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- Comment on It's just science. 5 days ago:
It’s not science, it’s Englilsh.
- Comment on Caption this. 5 days ago:
🟥 Discovered Bones ⬜ Undiscovered Bones
- Comment on Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act verification rules 5 days ago:
You’re blaming the current government for a law that was brought in by the previous government.
- Comment on Shamelessly stolen from Reddit 1 week ago:
My problem with the whole thing is well expressed by Bojack Horseman.
An IT technician who spends their entire career in air-conditioned offices in their home country but happens to be employed by the army is worthy of adoration, special treatment and prioritisation, but obviously a nurse saving lives on a daily basis and facing routine abuse from violent drunks and psychotic nutcases can fuck right off because they work at a privately-owned hospital.
Drawing a circle around the armed forces saying “these people are deserving of unquestionable praise and arbitrary benefits” is the same as saying “no-one else is” and it’s insulting to the intelligence of everyone involved.
- Comment on GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship 2 weeks ago:
absolutewin.gif
- Comment on Public urged to help catch gangs bringing drugs on ‘mother ships’ to UK coast 2 weeks ago:
Dreams.
- Comment on Anon is unaware he's at risk for a heart attack 2 weeks ago:
When you’re in balls-deep and give one final buck, spraying your thick batter deep into him as your tongue fights his, and you pull away with your lips still bridged by saliva and sweat and you stare at his face framed by your hands and you caress his chin with your thumb and realise he’s the most beautiful thing you’ve ever seen and you stare into his big, deep eyes and he stares back into yours he whispers “I love you” and you whisper back “I love you too” I cannot even begin to stress how important it is to say “no homo” otherwise you might give off the wrong signals.
- Comment on a horrid little graph 2 weeks ago:
Also these divide into nine buckets (or 16, 25, etc). They might not been the sharpest spoon in the shed.
- Comment on a horrid little graph 2 weeks ago:
Why is your nose ear (or vice-versa)?
- Comment on Public urged to help catch gangs bringing drugs on ‘mother ships’ to UK coast 2 weeks ago:
Years ago me and a couple of mates built mini shallow-level submarines. Initially they were remote controlled, then programmable (since radio waves don’t like water) and eventually we got to the point where they could travel a few miles at a time underwater, surface enough to expose their GPS antennae to confirm a fix and link to Meshtastic for updated instructions, and then carry on their way. My point is these smugglers need to get their shit together. “Mother ships”? Give me a break. Amateurs.
- Comment on Public urged to help catch gangs bringing drugs on ‘mother ships’ to UK coast 2 weeks ago:
Havelock Vetinari, is that you?
- Comment on 4.2% pay rise for police officers across England and Wales 2 weeks ago:
Given the bullshit they deal with - especially in ass-backwards Reform towns - and the effective pay freeze they were under during the last government, I think this is good but not nearly enough. And before anyone chimes in, yes, this also applies to public sector workers in healthcare, sanitation, education, emergency aid, etc, etc.
- Comment on Meet the Pro-Israel Lawyers Hounding the NHS 2 weeks ago:
Is this UKLFI again?
- Comment on erm what the heck 2 weeks ago:
I’m ditched Spotify for Qobuz and am having a good time so far.
- Comment on ill take a double scoop 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Don’t WINE.
- Comment on Anon has learned enough 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
- Ya
Not that exceptional.
- Comment on Do you still remember? 4 weeks ago:
Like most Brits, a Vauxhall (Opel) Corsa.
- Comment on We really, really do. 4 weeks ago:
Mirth! Imitate not replicate. 🥄🥄🥄
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks ago:
Parliament.
- Comment on How do people calculate pi to the hundredth+ decimal place? 4 weeks 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 4 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 4 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 5 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? 5 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.