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- Comment on FedEx has absolutely no clue what 'economy' means. 1 week ago:
It could, theoretically, be like this on purpose, not only due to things like cargo space on specific planes, but also because this sort of pricing can have a psychological effect.
People don’t really know what shipping is supposed to cost, so the way they decide whether a price is good is by comparing it to other prices.
90 seems like a lot, but if it’s cheaper than the “economy” rate, people might be more inclined to purchase it and feel like they got a good deal.
- Comment on hard to argue with 1 month ago:
If she really believes those breasts, ovaries, and wombs are so important, why was she telling women to think about things? You don’t think with breasts, ovaries, or wombs.
And what will she do when she hits menopause? How will that affect her beliefs?
- Comment on Treegasmic 2 months ago:
Boy it really makes those pictures of bees covered in pollen seem slightly less cute.
- Comment on The Park 2 months ago:
They do travel in flocks.
- Comment on YouTube Binges 4 months ago:
I suspect that if you add up all the money Youtubers make, and you divide it by all of the man hours people spent trying to make a living off of Youtube, “poverty stricken PhD candidate” would start to seem like a good financial decision.
- Comment on What is the safest way for a partially disabled person in the USA to use prison for food and shelter as an alternative to dying homeless in a gutter on a cold rainy night? 4 months ago:
I generally disagree with the entire plan, but if you’re going to do anything like this, there is a large difference between getting caught with a weapon and not. Maybe even a squirt gun. You do not need to have a weapon to get convicted of robbing a bank.
- Comment on Burrito 6 months ago:
The primary reason an MRI is expensive to run is that it has this magnetic field that must be maintained. This is a cost that is irrespective of whether they are running a scan.
So if you have an MRI for small animals and it’s not being used, you might use it for a hamster.
- Comment on Light 6 months ago:
Yeah, it was almost wasted hitting some shitty pavement and causing even more of a heat island problem in this city. But instead, it not only gets the honor of interacting with me, it even serves a useful biological purpose.
- Comment on Do AI-Generated Image/Art Algorithms Plagiarise? | Atomic Shrimp 10 months ago:
I admit I didn’t watch the video, since it is 17 minutes and I don’t have time right now, but I’ll just throw something out there that I think is a good rule of thumb.
When you ask questions like this, “Do AI-Generated…” so and so, you can usually find a common-sense starting point answer by substituting, “Do human-Generated…” AI has the ability to plagiarize, and so do humans. AI has the ability to plagiarize even when it’s not asked to, and so do humans. Humans can even accidentally plagiarize, but it’s harder to say that AI does things accidentally.
This rule of thumb doesn’t always work, but neural networks attempt to simulate the way human brains function. Obviously, there are some differences. But it’s close enough to get a starting point.
It’s a complicated situation. A complicated question.
- Comment on Get to work, crackheads 11 months ago:
Yes, the intended target audience is desperate addicts who can be tricked into committing a crime that doesn’t actually benefit them at all.
- Comment on Time Traveling LIBERAL Has His Mind Blown 11 months ago:
Goddamn. I clicked through expecting it to be satire. Instead, it’s garbage right wing propaganda.
Like, the first thing it comes out with is that “In 2023, the left is all about starting wars, while the right is the anti-war side.”
Now I’ll have to block the channel so that YouTube doesn’t spam me with Prager shit.
Don’t be tricked.
- Comment on Mentally Deranged Behaviour 1 year ago:
When I read your comment, my monocle popped right off!
- Comment on Mentally Deranged Behaviour 1 year ago:
How about 4D Venn diagrams?
- Comment on The Akinator Genie 1 year ago:
This was probably over 5 years ago.
- Comment on The Akinator Genie 1 year ago:
I say “money”, but it was some sort of subscription. Like, become an X member and unlock the entire game sort of thing.
- Comment on The Akinator Genie 1 year ago:
This is an ancient project. At some point in the past, I went to this site and it was intentionally broken by its developers, such that it would only guess from a small subset of possible targets, and if your character was outside of that, it would act like it knew the answer, but wouldn’t say unless you gave them money.
I don’t know if that’s changed since then, because that experience ruined it for me, and I won’t be going back there.
- Comment on Panik 1 year ago:
If you have no interest in the result of the division, then you can also do the division in your head, without retaining the result, with about the same effort.
- Comment on Panik 1 year ago:
Another way to tell if 59271 is divisible by 7 is to divide it by 7. It will take about the same amount of time as the trick you’re presenting, and then you’ll already have the result.
- Comment on Panik 1 year ago:
I looked up a rule for 7, and it seems like it would take about the same amount of time as actually dividing the number by 7.
Meanwhile, it looks like the rule for 8 is to see if the last 3 digits are divisible by 8, which seems like a real time save for big numbers.
- Comment on Panik 1 year ago:
I only know rules for 2 (even number), 3 (digits sum to 3), 4 (last two digits are divisible by 4), 5 (ends in 5 or 0), 6 (if it satisfies the rules for both 3 and 2), 9 (digits sum to 9), and 10 (ends in 0).
I don’t know of one for 7, 8 or 13. 11 has a limited goofy one that involves seeing if the outer digits sum to the inner digits. 12 is divisible by both 3 and 4, so like 6, it has to satisfy both of those rules.
- Comment on Panik 1 year ago:
Also, any number whose digits sum to a multiple of 3 is divisible by 3. For 51, 5+1=6, and 6 is a multiple of 3, so 51 can be cleanly divided by 3.
- Comment on Chinese video games are on the rise, but I wish they got more respect 1 year ago:
Are they even trying to change that reputation? The last I heard was that if you published a game app that was any sort of popular, you could expect it to be stolen and resold in China.
I also generally find it hard to trust any software produced in any totalitarian state.