Septimaeus

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google removes Gemma models from AI Studio after GOP senator’s complaint⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Lowkey for real though.

  One of the trigger issues expediting their antitrust case during the first administration was their lack of responsiveness to old yam tits’ demands re: their “biased” search index results (they included critical news articles) and while the major consequence of the case (breakup) was recently prevented (by the current administration) now, coincidentally, they’re happy to play ball.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'The Truth Is Paywalled.' Internet Vets Lament the State of the 'Open' Web⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Agree. To take some burden off contributors, maybe we could automate some of that?

  Most of us have seen bots used for routine post processing like:

  • converting AMP links
  • finding/generating archive pages
  • exposing original AP/Reuters source
  • adding DOI source for pop sci
  • alt frontend links
  • content-aware wiki refs and the like

  We wouldn’t necessarily need traditional bot comments since our software is open. Content helpers could run during post creation, for example. My point is just that there’s existing logic for this kind of stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI signs $38 billion compute deal with Amazon, partnering with cloud leader for first time⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh that’s the one in the back.

  /j they’re about 2.5T

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK before you buy a replacement for your cellphone that has stopped charging, buy the $10 cleaning kits and spend the time deep cleaning the phone's charging port.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always used wooden toothpicks because

  1. Common
  2. Made from cheap soft wood: more likely to deform or destruct against metal than most plastics
  3. Cut with the grain: especially soft to anything raking against the sides (like delicate pins)
  4. The uneven “splintery” sides happen to be pretty good at snagging tiny fibers of lint to pull them out as one big ball, requiring fewer swipes

  More techniques:

  • clean with port facing straight down to get gravity assist
  • blow across the opening of the port: mild negative pressure + agitation inside cavity vs blowing directly into port (which is generally warned against explicitly)
  • focus on “pinning” lint up against each of the two corners and holding gentle pressure during extraction: these corners of the port have no exposed pins, and happen to be where lint tends to accumulate anyway
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Forget subsidies': Solar-battery hybrids can deliver 'incredibly competitive' power for big industry⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh I see. For a minute I imagined a hybrid pv panel product with integrated batts controller etc and was intrigued by the all-in-one concept lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do i get my nails to stop stinking faster⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  UV cure gel polish FTW!

  If it’s been a while, check out the cool new magnetic (ferrous) polish.

  Also, cheap fun hack: save money by just mixing mica powders into base polish colors. Endless varieties of iridescent colors, dimensional effects, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do i get my nails to stop stinking faster⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol yeah hmm, not countersunk, //shrug maybe strong arm, new to firs, happens

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From what I've seen, public transit is either expensive and terrible or cheap and good.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hi NYers. Since this is one of Zohran’s priorities, gentle reminder that there’s 2 more days of early voting. Sun is out right now and polling center lines are at their shortest. vote.nyc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm too stupid for this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ![Cropped image of a textbook page with an anecdote which reads “One day Shizuo Kakutani (1911- ) was teaching a class at Yale. He wrote down a lemma on the blackboard and announced that the proof was obvi-ous. One student timidly raised his hand and said that it wasn’t obvious to him. Could Kakutani explain? After several moments’ thought, Kakutani realized that he could not himself prove the lemma. He apologized, and said that he would report back at their next class meeting.

  After class, Kakutani went straight to his office. He labored for quite a time and found that he could not prove the pesky lemma. He skipped lunch and went to the library to track down the lemma. After much work, he finally found the original paper. The lemma was stated clearly and suc-cinctly. For the proof, the author had written, ‘Exercise for the reader.’ The author of this 1941 paper was Kakutani.”](infosec.pub/…/002ff7df-2a30-4b8c-9a2d-7fd2206a442…)

  Classic anecdote of the missing proof for Shizuo Kakutani’s lemma.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many boomers and even some gen x believe so peristently that if you dressup and show up in person anywhere you will get whatever you went there for?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Naughty corporations” made me chuckle, but “I don’t know what the solution is” definitely rang true.

  Most boomers actually don’t know where to begin, even though many of the solutions would be a 6-year-old’s first guess, and are actually proven to work, simply because they grew up being told that every single one of those obvious, proven solutions were “socialist” and that socialism was anti-American.

  That indoctrination was so thorough that these solutions can be put right in front of them, gift-wrapped, with a neon arrow pointing at an easy button labeled “fix that shit,” and they’ll still shrug and say “we’re all out of ideas, maybe ask a billionaire what to do, surely they know how to fix the system.”

  And the sad part is that they do and, in fact, already did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tiny tot engineering⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well yeah, and winning’s great if it’s theirs. Sorry I’m bad at explaining. It was my first attempt.

  I meant that, given my disposition (competitive bitch, often lucky, won more than my share) I would’ve fought the kid’s battles too often, compounded my winnings into theirs, and failed to let them learn to fight for themselves, for others. I’d have created the privileged rivals of my youth instead of helping other’s children succeed. I think.

  They’d be no more than primary school age today, so maybe I’d have gotten my shit together in time to fix my mistakes. So, “probably” for the best lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Men are losing their Y chromosomes - and it's accelerating the ageing process⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  assumed it was a sloppy reference to the shrinking Y

  Same. Knowing nothing about “inews,” and given the headline, I figured the article was nonsense and just opened for DOI of the prompting research. But I was wrong. OP’s a brief, non-sensational, accessible summary of a nascent area of epigenomics. Even the headline isn’t made up, just a curious observable phenomenon: older men often have a greater % of cells missing Y.

  There might be a built-in clock …. or maybe some mechanism that can detect a certain threshold of mutation

  Interesting. Both sound like hypotheses that could be tested experimentally with the help of intersex cohorts with different ratios of X and Y willing to take the LOY blood test, since then a parity check between subgroup medians of LOY-positive subjects would, in theory, suggest if/whether time-based or clearance-based LOY is the operative mechanism behind the phenomenon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tiny tot engineering⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha exactly! That would’ve been my mistake. Helping them trounce other kids would’ve felt natural, much easier than helping them become a better person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tiny tot engineering⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah you’re right. I’m too used to worst-possible-case being min req but you’re right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tiny tot engineering⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol nice. I wonder if he used tungsten carbide blanks. Probably densest cheap metal if lead isn’t an option. Would need diamond cutting discs/bits to fit it tho.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using dark mode might be more energy-intensive if the screen is an LCD.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, OP refers to LCD, which is the older tech that works by selective occlusion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cuddly gerbils⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Welcome to Gerbil Orgy. We just begin cuddle puddle. You will join?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do boycotts work?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe yeah, I’m just talking about poor folks in rural areas who can’t boycott the only walmart or whatever.

  Maybe a better example is Amazon. I have a rough idea how much it costs me to avoid that company and I know it might not be an easy option for someone on tighter margins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do boycotts work?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It works, albeit imperfectly. In particular, it’s sometimes a difficult prospect for would-be participants who don’t have the luxury of choice. Also attention/bandwidth can limit participation since no one can sustain an endless game of whack-a-mole. Ultimately, it’s just one of many tools, but it has often been effective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I was right, it is⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gradient descent?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung brings ads to US fridges⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The condensers are garbage

  Guessing you meant compressors. If their condenser tubing is faulty, it’s a potential fire hazard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Know your place⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the only reason I opened this post; i.e., it may be “engagement bait,” a recent online trend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We risk a deluge of AI-written ‘science’ pushing corporate interests – here’s what to do about it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The types of errors and the commenter’s reaction to correction would suggest that this is a native speaker who missed a good deal of primary and may or may not be high.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Common opinion among millennial graduates with ed debt whose careers were thwarted by various recessions.

  The more nuanced perspective is that not everyone’s long term goals will be greatly furthered by higher education. It does have value on its own, and to some extent broadens the outer limits of the perspectives you might achieve in life, but it doesn’t teach you anything you can’t teach yourself with a library card. The argument for going into trades instead is a strong one, especially from a financial angle, but also job stability, work-life balance, mental health, etc.

  All the same, I not-for-profit higher ed generally offers too much good in an individual to discount it as a scam. For many, it’s where the curtains are thrown open on their world. It just shouldn’t be considered the only viable path as perhaps it once was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you recognize this PC case?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love how loudly media-centric those keyboards were, even the silver domed buttons center top the size a hood ornament lol, that 00s media PC era definitely had a vibe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you recognize this PC case?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It looks a lot like the eMachine cases you’d find all over cyber cafes and business centers in Europe in that era.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The water level from the original mario bros?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Use this science wisely.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But not too much. It can get overstimulated if you lift the hood and lick directly. When in doubt, you can hand her the reigns so she can find the sweet spot. For example, if you apply a wide and flat tongue and reduce movement, she can work her hips until she finds the angles she needs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  especially other web devs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC’s Tech Scene Is Not⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol true. In fact, I guess always true for any historical use. At least, insofar as established power wants to keep playing the same game and under dog wants to play a different one. Shrug