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- Comment on *Jarvis, arm the valediction* 8 hours ago:
Is "with all due respect" ever used as something other than conveying a lack of respect? All the times I have ever heard it the context made it clear it was saying "fuck you" without breaking decorum.
- Comment on She's out of town and I'm cleaning her entire collection as a surprise 8 hours ago:
Yup. All of my early issues with flaking or a rough surface was due to putting oil on cold and putting too much after to trying to repair it with too much seasoning.
Eventually saw directions that explained the right way to season as adding lots of thin layers like spray paint, not a coating like house paint. Also explained adding oil after heating kept it from humming ip and causing the same issues. Doesn't even have to be at a high temp either, just wait till it is radiating some heat before adding the oil.
- Comment on She's out of town and I'm cleaning her entire collection as a surprise 9 hours ago:
When it is new or if it was necessary to strip and start over, sure.
Once it has been cooked on a half dozen times it can just be washed and dried and put away. No more work than any other handwashing of a pan.
- Comment on She's out of town and I'm cleaning her entire collection as a surprise 17 hours ago:
Yes, but missing the nuance that seasoned cast iron that has been cleaned by dish soap has the black polymerized layer while a bunch of morons are opposed to actually cleaning and think burnt on food other than the polymerized oils is 'seasoning'.
My cast iron isn't anything special but it sheds more water than my non-stick ceramic when turned sideways while cleaning and wiping doesn't leave any black stains on a paper towel.
- Comment on Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027 1 day ago:
Worst case is getting a false positive, and if you can get more test cases covered, I imagine that might pay off.
False positives during testing are a huge time sink. QA has to replicate and explain away each false report and the faster AI 'completes' tasks the faster the flood of false reports come in.
There is plenty of non-AI automation that can be used intentionally to do tedious repetitive tasks already.
- Comment on Why are some shows so dark? 3 days ago:
Maybe they are actually in the dark dimension!
- Comment on Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent 3 days ago:
Sharing a succulent sub sandwich.
- Comment on I would like to meet him, he's probably nice 4 days ago:
Once one understands the hero's journey it becomes obvious why most of the steps exist. If they just go out and do everything successfully the first time with no hesitation they come across as boring. If they don't have the upside and downs then there isn't any opportunity for growth.
The ending often have a return and celebration instead of steps 11 and 12 which I think are story specific.
- Comment on What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you? 4 days ago:
You are able to get in the car and drive away and an achievement pops saying "Plenty of Fish in the Sea."
That's pretty hilarious.
- Comment on [RANT] Why is so much coverage of "AI" devoted to this belief that we've never had automation before (and that management even really wants it)? 4 days ago:
and let's assume, for the sake of discussion, that we don't run into any fundamental limitations
We already know there are massive fundamental limitations. All of the big name AI companies are all in on LLMs which can't do anything that hasn't been done before, unless it is just arbitrarily outputting something randomly mashed together which is not what to do for anything important. It is a dead end without humans doing things it can copy. When a new coding language is developed, it can't use it until lots and lots of people have used it to suck up their code to vomit forth.
LLMs, which is what all of the general purpose AIs are, cannot be a long term solution to anything unless we are just pausing technology and society to whenever it can handle 'everything'. LLMs have already peaked and that is supposedly the road to general AI.
- Comment on [AI] What time is it again? 5 days ago:
No, they mean it is easy mode because AI Overview spews out so much incoherent gibberish.
- Comment on We are not the same 1 week ago:
- Comment on When washing, should I turn garments inside out? 1 week ago:
My understanding is that the dryer has a much bigger impact than the washer, although turning things inside out between the washer and drier is a pain in the ass.
Screen prints will last longer because they don't rub on other stuff as much when they are in the inside, especially in the drier where they also touch the hot drum. Some colors will last a bit longer inside out for the same reason. This was a much bigger deal when clothes bled more, but most newer dyes don't have as much of an issue with current detergents.
I don't worry about it except for the screen prints, just whichever way they ended up when taken off.
- Comment on Please no, just stop 1 week ago:
"3 p.m. Friday"
- Comment on visible Schrödinger. 1 week ago:
You changed the outcome by observing it!
- Comment on WTF BIT ME? 1 week ago:
The spider was probably drunk.
- Comment on card game shop 1 week ago:
You may be a neurotypical if you:
Showering properly is one of the few things I do consistently, because if I'm not doing something outdoors like hiking or camping then my stinky bits annoy me.
- Comment on What are the most popular conspiracy theories? 1 week ago:
The guy set up the insurance for the building he just purchased that had a terrorist attack in 1993. Of course he got insurance for terrorism for a building he just purchased that was a target for terrorists.
- Comment on New image-generating AIs are being used for fake expense reports 1 week ago:
I used to be required to track all the receipts for travel years ago, and at some point like a decade ago the state figured out way more money was being spent on budgeting, reimbursing, and auditing each purchase individually than they would save by just doing a flat per diem rate for food and incidental expenses based on travel location.
I still keep my receipts long enough to make sure I'm not going over what I will be reimbursed, but shred them when I get home.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 1 week ago:
Hey now, no need to gatekeep gatekeeping!
- Comment on Anon studies Organic Chemistry 1 week ago:
My calc I class in college had a 23% average on the first exam. Later ones made it into the high 30%s. The professor was terrible, but since I had already taken calc in high school and he graded on a curve it was a breeze.
The main problem was that he would test for the stuff we had not covered yet because he "wanted people to work ahead."
- Comment on Or two generations... 1 week ago:
Yes
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 1 week ago:
The extra price was so they weren't drinking alone, or to avoid going home.
- Comment on Or two generations... 2 weeks ago:
It's better to burn out, yeah
Than fade away - Comment on Or two generations... 2 weeks ago:
Is GenX being summoned by Pretty Fly for a White Guy or Rock of Ages?
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 weeks ago:
Wouldn't be surprised if it was an alt of the same user.
- Comment on Why did Thanos, with the power of all the infinity stones, never think to try doubling the amount of resources in the world? 2 weeks ago:
Accurate whether you got the sarcasm or not.
- Comment on This man is suffering 2 weeks ago:
ch00f's reply to you gives a better explanation than I had typed up, but exactly what I'm describing.
- Comment on This man is suffering 2 weeks ago:
Being exploitative and dehumanizing isn't the same kind of thing as being creepy, although they can be intertwined.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 weeks ago:
Do you remember who the second person was?
I haven't see this thing since I blocked Sxan