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- Comment on PhD Funding 2 months ago:
Oh finally, something I can store my yield in.
- Comment on Oh, the humanity! 2 months ago:
No, that’s a safety feature. It’s like saying that behind every fire there’s an architect that installed fire alarms for this very occasion. Without red LEDs, people will have no way to know the robot turned evil.
- Comment on Where to find empty vapes? I want to harvest a battery 2 months ago:
On the ground, near bus stops, parking lots, gas stations, anywhere people use them.
- Comment on Anyone else get random cancellation emails from onlyfans? 2 months ago:
Either phishing (send fake link, get you to enter password), or someone messing with you by signing up with your email
- Comment on Noise. 3 months ago:
The funny thing about RF work is how casually a few orders of magnitudes gets thrown around. 10 dB fudge factors for assorted losses are quite common.
- Comment on What's the best way to measure the size of the government? 3 months ago:
I guess you could look at governmental budget or number of employees, but raw size is quite a bad metric for overreach. The knowledge that one year a lot of money was spent inforcing laws tells you very little about the effects that has on the population as a whole.
To do that you’d need a good definition of what exactly overreach is, and you’d probably have to do a lot of work because I doubt anyone else had the exactl same definition.
- Comment on Animal Attacks 3 months ago:
I’m assuming there is a lot of regional variation here, the wasps near my house have never caused much trouble, they just eat dead mice and large grasshoppers. One even let me pet it recently. We did end up nuking a nest inside the garden hose box a few years back, but I doubt the wasps chose a problematic location intentionally.
- Comment on Troublemakers 4 months ago:
I dunno, oxygen’s been causing trouble recently, and it’s not the first time either.
- Comment on The circle of life 4 months ago:
Plastic is almost entirely made from plants much older then dinosaurs, but if you ate a chicken on the other hand…
- Comment on How do Texas residents afford electricity? 4 months ago:
Power companies average things out.
Now some customers specifically ask to pay the instantaneous price, and those people just turn things off. This has the advantage that you end up paying less during times if low demand.
- Comment on Why do hacked channels on youtube always post Tesla/SpaceX stuff? 4 months ago:
It’s just scammers trying to cash out. They know Elon has a large (and gullible) following, many of which see him as as trustworthy and a super good business man, making them easy targets.
It ends up as the usual, a scam investment promising huge returns, but of course they just run away with your money.
It’s fundamentally the same scam they use to hack accounts, posing as a rich sponsor and tricking the youtuber into downloading malware that steals their account.
- Comment on Humans didn't invent agriculture 4 months ago:
Well, who’s living in the house? Certainly not the wheat.
- Comment on ChatGPT’s much-heralded Mac app was storing conversations as plain text 4 months ago:
Doesn’t everything do this? If someone gets access to your hard drive, your fucked anyways. AI chat logs are about the least problematic thing on there.
- Comment on Caption this. 4 months ago:
Adult fidget spinner.
- Comment on Chips 4 months ago:
f(x) = potato^3^ = 3d potato f’(x) = 3 potato^2^ = 2d potato chips x3 f’'(x) = 6 potato = 1d potato fries x6
- Comment on Sweet vibrations 4 months ago:
You’re doing it wrong, you also need to tape your phone to them. It takes a bit more lower body strength but works much better.
- Comment on Stable Diffusion 3's Disastrous Launch Could Change the AI Landscape Forever 4 months ago:
Looking at the logs if my Stable horde worker, more then half of requests made were to generate porn. They’d be shooting themselves in the foot regardless of if the filter worked as intended.
- Comment on Evidence 4 months ago:
It’s not so much that we know there was nothing before it, but that we can’t figure out what was before it.
- Comment on Shop on the Temu app? Why class-action lawsuits in Canada and the U.S. have been proposed over privacy 5 months ago:
No one’s gonna talk about how they turned referral links into a piramid scheme?
- Comment on What do you do with Nazi memorabilia? 5 months ago:
Get a display case and put a note with the story on it. That way it’s clear its being kept from historical/sentimental value and not because you like Nazis.
- Comment on AI Fakes in Highschool and Middle School (USA) 5 months ago:
It seems to be illegal, regardless of if the nude is real, or photoshopped, or AI generated.
People are being arrested for doing this, and have been convicted.
For now convictions seem to be confined to people who have already created/used more traditional CSAM (hidden cameras, etc), so if a kid with no record would be jailed for simply faking nudes remains an open question.
- Comment on +rads 5 months ago:
Na, those are fake, made from putting this synthetic, toxic plutonium stuff in this big machine called a reactor.
- Comment on What is a good eli5 analogy for GenAI not "knowing" what they say? 6 months ago:
Like a kid trying very hard to sound like everyone else. “Eloquent bullshit generator”
- Comment on RNAception 6 months ago:
It goes even deeper, mRNA controls ribosomes, which are mostly RNA.
- Comment on How can the Oregon government make drugs illegal again with no public comment periods or voter input at all? 7 months ago:
Making decisions is the whole point of repesentives. If you don’t like their choices, don’t vote for them. Unfortunately, most places use first-past-the-post voting, which tends to result in 2 extreme parties, and people end up having to vote for the one that sucks less.
- Comment on How can the Oregon government make drugs illegal again with no public comment periods or voter input at all? 7 months ago:
Making decisions is the whole point of repesentives. If you don’t like their choices, don’t vote for them. Unfortunately, most places use first-past-the-post voting, which tends to result in 2 extreme parties, and people end up having to vote for the one that sucks less.
- Comment on What produced the old dead channel tv static audiovisuals on tvs? 7 months ago:
The TV will try and amplify and display any signal. Without a station, it will end up amplifying random radio noise and tiny fluctuations in the amplifier circuits themselves.
The momentary signal strength is interpreted as brightness of a spot which is rapidly scanned over the display. In this case the signal is random so every spot on the screen will be a random brightness, changing every frame.
Modern digital TVs won’t do this, because with compressed video recognizable data is needed to even attempt displaying a picture.
- Comment on Can I lick it? Yes you can. 7 months ago:
You know it’s an old paper when it describes the taste of mercury salts.
- Comment on third panel: struggling with windows & android updates 7 months ago:
Pro tip: If you pick an obscure enough subfield, you can become the leading expert by virtue of existing.
- Comment on Detecting a tracker pixel/image in email 7 months ago:
Make another account to see if a different user/email address gets a different URL, which would indicate that it is used to track users.