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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give me someone successful instead⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No, no, that’s Play-doh, a Plato is what Australians serve food on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Superman is a meanie⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So you’re saying Superman put, or lured, the boy there in the first place, to give him plausible deniability for intentionally make nazi puree? I’m not sure he’d have waited for an excuse…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ancient Squirrels Ate Woolly Mammoth Meat. The Proof Is in the Poop.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s nuts!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dating apps metaphor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s actually really simple: did they message me first? 100% of the time they were bots.

  The problem is, anyone you message is using the same test, thus deciding that you are a bot. The only logical way to handle this is to ensure you start all messages with “Greetings fellow human, I have perused the photographs of yourself that you put online. Not only are they very attractive – they’re interesting too. You did the right thing putting them up, and it was very brave to do so. I would lime to get to know you better…” That way no-one will be confused.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Buzz off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also because wasps seem to be a lot more agressive, and will follow you, whereas your average bee just wants to get back to their flower.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cat crime hole⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One tiny piece at a time. That what the foot knives are for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rotund⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It sounds like you need to practice getting it to curl up into a defensive posture on command. Even a half curl will do wonders for its appearance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I also have one⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If there’s one layer of clothes then you’re correct, it O(1). On further thought deeper piles are not O(log N), but O(N). Once the number of items exceeds C it takes more than a single operation to retrieve an item from the bottom layer, and the number of operations is proportional to the number of layers, or N/C.

  If you consider either picking an item up or moving it aside as a single operation, then retrieval from a single layer take 1 operation, and is O(1), but retrieval from the bottom of a two layer pile actually takes 3 operations (move the top item, retrieve the target item, replace the top item into the bottom layer, or you risk getting a deeper pile in one slot in the pathalogical case). Retrieval from the bottom of 3 layers takes 5 operations (move, move, take, replace, replace). in other words we have an O(1) process for taking the target item, and an O(N/C)=O(N) process for uncovering it in the first place, giving O(N) over all.

  Your statement that “considering that the naximum amount of clothes is likely very small, it can be treated as O(1).” is true iff N<=C, which, I concede, is a likely scenario in any well managed laundry pile, hence comment about cache sizing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I also have one⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not if items are covered by other items. You’ve got a layer of fast L1 cache that is O(1), but exceed the limit of that layer by placing an item of clothing on top of it, and some elements are effectively “pushed down” to a higher latency tier, which is going to be closer to O(log N) as you have to move some percentage of the items out of the way to get to the target item. Cache eviction (doing the laundry) will reset this.

  As always careful optimisation of the cache size, in relation to the expected distribution of items to be accessed, is key to maximising performance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Title⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thus is basically the same as the, now banned, flying wedge in rugby. The manouver aparently lead to twenty two fatalities, as well as inumerable injuries, in a single year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hello 911, it's me again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To stop it sinking too far into the sand, right? … Right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨However you say it, youre wrong.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Which one do you hate more?

  • I was looking for a en ee ess game on gog.

  • I was looking for a ness game on gee oh gee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Set up a shell company. Set up a trust somewhere with no capital gain tax. Shift ownership of the shell to the trust. As the shell, come to an agreement in principal with the bank to buy it. Use this as colateral to raise a loan from the bank for the purchase amount. Transfer the debt to the bank as part of the merger with the shell company. The bank now basically owes itself to itself. Sell the combined company from the trust, thus avoiding capital gain tax.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wavelengths⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mantis shrimps seem to be the champions of this. They have between 12 and 16 different types of cones, spanning into the ultraviolet. They have a very different visual processing system to most animals though, so despite all the cones, they don’t seem to synthesise shades between them, so they probably don’t have a very vivid image.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borders⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sigh Unzip. If that’s what I’ve got to do to carve out some space, then so be it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do I belong in tech anymore? - On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a good article, thanks. The core beliefs they articulate at the end really resonate for me, but it was getting hard to convince people they were worthwhile even ten years ago, long before LLMs were infecting people’s minds.

  • Things that are worth doing are worth doing well.
  • Things that are done well require time and effort.
  • You make meaning through the doing.
  • Ideas are common; effort is not.
  • There are no shortcuts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And toxic in large amounts!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think California is known to cause cancer in the state of California, you can bet cinnamon is too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨they are literally hanging our tax dollars right over our heads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, that will stop any 5g chips from affecting you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teenis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe we refer to “shaking Mr. Boopsy by the hand”, not “cranking my Mr Boopsy”. How uncouth! Tsk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teenis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bravo! A delightful tale of the first meeting of Mr Boopsy and the Wrightie sisters. I do hope that we shall read more of their adventures and undoubtedly growing friendship in future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Post title lol⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Similar shorthand was used when sending telegrams, as they were charged by the character too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NASA scientists says astronauts should not masturbate in space⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh cum on, it’s going to be really hard to handle that. Mind you, I’d be more concerned about the stray ‘liquid’ getting into machinery and shorting something, rather than accidentally impregnating three women at a time.

  Fortunately we don’t have to worry about this yet as “This article was originally published on 23 July 20222”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Land where⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately, on at least one occasion it was. Cosonaut Vladimir Komarov was killed when the main parachute failed on his Soyuz 1 capsule. Probably the worst part was he knew, before launch, that he would probably die: CW:An all around grim story, and a picture of his, unrecognisable, charred remains

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Glizzy in a bottle⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why, and please understand that I ask this in a spirit of genuine enquiry and desire to expand my understanding of the scope of the human mind, in the name of all that is good and reasonable in this world, would you do such a thing? I’m trying very hard not to imaging the smell if it were opened a few years from now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuck yeah democracy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d prefer they have “a very harrowing almost escape to Moscow, then a long time contemplating their misdeeds in prison”, but I don’t think that would fit on the poster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple fail ✂⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That still wouldn’t help, as you’d crush your fingers with the amount of extra travel they’d need to actually close.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨English has too many words for animals⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can cleave something apart, but the halves might cleave together.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨English has too many words for animals⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you think “spring” is bad, go check hiw many different meanings there are for the word “set”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨cool cool cool⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Read that as a command to read it as ‘white people’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's over⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I see your point, they just switch the rolls.