Septimaeus
@Septimaeus@infosec.pub
- Comment on You cannot learn without failing. 4 days ago:
Slammed! Also cool metaphor.
- Comment on Make gravity your bitch 1 week ago:
Are you enjoying your Kep-mok blood ticks, Dr. Lazarus?
- Comment on Make gravity your bitch 1 week ago:
True, however… as you press into this planet, this planet presses into you.
- Comment on Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York 1 week ago:
The difficulty was drainage. Isolated steam systems in steam era construction were designed to use gravity for condensate collection. It’s one of the reasons boilers are always in the basement of old buildings.
Steam system engineering was a well-compensated profession. A well-designed system would accurately predict the rate of condensate flow for every part of the building, prior to construction, and reflect these predictions in the slope/grade and diameter of the steam pipes. Inaccurate predictions resulted in problems like pipe knock (aka steam hammer) which you can often hear when you or a nearby neighbor partially close the shut-off valve of a radiator.
Since construction in the city had many elevations and could not be predicted in advance, there was no equivalent solution to facilitate condensate collection. The system had to be one way. And yes, it’s inefficient compared to modern systems, but was innovative in its day.
- Comment on Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York 1 week ago:
Yeet the heat or beat the meat
- Comment on Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York 1 week ago:
Wtf? Bad form, Peter Pan.
- Comment on Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York 1 week ago:
That’s a good idea! My understanding is that the old stream network is slated for decommission and replacement by this program, basically a large distributed geothermal heat pump network that also harvests from major heat producers like data centers and provides both heating and cooling.
It will end the era of the steamy-street Sin City aesthetic but should be many, many times more efficient than the old steam system. Phase-change thermal transfer in HVAC systems is currently as much as 400% more efficient than the theoretical limit of direct heating, because it only uses the energy necessary to move heat from one place to another rather than produce it, and it works for both heating and cooling.
Right now I believe they’re piloting the system in NYCHA buildings (public housing) of neighborhoods outside the old steam network, like Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen, but supposedly the plan is to expand to the rest of Manhattan.
- Comment on Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York 1 week ago:
Yeah it’s common enough I figured most knew, but a few years ago I went ice skating at the bryant park rink with this girl who refused to walk anywhere near the steam. She thought they were toxic and didn’t accept my explanation, so we had to walk an extra few blocks to get around the steam work. Shrug
- Comment on Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York 1 week ago:
Old steam heating system. They vent it when they’re working on a section.
Side-note: surprised by all the fellow New Yorkers i’m seeing in this thread. I thought yous were still at the other place.
- Comment on Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York 1 week ago:
I delivered for two locations shortly after they fixed the pizza. In both locations, shift leads and managers came up with so many excuses for house pizza. More than any other chain I worked for. I didn’t connect the dots until later. The pizza must have been much worse before.
- Comment on uhhh overleaf you say 3 weeks ago:
I just came a little.
- Comment on Always applies 75% of the time 1 month ago:
Lol I kind of like these hyper specific paper titles for the way they simplify my search, but if you say it out loud you end up a little winded
- Comment on Always applies 75% of the time 1 month ago:
Sex Panther has no outliers.
- Comment on Google’s Sergey Brin Says Engineers Should Work 60-Hour Weeks in Office to Build AI That Could Replace Them 1 month ago:
Is this guy called a technocrat because he actually wants his engineers to rule?
- Comment on Google’s Sergey Brin Says Engineers Should Work 60-Hour Weeks in Office to Build AI That Could Replace Them 1 month ago:
Where did you hear that? Technocracy means rule by specialists and technical experts. For example, in a technocracy, career bureaucrats aren’t in charge of ecological policy.
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 1 month ago:
Maybe getting clowned on will snap them out of it. Regardless, love the bit. Long live rabbi rabinowitz!
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 1 month ago:
Lol rabinowicz is Slavic for son of the rabbi so “rabbi rabinowitz” sounds like a character from a Bourekas comedy
- Comment on Is there a name for when stupid people accuse you of their faults? Is that projection? 1 month ago:
To be understood, I’d probably just say projection. If you need to emphasize a specific aspect of the behavior, you could break it down as a maladaptive inferiority complex that prompts social anxiety evidenced by momentary paranoid ideation and compulsory preemptive introjection.
Explanation: introjection refers to a mirroring behavior common in children. In this case, the accuser anticipates an accusation from you. To defend themselves, they hurl the accusation right back at you. But of course the first accusation only happened in their head, so all we witness is someone wildly accusing someone else of having their own flaw.
- Comment on Why does most religion talk about their GOD being male? Especially Christains and Muslims. Is there a prominent female god that as big as the other two that I am missing? 1 month ago:
YHWH (“Yahweh”) was the storm God of the Canaanite pantheon likely referred to in the Old Testament book of Job. El was the head of that pantheon. When gendered in the text, both were male.
While Judaic tradition championed YHWH above the others, perhaps due to the oral tradition of the parting of the Sea of Reeds (Red Sea) in Exodus. The other gods in the pantheon came to be regarded as false/pagan gods, and their worship was considered idolatry (religious infidelity), but these older religious traditions proved difficult to stamp out, with numerous examples of return to the old gods.
One such instance of idolatry in the book of Hosea (echoed Isaiah and Jeremiah) detailed an old (idolatrous) tradition of offering “sacred raisin cakes” and “flagons of wine” to an unnamed god. This god was almost certainly Asherah, YHWH’s sister and the wife of El, whose religious tradition featured the baking of raisin cakes in the shape of her body and the pouring of wine into the earth.
So to answer your question, while none of the Abrahamic religions officially worship a god with a female gender identity, their holy books technically recognize at least one female god: Asherah.
- Comment on Common Ground 1 month ago:
That is a viable path to redemption. In fact I think spending one’s life repairing damage done is only the minimum expectation.
Also to be clear, I’m talking about common voters, rank-and-file conservatives. Public figures on the other hand, especially those active in the current administration, must be imprisoned, and many of them for life, if only to demonstrate to the world the severity of their crimes against humanity.
- Comment on Common Ground 1 month ago:
But don’t you see? Some conservatives haven’t even been alive for decades. Some don’t even truly understand why they were handed that banner in the first place.
I’m not saying there shouldn’t be accountability. I have friends and relatives I’ve had to place in various stages of social probation due to their politics, but for each I’ve had to consider what redemption and rehabilitation would look like. If there is in fact no redemption for any of them, where would I draw that indelible line?
Though I’ve not voted Republican, I’ve often been wrong in my life about many things, so I’m certain I would need to include myself in that group or irredeemables. Honestly, who would survive the culling of those who’ve been wrong? Would you?
- Comment on Common Ground 1 month ago:
I’m saying individual people can change. They can learn and grow.
You can stay mad at the conservatives of today, but you must let them “defect” when they’ve matured enough to do so.
Otherwise there’s no point to any of this.
- Comment on Common Ground 1 month ago:
They’re not a monolith. Political ideologies gain and lose members every day.
The kid who kicked the ball over the fence today is never the same one from last time. The kid from last time is more likely to volunteer to fetch the ball.
- Comment on The Algorithm 1 month ago:
Though the artist appeared to draw η (eta) rather than n which could mean they’re using learning rate to compute the bounds of some other value. I’m more curious what y-base log they’re taking and why.
- Comment on The Algorithm 1 month ago:
Ah, the theory group. My people.
- Comment on check it before you wreck it 1 month ago:
Truly iconic!
- Comment on check it before you wreck it 1 month ago:
I mean, we’re not talking about mutually exclusive properties.
Whether a paper is more or less dry and whether it’s more or less accessible to newcomers is separate from the quality of the contribution.
You can have both.
- Comment on check it before you wreck it 1 month ago:
OMG the perfect reference!
For those interested, there’s an episode of Star Trek the plot of which revolves around an extreme example of this style of high context communication.
- Comment on check it before you wreck it 1 month ago:
I mean, I get that it’s easy to burn out on all the goofy titles. For example, in machine learning there’s a model architecture called BERT so there’s hundreds of papers with wordplay referencing a character from an old US children’s educational TV show Sesamie Street. Similarly a bunch of NEuroMOrphic computing models are named Nemo with titles referencing the Pixar movie Finding Nemo. Of course, any joke can be tiring with repetition.
But good papers are accessible to a variety of audiences, including visitors in the space, and the point of that technique is to offer a “hook” (to borrow a term from music) that makes the material more approachable and fun to the uninitiated.
TLDR: I empathize but yeah dude’s wrong
- Comment on check it before you wreck it 1 month ago:
I think they’re referring to the implicit exclusion, since it amounts to an “inside joke” which lends to cliquish social dynamics. Gatekeeping proper usually connotes more intentional and targeted action, but I think that’s what they mean. Personally I try to be more selective than I once was, when using references in groups, for that very reason.