Sterile_Technique
@Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
- Comment on 13 hours ago:
The bullshit generators we call ‘AI’ don’t assume, and aren’t frantic: they just regurgitate an output based on as much bullshit input as we can stuff into them.
The output can be more or less recognizable as bullshit, but the computer doesn’t distinguish between the two.
- Comment on Every time I make biscuits from a can 3 days ago:
I could have sworn there was a mod for one of the GTA games that replaces the model/skin of the grenades with can of biscuit dough. You’d throw it, it’d roll and do nothing for a sec, then there would be no actual explosion, but that muffled splat sound the cans make and so dough squeeze out from the seams.
…but the everything else responded normally as they would to a grenade; so a can of biscuit dough popping would still send people ragdolling away from it, cause cars to explode, etc.
Maybe it was just a parody gif someone made and not an actual mod? I can’t find it. Q_Q
- Comment on spidermanpointing.jpg 6 days ago:
*knife splits entire scene*
“…and it IS cake!!”
- Comment on Save the day 1 week ago:
Poor buddy probably thinks he’s getting a juicy grape.
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 1 week ago:
Now that was just sour.
- Comment on Reddit lost it 1 week ago:
AI sexbots are already here. “AI” has become a synonym for just “artificial”, the “intelligence” bit seems to only be there for marketing purposes.
- Comment on Always so loud 😒 1 week ago:
Fortunately you don’t need to!
Upon sneeze initiation of non-voluntary inhalation and the iconic “Ah-” you can consciously react with a valsalva maneuver
*of the airway by retracting your tongue up toward your nasopharynx - try it now while exhaling, and if done correctly your exhale should be fully blocked and you’ll feel a slight pressure increase in your head. Doing this after that inhalation portion of a sneeze will similarly block the “-choo!” half, keeping the air and slurry of snot and pathogens all internal, at the cost of making yourself subtable to the consequences listed in OP’s article.*not to be confused with a valsalva maneuver of the GI tract, which can cause hernias and a vasovagal response that dips your blood pressure and can make you pass out - Comment on Frick 2 weeks ago:
With increased size comes a reduction in mobility, increased difficulty in reproduction and maintenance of life. And an increased perception in them being a threat.
A car sized spider would be pretty much immobile, and by that size, a tactical target that would be fairly easy to hunt to extinction.
The bigger the better.
- Comment on Frick 2 weeks ago:
Counterargument: the big ones are much easier to notice and squash. It’s the tiny fucker that just slipped under the collar of your shirt without alerting you that you need to worry about.
I’m sure that itch you just felt was all in your head.
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 2 weeks ago:
I can’t believe two Kennedys were assassinated, and this guy isn’t one of them.
- Comment on Prove your humanity. 3 weeks ago:
I made that mistake several times, but iirc it was always a recoverable error. When I stuck that hot loop into the agar it would sizzle, which would tell me I just murdered every bacterium that loop touched; so resterilize actually allow it to cool this time, and repeat the botched step in a slightly different location to pass through a section of bacteria that I hadn’t just dropped a nuke on.
…which is probably shitty technique, but it got me good enough results to get good enough data for class.
- Comment on 👁️🐽👁️ 3 weeks ago:
More like a giant alveolus. But inside out. With a giant sphincter in the middle. That poops light.
- Comment on leading ai company 3 weeks ago:
Grok is evolving
…as measured by the number of slurs it tells to minorities, or what?
- Comment on Prove your humanity. 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Prove your humanity. 3 weeks ago:
Pretty much. It’s like a little wire loop - sterilize it with a bunsen burner, let it cool, then take a swab from your source specimen and drag it into your agar for that section 1. Sterilize it again with the burner, cool, then drag through the last couple lines of 1 to get region 2. Repeat for 3 and again for 4. The sample size of individual microbes gets exponentially fewer each time - done correctly and region 4 is dotted with individual cells, which you leave alone for a while to incubate, then come back and start making your observations like how it’s interacting with the agar, what color, texture etc; smear it onto a microscope slide, see how it responds to different stains, it’s shape, it’s arrangement… then start checking all those findings against known properties of different microbes until you find a match.
- Comment on Prove your humanity. 3 weeks ago:
Visual breakdown for anyone interested:
- Comment on Prove your humanity. 3 weeks ago:
Normal flora can become pathogenic if it finds a way to a part of your body in which it doesn’t normally reside. For example, E. coli is NOT pathogenic when it’s in your lower intestines; different story when it finds a way into your bladder. …and even within the normal ‘home’ of a microbe in question, if your internal chemistry or immune system get out of whack, sometimes that resident flora can get out of control. This is basically ‘opportunistic pathogens’ in a nutshell.
So… every square.
- Comment on Got a six-pack for me and the boys 3 weeks ago:
I’m half tempted to try it again on the suspicion that the can I found just wasn’t a good batch. I ain’t above being fooled twice.
- Comment on Got a six-pack for me and the boys 3 weeks ago:
All the memes about those things got me interested in actually trying them. Turns out those light-blue packaged ones are a pain in the ass to find in the US - eventually spotted in the European section of a ‘world foods’ type grocer. Now I’m excited to dive in: not expecting magic or anything, but this much hype on the internet is founded on something surely.
Even made toast to eat em with to get the full experience.
They tasted like… beans. They’re just beans. Nothing special about the flavor or texture. On toast they taste like beans + bread.
You fuckers had me so pumped for that shit, and they’re just fuckin’ beans.
3/10. Sated hunger and curiosity. Nothing else.
- Comment on Mammals that chose ants and termites as food almost never go back - Ars Technica 3 weeks ago:
Taking a moment to recognize the insanely thorough formatting on that comment. I didn’t even know Lemmy comments could look that clean. Well done sir.
- Comment on Please bro 3 weeks ago:
defining what AGI is
What AI was before marketing redefined AI to mean image recognition/generation algorithms or a spellchecker/calculator that’s wrong every now and then.
- Comment on Please bro 3 weeks ago:
What are we going to call actual AI when AGI starts being bastardized by marketing the way “AI” was before it?
- Comment on Beyond Beef? Impossible Beef? I Can't Believe It's Not Beef? 3 weeks ago:
Beet. It even makes more sense as a play on words than ‘beef’ anyway, in the context of an argument.
- Comment on Now I finally get it 4 weeks ago:
Iirc Oregon or Colorado legalized pot and gay marriage at virtually the same time. I remember the memes of a freaked out preacher yelling “NO NOT LIKE THAT!!” lol. Good times.
- Comment on PSA: WASH YOUR HANDS 4 weeks ago:
That makes a ton more sense - thank you!
- Comment on PSA: WASH YOUR HANDS 4 weeks ago:
…what’s actually making the cysts radiopaque? I wouldn’t have guessed tape worms or the damage they’re doing to soft tissue to be anywhere near that visible on x-ray
- Comment on PSA: WASH YOUR HANDS 4 weeks ago:
I mean, that’s a good a selling point as any.
- Comment on Makes sense 5 weeks ago:
Nice! This was my first one - definitely had me scouring the entire image once I started noticing the weirdness.
- Comment on Makes sense 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Southern USA core. 5 weeks ago:
Did you know Alabamans refuse to have sex in the ‘doggy style’ position?
They never turn their back on family!
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