OhNoMoreLemmy
@OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Why do tires have the width and diameter they do? 1 week ago:
Yeah, try riding a folding bike with small wheels, you wobble a lot more.
The high inertia has a stabilizing effect.
- Comment on Why do tires have the width and diameter they do? 1 week ago:
I think it only holds if it’s a magic engine that always his the same max RPM regardless of load, and the transmission is the same.
Otherwise the top land speed record would be held by a monster truck.
- Comment on Why do tires have the width and diameter they do? 1 week ago:
The answer is rolling resistance.
Tires stick to road which is great for accelerating and breaking, but it makes maintaining your top speed harder. This doesn’t matter if you have a big engine, but it makes a difference if you’re cycling.
For a road bike, you want to minimize the contact area of the tire with the road so you have very narrow tires and inflated a lot so that they don’t deform much under your weight.
The type and width of tires changes depending on what you’re riding on. For off road you have wide knobbly tires that will catch in mud and push you forward. For riding on a beach you have very wide smooth tires for traveling over sand.
- Comment on BREAKING: Canary debanked by Lloyds 1 week ago:
Yeah, but that was when he was dropped by a high net-worth bank for being insufficiently high net-worth.
He just pretended he was being cancelled.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Oh he’s just using an LLM to write all the posts. That’s why it’s garbage.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Interesting. The story in the west was that the translation for silksong was shit and that’s what pissed everyone off.
- Comment on Is there a sublemmy where people suggest ideas for a sublemmy? specifically, a sublemmy to review fediverse instances. 4 weeks ago:
I think the idea is create the community, add some initial content, and then post about it on !newcommunities@lemmy.world
- Comment on The Joker 5 weeks ago:
I had never realized how much Halle Berry looks like Zoolander till I saw the third picture.
- Comment on London Marathon: Choir dropped by charity Scope over founder's gender-critical views 2 months ago:
"Because of my views - and they’re lawfully held views - they are missing out on this opportunity, and that’s the part that is absolutely galling.
And it’s also a lawfully held view for scope to think she’s so terrible that they want nothing to do with her.
Fucking coward. If your only justification for your views is that it’s “lawfully held” you need to admit to yourself that you’re a bad person.
- Comment on Look at this photograph 2 months ago:
Man looks like a cross between Jimmy Savile and Ian Watkins.
It’s like he’s been generically engineered to fiddle kids.
- Comment on MMMMMM SLOOOP 3 months ago:
JD Vance confirmed to be in the next Minecraft.
- Comment on If I hear "% is a mathematical operator" one more time... 5 months ago:
I’m not being funny but it can be both.
Square root is an operator that maps a number to the positive number that when squared returns the original number, but there is also a square root symbol.
Similarly, % can be an operator that maps a number x to x/100, but there’s also a percent symbol.
It just depends if you’re talking about functions or fonts.
- Comment on welp 5 months ago:
: “What should I have to give thee! Let me rather hurry hence lest I take aught away from thee!”-
- Comment on pro choice 5 months ago:
Congrats, the game is now non-finite (you can just keep drawing forever).
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 6 months ago:
Nah, you can actually see some of them developing AI psychosis.
medium.com/…/this-prominent-vc-investor-just-had-…
You’ve got to understand that most AI execs aren’t technical people, they’re hype men. And LLMs are weirdly good at hype and the illusion of technical correctness. So they don’t have a problem with it.
Sam Altman saying he uses chatgpt to tell him how to act with his baby is one of the things he’s said I actually believe. Of course he’s also a got a team of nannies he couldn’t be bothered to mention, but the trust for chatgpt is there.
- Comment on One slur to rule them all 6 months ago:
No, you just use a standard technique like word2vec.
Basically words are considered similar (and embedded to nearby locations in a high dimensional space) if they are likely to be used in the same context.
And because slurs are used to indicate that you don’t like someone, they tend to occur in the same kind of context.
So they’re all very similar. This is actual natural language processing being used, but it’s a shit post and the graphics aren’t very clear.
- Comment on Maybe there's seagulls, maybe they're just crazy 7 months ago:
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- Comment on IT'S A TRAP 9 months ago:
Bottom has infinite density and will collapse into a black hole killing everyone, and destroying the tram and lever.
- Comment on Real Talk 10 months ago:
I’m amazed a reviewer read the code.
- Comment on Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act verification rules 10 months ago:
This is actually a Tory policy, where the law was passed by the previous Tory government and came into force under labour.
That’s not a get out of jail card, because they could have stopped it, and instead choose to continue it, just like they continued the NHS anti trans policies. Or the way they choose to continue the same austerity budget rules.
At this point, I’d say they’re exactly as right wing as the Tories.
- Comment on Cyclist injuries dropped by half after “hated” cycle lane installed, but mayor still claims scrapped lane largely used as “bike run” for drug dealers to “get through traffic" 10 months ago:
There’s a contingent of very vocal minicab drivers and tradesmen that constantly complain about sharing the road.
This kind of being a dick to cyclists plays well with them.
- Comment on Manhattan Prosecutor Who Handled Epstein Cases Is Fired 11 months ago:
I smell a book deal coming.
Don’t fire people you need to help with a cover up. It’s basically rule 1 of successful conspiracies.
- Comment on Oh Kurt Gödel, you lovable logician freak. 11 months ago:
Everytime the supreme Court does something batshit that allows Trump more power, I wonder if this is what Godel was worried about.
- Comment on Anon likes a thing 1 year ago:
Ok, so yes it was cool. But even when it first came out the people that were really into it were weird.
- Comment on Does vibe coding sort of work at all? 1 year ago:
You absolutely can’t use LLMs for anything big unless you learn to code.
Think of an LLM as a particularly shit builder. You give them a small job and maybe 70% of the time they’ll give you something that works. But it’s often not up to spec, so even if it kinda works you’ll have to tell them to correct it or fix it yourself.
The bigger the job is and the more complex the more ways they have to fuck it up. This means in order to use them, you have to break the problem down into small sub tasks, and check that the code is good enough for each one.
Can they be useful? Sometimes yes, it’s quicker to have an AI write code than for you to do it yourself, and if you want something very standard it will probably get it right or almost right.
But you can’t just say ‘write me an app’ and expect it to be useable.
- Comment on Some worms have bones. 1 year ago:
The Anti-Defamation League notes that though the symbol is popular with white supremacists, imagery resembling the black sun features in many cultures, and that such imagery should always be analyzed in the context in which it appears, as it may not necessarily be intended to serve as a symbol of white supremacy or racism.
i just googled it. Apparently they’re just really into star wars, and didn’t realize about the Nazi symbol until it was too late.
- Comment on EHRC commissioner calls for trans people to accept reduced rights 1 year ago:
There’s a bunch of women specific legislation in the equality act as well.
For example, it allows for the existence of women only spaces which include gyms, refuges and toilets.
If you say that women is used in its biological sense, you’re saying that trans men can use these spaces but trans women can’t.
However, the ehrc is going full terf and saying that despite the ruling that women is used in its biological sense, they think that all trans people should be prohibited from using some of these spaces.
- Comment on EHRC commissioner calls for trans people to accept reduced rights 1 year ago:
The EHRC are political appointments that were selected for agreeing with the politics of the previous government.
That’s why they sound like anti trans activists.
The whole thing needs to be burnt down. There’s no room for political appointees in legal bodies.
- Comment on Anon misses the classic design 1 year ago:
So which existing training should we cut to make time for sling practice?
- Comment on Anon misses the classic design 1 year ago:
Because you have to learn to use a sling and if you’re not good you’re much more likely to blow yourself up.
You could probably come up with a more idiot friendly version though some kind of fabric sock where you just launch the whole thing