thebardingreen

@thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guerrilla Women⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I’ve dated a couple of those and narrowly avoided dating a couple more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Creamy Cartilage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It is indeed EDS.n 🙁

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Creamy Cartilage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife has a genetic disorder that (among many other things) causes her spine to herniate at the drop of a hat. She’s had to have emergency surgery multiple times.

  About a year and a half ago, a neurosurgeon was operating on her and came to talk to me and my mom who were waiting. She was extremely excited, in that like “academic who just saw something new” kind of way, because my wife had the third biggest herniation she’d ever seen, and the largest in a patient under 70 (my wife was 34 at the time). She asked if it would be OK if she invited a professor from the local university and a couple of his grad students to come look at it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is very danger! Too strong magnet will pull away! Keeping far the electron and metal toys!

  危险 设备运行时存在强磁场 操作时请远离铁磁性金属和电子设备

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pump up the jamz⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is absolutely only one choice, no need to even think about it it’s this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GORILLA GORILLA⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gorilla used repetitiveness.

  It was very effective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuck paraphyletic groups⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So sigma.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Miserabilis⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Annnnnd… roll for initiative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oxygen⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gay furry rule 34 of anthropomorphic crab man with scientifically realistic crab dong doing all kinds of anal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assassin Bug⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess spiders don’t want to eat a pile of dead ants, even if it’s moving. Not the sharpest tools in the shed, spiders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assassin Bug⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  #nidthings

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THE DEMONS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not a demon, it’s an unseelie prince of the Sidhe. Look at the ears and the crown. It’s not that we should pray to Jebus for protection, it’s that we should stop dumping CO2 into the atmosphere and pissing off the winter fae.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women in STEM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨go lower⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Where is this? Asking for a friend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a prompt⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yog Sothoth cares not for your meaningless mortal science. Ia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2real5me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This. As someone who runs a consulting business that works extensively with New Space startups doing business with big aerospace contractors and government entities, my only question is “What’s your PHD in?”

  We probably won’t need you to really do much work. Just learn about our projects and come to meetings so you can talk about them. Heck, I’ll write you scripts and give you a sheet of the softball ass questions we expect and the answers to them we want you to give.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We lost Keanu⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  At least it’s not Taylor Swift.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if the panic over teens and tech is totally wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. As a Gen Xer with a teenage son, when I hear my peers freaking out about their kids and technology, I remind them what our parents said about MTV.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Platypuses⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  An excellent example of spending your points all over the place and somehow ending up with an actually pretty broken build.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to Monetize a Blog⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This was the most informative thing I read on the internet today. I can’t wait to go start a blog.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Worst examples of Treknobabble⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  SNW’s scientific accuracy and technobabble are so bad, it often pulls me right out of the story. I feel like Next Gen era at least tried a little bit. Yeah, it was awful but…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So I’m at Burning Man and my buddy is like “Hey, do you feel a little weird?” and I’m like “Yeah, yeah, I feel a little weird. Why?” And he’s like “'Member those cookies my girlfriend gave our camp at dinner time?” I’m like “Yeah. Why?” He’s like “Well, here’s the thing…”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Effects of Different Types of Materials on Sexual Activity⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Username checks out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s practically impossible to run a big AI company ethically: Anthropic was supposed to be the good guy. It can’t be — unless government changes the incentives in the industry.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If those words are connected to some automated system that can accept them as commands…

  For instance, some idiot entrepreneur was talking to me recently about whether it was feasible to put an LLM on an unmanned spacecraft in cis-lunar space (I consult with the space industry) in order to give it operational control of on-board systems based on real time telemetry. I told him about hallucination and asked him what he thinks he’s going to do when the model registers some false positive in response to a system fault… Or even what happens to a model when you bombard it’s long-term storage with the kind of cosmic particles that cause random bit flips (This is a real problem for software in space) and how that might change its output?

  Now, I don’t think anyone’s actually going to build something like that anytime soon (then again the space industry is full of stupid money), but what about putting models in charge of semi-autonomous systems here on earth? Or giving them access to APIs that let them spend money or trade stocks or hire people on mechanical Turk? Probably a bunch of stupid expensive bad decisions…

  Speaking of stupid expensive bad decisions, has anyone embedded an LLM in the ethereum blockchain and givien it access to smart contracts yet? I bet investors would throw stupid money at that…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A social archipelago: Against social media colonialism (draft)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Fediverse is Already Dead

  Eh… This take is one grumpy dude in a hacker space somewhere soap boxing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Wisdom of Great People⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some men just want to watch the world learn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Organic Molecules⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you want people trying to do astrology based on chemical diagrams? Cuz this is how you get people to do astrology based on chemical diagrams.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How I explain my job⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a modern software engineer, I believe the second panel is also sufficient to explain my job to congress.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are US states, school districts banning smartphones in schools?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you. But I don’t do it anymore. I could not make earn enough money to have a stable life and family.

  I have a whole different rant about that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Morality and ethics should play no part”: Leaks reveal how Russia's foreign intelligence agency runs disinformation campaigns in the West⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you trying to say “Well the US sucks, so… don’t… don’t criticize Russia… man…”

  Or are you trying to say “States gonna be states and do shitty state things.”