T156
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- Comment on Unofficial TikTok downloads surge in the US 1 week ago:
Linux also always allowed you to install applications directly. Everyone just uses package management software at this point because it’s all well managed and easier to keep things updated, but you can still install things manually with make.
You only need make if you’re compiling. Installating precompiled software is somewhat easier, since it’s basically just copying to /bin. If you know where that is, then it’s simple.
- Comment on Reddit Blames Google Algorithm Changes For Not Hitting User Growth. 1 week ago:
Not only that, but they actively hindered any external tools. If you’re Blind and Reddit’s accessibility isn’t good enough? Tough luck.
Whereas back in the day, someone might have built a more accessible app, if Reddit hadn’t had one.
- Comment on New York state bans DeepSeek from government devices 1 week ago:
The smaller models aren’t actually R1, but Qwen/Llama tuned on R1.
- Comment on Patch this Bish! 2 weeks ago:
A lot of Bioluminiscence, but Infrared light as almost in any living be, which we can’t see without special devices.
It’s different from the blackbody radiation that body heat produces.
Structural weakness not only in the lower back, but also in the knees. The human being still has many reminists of an quadruped, as one of the younger species. He still has a way to be optimized as bipedo. Lower back and knees are still not optimized for this, apart of some other static and organic problems. We are still in phase beta.
Evolution doesn’t follow the rules of intelligent design anyhow. If they did, we would all be crabs.
- Comment on Open Euro LLM launches 2 weeks ago:
Maybe they got poached elsewhere? There was Mistral, but it got bought out by Google.
- Comment on OpenAI: Our models are more persuasive than 82% of Reddit users 2 weeks ago:
Their own older model, no less.
It would be weirder/more of note if their new model was worse.
- Comment on Patch this Bish! 2 weeks ago:
Humans do bioluminisce, it’s just too weak for human eyes and most detectors.
- Comment on Is the Nintendo Switch 2 the end of innovative consoles? 2 weeks ago:
No, Nintendo does this kind of thing every so often, where they’ll just make an incremental upgrade to an existing console, rather than build a completely new one, with a new gimmick. The DSi wasn’t a massive step up from the DS Lite, which itself wasn’t that major of a step up from the DS, and the GBA SP wasn’t a huge step up from the GBA.
At most, they just have a minor additional gimmick, but everything else more or less remains the same. Switch 2’s gimmick is allegedly letting you use the joycons like computer mice.
- Comment on US Bill proposed to jail people who download Deepseek 2 weeks ago:
Since those smaller models are technically fine-tunes of Meta/Facebook’s LLAMA, using Deepseek’s outputs, I wonder if they would be covered by the bill at all.
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram to Unleash AI-Generated ‘Users’ No One Asked For 1 month ago:
The advertising companies would riot if they did count as impressions, so Facebook would either not count them as such, or hold off on them for that reason.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 2 months ago:
Coal smoke is more radioactive than the outside of a fission reactor anyhow.
- Comment on anyway, i started blastin' 3 months ago:
But also: what if Thanos himself got snapped out, along with the power glove (because for some reason it turned their clothes into dust, too)? The heroes would have been fucked, right? It’s been a minute since I saw the movies but IIRC, they used the time stone to go back in time. But what if the stone was gone because it was part of Thanos’ attire? He himself used the stones to destroy the stones, so there is probably a timeline where he got snapped away with everyone else, destroying the stones in the process.
It might not be possible, since the stones were also performing the action, and Thanos didn’t want to destroy the stones while snapping everyone in half. Otherwise, they might just self-destruct by going for the nearest target first (Thanos), and stop there, not fulfilling the desired action. You’d have to destroy/scatter them separately.
I don’t think that they used the time stone to go back in time, since it was destroyed when they got there. They had to get it from the past, since a decent part of the movie surrounded that.
- Comment on anyway, i started blastin' 3 months ago:
½?
- Comment on well, at least I wasn't the only one to wonder 3 months ago:
It does make more sense if you consider that it is part of a line of Hedgehog genes, all of which make Fruit fly embryos look like hedgehogs (spiky) if they’re inactivated.
They didn’t just go “Let’s name a gene with bad outcomes if mutant in humans after a video game character! Yipee! Hooray!”, at least not for that.
Though they did name SHH’s inhibitor Robotnikin.
- Comment on well, at least I wasn't the only one to wonder 3 months ago:
A SHH mutation is generally not considered compatible with life. So it’s less the kids who’d find out, and more the parents.
- Comment on in fashion everything old is new again 3 months ago:
Yes. He’s like plastic-man, in that he’s stark naked, and only looks like he’s wearing clothes.
- Comment on Tiny pp 3 months ago:
Is there a right millennium? The end of the first millennium had people believing that the tick-over would cause the apocalypse, with all computers everywhere immediately detonating, and the whole economy rendered valueless dust.
- Comment on Calcrelatable 3 months ago:
Now, is any of this true?
Not really, since keys work by shorting the circuit. That’s why pressing multiple keys at once on your keyboard doesn’t cause it to blow up. It would just assume the button with the shortest circuit was pressed, and ignore the rest.
It might cause weird things to happen with a mechanical or electromechanical calculator, since there were physical mechanisms engaged and disnegaged for each function, and might break/jam those, but not an electronic, and especially not a transistorised one.
It’s more likely that hitting them all confused the CPU, or dropped the voltage down enough that it reset, just in case something strange happened, or to try and fix any bug that might have caused it to register all the buttons being pressed.
- Comment on Calcrelatable 3 months ago:
In defence of QWERTY, it did a decent job for what it was designed for (reducing the risk of mechanical typewriters jamming by not having two hammers next to each other be pressed at the same time), but really oughtn’t have lasted past the point where the risk of jamming was not longer there.
- Comment on little speedy boi 3 months ago:
As is Robotnikinin
- Comment on How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"? 3 months ago:
I don’t think ever. Twitter has too big of a brand name and recognition, where X does not, and they’ll keep coasting on it (their emails to you still say “formerly known as Twitter”). News sites and places will keep calling it Twitter because X is too confusing of a name, and certain parts of their reader-base will simply have no idea who it is that they’re on about, and some social media will call it Twitter because X is a silly name, and they do not respect Elon Musk’s rebranding of Twitter in much the same way that he does not respect his daughter’s name or identity.
- Comment on Microsoft is struggling to get Windows Recall out the door — delays releasing first public preview. 3 months ago:
But an operating system isn’t meant to be “interesting”. It’s an operating system. It should only be meant to operate the system. The interesting should be up to whatever programs it is that a user puts on top of it, something that makes it work better (like optimisations), or at most, make it look nicer. Recall is not that. Your car should be functional as a car. It doesn’t need to be capable of baking souffles, or be a fully-functional mobile office suite. An OS should follow the same principles.
- Comment on Penguins 🐧 3 months ago:
It’s particularly sad, since the last of them were killed off by vandalism. Someone went to kill the last pair and smash their eggs for fun.
- Comment on Penguins 🐧 3 months ago:
In fairness, that was mostly accidental, unlike with the Great Auk. They were driven to extinction by inadvertently-introduced predators, as opposed to being actively hunted.
- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 3 months ago:
Here’s an article about them turning it off because of being unable to verify the bill: edition.cnn.com/2021/05/12/politics/…/index.html
And here’s two attributing the issue, at least in part, to panic buying: aljazeera.com/…/petrol-shortages-sweep-us-as-colo…
- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 3 months ago:
The risk of the payment system getting shut down and people being unable to make payments for a while is real. And it is one good reason to be less reliant on digital payments.
Or entities. The US had a brief oil crisis recently because one of the major pipeline companies had their billing system hacked. Since the company couldn’t verify whether someone had paid, they just didn’t supply any oil.
Couple that with some misleading news stories and social media panic, and it blew up into a proper shortage from people hoarding all the petrol, and leaving none left.
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 3 months ago:
People are acting like drivers don’t hit deers at full speed while they’re in control of the car.
I should be very surprised if people don’t generally try to brake or avoid hitting an animal (with some exceptions), if only so that they don’t break the car. Whether they succeed at that is another question entirely.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 3 months ago:
Doesn’t look like it, or at least, they’ve not included one before (you just got a power cord), so it’s doubtful they would start including one now. Either that, or they’re about to release a power-button/TouchID dongle specifically to use as a separate power switch.
- Comment on Crunchyroll just Committed a Federal Crime. 3 months ago:
Holden being acquired by General Motors was okay for a while. Then it died, because they couldn’t be stuffed with the Australian market, or the local car industry at the time (and in doing so, likely kicked off its demise).
- Comment on Be a rebel, pick up trash. 3 months ago:
Only while they’re adolescent.