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- Comment on 🎵 You know the season and so do I 🎶 4 hours ago:
The sheet music matches this video that will answer all of your questions:
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- Comment on SANA: Efficient High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Linear Diffusion Transformers 4 days ago:
It’ll be interesting to see where we go when it’s practical to generate video in realtime
- Comment on You know what, fuck you [un-Jags uar icon] 5 days ago:
- Comment on it's raining hot death in Minnesota 6 days ago:
Lots of rain. Should be snow 😢
- Comment on Frog's Gift 1 week ago:
Another comment explains the moon landing one. It’s a hexbear comment and probably not federated to a lot of instances, so copying it here:
The Moon landing line is a pretty important thing to study, actually, since we know what the rehearsed line was: “One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” Without that “a” it’s a very silly line.
Armstrong for years claimed he said the line right and that it must’ve been garbled in the radio transmission, and in recent years has been vindicated as better signal:noise algorithms processed the recording and found the missing word. Researchers aren’t blowing money to find out if Armstrong was a liar, they’re using it to develop more sensitive receivers, better transmission protocols, and more advanced algorithms to parse signal out of noise, all of which have massive impacts in other domains. An algorithm that’s better at parsing data out of noise in particular is going to be useful in loads of places like MRI machines where improving resolution will take billions in research but improving parsing is just updating the software.
- Comment on Frog's Gift 1 week ago:
That’s exactly what I was wondering. Simple objective, very difficult problem, maybe have to invent new algorithms. Kind of like this:
- Comment on Frog's Gift 1 week ago:
Here’s the tweet in question: xcancel.com/DOGE/status/1858540521096089876#m
Anyone know what studies it’s referring to?
- Comment on Monster 2 weeks ago:
To join in the obligatory reminders:
- Comment on "The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK." 2 weeks ago:
Because they understand just as well as we do that the way our voting system is set up means you have two options, and anything else is throwing your vote away
- Comment on "The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK." 2 weeks ago:
Biden’s policies brought “the economy” out of it better, at the expense of your average person.
- Comment on "The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK." 2 weeks ago:
There was no “tax the rich” candidate this election. Failing that, people voted for change.
- Comment on "The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK." 2 weeks ago:
If things didn’t suck for so many people, they would’ve been casting seeds onto stone. It’s much, much harder to radicalize someone that’s content. Instead, the messages found fertile ground. The solution isn’t to just ignore the issue and say “actually everything’s fine, look at numbers go up!”. It’s to give people hope that you’re actually fixing the issue.
- Comment on "The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK." 2 weeks ago:
It didn’t peter out, it got co-opted and suppressed until Trump capitalized on it. This is that exact same sentiment. People can’t afford groceries and housing, that was a huge issue during the election, so yeah we’ve finally reached a breaking point where people are pissed off about inequality and showed it. Anybody still pushing neolib shit is either braindead or benefits from neofeudalism.
- Comment on "The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK." 2 weeks ago:
If you’re just some dude, and you’ve got youtubers saying “you matter and you’re cool” on the one hand, and “cis white men suck #KillAllMen”, what do you think you’d be attracted to? That’s a generalization of course, but identity politics has got to go. We need more of this aesthetic on the left:
Not that exact poster obviously, but we need something that gives people a vision of the future and makes it cool. Until that happens, get ready for more Trump and his ilk.
- Comment on "The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK." 2 weeks ago:
He will bring lots of change. None of it good, but the DNC should view that as a crushing repudiation of their approach. They can’t even blame the Electoral College, they fucked up that badly. Hopefully they’ll learn a goddamn thing or two and run someone offering positive change.
- Comment on "The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK." 2 weeks ago:
It’s not really about that short of a timeframe. Here’s another example:
apps.urban.org/…/wealth-inequality-charts/
Compare 1963 to 2022:
We’re living in a new Gilded Age, people know they’re getting fucked, and saying “Oh, but look at this number going up” doesn’t work anymore.
- Comment on "The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK." 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t matter how well “the economy” recovered from Covid, when you see stuff like this:
inequality.org/facts/income-inequality/
Trump isn’t going to fix that, but Biden already didn’t, and FPTP means you get your pick of those two options.
- Comment on "The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK." 2 weeks ago:
IMO that’s way off base. People want change. They know they’re getting screwed, and the grifter is promising change. He’s lying and I think most people know that, but the fact that they’d take a convicted felon over what the DNC offered up is a crushing repudiation.
Bernie would’ve mopped the floor with Trump, because he also offers change. Someone like Obama would’ve too, even though there was a paucity of actual change during his terms.
We need to drag the DNC kicking and screaming off of the corporate dick it’s sucking, and get it left enough to offer real change, and people will vote for it in droves.
- Comment on And 299999999 is divisible by 13 2 weeks ago:
⅐ = 0.1̅4̅2̅8̅5̅7̅
The above is 42857 * 7, but you also get interesting numbers for other subsets:
7 * 7 = 49 57 * 7 = 399 857 * 7 = 5999 2857 * 7 = 19999 42857 * 7 = 299999 142857 * 7 = 999999
- Comment on Inn english their our know rules, 3 weeks ago:
You’ll like this poem:
The start of it:
Gerard Nolst Trenité - The Chaos (1922)
Dearest creature in creation Studying English pronunciation, I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse.
I will keep you, Susy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy; Tear in eye, your dress you’ll tear; Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer.
- Comment on Ambling Eerie Abode 4 weeks ago:
The title sounds like the off-brand Halloween costume version of Baba Yaga’s house
- Comment on Path to Unknown 4 weeks ago:
Really looks like a 70’s sci fi book cover
- Comment on Guys you remember that time Pete the cat drugged, robbed, and tied up the police commisioner in his own home on Halloween? 5 weeks ago:
Thought you were talking about this Pete the Cat at first and was very surprised:
- Comment on Google now requires JavaScript 1 month ago:
Yeah, it’s not impossible, but it’s much harder and you get a lot less info. You can also counteract the JS-less tracking with Firefox’s privacy.resistFingerprinting, or by using the Tor Browser, which enables a lot of anti-surveillance measures by default. Here’s also another good site for discovering how trackable you are: coveryourtracks.eff.org
- Comment on Google now requires JavaScript 1 month ago:
They’re also working with browser developers to push htmx into web standards, so that hopefully soon you won’t even need htmx/JS/etc, it’ll just be what your browser does by default
- Comment on Google now requires JavaScript 1 month ago:
A lot of the web is powered by JS, but much less of it needs to be. Here’s a couple of sites that are part of a trend to not unnecessarily introduce it:
The negative implications for Google requiring JS is that they will use it to track everything possible about you that they can, even down to how you move your cursor, or how much battery you have left on your phone in order to jack up prices, or any other number of shitty things.
- Comment on Google now requires JavaScript 1 month ago:
Could very well be a mobile thing. I was pretty annoyed recently when logging into gcal for work on my phone, it refused to let me sign in without giving them my cell phone number. When I switched to wifi, it stopped bugging me, so clearly they pay attention to that sort of signal.
- Comment on Google now requires JavaScript 1 month ago:
Sometimes, yeah. My default is DDG, and I also use Kagi, but Google is still good at some stuff. Guess I’ll take the hit and just stop using it completely though. Kagi has been good enough, and also lets me search the fediverse for finding that dank meme I saw last week. Google used to be able to do that, but can’t shove as many ads in those queries I assume, so they dropped that ability.
