dgriffith

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[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 5 points 1 month ago

Everything is fine in the Apple ecosystem as long as you want to do something The Apple Way™.

As soon as you want to do something differently to how Apple decrees it should be done, then you're screwed.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

These kind of "manual" a/c units normally have a little sticker or a caution in the manual to "wait 5 minutes before restarting".

People can easily trigger this kind of thing just by turning the thermostat back and forth, so there is usually a thermal cutout on the compressor to keep them mostly safe.

You can usually hear it when it activates, there will be a hum from the stalled compressor for a few seconds and then a little click, and then the compressor won't start for a minute or two.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago

This kind of reliability is huge for prosthetic limbs, fitness trackers, and robotic arms, where precision and durability are non-negotiable.

Thanks, AI slop! Sensors that have been durability tested for a few hundred cycles will be perfect for prosthetic devices that can do that in half a day of office work, or fitness trackers that can do that in five minutes, or in robotic arms that can perform that kind of movement in 60 seconds! I'm going to use them in my next safety critical robotics project for sure!

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It'll be fine as long as you don't try and start it up again within a few minutes of turning it off.

Pressure just needs to slowly bleed from the high pressure side to the low pressure side of the compressor before it starts again, so that it isn't initially stalled against high pressure.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 6 points 1 month ago

love that it has to repeat my command back to me before executing it

This is inserted to give enough time for the LLM to process your command. Otherwise Google would have to pony up for a lot more compute horsepower to make it performant.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"automated decision systems "

"IF X THEN Y" satisfies this description.

Soooo basically just take the handbrake off practically every chunk of software ever written then?

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago

Are you familiar with https://old.reddit.com/

How much longer do you think Reddit will keep an option that doesn't maximise end user engagement metrics?

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I was reliably informed at the start of the year that the US was just days away from the best jobs, the biglyest paychecks, and a golden age.

Was I misled‽

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Is it possible that she can act like this and still be a good and kind person despite hating people with problems and being a bit homophobic?

Her kindness is conditional. For people who match those conditions that "activate" kindness, they can't understand the problem because they don't see the other side of her, thus it must be "your fault" somehow.

I'll bet that she never shows her bad side when her supporters are around. If she actually does , and they are fine with it, then I advise you to distance yourself from all of these people.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Public with conditions on behaviour which can lead to your licence being revoked, just like the current GPL. 🤷‍♂️

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Those who use AI to report to open source projects and flood the volunteering devs who keep the World going, should be disqualified from using those open source projects

I propose a GPL-noAI licence with this clause inserted.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 17 points 1 month ago

Linus was ahead of his time in the human-identifiabilty stakes.

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