Rhaedas
@Rhaedas@fedia.io
- Comment on Time 5 days ago:
"Don't make me angry. You don't want to see me when I'm angry." - Fred Rogers
- Comment on I stil don't know why they thought it was ok to be this on saturday morning cartoons for young kids to watch back on the day. Ren and Stimpy 6 days ago:
Have you seen the price jump for LOG! lately? And people complain about gas prices...
- Comment on 7 things you can do with your old Windows 10 PC instead of trading it in 2 weeks ago:
MacBook 6,1 Core 2 Duo 2.26 13" White Unibody Late 2009
I got lucky, apparently Apple specs say a max of 4GB like so many of the others, but for some reason this odd motherboard will run 8GB. And I can confirm, 8GB works.
- Comment on 7 things you can do with your old Windows 10 PC instead of trading it in 2 weeks ago:
Linux is the way to go if you want to get a few more years out of your hardware.
Not Windows, but I got an almost new laptop out of a MacBook by putting Mint on it (and $15 of more RAM). Its biggest drawback is how much heavier it is than anything new. My next target is jailbreaking an old Chromebook I have.
- Comment on How did old-money people of color maintain their wealth through racist times? 2 weeks ago:
Tulsa and Wilmington are two examples of reactions to black people starting to build themselves up, as per the American Dream.
And as an NC grade school student, do you think Wilmington was mentioned at all in any history class? But we learned all the governor names...
- Comment on tech never works for long 2 weeks ago:
I read the last line that wrapped as "no internet connected" and thought, that's hard core, man.
- Comment on Thanks for coming to my TED talk 3 weeks ago:
The downvote was from cockroach lover. Ew.
- Comment on Whats a good etiquette to show you are doing a U turn in a left turn, so the cars behind you know? 3 weeks ago:
SImple solution is to just go into the turn slow. This gives a hint to the car behind you that you might be doing something beyond a left turn, and reaction time for any traffic that you may have to yield for (whether or not they legally have the right-of-way). Once you start turning more it ought to be obvious.
Of course lots of accidents are from obvious situations that could have been avoided, but not doing a legal U-turn isn't going to fix stupid people.
- Comment on When your partner asks where you learned that 3 weeks ago:
Pro tip - use the whole keyboard.
- Comment on What they took from us 3 weeks ago:
This is, unfortunately, part of nostalgia itself. There's a rare gem that is as good as you remember, but for the most part, your brain lies to you.
This doesn't mean you shouldn't revisit things, just prepare your expectations.
- Comment on Behold: A vibe-designed pcb 3 weeks ago:
Hell, both Gemini and Claude have done well for me in throwing some code together for simple apps, but I still looked it over before running it. I try to do that for even human-made open source code, although at least in principle, if it's been up a while, others have at least tried it and given feedback.
I'm sure this is just a joke or a proof of the issue; you'd have to look at the PDF or whatever it gives and see that something is way off.
And for the record, the best code that I've gotten from an LLM has been the first few runs of an idea, one that was thoroughly explained in the prompt. If you put together a vague prompt and continue to add to it, it will get worse quickly, with the LLM even changing parts that were perfectly fine. Maybe turning the temperature down, if possible, will help with that randomness, but it's always better to keep sessions short and precise.
- Comment on average red state university 3 weeks ago:
Not fully. But I'm not saying gravitational theory doesn't qualify as a theory, I'm just saying we understand evolution very well.
- Comment on average red state university 3 weeks ago:
I'll call. We understand much of how evolution works. Do we really understand how gravity actually works at the core level? There are a few theories, but that's just it; we're not sure, and have different models to try and explain what's going on. Not one.
- Comment on average red state university 3 weeks ago:
It's a miswording. I meant the act of being falsifiable. Testable. If we found something that went totally against the core of the theory and was shown to be factual, we'd have to reconsider what was wrong. But the only debate within evolution are the details, not the main concept, which still hasn't found bunny fossils older than dinosaurs (to use a common example).
- Comment on average red state university 3 weeks ago:
Not a believer, but I recently learned that a correct reading of the original Hebrew doesn't say he created everything. He created the waters and the earth from the void that was already there.
Back to the sign. Dude is making the claim; he has to support it. Evolution is the most proven theory we have, yet it has been falsified over and over. He'd first have to understand the basics of evolutionary theory, which I guarantee he doesn't know; he wouldn't be there if he did.
- Comment on Praise Be 2 months ago:
I guess it's consent. The master/deity or their aide comes to the servant and tells them of master's will, the great plan. The servant says, yeah, okay.
Yet another fail in writing. Why not make it so God and Gabriel give her the choice, and she adamantly agrees? Remove all doubt from the story's plot. Or better yet, add some drama, have Mary unsure, and Gabriel explains the importance (not that it's already planned, but why her choice is key to the direction of salvation and all that). And she with some thought decides to do it.
Oh, right... that would give a woman some agency. Never mind.
- Comment on Praise Be 2 months ago:
No, just debating which set of rules we're playing by.
- Comment on Praise Be 2 months ago:
Yes. it can absolutely be spun that way, as I said. As most anything in the Bible can be. Let me ask this then. Could she have said no? And when would that have happened?
- Comment on Praise Be 2 months ago:
There wasn't consent though. It can be spun that way, but biblically Mary was destined to carry, and screw any free will.
- Comment on Suffer 2 months ago:
It's a weak loss.
- Comment on Forget your astral sign, which Muppet do you want to be? 2 months ago:
Animal was always my spirit animal.
- Comment on An emotional rollercoaster 2 months ago:
That's the "I might be okay" moment, followed by the body's too early, "oh, we're there?" at the last few feet. Sometimes you can distract the mind a bit more by focusing on something else while you make the last steps. A lot like how flying works in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, you have to notice something totally off-topic and forget you're about to hit the ground.
- Comment on More CUDA please 2 months ago:
The "they have played us for absolute fools" line always gets me laughing, even when I don't fully get the setup.
- Comment on Imagine looking at the first picture and thinking thats something to be proud of , lol, its mental illness 3 months ago:
The engineering is incredible. Imagine if it had been applied to a better purpose.
- Comment on My muddahs wake. Jeeshush Chrisht! 3 months ago:
Oddly, it was much like playing Dark Side of the Moon alongside The Wizard of Oz. Everything was in sync and made sense.
- Comment on I still haven't figured out how to do this 3 months ago:
Markdown in the old WordPerfect 5.1 (reveal codes) was a great thing.
- Comment on What should be emoji reaction for "me too" in the general sense 3 months ago:
Some might say thumbs up works for that, but there's also an up or down arrow, which suggests a vote either way.
- Comment on A matter of patience 3 months ago:
The message was not to land there. Clipper is doing a bunch of flybys (to minimize the time in Jupiter's radiation belt and extend the life of the probe). We're good.
- Comment on Scars 3 months ago:
Learned this from a work injury. Even waiting a few hours before you get stitches to pull the gap closer together will leave a scar, albeit a small one. The body doesn't have time to wait on your slow ass; it's repairing right away (once the bleeding stops).
- Comment on A matter of patience 3 months ago:
It's still a few years away, but so excited for the Europa Clipper to get to Jupiter.