T156
@T156@lemmy.world
- Comment on Splitting Hairs, Splitting Atoms 23 hours ago:
It is zero. You split atoms all the time, thanks to the radioactive carbon-14 in our bodies, from nuclear testing.
A nuclear bomb goes off because a lot of atoms split all at once, which causes a whole lot more atoms to then split. But that requires a critical mass. It doesn’t just happen on its own.
- Comment on Chasing the Elephant 1 week ago:
Although it really only happened recently. If you look at older generated images, they don’t have the yellow colouration.
- Comment on Why do all text LLMs, no matter how censored they are or what company made them, all have the same quirks and use the slop names and expressions? 4 weeks ago:
It’s something of the law of averages. At their core, an LLM is a sophisticated text prediction algorithm, that boils down the entire corpus of human language into numeric tokens, that it averages out, and creates entire sentences by determining the next most likely word to fill the space.
Given enough data, and you need a tremendous amount of it for an LLM, patterns start to come about, and many of those end up the ones that we see in LLMs.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍎 Thursday 6 November 2025 4 weeks ago:
Where do you buy thick bacon?
A cafe at my uni sells muffins with a centimetre thick slice of bacon in.
I was curious if it’s possible to buy bacon that thick as a consumer, and where. The local butchers either don’t have any, or just have the same thing slices Coles and Woolworths have.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍎 Thursday 6 November 2025 4 weeks ago:
Good luck!
- Comment on Velma can't math. 1 month ago:
Plus the first two seasons basically had the producers get fired, and a new person brought in.
That would be bad for any show.
- Comment on Fight me 1 month ago:
It would end up creating some, due to inefficiencies, which may contribute.
- Comment on Banana 1 month ago:
It’s still around. It just got replaced by the new banana for produce.
You can still buy Gros Michel bananas, they’re just harder to find compared to a Cavendish.
- Comment on Banana 1 month ago:
So are you. They’re not special.
- Comment on egg time 1 month ago:
You do see it sometimes, where people complain that dinosaurs are no longer fearsome giant lizards because we found out that they might have feathers, on social media and places.
It generally becomes obvious that they have never met a goose, chicken, or been at risk of swooping before.
- Comment on egg time 1 month ago:
Let’s compromise and call them both fish.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🏕️ Wednesday 22 October 2025 1 month ago:
To think we could have almost had the Octopus system Hong Kong uses.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🏕️ Wednesday 22 October 2025 1 month ago:
They’re nice when they work. Problem is when they don’t.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🏕️ Wednesday 22 October 2025 1 month ago:
Why are the new Myki readers so awful? I’d argue them to be worse than even the first-generation readers with a bad read.
The entire device basically gets locked out on a bad read for about a minute. If your Myki doesn’t read properly, or your phone is acting up, a few retries could lock out a big chunk of the ststion gates.
- Comment on What's the deal with breakfast in bed? 1 month ago:
IMO the appeal isn’t the actual breakfast in bed, it’s having your partner care for you enough to make you breakfast and bring it to you.
- Comment on Is there an anti- sleep-paralysis device? 1 month ago:
Lately, she doesn’t even wake up and she just kinda turns in her sleep and whacks me in the face like she’s hitting the snooze button. It’s… admittedly been very effective.
Cat energy
- Comment on How would you quickly describe Lemmy to a non-fediverse person? 1 month ago:
I don’t think a non-Fediverse person would be very familiar with Mastodon. They’d be more likely to go “What, like elephants?”.
I would keep it really simple, and just go for “Reddit alternative”. The whole Federation and decentralised business is going to be a sledgehammer if you introduce it to someone who’s not familiar with the concept.
- Comment on How, and why, are there so many AI-generated videos of incredibly obscure/niche topics? 1 month ago:
Then you shit out the slop content and hope your channel picks up. If it fails to drive numbers you abandon it and start with the next channel with the next topic variation. If you get lucky and the algorithm blesses you, you continue to shit out hundreds of videos.
I’m not even sure that you would have to do the abandoning part. There’s likely toolkits that let you upload to multiple channels at once. You can just start them up and spread them out as you wish.
- Comment on It's true... 1 month ago:
That’s a good way to get kicked out of the wet lab. Most tutors are incredibly serious about treating bodies with respect, you can’t take photos, or muck around with them.
Going Hamlet with them would be absolutely not on.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦊 Saturday 11 October 2025 1 month ago:
Hate it when the bed ends up cooked.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦊 Saturday 11 October 2025 1 month ago:
Induction does do that. It’s too bad that they tend to have the rather opposite problem where because they go so quickly, a lot of the time, the graduations aren’t fine enough to work with.
If it wasn’t for the fact that electricity was so expensive (3x the price for power, though an induction stove uses half as much), I’d not mind using an induction hob nearly all the time.
- Comment on Steady 2 months ago:
I honestly don’t think that they paid that much. Most of it is probably just some stock animation that they bought and use, rather than anything specific.
- Comment on Or the common cold! 2 months ago:
But they’re also not completely ignorant either. They’re just greedy, and don’t care about much else.
- Comment on Do you think conservative feel the same need to burn it all down as everyone else felt when trump won again? 2 months ago:
Another victim of the high blood pressure epidemic 😔
He should’ve tried eating less salt.
- Comment on Are fossil fuels vegan? 2 months ago:
There’s a fair bit of nuance around the topic of whether honey should be vegan or not, since honeybees also overproduce, and that is its own problem. Like with sheep’s wool.
Although crude oil has the additional complication where it’s an incidental post-death product, like fertiliser, and from that viewpoint, it would be about as ethical.
- Comment on September 2025: Updates for the .worlds and call for donations 2 months ago:
Could have a truthworthiness score that can increase posting limits in the backend.
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 2 months ago:
You mentioned diverse weather conditions in your grant application, and we can’t have that.
- Comment on The planet still belongs to the dinosaurs. 2 months ago:
But sure, some bones on your ass I guess.
Exactly. Why live?
- Comment on when ur higher than sagan 3 months ago:
Assuming this effect existed, wouldn’t the memory of the water be polluted with all kind of things (as water is recycled all the time)?
Yes.
If longer exposure makes the memory stronger, you should be getting a lethal dose of salt quite easily
No, it would be the reverse. The water would magnetise to the salt, and draw it out of you, making you very dead.
- Comment on when ur higher than sagan 3 months ago:
The supposed science behind homeopathy was already known, though. It was never a mystery.
It basically worked around the pseudoscientific principle that water remembered what used to be in it, so it you diluted out water concentrated with the thing you had, it would somehow “remember” what was in it, and when taken, would draw it from the body through done principle of magnetism, or something like that.