Rhaedas
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- Comment on Teaching Jordan Peterson That Climate Change Is Real: Part One – SOME MORE NEWS 11 months ago:
And the intelligence of the content coming out.
- Comment on The world if Africa didn't exist 11 months ago:
It would be far different if the land mass of Africa had never existed. The whole tectonic movement would have resulted in different arrangements several supercontinents ago, with their own effects on climate and life itself.
But if Africa just blipped off one day, maybe. Then you have to explore what a sudden loss of land would do to the ocean waters rushing in, the change in Earth rotation due to its mass being shifted, lots of other things.
- Comment on Technically Correct 11 months ago:
This happened to me after a lunch break going back into the court room for jury duty. Didn't think about my soda until I got to the checkpoint, used to the TSA's mentality so figured the rest of it was forfeit. She just tells me to take a drink to show it's valid. Respect for people doing their job correctly, and using common sense.
- Comment on McDonald's Experience by non McDonald's patron. 11 months ago:
Kiosks of any sort can vary, from fast food to grocery to other types. There are some that work well and make self service far faster and easier, and others that routinely have issues. I've never used McD's, but I have used Sheetz a lot before and it flows very well both in displaying the options as well as suggestive selling that isn't in your face and disruptive. As for groceries, Publix has always been perfect for me, while some others not as much. Walmart's is 50/50 on if it will work okay or have some issue.
I wonder if there's a list of what manufacturer supplies what kiosks and a correlation can be made.
Outside of the ordering, McDs has never been the best, but as they've dropped in quality to drive profits and still meet the demand that persists regardless, so have others. My favorite used to be Burger King in the 90s, but I will go to McD instead of stepping foot in a BK at this point, that's how bad they are.
And the stupid thing is, none of them are doing anything much different. The quality doesn't have to be this low in food and service. I can only assume the bottom line is greater if they sacrifice everything needed to keep standards up and maintain just enough to keep a minimum demand flowing.
- Comment on please be nice to retail workers 1 year ago:
And the most common excuse when you point that out..."at least it's something". Which while true, since not everyone gets raises at all, is still robbery.
- Comment on please be nice to retail workers 1 year ago:
Back in my day my first job was $5/hour* and it was fine.
*of course, that would be almost $15 in 2024 dollars
- Comment on Geohydtotypography 1 year ago:
Companion trivia: Can the whole of text of the internet cover the entire Atlantic in 12 point type, and if not yet, when based on how fast it grows?
Secondary question: What font would be best, besides Papyrus?
- Comment on Robert Downey Jr returns to Marvel as Doctor Doom 1 year ago:
Maybe that's the angle they're taking it. Remember that Reed Richards was in a different universe in MoM, and Spider-Mans were different Peters, so...
I have no doubt he can do well with the character, just hope it makes a bit of sense and doesn't feel like they're using RDJ as a selling point to breathe life back into a tired run.
- Comment on I want to donate old work shirts, but I don't want people to be mistaken for employees there. How do I remove the logos? 1 year ago:
Or cut them up and use them as shop towels or whatever before you toss them. At least get a bit more out of them before they contribute to the landfill.
- Comment on Good game soundtracks? 1 year ago:
Elite Dangerous, both original OST and Odyssey (for the planetside background music)
- Comment on Good news everyone 1 year ago:
I can tell you it's probably when they transitioned to frozen dough for the pan pizza vs. mixing it fresh each day. I will say that the frozen wasn't terrible, still better than other chains, but it was not the same as fresh.
- Comment on I'm terrified of the Netherlands now 1 year ago:
Such techniques are often used to sell a conclusion with data that doesn't agree. Scaling, cropping, etc. Visuals are very powerful, and people will look at a graph and assume it's correct.
- Comment on Fortnite Players Band Together to Pick on In-Game Tesla Cybertrucks: 'Destroy on Sight' - IGN 1 year ago:
My first live sighting of one of them I realized how god-awful ugly they really are. Even in some bronze/pewter terrible color. Or maybe it got left in the rain and that's just corrosion.
- Comment on Is there any actual standalone AI software? 1 year ago:
The breaking down I mentioned is the quantization that forms a smaller model from the larger one. I didn't want to get technical because I don't understand the math details myself past how to use them. :)
- Comment on Is there any actual standalone AI software? 1 year ago:
The AI, image, and audio models that can run on a typical PC have all been broken down from originally larger models. How this is done affects what the models can do and the quality, but the open source community has come a long way in making impressive stuff. First question is more hardware - do you have an Nvidia GPU that can support these types of generations? They can be done through CPU alone, but it's painfully much slower.
If so, then I would highly recommend looking into Ollama for running AI models (using WSL if you're using Windows) and ComfyUI for graphical generation. Don't let the workflow of complicated ComfyUI scare you, starting from the basics with plenty of Youtube help out there it will make sense. As for TTS, there's a lot of constant "new stuff" out there, but for actual local processing in "real time" (still takes a bit) I have yet to find anything to replace my Coqui TTS copy with Jenny as the model voice. It may take some digging and work to get that together, it's older and not supported anymore.
- Comment on If global warming is a biproduct of humans, wouldn't the logical answer be to kill 2/3rds of the humans? 1 year ago:
He picks the outcome that's the simplest to explain. But you could explain it as a sadistic goal, because look at what second Thanos wanted to do upon learning the universe didn't appreciate him the first time. Kill it all.
- Comment on If global warming is a biproduct of humans, wouldn't the logical answer be to kill 2/3rds of the humans? 1 year ago:
Neither addresses the problem, they just both push it into the future. Half the population/double the resources isn't even a reasonable amount to give much more time. It's better for drama though, because disappearing 99% or more of the universe would have really set back the Avengers, if any of them made the cut at all.
- Comment on Time Terror 1 year ago:
Most of the Appalachians is now located within the eastern part of the United States as runoff. Imagine how long it took for huge mountains to erode down and wash outwards into the ocean that distance.
And the Appalachians are still young compared to a few other mountain areas around the world.
- Comment on Humans didn't invent agriculture 1 year ago:
Just like cats.
- Comment on Real 1 year ago:
We've got one of their pull around vacuums. Superior product, best vacuum I've ever had in reliability and features.
- Comment on Real 1 year ago:
Good to know. I regularly pull it out and clean the vent with a vent extension brush anyway, once I got a house with a long vent where all sorts of things can settle. Huge fire hazard that most home owners don't even think about. It seems to be catching the lint it ought to be, but perhaps this goes back to the idea that even in a line of product you can have good and bad machines made.
- Comment on Real 1 year ago:
I like our used Samsung dryer. For basic drying. It has all those other bells and whistles that I don't care about, but it's done well for years. That damn finished drying tune though...with the option to turn it off or...not turn it off. omg
- Comment on Real 1 year ago:
We bought our current car used years ago with a similar philosophy - it was the first year of a new change, and they hadn't changed or recalled anything in the few following years. Combine that with a one car owner locally, and it obviously was a good buy at 17 years old running strong.
But I will say even the best car makes, models, and years have their lemons. You have to look hard at each car's history and evidence to really win. We got pretty lucky.
- Comment on Hello I think you'll love this house. 1 year ago:
What a ride that is, especially for Doom players going in blind.
- Comment on I will not be taking questions. 1 year ago:
Depends on the cat. If they're simply going with tapping the roll to spin it, that may work for a bit. I've found that rolls accessible to a cat tend to morph into big balls of clawed unusable pulp.
- Comment on I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don't usually do. I got Domino's smallest size with two toppings. I got her cheese sticks and two sauces and tipped the driver 20%. $31.07. 1 year ago:
Yes, there is a low unemployment number. As with the rest, you haven't validated that it's a good measure of the current state of things. It's arguably never been.
- Comment on I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don't usually do. I got Domino's smallest size with two toppings. I got her cheese sticks and two sauces and tipped the driver 20%. $31.07. 1 year ago:
Yes, definitely increased some. Where's the rest of the data, such as part time or unemployed, or even population growth? Like I said, a single number means not so much without context. But it's an impressive graph.
- Comment on I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don't usually do. I got Domino's smallest size with two toppings. I got her cheese sticks and two sauces and tipped the driver 20%. $31.07. 1 year ago:
Curious what shift there has been in full time/part time numbers. Full time wages going up is great for those who are experiencing it, but if there are less actual full timers, is that an improvement?
The art of a good statistician is to make sure what their numbers are saying is an actual reflection of reality. I'm not saying this graph is falsified, I don't know. But numbers can be made to say anything. I learned this years ago in arguments about what "unemployment" meant. It's much more complex than a single number, but a single number is used in the media because it's easier to paint the picture wanted.
- Comment on Ticketmaster breach, beaches in general 1 year ago:
I've come to the conclusion that all these breach notices and the free stuff they offer for X months is a huge scam to get you sign up up for something. Either that, or every company has woefully underpaid/incompetent IT people. I'm waiting for the next news story to break on another company that somehow got passwords or identity info hacked that was stored in plain text...something I learned how to not do back in the 90s with basic HTML and PHP.
- Comment on I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don't usually do. I got Domino's smallest size with two toppings. I got her cheese sticks and two sauces and tipped the driver 20%. $31.07. 1 year ago:
The issue isn't the prices. It's that the prices go up but income doesn't. Get out the pitchforks, but let's go after the real villains.