blackbelt352

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No ChatGPT for sexy time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Right wingers angry at culture war nonsense and make it their entire personality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just as Nolan intended⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  UMIN?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could Archie Bunker or Sanford and Son be made today?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There was that one recreation episode they did on live TV with Woody Harleson from a few years ago I think?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could Archie Bunker or Sanford and Son be made today?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly, word for word? No not really but a lot of the politically relevant themes the shows had are disappointingly still relevant today, Archie uses the same gotchas as an excuse to be a racist pos and his son uses the same appeals to humanity and doing the right thing progressives have been using. Its like going back and watching West Wing, we’re still dealing with the same ineffectual liberals who get moral victories while losing the mandates of power and bible thumping conservatives making the lives of everyone who isnt a straight white dude a living hell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where did the conspiracy theory that America was behind 9/11? Was there any evidence to back up these claims (real evidence)?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So I’ve been on the inside of a small crisis while at work and can easily see how the mixture of hubris and mistakes and events out of our control and rushing to present the most positive picture in the aftermath and take advantage of the events.

  I’m working on an internal project, a recognition platform, with a few others at work that hasn’t been put out there yet. We just finished setting it up on the technical side, set up a bunch of programs on the platform, got user data uploads and single sign on set up. We figured since nobody really knows about it yet or can find it anywhere, we didnt have to worry about people signing in and using it before the launch. Well, there was an automated email that went out to all the managers from a platform we haven’t announced yet and a few people start signing in and using it before we’re fully ready for launch. We scramble to shut everything down, and send out a message out to everyone who got the automated email basically doing our best to save face and after the dust settled, we discussed what went wrong, where our mistakes were, and what we learned, we did come out of the other side knowing the new platform did work and was very easy to use.

  On the inside it was basically a comedy of errors that we gained some nice insights from. From the outside I can easily see a conspiracy minded person being like “they purposefully leaked the whole thing to test if they could get away with it and preplant the ideas in our heads.”

  I really think my minor crisis experience is closer to what happened on 9/11 than some mustache twirling villainous conspiracy with secret cabals micromanaging the entire thing. I think not taking the initial reports seriously enough by 2 separate presidents, led to a major crisis unfolding, and the aftermath being a lot of useful consent manufacturing to pass a ton of draconian legislation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valid point⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cards also need to take quite a bit of damage before they stop working too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The end of civilization costs $5⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No. You need to freeze in in an insulated container with only one side exposed so it all freezes in 1 direction. Impurities get pushed to the opposite side and you are left with clear ice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happened to us Pirates? We used to sail the web and never even thought about reprecussions just sharing. Now it seems like it costs to be a pirate like a VPN and such. WTH happened?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Its the same kind of arms race that cybersecurity is going through, one side creates defenses, the attackers (all color hats) figure out bypasses and exploits, the defenders patch out the exploits, attackers find new exploits, defenders keep reacting, attackers keep finding new exploits, and the cycle keeps continuing. In an attempt to break the arms race, the defenders are going to turn to legislation to make engaging in the arms race illegal unless you’re certified.

  Side note but I’m not making a value judgement on either side, there are defenders protecting bad people and attackers who are justified in their attacks and have released important information out to the public, but protecting your own information from malicious attackers is also super important, stuff like login info to critical infrastructure systems or your financial details so bad actors dont open up a dozen credit cards in your name and destroy your financial reputation needed to survive in this world (fuck credit scores but they are unfortunately part of our reality.)

  Same sort of deal with copyright holders vs pirates, copyright holders are trying to protect what is legally theirs, and pirates are trying to bypass that. (Again no moral arguments here, this is just the nature of the conflict). Pirates gain access, copyright holders create more hurdles to the content, pirates gain access again, copyright does the same thing. Eventually they just keep throwing more legislation at the war to make privacy becomes increasingly expensive through the courts. At the end of the day, unlike cybersecurity, this piracy war wouldn’t exist if every piece of media created was commodified for massive profit. Steam is evidence of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“You are the most hated demographic at game events.” A major Japanese indie game showcase is waging war on “unsolicited advice dudes”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Its a narrative consulting company based in Canada that right wing chuds think is ruining games by forcing wokeism into games because Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League was a bad game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“You are the most hated demographic at game events.” A major Japanese indie game showcase is waging war on “unsolicited advice dudes”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah you’re good, I have a feeling there is significant overlap between “unsolicited advice dudes” and chuds who screech about Sweet Baby.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ex-Overwatch Director Says Tracer's Butt Was Never "Nerfed"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really even that, they just changed her from a classic femme fatale pose to a literal pinup pose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can SHOW you the WORLD⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not quite. Mickey Mouse is still a trademark of Disney, but the actual animation of Steamboat Willie is in the public domain, so using the mouse in a way that promotes brand confusion is a no go but using Steamboat Willie is perfectly fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't tell me that you all don't have the same issue⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean the one that is already in use?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't tell me that you all don't have the same issue⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes you plug a new device into the TV that you got after you mounted a TV.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re not alone! I’ll gladly listen to him explain the refrigeration cycle again and again and again and how everything is just a worse heart pump.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tune a fish⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People usually use tunafish to refer to tuna salad, which is mainly canned tuna, mayonnaise, and a few seasonings, typically served on a sandwich.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tune a fish⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a heater to make hot water. As opposed to a space heater, which is a heater used to heat a space and a food heater that is a heater used to heat food to serving temps and a floor heater which is a heater to warm up a floor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are super-computers used for ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A super computer isn’t just a single computer, it’s a lot of them networked together to greatly expand the calculation scaling. If you can imagine a huge data center, with thousands of racks of hardware, CPUs, GPUs and RAM chips all dedicated to the tasks of managing network traffic for major websites, its very similar to that but instead of being built to handle all the ins and outs and complexities of managing network traffic, it’s purely dedicated to doing as many calculations for a specific task, such as protein folding as someone else mentioned, or something like Pixar’s Render Farm, which is hundreds of GPUs all networked together dedicated solely to the task of rendering frames.

  With how big and complex any given 3d scenes are in any given Pixar film one single GPU might take 10 hours to calculate the light bounces in a scene to render a single frame, assuming a 90 minute run time, that ~130,000 frames, which is potentially 1,300,000 hours (or about 150 years) to complete just 1 full movie render on a single GPU. If you have 2 GPUs working on rendering frames, you’ve now cut that time down to 650,000 hours. Throw 100 GPUs at the render, we’ve cut time to 13,000 hours, or about a year and a half. Pixar is pretty quiet about their numbers but at least according to the Science of Pixar traveling exhibit during the time of Monster University in 2013, their render farm had about 2000 machines with 24,000 processing cores, and it took 2 years worth of rendering time to render that movie out, and I can only imagine how much bigger their render farm has gotten since then.

  Source: sciencebehindpixar.org/pipeline/rendering

  You’re not building a super computer to be able to play Crysis, you’re building a super computer to do lots and lots and lots of math that might take centuries of calculation to do on a single 16 core machine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's the truth! ⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I pickle them in vinegar, they turn bright pink, if I alkalize them in baking soda, they turn blue, if I cook them slowly in butter they turn a deep brown color.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Racism restaurant ⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends but technically yes. American cheese is pretty simple, one or multiple cheeses blended with sodium citrate and some milk to create a very smoothly melting cheese. I actually made some myself last night by melting a bunch of very sharp cheddar cheese into some milk and adding a few slices of a decent American cheese to get the sodium citrate. I basically made a really good borderline cheese whiz for the sandwiches I made.

  Kraft Singles, (which is what everyone likely has in mind for plastic fake cheese) however don’t contain enough cheese as an ingredient to call the final product an actual cheese, there is a lot of milk powder added in that tips the ratios into cheese product territory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A place for conservatives⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Stats don’t lie and there are a lot of closeted Republicans on Grindr

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When does Trump finally start taking accountability?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  He will take accountability at the same moment the Austrian mustache man too accountability for the holocaust. That is, he will go to the grave never taking accountability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sign me up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I gotta agree with Samus12345 on this one. This really does look like something conservatives would post unironically kinda like that pride month = demon meme with an ai generated rainbow Satan goat head that makes pride month look so much more badass than they were trying to show.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bingo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  2 parties is the inevitable outcome of FPTP, there’s no enforcement of 2 parties, it’s simply the most viable strategy in this voting system. Washington was right to deride the 2 party system but the framers were building an electoral system long before we had some extremely serious mathematics done about making voting systems more fair, and also proving that no voting system can be perfectly fair and satisfy all fairness criteria.

  And they also weren’t one homogeneous group either, they all wanted different things and came to compromise about how to go about doing it, some wanted a centralized army to stand up to outside forces, others saw that as a risk, capable of waging war internally. They were working off of the collective knowledge of the Greeks, Romans, and more contemporary writers like Voltaire, Hobbes, and Rousseau. They didn’t have the next 250 years of political philosophy that would develop that we know today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HELP! Im looking for a game like CIV 6 where the point is to go to war⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  2 expansions, 6 Frontier Pass Packs, 6 leader packs, scenario DLCs, leader DLCs. There’s a lot more than just Gathering Storm and Rise & Fall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HELP! Im looking for a game like CIV 6 where the point is to go to war⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Domination victory is literally one of the victoru conditions of Civ 6. You’re allowed to go full steamroll and go to war with everyone. Some of the civs are focused on going to war and expanding quickly through warfare like the Aztecs. Just don’t be surprised when you keep attacking other civs and the other players use the other diplomatic strategies to their advantage.

  I’m Civ it’s also important to know how the other players perceive you and how to manipulate that perception to your advantage. Manufacture Casus Belli, poke and prod until others make the first attack and you “defend” yourself by taking their cities. You’ll be less of a warmonger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨^_^ I just think skibidibi sounds neat :3⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Holds up spork

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meep⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  AI bs aside, Teslas actually do fall for the roadrunner gag because they use cameras instead of lidar for navigation.

  Mark Rober actually put it to the test and… well… it failed horribly.

  youtu.be/IQJL3htsDyQ The big moment is at about 15 min into the video.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Americans can't coo-"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah I’m saying it’s technically viable, not that it’s actually any good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Americans can't coo-"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s held at a slightly lower temp for longer it can achieve the same bacterial reduction the 145F the usda recommends, its the instant bacterial death time.