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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the snow melt in this pattern?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Snow is simultaneously a particle and a wave. What you’re seeing is the destructive interference resulting from its wave-like behaviour.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is non-sexual masochism a thing?⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I would say that the pain and follow-up soreness from working hard at the gym feels amazing in a non-sexual way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This world is cruel…⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  If you cook, you cook for a purpose, you don’t throw food away just because you’ve cooked for the sake of cooking, you eat it, or serve it to someone else to eat. In the end it’s a chore fulfilled still.

  There’s overlap, but not necessarily. If I’m cooking for fun, I’ll cook things that are tasty and that I (or whoever I’m cooking for) would enjoy eating. I won’t be paying attention to the nutritional content of the food. But if I’m cooking for sustenance, then nutritional value comes first before enjoyment of the process or the food. Sometimes, you have to do both for one meal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This world is cruel…⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Living in Canada. Very few of the gardens in my neighbourhood have grass. It’s not as uncommon as you think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How screwed would one be if their email provider shuts down?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t without its own problems. If you fail to renew your domain and someone else picks it up, they now have access to all your accounts. At least with a popular provider like Gmail, they don’t allow emails to be reused, and if they ever discontinue email services and drop the gmail.com domain, everyone will know about it and know that password reset requests should not be sent to these emails.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are Minimum Wages, Why Not a Maximum Wage?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t that already how it works? Currently, US citizens still have to pay taxes when living outside the country unless they’re paying taxes to a specific set of other countries. Although consequences are on the individual who fails to pay and not their country of residence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we all have mayonnaise in our fridges instead of béarnaise sauce?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you typically use your mayo for? I’m curious because all the stuff you add to your mayo is stuff that I would normally have in whatever dish is using the mayo, so I’m wondering if it actually makes a difference to have it blended in the sauce versus separate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Since when does a clock need a privacy policy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Their privacy policy: www.fossify.org/policy/clock/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are any games using neural networks for better hard AI that doesn't cheat?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  GT Sophy on Gran Turismo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not pointless. Depending on where you live, there’s a good chance you do have an abundance of cheap housing available. They’re just not in desirable locations, so many would opt to either pay extra for the privilege of living in more desirable homes or even living on the streets.

  Regarding taxes, I’m talking about those who haven’t previously paid taxes, are not currently paying taxes while living in the area, and have no plans to pay taxes after they leave the area.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How did that work when it came to deciding who gets the more desirable housing versus the less desirable ones? Or those who are not from the area and don’t pay taxes to cover the housing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure you mean that you’d like a world with no landlords and not a world where short term housing solutions don’t exist. No rent would imply the latter. Unless you know of a way to do it without paying rent?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pee posting?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And she’s only getting half of the controls with no coordination between the two. She doesn’t know how strong of a stream you’re giving her and you can’t adjust it based on where she plans to point your dick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat lead⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Logical meaning having the ability to follow logical roles to determine whether or not any statement is true or false. I’ve followed that train or logic and determined that the sentence you provided is neither true nor false. I’ve determined that it is paradoxical. Why would an omniscient being be unable to know that this is a paradox?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat lead⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This sentence is not known to be true by any omniscient being.

  I don’t understand how this disproves the existence of an omniscient being. What if I said “This sentence is not known to be true by any logical being.” Is my existence disproven now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For states on the coast with excess solar energy why don't they invest in water desalination and pump that water back upstream?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Could you process it further and package it up to sell as salt? Or is this not the same thing as table salt?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you ever had a shit that smelled like a hair salon?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve noticed that it sometimes smells like epoxy glue. I wonder if we’re thinking of the same scent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Seeks Out Racist Language in Property Deeds for Termination⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Quickly filtering out a subset of them to prioritize so that we get the most value possible out of the time that humans spend on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Seeks Out Racist Language in Property Deeds for Termination⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  LLMs cannot:

  • Tell fact from fiction
  • Accurately recall data from its training set
  • Count

  LLMs can

  • Translate
  • Get the general vibe of a text (sentiment analysis)
  • Generate plausible text

  Semantics aside, they’re very different skills that require different setups to accomplish. Just because counting is an easier task than analysing text for humans, doesn’t mean it’s the same it’s the same for a LLM. You can’t use that as evidence for its inability to do the “harder” tasks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Seeks Out Racist Language in Property Deeds for Termination⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds to me like a 50% improvement over zero human eyes.

  It certainly would be. Thankfully, there’s many more than zero human eyes involved in this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Seeks Out Racist Language in Property Deeds for Termination⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering that it’s a language task, LLMs exist, and the cost, it’s a reasonable assumption. It’d be pretty silly to analyse a bag of words when you have tools you can use with minimal work with much better results. Even sillier to spend over $200 for something that can be run on a decade old machine in a few hours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to clean a rescued pigeon⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to clean a rescued pigeon⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is wrong because the highlighted portion of the excerpt is supposed to directly answer the question. This one doesn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honey⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or animal manure, or pesticides

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some men dis other men who sit to pee? (& follow-up questions)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m surprised to hear German has a word for this, considering that stats I’ve previously seen show Germany as having the highest proportion of male sitting pee-ers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asian Beauty⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So the characters are still words, right?

  Most likely yes. All characters in Chinese are defined jointly by the way it’s written, the pronunciation, and meaning. You can’t invent new characters like you would a new English word and have something that can be read out loud because there’s no system for deriving pronunciation from the written character itself.

  I say most likely because there are still some characters that are phonetic in that their meaning is just the sound, but these don’t cover the whole spectrum of possible sounds in the language as far as I know. They also wouldn’t look as nice in tattoo form since they all use the same radical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is the calories meter on exercise bikes accurate⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would caution against using these numbers for any Calorie-in/out calculations. Even if they were 100% accurate, it still doesn’t take into account anything that happens outside of that machine.

  Example: There’s something we call “non-exercise activity thermogenesis” (NEAT). This includes lots of things you do without thinking about it, like fidgeting, tapping your feet while sitting, or pacing around the room. In some people, NEAT can decrease significantly after exercise, which then negates much of the Calories burned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's body is a machine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Until chop off their legs. Then BMI spikes again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 42 year old new hire at your job confesses to you that he has had 48 different jobs in his life. What is your opinion on that?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or maybe had to simultaneously work multiple full time jobs and a weekend job to make ends meet?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vinegar⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmmmm… A quick pickled depression you say