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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is piefed?⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  What were the side-effects? I was thinking of implementing something that doesn’t directly federate votes, so it would be good to know what problems I’d need to solve before that can be done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is piefed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe piefed creates fake accounts to do the voting so it doesn’t federate the actual account that cast the vote.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You don’t see articles like this about moms with three two jobs who still manage to take care of their kids.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As a researcher, a good chunk of my work is literally just sitting on my ass and thinking. Or thinking while taking a walk in the park, or thinking while mindlessly chopping wood in a video game. Now with a kid, it’s kind of switched to thinking about what to do for dinner, how I can get the chores done for the day or how to organize my time so that I can fit in a few hours of work. It’s work in the sense that it’s something that needs to be done and it has an energy cost to doing. It’s also not really something you can turn off even if you wanted to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ice cream trucks still around?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think I’ve ever seen a food truck drive around looking for customers. They’re usually just stationed in one place for the day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why abc, xyz, etc.?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  abc and xyz make sense because they lie on opposite ends of the alphabet, so if you need more variables for either sets, there’s a lot more room to maneuver. If you’re looking for the history of these variables in the context of Cartesian coordinates, I’d start with looking at Descartes’ work. This whole system originated from him, so if he used xyz, then that must be where it came from.

  I’ve seen p and q used in various contexts. For example, they could be probability distributions (e.g. KL(p|q)), they could be two points. In these scenarios, we just use p because it’s the first letter of whatever they represent, and q comes after while looking similar so it suggests that they’re the same type of mathematical object.

  For indexing, it’s what we commonly use just because we call it an index. You’re not counting or tallying things. It’s a reference to a location in memory. But if you are counting, then c makes perfect sense and I’ve definitely used it in that context. I’ve also used t for indexing if that index represents time. But if there’s no other meaning associated with it, then it’s just an index, hence i.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you combat boredom?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This had the opposite effect for me. I basically never experienced boredom until I had a kid. The things you have to do to entertain them are so mind-numbingly boring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm doing my part!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not that warm flat sodas appeal to me, but rather that carbonated drinks are painful to drink too quickly. If I have a paper straw, it’s also going to be accompanied by a meal, which takes time to eat. Also, if I’m getting a more interesting drink like a smoothie, slush, boba, etc, then I usually get something fairly large to enjoy over a long period of time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm doing my part!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if the people who don’t like them let their drinks sit for hours

  Yes

  and chew on the straw till they’re soggy

  No

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does a guy become his most confident around women?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think the example you give is a good one. Consent is always important. You don’t slap a dude’s ass without knowing ahead of time that they’re okay with it.

  But that aside, there are differences for sure, and I think the most important one is in starting and ending interactions. If you’re a man interacting a woman, you need to be aware of the safety concerns from the woman’s perspective. In almost all interactions, a man can easily leave with no concern for their safety, but it’s not so simple for women, so you’d want to pay closer attention to any signs of discomfort they’re giving off and end the interaction when appropriate, or not starting one if they’re giving “don’t approach me” vibes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did websites like TinEye recognize cropped photos of the same image (and other likened pictures), without the low-entry easyness of LLM/AI Models these days?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yann Lecun gave us convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in 1998. These are the models that are used for pretty much all specialized computer vision tasks even today. TinyEye came into existence ten years later in 2008. I can’t tell you if they used CNNs, but they were certainly available.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you see magic eye pictures?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It sounds like you might be looking at the left image with your right eye and the right image with your left eye. That’s what happens when you cross your eyes instead of looking past the image.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is wrong with being "Black Pilled"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Which comment is saying that? Everyone is being pretty explicit about the differences between choosing not to date because you’re uninterested versus because you think you’re too ugly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can see the appeal. I’ve just had bad experiences with devices that use digital controls, and you necessarily need digital controls if you’re going to automate these things. Everything breaks eventually, but simpler devices can usually be easily fixed whereas anything that relies on specialized circuit boards are outside of my wheelhouse. I would be much more comfortable with owning one of these if they released information on how these circuits worked so that replacements can be made even if the company disappears.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does AI use so much power?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can confirm as a human with domain knowledge that this is indeed a commonly used approach when a model doesn’t fit into a single GPU.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, but that should be a separate device. One that I can use in any grill or oven. There’s no reason for the grill itself to have that feature, especially if it can potentially brick the whole thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In languages which use complex written characters (such as Chinese's logographs), is there an equivalent to English's "text speak" shorthand?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still learning, so I don’t know the language well enough to give you examples. One of the things I’ve seen is using single Latin characters as replacement for Chinese characters that are homophones. This is often seen when writing things out in dialects that have unique words that don’t exist in the Mandarin writing system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This whole discussion you see above is part of the process of repeating a study. You can’t just do exactly what the previous study did and expect all the flaws to magically disappear. You need to first uncover the flaws, and more eyes and collaboration means a higher likelihood that the flaws get found. Then you redesign the experiment to fix those flaws, and then you can run it again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's still captivating⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Naw, that definitely defies the laws of physics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am looking to broaden my youtube channels that I follow. What female channel are you following?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Food / cooking:

  • www.youtube.com/@imamuroom She used to do a lot of bento boxes but has since switched to regular home cooking. Good for getting meal inspirations.
  • www.youtube.com/@AcreHomestead She does a lot of “meal prep” style videos and food preservation, including lots of freezer meals. Also good for inspiration.
  • www.youtube.com/@Doobydobap She has a few long-ish videos that give a good high level overview of Korean cooking. The majority of the channel is more vlog-like but I’ve only watched her cooking videos.
  • www.youtube.com/@CSaffitz Mostly does desserts. Her recipes tend to be on the more complex side. I’d look to her if I really want to perfect a recipe.

  Others:

  • www.youtube.com/@theleanbeefpatty Gym videos. More of a mindless entertainment channel than informational. She has a pet pig.
  • www.youtube.com/@Caroline_Winkler Interior design. She has a peculiar sense of humor that’s not quite my style, but the information is good.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it morally wrong for an immigrant or naturalized citizen to "keep a low profile" and avoid speaking up against the government in order to minimize the risks of denaturalization/deportation?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d add that they also have your roommate at knife point. I don’t think it changes the answer too much, but it’s closer to the scenario that OP is probably thinking about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It was all a lie, wasn't it?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Where did all your pipes and wiring go? What insulates the building?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But I am mighty!!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Like father, like son.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon conserves power⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We don’t need a single mind to understand the entirety of how the brain works. One of the powers of human knowledge is its distributed nature arising from our ability to write things down and create abstractions. What matters in the end is that we as a collective understand the brain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sorry, groceries.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Every day is an emergency

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a medieval equivalent of the youtube channel "Primative Technology"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This reads like a Google AI summary. I love it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not reading any anger in their message. Seems like a pretty innocent joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My days pretty much consist entirely of work, chores, gym, spending time with my kid, and sleeping. If not for the flexibility I get from work, I don’t think I’d ever be able to do groceries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only 1 in 3 Euro consumers are trading in their old phones⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if it’s the same in Europe, but here in Canada, I’ve only seen the option to trade in old phones when you’re buying one of the fancier phones with a bunch of bells and whistles I don’t need. There no way they would give me enough for this phone to make up for the price difference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spicy food never affects my gut and everyone thinks it's really weird. How unusual is this and what could be happening to explain why spicy food doesn't affect me?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone want to take a capsaicin pill for science?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is empathy based on a financial bell curve?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think what you’re observing is the interplay between two variables with opposing correlation with respect to wealth:

  1. Having empathy
  2. Ability to display empathy

  Poorer people might have more empathy, but their ability to show it is inhibited because of lack of resources (time/energy/material). Wealthier people may have all the means to display empathy, but they’re less incentivized to do so. At some point in the middle, you get a sweet spot where there’s both sufficient desire and ability to do good.