RobotToaster
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- Comment on nuked from orbit 14 hours ago:
Are any of the things she listed actually “doing science” though? Writing policy is more politics.
- Comment on Why hasn't the deep state stopped trump? 2 days ago:
There’s good odds that a lot of what is going on kayfabe.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Like anything you can find doctors with dubious ethics willing to preform any kind of surgery for the right price.
- Comment on Request to mod /c/nootropics 4 days ago:
I assume he wants !nootropics@lemmy.world
- Comment on Im watching an episode of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, filmed in black and white. In this scene a guest is showing glass making. What is going on with the film to make these black areas by the flame? 1 week ago:
Solarization en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solarization_(photography)
- Comment on Retail giant Monsoon's CEO calls on UK to scrap tax loopholes benefitting Shein 1 week ago:
Trump postponed the removal of the de minimis exemption. I assume because someone managed to tell him it would cause a complete standstill at customs with how much paperwork it will cause. People were facing $35 paperwork charges on $1 packages. It would also cripple American R&D since it relies heavily on getting part samples from China.
- Comment on More than 100,000 homes in England could be built in highest-risk flood zones 1 week ago:
Also concentrate on building in areas high above sea level.
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- Comment on UK Shoots Down 'Stop Destroying Videogames' Petition 2 weeks ago:
They shoot down literally every petition.
- Comment on Why is OCR for handwritten content still that bad? 2 weeks ago:
I tried it a while ago out of desperation to read handwriting I couldn’t read at all, that’s why I thought to try it.
- Comment on Why is OCR for handwritten content still that bad? 2 weeks ago:
I just asked chatGPT to transcribe it and it said
The handwritten text in the image says:
“Dimer stabilization free energies were also determined from thermodynamic integration (TI, see methods), which provide a direct validation of the MM-GBSA results.”
J. Phys. Chem. B 2018, 122, 7038-7048
There was a post on HN recently about using LLMs for OCR. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42952605
- Comment on School phone bans don't boost grades or wellbeing, study suggests 2 weeks ago:
Head teacher Ian Gerrard says while bullying hasn’t been “completely eradicated”, the pouches have created “a safe space within school”
Has it reduced bullying, or just the ability to document it?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I find that phrase is most often used to dismiss those who try to help people in need.
- Comment on Lord Sugar tells workers to get bums back into the office - BBC News 3 weeks ago:
Bold words for the guy who killed the spectrum and amstrad.
- Comment on Roman Abramovich may owe UK £1bn in unpaid tax. 3 weeks ago:
investment decisions were not really taking place in the BVI. Instead, one of Abramovich’s closest associates appears to have been controlling the companies from the UK.
I always assumed that’s how all BVI companies worked.
- Comment on Hair loss drug finasteride 'biggest mistake of my life' 4 weeks ago:
James Davies, RPS director for England told BBC News: "It’s really important that regardless of whether it’s online or face to face, these thorough checks are taking place.
“That means that a full medical history is taken, there’s an opportunity to understand the medication that may be prescribed, the side effects, the risks and the benefits.”
Unless it’s available on the NHS, it’s inevitable that people will take shortcuts. The NHS doesn’t generally take men’s health seriously though.
- Comment on In some countries (such as the USA), sending encrypted communications via Amateur Radio is illegal, but how likely will the government actually enforce it, and how severe would the consequences be? 4 weeks ago:
It would probably be better to do it on a frequency nobody cares about like CB or 433.
- Comment on Wetherspoon boss Tim Martin blames 'dinner party classes' for pubs crisis 4 weeks ago:
the different tax treatment of alcohol bought in shops, which does not attract VAT, and drinks ordered in pubs, which does.
I had no idea alcohol didn’t have VAT. I hate to agree with him but it absolutely should.
- Comment on Does the US really have no instruments in case a newly elected president immediatelly and openly exposes he's a nazi? 4 weeks ago:
You’re calling for military generals to have the power to remove the government? Effectively a military dictatorship?
That seems unwise.
- Comment on Does the US really have no instruments in case a newly elected president immediatelly and openly exposes he's a nazi? 4 weeks ago:
The USA has had a literal Nazi party since the 50’s. If they let George Lincoln Rockwell run for president while calling himself a nazi why would they do anything?
- Comment on Where do you think elon musk would be if he wasn't born into wealth? 1 month ago:
/r9k/
- Comment on what unbiased media sources do you use? 1 month ago:
I prefer sources with obvious bias since it makes it easier to account for. Sources that pretend to be unbias are far more insidious.
- Comment on Has the USA turned into an oligarchy? 1 month ago:
Turned? Have you ever heard of the Rockefeller and Morgan families?
- Comment on Communism 1 month ago:
Your impression is basically the Trotskyist view.
Stalin himself answered your question in an interview with an American reporter some time ago.
Yes , you are right, we have not yet built communist society. It is not so easy to build such a society. You are probably aware of the difference between socialist society and communist society. In socialist society certain inequalities in property still exist. But in socialist society there is no longer unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression of nationalities. In socialist society everyone is obliged to work, although he does not, in return for his labour receive according to his requirements, but according to the quantity and quality of the work he has performed. That is why wages, and, moreover, unequal, differentiated wages, still exist. Only when we have succeeded in creating a system under which, in return for their labour, people will receive from society, not according to the quantity and quality of the labour they perform, but according to their requirements, will it be possible to say that we have built communist society.
You say that in order t o build our socialist society we sacrificed personal liberty and suffered privation.
Your question suggests that socialist society denies personal liberty. That is not true. Of course, in order to build something new one must economize, accumulate resources, reduce one’s consumption for a time and borrow from others. If one wants to build a house one saves up money, cuts down consumption for a time, otherwise the house would never be built.
How much more true is this when it is a matter of building a new human society? We had to cut down consumption somewhat for a time, collect the necessary resources and exert great effort. This is exactly what we did and we built a socialist society.
But we did not build this society in order to restrict personal liberty but in order that the human individual may feel really free. We built it for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks. It is difficult for me to imagine what “personal liberty” is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment.
Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible.
- Comment on Communism 1 month ago:
The confusion is between communism as an economic system and communism (more properly, Marxism-Leninism) as a political system.
Economically communism is a classless, stateless, society.
Most Marxist-Leninist states take the position that transitioning to that instantly is impossible, and you need to build the material conditions for it by transitioning through capitalism (be that state capitalism or some other form) to socialism to communism. The Communist Party of China for instance has a goal of achieving socialism by 2050.
That’s a very simplified version anyway, and some (Trotskyists mostly) disagree that a transition period is necessary.
- Comment on Are there people without handedness? 1 month ago:
I have it, it’s annoying to say the least. I’m not fully ambidextrous though.
- Comment on Study finds young people more likely to spend Christmas alone 1 month ago:
Especially with how cities in the UK are effectively banning driving for anyone but the rich.
- Comment on Are there people without handedness? 1 month ago:
The closest I can think is someone who is ambidextrous but also dyspraxic.
- Comment on If I wanted to make and distribute videos without profit motivate, but also with no or minimum expensive, what would be the best platform? 2 months ago:
Didn’t they abandon decentralisation a while ago?
- Comment on how do you separate your clothes and linens to avoid fabric degradation and bleeding? 2 months ago:
I’m a little obsessive about this myself.
Usually I have
- Dark colours, woolens, and delicates
- Stuff I think could run (raw denim, etc)
- Whites
- Light colours and stuff I don’t care about fading, which can be washed either way.
While most non-colour detergents don’t contain bleach any more, they contain optical brighteners that absorb UV and emit white light, to make whites look “whiter than white”. This can make dark colours, and especially blacks, look dull grey. Other than that you don’t usually have to worry about most colours, especially after the first wash. There are exceptions to this, such as raw denim which runs like crazy. You can also get “colour catcher” sheets for peace of mind that stop runs.
Usually I use a non-biological delicates wool detergent for dark colours, woolens, and delicates, which I wash together, on a wool cycle. It doesn’t hurt to wash something more delicately than it’s supposed to be washed, and it means I don’t need to do as many loads. Sometimes I’ll throw light colours in with this if I have room. Anything “runny” I’ll wash with like colours, at least for the first few washes.
Whites, light colours, and stuff I don’t care about looking dull like towels gets the cheapest own brand biological detergent.
If you have dark coloured bedding you may want to get biological colour detergent, I don’t.