Sphere

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[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

...whose second run was in 2008, and which achieved just a bit more than fundraising?

[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

...you realize who is President right now, right?

[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think it's worth pointing out the difference in monthly payments for the loans in your example, those payments would be $408.24 at 2.75% interest and $599.55 at 6% (the payback amount divided by 360 months). So a higher interest rate means people have to pay more for housing.

[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's trite, yes, but ask if they feel that way about Hitler. Because they definitely do not.

[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 61 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would really love to hear what this person thinks could be done in the source code to achieve that. Or for that matter how exactly "the fediverse" currently has the "ability to 'manage' them" lmao

[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

It's real...but it's two years old.

[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

And even if they could write code that well, they wouldn't be able to answer questions about it accurately. And that's a very large chunk of the job!

And debugging? Give me a break!

[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Do you have a source that presents an unbiased evaluation of this technology? Because I really question the ability of machine learning models to write complex software, so I'll believe it when I see actual results (all I could find with a quick Google search were what amounted to press releases).

[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As someone who has studied biology and intends to do so a good bit more in the future, I would like to point out that the whole biology argument is even more bullshit than you've laid out here.

See, a trans friend of mine once linked me to a Nature article about how cells express sex characteristics, and it was pretty mind-blowing for me, being at the time still kinda transphobic. Cells, it turns out, can be relatively easily convinced to switch sexes by way of chemical signals, and in fact cell sex is not a constant state but more of an equilibrium whose balance can be shifted at any time. Chromosomes, it turns out, are basically irrelevant (which makes sense when you think about it, XY and XX both have copies of the necessary X-linked genes, and there isn't much of anything necessary encoded on the Y chromosome at all--it's mostly for male sexual development, aka growing the male sexual parts in utero).

So the next time a transphobe tries to lean on biology, you can let them know that the field very much does not stand with them and their babybrained view of how this stuff works.

[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

So...this meme is saying that BASED_BALL was the person whose claims nuked Beatnik? Am I getting that right? And if so, how is that a knock on Hexbear? Good Lord my head is spinning trying to understand what their position is here (aside from apparently opposing the ban of BASED_BALL? Weird to die on the hill of a mid-ass shitposter but whatever).

Anyway, BASED_BALL can get fucked. I love my trans comrades.

[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago

That, or salaried

[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

...that's an Idaho state trooper though?

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