it’s basically yet another form of Pascal’s wager (which is a dumb argument)
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- sinedpick@awful.systemstoSneerClub@awful.systems•Eliezer uses the tragic death of someone to smugly (and falsely) further his rhetoricEnglish9·1 month ago
- sinedpick@awful.systemstoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•how do I know that you guys are real and not bots?3·2 months ago
ok chatgpt, thanks for the tips
- sinedpick@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th April 2025English11·3 months ago
hold the fucking phone. The secretary of education is the wife of VINCE FUCKING MCMAHON? I thought this was a “no relation” situation but no, it’s real.
- sinedpick@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Yet another rant about the state of the modern webEnglish8·3 months ago
I was going to post a reply similar to this, but as a joke. Fuck you for doing it in earnest instead.
- sinedpick@awful.systemstoButtcoin@awful.systems•Crypto ghouls drop the mask with a conference advertisement overflowing with TESCREAL jargon + The One Joke™English7·4 months ago
The ad sounded extremely … off. The voices had the shitty mic scratchiness that I’d come to expect from a fresh 2010 YouTuber. The scene was abysmally acted, sounding like if someone with zero training was told to “speak with emotion”… wait is it autoplag?
- sinedpick@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd March 2025English14·4 months ago
Asahi Lina posts about not feeling safe anymore. Orange site immediately kills discussion around post.
For personal reasons, I no longer feel safe working on Linux GPU drivers or the Linux graphics ecosystem. I’ve paused work on Apple GPU drivers indefinitely.
I can’t share any more information at this time, so please don’t ask for more details. Thank you.
- sinedpick@awful.systemstoGlobal News@lemmy.zip•Russian economy in freefall as mortgage costs soar and mass layoffs hit firms33·4 months ago
stop invading lmao
- sinedpick@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd March 2025English12·4 months ago
The grad student survives [torturing rats] by compartmentalizing, focusing their thoughts on the scientific benefits of the research, and leaning on their support network. I’m doing the same thing, and so far it’s going fine.
printf("HELP I AM IN SUCH PAIN")
guys I need someone to talk to, am I justified in causing my computer pain?
- sinedpick@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th March 2025English6·4 months ago
their browser vanadium seems like a good chromium fork and a fine webview implementation but lacks an effective ad blocker, which makes it unsafe to use if your threat model includes, you know, the fucking obvious. the graphene devs will shame you for using anything but it or brave though, and officially recommend using either a VPN with ad blocking or a service like NextDNS since they don’t seem to acknowledge that network-level blocking isn’t sufficient
No firefox with ublock origin? Seems like that would be the obvious choice here (or maybe not due to Mozilla’s recent antics)
- sinedpick@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th March 2025English8·4 months ago
Machine translation was the original purpose of the transformer architecture, and I guess it was unreasonably good at it compared to the existing state-of-the-art RNNs or whatever they were doing before.
- sinedpick@awful.systemstoSneerClub@awful.systems•Race science blogger creates PedoAI, using phrenology to detect child molestorsEnglish12·4 months ago
holy fuck
Interesting study, but I am skeptical that this result applies to the general population (without the “convicted” qualifier).
If non-whites are more violently criminal than whites, then we can expect them to be imprisoned earlier in life for any violent crime, of which pedophilia will be a small subset.
So we have more convicted white paedos because … the coloreds do more crimes??! what in the actual fuck did I just read?
- sinedpick@awful.systemstoComic Strips@lemmy.world•The content is free but the cost is not...10·5 months ago
12 skips of 30s each. They really do have some 6 minute long ad breaks.
- sinedpick@awful.systemstoComic Strips@lemmy.world•The content is free but the cost is not...22·5 months ago
were you not paying attention or have you already forgotten that Honey is scamming the very content creators who shilled it (and others) by hijacking their affiliate links via cookie stuffing? By using Honey you’re actively fucking over people who get income from affiliate marketing.
- sinedpick@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2 March 2025English12·5 months ago
The brilliant minds at the orange site have discovered what’s stifling research: Academics don’t know how to use JSON! Surely, forcing every graduate student to go through a webdev bootcamp is the solution.
- sinedpick@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th February 2025English13·5 months ago
ah good point. He reads “mature and excellent at communication” as a self-description. After that, there’s absolutely no way he can resist writing himself into both characters.
- sinedpick@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th February 2025English14·5 months ago
Impressive how someone can be so bad at writing after writing so, so much.
- sinedpick@awful.systemstoNews@lemmy.world•Elon Musk’s Team Decimates Education Department Arm That Tracks National School Performance.5·5 months ago
“Somebody must be doing something.” - everyone lol. The US is cooked, maybe not immediately but say goodbye to hegemony, goodbye to whatever shred of upward mobility remained, and goodbye to the possibility of retirement.
- sinedpick@awful.systemstoNews@lemmy.world•Elon Musk’s Team Decimates Education Department Arm That Tracks National School Performance.5·5 months ago
the funny thing about this quote is that you can post it under anything mildly outrageous and tons of people will go “mhmmm yes that’s me the critical thinker” regardless of their actual mental faculties.
can you imagine being a Democrat congressperson who actually wants to do something useful for people and having to listen to this? I’d probably just resign.
it’s satire right? brilliantly placed satire by a disgruntled hiring manager having one last laugh out the door right? no one would seriously write this right?