bss03

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Mirror enforcers are a lot more serious than that. Just ask Lake (nee: piluT) from the “Infinity Train”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s not trying hard enough. You can touch tongues, too. No entwining, but maybe in the P-reversed universe, that’s just taboo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wake up sheeple⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  classic story of the US spending millions on developing pens that write in space while the Soviet Union just issued pencils

  You used “story”, so I’ll assume you know this is mostly untrue, but for any of the lucky 10k that hasn’t heard: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Pen#Uses_in_the_U.S._…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intellectual Debate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Stupid long horses. /ref

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No fear!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a repost, so I’ll just link to my response there: infosec.pub/comment/17474305 (Basically, “we” didn’t; lots for deaths and injuries prevented by pads and helmets.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's ask this AI app!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AI app: Great picture! That a “fls Brown cup”; it is delicious and fatal!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come if my dog is sick and I take him to get put out of his misery its ok? On a human its not? How come human laws don't apply to animals? I think of our dog as family and he's one of us?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Next time, try it without the “Appeal to Nature” / Naturalistic Fallacy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t get to blame me for your reactions, only my (in)actions.

  When no words accomplishes the task just as well, it’s not selfish to avoid small talk. The fact that you mind to rude or impolite is your problem, not mine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is the disconnect Im referring to…the fact that people are taking jobs thinking that they get to dictate what the job entails, even after being told what the job entails, even after signing documentation saying they agree to what the job entails. Where does that come from?

  I don’t know, but I saw something similar in my father (RIP). He would agree to something, then get some benefits, then later attempt to “renegotiate”. That sort of behavior isn’t something “GenZ”. Some people just want to squeeze water our of rocks, even if it is deleterious to their relationships.

  Similarly, I’ve certainly had employers that, despite my job duties clearly not covering the task would ask and expect me to perform other tasks “for the good of the company”. It’s fairly common these days for job offers to include “and other duties as assigned” because employers want to have all the power, and I’m fine with workers (of any generation) just refusing to comply.

  It does sound like the employee was being unreasonable and maybe should be dismissed, but that doesn’t get the task done either, so maybe the “do it, you have no say” approach isn’t any better. And, I have no idea how I’d handle it. I kinda don’t like delegating stuff anyway, so if I thought the task was important I’d do it myself unless someone happily volunteered. But, I know that might not “scale” the way it needs to make the business work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Laziness is my choice and a virtue in my profession and my preferred operational method…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  you’re being paid a wage in exchange for your labor and we need your labor on this specific task. “So I don’t get a say in it?” Well, NO, you don’t…what on earth would make you think you think that?

  Yes, they do. They can just go home, or walk around the block, or work on something else. No matter what your employer tells them, they aren’t a slave at any point in time.

  Will there be consequences? Absolutely. They might get fired. They might get sued. If the task is sufficiently important the State might consider them not doing the task criminal negligence.

  This isn’t entitlement, it’s choice and freedom, and perhaps having different priorities than the person assigning tasks. Everyone, including GenZ: Do you, and if you can try to spread joy and reduce suffering.

  Do remember tho, someone has to keep the infrastructure working, and it’s often not clear where in joy in that lies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  why words wen none good

  (I’m GenX, [1980] but I’ve always thought a lot of “polite” “social” habits are dumb.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Owlcat is using generative AI for The Expanse Osiris Reborn, but the final game will be "100% human made"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  workflow in which temporary assets shat by AI would be useful.

  Collecting VC funding, particularly demonstrations or even gameplay captures.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Owlcat is using generative AI for The Expanse Osiris Reborn, but the final game will be "100% human made"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, once crunch times starts, you’ll have plenty of free time/people to audit the code and resources to determine if they were AI generated or not.

  Fuck (this particular use of) AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨omg hes just like me⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems dangerous. There are sections where you wouldn’t want the floss pulled taut, and certainly not the whole thing.

  I wonder if it was just a magic / fx video; at least the “to floss himself” bit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gottem⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually think you have to go so slow that your (propbable) position extends to the other side of the wall. Unfortunately speeds that slow are incompatible with (the processes of) life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gottem⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, the Aussies quantum entangled whole atoms, and were able to do a Bell test on objects with rest mass. It’s news: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp9n5QwVgu4

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gottem⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  BTW, before a detector aparatus can be created, many physics results were (are?) identified through observation, which might include a measurement or might be qualitative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gottem⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s Goodhart’s Law.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's literally zero⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  lesbian was a person born with a pussy only being attracted to other people only born with a pussy

  That’s not how it was originally defined to me, but I’m not going to police terms. Of course, when I learned terms was before the gender and sexuality explosion on tumblr, so I might be out of date. I don’t commonly interact with anyone IRL that identifies as a lesbian, ATM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨omg hes just like me⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mouth, Anus, Nasal Passages (2), Occular passages (2), Aural passages (2) = 8. -1 for topology reasons (one “hole” is a divot, not a tube, and a divot is topologically equivalent to a smooth surface) = 7.

  Math checks out. (And I think stand-up maths or some other maths youtuber did a longer version of this post with more detailed and complete reasoning.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  www.darpa.mil/research/programs/rads-watts too.

  But yeah, steam turbines are remarkably efficient and if you are designing a reactor today, you definitely assume one of them will be used.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨marriage update⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In their defense it might be the name of the subdivision / street and not a curse word, but censored to avoid “doxxing”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon makes some changes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not the best guide for how often to shower, but every dermatologist-written guide I’ve read does indicate that a daily shower is unnecessary for most people and will (for most people) dry your skin. It can also damage your hair. This is true even in the absence of soap/detergent/shampoo.

  That said, if you do anything that causes you to sweat, I think it’s prudent to do a quick rinse because you always smell worse to other people than your do to yourself due to olfactory saturation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The first step is admitting the country has is a problem.

  I know I don’t do enough. It’s not enough to vote for the “right” people about once a year and just keep your head down, with maybe some “digital activism”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If the bug doesn’t already exist / is included under an existing bug scope, yes.

  I don’t think I will, but I probably should.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they are turning it into a HTML ordered list, and the Lemmy CSS isn’t set up for that.

  A bit of browser inspection, and I can basically guarantee it’s because the li::marker CSS is sized for no more than 3 digits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I never had a conversation on geocities, but I do remember you could do some SSI stuff, so maybe it was possible. I think lost my last geocities site password and didn’t care to go through the effort of resetting it in '96 or so.

  You can telnet into the HTTP port basically everywhere that doesn’t auto-redirect to the HTTPS port (and start/resume a TLS session), and there could be stuff in the HTML source (or headers) that a browser might hide from you, at least by default – but I can’t think of how you would use that in geocities to “see private messages”. (In theory you could manually start/resume a TLS session, but a proper telnet client might break on some of the bytes received, and you’d definitely have to figure out how to send some non-ASCII bytes.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  ICQ 514984 checking in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨there is a special place in hell for these scientists⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Shadowrun used the term “bioware” instead, do you like that better?