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Does your local city/town/village have its own Discord server? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 23 hours ago

We have one for my city centered around socializing and meeting people. We haven't been getting any of the kinds of problems that everyone else here have faced.

Vinegar in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

Hmmmm... A quick pickled depression you say

Academic writing in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

If you're reading an academic paper, you just follow the citations until someone defines it.

Academic writing in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's dumb. We write like normal people in academic papers too. I don't know why they ever taught it this way.

AI tool cuts unexpected deaths in hospital by 26%, Canadian study finds in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I would argue that this would make nurses less important, and would make them "lazy" by not giving them opportunities to identify these simple things on a regular basis.

Not just nurses, but doctors too. This exact problem was discussed at a conference I recently attended. Some doctors do better with AI assistance, some do worse. As far as we know, it seems to be dependent on how much they "believe in AI". The more they do, the worse they perform when assisted.

What are some words you swear people use to try and sound smart? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Interesting that you list vice versa. What do you typically use instead?

What are some words you swear people use to try and sound smart? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

This one amuses me. It looks all fancy in writing. But if someone says "milk toast" and you don't know what it means, they just sound like an idiot.

What are some words you swear people use to try and sound smart? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

That's the fun thing about food (and wine especially). You don't need to have the ingredient present for it to taste like that ingredient. I made chocolate chip cookies once that tasted like bananas, and I most definitely didn't add bananas to them.

What are some words you swear people use to try and sound smart? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

I've never seen anyone use "demure" in a serious context. It seems to always be used to convey a mocking tone.

What are some words you swear people use to try and sound smart? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
Twenty percent of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed in c/technology@lemmy.zip
[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

You're currently having a conversation on an article about cold storage. The comment you replied to was about this article, and hence also about cold storage. It makes absolutely no sense to come into this conversation saying that they're wrong about how cold storage works because your experience with hot storage doesn't line up.

Replace cars with velomobiles in c/fuck_cars@lemmy.ml
[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you replace the cars first, such that no one's daily schedules are significantly altered,

Is that going to happen if you replace cars with another vehicle that still requires car infrastructure?

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How can we start making a change? (lemmy.ca)
 

There's many posts here with the purpose of convincing people to support electoral reform. Not so much that's actually actionable. What do we do if we want to change things? For a start, does anyone have information on who's responsible for the election system at each level of government in each of the major cities?

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How do you feel about storing binary files with Git? (lemmy.ca)
 

I think it's generally agreed upon that large files that change often do not belong while small files that never change are fine. But there's still a lot of middle ground where the answer is not so clear to me.

So what's your stance on this? Where do you draw the line?

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When can babies start eating bread? I don't know, but you can buy it for $37.39! (lemmy.ca)
 

I was looking up when babies can safely start eating untoasted bread and one of the images led me to this website that sells... stuff? Are they selling me the question? Who knows.

Then if you scroll down to the related products, you can buy a basketball club for $30, down from $15!

I'm guessing this is some phishing website looking to steal credit cards. I also still haven't found an answer to my original question.

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How do you store your metadata? (lemmy.ca)
 

By metadata, I'm talking about things like text descriptions of a photo/video and where they come from, or an explanation of what a certain binary blob contains, its format, how to use it, etc.

The best solution I have right now is xattrs, but those are dependent on the file system, and there's no guarantee that they will stay when the files get moved, especially if the person moving them is unaware of its existence. The alternative is to keep a plaintext file with this metadata alongside every photo/video/binary/etc, but that would be a huge pain to keep in sync since both files have to be moved together.

So my question to you: do you keep this kind of metadata? If so, how do you manage them?

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[Discussion] How can we deal with misinformation? (lemmy.ca)
 

With the rapid advances we're currently seeing in generative AI, we're also seeing a lot of concern for large scale misinformation. Any individual with sufficient technical knowledge can now spam a forum with lots of organic looking voices and generate photos to back them up. Has anyone given some thought on how we can combat this? If so, how do you think the solution should/could look? How do you personally decide whether you're looking at a trustworthy source of information? Do you think your approach works, or are there still problems with it?

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General Purpose / Random stuff (lemmy.ca)
 

Is there a community meant for anything that doesn't currently fit into the existing communities?

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