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- Comment on Lmao 26 minutes ago:
The interesting thing about this is that it could be a double whammy. The collision that formed the Moon not only made Earth smaller, it also ejected a lot of material away from the orbit. This made Earth even smaller than it would otherwise have been, had the two bodies merged. And the Moon also took up some of that mass. The Moon also causes the tides which are theorized to have a significant beneficial effect on evolving more complex forms of life.
So just being small might not be enough and having a big moon might also not be enough, but Earth was lucky enough to have both. And that’s just some of the things in a long list of things that have to go right to get complex life on a planet.
My feeling is that life is pretty rare, but given there are so many star systems in our galaxy there might be a lot of it still. But most of it is probably very simple stuff. Getting to where Earth is, might be a once every couple of millions of years event within our entire galaxy. So there really might be nothing intelligent out there at this moment in time, there might have been earlier and there might be in the future, but for right now we are it.
- Comment on The blue light from your phone isn't ruining your sleep 2 days ago:
Bruh I feel like shit when I get op at 7 AM after I’ve been doom scrolling till 4 in the morning, it must be the blue light man, must be
- Comment on new reaction image dropped 3 days ago:
But they can still whip right? Right???
- Comment on Houston, we have a Microslop Outlook problem 3 days ago:
On the other hand, you’re doing the first ever Moon landing, trying to manually find a good landing spot, running out of fuel and trying not to die. And all of a sudden your navigation computer starts throwing 1202 errors. That has to be one of the most butt clenched moments of all time.
Computer issues are basically tradition at this point.
- Comment on aaand it's closed again 4 days ago:
One day I had worked for 18 hours straight. I was going home at 1AM and walked past a McDonald’s. It was in the middle of summer, 35 degrees all day, but cooling off at night. I really needed a pick me up, so I walked in and approached the counter. A pretty lady looked at me and said: “I know exactly how you feel and what you are here for”. In my mind she transformed into an angel and felt the holy energy radiating out. Then she followed up with: “I’m SO sorry, our ice-cream machine broke”. I didn’t even say anything, I just stared at her, a tear pushing it’s way out of the corner of my eye. I mumbled something like “It’s fine, don’t worry about it”, turned around and walk out. I’m not even sure how I got home that day, I was just mentally destroyed. This was 20 years ago and I still remember that moment :'(
- Comment on What the Hell is this Bull shit ? 1 week ago:
Yeah but the machine is in ounces, where the can is in Florida ounces. Once you convert it’s perfectly fine.
- Comment on Meanwhile in California 1 week ago:
They said, sobbing
- Comment on Quiver, ladies, quiver 1 week ago:
Wait you guys have just the single voice?
- Comment on A labyrinth of woo 1 week ago:
Huh how weird, what is this big ball doing here?
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- Comment on Going heavy on Italy today. Getting pizza for dinner 2 weeks ago:
To be fair I only know this meme in regards to the Ferrari F1 team, where it’s fitting almost every weekend. BTW the gun doesn’t work as well.
- Comment on I love when they're finally back in stock 2 weeks ago:
Are these vegan?
- Comment on oh ok 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 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. 4 weeks ago:
Time to drink my own piss
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 5 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? 5 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 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Is there any reason not to charge my laptop with a USB C phone charger? 1 month 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 1 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Second floor basement?!?!!
- Comment on Yes, that's the plural 1 month ago:
Def a murder
- Comment on meanwhile on instagram 1 month ago:
Why didn’t Jesus ask the giant eagle to take the ring to Mordor?
- Comment on we're all a little gay inside 1 month 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 1 month 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?. 1 month ago:
May I see it?
- Comment on Admittedly and unfortunately, so am I. 🫤 1 month 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.
