KillingTimeItself @ KillingTimeItself @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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LLMs are fundamentally limited, the only interesting application with them is research more or less. There are some practical applications, but those are already being used in industry today, so meh.

Whether or not it's a dead end, is questionable, because scientific research is often met with many a dead end, that's just how it is.

feel free to call me when i turn out to be correct.

I'm a patient and forgiving person, i don't hold grudges.

are we talking about a specific demographic of people? It's possible i missed that, but i figured this was a generalized thing.

when did i say that

based on the american trains that i live around.

IDK, they're just more visually pleasing to me. European trains just look like the proof of concept render of what a train will look like.

a lot of modern technology and software is built on the foundation of work built by the web browser industry, it's not necessarily a bad thing, but it's not necessarily a good thing either. Provides a lot of nice features, native integration into a web browser, industry standard security and encryption procedures.

That's about it though, Outside of that, running a dedicated version of that app is almost always some bullshit built in electron, which is a horrible buggy mess with horrible performance. Nothing stops devs from integrating these features into a standalone application... But, they likely won't since they've already developed a web browser version.

I also have some problems with the way web tech is generally built, it's built with the expectation that you will host and treat it as a web app, which is fine, it works. But i prefer not to host services i use via anything web related as generally i find it both intrusive, and problematic, in the instance that a DNS server goes down for example. (it's not very likely, i know, but still)

I also think a lot of the networking protocols are fairly bloated, but that's not as big of a deal, it's just annoying.

anyway, enough of my ranting. Matrix is actually a specification for a set of communication protocols based on the foundation of web tech, it's highly universal, and inter-compatible, which is great. But it sort of stops there. There are several server implementations, and numerous front end implementations, none of which seem to be particularly, interesting. There's numerous electron front ends, a few that aren't (though they won't support most features) etc, stuff like that, it's just. Not clean.

mumble is great for VOIP.

Matrix seems interesting, but i think it might be a little bit too heavy handed, im not personally a fan of web tech, though there are other things like xmpp as well.

revolt is meh, apparently their dev team is hostile to self hosting, so there's that. There's also spacebar, which is a reverse engineered implementation of the discord API, could be interesting.

brother i'm on lemmy, most of the people who are politically engaged on this platform have about 12 collective IQ. Anybody on the right has about 10 collective IQ, i was graced with the unfortunate gift of intelligence, and have to suffer through a world full of stupid people.

You're gonna have to cut me some slack for being harsh lmao.

You think anyone to your left is stupid and anyone to your right is god.

fascinating psychoanalysis, did your mom get it for you?

It's wrong, unfortunately.

I would disagree with your premise but it’s not your fault. It’s my fault for not explaining it clearly

TBF, i was being a little unreasonably harsh, but i was trying to make a point off of minimal descriptive language so i don't really have much flexibility there.

I don’t think not knowing something makes you stupid. Humans can’t know everything. We all have strengths and weaknesses. I know about taxes, but I don’t know shit about cooking. He cooks dinner, I deal with the bureaucracy situations.

Personally i think being stupid isn't necessarily a bad thing, it's just a lack of education, but i think what really matters is whether or not you weaponize it, if you don't know anything about that topic, you would be relatively stupid in that space, however if you acknowledge that you know nothing and have no practical knowledge basis, that's fine. It's when you know nothing, know that you know nothing, and still engage with it even though you know you have a limited basis to act upon, that it's a problem.

Also, I’m don’t know if you’ve ever spent time with someone who struggles with ADHD and Neurodivergence but their brains don’t work like others. They can’t force themselves to do things that other people can tough out. They can study all night but if their brain can’t stay on track, they won’t be able to retain it.

believe me, i understand it, i'm very ADHD coded, but that usually means i just never get around to doing the things that i need to do (which is relevant here) i don't normally make up weird tangentially relevant reasoning to cope about why i don't do those things though. Personally i find very directed note taking helps a lot with retaining, and it acts as a cheatsheet for when you do inevitably forget about it later on. Though it still requires researching it in the first place.

When I come along and start telling him how tax brackets work, especially if he didn’t ask me, hes going to be frustrated and he’s not going to get through it easily.

there could be a few reasons for this, ignoring external influences, like being pre-occupied, you're either going to have a problem with explaining it, and you need to alter the explanation so it's easier to comprehend, or you're going to have a problem comprehending it, but tax brackets are pretty conceptually simple from my understanding. It should take like 2 minutes to explain the concept of tax brackets to someone, obviously filling them in on all of the details takes longer, but it's the relevant part here.

If you aren't capable of digesting that level of explanation, i'd be concerned about either your level of intelligence, or your ability to care about things. If you aren't capable of caring about something as important as finance, and relatively simple as tax brackets, i'm not really sure what you'd be capable of even conceptualizing in the first place. In my mind, that's either weaponized incompetence, or you have a significant learning disability/developmental disability, as an adult. Which is something that should probably be addressed, obviously i'm not at liberty to talk about any specific person here, but i would personally be pretty concerned by that. Even as someone who struggles with this kind of stuff.

I don’t know if he just doesn’t want to work OT and has settled on this excuse or if there is some other issue but it doesn’t matter. If he doesn’t want to work OT, that’s okay!

Yeah, again not wanting to work OT is perfectly fine, but if that's the reason i'd be confused as to why he's using an irrelevant topic to excuse that, instead of just being upfront about it, seems weird to me on face value. The other option is that he seriously believes what he's saying, even with you correcting him, which means he doesn't trust you, even though you would be the one filing the taxes, which is also incredibly weird. Even if you try explaining it to him, it doesn't seem to matter, so i'm not really sure what the deal is here, but it's weird. Like you see what i mean here right? This doesn't really check out logically in any significant capacity. Granted, it's possible you've left out relevant details that would impact that, but i'm just basing this off of what i'm reading so there's that for take it with a grain of salt.

Regardless of this specific event, it's probably going to influence future recurring behaviors, so it's something to think about. Generally it's rare that people latch onto a specific mechanism of behavior for one, and only that one thing, it usually applies to other things as well.

i love this comment, silly/10

i thought we were talking about how i was an old man on the internet roleplaying as a hip young kid, or are you not OP and you've somehow stumbled into this random back alley where i'm ominously positioned.

Regardless, it's not "moving right" people on the left see it as "moving right" because they're on the left and have about 12 iq, whether or not the bipartisian support mattered or not is a different question, doesn't seem like it really did much frankly, but it's not "moving to the right" that's for sure.

Kicking progressives even harder?

if you care about progressive politics, go find a progressive politician, oh wait, there are none, because it's not a suitable political climate to engage in. AOC used to be progressive, she's slowly drifted more and more towards the left since beginning her career though, progressivism strictly resides in the social sphere, and that's fine.

Minorities abandoned themselves on this election cycle anyway.

whenever they have to time to do normal people shit? Even slow learning is better than no learning, you can learn a lot over a long period of time if you keep at it regularly.

Perhaps maybe they should spend less time watching their favorite political sock puppets talk about politics, and spend more time actually learning about shit that's important and matters. Or maybe instead of yelling at people online about their political views, they could spend that time educating themselves instead. Just a proposal.

can't say i have, but im assuming it's safe to say they look pretty boring.

all the euro trains look like futuristic renders of trains, american trains make me feel happy.

euro trains will simply never compare, also the E bell goes hard, and you will never take that away from me.

yeah, with how tax brackets actually work, this should be physically impossible, i'm just pointing out that even if it didn't it would STILL have to be a pretty substantial increase in tax, that you could easily calculate.

every day, my theory that people are just willfully retarded gets proven more and more correct. Even with the tools at the disposal of the modern internet savvy person, nobody tries ANYTHING to verify ANYTHING.

It's actually so fucking depressing and i think humanity is joever at this point. I'm not sure how you recover from this point effectively.

you probably stop paying ur isp then

have you considered asking him why he even thinks that in the first place? You've literally put him into a spot where he's too stupid to even care about whether or not that response is logical or makes sense.

If he just doesn't want to work overtime that's fine, a lot of people don't, why would he justify it with stupid tax logic that he evidently must know is stupid? Seems like cope to me.

You cannot simultaneously "be smart" and then "be stupid" you are either stupid about something, or not. It's one of the two. I'm sure he's a pretty generally smart guy, most people are, but either it's an excuse he uses because he doesnt want to work overtime, or he's literally uneducated (and therefore stupid) about taxes, and chooses not to be educated about it, even though it would be financially beneficial to him, because that's literally how money works. (which would also make him pretty objectively stupid in that case) again, he may not care at all, but then why wouldn't he just be upfront about not caring?

Shouldn't it be physically possible to be taxed so much that your income lowers compared to what it was previously?

Like you would have to have a 20% bump in pay, and an increase in taxes that's like 25-50% or something insane. Of course if you cherry pick data, and pick a high ceiling, and then just barely pass a threshold you can probably make it appear, but that would be a pretty well defined statistical anomaly. And, not very much money.

edit: and this is assuming that taxes literally just don't work the way that they do, this is WITH broken tax logic.

of course, the idea of a progressive income tax is that at a certain point, it becomes untenable to hold so much money. But unless taxes are literally 100% it's hard to make the argument that you're "losing" money.

i do say so, good observation lil bro.

Pertinent discovery you've made there.

Perhaps next time you can check your aura before posting.