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I live in Canada on the west-coast. I waddled onto the beach and stole found a computer that I could use.
- Comment on No low ballers, I know what I have 30 minutes ago:
Is it normal for the jalapeno to still be, normal
- Comment on Ciiiiircle of liiiife 33 minutes ago:
For anyone confused, click the link
- Comment on Sleep 2 hours ago:
!taneggs@lemmy.ca is leaking
- Comment on xkcd: Chemical Formula 1 day ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empirical_formula
In chemistry, the empirical formula of a chemical compound is the simplest whole number ratio of atoms present in a compound
In this comic, the “compound” is the entire observable universe. So it’s the simplest whole number ratio of every atom in the observable universe
A more in depth explanation for this comic (and all other xkcd comics) is here: www.explainxkcd.com/…/3200:_Chemical_Formula
- Submitted 2 days ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 8 comments
- Comment on Volvo invented the three-point seat belt 67 years ago; now it has improved it 3 days ago:
Volvo’s new central computing system, HuginCore (named after a bird in Norse mythology), runs the EX60 with more than 250 trillion operations per second. It has been developed in-house, together with its partners Google, Nvidia, and Qualcomm.
“With the HuginCore system we can collect a lot of data and make decisions in the car instantly and combine that with the belt’s ability to choose different load levels,” says Åsa Haglund, head of the Volvo Cars Safety Center. “A box of possibilities opens up where you can detect what type of crash it is and who is in the car and choose a more optimal belt force.”
- Comment on Why are americans taking health advice from a former heroin addict ? 3 days ago:
Being a former heroin addict doesn’t make someone a bad source of information, especially if they’ve turned their lives around.
But I agree otherwise
- Comment on I took a picture of the back of my pizza box for you guys just in case you were stuck home because of the snow and needed something to do. 5 days ago:
I saw this exact box recently and I was thinking about how I’ve missed seeing these 😄
- Comment on I feel like I'm being watched 5 days ago:
Oh, no worries then
- Submitted 5 days ago to internetisawesome@sh.itjust.works | 2 comments
- Comment on low beans 5 days ago:
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~low beans~
- Comment on I feel like I'm being watched 6 days ago:
I saw a mountain lion in the closet, which means it’s not hunting me. Who else is hiding in the room…
- Comment on Be fabulous 2 weeks ago:
Yup, it looks like generative AI + image editing after the fact
Image generators have trouble juggling multiple colors and patterns on clothing. It would be a weird stylistic choice to create that effect with image edits alone
- Comment on Important video of a pudú fighting a rhinoceros you should watch 2 weeks ago:
TIL 😮
- Comment on I implore you to stop using the drake meme template 3 weeks ago:
What is this other template called?
- Comment on it's so fluffy 3 weeks ago:
For people that actually want something like that, check out !taneggs@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Study Featuring AI-Generated Giant Rat Penis Retracted, Journal Apologizes 4 weeks ago:
Generative AI “anatomy” diagrams gross me out almost every time. It has a similar effect as those old trypophobia images
- Comment on Why is sharpedo blocked in image searches on DuckDuckGo and Bing, but not Google? 4 weeks ago:
So interestingly, slight misspellings will show the pokemon with a “Showing results for Sharpedo”, but if you click on that link the results will disappear. I also can’t find any other blocked examples with different made up words.
It’s weird, like it has been manually blocked
- Comment on Every decision led him to this point 4 weeks ago:
The video I found is from Twitter and some people avoid it, so I left in the description
I’ll reorder it though
- Comment on Every decision led him to this point 4 weeks ago:
I looked up “robot kicks man” and found this
digitaltrends.com/…/humanoid-robot-teleoperator-k…
The process of training humanoid robots can take various forms. Unitree’s G1 robot for example, is trained partly through teleoperation whereby a human operator wears a motion-capture suit or uses controllers to perform particular movements or entire tasks, with the robot mirroring the movements in real time.
But teleoperation clearly carries some risks, especially if you get too close to the robot you’re training.
But the teleoperator then turns slightly to perform a big kick. Unfortunately for the teleoperator, the robot, mimicking his movements, performs the same kick, catching the guy right where it hurts.
He drops to the ground, letting out a yelp of pain as he falls. Of course, the robot falls to the ground too. If it’d been equipped with speech capabilities, we’d have likely heard a yelp, as well.
The video:
- Comment on Apparently your hobbies becomes less interesting if you're forced to do them all the time? Who knew? 1 month ago:
lol TIL
🐈️🔥🔥🔥
- Submitted 1 month ago to videos@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on What browser(s) should I use? 1 month ago:
If you add three back ticks (`/``) to the beginning and end of the list, it will format as a code block
browser.ml.enable browser.ml.chat.enabled browser.ml.chat.menu browser.ml.chat.page browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled browser.ml.pageAssist.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled extensions.ml.enabled browser.search.visualSearch.featureGate
- Comment on Stick 2 months ago:
- Comment on Mastodon CEO steps down with €1M payout and a deep sigh 2 months ago:
The articles I’ve seen say that it was for the past 10 years of work, some amount of which was unpaid
techcrunch.com/…/mastodon-ceo-steps-down-as-the-s…
With the revamp, Mastodon has the potential to expand its business, product, and mission, without being dependent on a single person’s leadership. It will also give Rochko a break, as he’s been singularly focused on Mastodon for the past 10 years.
Going forward, Rochko will continue contributing to Mastodon as an adviser. He has also been compensated with a one-time payment of €1 million, given that he took less than a fair market salary over the years while building Mastodon.
I don’t have insight into the decision making process that went into deciding on that amount, maybe it’s less than what he should have been compensated for, maybe it’s more. But it sounds like they reached that decision amicably
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Maybe they had trouble hitting that atom, and decided to surround with many other U-235 atom before trying the splits
- Comment on Everything has a bit of overlap 2 months ago:
programming of physics joke
Yes
- Comment on Is there a ranking showing how popular different hobbies are by country? 3 months ago:
I think since hobbies are nebulous and hard to compare against each other, you would need to find a study specifically looking at that. Even then, you would only get information on the specific hobbies they looked at.
Maybe you can try looking for data for specific hobbies instead of comparing them against each other? You can probably find rates of books, music, etc.
- Comment on If you lose your memories, are "you" dead? If a close relative/friend lose their memories, are they still "your relative/friend"? What the hell even is memory? How sentimental are you about memories? 3 months ago:
This sounds more like a ship of Theseus style question
Is the person with amnesia still the same “person”. I assume the question would also need to enforce the type/extent of the amnesia
- Submitted 3 months ago to videos@lemmy.world | 1 comment
