floofloof

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 points 12 minutes ago* (last edited 10 minutes ago)

I had my suspicions but I wanted to see what others made of it. The headline was obviously dodgy, but that might just have been the reporting rather than the paper. And I glanced at the paper but didn't dig through. Since then I had a slightly more careful poke through it, and sentences like this ring some pretty loud alarms:

The masses of electrons, muons, and tau can be explained by the different curvatures of universe, galaxy, and solar system, respectively.

Anyway, I appreciate your comments and the comments of the person you replied to. I should have recognized this for what it was.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

If it works like most AI ad engines, it will keep advertising more of the same Ford car you just bought.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 points 13 hours ago

As I understand it, that project spanned several planned generations of chips and this was to be the first of them. So yes, this is part of the cancellation of his whole project.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 11 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

overnight there's now hundreds to thousands of people who want to drag you out of your home and lynch you in the street, all because you "committed" the "crime" of being born.

I didn't follow this bit. Who are the hundreds of thousands of people calling for the great grandchildren of Nazi war criminals to be dragged out of their homes and lynched?

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's not so much that they voted him in, as that they didn't bother to vote him out. Turnout was 43.53% in the last election.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 82 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Shed a tear, if you wish, for Nvidia founder and Chief Executive Jenson Huang, whose fortune (on paper) fell by almost $10 billion that day.

Thanks, but I think I'll pass.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm not familiar with how the US electoral college works. I am talking about FPTP electoral systems like those in the UK and Canada. One MP is elected per constituency, and if a party wins a majority of the seats (that is, if they have a majority of the MPs), they can form a government. In such a system it's common for a party to win the majority of seats without having a majority of votes, and possible for a party with the majority of votes not to win a majority of seats.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 day ago

I've seen reports that just say someone "dies" instead of that the IDF killed them.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago

“Dick Cheney will be voting for Kamala Harris,” she said of her father

She should have added, "but don't let that put you off."

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

All institutions have a tendency to become complacent and self-serving over time. This kind of scrutiny and pressure from outside is necessary to interfere with that tendency.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 day ago

As is often observed, liberals (of the political philosophy, not the party) are always far more ready to align themselves with fascists than with the left, despite their sometimes leftish words.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

So we know these things work on one person's computer (theirs) but not on another's (yours). Such anecdotal experiences are not a reasonable basis on which to judge any OS, positively or negatively.

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