FishFace
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- Comment on klown show 6 x-treme 1 hour ago:
I’m sorry what? What about:
- Shoes
- Gloves
- Tyres
- Elastic bands
- Balloons
All of these are made (partly) from natural (i.e. latex) rubber.
- Comment on I knew that Mandelson failed security vetting. So why didn’t Keir Starmer? 1 hour ago:
Anyone who, at this point, actually wants a no-confidence vote and a change of PM is a bit unhinged.
If Starmer lied to parliament (and the public) then he needs to go, but that would be an extremely unfortunate situation given what’s happening in the world. The idea that a rogue foreign office should have that fairly dire consequence is not sane.
I know he’s unpopular, but such views are not serious IMO.
- Comment on this is wrong 5 hours ago:
Don’t do that to me!
- Comment on this is wrong 5 hours ago:
I’m tired, boss
- Comment on klown show 6 x-treme 6 hours ago:
Latex is just a kind of rubber, and a material produced by some plants used for making rubber. Sure, if you’re not careful when googling, you can get dodgy results with “latex” in the terms, but that seems to me to be of a different calibre.
- Comment on klown show 6 x-treme 7 hours ago:
Is this just a reference to The GIMP or are there other common apps with dodgy names? I’m struggling to think of any.
- Comment on klown show 6 x-treme 7 hours ago:
https://skiesofarcadia.fandom.com/wiki/Pinta%27s_Quest
Also The GIMP is not named after a slur, don’t be ridiculous.
- Comment on I knew that Mandelson failed security vetting. So why didn’t Keir Starmer? 9 hours ago:
The story No 10 is telling is clear enough and answers the headline directly - the FO was trying to ensure Starmer didn’t know so he’d be able to say he didn’t know if it came out.
Fairly plausible but you have to wonder what No 10 said to make the FO think this was important enough to go through with it in spite of serious security concerns.
- Comment on food safety is a serious matter 10 hours ago:
Aaaaaaaaaa
- Comment on Extreme screen glare 10 hours ago:
No, anti-reflective coatings are not matte. They work by producing destructive interference in a target band of wavelengths right at the surface of the coated material from front and rear reflections. Because the effect is wavelength specific, they tend to tint the colour of the reflection, as well, allowing you to tell when they’ve been applied.
- Comment on Extreme screen glare 22 hours ago:
Not really. It has to be enough brighter than the reflection that it’s not visually disturbing. And that criterion depends on what’s displayed: a high contrast image is much more robust than a bright single colour which is much more robust than a dark single colour.
Screens nowadays have anti-reflective coatings to make the brightness of a reflection far, far less than the actual light source if you looked directly at it.
- Comment on Found this on reddit, check it out guys 1 day ago:
Not a shitpost?
- Comment on When your partner asks where you learned that 2 days ago:
How waterproof is your laptop?
- Comment on Open Carry Loophole 4 days ago:
COOL
<monologue about trains>
- Comment on Open Carry Loophole 4 days ago:
DO YOU LIKE TRAINS?
- Comment on Open Carry Loophole 4 days ago:
You may not be fun at parties, but that’s what they tell me, too, so we can hang out in the corner or something.
- Comment on Behold: A vibe-designed pcb 6 days ago:
Yeah sounds about right! And that’s true a lot of it was with Markov models. I think some was NNs though.
- Comment on Behold: A vibe-designed pcb 6 days ago:
This reminds me of the people who trained neural networks on stuff before ChatGPT and uploaded YouTube videos with titles like, “I FORCED an AI to read ALL of twilight, and THIS is what it wrote!” and then they laugh at the garbage that comes out of the model. Like… yeah, the model is not good at this task that it was not designed to do. Some of the text is funny, but in the same way people don’t really emotionally respond to AI art because there was no human intent behind it, I don’t respond to AI “humour”. It’s using a tool wrong and then laughing that the outcome is bad.
There’s satirical comedy to be had here, but it needs to be grounded in what actual people are doing. Personally I haven’t seen anyone seriously expect a language model to be able to assemble a functioning PCB, so I can’t enjoy this as satire either.
Or could it be genuine curiosity, just seeing what happens? Always possible but such a predictable outcome doesn’t tickle my curiosity either.
So, there are all the reasons I didn’t find this interesting. Why did I reply it all? I dunno man.
- Comment on Simple love 6 days ago:
shlickpost
- Comment on 1 week ago:
fussing over nomenclature is not a necessary part of being on the radical left.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Perplexing.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
When was the last time you felt the calming embrace of grass, my friend?
- Comment on is this dune? 1 week ago:
my innocent eyes x_x
- Comment on is this dune? 1 week ago:
mods delet this
- Comment on Some neighbors have no chill 1 week ago:
We need more info
- Comment on English has too many words for animals 1 week ago:
Tortoises are land animals. Simple.
Frogs and toads might be a better one - there’s no systematic difference except toads are ugly.
- Comment on A true ally 1 week ago:
Can’t speak to your specific example but I have 100% heard people say “had an accent” to mean “has a regional accent”, that would include, for example, an Appalachian accent.
- Comment on A true ally 1 week ago:
Not necessarily. People who say “he has an accent” just think that their accent is “not an accent” so it could also be a (different) regional accent.
- Comment on A true ally 1 week ago:
Everyone has an accent!
- Comment on Rut ro 1 week ago:
Yeah peanut butter is delicious