HexesofVexes

@HexesofVexes@lemmy.world

Why, a hexvex of course!

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HexesofVexes,

At this point, I can use Linux for most things except older fangames, reliable printing (seriously, cups is pain), and some mmorpgs.

Once I get a month without the university shitting its pants and changing policy overnight, I’ll eat the learning curve and switch (actually learn to troubleshoot wine rather than relying on searches).

When I move, thinking mint with cinnamon because I love that desktop.

In our post-AI era, is job security strictly mythical? Or How to believe in careers as a concept worth doing?

With the lastest news of AI layoffs, I’m struggling to understand how the idea of a career still holds. If careers themselves effectively become gambles like lottery tickets, how do we maintain drive and hopes in the longterm endgame of our struggles?...

HexesofVexes,

What is life but a lottery?

A lot of the drive towards AI is people thinking to save a quick buck, but longer term that places them in a very unsteady position themselves.

All products end up being for “shareholder value”, and AI will be no different. Someone will find an enshittification vector and run with it.

Suddenly, that “quick buck” becomes a monthly subscription that costs more than the people fired. Company data is harvested and sold, customers are advertised out, the shittiness of the system becomes a company problem.

So we’re either going to see a stark change away from the current shareholder value model (about as likely as world peace), or we’re going to see a lot of CEO seppuku. Win win really.

HexesofVexes,

Oh thank god… I thought he’d draw it out even longer.

HexesofVexes,

Here’s a fun thought - push a law through demanding a minimal level of service with forced nationalisation at the cost of the shareholders if it isn’t met (government pays share price, but proceeds go towards settling company debt first rather than being paid out to shareholders).

Give them a way to fail that doesn’t hurt the people who rely on the services, and punish running up unsustainable debt in one joyous law.

HexesofVexes,

Hah, jokes on them, my university is too poor to afford copilot.

HexesofVexes,

Definitely the wrong argument against bikes.

A lot of the best ones just come down to time - 30 mins commuting in traffic vs 70+ cycling. 1-2 grocery trips per week vs 4-6.

Good public transport can balance that out (though less so for shopping).

HexesofVexes,

Huh, neat. Not what I was expecting.

Good short!

HexesofVexes,

And, as a mathematician who has been coding a library to create scaled geometric graphics for his paper, I hate -0.0.

Seriously, I run every number where sign determines action through a function I call “fix_zero” just because tiny tiny rounding errors pile up in floats, even is numpy.

HexesofVexes,

I think we don’t give gradual acclimatisation enough credit here. Most of my students have never heard of Firefox and tools like ublock origin because they’re acclimatised to the mobile ecosystem

“How do I install something? I use the app store.”

“Oh, but I already have the internet on my phone, why would I want a 3rd party app to use the internet” (think old people who mix up AOL with the internet in reverse!)

As soon as I show them, they convert in seconds - they’ve forgotten web pages without adverts can exist.

HexesofVexes,

Why would he hate the word “onthesameside-gender”?

HexesofVexes,

I think the shutting down after such “incidents” is the final expression in this piece of art.

“A connected world is great, as long as that connection includes approved messages only.”

HexesofVexes, (edited )

So about 3150 pints of blood (10.5 being average for an adult).

Sounds doable XD

Edit: New ethical dilemma just dropped - kill 300 to forge the sword, or deny 3150 people blood in an emergency to forge the sword…

HexesofVexes, (edited )

13/4 was my original guess, when I checked I realised I’d forgotten to multiply by 2.

I used the same method as clara (and my solution would have matched ^_^)

(Spent a lot of time convincing myself they met in the center)

HexesofVexes,

Image of Laurel and Hardy, Laurel looking at Hardy while Hardy gazes wistfully into the distance.

HexesofVexes,

I have a rare medical condition that makes my coughs sound like “scihub” and “libgen” around undergrads.

I would like to investigate it further to seek a cure, but sadly the medical journals I’d need access to are paywalled. Oh well.

HexesofVexes,

I mean, here is a thought, if an AI tool uses creative commons data, then it’s derivatives fall under creative commons. I.e. stop charging for AI tools and people will stop complaining.

HexesofVexes,

Platonism Vs Intuitionism would like a word.

HexesofVexes,

N is the set of “counting numbers”.

When you count upwards you start from 1, and go up. However, when you count down you usually end on 0. Surely this means 0 satisfies the definition.

The natural numbers are derived, according to Brouwer, from our intuition of time of time by the way. From this notion, 0 is no strange idea since it marks the moment our intuition first begins ^_^

HexesofVexes,

On the contrary - to be countabley infinite is generally assumed to mean there exists a 1-1 correspondence with N. Though, I freely admit that another set could be used if you assumed it more primitive.

HexesofVexes,

I’m arguing from the standpoint that we establish the idea of counting using the naturals - it’s countable if it maps to the naturals, thus the link. Apologies for the lack of clarity.

HexesofVexes,

To be honest, if a company produced cards as solid and stable as the 1080Ti I’d buy one as a spare today.

I live in fear of mine dying of old age; when it does nothing seems to compare on the market at the moment in terms of vram, size, and power usage.

HexesofVexes,

I teach - I have to debate my basic human rights every day (sleep and time spent not working are apparently not rights I hold according to our more entitled students/managers).

HexesofVexes,

I see the “bear shitting in the woods” index just went up again.

HexesofVexes, (edited )

I suppose it’s similar to the discussion older and more successful men have about avoiding “gold diggers”, “bear traps”, and “black widows”. Not all women are after a man’s money, but those that are will actively seek out such men, so you’ll never be safe. One wrong move and you’re suddenly working overtime the rest of your life to pay child support for a child conceived without your consent. Whereas, a bear would only run into us by chance, and would be more likely to leave us alone if we dropped our food and calmly walked away.

Edited note for clarity and posterity: Stereotypes are always hilariously offensive - I think some people just learned that.

HexesofVexes,

It wasn’t over 9000, looks like the user has to start over again.

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