Jamie

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

DDG is Bing by proxy, has been for ages. A while back they had a controversy for having microsoft trackers or something like that, and mentioned it was some stipulation for using Bing results. But they still backed off on that anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There was mention that he had one more appeal on the SEC ruling a while back. My thoughts were he was banking on getting the SEC ruling reversed and giving them back a broken company.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And all it cost was everybody else's peace of mind, windows, and property.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Joke's on you, it's all Tide pods

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Lemmy doesn't natively track karma unless they're doing their own tracking, but even then, nobody else is seeing it unless their client does it.

So basically, karma farming isn't nearly as important on Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

I'm not really offended by the asking for donations at the register thing, as long as those donations go 100% to the charity and it's a good charity, then doing something to make it easy for people to contribute who wouldn't otherwise take the time is ultimately a good thing.

The one that annoys me is where they match the donations. It feels like a method to guilt people into it by making their refusal to donate $1 into $2 not being donated.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

No amount of ML expertise will let someone know how a model produced a result, exactly. Training the model from the data requires a lot of very delicate math being done uncountable times to get a model that results in something useful, and it simply isn't possible to comprehend how the work inside is done in a meaningful way other than by doing guesswork.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

At first, I thought there was some jokey reference I wasn't getting. But no I got sent down a rabbit hole and found it. Now I just have so many questions.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

When I was that age my parents let me swear as long as we weren't in public, because they knew the novelty would wear off if it wasn't totally restricted.

It worked, I got bored and tempered my language to the point that I rarely ever swear.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I just want to know how saving passwords is a revolutionary new feature that needs a dedicated advertisement. We've been able to do that on every Web browser for what, 20 years?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I could see why someone would think it, though. My girlfriend got her license very late, we went to the same DMV 3 times to take the test. First time, bapped the pole during the parallel park, instant fail, do not pass go, do not collect a driver's license. Second time, didn't pass the parallel park but didn't bap the pole, so continued. Got marked "Fail" on things. More practice, third time, again, tons of fails over minor errors. Note that there is a middle point between good and fail, but they literally never used it.

Fourth time, I said screw that DMV, we're going to a different one. We went to a town with a tiny DMV with one little older lady running it, she literally had to lock up the office portion for every road test because she was alone. Girlfriend miraculously did the parallel park perfect, not a single fail on anything, and 2/3 of the middle scores. Passed easily.

First DMV had a lot of young workers, so my thinking is they like to mark everything they can to show their bosses how good they are at nitpicking other people's driving.

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