kryptonianCodeMonkey
@kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
- Comment on Growth 18 hours ago:
I’ve been Demisexual since I first watched Striptease as a teenager.
- Comment on Become ungovernable 1 day ago:
Anti-pigeon spikes and sturdy conveniently located nest weaving starter spikes have a lot in common
- Comment on Don’t forget to regularly check your eyes! 2 days ago:
You’re at no loss for it, I promise.
- Comment on Don’t forget to regularly check your eyes! 2 days ago:
Red green color blind here. I could only see the last one clearly and kind of make out the first one, but even just the last one alone was enough. I hate you.
- Comment on You need to think long term 2 days ago:
Weirdly I’m thankful someone stole and changed my password to dbzboy19@hotmail.com when I was in high school. It prompted me to generate a new, more respectable, email address. Otherwise this would be a pretty unfortunate reality for me.
That being said, fuck that guy. feel free to send that email spam and gross images on my behalf to fill up their storage.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
“The only one that matters in this company is me” and other sociopathic thoughts of CEOs and Tech Bros: a compendium of hucksters, hubris and human suffering.
- Comment on It's honestly fine, you're overthinking it! 4 days ago:
You can if it needs it for baked on food. It’s not necessary for most washes though
- Comment on It's honestly fine, you're overthinking it! 4 days ago:
First cycle of the dishwasher is just a hot water rinse to get a head start on removing debris that gets drained away. Then it refills and deploys detergent and spends most of the rest of the time in this cycle before rinsing and drying. So, I mean, I don’t recommend it, but it will be drained a few minutes into the cycle and the dishwasher will actually clean with detergents after with no pee left. So, it really won’t hurt anything besides your relationship with your family/roommates.
- Comment on Nice 4 days ago:
I mean… it’s not even a little bit a secret
- Comment on they're havin a laugh 5 days ago:
Ha, that was actually the other quote I considered commenting. Great minds.
- Comment on they're havin a laugh 5 days ago:
Hey! What is Jen doing with the internet? Are you insane? What if she drops it!?
- Comment on Super-threesome 6 days ago:
“It was dark”
That is Batman desperately trying to give them both an out. But he’s Superman. He has more vision-based super powers than I care to list here. “It was dark,” pfft. He could see just fine. And Batman knows it. Now he needs to learn to cope with the implications of a rapey Superman.
- Comment on Scary indeed. 6 days ago:
It’s a remake, not a remaster. It will likely have entirely new assets and a modern game design. Familiar but new
- Comment on He's an arborist 2 weeks ago:
You working with a micro twig? Someone’s trimming back the foliage can help make it seem longer.
- Comment on He's an arborist 2 weeks ago:
gasp! clutches pearls
How dare you imply such vulgarity about my branch measuring device.
- Comment on He's an arborist 2 weeks ago:
The correct way is to see how deep into a Pringle it can go. For an accurate measure, you’ll need to prevent angled entry. You can help it slide in straight by using a couple guiding sponges on either side of a latex glove attached to the rim pushed up inside it. Put a bit of Vaseline in the glove to prevent tearing the glove with the rough bark. For maximum safety, put the jar of Vaseline in a warm water bath for a few minutes beforehand to make the viscosity better for smooth entry and exit.
- Comment on Here comes mommy 3 weeks ago:
“Julio González committed an act of arthon known as the Happy Land fire, which killed 87 people! He’th a math murderer! Thufferin’ Thuccotash!”
- Comment on Lefty tax 3 weeks ago:
Ok story time from the Fireworks stores.
First some background: My wife’s dad owns a couple fireworks stores. One sells items individually, the other sells everything as buy one get one free because it is right next to a competitor that uses that model. Fun fact about stores that sell everything as BOGO all the time… the prices are just double. You’re just paying for two. That’s the whole model. My father in law hates it too and wishes we didnt need to do it to compete with the other store. It’s not only not a deal, it’s arguably worse because you have* to buy two of the same visual display, meaning you’re just watching the same thing twice for no good reason.
*We don’t actually make anyone buy two of anything. We also tell them they can mix-and-match, i.e. buy one item and get a different item with the same price free. And we don’t really advertise it, because it actually pisses some people off, but if you just want one of the item, you can get it for “half price”. No problem at all. It makes no difference at all to me. I don’t even have to do anything fancy with the registers. We just ring up every item individually. They’re all priced exactly the same as they are at the other store. It’s all an illusion.
But there is a certain percentage of shoppers that absolutely, positively, will not buy a product unless they are “getting a deal”, and those people are univerally bad at math. We sell a select set of items as BOGO or mix and match at the other store too and those people will only buy those items. My father in law will even tell them that no one needs to watch the same thing twice. We actually use the stupidity of the BOGO model as a selling point at the other store. But that’s all that some people want. The people that shop at the BOGO store will come in saying they went to our other store (not knowing they’re related) and everything was so expensive compared to them and they didnt have any good deals, then buy a cart full of shit at THE EXACT SAME PRICE PER PIECE. It’s absurd.
So anyway, back to the fun story. I had to cover as a salesman and cashier at the BOGO store once. A couple came in, he wanted a bunch of fire crackers, bottle rockets, Roman candles, etc. The typical play stuff. His wife wasnt into all that, she just wanted to see something inexpensive and pretty. I showed her videos of a few smaller items that I thought she’d like and she really liked one in particular. It was the only one I had left on the shelf though. I tried to look around and see if there was a good mix and match to go with it, but it was at a less common price point, and I couldn’t find anything. So I told her that since I couldn’t find her another or a mix and match, I’d give it to her for half of the tag price (again, that’s also just… the normal price). She was very happy with that. She just wanted the one pretty thing anyway.
So we get up to the register and I started to scan out their cart… two rolls of firecrackers, 8 roman candles, 2 packs of bottle rockets, etc. Then I scanned her item. He asked where the second one was. I explained that that was the last one and we couldn’t find a mix and match so I was just going to charge her half of the tag price for it. He said, dead serious, “if I don’t get anything free with it, I’m not buying it.” He told me just to set it aside and put it back. They only thing she wanted. Becuase half price wasnt as good as buy one get one free… I ended up just handing it to her and telling her to take it. She has an ass for a husband, a stupid one at that. She deserved to see something pretty.
- Comment on Wowee 3 weeks ago:
Where did you find the other 15?
- Comment on Vibe management 3 weeks ago:
It would if all the the chip makers weren’t making chips on credit from a broke ass industry
- Comment on Vibe management 3 weeks ago:
The Chinese AI companies being state sponsored just means that they can go longer and throw more money at development without turning profit than other investor driven companies.
The US is certainly throwing a bloated amount of money at AI too. And a much as it infuriates me, they’ll almost certainly absorb the bubble pop with tax another bailout for criminal corporate behavior. But it’s not quite been a direct pipeline of openly flowing cash, just yet. They’re still paying for discrete contracts which have to be approved in the budget. They’ve been massive contracts, but they’re still making these companies compete e each other for them too. Like with the recent flip from DOJ contracts with Anthropic to OpenAI, for example.
In China, they’re buying in supporting the entire industry. They’re building infrastructure for AI data centers, giving them grants and subsidies, have direct ownership in the companies, and had made specific carve outs in their laws to give AI development deregulated room to do what it needs. I’m not in favor of either approach. Just pointing out that China’s approach does seem to have been an advantage in the AI race, or at least was enough of one that they made up a ton of ground, and maybe passed their US counterparts.
- Comment on Vibe management 3 weeks ago:
Not quite the same. The tulip industry was making money hand over foot. It was the speculators that ended up being shafted. Tulip mania was more comparable to the beanie babie craze, or even NFTs. AI companies, on the whole, are making no profit at all except.
- Comment on Vibe management 3 weeks ago:
This feels predictable. AI is one of, if not the most invested in yet unprofitable industries in the history of humanity.
The last few years have been the beta and the tech demo. But that is not paying for itself yet. US companies are competing with (and falling behind) Chinese state-sponsored companies. OpenAI in particular, a company whose revenue doesn’t even cover half of their operating costs, has extended themselves into owing more than a TRILLION dollars to the entirety of big tech who are building chips and data centers on these IOUs, and will need to be paid sooner or later. The bills will come due.
Other corporations are already paying massive bills for licensing, tokens, training, and infrastructure changes to accommodate this shift to AI while laying off massove chunks of skilled workers on the idea that AI is cheap and will get cheaper over time. But that is simply not the case. This is the “first taste is free” part of this deal. Once they have companies deeply invested in AI and have destroyed the fabric of the labor economy in favor of it, that price is going to skyrocket because OF COURSE IT WILL.
Maybe at some point this will all level out. AI bubble will pop. Prices will sky rocket. Companies will try to backpedal, which will be slow and difficult, they’ll end up paying AI companies huge sums while they work to decouple themselves after just forming the bond, they’ll also end up paying stupid money to professionals who are suddenly in high demand, and many companies won’t survive the chaos.
AI will eventually get cheaper (but probably never this cheap again, at least not in the near future), and it will probably be a permanent fixture in our lives and work to some degree. But it’s usefulness and cost effectiveness will be limited in scope, with specialized purposes. It will not ultimately be the great labor replacement companies think/thought it would be, even as stupid and short sighted as that desire is in the first place (if 30% of the global work force is unemployed, how do you think that will effect your revenue, morons!?). But that also is assuming that the coming chaos doesn’t turn out so bad that AI is permanently legislated into oblivion after the chaos it’s about to cause.
- Comment on Here I come! 4 weeks ago:
Goochie goochie
- Comment on PS5 Exclusive Saros Has Reportedly Only Sold 300K Copies 4 weeks ago:
Probably doesn’t help that this is the first I’ve heard of it.
- Comment on Name one 5 weeks ago:
I think he’s more or less neurotypical. His quirks seem largely to be an intentional act to throw off his suspects and make them underestimate him.
- Comment on Name one 5 weeks ago:
Are we counting early Columbo’s cigarettes as his addiction? Cuz otherwise I think he fits the bill
- Comment on DNAddy 5 weeks ago:
That confused me as well. The stuff I read didn’t elaborate on how that would help.
- Comment on DNAddy 5 weeks ago:
Another fun-ish, kinda fucked up, weird story… There’s a woman, Henrietta Lacks, who had a biopsy for her cervical cancer in January of 1951 before passing in October of that year. These cells were found to be incredibly resilient and quick to replicate. Most cells only lasted a few days before dying, but hers seemed to be functionally immortal under controlled lab conditions.
So, unbeknownst to her as consent wasnt required for such things at the time, her cancer cells were cultured and grown into large samples to be used in research. Those samples were split off and passed off to other labs. They’ve since spread around the entire world for a ton of research and commercial purposes.
They were used in the development of the polio vaccine, for example, as well as having been used in research on cancer (obviously), AIDS, the effects of radiation and toxic materials, gene mapping, etc. They are used to test safety of cosmetics as well. Approximately 11,000 patents involve these specific cancer cells.
In the 1970s, there was an incident where these cells contaminated other cell cultures, so the researchers needed DNA samples from the Henrietta’s family to differentiate her cells from the others. This is the first time anyone in her family learned that her cells had been used in research at all, let alone that her cells were being cloned and used in research and commercial product development across the entire world. It became a legal issue after this, and after a couple decades of litigation, it made it to the Supreme Court of California where they ruled that “discarded biological materials” is no longer ones property and could be commercialized freely. They continue to occasionally fight against aspects of her cells’ usage, and they’re are health privacy concerns for her family as well, but results have been mixed for them.
Henrietta the person died in 1951 at age 31, but her immortal cancer cells which still contain her full DNA sequence continue to live to this day, 75 years later. One source claims that as much as 50 million metric tons of tissue has been generated from these cells.
- Comment on Oh no I've dropped my box of Twinkies. This is such a...uh...oh, what's the word I'm looking for...? 5 weeks ago:
Boooooo
