Tar_alcaran
@Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Anon describes experience 2 days ago:
Ah I recall my “science” teacher when I was 13 explaining to us that all materials expand when heated and shrink when cooled.
So I ask how ice floats, or how ice cubes swell above the tray.
- Comment on We'd like to welcome our newest Student to Hogwarts, Hun-Gary Mc'Spud. 4 days ago:
Stroopwaffel van Klompmill.
- Comment on We'd like to welcome our newest Student to Hogwarts, Hun-Gary Mc'Spud. 4 days ago:
I love this, because a “Hans worst” in dutch is someone incompetent and useless.
- Comment on Maybe someday 😌 4 days ago:
But they’re a dbzero user, not an ML
- Comment on Maybe someday 😌 4 days ago:
I’m pretty sure I used the word “unknowingly” there, meaning that they’re not to blame for the first choice, merely for continuing to do so now.
- Comment on Maybe someday 😌 5 days ago:
What did we do?
- Comment on Maybe someday 😌 5 days ago:
Well, luckily, you can make an account elsewhere and not have people assume you’re an asshole because you associate (unknowingly) with assholes
- Comment on Look out its the D*tch 5 days ago:
Genetic diversity obviously plays a role, and epigenetics matter a lot too. The abundance of food and quality of nutrition that we’ve had since WW2 in the Netherlands, combined with genetics that predispose, combine together.
But there is also a BIG difference between the racial stats the US keeps and the direct descendance stats the Netherlands keeps. If your family came from Ethiopia to the US in 1640 and has raised 12 generations of Americans, you’re “Black or African American”.
If your four grandparents are 30cm tall blue Smurfs, but both your parents were born in the Netherlands, you’re a native Dutch person in every Dutch statistic.
- Comment on Look out its the D*tch 5 days ago:
That’s hard to tell, because not everyone tracks data the same way.
The UK has a population that’s 72% British/Irish. The Netherlands has a population that’s 74% Dutch.
- Comment on Corporations are saving the planet! 1 week ago:
Can you show a link that supports that? Because I distinctly recall these companies opposing this measure.
- Comment on Men tell women to stop complaining, also men every time june rolls around 1 week ago:
Quite a lot of issues the rest of us have would be fixed if more straight white able bodied cis men got the therapy they need.
- Comment on when you work in an interdisciplinary institution: 1 week ago:
Chemist here: yep.
- Comment on when you work in an interdisciplinary institution: 1 week ago:
Chemistry is just simplified biology.
Eh, for organic, maybe. For inorganic not really. And all the crystal stuff is just physics we appropriated. And the rest of materials science is rightfully ours as well and one day we shall take it back from the engineers.
- Comment on The Forgotten Plague Island – USSR's Deadliest Secret 1 week ago:
The UK, meanwhile, made it very very clear which island they used for their anthrax testing in WW2.
- Comment on Sign me up 1 week ago:
Does anyone know where this picture is from? For uhh…a friend…
- Comment on Sign me up 1 week ago:
Latex is vegan though
- Comment on It's a tragedeigh 1 week ago:
What’s wrong with gsm?
- Comment on Safety first 2 weeks ago:
Exactly. Same in organic chemistry: very few things in the experiment will actually hurt you, but a lot of things on you will ruin the experiment.
- Comment on HyTale just got cancelled, HyPixel studios winding down over the next few months 2 weeks ago:
This is basically exactly what Vintage Story does. And it’s working extremely well for them
- Comment on Monster Hunter Wilds game reviews hit "Overwhelmingly Negative" on Steam — can Capcom turn it around? 2 weeks ago:
Even Cyberpunk 2077 ran perfectly on launch,
Liar.
- Comment on Too many non-working holidays in America. 2 weeks ago:
More holidays, but when you’re a subsistence farmer, those aren’t really days off, just days you don’t have to work for the rent.
- Comment on Dear Leader 2 weeks ago:
Leftwing crypto fans are the epitome of the Horseshoe theory
- Comment on AI will shrink Amazon's workforce in the coming years, CEO Jassy says 2 weeks ago:
Sure, a mechanical sorting machine using ML software is something completely different from what they’re talking about here though
- Comment on AI will shrink Amazon's workforce in the coming years, CEO Jassy says 2 weeks ago:
It absolutely wont. The only people who believe this are trying to sell AI, or repeating the ones selling AI.
Nobody has a marketable AI product, nobody is making any money on AI, nobody is effectively using AI as a replacement for workers except in the content-slop industry. Not out of charity, but because LLMs can’t do the things that are being constantly promised.
Amazon spend a hundred billion dollars on AI, and made 5 billion on it. That’s income, not profit. OpenAI is scraping together more capital because they’re going broke from not having a product to sell. Everyone using LLMs for anything right now is paying FAR under operating costs, and would stop immediately if they weren’t being funded by VC.
- Comment on Anon's best friend is a repper 2 weeks ago:
And as Millennials/Zs/As are umshackled,
They’re not though. They’re very rigidly stuck inside little Identity boxes anyway. You’re automatically “trans coded” if you’re a guy but like dresses, looking pretty and shaving. There’s no reason to make those feminine traits though. Real liberation means we ditch the whole thing.
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 3 weeks ago:
Sure, but those are still “big glass jars full of electricity”
- Comment on E.P.A. Plans to Reconsider a Ban on Cancer-Causing Asbestos | The Trump administration’s move sets back a decades-long effort to end the use of the material, which is widely banned in other countries. 3 weeks ago:
Asbestos is absolutely amazing. It’s super durable, fireproof, an amazing insulation for heat and electricity, it’s abrasion resistant and you can just dig it out of a hole basically for free.
The only teeny tiny downside is that it brutally and painfully kills tens of thousands of people every year, even decades after it was banned.
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 3 weeks ago:
Yes, except you need to buy each bit in a big glass jar
- Comment on Usually helps me out, honestly 3 weeks ago:
A boner being a screw up. As in “being boned” or “a bonehead”. Or of course an erect penis, which would land the Joker in jail.
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 3 weeks ago:
I mean, it would be some 25 years until the radio was invented. And Hertz’ machine required a 30kV spark on a 2.5m meter long antenna with 2 solid 30cm zinc spheres, and his transmission range was something like “barely down the hall”.
Not the most practical method.