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23h ago

Archaeology
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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 23h ago
I feel like a safe answer would be “do people alive today know who the fuck they were?”
Yes? Then grave robbing.
(To be fair… I’m only an archeologist on Reddit.)

1d ago

More than half of UK therapists report rise in out-of-control porn use

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 1d ago

that is so going to go over well.

1d ago

New York teachers stunned to learn some students can’t read time on old clocks after phone ban comes into play

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 1d ago

and sometimes, people like you need to know they're assholes. (and stupid.)

Things change. the only people "surprised" by this are either the ones not paying attention or the ones who don't like change.

Your insistence that I am stupid and your vapid dismissal is not intelligence. Ad hominem attacks are not to be confused for valid arguments. it's fine if you don't want to engage, but you are engaging. But only engaging with insults. Which means you're superiority is based solely on arrogance.

Kinda, in point of fact, like the teacher my nephew has this year, who insists this kind of shit shows they're all too stupid for society. You. That teacher. These teacherfs? they're hurting children with their bullshit, and it is bullshit.

Oh no. Kids don't know how to do things that were once common but not any more. So. fucking. what. pull your head out of your ass. that breeze you're smelling ain't fresh air.

2d ago

I love science

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 2d ago

I was making an observation, rather than speculation.

I once made a joke about sea urchins and rule34…. Several people rule 35’d it

2d ago

Archaeology

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 2d ago

iT bElOnGs In A mUSeUm!!!

some guy with a whip kink and a really cool hat

(At least that guy knows it’s appropriate to punch a Nazis.)

2d ago

so many levels

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2d ago

New York teachers stunned to learn some students can’t read time on old clocks after phone ban comes into play

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 2d ago

Says the guy who apparently can only sting together an insult.

Stuff changes. Each generation does things differently. Stone Age people probably said the same thing when they stopped teaching their children to flintknap after everyone started using bronze tools.

We abandon old technology when it becomes obsolete, and eventually the skills associated with them. And that’s normal.

We don’t have enough hours in a lifetime to learn all the stuff we’ve abandoned, and analog clock faces are going that way. It’s okay. This is normal.

2d ago

I love science

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 2d ago

I’m sure there’s something out there. Rule 34 and all that.

2d ago

My friend is buying a new PC and he is deciding between air cooler and AIO, which should be get?

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 2d ago

Unless he’s building a custom loop because he’s really into building custom pcs, then liquid cooling isn’t worth it.

A decent heat sink on the CPU and several fans blowing correctly in the case will do just as good. The only real drawback is that they’re not as quiet under high load.

As for AIOs, it’s been a while but I doubt rather a lot that they re on par as far as price goes, and you’re going to be better off buying better (read: noctua) fans.

More/larger fans also can be ran at lower rpm’s for the same cooling and get even quieter. (And have that much more under high load.)

To the edit: you’re gonna find that there’s little more decisive than liquid vs air when it comes to building pcs. I like my liquid rig. But also, I realize most people won’t enjoy changing coolant every month.

2d ago

Governments are tightening rules on kids’ social media use worldwide, with countries like Australia, France, Denmark, Malaysia, and Norway moving toward under-16 bans

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 2d ago

Yay fascist censorship!

2d ago

New York teachers stunned to learn some students can’t read time on old clocks after phone ban comes into play

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 2d ago

This is incorrect. I’m a teacher and CONSTANTLY use the analog clock for multiple reasons.
 
        It’s the clock of record. Doesn’t matter what YOUR particular clock says, the clock on the WALL is the time we all go on.
  

Irrelevant. This function would be served regardless of what type of clock is on the wall. A digital wall clock would serve just as well, and likely be less expensive to maintain than the electromechanical clocks you presumably use. (something about obsolete technologies becoming increasingly more expensive to maintain.)

        Reaching into your pocket to pull out a phone and look, no matter how much you want to pretend it’s trivial, still takes SIGNIFICANTLY more effort and time than glancing at the wall. Those seconds add up.

See the above reply.

        Momentum. Are you PERSONALLY going to provide the billions of dollars in funding to replace every analog clock in a public space with digital ones?

an irrelevant red herring with a false dichotomy. Clocks in public places are mostly installed by the people who maintain those public places. We all pay taxes to keep those places up. I don't need to personally fund such a project and you know it.

This is not like learning to write cursive - reading an analog clock is a trivial skill that should not take longer than a day for anyone to master.

It may be trivial, and there may be some benefit besides learning to read said clock. But like cursive, it's an irrelevant skill that generally won't be used outside of class. That's how it's like cursive. Or, if you prefer, using a slide rule. as a teacher, I am, however, sure you understand that you only have so many hours of instruction available. A day spent on this, is a day not spent on something else. You might have arguments for why this is more important than that something else, but its still an obsolete technology that, like the slide rule and fountain pens, is going away. Nostalgia is not a good enough reason to keep it around.

btw, my middle school had all digital wall clocks back in the mid 90's, and probably had them for quite some time before i was there.

2d ago

Could you be relatively healthy if you replaced traditional carb sources with skittles and multivitamins?

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 2d ago

No.

you need proteins. neither skittles nor the vast majority of multivitamins contain proteins. And in any case, the vast majority of "junkfood diets" suck for your health. Usually they're a gimmick to teach you about caloric intake for weightloss (and maybe some chemistry.)

2d ago

New York teachers stunned to learn some students can’t read time on old clocks after phone ban comes into play

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 2d ago

or maybe they should invest in digital clocks rather than continuing to use an archaic, obsolete technology.

Yes. You read that right.

Analog clocks are obsolete.

Same with the fountain pen and dip pens and calligraphy (and the cursive writing styles that relied on them,) carrier pigeons and the telegraph. not to mention all sorts of other technologies that are of only passing interest.

You probably don't know how to read a sundial, or to locate yourself on a map using a magnetic compass.

While there's some esoteric value in such skills, the skills themselves are obsolete and useless to modern life. We're not preparing them for the past. we're preparing them for the future.

Guaranteed the teachers aren't using the analog clocks if they don't have to either.

(edit, I can't find the full article, everything points back to that atlantic article. The gyst that they cropped out so crudely is two fold: the point of cursive was to minimize blotting caused by lifting and setting the pen across each letter when using a pen with a nib. It required a relatively light hand when writing, so as to glide over the page and not dig itn. Ball point pens, on the other hand, transfer ink differently- you're rolling a ball over the surface- and they require significantly more pressure. the fluid motions of cursive writing cramp the hand sooner compared to print, if you're writing with a ball point.)

2d ago

Who Controls AI Exactly?

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 2d ago

This is incorrect. Generative image models don’t contain databases of artwork. If they did, they would be the most amazing fucking compression technology, ever. ... snip... The training is mostly a linear process. So the images never really get loaded into an database, they just get read along with their metadata into a GPU where it performs some Machine Learning stuff to generate some arrays of floating point values. Those values ultimately will end up in the model file.

Where does it get read from? a database, right? yeah. that's called a database. It may not be a large massive repository of art to rival the Vatican's secret collection, but it is a database of digital art.

as for it being complex... yeah. that's why I kept it simple and glossed over all the complex stuff that's not really, you know. relevant to the question of who owns it.

2d ago

Who Controls AI Exactly?

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 2d ago

the people that own it.

Keep in mind what we're calling "AI" isn't artificial general intelligence (C.F. Kryten, Data or R2D2). the most visible AI is a Learned Language Model- basically a predictive algorithm that goes through it's training material and says "99% of the time, when someone says '69', people respond 'nice', therefore, when people say '69' I should respond with 'nice'."

Or, with AI image gen, it knows that when some one asks it for an image of a hand holding a pencil, it looks at all the artwork in it's training database and says, "this collection of pixels is probably what they want".

But the models don't know why 69 is nice, nor what a hand is. It just spits out the proper response based on statistical probability.

The thing is that the 'proper' response can be weighted by giving priority to certain responses- or rejecting certain responses- based on whatever motives the owner has. Take Grok as an example, and it's blatant framing of Musk as the Greatest Man who Ever Lived™, but whoever weighted those responses failed to consider what happens when you ask if Musk is the best nazis or whatevers. You'll notice those responses suddenly changed after people started figuring out how to game the prompts to get them.

AI chatbots are the mouthpiece of whoever owns it... and it gives a level of sophistication that we've never seen before in the billionaire's attempts to manipulate us.