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- Comment on ill take a double scoop 16 hours ago:
I was there too. I don’t know what stuck with me more: your actions or James Cameron’s expression. I watched him a little afterwards too, the poor guy didn’t even finish his Grand Slamwich.
- Comment on Ze princess 1 day ago:
Don’t WINE.
- Comment on Anon has learned enough 4 days ago:
I tried reading them as a kid and thought they were shit then. I realise now the biggest problems I had with it were the total absence of brick jokes (or whatever the literary equivalent is), the utter refusal to engage in foreshadowing, and the lack of character development.
Harry Potter was the best person but everyone else was a dick. “Gosh I wish something fun would happen” said Harry. Then Magic Headteacher turned up and it turns out that Harry is famous and rich and amazing! “Come and learn to be wizard and a celebrity” said Haggis, “you are amazing and have no choice”. And he did. And his stepbrother was fat. Then Harry learned to play Quitit. Albino McVillain said “I’ve been playing my who life. You’ll never be as good as me”. And Albino was correct, Harry could only win if he was given a broomstick called a Plonko 9000. Then, Harry got a mystery package. It was a Plonko 9000 and he won. “I am a wizard!” whispered Harry, “but I will still share my chocolates because he is a good person”. And he was. “Special people are born special and that’s why they’re special,” said everyone.
- Comment on Anon is Illiterate 1 week ago:
Fucking hell, so much this. They’re so goddamn proud of their ignorance. This is why I enforce a very strict “we’re mechanics, not chauffeurs” policy in my team. We’ve got no duty - either literal or moral - to make up for incompetence.
- Comment on Orb 1 week ago:
- Ya
Not that exceptional.
- Comment on Do you still remember? 1 week ago:
Like most Brits, a Vauxhall (Opel) Corsa.
- Comment on We really, really do. 1 week ago:
Mirth! Imitate not replicate. 🥄🥄🥄
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 1 week ago:
Or the size of your Mom’s big butt.
Beep boop I’m a bot that translates British English to American English. To opt out, reply ‘ligma’.
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 1 week ago:
Oh, please. There’s way more to NASCAR than that.
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 1 week ago:
Prices tags are normally prepared using computers which are famously good at maths. Here in the UK, England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland have different rules for tax on certain products and yet everything is advertised with the final price.
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 1 week ago:
Parliament.
- Comment on How do people calculate pi to the hundredth+ decimal place? 1 week ago:
It’s true! I just drew a circle and measured it. Turns out π≈5.
- Comment on the universe about to have a little minty b 2 weeks ago:
Many of the allegories from the likes of Descartes and Aristotle use the concept of the mind being manipulated by demons - a common trope of their times - but the concepts being explored were the same as people talking about being a character in a book, or a brain in a jar, or a computer simulation; they’re just using the prevailing ideas of their time to communicate ideas to their contemporaries.
- Comment on the universe about to have a little minty b 2 weeks ago:
I’m currently running Timberborn on a potato. The NPCs don’t perceive their world’s lag: they are part of the world.
- Comment on Anon's grandpa does his own research 2 weeks ago:
This is why it’s important to listen to the eyewitnesses. Their perspective might not be perfect, but it’s authentic.
- Comment on How does AI use so much power? 2 weeks ago:
Imagine someone said “make a machine that can peel an orange”. You have a thousand shoeboxes full of Meccano. You give them a shake and tip out the contents and check which of the resulting scrap piles can best peel an orange. Odds are none of them can, so you repeat again. And again. And again. Eventually, one of boxes produces a contraption that can kinda, maybe, sorta touch the orange. That’s the best you’ve got so you copy bits of it into the other 999 shoeboxes and give them another shake. It’ll probably produce worse outcomes, but maybe one of them will be slightly better still and that becomes the basis of the next generation. You do this a trillion times and eventually you get a machine that can peel an orange. You don’t know if it can peel an egg, or a banana, or even how it peels an orange because it wasn’t designed but born through inefficient, random, brute-force evolution.
Now imagine that it’s not a thousand shoeboxes, but a billion. And instead of shoeboxes, it’s files containing hundred gigabytes of utterly incomprehensible abstract connections between meaningless data points. And instead of one a few generations a day, it’s a thousand a second. And instead of “peel an orange” it’s “sustain a facsimile of sentience capable of instantly understanding arbitrary, highly abstracted knowledge and generating creative works such to a standard approaching being indistinguishable from humanity such that it can manipulate those that it interacts with to support the views of a billionaire nazi nepo-baby”. When someone asks for an LLM to generate a picture of a fucking cat astronaut or whatever, the unholy mess of scraps that behaves like a mind spits out a result and no-one knows how it does it aside from broad-stroke generalisation. The iteration that gets the most thumbs up from it’s users gets to be the basis of the next generation, the rest die, millions of times a day.
What I just described is NEET algorithms, which are pretty primitive by modern standards, but it’s a flavour of what’s going on.
- Comment on Look out bugs bunny here comes 3 weeks ago:
The basil guy? Yeah, he’s cool, and he helped me get ye flask.
- Comment on That's his name 3 weeks ago:
Let’s go back to a website, c’mon, c’mon, c’mon.
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- Comment on A Polish jalapeño pastry 4 weeks ago:
Can’t say I’d be delighted about this, but they’ll very quickly leave when the food’s disturbed and wasps - like bees - don’t leave behind diseases or eggs. The same cannot be said for flies - if those were flies I wouldn’t touch anything in the shop.
- Comment on Car 4 weeks ago:
Remember when you could mix the cake mix off the spoon as a kid? Yeah, the mechanics won’t let me do that.
- Comment on Car 4 weeks ago:
Subbed. I encourage you, dear reader, to do the same.
- Comment on More people buying electric cars and heat pumps than ever before 4 weeks ago:
Some people still complain about slow charging on EVs. Most electric cars have no problem getting 3.5 miles per kWh. A standard UK wall plug can safely provide 13A, and while the voltage is notionally 230V it’s actually more than that for most people, but even if we ignore that, 230V × 13A ≈ 3kW, so an overnight charge of, say, eight hours on a standard wall plug gives you 3kW × 8h × 3.5mi/kWh ≈ 84 miles of range for under £5 if you pay 25p/kWh. I’ve said it before; if you can afford an electric car, you can’t afford not to have an one.
Space is the stinker, of course. A lot of people don’t have a spot on their property they can park their car, but for those that do it’s a no-brainer.
Also, heat pumps are basically magic. Why they’re not mandatory on new-builds, I don’t know.
- Comment on THE PERIODIC TABLE OF TAYLOR SWIFT👩🏼🔬🧪🧫🧬🔬 5 weeks ago:
That’s really clever. If you’ve not noticed it yet: if you hold your phone at arms length and blur your vision it looks like a vague blob that doesn’t look like Taylor Swift.
- Comment on I'm down 5 weeks ago:
“The anxiety of an man with the ability to be rendered into glue after death of a horse.”
- Comment on A metaphor for capitalism? 5 weeks ago:
Dyke Delta
Nice try, but I ain’t Googling that.
- Comment on Shitpost 5 weeks ago:
Same here. Whether I start the day with a strong mug of coffee, six litres of olive oil, two cartons on concentrated prune juice, or just a simple handful of laxatives pills, the result is always the same.
- Comment on Thing makes noise wallet goes empty 5 weeks ago:
Same in the UK. We have an annual MOT tests and even with that some drivers let their cars slide so much.
- Comment on good advice 5 weeks ago:
Done and done.
- Comment on good advice 5 weeks ago:
Did they forget the “to”?
