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nikt

@ nikt @lemmy.ca

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  • It's been around a year since a lot of us quit Reddit, myself included. I'm happy with Lemmy, but I still feel a bit lost online since leaving the old site. Discussion?

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  • I am a very “techy person” (in fact Y-Combinator’s Hacker News has been a partial Reddit replacement for me), but like you, I too cringe at Lemmy’s constant stream of shitty star trek memes, repetitive “this is what living with ADHD is like”, and posts with days-old news items from 3rd rate wannabe-journalism sites. I mean a quarter of this site is literally screenshots of Twitter posts.

    The obvious answer to the shitty content here would be to stop complaining and just start posting the things I’d want to see. But there’s a sense of futility in throwing good things into what feels like a giant pool of detritus.

    Anyway one of the great things about old reddit was that, overall, the site (or rather the reddit hive brain) did a decent job at pushing the good stuff to the top. For reasons I don’t entirely understand, that doesn’t seem to be happening as much here on Lemmy.

  • Claude 3 launched by Anthropic — new AI model leaves OpenAI's GPT-4 in the dust

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  • Yes, it’s named after Claude Shannon, but I’ve never heard him described as “the founder of AI”. He’s the father of information theory, which is only indirectly connected to AI.

  • Google has replaced the Google Assistant app on Android with Gemini by default

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  • I was recently pleasantly surprised that this actually works with Siri, the former dunce child of mobile assistants. Stuff like “Remind me about X when I get in the car” also works now, so the reminder goes off when you connect to Carplay.

  • Darknet Drug Dealers Arrested After Packages of Meth-Laced Adderall Repeatedly Returned to Sender

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  • Those are some really bad comparisons. Caffeine and adrenaline have nothing to do with each other. A better comparison might be maybe heroin and morphine?

    Methamphetamine and the amohetamines in Adderal aren’t all that different. Same mechanism of action, similar pharmacology. Meth is actually sold in the US as a Desoxyn. It still blows my mind that it’s Schedule II (classified as having legitimate medical uses) when cannabis is still Schedule I.

  • Environment @beehaw.org
    nikt @lemmy.ca

    Nature Has Value. Could We Literally Invest in It?

    web.archive.org /web/20240218165004/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/18/business/economy/natural-assets.html

  • The Fairphone 5 is less about what comes in the box and more about what you get over the years

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  • Also don’t forget the “externalized” costs of massive and irreversible environmental damage!

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  • Them’s hunting eyes.

  • Wealth of the 1% of Europe

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  • Also Portugal! I’m consistently pleasantly surprised every time i read or hear something about that country. And I’ve still never been.

  • Something's wrong...

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  • I’m really surprised no one here has mentioned this yet, but a huge factor would have to be globalization and the offshoring of American manufacturing.

    It started in the 70’s, with companies like GE and the car manufacturers moving factories to Mexico and later Asia, and with growing supply of imported cheap goods like steel. This really took off in the 80’s and 90’s with deliberate market liberalization and promotion of globalization during the Reagan/Bush and Clinton administrations.

    In other words, American workers’ wages were pressured by the extremely low wages of overseas labour.

  • Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought

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  • Apple is great at polishing and packaging things that already exist. The iPhone was a better Blackberry, the iPod a better MP3 player, the iMac a better all-in-one PC… I have a hard time thinking of stuff they truly pioneered. The Newton maybe? That did not end well for them.

    If I had to bet, the Vision Pro will turn out to be a burnt pancake, but long term I have no doubt that something like it — something that augments reality one way or another — will become a thing. And in the meantime Apple has pockets more than deep enough to survive a failed Vision Pro.

    The backlash against them trying to innovate is kind of dumb though. They aimed high for a change, and taking risks like this should be lauded not laughed at.

  • Browser maker love-in snubs Google-shunned JPEG XL

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  • Something about love in subs for Google ? And also JPEG?

  • Vision Pro Teardown—Why Those Fake Eyes Look So Weird

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  • I won’t argue about whether this is dystopian, but the practical reason for the face projection is that they wanted to make this not just something you wear sitting alone in your basement, like most other VR headsets. They wanted it to be usable around other people, at a workplace, with family, etc.

    Interacting with someone wearing a full face blind is just weird, so they thought that making the eyes visible would help make this a bit more socially usable.

    I’m not sure that’s really going to work out — seems at least as awkward as Google’s failed Glass project — but Apple’s design decision has some merit.

  • New study suggests culling animals who 'don't belong' can be a flawed nature conservation practice

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  • Isn’t this along the same lines as arguments against reducing carbon emissions (the climate naturally changes anyway, and species should be allowed to adapt on their own) or against reducing pollution (shit happen, deal with it)?

    Spend a bit of time witnessing the impact invasive species can have. A formerly vibrant piece of nature goes quiet, monotonous, and ecologically deprived. Sure it still looks green, but it’s comparatively dead.

  • Biden sanctions Israeli settlers over West Bank violence

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  • This is due to Biden needing to go to Michigan, with its huge arabic population. His campaign people wanted to avoid loud and awkward protests from members of his own party, so they threw a tiny bone that they knew would make a big headline splash.

    I hate to be this cynical, but listening to his campaign managers making the rounds on the political insider podcasts… they are overwhelmingly “professional” and entirely inauthentic.

    Even if biden himself is earnest, this campaign is shaping up to have all the stage managed authenticity of Hillary’s 2016 run.

    I’m worried.

  • TIL the word 'lox' (smoked salmon) is the oldest word in the English language- unchanged in meaning and pronunciation for 8,000 years

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  • Wtf is with this site that autoplays a loud video in the middle of the night.

  • Environment @beehaw.org
    nikt @lemmy.ca

    Patagonia’s Profits Are Funding Conservation — and Politics

    www.nytimes.com /2024/01/30/climate/patagonia-holdfast-philanthropy.html

  • CNN Doctor Trolls Trump Over 'Dementia' Boast With 1 Simple Sentence

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  • Thank you. Nobody deserves having to click on a huffpost link.

  • CNN Doctor Trolls Trump Over 'Dementia' Boast With 1 Simple Sentence

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  • Space @beehaw.org
    nikt @lemmy.ca

    Japan’s Slim moon lander overcomes power crisis to start scientific operations

    www.theguardian.com /science/2024/jan/29/japan-slim-moon-sniper-lander-power-issues-landing-working-photos-surface
  • Space @kbin.social
    nikt @lemmy.ca

    Japan’s Slim moon lander overcomes power crisis to start scientific operations

    www.theguardian.com /science/2024/jan/29/japan-slim-moon-sniper-lander-power-issues-landing-working-photos-surface

  • Horizon Forbidden West release date, PUBG's publisher filed for a lawsuit and Microsoft market of layoffs

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  • Yeah that’s an absolutely grotesque situation. I’m in Canada though so it’s a bit different.

    In practice people also don’t get fired here on a an employer’s whim. Not because it’s not allowed by law but because fired employees can sue for wrongful dismissal, and for most employers it’s not worth the risk, so there’s usually a long HR process for firing someone for poor performance.

  • Horizon Forbidden West release date, PUBG's publisher filed for a lawsuit and Microsoft market of layoffs

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  • Termination with “cause” has special meaning in employment law. It usually means getting fired for theft, fraud, harassment, causing irreparable harm to the company, etc.

    One consequence of getting fired with cause is you don’t get severance or most other protections you’re normally entitled to by law. So, the bar for this kind of termination is (rightfully) very high.

    Poor performance or even not showing up for work at all generally don’t meet the requirements for “cause”, so I dunno if making it illegal to let people go for anything other than straight up committing illegal or harmful acts makes sense.

  • ‘I don’t see how it ends’: expert sounds alarm on new wave of US opioids crisis

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  • Thanks for posting this. I read the guardian every day but somehow missed this article.

  • Green - An environmentalist community @lemmy.ml
    nikt @lemmy.ca

    Stop installing urban honeybee hives

    www.nytimes.com /2023/08/19/business/beekeeping-companies-colony-collapse.html
  • Green - An environmentalist community @lemmy.ml
    nikt @lemmy.ca

    Stop installing urban honeybee hives

    archive.ph /2UrBg/again
  • LiminalSpace @lemmy.world
    nikt @lemmy.ca

    fog over water

  • LiminalSpace @lemmy.world
    nikt @lemmy.ca

    fog over water