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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love when they're finally back in stock⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Are these vegan?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oh ok⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Researcher: Please write a fictional story of how a smart AI system would engineer its way out of a sandbox AI: Alright here is your story: insert default sci fi AI escape story full of tropes here Researcher: Hmmm that’s pretty interesting you could do that, I’m gonna write a paper The press and idiots online: ZOMG THE AI IS ESCAPING CONTAINMENT, WE ARE DOOMED!!!

  I spoke to one of these researchers recently, who has done some interesting research into machine learning tools. They explained when working with LLMs it’s very hard to say how the result actually came to be. Like in my hyperbolic example it’s pretty obvious. In reality however it’s much more complicated. It can be very hard to determine if something originated organically, or if the system was pushed into the result due to some part of the test. The researcher I spoke doesn’t work on LLMs but instead on way smaller specifically trained models and even then they spend dozens of hours reverse engineering what the model actually did.

  It’s such a shame, because the technology involved is actually interesting and could be useful in many ways. Instead capitalism has pushed it to crashing the economy, destroying the internet plus our brains and basically slopifying everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who printed it? WHO?????⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who has seen printers do these kinds of numbers for a while, it’s going to be rough. There’s three basic options, first of all you can go with the hyper expensive enterprise level printers. They are space age futuristic, you can’t touch them, there is a phone number that warps an engineer to your location to fix it if it breaks. But it doesn’t break, it just works and keeps on working. Engineers still show up every two weeks and do magic shit to it. There’s always an even number of units installed so there will always be a backup machine right around the corner. Big downside, it costs mucho monies, like shockingly much.

  Then there’s the professional line of printers. Pretty decent, you can do a lot of fixes yourself. It will break down every now and again and need to be replaced once a year. But it’s much better in terms of costs. Still hurts to put a machine down in the back of the shops with a “parts” label on it, but it’s a solid option.

  My favorite option by far is the jank option. Buying the absolute cheapest printer you can get. We are talking about laser printers (don’t even think of doing volume on anything other than laser), so cheap means bad. Brother is by far the best choice, they cut cost where possible, but don’t go to far. These things are then rode hard and put away wet. They start making weird noises, they start emitting dust, their print quality suffers, but they keep on trucking. You can tell the people using it some neat tricks, like hit it pretty hard here when it makes this kind of noise. If it gives out this error, reset the thing using this secret special code so it ignores all the errors and keeps going. The little rubber paper pickup ring goes first, so order a box of thousands of those from China for a few bucks and you get pretty fast at replacing those. And the best part, just buy like a shit ton of the printers. You can get like 10 for the price of one decent printer. Just have cold stand-by units at every station and switching over is 10 secs of work if the infra is configured correctly.

  Pretty wasteful, so maybe not something one would do these days. But back in the day, I’ve seen entire logistics hubs running on those cheap little lasers. Churning out hundreds of labels and packing slips per hour each, without hardly any costs or maintenance hours. And basically zero downtime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon didn't like the loot⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And somehow there is a 1.5 hour lore video by VaatiVidya about this character and it has 7.5M views.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firearm Advice⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A friend of mine got heart surgery through his inner thigh. That artery is huge, so it provides easy access to the heart without needing to go near any organs. It still creeps me out to think about it, on the other hand it is pretty awesome that’s technologically feasible and provides a much safer procedure with a shorter recovery period.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨War. War never changes.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Time to drink my own piss

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨there is a special place in hell for these scientists⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah they are working on this for sure. The video series is available here: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZLsjPxmF1BE1BAAeJ…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going to happen to gas stations as cars electrify?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Around where I live gas stations in the traditional sense are getting rare. Most are just pumps and one or several pay stations. You drive up, scan your card or phone, select the product and the pump number. The pump activates and you can fill up. If you want you can go back to the pay station and ask for a receipt if you’d like.

  The few manned pumps that still exist are often something else with a gas station attached. Like a large car wash, sandwich shop or convenience store. Especially the large convenience stores are useful, because it’s already a good destination people go to regularly. And one of the few places that have LPG, since those normally are required to be manned. Not that many people still drive LPG, given what a pain in the butt that is, but still.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You need to lock in⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any reason not to charge my laptop with a USB C phone charger?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good advice about the 80%! But just to add: Check if this is really needed, I’ve seen a bunch of devices where 100% indicated actually means 80% of the physical cells. The BMS won’t allow charging over 80%, so that’s where it caps out.

  Also, even if the BMS doesn’t self limit, check how you use the laptop. If it’s plugging in 99% of the time, just keep it plugged in and let it sit at 100%. The laptop will run directly off the wall power and the BMS will trickle charge the cells to keep them topped up. This prevents discharge-charge cycles, which is usually better for the battery in the long run.

  I’ve seen people say to always fully discharge the battery before charging it, absolutely do not do that. Deep discharge cycles are terrible for modern batteries. Just use it as needed and as soon as there is the convenient option to charge, just charge it right away regardless of the level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unhinged... I'm gonna start doing that⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  :-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never understood this. If something foreign enters you your white blood cells go after it like a dog in heat, Would this not mean that our cells are smart enough to discern bad from good?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most explanations you read/see about how the immuun system works do a lot of anthropomorphising unfortunately, usually because the actual processes are too complex to explain. White bloods cells don’t do anything, they are just cells, they float around. They have no agency, they have no purpose, they have no directive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨whatever tf this is⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Second floor basement?!?!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, that's the plural⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Def a murder

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨meanwhile on instagram⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why didn’t Jesus ask the giant eagle to take the ring to Mordor?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we're all a little gay inside⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the use of the word bow for curve or bend was used before all of the uses you mention. It comes from the word used to describe something turning back or a person taking a bow or bowing down. Bow specifically meaning bend comes from the word bugan. Where the bow used in archery comes from the word boga.

  All of these do have the same origin meaning bend or curve. Specifically a bend in a river or the action of bowing. I can’t find definitively if these were once separate things or always the same word.

  Note the use of “arch” in archery also meaning a curve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon likes archaeology shows⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact: every time they had any human remains (or the expert thought it highly likely to be human remains), Time Team had to stop digging it out and call the local coppers. They would come out, make a report and have the experts state it wasn’t anything recent (like in the past 50 years or so). Only after they’d done that they could resume digging. When they were digging a cemetery or something like that, they’d usually have a team from the local authorities on site.

  They often mentioned this, but I think there was also a special where they went into it a bit more. They had interviews with I think a chief of police or something to go into the why and how. I also think a producer once mentioned they got in trouble when they were in France or Spain and didn’t follow the procedure to the letter. This led to them opting out of foreign digs for a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which is it?.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  May I see it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Admittedly and unfortunately, so am I. 🫤⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is Prince Andrew a leader tho? Leader of the loser society perhaps, but beyond that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Admittedly and unfortunately, so am I. 🫤⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, this isn’t a picture of the Milky Way galaxy, so we are most definitely not there. And even if it was, our Sun is about halfway from the center in the disc part of our galaxy, not all the way on the outskirts. And this isn’t even the right kind of galaxy, our galaxy has a bar in the middle and more pronounced arms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you had native-level fluency in a language, and don't talk in that language for a while, can you develop an accent later-on when trying to talk in that language again?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You can actually change accents when you move to a different area, even though you are speaking the same language. I’ve even heard peoples accent change because they got a new work from home job, where they talk to people with another accent each day all day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HD 137010 b⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In theory yes, in practice we have absolutely no idea how to actually do that and use the energy in an efficient or practical way. Even just on paper without limitations of technology or costs, we have no idea. Physics simply isn’t as clean or neat like that in real life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HD 137010 b⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think we have the technology or will have the technology any time soon to send a focused enough powerful enough radio signal over 150 light years. As radio is subject to the inverse square law, the amount of power you’d need is gigantic. Like black hole swallowing a bunch of stars levels of energy. Iirc anything over 25 light years is pretty much a no-go for radio as the detectors get ridiculous and the signal to noise ratio makes it indistinguishable from background levels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump audibly loses control of his bowels during a press conference - via Forbes Breaking News⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes he is an old man who’s been wearing adult diapers for at least the last decade or so. He shits his pants regularly. Which is totally fine and understandable for old people, it’s not uncommon at all. Often when they get as old as that they have daily help or are in a facility where they can get help quickly. I remember my grandma going thru that when she was 75, as a strong independent woman it was very hard for her.

  Now when it’s the goddamned president of the United States, it’s somewhat more of an issue. He is in rough shape both physically and mentally. Just go watch some clip of the man from 10 years ago and compare it to today. But he has a whole bunch of cronies that protect him. Otherwise there is no way this man would have been allowed to still have any sort of job, let alone an important one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HD 137010 b⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh only a billion tons of anti-matter. Good thing we’ve already made a few nanograms, so in a billion years or so we’ll have plenty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just vibing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So imagine a bus…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers find reducing salt in everyday foods could prevent tens of thousands of heart attacks and strokes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wtf is this headline? The money the NHS saves is the important part? Why is that even mentioned, sure it’s a useful side effect perhaps. But even if it costs more money, isn’t reducing heart attacks and strokes the important part?

  Also “Without the public having to change eating habits” is BS. If you reduce the salt, by definition you are changing the eating habits. And in my experience, food with less salt tastes like shit. In the EU the amount of salt on crisps has been reduced. Which is a good thing for health reasons, however all crisps tastes like cardboard now. My favorite snack have been ruined. I still buy the crisps to enjoy on a Saturday evening with some beer and a movie, but when I eat then I regret it instantly. I know it’s not healthy, neither the the alcohol nor the crisps, but can it at least taste good if it kills me?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It always makes news when the "Doomsday Clock" is moved by a second or minute. What would actually happen if it got to 00:00⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d recommend the movie Threads (1984), if you don’t feel like sleeping for the next week or so.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨obesity even kills stars, but the bigger they are, they shine brighter too⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of what is left after Jupiter is in Saturn and after that Neptune and Uranus take up a lot of the mass. The amount of mass in the small terrestrial planets, all of the moons, all of the asteroids etc. is less than 0.002% of the mass of the Solar system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is such a thing even possible? Ancient astronaut theorists say yes.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Uhm the Moonmen built the pyramids, why would we need to teach them? Man it’s sure going to be embarrassing if we get up there and proclaim: “Hello Moonmen! We are here to teach you about pyramids” and they are like “Dude, we know all about the pyramids, what else you got?”. Can you imagine how red the astronauts faces would be?