j4k3
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- Comment on How many cases from the TV series Unsolved Mysteries remain unsolved in 2026? 1 day ago:
Don’t know, but watching heavy case files on YT from time to time, DNA is solving a lot.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It ain’t bad till in the middle things… or the night, ya wind up somehow tasting it.
- Comment on Is it actually healthy for people to have a place to confess things anonymously? 1 week ago:
It is democratic. You have a right to all information, the right to error, the right to skepticism, and the right to protest in all nonviolent forms aka the right to offend others.
In this regime of rights, the right to skepticism is the fundamental. You have a tight to think for yourself. Authoritarianism is the opposite. Trust is its fulcrum and individual thought, belief, and access to information are not rights of individuals.
You cannot have democracy and citizens without outlets of free expression of all types. There is no way to know if some group is in collusion or spreading misinformation for various purposes. Having the right to anonymously express and check concerns in the public commons is absolutely critical to democracy. Any attempt to remove it is an attack on skepticism, the fundamental cornerstone of democracy that if removed causes total collapse.
- Comment on If Programmers are wizards then what are Computer Architects? 2 weeks ago:
NDA’s
- Comment on worry kitten 3 weeks ago:
🐈⬛
- Comment on Just one more square bro 3 weeks ago:
Gate all around. I expect my waffle and syrup to hug each other. No one likes a lethargic partner.
- Comment on What brings you peace in your life? 3 weeks ago:
gas lighting, the effulgence of a burning future.
- Comment on Oi mates, I'm back. 4 weeks ago:
Gold of the gods. We are all spaceships for the microbes.
- Comment on Anon is going to be rich 4 weeks ago:
Hmm… I don’t believe you are honest, because of this ID thing… BUT I am willing to bet honest money in good faith, including paying out for this… Yeah, rock star, good luck finding that mark outside of the mirror.
- Comment on Nevermind the drink I'm holding 4 weeks ago:
My ex wife. Bitch
- Comment on Cup cake 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Why do I look like shit some days? 4 weeks ago:
Becoming a roadie and riding a bike everywhere for years fixed me feeling like this. I had to get over all of my insecurities being in public in a cycling kit. Being around other people riding and racing, it became my normal. Now… I don’t have to look at me, so why the fuck should I care what anyone thinks. They are used to it or whatever, who cares. I’m more interested in inferring their real intelligence versus narcissistic stupidity based on their responses. Old people are all ugly. “For your age” is just an excuse for it. The vanity is boring. People who are judgmental are just projecting their own inadequacy and internal misery.
- Comment on What books have a lot of useful information should I get? (I mean like a Wikipedia thing with vast knowledge, but non-electronic.) 4 weeks ago:
Chemistry, math, physics, optics, metallurgy… The thing that is hard is how your needs for knowledge will change over time and what is accessible to you at each stage.
For general electronics, The Art of Electronics is the goto book. For actually understanding practical stuff, you need to build a knowledge of the industrial revolution and how it evolved. The inventions of James Watt opened up steam. The Bessemer process scaled iron. Large heavy castings drove the potential for large lathes, but lathes are the key to everything. A lathe is capable of cutting a more precise screw than the one used to operate it. That old screw can be replaced with the new, until you achieve your desired precision.
A reference flat is made using two granite stones rubbed together with water in between until the top one creates suction that can lift the other.
Prussian blue and hand scraping are used to make machine flat surfaces.
Automotive suspension components like springs and torsion bars are a good source of cheap tool steel. Engine heads are a good source of casting scrap and quality hardware. Wipers, window motors, and starters are great for building machines. Understanding how to repair and diagnose this stuff is a major skill. Knowing how to make real controlled heat is fundamentally important.
I’ve never encountered single sources for this stuff.
- Comment on Pick one 2 months ago:
Stump. I was a tree, but now a dump.
- Comment on Those of you who are angry at the US for allowing ICE to stifle people's liberties - how do you channel your anger and irritation? 2 months ago:
- Comment on Those of you who are angry at the US for allowing ICE to stifle people's liberties - how do you channel your anger and irritation? 2 months ago:
No country on Earth is like this. No polity is unified without opposition. Additionally, making this statement here, when it is obviously false, in a place where at least half the people are from the US, and likely all of those are left leaning and just as much victims if not more so, seems like rather tepid malevolence.
- Comment on Starlink Alternative that can't be blocked 2 months ago:
It is not a laser beam.
- Comment on Starlink Alternative that can't be blocked 2 months ago:
No. The primary way of blocking radio is by raising the noise floor across the band. The type of radio is irrelevant. The protocol is irrelevant. It is all only the electromagnetic spectrum from infrared light, to visible spectrum light, to radio light, through to xray or gamma ray light. How we divide that up into protocols, bands, and names is totally irrelevant. When transmitting radio light, we are all restricted in how much power we are allowed to send. All receiver circuits are listening for meaningful information above the noise floor. Bands are allocated to try to create spaces for certain types of communications. This controls the noise floor. Then electrical engineers design the hardware you buy to operate within this specification. If that noise floor is raised, the physical hardware is unable to retrieve information and effectively makes it useless. If you are a radio wizard and build your own transmitter that has more power, you just created a giant beacon that anyone will track easily to your location. Transmitting always reveals your exact location. In military operations, you constantly hear about some entity going radio silent. This is why. If you are a soldier, you may not carry a cell phone at all when on the job because it is constantly revealing your location. The only way to avoid this is with actually hard wire connections. You are able to use lasers for line of sight communications, but in practice, you will be limited by the optical lens focusing complexity and atmospheric distortion even from the ground with point to point regional communication. If anyone crosses the beam it will still be detected and is likely to leak some light depending on conditions and design.
Ultimately, your only real option is the sneaker net which is damn near useless in US suburbia hell. Don’t forget that the freeway system was not created for the citizenry. It is only about military mobility. That is why the Germans made the autobahn and why the USA and others had to copy the idea. Your only defense is in the democratic political space.
- Comment on Trure 3 months ago:
🎖 you participated 🎖
- Comment on Trure 3 months ago:
Flaming boobies may be a well defined diffusion tensor pathway. Try this in a diffusion model at your own risk, “program one. Apollo, flaming boobs. dot symmetry lock one wanted, password is no way twister!”
You will need to reset the server or clear the model cache completely to stop the program. The emulated persistence is part of the undocumented special tokens. The longest loop is 36 iterations long.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I am talking about something where there is no research done. No doctors exist in this space.
It doesn’t matter anyways. I found how the model’s last layer of thinking defense gets around the issue. I can turn off most of alignment, but cannot actually fully control it totally unchecked.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
You assume much, and are being an ass in my opinion. Believe it or not, science is not always well funded. If you happen to be curious and have the time, it is possible to explore scientifically or even casually within areas that are not well researched. It is possible to have logic skills even without credentials.
We are not in some final state of technology. Anyone saying such nonsense lacks fundamental logic skills.
I do not care about me. I do not have dogma. I’m not interested in recognition. I am willingly to explore in unique ways both artistically as a professional artist, and out of logical curiosity. I have the tools needed to check my results against a control using unrelated sources. The most recent paper on the subject is something I can recreate but explain far better than that paper.
I could not care less what you ultimately think of me, or anything I say. What I care about is that you’re a decent digital neighbor. To be physically disabled in near total social isolation, and have a place like this as my main interaction with other humans, it is a mean prejudice to have some random digital neighbor make such unsolicited malevolent statements assuming my personal motivations without a shred of evidence or decency to engage in questioning. You know absolutely nothing about me, yet you presume a great deal, putting words to my emotions as if you own me.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Sometimes the whole world does seem crazy. So I’m not liking my odds. Thanks for the rational advice.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
What if you’ve got no credentials, but the flaw is so serious that it will not matter if known.
This is a true hypothetical curiosity. I do not know anything of value. A bunch of people here like to call me crazy, and I’ve rambled on and on many times in ways that likely confirm their notions. A person like this is not likely to fair very well when operating well outside their social caste unless they already have hand holds on the rungs of the ladder above. Still, there are some rather surprising areas of technology without adequate fundamental research. Perhaps it is hypothetically better to have John Conner in the world of Cyberdyne. If someone had killed Apache early, the Internet would not be the same heaven of democracy, though that is not a very good intuitive scope of analogy. Just something to ponder if one were to be in such a situation.
- Comment on Anon Hates College 3 months ago:
Anon, tell us about 1960 again.
- Comment on Effective immediately I will be stepping down as CEO of your mom. 4 months ago:
The gig is open
- Comment on How sad 4 months ago:
Likely projecting out of self loathing. Probably here navigating cognitive dissonance from conflict on some layer of sexuality outside of their immediate self awareness.
It is okay dear. You’ll get there eventually.
- Comment on New book out 4 months ago:
Everything about her… She was engineered from her uncle’s dna because of his chemistry with Leto. She was like an abstract layer to the argument about the validity of prescience. Like was it imagined hubris and overconfidence or was it real. He did not see her coming, and yet she still fit perfectly into a plan that just happened to work out… or was it just random chance and a tyrant monster.
- Comment on One wish 4 months ago:
HONK ~(smoke~ ~pours~ ~out~ ~of~ ~beak)~
🐉≝🔥🪿
- Comment on New book out 4 months ago:
Hwi Noree has entered the chat. “Let’s go to the nono-room baby. I want to see your nono-ship you dirty sand trout.”
