Xavienth

@Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  God I fucking hate the abuse of the word “bricked” by tech journalists. You brick a piece of technology when you fuck it up so bad that it cannot be recovered - it becomes functionally a brick.

  They are not bricking this device, they are shutting down the cloud services it needs to function because they are going out of business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GenCast predicts weather and the risks of extreme conditions with state-of-the-art accuracy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, they could certainly use more resolution in their data, I’m sure they wish for it all the time.

  But to pick on your example, they have certain requirements for specifically how they take the temperature which explains at least some of the discrepancy between them and your thermometer. For example, the thermometer must be in shade, must be iirc 2 metres off the ground, things like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GenCast predicts weather and the risks of extreme conditions with state-of-the-art accuracy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One thing that always bothers me about weather forecasts is they are not very specific, 24 or even 12 hours into the future. Like, they are correct that it will rain, but then somehow that rain always just misses me, and goes a few miles to the south, or something. Or it stops just a few miles shy of me.

  If this can give more specific forecasts in the immediate future, that’ll be nice to see.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI products like ChatGPT much hyped but not much used, study says⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I find them useful for getting over that initial hurdle of writing documents. I can just write down bullet points, tell ChatGPT to turn it into text, and then revise almost all of what it writes because I don’t like the style and it misinterpreted a bullet point or two. I find that a lot easier than writing from scratch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is not new, this has been the case for years