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- Comment on Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response) 2 weeks ago:
Gameplay? Xiangling (Genshin) - She does more damage.
Story? Focalors / Furina - peak character and peak storytelling
This silly meme tells you everything you need to know about Xiangling (apart from ‘every team becomes 10x better with XL in it’) and everything Furina wants you to know about her.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.
Upton Sinclair
- Comment on In this essay... 3 weeks ago:
you cannot prove a system using the system.
Doesn’t that only apply for sufficiently complicated systems? Very simple systems could be provably self-consistent.
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 4 weeks ago:
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If you build infrastructure people will come
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A 15-hour journey sounds perfect for an overnight service.
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- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 4 weeks ago:
Why is there no connection between Niigata and Onezawa?
- Comment on oh cool 4 weeks ago:
Adding more hydrogen will make the sun burn faster, so I guess spraying water will extinguish the sun a little earlier than it otherwise would.
- Comment on We keep the entomologists in the basement. 1 month ago:
Many insects get infected by bacteria of the genus Wolbachia, which modify their behaviour to make them go towards their predators. The Wolbachia complete their life-cycle in the guts of the predator.
Nature being nature, some insects have also evolved symbiotic relationships with Wolbachia.
- Comment on Indian court bans Sci-Hub, leaving some researchers worried 1 month ago:
India has one of the most liberal fair use laws in the world, and the copying of educational material for personal use is legal. So this is very disappointing.
- Comment on Funerary Engineering 1 month ago:
“I’m not dead yet.”
- Comment on Meme. 1 month ago:
Always has been.
- Comment on Single board computer for selfhosting 1 month ago:
The Radxa Rock 5 series use RK3588s and have USB, ethernet and 4-32 GB RAM.
- Comment on xkcd #3132: Coastline Similarity 2 months ago:
No, but the climate was probably cooler and drier than today. In fact the interior regions of the supercontinent might have been too dry to support most life-forms.
- Comment on "ok, imagine a gun." 2 months ago:
Bonus fun fact: part of the reason for their success might be that one of the local police informants was … Stalin.
- Comment on Water Snek 2 months ago:
Okay but why are the oscillations bigger on the English side than on the French?
- Comment on North Korea sent me abroad to be a secret IT worker. My wages funded the regime 2 months ago:
Didn’t they get a lot of computer hardware from Russia recently?
- Comment on North Korea sent me abroad to be a secret IT worker. My wages funded the regime 2 months ago:
The article says he worked from China, for US and European companies. Which explains both the pay difference and the concern about the sanctions.
- Comment on the living dead 3 months ago:
Never meet your heroes, huh?
- Comment on the living dead 3 months ago:
Postulated that humans are eusocial creatures similar to ants, termites, seahorses, and naked mole rats because we follow a hierarchical pecking order.
Source? Eusociality does not involve any sort of ‘hierarchical pecking order’. The requirements are co-operative childcare, overlapping generations and division of labour.
- Comment on Panama Proxima 3 months ago:
Yuan
- Comment on Amazon is reportedly training humanoid robots to deliver packages 4 months ago:
I think it would be more correct to say that quality control in Chinese science is very poor. I have seen top quality research, and I have also seen crap that should not have been published at all. But the sheer quantity of output means that the next big discovery in <insert field> will be from China.
OSTP is focused on removing regulations to science and tech bc they argue they are slowing us down in the AI race against China.
I don’t work on AI, but in my field I have seen the insane speed and scale of Chinese research. Now I’m from a developing country; the US can probably give better funding than we can, but I am inclined to agree that Chinese science does benefit from easier and better funding and a faster administrative process.
AI data in China is very poor likely bc of the lack of regulations
The big problem for AI research in China seems to be a shortage of high-end GPUs due to the trade wars. China is very strong in maths and comp sci, and they are finding workarounds, but it is still a pretty hard barrier.
- Comment on Amazon is reportedly training humanoid robots to deliver packages 4 months ago:
Amazon/Bezos is probably getting some sweet federal kick backs
I think it’s more a threat against employees. The robots can be used as scabs.
which, until Jan. 2025, was one area that the U.S. had unquestionably dominated China
China had more scientists and papers well before this year. And China dominates particularly in fields like maths, computer science and manufacturing.
they are indeed going to try to replace scientists with robots
I can actually think of a lot of uses for robots in research. And, of course, there are a lot of robots in labs already; they just don’t look like humans.
- Comment on China's first 6nm GPU boots up, targets performance parity with RTX 4060 4 months ago:
but 6nm without EUV?
I read elsewhere that 5nm was already done (in the lab, not on industrial levels), and they’re planning on 3nm by 2026.
The workaround seems to be to use particle accelerators instead of EUV machines. More expensive and with lower yield, but it’ll do the job.
- Comment on Considering the old model is made with shrink-wrapping this is viable option 4 months ago:
That’s a bison, not a buffalo. Buffalo don’t have those humps.
- Comment on Apple executives ban Fortnight from the App store 5 months ago:
I only use my phone for phone calls and messaging and the occasional web browsing.
Why not use a feature phone, then? Cheaper, more repairable, and the Nokia ones will also last longer.
- Comment on Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android 5 months ago:
It depends on your definition of ‘deGoogle’. You can disable the Google apps on most Android phones. They’ll take up storage space, but won’t run.
If you’re getting a second-hand phone and want to completely deGoogle it, you can check if (1) the bootloader is unlockable and (2) custom ROMs are available online (e.g. Lineage OS compatible devices). In general, Xiaomi, Motorola and Pixel devices have unlockable bootloaders, but not all their models have custom ROMs.
- Comment on Many Top Researchers Show Implausibly High Publication & Co-Author Rates, Raising Concerns. 8 months ago:
Shocked Pikachu, etc.
- Comment on Turkey Temptation 11 months ago:
Why they putting ideas in people’s heads?
- Comment on whales are the mightiest of fish 11 months ago:
So witches are fish?
- Comment on I'm not sorry. 1 year ago:
Hydrogen.
You can’t generate helium unless you have a fusion reactor.
Actually, nuclear powered flying T. rex sounds cool, so let’s go with it.
- Comment on I'm not sorry. 1 year ago:
Then there’d be one really deep print as they kicked off.