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- Comment on Are you friends with any AI bots? 1 day ago:
Not a modern program, but I don’t see anything that makes me think that programs will never be capable of metacognition. LLMs won’t, but they aren’t the be-all end-all.
- Comment on We always hear/read about Goverments cencoring the internet. What is something that the US is not knowing is being censored? 3 days ago:
You know what? I’m kind of OK with bringing anti-Catholic conspiracy theories back for a bit. Takes some heat off the Jews and Muslims, and the tradcath movement produced such wonderful people as Brett Kavanaugh. Plus, they never really answered for the whole systemic child molestation thing.
- Comment on sushi delivery 3 days ago:
If Japan is going to catch strays, invading people is a pretty good reason.
- Comment on The wonder of the sea 6 days ago:
But hey, at least it gives you a new hat.
- Comment on Would one run faster without arms? 1 week ago:
You do have more momentum to counteract the drag, though. I wonder if the decreased mass would be offset by the decreased surface area.
- Comment on Restroom Location 1 week ago:
Half their songs are about being from Louisiana.
- Comment on Soup 1 week ago:
- Comment on Fight me 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for the correction, edited. How is gas not 100% efficient, though?
But yeah, heat pumps are definitely more environmentally friendly (unless you’re habitually letting the refrigerant out, o guess). The real argument is whether the extra energy is worth it for protein folding (I’d say generally no, but if you don’t have a heat pump, might as well).
- Comment on Fight me 2 weeks ago:
Heat pumps cap out at about 250% efficiency, so you’d still be spending more to run them than to burn natural gas at that ratio.
- Comment on Fight me 2 weeks ago:
They must have overshot, then. Computers are 100% efficient space heaters that produce math as a byproduct.
- Comment on Why does markdown treat linefeeds as spaces? 2 weeks ago:
They also delete the second space lol
- Comment on necessary read 2 weeks ago:
John Quincy Adams was pretty decent, as far as I’m aware.
- Comment on Those were the good old days 2 weeks ago:
I definitely wouldn’t be happy about it if I were unarmed, but it’s basically a particularly ferocious goose. A baseball bat would be enough to give me a decent chance at leaving more or less unscathed.
- Comment on Those were the good old days 2 weeks ago:
Depends on the dinosaur. A Spinosaurus would just eat me, but I could beat up a velociraptor.
- Comment on one bright second 3 weeks ago:
Anthropic Principle moment
- Comment on Nowhere more appropriate to ask this as I'm apparently banned in c/guns, c/liberalgunowners and c/asklemmy. WTF is wrong with this revolver?! 3 weeks ago:
Oh, yeah, that’s probably fine. I didn’t expect it to, given the price.
- Comment on Nowhere more appropriate to ask this as I'm apparently banned in c/guns, c/liberalgunowners and c/asklemmy. WTF is wrong with this revolver?! 3 weeks ago:
Once you get it fixed, remember to use snap caps when dry-firing anything rimfire. The firing pin can hit the chamber and fuck things up. It isn’t an issue with center-fire (including rimmed center-fire like .357 Mag or 7.62x54R), since the pin just goes down the barrel on a dry fire, but there isn’t much space between the pin and shoulder on a rim-fire.
- Comment on Sunlight special 3 weeks ago:
You need a lot of mirrors and/or lenses to cook something using sunlight. Unless you’re in Arizona, then just stick your skillet out the window.
- Comment on Then and Now 3 weeks ago:
It’s a pointless slop recreation of an existing Boomer humor comic: i.pinimg.com/…/98b0bd1744b3d4f939d97fd4ad7a02de.j…
- Comment on Anon shops for diamonds 3 weeks ago:
If it loses 50-80% of the value as soon as it’s used, might as well get a used one if you must have a natural diamond. This also applies to cars and plenty of other things. Let someone with more money than you take the hit.
- Comment on They say remote working less productive 3 weeks ago:
I bet 80% of people who always cry about this commutes by car into an office in an office park in the middle of nowhere.
It was that or work at a gas station for 1/3 the pay. I’m just asking for a choice.
- Comment on Why do they call it rule when... 4 weeks ago:
Allegedly, putting a wooden spoon on the pot of a boiling dish that tends to boil over (like pasta) will prevent it from doing so. I’ve only tested with bamboo, which definitely does not work.
- Comment on When did Cash for Chritianity become a thing? When even Jesus the son of god wouldn't stand for it in a church? If they preach why don't they practice from the bible? 4 weeks ago:
Literal centuries before that, there were indulgences.
- Comment on Punch Time 4 weeks ago:
Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth did a good job with localization. I remember one character speaking with a thick Southern US accent, and at one point mentioning that she was from Kansai. I didn’t previously know that Kansai was rural, but I was able to get that from the context.
- Comment on Punch Time 4 weeks ago:
Transliteration is another thing entirely: it’s translating the sounds. “I’ll beat you so that the lights in your eyes go out” translated to Japanese is “君の目の光が消えるまで殴ってやる”. Transliterated back, it’s “Kimi no me no hikari ga kieru made nagutte yaru”.
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on HÖNKHALT 5 weeks ago:
IKEA sells hats made of the same material. I have one.
- Comment on 1919 (correctly) 5 weeks ago:
Those damn kids and their newfangled pointy rocks. Back in my day, if you needed your rock to do more damage, you just got a bigger one!
- Comment on 1919 (correctly) 5 weeks ago:
While the concert and wedding are events where you should turn off your ringer, it’s certainly true that phones can ring at inconvenient times. A big enough problem to outweigh the benefit of being able to check in, find people, call for help, etc. from nearly anywhere? Absolutely not, but it’s still a pretty accurate prediction.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 1 month ago:
Yeah, the concept is nice, but it tells me that the Big Bang doesn’t explain what happened before it (the leading hypothesis is that the Big Bang started time, so there is no “before”) and sources a Wikipedia article on spiders. Then, it cites the common myth about Daddy Longlegs being highly venomous, says that that wasn’t dispelled until 2020, and then cites a fucking BuzzFeed listicle.
