porous_grey_matter
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- Comment on Numbers (I Can Only Count to Four) 1 day ago:
that’s ok you can still generate a CA cert
- Comment on Anon joins girl's night 1 week ago:
Did you know that sometimes girls have sex with each other too?
- Comment on Anon joins girl's night 1 week ago:
Wait, does that mean bigoted lesbians are dishonourable plumbers?
- Comment on Anon isn't worried about population decline 1 week ago:
it’s almost like you have your answer already
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
unsurprisingly, many do
- Comment on Moralizing scarcity 2 weeks ago:
There are incredible restaurants in Australia for sure, but there isn’t really a national cuisine identity overall, distinct from the Anglosphere in general. Of course there are some distinctly Australian foods, but the largest category is basically “European dish with some native/local ingredient” - which can be extremely delicious but isn’t really that different from e.g. NZ, or even North America, and basically all comes from French and English restaurant culture. Aboriginal food culture isn’t really celebrated at all (beyond what I mentioned above) and even the immigrant food cultures which are more beloved (e.g. Greek and Italian) haven’t really fused into the mainstream, but are still largely relegated to the “cheap takeaways” category. So idk. On the one hand, you’re totally right that you can get awesome food, but I think the criticism stems from a valid place even if the people who parrot it don’t really know what they’re talking about.
- Comment on Launch of UK’s ‘largest AI supercomputer’ delayed by power supply problems 3 weeks ago:
lol, lmao even
- Comment on Actually... 5 weeks ago:
It’s rare that “not always accurate” and “expensive” are both acceptable in a tool. They fail on two axes of the fast/good/cheap spectrum so I still think it’s an extremely niche tool, unlike a hammer which still fulfills an extremely common need for relatively little money.
- Comment on Actually... 5 weeks ago:
Kinda sounds like most tools
Most tools do have obvious uses, like screwdrivers.
- Comment on Actually... 5 weeks ago:
They are a tool but they aren’t really like any other. They’re only rarely useful and have massive negative externalities.
- Comment on never forget 5 weeks ago:
The pentagon doesn’t need any excuse for missing money, they aren’t audited, the missing money is out in the open
- Comment on never forget 5 weeks ago:
Orrrrr… They and everyone else have had twenty-five years to consider your nonsense and it’s boring and distracting from important things
- Comment on Just a little more compute ... 5 weeks ago:
Have we really become so lazy that we don’t even want to learn a minimum of a programming language
It’s worse than that. I’ve seen people who used to be good programmers, writing complicated FPGA data processing applications, reduced to barely being able to read simple python scripts and making extremely beginner mistakes when they ever have to change a line of code themselves.
- Comment on Languages have rules and follow predictable patterns. French: 5 weeks ago:
Not really, even that has almost completely fallen out of use. Everything except people and anthropomorphized animals like pets are ‘it’; nobody’s going around calling ships and newspapers ‘she’ anymore except people holding on to extremely quaint historical oddity.
- Comment on Boy dinner 1 month ago:
coke isn’t great for you, sure once in a while won’t kill you but it’s probably similarly bad to alcohol. also the supply chain is really unethical. ket sure fine.
- Comment on Food served to US service men & women. 1 month ago:
Yeah no, I completely agree they still did loads of very evil stuff, it’s just the last time that they did any thing that was somehow helpful
- Comment on Rich ppl live longer 1 month ago:
Yeah but these (usually flawed) studies that have wormed their way into the public consciousness were done long before gen z was drinking age. From up-to-date information it’s pretty clear that any amount of any kind of alcohol is quite bad for you. Obviously increasing with quantity.
- Comment on Food served to US service men & women. 1 month ago:
The last time the US military did anything not evil was WWII and that was not really by choice. It’s their fault they were told to do stupid shit because they have at least three generations of murder as examples they could have looked at.
- Comment on Jimmy Neutron confirmed Chad? 1 month ago:
It is because of the hydrogen, but it’s not really to do with the mass, but rather because a “collision”/interaction is much more likely. For instance, ^58^Ni has the same likelihood to interact as hydrogen, while deuterium has only a fifth. ^135^Xe meanwhile has some millions of times the absorption power of hydrogen and it’s quite a lot heavier. It’s just not very practical as an absorber.
- Comment on What's yall's favourite Pythagoras quotes? 1 month ago:
Why is it called the Pythagorean theorem and not the Babylonian theorem then, huh, smart guy? Checkmate atheists.
- Comment on America needs a moratorium on AI data centers 1 month ago:
it might be even less flattering to suggest they only know it because of sportsball lol
- Comment on Uh-Oh 1 month ago:
I’m not into that lol, I just don’t have pretences that my feelings are based on absolute mortality.
- Comment on Uh-Oh 1 month ago:
Eating meat isn’t a necessity to stay alive, or be healthy in any way, plenty of entire cultures don’t do it. Keep deluding yourself my friend. The conflict isn’t mysterious, it’s just narcissism. You just find post hoc rationalisations for things that you like or don’t like, and decide it must be based on some kind of fundamental morality. It’s exactly right-wing extremist logic.
- Comment on Uh-Oh 1 month ago:
That’s a real sheep take. If a lot of people do it then it’s normal human behaviour. If you wanna apply some prescriptive values to that based on some moral ideas you have and say that common behaviour is wrong you’re gonna need to be consistent about the consequences. If you’re justifying your idea of its wrongness in terms of sentience and consent you can’t just then drop that for the thing that you like to do. Either you’ve got values or you don’t.
- Comment on Uh-Oh 1 month ago:
So you are a committed vegan, right? Since imposing confinement, forced impregnation and slaughter on unconsenting animals in real life is clearly a lot worse than wanting to fuck them in a fantasy.
- Comment on just temporarily embarrassed billionaires, one good idea or lottery ticket from making it rich 2 months ago:
Haha, 5 million? They would do that for 50k, a fancy dinner and a first class plane ticket.
- Comment on onions 2 months ago:
Indian food uses loads of onions
- Comment on 92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an… 2 months ago:
Sorry but I doubt it. Brits are really not good at standing up for themselves. They are replacing it with an American style system, just a little bit at a time. In the last 30 years it’s come about half way, and it might take another couple decades to really finish the job, but I think it’s likely they’ll succeed in the end.
- Comment on Anon is an imposter 3 months ago:
Sure. I consider myself a fairly good dev. Not an amazing genius or anything but pretty competent in my area. Wouldn’t have a clue how a load balancer works beyond what’s in the name, I guess it balances loads. I can assume it does this by distributing requests to different servers because that just makes sense, but I don’t even really know that. Networking might as well be black magic as far as I’m concerned. I’m grateful we have a decent infra team who knows about all that. So I’m not surprised.
- Comment on I wonder why the world is on fire? A mystery 3 months ago:
Yeah, so it can possibly go wrong, instead of being guaranteed to go wrong.