missfrizzle
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- Comment on tragic 2 weeks ago:
average double Predestination enjoyer.
- Comment on tragic 2 weeks ago:
yeah but like, would time flow linearly there? why doesn’t God just keep the souls on ice and thaw them when ready?
- Comment on Radon 2 weeks ago:
I fell trees!
you can use “fell” as a transitive verb. it’s a little archaic but sounds cozy.
- Comment on Had to look this up 2 weeks ago:
I think there’s a lot of truth to what you’re saying, though there’s a little more to the story. for reasons I don’t understand, the UK specifically has always been terfier than other Western countries. more lgb-friendly, but historically anti-trans. MumsNet was full of terfs with very similar demographics to Rowling years before trans awareness hit the spotlight.
I think we did a poor job educating potential allies and making a case for ourselves, in a way that got weaponized against us, but terf ideology is as old as Janice Raymond and second-wave feminism.
- Comment on Had to look this up 2 weeks ago:
she had a reputation for racial stereotyping even before she went mask-off as a terf, decades back. like naming the one Asian character Cho Chang (sounds like ching chang chong; both names are from different Asian countries), naming the one Black character Kingsley Shacklebolt (King from MLK, shackle from slavery), naming the Jewish character Anthony Goldstein, naming an Irish character Seamus Finnegan…
…it’s not that she was necessarily super racist, she just used very stereotypical/over the top names for her characters. so I don’t hate her for being racist, I hate her for being transphobic.
- Comment on Oh, that's... umm.... 3 weeks ago:
at least a lot of them got clapped.
- Comment on Epic Rizz fr 4 weeks ago:
my play would to be to send a picture of Dick Cheney and say this will have to do until they sober up and we can talk :)
- Comment on What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you? 5 weeks ago:
Starcraft had some great lines like that too.
- Comment on Time to update your bingo cards 5 weeks ago:
is COVID-38 from 13 years in the future or are we just versioning it like web browsers now?
- Comment on Velma can't math. 1 month ago:
it was designed as ragebait. but it failed even at that.
- Comment on "I used to be with it" 1 month ago:
huh, I could have sworn there was a format for long-term archival, like 50+ years. I guess the GitHub Arctic Code Vault project went with microfilm using some very custom equipment to produce it all. but maybe everyone just uses tape (which is fun! but a bit less durable, and more finicky about being stored well)
- Comment on "I used to be with it" 1 month ago:
I think there are some optical media like that. the discs are cheap but the readers are made of mithril.
- Comment on another TUI 1 month ago:
let me guess, you’d remove trans people like me from society because you consider us mentally ill? that’s usually how this playbook goes.
- Comment on Slightly Unfair 1 month ago:
there was another! some kid on the Ars Technica forum liveblogged his attempt. notable highlights:
how it started
I melted a large hunk of uranium out of one side of an ore chunk and it is by far more radioactive than anything I have (gamma). I am however concerned that background radiation level in my office and bedroom (next door) have almost doubled. I will measure again tommorow and see if maybe it is something cosmic related.
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HOLY FUCK. DO NOT IONIZE OR VAPORIZE URANIUM. IT IS A HEAVY METAL. It’s not the radiation that will kill you. It’s the fucking heavy metal toxicity. Here’s some guidelines for safe handling.
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I am no David Hahn and am not as stupid, but I HAVE built a functioning breeder Aluminum+Lead sheild, but some radiation is escaping. I am going to beef it up. Right now my office is at 15-25 CPM on the counter (my dosimeter has not arrived yet) and my adjacent room is 6-10 CPM on the counter. This is over the course of 3 days in my configuration. From top to bottom. Am-241 at 2uCi bombarding a thin aluminum sheet (thicker than foil) moderated by a combo of water and paraffin, another aluminum plate to further slow the neutrons down and a crushed pile of U-238 ore (reduced with high strength peroxide). This is enclosed in a inch thick lead shield. Call me crazy if you must… I am currently as I type, evacuating an old gas laser tube. We’ll see what happens. I have Thorium and some U-238 coming in so I will be building a concrete containment block this weekend.
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got that shit wrong. I am breeding plutonium 239. I got it messed up.
on purpose
So you’re breeding fuel for nuclear weapons? that’s what i thought. you’re breeding pu239, which means you’re breeding pu240, which is a poison. i have not given much thought to how to avoid this and change the reaction to breed something less poisonous, since you have no use for the 239 beyond “dude, i’m breeding weapons fuel!”
I am not breeding it for that purpose. Actually, I dont believe I have stated my purpose, so let me inform the fools here that may think I am breeding weapons useable fuel.<BR><BR>I am breeding this material for its HEAT. U-238 is way too long lived to decay in a manner in which would create any sort of viable heat source for use in a seebeck electric generator of my own design. Now take off the tinfoil and shoe covers and get a grip.
some developments
The gamma output just sharply dropped so something must have changed rapidly. I am just now researching what is going on so I am not quite sure yet what happened. I think I am going to pull the neutron moderators out.
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not great, not terrible…
Current results for the test dosimeters. 1)Reactor dosimeter - 60 roentgen 2)Desk source - Broken 0-R 3)Personal source (which I had as I slept in the next room) is reading 22 roentgen.
You mean microroentgen… right? Or milliroentgen? Surely not full on roentgen?
Full roentgen.
I’m out of my area of expertise here, but according to Wikipedia, the average lifetime dose is 16R. Is there not some danger in exceeding that amount currently?
Yes, I saw that. Yes, I am concerned a bit. I havent put my reactor into the large concrete containment yet so I guess it is definately time to do so. I have no symptoms of radiation poisoning though…
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Okay, lesson learned… My equipment is giving me shit readings, or was anyway. Realizing my CDV 715 was shit, I removed the dial from it and attached it to my DSRB88. I based the readout circuit I built on a similar circuit that uses the same GM tube, so I know it is fairly accurate and also uses the same guage. The background radiation level in my office with the reactor is about 30 uR/hr. So, If I had the money, I would get myself a CDV-700, but I do not so I will just have to make due with this. SO I AM NOT DYING AND NEITHER IS ANYONE ELSE.
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A much better picture of the tube. I finally calculated the emmissions from this puppy to be 6mR/hr. I was hesitant to get my face so close to it, but for the sake of pics
the inevitable conclusion
so…the FBI just came… Yes, with the NRC and Texas health department…raided my home. They accused me of acquiring the materials to construct a dirty bomb. They refferenced the capacitor on page one that makes a quip about it looking like a pipe bomb. They also told me that arstechnica is under constant surveillance for things such as this. I mean, terrorists post thier research online all of the time.
Well, on the bright side, you now have some pretty accurate readings of the radiation.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 2 months ago:
nope, it’s the verbal analogy puzzle format used by tests like the SAT.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 2 months ago:
throuple : threesome :: couple : hook-up
- Comment on IT'S A TRAP 2 months ago:
you know, I’m not sure you can have an uncountably infinite number of people. so whatever that abomination is I’ll send the trolley down its way.
- Comment on oh cool 2 months ago:
the SG teams embody American ideals, while the NID embodies American history. specifically, the NID acts like '60s CIA.
- Comment on oh cool 2 months ago:
it pleases me that the actress who played Carter cared about science like the character.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 months ago:
HOG and Hough transforms bring me back. honestly glad that I don’t have to mess with them anymore though.
I always found SVMs a little shady because you had to pick a kernel. we spent time talking about the different kernels you could pick but they were all pretty small and/or contrived. I guess with NNs you pick the architecture/activation functions but there didn’t seem to be an analogue in SVM land for “stack more layers and fatten the embeddings.” though I was only an undergrad.
do you really think NNs won purely because of large datasets and GPU acceleration? I feel like those could have applied to SVMs too. I thought the real win was solving vanishing gradients with ReLU and expanding the number of layers, rather than throwing everything into a 3 or 5-layer MLP, preventing overfitting, making the gradient landscape less prone to local maxima and enabling hierarchical feature extraction to be learned organically.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 months ago:
I recently told my mother that I’m probably the most intelligent person she will ever meet
and so humble, too! seriously though, this is a major red flag. I rarely find smart people to brag about how smart they are.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 months ago:
I was taught that serious academics favored Support Vector Machines over Neural Networks, which industry only loved because they didn’t have proper education.
oops…
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I can’t find the pro-LGBTQ+ ones are they on backorder?
- Comment on Can't argue that. 2 months ago:
I have no scientific basis for this, but my suspicion is that what you do with your brain is more important to cognition than whatever raw intelligence you start with. the more languages you study, the more music you play, the more subjects you study and skills you develop and hobbies you tinker with and deep conversations you have… you learn to learn, you learn to think, it all gets wired up and cross-connected and you become more than the sum of your parts.
how much decline is truly biological vs. being stuck in a rut?
also there’s nootropics that could be helpful for concussion recovery/etc. but they haven’t been too well-studied, there’s many different ones with different sketchiness and sources aren’t always trustworthy… but piracetam (iirc) is actually prescribed in the EU for recovery from brain injury, and it’s fairly safe and well-studied. I’m not recommending it either way though.
- Comment on Disney 2025 2 months ago:
wtf? didn’t Scrooge McDuck get drafted into the US Navy?
- Comment on Based and Red Pilled Gigachad, many such cases 😔 2 months ago:
my sibling in Christ, Reps. Mace and Jackson literally shouted the t-slur yesterday and called for all trans people to be forcibly institutionalized. Trump said he “wouldn’t oppose” banning the trans flag when a reporter asked about “transtifa.” Musk retweeted someone who called trans women “perverted, deranged bioweapons” and trans men “osteoporotic, androgynous goblins,” calling us to be contained and forbidden to communicate with each other. along with someone else calling for a total ban on HRT for all ages. we’ve been kicked out of the military, and stripped of security clearances. the DoJ has floated banning us from gun ownership by ruling that we’re “mentally defective.” my passport has an M on it because Trump reverted all the rules on his first day in office. it’s a literal felony for trans women to use the women’s bathroom in Florida, and for trans office workers to use their own pronouns. coverage for trans health has been stripped from nearly every public service. trans protections have recently been eviscerated in Skrmetti.
it’s really not going great.
- Comment on Political discourse 2 months ago:
if you were a centrist before 2020, and you still are in 2025, then you’ve moved Right, since the Overton window shifted Right.
if you kept your principles you’re now Left. that’s how the window works.
- Comment on Based and Red Pilled Gigachad, many such cases 😔 2 months ago:
The US passed laws protecting trans people and many Americans are literally trans or allies. Russia however, is extremely anti-trans.
ahh, to live in 2014 again.
- Comment on He died doing what he loved. 2 months ago:
update from the future: the suspect is Tyler Robinson, a young white Utah man from a Mormon family, with unregistered party affiliation. he confessed to his father, who called a youth pastor to talk him down from suicide, who then called US marshals to take him into custody.
- Comment on Practical Magic 2 months ago:
rule of three is broader than Wicca though. something like it is common in a lot of pagan beliefs.