Thorny_Insight

@Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee

I prioritize ethics over optics even if it means facing criticism.

Sharing my honest beliefs, welcoming constructive debates, and embracing the potential for evolving viewpoints. Independent thinker navigating through conversations without allegiance to any particular side.

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Thorny_Insight,

Social media, not just Twitter. The key issue here is human nature. These platforms are just the force multiplier. Misinformation is alive and well on Lemmy as well. It just flies under the radar for the most part because it doesn’t go against your prior beliefs.

Thorny_Insight,

For quite some time now I’ve had the issue that the video simply refuses to stop playing requiring me to refresh the page. Might be an issue with one of the add-ons too though.

ChatGPT Answers Programming Questions Incorrectly 52% of the Time: Study (gizmodo.com)

The research from Purdue University, first spotted by news outlet Futurism, was presented earlier this month at the Computer-Human Interaction Conference in Hawaii and looked at 517 programming questions on Stack Overflow that were then fed to ChatGPT....

Thorny_Insight,

We only need to keep doing incremental improvements in the technology and avoid destroying ourselves in the meantime. That’s all it takes for us to find ourselves in the presence of superintelligent AI one day.

Thorny_Insight,

You can find out how different news outlets feel about a person by the type of pictures they use of them. Once you see it, it can’t be ignored.

Thorny_Insight,

The ultimate goal of this technology is to enable the blind to see, deaf to hear and the paralyzed to walk. Not that you can watch netflix in your mind.

Thorny_Insight, (edited )

As someone with a tiny workshop as well I take pride in how compact and efficient I can make it. Sure, a larger one would be nice but I’m so damn grateful for what I’ve got. Used to live in an apartment building before where I could only dream of a space where I didn’t always need to pack up my tools and shove them into a closet when I was done with the job.

EDIT:

https://i.imgur.com/FmMLirj.jpeg

Thorny_Insight, (edited )

I’d develop a pickup truck that would have only the bare essential features and would be built from the ground up with the intention to make it extremely durable and easy to fix. Instead of a body-on-frame I’d probably go with a stainless steel exoskeleton instead and plastic/fibre glass panels you could just swap out to a new ones if you damage them. Kind of like on side-by-sides. The newer models then would just be ones with certain parts that have been upgraded to a better ones and would be 100% compatible with older models. You wouldn’t ever need to buy a new truck again. Ideally there would be both diesel and electric versions - ideally so that you could convert one into another if you so desire.

Thorny_Insight,

The reason they allowed it near Kharkiv is because Russia has their military stuff parked pretty much out in the open in plain sight on their side of the border knowing full well there’s nothing Ukraine can do about it. They’re doing constant cross-border raids and cheap glide bombs are especially a problem as they can drop them from a high altitude 20km behind the borders without ever entering Ukrainian air space. That is not so much of an issue on the eastern front because the territory where most of the Russians are is already in Ukraine. Same as with Crimea.

Thorny_Insight,

Knowing that something will cost less in the future does affect consumer behaviour in a negative way. That’s how it’s relevant.

Thorny_Insight,

There’s probably a good reason the vast majority of economists agree that deflation is bad for this exact reason. It’s not just my opinion - I’m not an economist and I doubt you’re either.

Thorny_Insight,

Plenty new tech I’m curious about seeing evolving; self-driving cars, EVs, articifical-intelligence, VR/AR … Advances in medicine overall but especially due to Crispr. My new job as a self-employed contractor is both exciting and also stressful. It’s the start of the summer here which is also exciting to me.

Thorny_Insight,

It’s the internet. We’re all anonymous. You can just ask

Thorny_Insight,

I remember a defector on a podcast telling about how she was wondering what a trash can was in the safe house in China and how foreign concept “trash” was to her. They don’t consume anything that comes in a package and if it does it’s then repurposed for something else but definitely will not get thrown away.

Thorny_Insight,

Ofcourse it’s photoshopped. There are virtually no digital photographers who release unedited photos. There’s always adjustments done to exposure, shadows/highlights, contrast, white balance etc.

However if you’re implying that it’s obvious to you that this has been faked then I’d love to hear your reasoning as I’m quite experienced photo editor myself and nothing stands out to me and I feel like my 15+ years of experience has trained me to spot such things.

The only thing I’m noticing is the difference in the color of the sky behind the branches but that can probably be explained by the fact that this was likely taken with a smartphone and is due to it combining multiple exposures for higer dynamic range, commonly known as HDR.

Thorny_Insight,

I like this kind of pictures. Someone should come up with a name for them. Here’s few similar kind of ones:

https://i.imgur.com/Gz6yKNH.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/G9a7Bsw.jpeg

Thorny_Insight,

Same here. Went to trade school, working at construction since I was 21, bought my first car around the same time, bought house at 25. Now at 30+ I got like 80k€ left on my mortage and no other loans. Around +50k€ in savings mostly invested into index funds. I could be doing better but I can’t complain. Recently started my own bussines so we’ll see how that goes.

My only friend I keep hearing the type of complaints from that I read about on lemmy every day went to photography school but is an aspiring painter/artist now instead. For some reason money’s tight and it’s because of capitalism apparently. Go figure…

Thorny_Insight, (edited )

Not even remotely accurate interpretation of what I said.

Thorny_Insight,

I tend to avoid certain taboo topics because I assume some day all my social media posts will be linked back to me and I don’t have faith in people being capable of understanding all the nuance in what I’m saying and it’ll just make it seem like I’m saying something I’m not.

I also don’t discuss drugs because they’re illegal and I don’t do drugs and neither should you and even if you do you’re better off shutting the fuck up about it.

Thorny_Insight,

It’s fat unless you work out

Thorny_Insight,

I always look at the price/kg. Makes no difference what size the packaging is, that price will always tell which one is the cheapest.

Thorny_Insight, (edited )

Like Sam Harris says; Covid19 was just a dress rehearsal for a truly bad pandemic and we failed it miserably

Thorny_Insight, (edited )

This is just grasping at straws.

Before video games we were blaming rock music and Marilyn Manson for violence. This is just stupid. The only ones guilty here are the perpetrators and the society that failed to catch them falling in between the cracks and gave them easy access to firearms. There have always been people with murderous aspirations and always will be. The weapon of choise is just a tool and a force multiplyer. They likely would have used a tactical nuke if they had access to one. They didn’t so an assault rifle was the next best choise. Focusing on AR-15 is ridiculous. They’ll use what ever the best thing is they have access to.

Thorny_Insight, (edited )

Are you sure you’re actually aware of what the current version of FSD is capable of? Because when I try to find videos demonstrating the self-driving on those other brands they’re only using the highway assistant (which Tesla calls autopilot) and thus only driving on highways and not in the cities at all. I really struggle to find videos of anyone comparing FSD to the brands you named and I’m assuming it’s because there literally is no compareable system on any of the competition and Tesla is just so far ahead. The only other company with car that has similar capabilities is the Waymo’s highly modified Jaguar I-Pace but that’s Level 4 self-driving taxi that you cannot buy. Tesla FSD is level 2 but in reality they’re not very far off despite Tesla only using cameras (and radar on hardware 4 Model S and X)

Here’s a video comparing Tesla Autopilot (not FSD) to Mercedes Driver Assistance (not Drive Pilot). The video starts by showing the “official ratings” for those systems and according to them the Mercedes should be significantly better. However the real world test tells quite a different story. Mercedes 44 driver interventions versus 0 on the Tesla. And they’re still only driving on a highway.

You said you drove at 244kph legally so I’m assuming you’re from Germany. FSD is not available there, only the less capable Autopilot of which’s basic version comes with every Tesla. FSD is paid software and much more capable.

Thorny_Insight, (edited )

But but the rains sensors and…

No, we’re talking about self-driving.

FSD is literally the name of the self-driving system that’s been available on Teslas for years. There’s FSD and there’s Autopilot. They’re different systems. You live in Germany and thus have never tried FSD because it’s not available there—only in the USA. You’re talking about Autopilot; I’m talking about FSD. You can disagree all you want about whether it is actually “Full Self-Driving,” but that’s still the name of the system. Having a discussion about it is impossible if you just plug your ears and deny its existence. That is just cognitive dissonance on steroids. Full Self-Driving (Supervised) is a Level 2 driver assistance system available for Teslas in the USA only, and it’s MUCH more capable than Autopilot.

The existence of a system more advanced than Tesla’s FSD on a car you can buy would be a really big deal, and there would be a ton of videos comparing it to a Tesla on YouTube. Just link me such a video that’s less than 3 months old and shows both city and highway driving, and I’m ready to admit being wrong again.

Being blinded by hatred doesn’t make you any more honest in your judgment than being a fanboy. You’re both just as biased. It’s ridiculous how angry this all gets you.

Once more: Full Self-Driving (Supervised), previously known as Full Self-Driving (Beta) but commonly just called “FSD,” is the USA-exclusive, subscription-based self-driving software available on Teslas. It’s one of three different versions of self-driving systems that Tesla offers. The others are Autopilot and Enhanced Autopilot. Autopilot comes on all Teslas and is just a highway assistant; it’s the one you’ve tried. You clearly have no idea how capable FSD nowadays is, and you refuse to figure it out because you’d have to admit being wrong. Confidently wrong.

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