psud
@psud@aussie.zone
- Comment on We need a vexillology community! 18 hours ago:
I see zero subscribers, zero posts. I’m not breaking that streak
- Comment on Wednesday it is, my dudes. 18 hours ago:
If I must
- Comment on damn, must've just missed him 19 hours ago:
Although dictionaries will show words that significant parts of the population say are wrong, I’m still going to say octopuses is also correct because octopus is an English word and English usually pluralises like that
Octopusen is not common since octopus is too new to get that style of English plural
- Comment on Clever, clever 1 day ago:
There are workflows using LLMs that seem fair to me, for example
- using an LLM to produce a draft, then
- Editing and correcting the LLM draft
- Finding real references and replacing the hallucinated ones
- Correcting LLM style to your style
That seems like more work than doing it properly, but it avoids some of the sticking points of the proper process
- Comment on Clever, clever 1 day ago:
LLMs can’t cite. They don’t know what a citation is other than a collection of text of a specific style
You’d be lucky if the number of references equalled the number of referenced items even if you were lucky enough to get real sources out of an LLM
If the student is clever enough to remove the trap reference, the fact that the others won’t be in the University library should be enough to sink the paper
- Comment on Pressure vs Temp 2 days ago:
I can’t say I have ever considered myselfgender fluid due to my gender perfectly fitting the shape of its container (ie me)
- Comment on Anon thinks it's too late 2 days ago:
And goatse gave us the ability to laugh at that Micky Mouse clock
- Comment on No excuse 2 days ago:
For safety.
When you back in you have good visibility on your way in - you see in and behind the spot you’re taking as you drive past it to line up
When you leave you have excellent visibility ahead as it’s on front of
Also the car is easier to steer into the spot in reverse
- Comment on No excuse 2 days ago:
I guess some people are really bad drivers
- Comment on No excuse 2 days ago:
Leave the spot just the opposite way to which you entered the spot. Then try again.
Ideal: exactly centered between whatever defines the spot (lines, cars, kerbs)
Ideal’: close to a kerb and far from the neighboring car/line
- Comment on Absolute Units 3 days ago:
I don’t think any wild animals other than humans have obesity problems
- Comment on Honey 3 days ago:
Bees are a symbol of labour. You couldn’t make them work harder if you tried. European honey bees collect far more nectar than they will ever eat, it’s like they’re planning for fimbulwinter
So what exactly is the problem with using honey?
- Comment on Fruit Flies 6 days ago:
Insects
- Comment on Asian Beauty 6 days ago:
The Flynn effect makes that a time sensitive achievement
- Comment on The 1900s 1 week ago:
Before the before times (given that the before times are 2019 and earlier
- Comment on Yum 1 week ago:
Is that a deliberately 3d image pair?
They seem 3d with the cross eye technique
- Comment on Yum 1 week ago:
I’m seeing cats planning how to get off those sticks so they can knock the baked goods to the floor
- Comment on puts hair on ya chest 1 week ago:
I’m hanging out for when ITER is operational. There’s every chance it runs at or just over 1:1
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 1 week ago:
Yeast in sugar is going: I’ll just convert this to poison (ethanol) to keep everything away, then whenever I’m hungry I’ll break that poison into acid
Humans: hold my… Wait a minute let’s make beer!
- Comment on puts hair on ya chest 1 week ago:
I really wonder about fusion. Most of the news of energy production higher than energy input is about non-electricity fusion - the big tokamak fusion systems are not yet producing more power than they take to run, but scientists working on them are expecting good results soon
Like when I was a kid fusion was 20 years away and would always be 20 years away. Now it looks like it’ll be 5 years away for a while
- Comment on Magic Mineral 1 week ago:
CSR, if I recall correctly
- Comment on Halloween Botany 1 week ago:
Perhaps it was the number I misremembered. There definitely is no violet in the spectrum
- Comment on Magic Mineral 1 week ago:
Asbestos stories go like that. Thank you.
- Comment on puts hair on ya chest 1 week ago:
Kilowatt
- Comment on puts hair on ya chest 1 week ago:
It’s not too cheap to meter even when provided as a public service. Nuclear is more expensive than battery + solar, more expensive than wind, more expensive than coal
“Too cheap to meter” was a lie that ignored costs of safety and decommissioning.
- Comment on puts hair on ya chest 1 week ago:
The apostrophe abbreviates the es (to 's) that used to be part of the English possessive (as it still is on some words that end s)
It’s a bit shit. Lots of people have trouble with it, lots of English as a second language people have trouble with not understanding what is replaced by the apostrophe
- Comment on puts hair on ya chest 1 week ago:
I think it’s losing due to the cost of the electricity over its lifetime
- Comment on Fruit Flies 1 week ago:
I guess not everyone has easy access to booze
- Comment on Fruit Flies 1 week ago:
Slaves? We have electricity and automation. Although slaves might make things easier, slaves are people and should have the same freedoms as you and me
- Comment on Halloween Botany 1 week ago:
and thus not a part of the rainbow?
Colour need not be on the rainbow. Colour is the human experience of colour which includes purple
Our minds don’t care whether a color is pure or whether it is a mix. We see those colors.
Like the berries there are technical definitions of colour that don’t mesh with the common definition