hydroptic
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- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Where did I say the caretaker has absolutely nothing to do with it?
But yes I guess it’s easier to win arguments when you can just wholesale invent what the other person’s saying out of thin air.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
I’ve only ever heard mostly people without kids saying this.
Stupid people without kids. I don’t have 'em but I have a functioning cerebral cortex so I can’t even fathom saying something like that out loud
- Comment on Potash is forever 2 weeks ago:
but what about the potash quota
- Comment on Time to make your decesion 3 weeks ago:
Weird, here natural deodorant means it doesn’t contain any aluminum.
My guess would be that’d depend on who’s calling it “natural”. You definitely do see that meaning here as well, even in the same store
- Comment on Time to make your decesion 3 weeks ago:
Huh, interesting. I could have sworn that the “block of crystal” thing I had N years ago was an antiperspirant and not just a deodorant, but it’s been a while and I can barely remember what happened last week. I just remember that it was some aluminum salt or another, but thought it specifically wasn’t alum (which I still use for small nicks and cuts)
- Comment on Time to make your decesion 3 weeks ago:
“Natural deodorant” is usually just a block of an aluminum salt crystal, which’ll work just fine since that’s the kind of stuff in “industrial” deodorants too. Stains more and dries out your skin though since you usually end up with way more of the stuff in your pits, which is sorta ironic I guess.
So I guess I’d go with Shiloh or Dayzie?
- Comment on Valve may be working on a new kind of Steam Machine 1 month ago:
Yeah they didn’t quite have a good plan the last time around, but Proton has been a game changer
- Comment on 'Dark Patterns' became normalized: When asked to build web pages, LLMs use manipulative design practices they learned from web pages generated by humans, study says 2 months ago:
And the thing is, I think the reality is even worse than that.
Current AI models aren’t going to lead to general AI, we need something radically different. Actual AGI is still so far away that I doubt mass-scale industrial society has enough years left before either the climate or some other human-caused idiotic omnifuck kicks the chair away from under it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Well, could be like Taiwan; never, ever underestimate the human capacity for fucking things up. If there’s one thing humans are exceptionally good at is making the dumbest fucking decisions you can make without being single-celled.
Who knows how the world would have turned out if things had gone in such a different direction.
- Comment on 'Dark Patterns' became normalized: When asked to build web pages, LLMs use manipulative design practices they learned from web pages generated by humans, study says 2 months ago:
We meatbags have to be the absolute worst role models for AIs
- Comment on Just a little guy 2 months ago:
Oh it’s the rule 30 sea snail! Didn’t know they were super poisonous, huh
- Comment on my idiot friend printed parts of my 3d printed gun experiment with pla instead of abs 2 months ago:
Ehh, I mean yeah I get what you mean, but guns are still pretty useful tools (if not exactly pleasant.) US gun fetishism is way off the deep end, but we’re still pretty far from “bluetooth diaper” territory
- Comment on my idiot friend printed parts of my 3d printed gun experiment with pla instead of abs 2 months ago:
Guns are inanimate.
People who do dumb shit like this are dumb.
- Comment on my idiot friend printed parts of my 3d printed gun experiment with pla instead of abs 2 months ago:
And in your opinion, how would I have better represented someone test firing a gun in their own goddamn hand?
Wait, you’re right. After your reply I think “moron” was way too lenient of me.
Please tell me you weren’t wearing eye or ear protection, that’d make this even better.
- Comment on my idiot friend printed parts of my 3d printed gun experiment with pla instead of abs 2 months ago:
Yeah, using the wrong kind of filament accidentally is understandable and doesn’t say anything about anyone’s intelligence.
Takes a real moron to test fire a brand new experimental gun in their hand.
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 2 months ago:
I may not have been entirely serious
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 2 months ago:
Too cheesy?!
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 2 months ago:
It’s to scale.
Which scale is left as an exercise to the reader.
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 2 months ago:
No thank you
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 2 months ago:
Right, sort of my vague understanding as well although it’s been 15 years since my university math courses. My point was more that “1 is a scalar while i is a vector” just didn’t seem correct to me, at least on a general level
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 2 months ago:
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 2 months ago:
Far as I understand it (which is not very far), i is a scalar even if you take it to be the complex number 0 + i. Just by itself i is the imaginary unit that’s defined as i = sqrt(-1), and nothing in that says it’s a vector quantity.
Even though complex numbers do extend real numbers into a 2D plane doesn’t mean they’re automatically vectors, and – again, as far as I’ve understood things – they’re still treated as single entities, ie. scalars.
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- Comment on [🇫🇮Fi] Food couriers demand better pay and working conditions. 2 months ago:
Right, it’s only 2/4 “I can’t believe it’s not real fascism” + 1/4 “we’d be ok with concentration camps as long as they were privately funded” which is much better. The National Coalition Party is more or less indistinguishable from the Finns Party, and they’ve made it exceedingly clear that they’re 100% fine with bigotry and many of their members are exactly as bigoted as the worst of PS / KD
- Comment on [🇫🇮Fi] Food couriers demand better pay and working conditions. 2 months ago:
If ~50% of the voting age population supports an extremist right wing government (pretending they’re not extremists is pointless when we have had multiple neo-Nazi PR flaps and eg. the Speaker of the Parliament has said he’s a “proud Aryan”) and we’re statistically one of the most racist countries in Europe, and immigrants have a notoriously hard time finding anything but menial jobs, I’m not sure what sort of other conclusions you can draw?
- Comment on [🇫🇮Fi] Food couriers demand better pay and working conditions. 2 months ago:
Good luck with that.
Finland is a deeply racist country and our current far-right government has exactly zero interest in worker demands in general – to the point of limiting people’s right to strike – and they’re going to be especially unsympathetic to pleas from people working for food courier platforms. The platforms themselves have zero interest in paying people more, as that would likely mean fewer customers and worse revenue
- Comment on I don't trust like that. 2 months ago:
Exactly, what the heck would I do with one? Can’t be very good eatin’ either
- Comment on I don't trust like that. 3 months ago:
I absolutely did not; it’s one of the first image search hits when searching for “wasp typing on a keyboard meme”
- Comment on The Sarah Palin Mandela Effect 3 months ago:
I love this bright spark of a Josh in the comments of the article
Oh Josh, you’re just delusional, there never was a Sarah Palin and that Wikipedia article is a hoax, just like the one for Bielefeld
- Comment on I don't trust like that. 3 months ago:
