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Also since companies are adding AI to everything, sometimes when you think you’re just doing a digital zoom you’re actually getting AI upscaling.

There was a court case not long ago where the prosecution wasn’t allowed to pinch-to-zoom evidence photos on an iPad for the jury, because the zoom algorithm creates new information that wasn’t there.

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I always think it’s unfair to compare things to video games. Video games are so inefficient they had to invent a separate processor with hundreds of cores just to run them. Of course they end up running well.

If cheap phones had a 128-core JavaScript Processing Unit, websites would probably run fast too.

I’m a web dev and yes they could. It’s annoying that web devs get blamed for it though, the reason for all the javascript is mostly business decisions out of our control.

Mainly the tracking scripts which the marketing department adds against out will. But also it’s a lot cheaper to have a client-rendered web app than a traditional website (with client side rendering you can shut off all your web servers and just keep the api servers, our server side processing went down 90% in the switchover). And it’s more efficient for the company to have one team working in one programming language and one framework that can run the backend and frontend, so the frontend ends being a web app even if it’s not really necessary.

Sorry I’m responsible for something Britain did before my parents were born, I’ll try to do better in future

No mention of the genocidal act or the group that started this all.

It may surprise you to learn that history did not begin on October 7th

Israel claims that Gaza and the West Bank are part of Israel, and that there is no such country as Palestine. If that’s true then the Palestinians are a minority ethnic group in Israel with no rights or citizenship. There’s no possible argument that isn’t apartheid.

Doesn’t stop Israelis making the argument though, by doing Schrödinger’s Palestine, which doesn’t exist when you accuse them of illegally occupying it (“it’s part of Israel”) and does exist when you accuse them of apartheid (“they don’t have rights because it’s not part of Israel”).

I wish I could find that one photo of about 30 photographers crowded around the one guy with a bloody nose at a 100,000 person protest, but google is failing me

Pretty sure it was him, but a photo from further back so you could see way more photographers. Literally every photo from the protests that day had this guy in.

It’s fun to compare the comments on this story to the ones about France banning various kinds of clothing!

It’s something I’ve seen POC on Mastodon complaining about, that everyone in the fediverse thinks they belong in every discussion. It’s been the same with the autism community on Lemmy, I’ll say something about my experience of autism and immediately get a reply like “I’m not autistic but I disagree”.

At least Reddit is big enough that not every post hits the front page and gets a comment from every user, so niche subs can fly under the radar a bit.

Yeah, I hate Reddit as a company for the same reasons as everyone else, but I keep going back there because the quality and diversity of discussion on Lemmy isn’t good enough.

It’s like early Reddit in that people stay on topic and make relatively high effort comments, but it’s dominated by straight white male libertarian software engineers, so you get really narrow viewpoints that overwhelm anything else.

It doesn’t work for anything really, if you let users moderate content through up and downvotes then every community turns into r/memes

It was always going to work, it’s kind of weird everyone expected it to backfire. There was never going to be a mass boycott because normal people don’t see “you have to pay for it to use it” as particularly unreasonable.

Say I shared my account with 4 other people. Even if all 4 decide not to sign up, Netflix don’t lose anything and they save 80% of their server costs. They only lose money if I quit as well, and why would I when I’m getting the same service for the same price.

The fact is hardly anyone publishes on the web anymore. Every time someone complains about Google search I look them up and discover they don’t have a website.

They have an Instagram and a YouTube and a Facebook and a Twitter account, all of which may or may not be accessible to some degree to a logged out web browser. Never a website though.

What do they think is going to show up in a search when all the content these days is published in walled garden social media apps?

Or even just wait for a single replication of actual superconductivity, rather than a vague reaction to magnetic fields.

To be clear, absolutely no one has replicated zero resistance, which is the only thing that matters for a superconductor.

All of the “successful replications” so far have just been tiny flakes of material moving in a magnetic field. No one has even got it to fully levitate, they all stand on one end, which any ferromagnet would do. One video demonstrated that a flake was not attracted to the magnet, which could rule out ferromagnetism. Even assuming that’s true it could still just be diamagnetic - pyrolytic carbon behaves exactly the same way and it’s not a superconductor.

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But the naysayers will argue that your problem is not novel and a solution can be trivially deduced from the training data. Right?

Yes, obviously. Unless @Serdan is publishing papers about their solutions to previously unsolved computation problems, we should assume that by “novel problem” they actually just mean “a mundane problem for which every step of the solution is trivial, even if they’ve never been combined in that exact order before”.