remotelove
@remotelove@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Disney Executive Caught on Tape: ‘There’s No Way We’re Hiring a White Man' 3 days ago:
What a strange jumble of words you just used.
- Comment on AI trained on photos from kids’ entire childhood without their consent 1 week ago:
It’s been around for a while. It’s the fluff and the parlor tricks that need to die. AI has never been magic and it’s still a long way off before it’s actually intelligent.
- Comment on New Cybertruck Styled AI Robot Just Dropped 1 week ago:
There was a story a while ago about how these pictures were staged and designed to show the muskrat in the worst ways possible. It was basically super cheap publicity.
- Comment on Hunter Biden laptop re-emerges as media embarrassment as it becomes key evidence at gun trial 2 weeks ago:
Had a look at that laptop yourself, did ya’? Did you win pillow guy’s hackathon challenge or something?
- Comment on Hunter Biden laptop re-emerges as media embarrassment as it becomes key evidence at gun trial 2 weeks ago:
I’m not voting for that guy ever again!
- Comment on In a black market, illegal deals are made in plain sight over the counter of everyday convenience stores 3 weeks ago:
Oh cool. I figured it was just loose leaf tobacco of some kind, but there is more attached to it. Thanks for the clarification!
- Comment on In a black market, illegal deals are made in plain sight over the counter of everyday convenience stores 3 weeks ago:
smoked chop chop
Is that slang for “rolled your own”? Not quite sure…
- Comment on Spotify is going to break every Car Thing gadget it ever sold 4 weeks ago:
Whoo boy! You got me. I probably went 5ft straight up in the air after reading your comment.
- Comment on Oh god, kill it! 5 weeks ago:
🥶
- Comment on Teamwork 1 month ago:
Mr. Peanut approved. Image
- Comment on Boring ass planet 1 month ago:
Your comment formed a perfect pressure waveform.
- Comment on How do people actually dumpster dive to get free food? Are there any other cheap/free ways like this to get food? 1 month ago:
the wealthier areas may very well have unlocked/unguarded dumpsters
The fuck kind of world do we live in where we need to guard dumpsters?
If it was a tech company that absolutely needed to ensure data was destroyed and absolutely couldn’t take a risk even with regular office trash, sure. Spend the cash to guard the dumpster.
Locking up and guarding food “waste” that is a day beyond a fake-ass sell by date? Really?
(Obviously, I am not ranting at you. The quoted sentence triggered me a bit, it seems.)
- Comment on I shaved for the first time in a while so I could update a profile picture and my chin looks like this. 2 months ago:
That depends on your skin type and the cause of the blemish. Test it on your arm first before slathering it straight on to your face.
Once I started keeping pure isopropyl alcohol (99.9%) around the house to use in several hobbies, I quickly gained some deep respect for it’s magical properties and it’s ability to dry anything it touches. Diluted or not, I don’t look at the stuff the same way anymore.
(Also of note, rubbing alcohol is isopropyl and aftershave is typically ethanol.)
- Comment on Today's lunch 2 months ago:
I still can’t believe that bullshit commercial. Alcohol is magnitudes worse than some of the most common recreational drugs. Psychedelics even encourage brain cell development, for fucks sake.
It’s taken almost 2 years for my brain to recover after stopping the booze. It’s absolutely amazing how much better I can perform complex tasks and form sentences. (I only recently started noticing how much, actually.)
- Comment on Today's lunch 2 months ago:
What is the comparison here? If both objects are in cold and dry conditions, I wouldn’t expect any less.
If they had unwrapped the cigarette but to expose the filter, it might have been a better representation of their point?
Maybe it’s just a promotional cigarette ad for frogs? Math problem? frog + cigarette = frogarette? Yeah… I dunno.
- Comment on snek id 2 months ago:
Sure thing. I’ll tag you in this thread if I get responses.
(In a similar style thread a few months ago, I reached out to a Professor Lucas regarding some old stars that were discovered and dubbed “Old Smokers”. We had a tiny debate about the relevance of Betelgeuse and he squashed the debate for us. Feel free to search my profile on it as it’s kinda interesting. Same Lemmy community maybe? I can’t remember.)
- Comment on snek id 2 months ago:
There isn’t much more than the pictures, title and review date/information.
I mentioned in another comment that I am just going to write the reviewer of that page and see what the specifics are and get proper context.
It’s not about who is right or wrong now. (You seem to know a lot more about snakes or you are a better rapid-researcher than I, at least.) If I can track this down and get a better review of stuff that is posted as a “government reference”, more people could benefit from that.
In the past, I have had great success in reaching out to subject experts in different fields, so this should be kinda easy. I am also not shy, so that helps.
Side note: If you want to have an argument about chameleons, I am absolutely the person to have one with. ;)
- Comment on snek id 2 months ago:
Thankfully, I avoid short-form videos like the plague.
The link I shared was from a government site but with limited information attached. It also appeared to be reviewed on a regular basis.
Hell, I am just going to write the creators of that page and get some verification.
- Comment on snek id 2 months ago:
Yes? In another comment here, I posted a link from a government site that seemed to have a legitimate review. (That doesn’t mean it’s fact, of course.)
I am all about getting to the bottom of myths, actually.
- Comment on snek id 2 months ago:
This doesn’t look local, and it seems reviewed: medlineplus.gov/ency/presentations/100138_3.htm
I legitimately want to understand how this information is propagating and why. Your explanation seems correct, but given the above link, there may be more to this problem.
- Comment on snek id 2 months ago:
It kind of is, but it depends on the continent from what I have found. After looking around a bit, it seems that this wouldn’t apply in Africa or other places. It’s probably partially true, but I couldn’t find out exactly what the conditions were.
But…
I am not snake expert, nor am I even snake smart. However, it seems that the best course of action is not to fuck around and find out.
- Comment on Ain't no one around to hate in the basement. Just me and my jug. 2 months ago:
No, not poisonous. It’s the about the quantity and quality. Large quantities of the cheapest vodka you can get usually means that you are a hardcore alcoholic or you are on a serious mission to get as blasted as you possibly can in as short of a time as you can.
Not many people but large jugs of cheap vodka because they like the taste. (Some do, though.)
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 2 months ago:
Your reading comprehension is what I’ve come to expect from Lemmy.
Chill. We both wrote walls of text and there are going to be misunderstood details. If we want to talk about details, I called out my ignorance of woodworking and why imperial is likely good for what you are talking about.
My overall points, and I’ll summarize this time, is that:
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Wood working (carpentry? Whatever.) is not exact.
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Dividing 19mm by 3 is a weird example. Your example did a better job of highlighting a math peculiarity, TBH. (My first thought is that the cut was was going to account for any minor errors.)
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Fractions suck. You are comfortable with them, but I see them as a useless layer of an outdated measuring system. We made our points, for and against. Cool.
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A key point that I didn’t call out specifically is that imperial does not work in high degrees of precision easily without eliminating fractions. It’s possible, and vocalized, but not generally written. 1/1000" as a good example.
While I was awaiting your reply, I also thought of the abuse the imperial system has suffered over the years. A 2x4 is not a 2x4. In reloading (another hobby of mine), .300 actually means .308. .223 could mean .222, .223 or even .224. However, .222 always means .222. I am forced into imperial for safety and consistency reasons. (Don’t even get me started on ‘grains’, whatever the fuck that came from.) For some reason, the metric system is now mixed up in that field as well and it’s a mess.
The word “misleading” was chosen with purpose and doesn’t mean that you writing with malice. It seemed, true or not, that conversions got mixed up in this which would even confuse an MIT graduate.
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- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 2 months ago:
While neat, I believe your lumber example is misleading in the context of metric vs imperial. Woodworking is extremely imprecise compared to many other types of engineering and using that system for those problems may be ideal.
Deliberately using 1/3rd of 19mm to get 6.33333mm is not as a complex problem as it may look at first glance. 6.333mm IS 1/3rd of 19mm just with more precision. The nature of woodworking requires fairly large tolerances and .3333mm is likely within any tolerance range you would work with. Hell, even +/-3.333mm (10x) is probably within spec in many cases.
Your example conversion from 1/4in to 9.5mm is irrelevant unless you are working a project that is deliberately converting imperial to metric. If a project is designed in metric the measurements and reference points are going to be rounded to metric. The same goes for designs that are in imperial. While it’s possible to design identical pieces in each measuring system, it’s not ideal. Tolerance can compensate for most small differences and you will get two extremely similar pieces.
From your standpoint, everything has been imperial and you make design choices around how imperial works. It just makes sense to you. Design conversions from imperial to metric won’t make any sense and the “natural math” of each system is lost. If you were raised on metric, the same situation would apply I suppose.
You explained the biggest complaint of imperial as a positive: fractions. Pure math is just easier then fractions when working up and down ranges of precision. Divide 10cm by 2? 5mm. 5mm by 4? 1.25mm, etc… Problems like 19mm/3 are irrelevant because of allowable tolerance. Every exact measurement is not abstracted by a 16th or 8th or 32nd or 64th…
Admittedly, I am no woodworker. However, I am curious if someone from the EU could chime in on this problem from their perspective.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 2 months ago:
I was hoping that might at least get a chortle or two. ;)
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 2 months ago:
Not really. Most every hardware shop has them these days. Amazon is about my only other source, but quality/usability is a gamble in the M1-M2 range for some reason. The number of small bolts and nuts in that range that are cast badly seems to be high for me. That seems odd to me…
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 2 months ago:
The occasional shit-loads, sure. But dealing with metric fuck-tons is a pain in the ass.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 2 months ago:
I am converting my life to metric, actually. All of my CAD work is in metric and all of my chemistry glass is thankfully in metric. Thinking in longer distances is something I need to get used to though.
The imperial system is just a waste of time, TBH. I am sure there are a ton of people that can work fractions in their head but I just gotta ask: Why, and what is the point?
Measuring and planning with metric is just so damn easy and no extra steps are generally needed. When I need to convert 1000mm I just move the decimal over a bit and get 1km. EZ.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble is AI? 2 months ago:
This bubble is quite bubbly. There is an AI company for anything and everything now. The market is almost fully saturated with “AI” everything.
Just like the web bubble, all of the intsta-AI shops need to fail so the real tech can grow. AI is never going to go away, but most of the scam companies will fail in due time.
We might have one big consolidation, or several. The hype will die and the quick money will disappear. It’s the same story, every time. One the magic AI box stops shitting out dollar bills, we should be good.
- Comment on Historical fun fact 2 months ago:
I would pay to see that.