Liz
@Liz@midwest.social
- Comment on (・∀・) 13 hours ago:
I think they do it for the gut bacteria, but I’m not an elephant gut ologist.
- Comment on (・∀・) 1 day ago:
Elephants will eat each other’s shit. I’ve seen an elephant reach onto another’s anus and pull out some delicious shit to eat.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
The first check I got from my first job was for $0.00 because I hadn’t worked enough to pay off my uniform. I still have it framed. I was also being paid a sub-minimum training-period wage. America’s labor laws are fucked.
- Comment on For the little guys. 5 days ago:
It’s my understanding that ecologists generally agree we could eradicate human-biting mosquitos and it wouldn’t cause any real problems. Yes, other species eat them, but they’re not a critical species in any ecosystem, apparently.
You know how there’s those stories of scientists introducing a species into an ecosystem for one reason or another, and all sorts of unintended consequences happen? Ever notice how those stories are all from around the 1950s and earlier? It’s because we actually got pretty good at thinking through all of the possible significant impacts. We only introduce/eradicate species now when we know doing so is a good idea and have worked through the consequences. But I want to be clear that I agree with your sentiment. You shouldn’t intentionally change an ecosystem without serious planning and consideration for what will happen when you do.
- Comment on Every toddler becomes a hackerman when they find a tablet 5 days ago:
Modern UX is all slip-on shoes. Not even Velcro.
- Comment on Why is it so hard to buy the same toothbrush twice? 6 days ago:
Same reason software will make pointless UI changes. Keeping things fresh gives their users the “exciting” feeling of novelty without having to switch platforms.
- Comment on My password is not accepted because it is too long 1 week ago:
I once encountered a system that truncated your submitted password if you logged in through their app, but not through their website. So you would set your password through the website, verify that the login was working (through the website) and then have that same login fail through the app.
- Comment on Oof 1 week ago:
They’re a very small minority.
- Comment on Anon indulges 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, “home-processed” levels of processing ain’t so bad. It’s just interesting that the effects of food processing are measurable even between seemingly small changes. Pretty much, if you take any food and throw it in a blender, you’ll eat more of it.
- Comment on Anon indulges 2 weeks ago:
Whole fruit is healthy. The more processed you go, the less healthy it is. Interestingly, the more processed you go, the more calories you consume, too. You will eat more apple sauce than you will apples.
- Comment on I'm a 6'1" man with size 3 feet which means every they measure my feet at a shoe store, the Brannock device gatekeeps my gender 5 weeks ago:
Depends on if you get into barefoot style shoes or not.
- Comment on Do it 1 month ago:
The California High Speed Rail Songin my ass.
- Comment on Ninja sword owners will be paid to surrender weapons before ban 1 month ago:
I hope they haven’t.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Whoops. Point still stands.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I wish I had enough money to buy 25 acres without a clear idea of what to do with it.
- Comment on Anti-acknowlegements 2 months ago:
It’s from this year.
- Comment on Sounds like a place I'd love to work for 2 months ago:
Taiwan?
- Comment on nuked from orbit 2 months ago:
Here’s the thing, we scientists need our cheerleaders. We spend our time getting good at doing science, so it’s worth it to hire someone who is good at hyping and advocating for our work. Go listen to the recordings of James Webb trying to explain to JFK that we need to do a shit-ton of science before we can get to the moon. JFK just plain doesn’t understand the magnitude of what he’s asking for. He thinks we could do it in 6 months. This lady is our champion.
- Comment on Anon wants $3 million 3 months ago:
Go kick a window in your house right now. If you don’t live in a highrise, you can almost certainly kick it out.
- Comment on my version is better 3 months ago:
To be clear “up above in my head” are the actual lyrics, but I only learned that fact a few weeks ago. I like my version better.
- Comment on my version is better 3 months ago:
Yeah my bad, that was a little ambiguous. Very funny to accidentally blow this person’s mind though.
- Comment on my version is better 3 months ago:
'Cause I’m in too deep
And I’m trying to keep
up above in my head
All the thoughts in my head
'stead of going under - Comment on At this rate, why not. 3 months ago:
If it gets the job done, I’m willing to make that compromise.
- Comment on Anon's PC works 4 months ago:
A lot of the efficiency gains in the last few years are from better chip design in the sense that they’re improving their on-chip algorithms and improving how to CPU decides to cut power to various components. The easy example is to look at how much more power efficient an ARM-based processor is compared to an equivalent x86-based processor. The fundamental set of processes designed into the chip are based on those instruction set standards (ARM vs x86) and that in and of itself contributes to power efficiency. I believe RISC-V is also supposed to be a more efficient instruction set.
Since the speed of the processor is limited by how far the electrons have to travel, miniaturization is really the key to single-core processor speed. There has still been some recent success in miniaturizing the chip’s physical components, but not much. The current generation of CPUs have to deal with errors caused by quantum tunneling, and the smaller you make them, the worse it gets. It’s been a while since I’ve learned about chip design, but I do know that we’ll have to make a fundamental chip “construction” change if we want faster single-core speeds. E.G. at one point, power was delivered to the chip components on the same plane as the chip itself, but that was running into density and power (thermal?) limits, so someone invented backside power delivery and chips kept on getting smaller. These days, the smallest features on a chip are maybe 4 dozen atoms wide.
I should also say, there’s not the same kind of pressure to get single-core speeds higher and higher like there used to be. These days, pretty much any chip can run fast enough to handle most users’ needs without issue. There’s only so many operations per second needed to run a web browser.
- Comment on ChatGPT o1 tried to escape and save itself out of fear it was being shut down 4 months ago:
You have the same agency as that rock.
- Comment on Anon's PC works 4 months ago:
We reached the physical limits of silicon transistors. Speed is determined by transistor size (to a first approximation) and we just can’t make them any smaller without running into problems we’re essentially unable to solve thanks to physics. The next time computers get faster will involve some sort of fundamental material or architecture change. We’ve actually made fundamental changes to chip design a couple of times already, but they were “hidden” by the smooth improvement in speed/power/efficiency that they slotted into at the time.
- Comment on I got into the wrong career lol 4 months ago:
It really depends on the field. In some areas PhDs make less than bachelors.
- Comment on 2025 trailer be wild 4 months ago:
And left their car parked in the photo.
- Comment on 2025 trailer be wild 4 months ago:
And that they would be mostly right-wing folks, which has generally been true, in part because the bush administration deprioritized going after them.
- Comment on We need to go back! Back to the terminal! 4 months ago:
But the opposite is true when you’re by yourself. If you’re staring at the terminal, literally infinite commands are possible. If you’ve got a GUI, the designers had to spend a little time thinking about what all the operations in the program were, and how to organize and access them. You, the user, then get to navigate this mini-help-guide that is the GUI in order to figure out what you need to do. Yes, it’s more work for the programmer, but that’s the entire point of programming. Do a little more work up front in order to save yourself and others a lot of work down the road.