davidgro

@davidgro@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Look at this. Or don't.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  As another comment said, the wave behavior when not measured is hard to explain if one thinks of photons as little particles that classically would need to go through one slit or the other. It seems each one goes through both slits and self-interferes.

  And when measured, sure enough they act like little particles that need to go through one slit or the other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The internet is for porn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is from Avenue Q

  I recommend it if you get a chance to see it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Engineering 4.0: The Bionic Revolution is Here | Ziroth [9:30]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t watched it yet but given the context I’m going to assume they mean ‘traditional’ machine learning and not specifically the LLMs or diffusion models which are now usually called “AI”. I feel like domain specific ML models are not a problem - they don’t scrape the web or require new power plants to operate.

  But yeah LLMs are evil.

  And I’ll see if I’m wrong after watching it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game is a guilty pleasure of yours?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, I got into the dailies immediately in both games, just part of playing for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game is a guilty pleasure of yours?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For me it’s Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. It would be super easy to whale out and spend a bunch of money to get the characters and weapons I want, but I (almost 100%) limit myself to the basically fixed monthly costs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have one at home⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Similarly: The one with the bear

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have one at home⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was going to go for “Ouya trying to fool with this post?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  By the 10th iteration it will have surpassed the mass of an average adult human.
  And at the 21st, will be more massive than the largest Blue Whales.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear God⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That article wasn’t updated when it became a hurricane later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Snow Kitty⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh! I thought the post was just a joke. Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear God⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Epsilon is not E, storm names went Greek after running out of English letters (skipping Q, U, X, Y and Z.). E in 2020 was Tropical Storm Edouard.

  They now no longer go Greek, there’s a list of alternate names and I think it starts over at A.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I Tried the First Humanoid Home Robot. It Got Weird."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m skeptical of it eventually being automated in a useful way, and if it’s not, then this is just an expensive roundabout way to hire a personal assistant/caregiver.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'd like to control my air-purifier with one of those power-socket-timer-switch thingies – Is there a way to "auto-press" those non-mechanical buttons?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Aww. Modern tech is too ‘smart’ for its own good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'd like to control my air-purifier with one of those power-socket-timer-switch thingies – Is there a way to "auto-press" those non-mechanical buttons?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s on when you unplug it, does it go back on when plugged in? If so then turn off its own timer and just use a regular appliance timer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Piping mouse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The first sentence had me thinking this was a ‘Gen-Z doesn’t know PCs’ thing.

  It got so much better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “People” is one specific person. Sxan or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is forever alone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just recently I was imagining a dating site that doesn’t use profiles, just randomly matches people with compatible age and gender settings (weighted by proximity and how long they have waited for a match) and trying to think through how it might work.

  There would have to be a penalty for rejecting a match before setting up a date or for cancelling on them, such as a delay before being able to request another match (and maybe double the delay each consecutive time)

  Anyway this would eliminate the whole ‘5% of men get 90% of dates’ thing (whatever the real numbers are) - after requesting a match eventually everyone would get one. There would of course have to be a report system for actual problem people. And likely straight women would get dates much faster (more frequently) than straight men, but still more evenly distributed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honestly Bizarre⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mostly agree, but there’s a few holes in that chart:

  My favorite vegetables are salt and ice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honestly Bizarre⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  … Is it not?

  Being a grain (or even specifically a “Cereal grain”) doesn’t exclude it, see corn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mom they're fighting again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess I assumed ‘sprout’ meant directly out of the ground instead of a “Brussels tree”.

  I don’t recognize a few of the other ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's my pile⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I like that it’s exactly the same pile, none of them even shifted while being painted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon shops for diamonds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, I haven’t kept up, I edited my post a little. Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon shops for diamonds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wife and I decided on moissanite. It’s big, extra sparkly, and 1/10 the price a similar diamond would be. Almost as hard, too - won’t get scratched except by another moissanite or a diamond.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spongebob Squarehero⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No clue, but I was curious too, so I found this which says:

  “the most common amount people paid for it was between $51-$100.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did Border Control exist in previous eras? (Say, like 500+ years ago or more) Can people go to other places? If so, what does the procedure look like? Just walk across a border?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  At some point wasn’t it actual stone walls around cities, with guards at the gates checking people?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spongebob Squarehero⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fake IDs are a whole industry in the US. I don’t think I personally knew anyone with one, but it was certainly a thing.

  Also older siblings or friends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which is your song, chat?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Obviously “Cry, bark, groan”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S A TRAP⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s effectively just the bottom track, where an uncountable number of people (literally) will die as soon as the train reaches position (0.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imperial Wastes So Much Time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “A0 is defined so that it has an area of 1 m^2 (11 sq ft) before rounding to the nearest 1 millimetre (0.039 in).”

  There’s a connection, but after that it’s base 1/2 instead of base 10 (or 1/10). So A4 is ~1/16 m^2

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do all American stores have greeters?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No. A typical “supermarket” (grocery + clothes, housewares, etc.) does not, nor do smaller stores that are mostly just grocery. Walmart is an exception.

  Costco has people who could be called greeters, but they are just checking that you, or someone you are with, has a paid membership. Some stores have security guards at the entrances, but that’s a different thing.