psud
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- Comment on Solve a puzzle for me 1 day ago:
It was ok. I and it went through about four iterations going from “that’s a sun tracker, I asked for a heliostat” through undeclared variables, global variables that should have been local until it was a fine program with just the fault that there was no such library as solar::heliostat [azimuth, altitude]
I have read that people have run into that sort of problem and have written the library the AI called for, but I looked up a real astronomy library
- Comment on Solve a puzzle for me 2 days ago:
It’s a type of cabbage
- Comment on Solve a puzzle for me 2 days ago:
Yeah. I asked GPT3 for some heliostat code, to keep reflected sunlight stationary. It was wrong, it hallucinated libraries that didn’t exist, but it roughed out a program that was easier to fix than it would have been to start from scratch.
Maybe its superpower is beating inertia, getting you started
- Comment on Immunity 3 days ago:
literally prevent me from functioning
And that’s literally. Inability to leave bed isn’t enough
- Comment on Iron 3 days ago:
It’s a great video. My friends and I have watched it many times
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 2 weeks ago:
Yep, there are mods for Minecraft that warn you that certain of their functions will trigger anticheat if used on a server (so only use those features only in single player, where your server doesn’t care if you cheat)
- Comment on checkmate, big geology!! 2 weeks ago:
And burying entire states 2m (~6’) deep in ash and stone
- Comment on checkmate, big geology!! 2 weeks ago:
With a valve, I guess, to release the pressure gently
- Comment on checkmate, big geology!! 2 weeks ago:
It’s like expecting the pipe of a pipe bomb to contain the explosion
- Comment on kids are gowing up faster and faster 2 weeks ago:
But it hardly is. I call it baby jail (except due to where I spent my first few years, I tend to spell jail as gaol)
- Comment on You are in this solar system, but we do not grant you the rank of planet 3 weeks ago:
Our racism is completely unrelated to our classification. We are racist between homo sapiens and homo sapiens
- Comment on Boredom births creativity 3 weeks ago:
If the weapon was like these (the fine stabbing sword) add “rapier duel painting” or “… drawing”
- Comment on Hey, let's breed them to make it hurt even more 3 weeks ago:
I used to be very spicy tolerant. I’d ask for “Indian hot” in Indian restaurants, I’d tell places I ate pizza or kebabs at that their spicy version wasn’t spicy enough (the kebab place used jalapenos, the pizza place used supermarket chilli flakes) and they’d find the hottest chilli peppers to challenge me with, and it was wonderful
But for allergy reasons I no longer eat bread, and for weight management reasons I quit eating fibre entirely over a year ago so I suspect I have lost my tolerance
- Comment on Quantum 3 weeks ago:
If there’s anything to see the quantum state has collapsed. The universe is the observer, an emitted photon is an example of an event that will be observed
That is why only tiny things and things near absolute zero exhibit quantum effects
This comment might be simplified too far to be close enough to accurate.
- Comment on this one goes out to the arts & humanities 4 weeks ago:
My dish washing robot doesn’t need to know anything. It does depend on me loading it, and putting the more heat affected stuff on the top shelf
- Comment on this one goes out to the arts & humanities 4 weeks ago:
The arts isn’t about art. Graduates of an arts degree are not generally artists
- Comment on Anon watches LOTR 4 weeks ago:
I think it’s because the people put in charge of the films are incompetent
- Comment on Anon watches LOTR 4 weeks ago:
In comparison, the old Dune film used a lot of voice over
- Comment on Thousands of years ago *smoke machine activates* 4 weeks ago:
Radio was an option. If you followed no music, then yes you were odd
- Comment on Thousands of years ago *smoke machine activates* 4 weeks ago:
And it was a 6 stacker, not ten
- Comment on Anon is in love 5 weeks ago:
“honk honk Reddit”
- Comment on tremendous 5 weeks ago:
I wonder whether the kids being taught by that book ever zapped each other with static
- Comment on tremendous 5 weeks ago:
That doesn’t explain why the middle of the bell curve like him
- Comment on magic beneath the forests 5 weeks ago:
I’m guessing a park ranger
- Comment on Anon finds his people 5 weeks ago:
They probably have a good collection they want to share.
Do you enjoy telling people that their tastes are wrong? That doesn’t seem a wholesome way of viewing other people.
- Comment on Anon finds his people 5 weeks ago:
Sure, but it was internet that made these tiny scattered groups into large findable ones
Before the internet you would need to live near a proud and loud toaster fucker to find a group
Old furries in tech are in tech because they learnt and used early computer networks to connect with other furries
- Comment on Film preservationist Robert Harris defends controversial James Cameron 4K restorations of Aliens, The Abyss and True Lies 1 month ago:
4k77 looks pretty good
- Comment on A celebration of survival 1 month ago:
Quite a few have hydrobraked
- Comment on Homer 1 month ago:
Too also quote:
The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage (1999) agrees with Words into Type about the apostrophe, although about little else:
decades should usually be given in numerals: the 1990’s; the mid-1970’s; the 90’s. But when a decade begins a sentence it must be spelled out. [example omitted]; often that is reason enough to recast the sentence.
NY Times seems pretty reputable and they like the grocers’ apostrophe
- Comment on Handy temperature conversion scale. 1 month ago:
.8 to .9 for crude (where water is 1)