Karyoplasma
@Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Solve a puzzle for me 21 hours ago:
I use ChatGPT to romanize song texts from Farsi squiggly lines into something readable. There are some other sites that do that, but they are all terrible and use regex replacement (I assume) and that doesn’t really work for most things since vowels in Farsi (and Arabic too) are diacritics and are often left out entirely, so you get something unreadable. ChatGPT does a fine job, but you have to make multiple, smaller requests instead of a single big one or it starts hallucinating and/or repeat passages it already romanized.
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 2 days ago:
I can’t afford fresh Basil leaves, I maintained a plant in my kitchen in some of the apartments I lived in. The current one doesn’t have enough sun. It took 10 minutes of work to arrange and emptying left over water.
The basil plants you buy in grocery stores are designed to die after a while. It’s not lack of sun or water, it’s because there are just way too many plants in the tiny pot and basil does not like to be root-bound. They basically strangle themselves to death.
You can easily propagate the plant through cuttings or you can separate the grown plants and re-pot them in smaller groups.
- Comment on Praise Sheezus 3 days ago:
Genomic imprinting says no. It wouldn’t produce a fetus that is in congruence with the possibility of life. It could at most start growing and developing, but it would die in the womb. More akin to a tumor than to a baby.
- Comment on Praise Sheezus 3 days ago:
This is called parthenogenesis and is a known phenomenon, albeit rare in vertebrates. Some species, like the New Mexico whiptail, rely on it (all New Mexico whiptails are female).
Here is a paper from 2007 that talks about parthenogenesis in hammerhead sharks..
- Comment on *Naruto 4 days ago:
That’s horribly unfair. I still argue about Dragon Ball with strangers on the internet at the age of 36.
- Comment on Oxygen 1 week ago:
The carbonic acid is for the fizz, yeah. The sulfuric and phosphoric acids are to regulate sweetness. Sodas are syrups that get diluted with water hence the need for all that sugar.
- Comment on Oxygen 1 week ago:
Check the label. Anything with sulfuric and phosphoric acid is good for rust removal. The reason why it’s in cola is simply because without it, it would be way too sweet from all the sugar.
- Comment on Every time I get an email about 1 week ago:
Just like those “we value your privacy” cookie banners that don’t give you the option to reject all. If they truly valued my privacy, they would give me that option instead of having me toggle off 500000 “partners” one by one in the hopes I accidentally skip one. Bastards.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 1 week ago:
Africa is harder than Australia. Not even close.
- Comment on Voyager 1 1 week ago:
Commission one on fiverr or etsy.
- Comment on Voyager 1 1 week ago:
They also released the source code of the Apollo 11 guidance computer. So if you want to fly to the moon, here is one part of how to do it.
- Comment on Voyager 1 1 week ago:
You can negate that risk by getting a UPS. You should get a UPS in any case imo since even a shitty one lets you at least save your work and shutdown properly if your electricity drops.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 week ago:
They won’t learn anything. They only nulled their bullshit because it would hurt their financial quarter because their biggest cash cow game at the moment is bombing. They only way to maybe make them learn would be if every single one of the “outraged gamers” would just uninstall and never play it again, but that won’t happen and Sony knows that (which is why they can try pulling that shit in the first place).
Good for the peeps in non-PSN countries tho. For them, this is a real win.
- Comment on Best BBQ on the block 1 week ago:
I just realized that I have never consumed a reptile.
- Comment on War 1 week ago:
Gotta agree with the ladybugs here, tho.
- Comment on I have amblyopia. Is this accurate? 1 week ago:
I had amblyopia as a kid because one of my eye muscles didn’t develop properly, so there was an imbalance leading to a lazy eye. I had to get surgery to correct that, but it was past the time window when proper depth perception is developed (until about 7 years of age, got my surgery with 9). So yeah, my vision is kinda like yours.
Even with the lazy eye gone, I only use my stronger eye to look through binoculars, dunno why. But I’m also myopic in the right eye and hyperopic in the left, so maybe that has something to do with it.
- Comment on Has ethernet become illegitimate? A librarian flipped out after spotting me using ethernet 2 weeks ago:
You are still citing the UDHR as it was law. It is not, so nobody needs to modify Article 21 to violate it as long as established law doesn’t recognize it.
If you really want to argue about general guidelines, the UDHR is inadequate because it’s just a draft. What you want is the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which is its main successor, and is at least a treaty and also ratified by most countries in the world.
Still, ratifying a treaty still doesn’t make it established law, it’s just an obligation to implement the treaty as best as is possible into your domestic jurisdiction. Failure to do so will be met with finger-waggling at the next UN meeting, so it’s more of an apparatus of peer pressure than anything else.
- Comment on Has ethernet become illegitimate? A librarian flipped out after spotting me using ethernet 2 weeks ago:
The UDHR is not a treaty, so it does not create any direct legal bindings. The article you quote may have been excluded, overwritten or rephrased in your jurisdiction.
- Comment on Just received an irl shitpost from a random text. 2 weeks ago:
I’m so unimportant that I’ve only gotten a scam text like that once in my life.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It’s just inflation, guys.
- Comment on AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO' 3 weeks ago:
Depends on how they do it. If the like-and-subscribe begging is at the end of the video, thats ok in my opinion. But if the 10m01s video starts with an insanely loud intro followed by begging followed by a “hey guys” followed by a sponsor segment followed by a Discord server promotion, then that’s just obnoxious.
- Comment on #justposeidonthings 3 weeks ago:
How do they go back to the surface without fainting from decompression?
- Comment on I shaved for the first time in a while so I could update a profile picture and my chin looks like this. 3 weeks ago:
Staph and strep infections are more common than you think, they live on healthy human skin after all, and usually no sign to be alarmed. Whenever you get a pustule or redness, it’s probably staph.
Warning signs to watch out for are intense itchiness, affected skin feeling very different to the touch, browning or rapidly growing red patches and a stinging, pulsating pain.
I had a really bad strep infection in my leg in 2023, caused by an infectious a wound that I repeatedly scratched due to itching, and it hurt so much that even just moving the leg into an upright position would cause pain that made me see stars. I have before/after pics from my leg at that time if you want…
- Comment on Biden administration actively censoring the word "Palestine" just like the New York Times 4 weeks ago:
P-word and p-wordinians.
- Comment on Turn up the heat 4 weeks ago:
You’re still hot to me <3
- Comment on Turn up the heat 4 weeks ago:
Most infection can survive the minor temperature rise. The more tangible reason is that the rise in temperature signals phagocytes that it’s dinner time. Also it helps mobilizing white blood cells and increases the production of T-cells.
- Comment on Jeans 4 weeks ago:
Both are acceptable depending on where you go. For everyday shopping, 1 would be the safer bet, but on a fesival or kink show, 2 is more than fine (although you could save some money here by not wearing pants at all).
- Comment on It's always gets sloppy after the bars close 4 weeks ago:
It’s probably the same as with any kind of food. You can prepare it with good ingredients and it’s fine, but when you buy that mass-produced shit, you now you are eating garbage.
- Comment on It's always gets sloppy after the bars close 4 weeks ago:
It’s “Worcestershire”, only 1 h.
- Comment on Discord Shuts Down Servers for Switch Emulators Suyu & Sudachi; Disables Lead Developers Account As Well 4 weeks ago:
I started using Discord because Skype was pissing me off. Now, Discord starts to piss me off with their bullshit. I’m just too tired to move to yet another platform that will start sucking once it’s grown bigger. I hate this “social media” focus on every little fucking thing. This stupid “we are building a community” garbage should die.
Maybe it’s time for me to burn everything down and go live in the woods.