Catoblepas
@Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Graffiti 1 day ago:
Very ‘They Live,’ nice.
- Comment on Revelation! 1 day ago:
We’re actually doing pretty good right now, drought wise! Over 80% of California isn’t considered in a drought, and what is in a drought is at the lowest level (D0, abnormally dry).
So, theoretically, this year shouldn’t be particularly terrifying during the Santa Anas.
- Comment on All hail the corn. 2 days ago:
TIL. I thought they were just related in the way cabbage and broccoli are related, not that summer squash is literally just an immature gourd. Dunno how this knowledge escaped me when I ate a stupid amount of summer squash as a kid.
- Comment on We're going backwards 2 days ago:
I’ve seen roaches, which was gross, but never any bedbugs thank Christ.
- Comment on there's actual 🌽 in cornucopia 2 days ago:
I had a family member make a decorative dough version of this one year in the 90s, when making decorations out of salt dough was all the rage.
- Comment on All hail the corn. 2 days ago:
It was pumpkins? I have always been taught squash. Or is this a calabaza = squash and pumpkin translation issue maybe?
- Comment on When a man says anything bad about women online or criticize them based on his experience, Comments: 3 days ago:
Really doubt it 😌
- Comment on When a man says anything bad about women online or criticize them based on his experience, Comments: 3 days ago:
See also: internet men any time someone uses the phrase “toxic masculinity.” I don’t think I’ve seen it come up a single time without dudes getting Big Mad (and ironically listing a bunch of shit that shows how terrible toxic masculinity is for men with zero self awareness)
- Comment on Women would rather do drugs than go to therapy 4 days ago:
That’s for patient use only! You’ll have to transition first if you want to use it.
- Comment on Here we go again... 1 week ago:
Same in Los Angeles. Maybe we’ll be spared?
- Comment on Pika Pika 1 week ago:
Look for a creative reuse store for the art and craft version of this! I’ve got so much art shit on the cheap. So at least it’s less expensive for it to sit in the drawer 🥲
- Comment on Bird law is not governed by reason 1 week ago:
The classic !superbowl@lemmy.world
!birding@slrpnk.net
!crows@lemmy.world
- Comment on Bread mold 1 week ago:
Thanks, I was always taught the toxin survived heating, but apparently it’s the spores that can survive and reproduce.
- Comment on Bread mold 1 week ago:
Not at all, food spoilage caused by mold and bacteria can have waste produced by the mold/bacteria that doesn’t break down even at high temperatures. Ex: botulism. Your grandma got lucky!
- Comment on Chasing the Elephant 1 week ago:
They used to do sugar cubes saturated with vaccine for polio, we should go back to that. I know there are reasons they stopped using it, but Americans are definitely more likely to eat sugar than get vaccinated, so let’s just call it a wash in terms of health risks.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Cool, that’s why my original comment says might. I don’t keep track of where random organizations employ people.
You linked to a page about minimum wage, not the law related to job postings.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
1) doesn’t matter as long as they have employees in California
2) doesn’t state it must be for employees only, it’s for any job posting
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Salary and remuneration will be commensurate with experience and aligned with industry standards
Neat, this might violate California law!
The law states that any employer with “15 or more employees” must include “the pay scale for a position in any job posting.”
At least 1 of those 15 employees “must be currently located in California,” according to the Department of Industrial Relations website. And, for the companies this applies to, a job posting must have a pay range “if the position may ever be filled in California, either in-person or remotely.”
- Comment on Honestly wtf? 1 week ago:
Lah dah dah dah, bah dah dah
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 1 week ago:
If that’s true that takes my interest in it into the negatives. ASOIAF has about a million moving parts and very distinct characters with complex backstories, there’s not even a small chance an LLM could come close to imitating that.
- Comment on How long after starting Vitamin D supplements should you notice results? 1 week ago:
If you have an underlying psychiatric condition like depression then bringing your vitamin D levels to normal might improve your mood and it might not. When I got put on a vitamin D supplement after the doctor caught how low I was my biggest improvement was my energy more than my mood, but being tired all the time will make you feel like shit too.
People have already mentioned you should make sure you’re actually deficient by going to the doctor, but it’s also important to determine why you’re deficient. If you know you just don’t ever get sunlight, well, mystery solved. But if you do then vitamin D deficiencies can also be caused by things like intestinal disorders.
If the issue is not getting enough sunlight, check out the Sunbeam app. I have it as a safety thing because the UV here is godawful, but it also gives you a timer based on the current UV strength for how long you need to stay outside to get your daily vitamin D. Because it’s winter it’s like 40 minutes where I am today, but in the summer it can be as low as 5-10.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
\5. This is a reflection of the tendency of this particular social group (chavs? Not a Brit spotting expert) to spot and act immediately in response to emergencies rather than ignoring it, waiting for others to act, or pulling out a phone to film
\6. Something else we haven’t thought of
- Comment on Libraries are cool 2 weeks ago:
Why’s that? Is it just in case you put it in the wrong spot?
- Comment on I’ll just be over here… 2 weeks ago:
[laughs in muting replies on Piefed]
- Comment on Might not be efficient, but at least it... Uhhh, wait, what good does it provide again? 2 weeks ago:
If LLMs can’t do whatever you tell them based purely on natural language instructions then they need to stop advertising it that way.
It’s not just advertisement that’s the problem, do any of them even have user manuals? How is a user with no experience prompting LLMs (which was everyone 3 years ago) supposed to learn how to formulate a “correct” prompt without any instructions? It’s a smokescreen for blaming any bad output on the user.
Oh, it told you to put glue in your pizza? You didn’t prompt it right. It gives you explicit instructions on how to kill yourself because you talked about being suicidal? You prompted it wrong. It completely makes up new medical anatomical terminology? You have once again prompted it wrong! (Don’t make me dig up links to all those news stories)
It’s funny the fediverse tends to come down so hard on the side of ‘RTFM’ with anything Linux related, but with LLMs it’s actually the user’s fault for believing they weren’t being sold a fraudulent product without a user manual.
- Comment on Might not be efficient, but at least it... Uhhh, wait, what good does it provide again? 2 weeks ago:
In convinced the people who think it’s incredible literally just don’t know how to use a search engine, the one and only potentially useful function of LLMs other than writing asinine work related emails.
- Comment on Might not be efficient, but at least it... Uhhh, wait, what good does it provide again? 2 weeks ago:
Hilarious to think nobody could notice how dogshit AI is without being handheld into it.
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy 2 weeks ago:
Fr, my phone was over 3x as old when I traded it in, and it wasn’t even broken. I just knew I had to replace it in the next 4 years and didn’t want to get hit with tariffs.
2 years is a good start for people who trade in annually, though. Gotta start somewhere!
- Comment on British plugs 2 weeks ago:
I’m glad they’ve never managed to puncture my sneakers while hiking, because god knows I’ve had enough embedded in my soles when I check.
- Comment on Corn 2 weeks ago:
Any professional corn farmers in the crowd? My unprofessional opinion: it didn’t get pollinated enough.