knightly
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- Comment on I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it? 14 hours ago:
Move to Washington D.C. or Cheyenne Wyoming, if you’re inside the blast radius then you won’t have to live to see the world end.
- Comment on How do you "feel" gender? 1 week ago:
As an enby who’s best described as “the polar opposite of an agender person”, I experience gender both intrinsically and extrinsically. Dysphoria is a good example of the former; I used to have a deep and profoundly uncomfortable sense of “wrongness” about my body, like the feeling of wearing your shoes on the wrong feet but for skin texture, body odor, the shape of one’s hands, vocal pitch, etc etc etc.
Extrinsically, I’m mostly seen as a guy, which can be irritating when it results in getting called “Sir”, or a pleasant experience when someone recognizes that I’m not one of the guys.
- Comment on Sea Level 1 week ago:
Maybe‽
We don’t have much of a basis for comparison outside of our solar system just yet, but we should have better data soon.
And it being “normal” would just make it more science fictiony. =D
- Comment on Sea Level 2 weeks ago:
Our planet is scifi as hell. We’ve got natural magnetic shielding to protect our UV-blocking ozone layer from solar winds. This planet is so damn cozy<3
- Comment on well I take the gremlin 4 weeks ago:
Same
- Comment on Hiking survival gear 1 month ago:
She does at least have a trash bag on her, so she might be OK if she polices those cups effectively. =/
- Comment on What types of cleaning products do you *really* need to clean the bathroom? 1 month ago:
Any kind of soap for basic cleaning, but you don’t can substitute water and elbow grease in a pinch.
For sanitizing, get a hypochlorite generator. They’re cheap (you can get them on Amazon for less than $25), and use electricity to turn a pinch of salt and some water into the same dilute bleach solution that Hospitals use to sanitize surfaces.
- Comment on She's out of town and I'm cleaning her entire collection as a surprise 1 month ago:
Unvarnished stainless steel can be non-stick if you use it right.
- Comment on What are you ladies doing tonight 2 months ago:
I want to hack one of these machines so I can dial in a precise and repeatable mix. =3
- Comment on Vampire Survivors-like Megabonk makes megabucks, selling a million copies in 2 weeks, and currently has more daily players than Borderlands 4 on Steam 2 months ago:
I have, and you’re absolutely correct. There’s shades of Tribes in the momentum mechanics and something about them tickles my pathfinding brain something fierce. My biggest request would be a less-punishing endless mode so I can play around with the maps and builds more leisurely.
- Comment on Been there 2 months ago:
I interpreted the “beautiful starry night” in the context where most of the populated world lives under so much light pollution you can barely see any stars…
- Comment on What are You Working on Wednesday 2 months ago:
SSL expiration monitoring scripts.
- Comment on Mmmm... Yeah. It checks out. 2 months ago:
Mow
- Comment on Become irresistible to women 3 months ago:
[Groundskeeper Willie Meme]
Damn taxonomists, they’ve ruined taxonomy! XD
- Comment on What is with this new generation of shooters writing stuff on the bullets? Is this some new fad like if I go deer hunting or something I write FUCK BAMBI on the bulllet? 3 months ago:
No, he’s just the one who gets credit for it.
- Comment on Did I used to be homophobic? Am I? 3 months ago:
Whether it’s a choice or something that was imposed upon them isn’t really relevant, deprogramming either case needs therapy with some extra steps.
- Comment on What is with this new generation of shooters writing stuff on the bullets? Is this some new fad like if I go deer hunting or something I write FUCK BAMBI on the bulllet? 3 months ago:
Luigi showed the world that if you write your manifesto on your ammo then the media will spread it everywhere.
- Comment on For people who relocated: when did you realize you want to live in the new place long-term & why? 3 months ago:
I realized I wanted to stop living in Texas the first time I traveled outside of the state in my early teens.
I tried once in my 20’s, but I was too homesick for my partners to leave them behind. It took another 15 years after that point before the universe conspired to let me move to Colorado and bring them with me.
- Comment on What is "human husbandry" called 4 months ago:
Parenting
- Comment on Valve continue building up their new game Deadlock with a big update with six new heroes 4 months ago:
Who is this game for? Mobas are so 2007…
- Comment on Air Canada flight attendants to defy back-to-work order and remain on strike 4 months ago:
Counterpoint, everyone doing hourly work should be paid starting the moment they begin their commute, plus half an hour of prep time.
- Comment on Just watched this video yesterday called "we're not ready for superintelligence" Is there any truth to it? 4 months ago:
Whoops, slipped a couple of digits. XD
- Comment on "Multiple" future Hardspace projects are coming, as Hardspace: Shipbreaker devs Blackbird Interactive take full ownership 4 months ago:
Both of these are very good ideas.
Getting multiplayer to work well sounds like a very real challenge, given that the physics are complicated enough to slow the game to a crawl when a core blows.
- Comment on Just watched this video yesterday called "we're not ready for superintelligence" Is there any truth to it? 4 months ago:
IMO, it is a zero risk because superintelligence isn’t real.
Corporations want digital slaves so they can stop paying for human labor, but human-equivalent intelligence requires human-brain-equivalent compute. It can’t be done any easier, because if it could then something on earth would have evolved brains which use that more efficient algorithm.
The human brain costs about 10 watts of energy to run. Simulating an entire brain in real time would require more compute than the world’s fastest supercomputer, El Capitan, which costs about 30,000 watts of energy to run.
They’d need to model a digital brain with a digital body in a digital environment and then train it to perform the desired task, all the while justifying the billions of dollars being spent on the project as somehow leading towards something better than just paying a human to do it.
- Comment on AI Laundromat???? 4 months ago:
Because if they don’t then I won’t use their chatbot.
- Comment on AI Laundromat???? 4 months ago:
how much more for the product/service would you be willing to pay for a human operator on the other side or conversely, how cheap would the non-human supported product/service have to be for you to choose it over the more expensive human supported option?
Better question, how much is a company willing to pay me to use an LLM instead of going to one of their competitors?
Because if the answer is insultingly small then I’m not patronizing them.
- Comment on beaver girls rise 4 months ago:
I know precisely one beaver furry and they are more girl-ish than girl. XD
- Comment on Is it okay to cover the outside of a microwave in aluminum to prevent or lessen microwave WiFi interference? 5 months ago:
Short answer is “Yes but your mileage may vary”.
Actually blocking microwaves effectively requires more than just a sheet of aluminum foil, but it’s a start: haitmfg.com/microwave-shielding-materials/
- Comment on She's a keeper 5 months ago:
Aka “jogging pants”, “lounge pants”, “tracksuit bottoms”, “trackies”, “tracky daks”, or “trackpants”.
They’re a kind of soft trousers or loose leggings worn typically for comfort or athletic purposes.
- Comment on If you had 1 dollar and 24 hours what would you do? 5 months ago:
Give away the dollar to the first homeless person I see and then spend 24 hours in search of a hangout with a good vibe.