knightly
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- Comment on AI Laundromat???? 3 days ago:
Because if they don’t then I won’t use their chatbot.
- Comment on AI Laundromat???? 3 days 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 days 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? 1 week 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 1 week 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? 1 week 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.
- Comment on do they hate money now for some reason?? 2 weeks ago:
Reduced volume is acceptable if it means they’re spending even less on chargebacks and fraud investigations.
- Comment on ASSP's New AI Tool Puts 1,330 Pages of Safety Know-How in Your Pocket 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like an LLM that could have been a PDF.
- Comment on Why can't a liquid move faster than the speed of sound in that medium? 2 weeks ago:
Precisely. It’s those boundary areas where the jet and the medium interact where it gets complicated.
- Comment on Why can't a liquid move faster than the speed of sound in that medium? 3 weeks ago:
Sort of. The speed of light in a vacuum is the speed of causality, nothing can go faster than the maximum speed at which one part of the universe can effect another.
It is possible for fluids to move faster than the speed of sound in the fluid around it, such as the exhaust products of a supersonic jet engine, but in these cases not all of the fluid is operating like a wave. The core of the jet experiences a laminar flow where all of the water is moving in the same direction and at roughly the same speed, like a laser instead of a flashlight. At the boundaries of this laminar flow exists a turbulent region where the fluid interacts with the surrounding medium and is slowed to subsonic speeds.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Mood. I’m doing my best to be the visible enby I never got to see when I was small.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Genuinely. Like; walking to the mailbox when a lost childhood memory resurfaces for no apparent reason and then I’m making smalltalk with the neighbor to distract myself from the bittersweet momemt that’d have me in tears otherwise
Life is so damn beautiful, y’all. There are the horrors, but there is also joy~<3
- Comment on Can you have an infinitely long wavelength of light? Or is there some maximum? 3 weeks ago:
What the two other replies have neglected to mention as the cool side-effect of light affecting the curvature of spacetime despite being massless is that it’s theoretically possible to make a black hole out of nothing but light. The concept is called a “Kugelblitz”, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugelblitz_(astrophysics)
- Comment on Is it weird I don't typically answer how old I am anymore, because literally nobody besides my family believes me? 3 weeks ago:
I’m regularly mistaken for being more than a dozen years younger than I am. =D
- Comment on Microwave Intensifies 3 weeks ago:
Bothto some degree, realistically. I used an old collander as a signal reflector for a wifi dongle on the end of a USB extension cable and was able to boost the signal up to about 4x, or maybe half the range of the purpose-built and highly directional Yagi antenna I eventually bought to replace it.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Best of luck! A slow tapering of the dosage is definitely best for antidepressants.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Mood. I lived with my dysphoria for so long that I didn’t even realize how much of my “normal” was just depression until that first dose of E lifted the weight from my shoulders.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I’m a highly scent-oriented person so I was probably more sensitive to that change than most, but I didn’t realize it was a contributing factor to my dysphoria until that very moment. It’s not that I disliked my old scent, it just never smelled like “me”, y’know?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I definitely didn’t notice any changes in skin texture 'til around week 4 or 5, but the change in my body odor started on like day 6, way sooner than the general timeline would have sugested.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
How humid is the area where they were stored? Is it subject to significant swings in temperature like direct sunlight?
- Comment on Brazil rules that social media platforms are responsible for users’ posts 1 month ago:
It also makes those large corporate platforms unappealing, which is a very good thing for those of us who have always said that federation is a half-step towards proper decentralization.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’m deliberately vague about the form of this help because I think that trying to keep track of who owns what is actively harmful to human society and we should abolish private property entirely.
It won’t help the kleptos so much as it will limit the impact of their offenses to the personal scale rather than industrial or national scales.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
And instead of getting them help with their kleptomania, we built an economy where the richest thieves control the world.
- Comment on AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums 1 month ago:
“In the USA” and “by large portions of the capitalist class” are the answers to your question, I think the previous commenter was just a bit too incredulous because this topic came up in the news lately and they’d expected it to be common knowledge even outside the U.S. since much of the “AI Industry” is involved with U.S. tech companies.
- Comment on It's a good thing they don't actually think lol 1 month ago:
The electricity needed to store data in memory is relatively miniscule next to doing any sort of processing on it
- Comment on Anon wastes time 1 month ago:
Dudes who have more money than sense that risk their trading access and waste hundreds of thousands of dollars just to make paperwork for the world’s (formerly) most cost-effective and most highly armed accounts-receivable department?
Lol, yeah. I want to believe this too. Imagine having the (formerly) cushy government job where you get to process all of this and if you fuck it up then the guy has to prove you wrong to contest your assessment. Hell, I’d audit the guy just to be thorough, that many zero-profit transactions probably smell like money laundering. XD
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Call it a coca-cola.
- Comment on Summer dad bod. 1 month ago:
All of them, lol~.
But for real, I’ve been working in web hosting and related fields for over 15 years and the enshittification is still accelerating. It’s long past time to stop relying on centrally hosted sites and start working on decentralized services.
- Comment on Summer dad bod. 1 month ago:
I’m one of those people! =D
- Comment on Wish I could get free drinks with my shirt off 1 month ago:
I’m enby, taking my shirt off is like flipping a coin.