Ageroth

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[–] Ageroth@reddthat.com 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

An assembly line robot (like welding or material handling, I've worked with ABB, Fanuc, Motoman, Panasonic) are still called robot "arms" with the end portion often called the "wrist" so there is a degree of anthropomorphizing even if it's not the whole body. And they do resemble an arm, however with 6 axis motion the motion is more like from your hips to your wrist than shoulder to wrist.

[–] Ageroth@reddthat.com 8 points 5 months ago

I don't understand why the summary would leave out the witness statements.

Witnesses said the chaos unfolded at the busy office, which had a line out the door. Jalen Eddings told WHAS-TV that he had gone to the office but went back to his car to wait out the long line when the shooting unfolded nearby. He said two masked men shot the man multiple times, including as he lay on the ground, before they ran off. He said he didn’t see them fire at the women.

[–] Ageroth@reddthat.com 2 points 5 months ago

I've always been a fan of leaning over and drinking from the far side of a glass of water. Something about swallowing liquid while inverted resets whatever it is in my brain or lungs

[–] Ageroth@reddthat.com 4 points 5 months ago

It's 8 isn't it. It's ok, I liked it too

[–] Ageroth@reddthat.com 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Had to look it up myself, it's their name for what Americans call "overtime"
like if you work over 40 hours in a week, any hours you work over 40 are paid out at 150% of your normal rate, some places do 200% for Sunday or holidays.

Found this article from a couple days ago.
https://www.actu.org.au/media-release/1-million-australian-workers-at-risk-of-penalty-rate-cuts-while-bossesare-promised-free-lunches/

[–] Ageroth@reddthat.com 1 points 6 months ago

I'm going to take your point to the extreme.

It's only open source if the camera that took the picture that is used in the stock image that was used to create the texture is open source.
You used a fully mechanical camera and chemical flash powder? Better publish that design patent and include the chemistry of the flash powder!

[–] Ageroth@reddthat.com 10 points 6 months ago

I haven't bought anything from Walmart, Amazon, or Target in over a decade, probably close to two. Sure it costs a little more, but I try to source as much as I can from Costco which helps balance but otherwise I do almost all my shopping from local groceries (surefine, tops) and local hardware stores (franchises I know but generally locally owned)

[–] Ageroth@reddthat.com 4 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Is it worth giving up your data for a bigger screen?

[–] Ageroth@reddthat.com 11 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Are you?
Modern "Televisions" are pretty much smartphones with a big ass screen connected to them, and as such often requires an internet connection and some form of a login to use, even if you're hardwired directly to it.

Modern tvs aren't just a screen that displays the data you send it, they're a standalone ad serving machine

[–] Ageroth@reddthat.com 57 points 7 months ago

IIUC the calculation of GDP doesn’t factor in whether the produced goods serve a human need - the system can in theory continue to optimize for ever-increasing GDP while every human on earth starves to death.

There's an old joke I remember about economists and the GDP.

Two economists are walking through the jungle and come across a gigantic pile of lion scat. One turns to the other and said I'll pay you 100$ to eat a bite of that shit.
Being an economists and 100$ being worth a lot, the guy eats the shit and gets paid.
A little while later they come across a pile of rhino dung. The now richer economist turns to the first and offers 100$ for him to take a bite out of this pile. 100$ is again a lot of money so he does it and eats the shit.
As they're walking along, both picking their teeth, one turns to the other and asks "did we both just eat shit for nothing?" And the other days "of course not, now the GDP of the jungle has increased by 200$!"

[–] Ageroth@reddthat.com 43 points 7 months ago

Diversity, Equality, Inclusion.

Yes, DEI is just the new name for "stop discriminating against non-white males"

[–] Ageroth@reddthat.com 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Your analogy to mechanical systems are exactly where the breakdown to comparison with the human brain occurs, our brains are not like that, we don't only have the blocks of text loaded into us, sure we only learn what we get exposed to but that doesn't mean we can't think of things we haven't learned about.
The article I linked talks about the separation between the formation of thoughts and those thoughts being translated into words for linguistics.

The fact that you "don’t even know why the how the brain creates an articulated spoken word is even relevant here" speaks volumes to how much you understand the human brain, particularly in the context of artificial intelligence actually understanding the words it generates and the implications of thoughts behind the words and not just guessing which word comes next based on other words, the meanings of which are irrelevant.

I can listen to a song long enough to learn the words, that doesn't mean I know what the song is about.

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