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- Comment on Anon helps with his gf's vaping addiction 1 hour ago:
Noone is talking about medication.
Everyone is talking about reducing the active ingredient in a serving of a recreational psychotropic drug by serving more of the carrier dilute. If Anon’s GF doesn’t get the nic she needs, she’ll take more puffs. If you don’t get the buzz you want, you’ll ask for another cocktail.
Y’all can ride on the technical definition of “tampering” but a) the cocktail mix not being as expected (e.g. “as done last time round”) would amount to the same and b) there’s a rather huge difference between diluting or strengthening the active ingredient and, on the complete other end of the scale, adding something that’s not supposed in the serving at all. Like, dunno, CBD in a Bloody Mary.
Can you make those distinctions in your mind or is the concept of “tampering” mushing it all together?
- Comment on Anon helps with his gf's vaping addiction 5 hours ago:
If I were to hand everyone shots of pure tap water when they’re expecting vodka, would that be tampering?
Note if you say “no” then you’re literally no fun at parties. Zero. Nilch. Less actually, you’re negative fun.
- Comment on Anon helps with his gf's vaping addiction 6 hours ago:
If I was making a cocktail for a friend, and, eyeballing the ratios, ended up with putting too little vodka in it, would that still be tampering?
- Comment on Anon helps with his gf's vaping addiction 7 hours ago:
Would you be saying the same thing if it was about diluting vodka with water?
…because that’s what mixing vape juice with juice base is.
- Comment on Anon helps with his gf's vaping addiction 7 hours ago:
Pure water will work for a couple of percentage points but above that will not work properly because atomisers expect a certain range of viscosity or they won’t wick properly. It’s generally a mix of propylene glycol, glycerine, and water. More glycerine means more clouds, natural sweetness, and annoying hygroscopy (i.e. you’ll get a dry mouth), while PG is an aroma carrier, less sweet, quite a bit less hygroscopic. It’s also the standard solvent for nicotine and aroma, not just vape aromas most food aromas are PG-based, too. Water is there to make the liquid less viscous and/or reduce hygroscopy of the overall mixture.
- Comment on Anon helps with his gf's vaping addiction 7 hours ago:
Not random substances, just like diluting vodka with water is not mixing in a random substance.
- Comment on Anon helps with his gf's vaping addiction 7 hours ago:
Nausea isn’t overdose but that’s a technicality, what I wanted to say is that it’s quite hard to get to nausea off a single puff no matter the nic strength because it tastes, for lack of better term, sharp, very noticeably so. Coming off low-concentration juice you’d notice before the vapour goes past your tongue.
- Comment on near zero 10 hours ago:
Depends, I’d say. Is your set theory incomplete or inconsistent?
- Comment on near zero 1 day ago:
You probably are familiar with the thing, just not under that name, and not as a subject of mathematical study. I am aware that there are, at least in theory, mathematicians never expanding beyond pen+paper (and that’s fine) but TBH they’re getting kinda rare. The last time you fired up Julia you probably used them, R, possibly, Coq, it’d actually be a surprise.
They’re most widely known to trip up newbie programmers, causing excessive bug hunts and then a proud bug report stating “0.1 + 0.2 /= 0.3, that’s wrong”, to which the reply will be “nope, that’s exactly as the spec says”. The solution, to people who aren’t numerologists, is to sprinkle gratuitous amounts of epsilons everywhere.
- Comment on near zero 2 days ago:
It’s a wonderful world where 1 / 0 is ∞ and 1 / -0 is -∞, making a lot of high school teachers very very mad. OTOH it’s also a very strange world where x = y does not imply 1 / x = 1 / y. But it is, very emphatically, an algebra.
- Comment on near zero 2 days ago:
IEEE 754
I mean it’s an algebra, isn’t it? And it definitely was mathematicians who came up with the thing. In the same way that artists didn’t come up with the CGI colour palette.
- Comment on Lots of times the restaurants won't even have milk 2 days ago:
We get it you’re vegan.
- Comment on Lots of times the restaurants won't even have milk 2 days ago:
Different kinds of sugar are all sugar when they get to your gut.
Nope fruits are high in fructose while sucrose, aka table sugar, is 50:50 glucose and fructose. Fruit has the same or even worse makeup sugar-wise as HFCS, glucose can be used pretty much directly by the body while fructose needs to be processed by the liver, into fat. Evolutionary speaking that makes a lot of sense as when there’s a lot of fruit around it’s summer and you need to fatten up.
- Comment on Limericks 3 days ago:
And everyone just uses “log” in CS because noone cares about the base.
- Comment on Limericks 3 days ago:
Oldie but goodie:
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% * < > ~ # 4
& [ ] . . /
| { , , SYSTEM HALTEDWaka waka bang splat tick tick hash,
Caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash,
Bang splat equal at dollar under-score,
Percent splat waka waka tilde number four,
Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash,
Vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma CRASH!“waka” didn’t gain popularity among people, at least not among any I ever heard about, usually it’s angle bracket. I’m quite partial to ‘tic’ and ‘tac’. The rest is standard or at least common, IMO | is pipe and {} braces. * is often called asterisk or star but splash is just better. And # is most definitely not “hashtag”. Here’s an overview of what’s out in the wild.
- Comment on Autism 3 days ago:
- Comment on For security reasons 4 days ago:
I don’t know why single character email addresses would fail that test, though.
Could be that they get a huge amounts of bounces from those kinds of addresses. I’m sure at least half of Germany is using
a@bc.de
as the go-to “I don’t wanna give out my email” address. - Comment on Iron 6 days ago:
You only need iron and carbon the rest is already alloyed steel. You can definitely make a good blade out of only iron and carbon, it won’t be stainless, it might be difficult to harden just right, but it will be flexible and hold a keen edge if forged right. The smiths of ole dealt with nastier steels containing all kinds of things making it worse, not better (such as excessive amounts of sulphur and phosphorus) so I’d say they’d manage.
- Comment on For security reasons 6 days ago:
Hmm. Why am I mildly surprised that I can’t find anything non-regular about the syntax. There’s nested comments but that’s part of MIME quoting, not the actual address format, so it’s reasonable to not accept those in an HTML entry field because HTML is many things, but not MIME.
- Comment on Euro bottles are so much better now 1 week ago:
- Comment on Euro bottles are so much better now 1 week ago:
Yes and no: The bottling lines don’t get replaced, and in fact the EU checked beforehand that they won’t need to be replaced because otherwise the whole thing might’ve been an undue burden on the industry and they would have to make a closer evaluation, give the industry more time to switch, etc. The new caps can be screwed on by the old machines and if not, only cheap parts need replacing.
OTOH bottle cap manufacturers very much did do their homework, or at least the ones producing good caps that beverage companies will buy did it as no beverage company wants to be the one with the awkward caps. That’s not to say that there’s not bad designs out there but those will vanish. Also some consumers seem to have skill issues, like not latching the cap into the open position.
- Comment on Euro bottles are so much better now 1 week ago:
Yep exactly they latch in a wide open position.
At this point there might still be experimental versions around, stuff which companies made and want to use up, but sooner than later you’ll only see the good, successful versions on bottles. The rest is muscle memory and, if you don’t have the physical/mechanical intelligence to figure out a latching mechanism yourself, learning by observing other people successfully not stabbing their faces.
- Comment on Parrot and the word "No" 1 week ago:
It doesn’t seem to be a “might” but a “probably definitely”. Couldn’t find the link right now but one of the few actually uses of AI that I’ve seen was to map out animal languages (specifically dolphins and other cetaceans) to develop a translator, Something something if you throw different (human) languages at a space and then dimension reduce it you get quite similar structures even though the languages are vastly different on the surface, and things like dolphins apparently aren’t that far off and definitely not less complex.
Or, put differently: Yes, they’re actually building a universal translator based on the assumption that because language-capable beings end up speaking roughly similar things you get structural overlaps if you have a sufficiently abstract representation of language (such as a neural net that learned to distinguish it from other stuff).
Aside from that it’s been known for a longer time that dolphins are capable of relating complex information to another, e.g. you put one in one pool, the other in another, they can hear but not see another, and they can coordinate pressing buttons in one pool to get at fish in the other.
Also dolphins can recognise that a human gal is afraid of their teeth, disarm themselves with a tennis ball, and thus succeed in their task to get a handjob. That was part of Lilly’s programme to teach dolphins English (they really struggle with consonants) which is a book honestly everyone should have read. Don’t ask me which book in particular involves an injured dolphin co-habituating with the experimenter (aforementioned gal).
- Comment on Old comic, more relevant than ever 1 week ago:
It’s been a while since I looked at how Valve does it but it could be called a primitive expert system. And while the HL1 grunts were extraordinary for their time, HL2’s combine grunts are still pretty much the gold standard. Without the AI leaking information to the player via radio chatter it would feel very much like the AI is cheating because yes, HL2’s grunts are better at tactics than 99.99% of humans. It also helps that you’re a bullet sponge so them outsmarting you, like leading you into an ambush, doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re done for.
OTOH they’re a couple of pages of state-machines that would have no idea what to do in the real world.
- Comment on Old comic, more relevant than ever 1 week ago:
Image generation models are generally more than capable of doing that they’re just not trained to do it.
That is, just doing a bit of hand-holding and showing SDXL appropriately tagged images and you get quite sensible results. Under normal circumstances it just simply doesn’t get to associate any input tokens with the text in the pixels because people rarely if ever describe, verbatim, what’s written in an image. “Hooters” is an exception, hard to find a model on Civitai that can’t spell it.
- Comment on Hardcore 1 week ago:
QR codes can contain just about anything, including the URI (
doi:foobar
) form that the tattoo uses. QR codes themselves will probably go the way of USB: In a million years there’s going to be someone looking at the driver code saying “you sure we can’t get rid of those early versions” just for someone to chime in saying “your keyboard still uses USB1”. - Comment on Zero to hero 1 week ago:
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- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 2 weeks ago:
How large is the chunk that doesn’t dare do it because they think their behaviour would be considered creepy, even though they’d do perfectly fine? Because that was the case I was replying to, not the overall situation.
If gals want to keep up the overall “don’t talk to me if I haven’t talked to you first” approach, fine, but then y’all gotta start being more proactive with your own pick up skills. And starting pick up line contests yourselves in suitable company, instead of letting decent guys sit there, coming to believe any muscle they move in your presence to be an offence. Thinking they can’t show themselves they start to hide themselves, now they can’t be read properly any more, their intentions might very well still be pure but because something is hidden well anything could be hidden there, and now you’ve got an actual creep on your hands.
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 2 weeks ago:
say fuck it, be scared, think I’m creepy, eventually someone will get coffee with me
I mean no but kinda. One thing that’s practically always going to be the case is that you’re physically intimidating, and you should never shirk away from acknowledging that, and be comfortable with it. The trick is to look like a roller-coaster: Intimidating, sure, but it’s not going to throw you around unless you get on and when you do, you’ll still be safe.
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 2 weeks ago:
with the difference that I’ve been around women both irl and online who complain about it constantly,
You mean you’ve been around women who felt comfortable complaining about it around you. Which likely means that they don’t think of you as a creep, and now you think of yourself as one,.
The bad apples won’t care they’re going to continue to creep, the men you’re comfortable with get scared off. Please, for everyone’s sake, both genders and everything in-between and laterally, start to actually talk about how the young’uns are supposed to continue the human race because they sure as fuck don’t seem to have an idea. A mere 20 years ago we could sit in mixed company laughing and groaning during an impromptu “best and worst pickup line” contest, that levity among friends. Levity is serious business re-learn it.