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- Comment on Found this in a workplace toilet today 22 hours ago:
Yes, that makes sense. Not dissolve in the technical sense of form a solution in water, but more of the layperson sense of “disintegrate” into that paper slurrey and not cause blockages in pipes.
We all know that if you have too much paper and not enough water, it will block a pipe. But given typical usage, it should be safe for USA-code pipes since it disintegrates into that “slurrey.”
TIL that the water treatment plant screens it out and disposes of it! I imagine this is part of the process where they screen out other solids as well
- Comment on Found this in a workplace toilet today 1 day ago:
Are you in USA?
- Comment on Found this in a workplace toilet today 1 day ago:
In the USA anyway toilet paper is legally required to dissolve in water within a certain time frame. Maybe this is not the case in other countries
- Comment on Any advice appreciated 1 day ago:
- Comment on [Tech Connections] Alkaline batteries are obsolete — but not for the reason you'd think [30:18] 1 week ago:
Especially with Halloween, i found that most of my LED blinky light decorations took AA or AAA batteries, and did not like the rechargeable nimh batteries at all. Dim lights and got dimmer, fast. So for LEDs, maybe alkaline is best.
- Comment on Man who ran over cyclist and dragged him under car for a mile convicted of murder 1 week ago:
Horrifying
A motorcyclist followed a trail of blood from the collision spot and discovered Mullins alone and barely breathing on the grass verge, the court heard. Emergency services attended but were unable to save Mullins, from Northwich, Cheshire, who died from multiple injuries.
- Comment on Is "On your left" the best thing to say when passing someone on a trail? 1 week ago:
Agreed, except in personal experience even a bell can be startling/agressive to some people, but what else can you do.
- Comment on "It’s time to come back to Firefox. The Internet you loved is still here." - Firefox brings together people from famous internet memes in the 2000s in a new marketing push 2 weeks ago:
You say, while adding content to an alternative part of the internet!
- Comment on Sean Connery in 1964 (on the set of Goldfinger) and Thomas Brodie-Sangster in 2024. Both age 34 in their respective photos. 2 weeks ago:
Oh! Welp
- Comment on Sean Connery in 1964 (on the set of Goldfinger) and Thomas Brodie-Sangster in 2024. Both age 34 in their respective photos. 2 weeks ago:
Was he in the infantry?
- Comment on Sean Connery in 1964 (on the set of Goldfinger) and Thomas Brodie-Sangster in 2024. Both age 34 in their respective photos. 2 weeks ago:
Re: the other comment, isn’t it weird how people just come up to you on the internet, and say, “hey, I’m an asshole, block me!” That’s weird.
- Comment on Every Briton should stockpile water and food supplies, government advises 2 weeks ago:
Zombie apocalypse?
- Comment on What is Kratom? A friend of the family just died today. And that was the last thing he was using. Is it like K2? What type of high is it? 2 weeks ago:
Thank you for sharing this. I knew him from his video about English exams. Didn’t know he got addicted. Powerful stuff
- Comment on The walls have eyes... erm.... ears! 2 weeks ago:
Years ago,
[Bad Russian accent] In Soviet Rrrussia, TV watches you!
- Comment on Did they rename "hipster" to "millennial optimist"? 2 weeks ago:
Hipsters were so cynical though. Is “optimism” ironic
- Comment on The electric boogaloo 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Why don't communities build massive gardens for food? That way it would undercut the price of big retail stores. 3 weeks ago:
Not dismissing it, just want to tell OP it is hard work and takes a lot of time!
- Comment on I have to give a presentation in 15 minutes 3 weeks ago:
We need to know!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Uh huh
- Comment on AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary. 3 weeks ago:
This is all very new to me, but I think I get what you’re saying. Could I ask you to check my understanding of this part?
but i was able to build clean specs from that source, and then with as clean of context of possible, stage the production and testing of features.
Does this mean that Civ 4 has its source available – and you fed it into the LLM and asked it for a human -readable design spec for what the source code does.
Then you took that spec sheet and asked a new LLM to generate source code that matches the spec sheet, with some modifications you desired (e.g. 64 bit and different controls).
I guess i have a follow up question which is, is it possible that the Civ IV source code was included in the training data of the LLM, and would there be any way to know?
Thanks for considering
- Comment on AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary. 3 weeks ago:
Could they do this to port vintage old mac games?
- Comment on NOT SEEKING MEDICAL ADVICE. Doctors can prescribe a whole host of "downers" like xanax, methadone, the whole benzo family. Is there any uppers they can prescribe? 4 weeks ago:
Holy, that almost sounds worse than nausea
Until i remember how bad nausea is
- Comment on NOT SEEKING MEDICAL ADVICE. Doctors can prescribe a whole host of "downers" like xanax, methadone, the whole benzo family. Is there any uppers they can prescribe? 4 weeks ago:
One thing i don’t understand is in what cases does literal meth have to be prescribed, and why? (Desoxyn)
- Comment on NOT SEEKING MEDICAL ADVICE. Doctors can prescribe a whole host of "downers" like xanax, methadone, the whole benzo family. Is there any uppers they can prescribe? 4 weeks ago:
What’s that
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Obligatory
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Which is it, guardian?
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- Comment on What is your interesting fact or knowledge that is completely useless that you wish to share? 4 weeks ago:
Tolkein came up with the broad strokes of the simarillion and other parts of his legendarium decades before thinking about hobbits.
He also had an incredible saga involving Santa, a talking polar bear, and the North Pole that he made for his children in letters.
- Comment on What is your interesting fact or knowledge that is completely useless that you wish to share? 4 weeks ago:
What do you mean by objective? If i say that vegetables are things contained in this list: {carrot, potato} and nothing else, wouldn’t this be an objective definition of my own making?
If i say that fish are all members of the monophyletic group of vertebrates, including hagfish, reptiles, birds, and humans, but not including tunicates, that is also an objective definition.
I think you mean that these things don’t have a universal generally-accepted definitions, as reasonable people might use “fish” and “vegetable” to mean very different things in different contexts.
They can still be valid and useful definitions, it is still useful to talk about eating a healthy diet of fruits and vegetables, but the definitions are fuzzy until you specify them for a specific context.
- Comment on What is your interesting fact or knowledge that is completely useless that you wish to share? 4 weeks ago:
Berry, why not!
But not apples or peaches
- Comment on What is your interesting fact or knowledge that is completely useless that you wish to share? 4 weeks ago:
Up up it goes
But never grows
