BCsven
@BCsven@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Bugger! 1 day ago:
Sexydlics
- Comment on 1 day ago:
I would say Intrusive thoughts are us processing reptilian instincts, and our logic mind countering instinctual behaviours.
People should let them flow through without giving them focus. But I know some people get stuck on them, which seems to make them more active.
- Comment on The Bots That Women Use in a World of Unsatisfying Men 1 week ago:
Is it a login type, or non-login? Login type will remember your info up to a certain depth (which can be far ranging). Non login is a fresh session if you close the browser
- Comment on Is it normal for a simmer to not produce any bubbles? 1 week ago:
So should be good then, technically a boil from water to steam is at that exact temperature , so less than that shouldnt be boiling. Maybe inductions have gotten that good where it doesn’t raise into the boil and drop back out?
- Comment on Is it normal for a simmer to not produce any bubbles? 2 weeks ago:
It would be a good test to boil plain water and see if your thermometer reads 212°F
- Comment on Google employee made redundant after reporting sexual harassment, court hears 2 weeks ago:
Yes that’s why I said Laid off not fired. Laid off is about the role no longer being needed
- Comment on Is it normal for a simmer to not produce any bubbles? 2 weeks ago:
I found with induction on low it would sit for some length of time then for a few seconds boil, then sit. Repeat. Didn’t seem to be a low power, it just made the period between energizing longer. Newer induction stoves are supposed to be better though. Have you tried a different sized pot to see if the change in thermal mass helps
- Comment on Google employee made redundant after reporting sexual harassment, court hears 2 weeks ago:
Yes, but this is a BBC article and they don’t say laid off they say “made redundant”, its not a sanitizer term in UK, it is just the legal term everyone goes by for when you lose your job.
- Comment on Google employee made redundant after reporting sexual harassment, court hears 2 weeks ago:
Redundant is the British term for being laid off.
- Comment on AI showing signs of self-preservation and humans should be ready to pull plug, says pioneer 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for the research, I appreciated it
- Comment on AI showing signs of self-preservation and humans should be ready to pull plug, says pioneer 2 weeks ago:
I think the LLM is auto complete, the scientists may have been referring to AI neural networks that have shown emergent behaviors. The article kinda of glosses over any distinction about what they are actually talking about
- Comment on AI showing signs of self-preservation and humans should be ready to pull plug, says pioneer 2 weeks ago:
I think the scientists might be talking about neural models that show signs of emergent behaviours, while the article is talking more on the level of LLM. Media confuses the two systems.
- Comment on China builds brain-mimicking AI server the size of a mini-fridge, claims 90% power reduction — BI Explorer 1 packs in 1,152 CPU cores and 4.8TB of memory, runs on a household power outlet 3 weeks ago:
The article didn’t seem to mention, but it may be using that new method they came up with where the data is extracted via monitoring the electrical field the memory produces rather than flowing electrons in wires. That supposedly reduced power and sped up processing.
- Comment on Bicycles should be allowed on the road with the full rights and requirements (tags, inspections, and insurance) as motor vehicles. 3 weeks ago:
Way to give up your rights and fund another insurance scam
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 4 weeks ago:
The brand we used to buy would put their label there so it was protected from peeling off, Or rubbing against other jugs in transit. Things can have multiple purposes
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Well yes they are a bank. Lol. I moved regular accounts to a credit union because I was sick of the bank’s problems. But still have a disability retirement fund with the bank because its a special government account for my child.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
There are other criteria like account number, etc. But the voice they ask you specific question live. But I get it. Thats why I have a hardware key for platforms that support it.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
One country was already setting up copyright on your voice so AI can be served takedown notices. Voice are quite unique, its how my bank verifies who I am. If somebody clones my voice via AI it could fool that login system
- Comment on Sea Level 5 weeks ago:
In the video he’s saying the line between center of moon and center of earth has the most tidal force on the water, while the earht spins through that zone. It was not saying that the water starts 100% stationary and land spins through it, just that the height of water will always be high at that line as the earth rotates
- Comment on Is audiophile bullshit cheating? 1 month ago:
As an audiophile, this alt-j tune has great bass on a good system. (And when not played from YouTube) www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBDunSOoXNo
- Comment on Home-Schooled Kids Are Not All Right 1 month ago:
This is more an article about abuse and neglect, rather than homeschooling.
- Comment on Gravity! 1 month ago:
Well now that I’m aging, I do have moments of blanking out. I used to be always in “recording” mode of my daily activities, which is probably why I need quiet down time. But lately I’ll take out the recycling, to empty into our condo bins, and when I get back my wife says “where’s the tote?”. And I’m like, " Ah, probably down by the condo bin where I left it". Lol
- Comment on Gravity! 1 month ago:
She wasn’t initially at that level to comprehend the sun as an object with intense heat and super mass. She saw the sun as a lightbulb inside the earth dome.
- Comment on Gravity! 1 month ago:
😀 I haven’t IQ tested her. As a note I’m what she considers a smart engineery computer guy, but she can beat me at almost every game of Scrabble (like 400 vs 250). She can beat me at Tetris every time. She has played this 1010! android game for 3 years straight and not died once. Which is incredible to me. So she has reasoning skills and planning, and some abstract shape solving ability that is very tuned.
But she has zero science background, grew up Catholic, where god did everything, so she never thought critically about the humans on a planet situation.
But she doesn’t pay a whole lot of attention to things outside of her realm. So maybe it is an attention issue not an intelligence issue. i.e. she saw this red car go by and said thats nice and a bit different looking. I said yeah it’s our neighbours down the street She said I’ve never noticed it, how do you know its the same car? So I said: it’s had the front emblem taken off and re painted. Suspension is lowered, there is a performance parts logo on driver rear quarter window, it has smooth rims without a lot of cutouts, and a black subtle wing added on the tail. When she asked how I knew all that I said because we see it everyday on our evening walk together. For her she’s walked by it 100s of times without remembering it ever being parked on our street.
- Comment on Gravity! 1 month ago:
Well I had to explain it as if it were a kids class. We didn’t get into deep theory , constants, equations type stuff. Just overall concepts.
Saying earth surface was round and each country gets different day and night sequences etc, she immediate went to why aren’t Australians dangling off if they are at the bottom. So we had to go over center of gravity and gravity itself.
Which led to the Sun and moon being outside the earth. And I had to talk about the immense distances and speed of light concepts. (Since she thought she could get to the sun in about 45 minutes)
Then the questions came about why, if the earth rotates for day and night, aren’t people flying off. So I had to go over gravity and inertial laws. Referencing something she knew like being in a car and dropping something, it drops relative to you and doesn’t fly back at 100km/h ( inertial frame of reference stuff).
She was obviously skeptical still, especially about stars being distant suns.
And then she came to the conclusion of: how did we get here, if we are tiny spec in the universe on a planet. So we touched on evolution theory.
We eventually got her kids solar system books, and watched some good documentaries on netlix about these subjects and the one about the stages the earth has gone through.
She eventually understood the concepts, but still though we were trying to trick her. Until she went skydiving and realized “the air is 3D” ( her words ). All along she saw the sky as a background 2d backdrop on the INSIDE of the snow globe earth.
I don’t know how she missed this concept most of her life, I guess her circle just didn’t include people that talked about science stuff, and she took her cues from what she could see…flat ground, sky seems far away, sun is tiny but looks like it hits the mountains and water.
- Comment on Gravity! 1 month ago:
Yes, the true flatearthers deny what they are hearing and dig in deeper
- Comment on Gravity! 1 month ago:
After a few years of marriage, it came to light that my wife thought the earth was flat. It wasn’t some religious thing or cult thing, she had no affiliations. She just came to that conclusion based on visual cues in the world (like ground looks flat) and believed it without it ever being challenged in it.
It came up when she mentioned that a plane fkying near the sun must be getting hot, and I’m like Whaa? I explained the sun is so far outside the earth that that plane isn’t feeling much different than us. She revealed she though the sun was inside the earth (like we lived in a snow globe on a flat planar surface) and the sun just went down behind the mountains at night like half hour away.
I was stunned. We had a 4hour talk about the earth as a planet and the solar system and how gravity works.
She curled up in a fetal position and had an existental crisis for the rest of the day.
Somehow she missed school for the gravity, solar system etc. And I’d destroyed her entire core belief system; that she had developed herself.
- Comment on [Android] How is Florisboard not popular? 1 month ago:
Its the short thumb being the issue, I buy the smaller phone screens on purpose
- Comment on [Android] How is Florisboard not popular? 1 month ago:
Most common letter E is too far right to be useful as single hand Tyler (LH)
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 1 month ago:
I like bookmarks because I can categorize them into drop down menus that make sense to me.