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- Comment on This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄 3 days ago:
Sure, it’s a misleading label, but lets not pretend anyone is gonna accidentally eat 100+ calories of it.
Let’s make a liberal estimate. Lest say it’s actually 3cal/serving as listed. Let’s say you spray it for 5s (way more than I’ve ever sprayed a bottle of PAM). That’s 60cal for the entire sheet pan of whatever it is you’re making. If you’re gonna eat the full sheet pan of cookies you are baking I hate to break it to you, but the 60cal of cooking spray probably isn’t moving the needle. And that’s the most liberal application I can think of.
Have you used aerosol cooking spray before? Are you using enough to make a puddle in your frying pan? Cause if so you’re using it wrong my guy.
- Comment on This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄 3 days ago:
This is a spray oil though. You wouldn’t use it for salad or frying. You’d do a brief spray on a waffle iron or cookie sheet to stop stuff from sticking.
I agree 1500 servings seems like too many, but not wildly too many. I doubt I spray more than half a second of oil on a cookie sheet before dropping cookies on it. 800+ sprays seems perfectly reasonable. And at that scale, the actual amount of calories is a little immaterial.
No one is layering this into their food. Aerosol spray oil is more cooking tool than food you eat.
- Comment on McConnell released from rehab center 50+ days after hospitalization 1 week ago:
Man, it’s almost like it was all conspiracy theory nonsense all along. Who could have foreseen this?
- Comment on Proof of life for the recently deceased 2 weeks ago:
He should post his long form birth certificate.
- Comment on Proof of life for the recently deceased 2 weeks ago:
No, the seat would remain vacant starting tomorrow. It was the deadline for a runoff, but the seat just won’t be filled if he were to die tomorrow.
- Comment on this absolute bullshit from reddit 4 weeks ago:
The argument given is that it’s a barrier to AI scrapers. So it keeps them safer. From competition.
- Comment on could I get an AI to just rewrite any software I want thereby not having to purchase the desired app? 5 weeks ago:
Not really. Let’s see if we can’t put together an analogy as to why.
When talking about software, the term “source code” comes up a lot. Think of this as a recipe someone would use to make the software. The software itself (for instance, Windows 98) is like the food made from cooking that recipe.
But something like Windows 98 is more like a giant cookbook full of recipes, and all of those recipes are written in a way to make a giant, cohesive meal.
Now, it’s important to realize that Microsoft has never released any of those recipes. And in the same way that you could make a copycat version of your favorite restaurant’s specialty, you could have AI give you a copycat recipe for some software.
But while you might be able to get close, your computer is a very picky gourmand. The little differences matter a lot, especially when you start trying to use things that were designed to work with the “real” version.
Another important thing most other people have already identified is what the AI can actually do. By default, most AI like ChatGPT is just a chatbot. It can talk to you, but not much else. So, you can ask you to give you a copycat recipe for some software and it will give you one, it’ll just be the recipe. You’ll have to do the “cooking” yourself.
They do now make what are called “agentic” AI’s that can do the “cooking” for you. But again, they would be working off the copycat recipe that the normal AI came up with, which is going to be a little bit (but importantly) wrong at the outset. Especially for something as big and connected as Windows. And the agentic AI’s aren’t free to use like the chatbot ones. In fact, they’re very expensive.
So, all that to say, it would be very difficult if not impossible to do what you are asking via AI.
- Comment on Need a fact check if they actually do blur his neck scrotum 1 month ago:
I mean, that’s why people believe Newsmax too. It’s not that they’re particularly dumb. It’s that most people prefer confirmation bias to facts.
- Comment on Need a fact check if they actually do blur his neck scrotum 1 month ago:
Not immediately realizing this is obviously false has the same energy as when my dad quotes Alex Jones at me.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 1 month ago:
I think you’re undervaluing the form factor. I don’t have unlimited space under my TV, and I don’t think you’ll be able to find a mini-pc that’s appreciably cheaper with the same specs.
- Comment on Karma Just Hit Adobe. Hard. 2 months ago:
- Comment on Boss, please pick up 2 months ago:
Though the fact that you’re asking me this gives me cause for concern that you don’t have that now.
- Comment on easter crack 4 months ago:
I feel like it hasn’t aged super well as a template, lol.
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 5 months ago:
If non-human animals cannot consent, isn’t all sex between any two non-human animals rape?
If that’s the case, isn’t this preferable to just letting the animals just rape each other indiscriminately?
- Comment on it's a long distance relationship 6 months ago:
To be fair, the “change one” part is wrong. Two particles that are quantum entangled maintain the same quantum state when separated. But if you change the quantum state of one it doesn’t propogate. They are just in sync.
- Comment on Why didn't Venezuela move its capital further away from the ocean to make the government more resilliant to capitulation? 7 months ago:
As opposed to the US which has a famously inland capital. :P
- Comment on What's the best way to answer someone who accuses you of being a bot because they don't like what you have to say? 8 months ago:
Ngl, I saw this and was like, effing chatgpt garbage, and down voted.
Then I realized the joke and upvoted. You got me on that one.
- Comment on Age check 11 months ago:
In 1997? From Arkansas? That seems… exceptionally unlikely. Or, at least far far less likely than that he was just cheating.
- Comment on Age check 11 months ago:
Combine that with the fact that someone commiting adultery should be disqualifying for them becoming president.
Look, I get that all the social norms have been completely ground to dust, but character does in fact matter. We should want a good person who refuses to cheat on their wife as a leader.
Reducing this to just a fun fling because you like the guy is the same thing the hypocrites who support Trump and all of his scandals do.
If he’s willing to betray his wife for a quicky from an intern, why would I trust him with anything else? For the person who’s leading the entire nation the bar should be higher.
Also not to mention that he was 49 and she was 22. If this was anyone less “likeable” than Bill we’d all be calling him an absolute creep. He was pushing 50, and she could barely drink. And he was her boss.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Just a little squat. More than tall enough for an rj45 to plug in though. I think they look a little tight because it doesn’t have the same amount of bezel as a lot of boxes will have around the ports.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Yeah, those are both definitely normal Ethernet jacks. Neither takes a phone cable. You should just need a normal Ethernet line.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Hey man, you should be happy and live your best life. Do things that make you happy with people you love.
Hahahaha, now if you do it, you’re just doing what I told you to do like a little lapdog. Stupid sheep.
- Comment on Why doesn't the US name this state? Are they stupid? 1 year ago:
Man, it looks like sheer laziness that they can fit “Kentucky” into its state, but “Alabama” gets a pointer line. You’re telling me that you can’t do the exact same thing you did with “Georgia” there?
- Comment on Anon breaks up 1 year ago:
While preventable child deaths are obviously terrible, I feel like this could be overextended.
Like, how many child deaths has McDonald’s caused vs guns. I’m too lazy to do the math like the other guy, but I’d presume it’s comparable. (Although I suppose by the time it catches up to them they’re no longer children.)
Idk, you see things like, “leading cause of death in children” and it makes the number seem huge, but it’s less than 100 kids a year. And it looks like around 400/yr die from drowning in swimming pools. So if we really care about the children, we should bad swimming pools? They kill 4x the number of kids than guns.
I’m not saying guns are great. But using child deaths as part of the argument just feels like a great excuse to ban literally anything you just don’t like.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Just because it’s generally possible for the bladder to rupture before the muscles give out, it’s certainly not impossible. A myriad of conditions or even just genetics can lead to a physically weaker bladder.
I think it’s a bit bold to say that absolutely 100%, no exceptions, that the muscles will always fail first. Even if that’s true 99.99% of the time, there’s just far to much variance in human bodies to rule it out, I would think.
- Comment on Melon-chicken-Aspic 1 year ago:
I mean, it kinda just looks like boiled chicken, so it’s probably fine? Probably not tasty, but not raw by a long shot.
- Comment on Eating shit is for alphas, am I rite guise 1 year ago:
This is satire.
- Comment on If comey can be investigated by the secret service for an Instagram tweet what is stopping elon from taking hold of politicians/reporters accounts and making posts that will get them investigated? 1 year ago:
Sure, I agree that it’s a stupid idea from an effort vs reward perspective. It’s at best unnecessary.
But your initial position was that it couldn’t be done without being easy to prove that it was a fabrication, and I think you’re wrong about that.
I think that they are more than capable of doing it in such a way that it’s wholly word-vs-word, with no forensic evidence pointing to it being doctored. And the idea that they would do that is outlandish enough that most reasonable people would assume the post was legitimate and that the “offender” was lying about it to try and deflect blame.
It’s the classic, "No, I didn’t post that list of porn search terms to my Twitter! I was hacked!! Totally somebody hacked me and did that. Wasn’t me at all!!” But in this case it’d be something that was a pretext for the government to arrest them.
- Comment on If comey can be investigated by the secret service for an Instagram tweet what is stopping elon from taking hold of politicians/reporters accounts and making posts that will get them investigated? 1 year ago:
Sure, but then it’s a question of narrative not proof, right?
Because the response from X would just be, “we aren’t sure why Mr so-and-so didn’t/couldn’t immediately delete the post, but we froze it in short order because we believe the fact he would post such a thing is a matter of public interest, and we refuse to let him sweep it under the rug.”
Yeah, he could say that he posted something completely different and X changed it, but how do you prove it? Everyone would just assume it to be a lie trying to cover their ass after posting something terrible.
Not saying this is at all likely. Just that it’s possible.
And this assumes they notice it was doctored immediately anyway. Most people don’t verify that the post is correct after hitting “submit.” A good 90+% of people would probably never notice if the text was changed post upload.
- Comment on If comey can be investigated by the secret service for an Instagram tweet what is stopping elon from taking hold of politicians/reporters accounts and making posts that will get them investigated? 1 year ago:
You could just replace the text of a post as it gets submitted. Keep all metadata otherwise unchanged. Lock the account from being able to make edits.