JayDee

@JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Geneticists⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Geneticists are like AI devs IMO. Sitting on the cutting edge of human capabilities, hoping to make the world a better place, while careening humanity into an even worse dystopia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon loves The Lord of the Rings⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Minecraft. Star Fox 64. Pokemon Stadium.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hottie without a body⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What a hilarious name to give it. Granted ‘Man-o-war’ is also very funny for a thing that mostly just floats around and stings you if you swim into it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Liar⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can't boss me around you're not my real dad⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a hand-crank drill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨p is for pHunky⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s actually an interesting one.

  The ‘p’ could have a different meaning for a variety of languages. ‘Puissance’ in French, ‘Potenz’ in German, ‘potential’ or ‘power’ in English, ‘pondus’ or ‘potentia’ in Latin, or ‘Potens’ in Danish (probably the Danish one originally, since it was a Danish chemist who first introduced the measurement).

  It’s very fun that because of the vagueness, various languages can have its meaning directly translated to their own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PLASTICMAXXING⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is my bad, not explaining this clearly.

  Our formations of plastics usually utilizes petroleum products being formed into long polymeric chains. That’s what provides the pliable, even stretchy nature of many plastics. However, we don’t make all plastics out of petroleum - we also use resin mixtures and various other chemical processes for specialized plastics - PLA, for instance, is synthesized from plant starch, for instance. So, when we’re talking about ‘plastics’, we’re usually talking about petroleum products, but it includes other long-polymer-chain materials we artificially synthesize.

  Having covered that, Teflon is often called a forever chemical, but it’s a chemical which we synthesize into long prouder chains so we can attach it to the surface of things. It’s how pans are non-stick, gore-tex is waterproof, and how many food containers are grease-proof. I am of the view that perflourochemicals classify as plastics because of that. And the reason it’s so pervasive everywhere is the same reason all other microplastics are everywhere: it chips off. You use a metal spatula on a nonstick pan - bam, stray Perflourochemicals, as tiny little solid microplastic flecks. And everything points to them not being inert to human health.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PLASTICMAXXING⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Another link talking about the case. It was confirmed that the chemical at high concentration in the water was PFOA, which is the percursor to Teflon, and which was leaking from the factory site. It has the same effects as other perfluorinated carbines (PFCs). It is also the exact chemical group that we’ve been testing peoples’ blood for, PFOA and other PFCs. It’s the group of chemicals we’ve found strong links to various types of cancers. Research communicates that it is not inert in the body as a microplastic.

  It is 100% the reason those cows withered and died like they did. it directly lines up with everything else we know about PFOA. The concentrations were higher than anywhere else, which explains why the cows died so rapidly. The only reason we don’t have complete confirmation is from DuPont meddling to try and downplay this, the same way the meddled by witholding their research on the health risks of PFCs, and the same way they stayed silent and didn’t act when the alarm was sounded by that Parkersburg farmer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PLASTICMAXXING⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The water surrounding DuPont plants manufacturing PFOA-based materials was contaminated with those plastics. A local farmer videotaped his cows develop ulcers, grow tumors, and eventually wither and die. He constantly insisted that something was in the water that was killing his cows. Those same chemicals are now pervasive everywhere, in everyone’s bodies to some extent. It is 100% accurate to say these chemical compounds will kill you longterm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opinions on the internet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a reference to the Khmer Rouge Genocide. This included people being killed for wearing glasses, speaking a foreign language, or anything else which indicated they were an intellectual.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨originality⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the other species the Western Highland Gorilla(Agorilla gorilla gorilla)?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IRS Makes Direct File Software Open Source After Trump Tried to Kill It⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Based IRS. So the torch will need to be carried by open source devs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Faculty, any day⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine’s gotta be The Brothers’ Grimm staring Matt Damon and Heath Ledger. It’s the same camp vibe as the Van Helsing movie starring Hugh Jackman, but there’s no badass super hero to save the day - there’s just a bunch of imperfect people trying their best, and it’s almost entirely by luck or destiny that they snatch victory from the clutches of defeat. It’s also one of the most morbid depictions of childish horror i’ve seen on-screen, where it gives no fucks about being realistic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨👁👅👁⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s a diagram of how anteaters store their tongues as well!

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨👁👅👁⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That tongue is for excavating insects out of wood right? That’s very interesting that it also uses it for annoying other animals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨\(　・ω・)/⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh emoji sea snail! Image It’s fake. Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI agents outperform human teams in hacking competitions⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, uh, Palisade. Maybe it’s a bad idea to be training AI systems to hack? Like having the ability to just pump out automated hack-bots that outperform human hackers is kind of a terrible idea that could lead to a computer-internet infrastructure collapse at worst?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨faen⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘Oh boy, I can’t wait for that new indie action film “Fullført informatikk” to release!’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never Forget. Please dear god don't forget⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t worry, Ralph. It won’t hurt. You won’t even register it happening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MEGA PENGUIN⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Based on that description, that dude on the right is a tall fella.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Been a long century⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t fool me. If a sink was at my door, it’d knock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays vidya with the bros⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Comfort him. Let him know that he’s not a leper all of a sudden for having a moment of vulnerability. Listen. Make sure that they understand that they’re heard.

  These are pretty basic forms of emotional labor that go a long way in helping folks, and can even save lives at times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays vidya with the bros⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You usually don’t choose when you have a mental breakdown. The big thing here is that he crashed out and not a single one of his friends cared about his wellbeing enough to try and help. Just got told to go to a doctor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am bereaved⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not exactly the only one. What dobyou think, $, %, &, @, and © classify as? They’re all logographs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nyet⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So first, let’s talk about chiral shapes so that definition is covered. Your left and right shoes are chiral mirror images of one another, since they are clearly like one another, but there’s no way to rotate them to make a right shoe turn into a left shoe. Another example, this time of a 2D chiral object, would be a spiral. A spiral spins either clockwise or counter clockwise, and no rotation in a 2D space can change that. You need to rotate the spiral in a 3rd dimension to get it to become its mirror image. You might do the same to a shoe, but you’d have to rotate it in a 4th dimension since it’s a 3D object.

  So a good test of orientabilIty is this: take a lesser-dimensioned chiral shape and traverse it along the shape of choice. If there exists no traversal which can make the chiral object look like its mirror image, then the shape is orientable. This can also be said as the shape having clockwise and anti-clockwise as distinct directions. Both the Möbius strip and the Klein bottle are non-orientable because they can convert lesser-dimensional chiral objects into their mirror images.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Comfy cozy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This would be a trash way to take down a drone. You would have to now where the camera is exactly on the drone and then manage to shine the laser directly into that camera long enough to damage it. As distance grows between you and the drone, that time to damage the lenses will grow longer.

  The currently most common drone takedown methods implemented are radio signal jammers, counterattack drones with nets, and shotguns filled with an intermediate shot size between bird shot and buck shot. The first two are fairly expensive options which take know-how to create, where as the latter is a shotgun, which are abundant and fairly cheap in comparison to the other two.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨who are you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh they’re real. They’re just arbitrary most of the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon meets some coyotes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s an entire poem dedicated to a Crow saying ‘nevermore’, and there’s an old cartoon trope of crows saying foreboding things prior to tragedies.

  Our love and interest in talking birds has always been also accompanied by unease, especially at what they say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“The Curtains Were F*cking Blue”: Thought Terminating Cliches, Anti-Intellectualism, and Propaganda - YouTube⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Video runs a bit long for this topic but it’s a good point about the whole subject.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon meets some coyotes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, imagine doing a ‘hoorah!’ with your buds out in the middle of the woods, and you hear ‘ᴴᵒᵒʳᵃʰ’ off in the distance. Now imagine if that came from something that didn’t even sound human. You’d shut up too.