiring things so absurd… And many of these billionaires won’t rest until they own the entire world.