VibeSurgeon

@VibeSurgeon@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I may be wrong here. Isn't AI only as smart as the user putting in the information or commands? What's the big deal?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t Al only as smart as the user putting in the information or commands?

  The information that’s been “put in” is everything that bots have been able to scrape off of the internet, plus transcripts of a large quantity of YouTube videos, and a large dataset of pirated ebooks.

  Terabytes of information, of varying quality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate Android!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s an open source app, you could test what’s happening in onSaveInstanceState and onCreate with savedInstanceState/onRestoreInstanceState, maybe by attaching some tracing to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate Android!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Mishandling an OOM killer event is generally speaking developer error.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook posts are peak⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk how all slop managed to get the exact same looking font tbh. I wonder if you can prompt it away or if they did something in the training to make sure it always spit out some type of legible text

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The savings are trickling down to us⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To be clear, it’s a thing in many countries with socialized medicine as well. Sweden, Germany, France, to name a few.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does it matter who it's about? Just sub in any rich asshole who is incapable of joy and wonder.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Store-bought tomatoes are generally sub-par because of the logistical problem of tomatoes - when they are sufficiently ripe, they become too soft to transport without breaking.

  On account of the square-cube law, smaller tomatoes are less prone to this issue, so anyone with no access to homegrown tomatoes will benefit from opting for smaller varieties.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I think NAMBLA or some other similar org might buy them...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m well aware.

  Most cryptocurrency pushers are less interested in the underlying cryptographic fundamentals, however.

  Cryptography is undeniably cool. Cryptocurrency is undeniably not cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does it matter who it's about? Just sub in any rich asshole who is incapable of joy and wonder.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It takes some care to make your backyard tomatoes actually taste as spectacular as they can taste.

  Last year I had the bad fortune of harvesting some truly bland tomatoes from the plants on my balcony. This was most likely a skill issue - I kept the tomatoes too hot, and didn’t fertilize them apart from the initial fertilizer that came with the soil I potted them in.

  This year, my tomatoes tastes spectacular, because I fixed those problems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I think NAMBLA or some other similar org might buy them...⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably unrelated to this, but ’nonce’ is a concept in cryptography (not the cryptocurrency-kind), a number used only once in a cryptographic operation.

  Apart from the colloquial British use, that is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to summon a group of gym bros (100% working tutorial 2026)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t say that anyone in particular is giving me compliments on my beard. My partner has said that she does not want me to shave it off, so there’s that, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to summon a group of gym bros (100% working tutorial 2026)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  40 hours a week is quite uncommon, but elite cyclists can put in upwards of 30 hours. With that type of volume, intensity management is quite important. You need to do the large majority of your exercise at low intensity for it to yield good results.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to summon a group of gym bros (100% working tutorial 2026)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can do resistance exercises without the gym and get a good chunk of benefits from it. It’s easier with a gym though, and in my experience more fun.

  If you just want to dip your toes in it, look into calisthenics. Should you find that enjoyable and hit a plateau in your progress, consider joining a gym at that point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not a single one⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think anyone is arguing for the oil industry.

  Even if nuclear power plant byproducts were re-used at 100%, this would still decidedly not make nuclear energy more resource efficient than solar and wind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not a single one⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely. I don’t know that anyone is arguing for coal, except for Trump, but he’s also completely deranged.

  Wind and solar have very little externalities, however. I’d even call their externalities trivial.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not a single one⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what this has to do with my post at all to be honest

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not a single one⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s a question if we can wait for grid scale energy storage being viable before we cook ourselves.

  Given the average time to build one single nuclear power plant, you should consider whether we have time to finish construction of one before we cook ourselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not a single one⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Efficient use of resources still matters in a service-driven model.

  The service in this case is to provide electricity - if other alternatives can provide the same system of electricity while using less resources in the process, then it is clearly preferable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Being poor is expensive⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In all honesty I think it’s connected to the housing crisis bleeding into basically every other political issue, because of how damn massive of a problem it is

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Being poor is expensive⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  2.5 miles is thankfully about 15 minutes by bike - less if you’re pushing it or running an ebike

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Being poor is expensive⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only outside the TMZ, which is why basically everything in LA is filmed within it.

  An interesting little quirk for sure

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Being poor is expensive⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While the intent is good, as written it would probably have the unintended consequence of making it harder to get a job if you happen to live far away from the workplace, which I don’t think is the way to go

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[politics] in case you're not already rooting for Norway⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s never going to come home you wankers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boomers scolding us about how they were able to buy a house working at a gas station...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This area of San Jose is in commuting distance to Silicon Valley offices, where you can get very large pay packages upwards of $400,000/year (average for L5 at Google in the Bay Area).

  Artificial housing scarcity (the zoning restrictions in San Jose are very strict) combined with the massive incomes in the area has led to the situation we see today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure it would be safely possible to mount the outdoor unit where I live, but it certainly does look like an interesting product.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With steam/hot water radiators, though, I imagine it’s even harder. Can these systems safely be modified to pump cold water?

  I think this would result in humidity issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s going to be this hot again, and worse. This is well-known.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I already have a portable unit and a sealing kit, plus blackout curtains. The curtains can’t be deployed with the window opened enough to get the hose out. Running without any blackout curtains is an immediate non-starter since dawn is at 02:00 here, and my bedroom window is to the east.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not going to be able to get an installer to mount a unit up on the floor where I live. It’s higher up than the 10th floor.

  I’m also not going to be able to get the permit from the association to drill up a unit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s pretty common for people to already have a heating solution in place that can’t practically be replaced with a reversible heat pump. District heating being a primary example here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is assuming that installing an AC is an alternative.

  I can’t install one in my apartment, there’s just no way to set up the outdoor unit for the bedroom. Our windows don’t accommodate window units, being casement windows. That leaves portable units, which are not particularly effective, and on top of that forces a serious amount of sunlight into the bedroom, hence ruining the whole thing. Dawn is at 02:04 here, fwiw.

  My only hope really is that my apartment building would install some kind of central cooling solution, which is an incredibly expensive endeavour.