T156
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- Comment on The planet still belongs to the dinosaurs. 2 days ago:
But sure, some bones on your ass I guess.
Exactly. Why live?
- Comment on Desiccant dehumidifiers are fascinating... but not for everyone [29:19] 3 days ago:
Complexity? You either need a drain, or a supply of water, that can’t be easy to work with, and unlike with a refrigerant loop, you can’t just reverse it to dry/wet things.
- Comment on Framework unveils a second-generation Framework Laptop 16 with a swappable Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU, an industry first, shipping in November 2025 1 week ago:
Could you not just get an eGPU dock, and do it that way?
- Comment on when ur higher than sagan 1 week ago:
Assuming this effect existed, wouldn’t the memory of the water be polluted with all kind of things (as water is recycled all the time)?
Yes.
If longer exposure makes the memory stronger, you should be getting a lethal dose of salt quite easily
No, it would be the reverse. The water would magnetise to the salt, and draw it out of you, making you very dead.
- Comment on when ur higher than sagan 1 week ago:
The supposed science behind homeopathy was already known, though. It was never a mystery.
It basically worked around the pseudoscientific principle that water remembered what used to be in it, so it you diluted out water concentrated with the thing you had, it would somehow “remember” what was in it, and when taken, would draw it from the body through done principle of magnetism, or something like that.
- Comment on AI Experts No Longer Saving for Retirement Because They Assume AI Will Kill Us All by Then 1 week ago:
Its like the problems around the ozone hole, or acid rain.
A lot of people scrambled and worked very hard to find an alternative that didn’t cause problems, and now it’s almost like they never existed, and people think it was much ado over nothing.
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 1 week ago:
I don’t think it will. It hasn’t so far, and it’s got the Windows Phone/Symbian problem where users don’t go to it because it lacks support for the apps they use, and developers don’t support it because it doesn’t have much by way of users.
- Comment on how do you slice it?? 1 week ago:
Even then, you may still get complaints unless you can halve it perfectly down the middle.
- Comment on 👁️🐽👁️ 1 week ago:
Makes some sense. If it can absorb nutrients, it can probably absorb gases too.
- Comment on 👁️🐽👁️ 1 week ago:
It’s like the brain. There’s a tiny barrier that keeps the immune system out of it, and it breaking down is thought to be the cause of a few major brain conditions.
- Comment on 👁️🐽👁️ 1 week ago:
They supply the rest of the eye. It’s just the transparent bit on front that doesn’t get much of anything.
- Comment on 👁️🐽👁️ 1 week ago:
They do have blood, as any ER doc could tell you.
However, they can also breathe in a manner of speaking. Enough that it’s proposed as a possible method to keep someone alive if their lungs don’t work.
- Comment on best episodes for people who've never seen star trek? 1 week ago:
At the same time, Yesterday’s Enterprise needs some context. It doesn’t work quite as well in a vacuum.
Like why it was such a big deal that Tasha Yar finding out she didn’t exist in another timeline, why the Klingon war is such a horrible development, and why the Enterprise was willing to put itself on the line to send them back to change history.
Plus it’s also unusually gory for TNG. A couple of people die in quite violent and horrible ways, and they could easily be misread as being the standard tone for the show, rather than the exception.
- Comment on best episodes for people who've never seen star trek? 1 week ago:
I personally found the first episode of Lower Decks to be a bit of a turn-off. It felt a bit too much like Star Trek Rick and Morty.
- Comment on YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality 2 weeks ago:
Or give an option to toggle. Surely letting people turn it off would save them even more resources, if they don’t have to bother with upscaling the video in the first place.
- Comment on human geography 2 weeks ago:
All manner of confusion would ensue I’d assume, also being a Brit and I have never heard ‘fag’ being recognised as a slur here
Might be an Americanisation thing, where it’s leaking over either from US media, or the internet.
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, that should have been for the better. If it’s meant to be a tool, I would much rather it behave like a tool, rather than trying to be my best friend, or an evil vizier trying to give me advice.
The fact that people got so attached to what is essentially a text generation algorithm that they were mourning its “death” is worrying, especially when it’s one that OpenAI has proven themselves to be more than able to modify as they wish.
Just as concerning is OpenAI rolling back the update to make their model “friendlier”, or that people were clamouring hand over fist to throw money at the company in the hopes of getting their “friend” back.
That can’t possibly be good news, especially when the shareholders find out that they have an iron grip over a portion of their users.
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 2 weeks ago:
The worst part is that they backstepped a bit and made it “friendlier”.
Basically undoing that part.
- Comment on Superfan Ben Stiller Has A Star Trek Pitch, Says It’s Important For Franchise To Return To Big Screen 2 weeks ago:
What’s wrong with it? It’s very much a product of its time, but it’s still serviceable.
- Comment on Why It's OK to Block Ads (2015) 2 weeks ago:
Maladvertising and scams just make that a surefire thing, especially since there’s a chance that just loading an ad could cause trouble.
And for less tech-savvy family members, it cuts down on the risk of them falling for scams or suchlike.
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 2 weeks ago:
The website would also have to display to users at the end of the day. It’s a similar problem as trying to solve media piracy. Worst comes to it, the crawlers could read the page like a person would.
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 2 weeks ago:
Not without making real users also mine bitcoin/avoiding the site because their performance tanked.
- Comment on ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity 3 weeks ago:
Basically, it’s just a number whipped out the backside, since response delay varies a lot, and I don’t think we know what hardware OpenAI uses exactly.
- Comment on ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity 3 weeks ago:
They could have kept it at the same price, though.
- Comment on ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity 3 weeks ago:
Once it generates the response, there is a button you can click to make it use the reasoning model.
Why they did it that way instead of giving users the option to just set the model that they want to use ahead of time boggles the mind. Surely it would be more efficient for them to chose a model if they want ahead of time, rather than generating something that’s going to be regenerated with the desired model instead.
- Comment on LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think. 3 weeks ago:
Depends on it and its dependencies, probably. A lot of the core utilities are generally unchanged enough that they should still work despite being a decade old.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Can’t have issues on the issue tracker if you’re not allowing people to submit issues.
- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 3 weeks ago:
It seems like the kind of thing that would give rise to the
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It’s only made worse by the people who treat it like the Master Computer from Star Trek, claim that it can solve all the problems, and thus attempt to shove it into anything and everything.
It’s baffling why my notepad needs to be hooked up to an LLM in the first place. It’s a notepad, for quick scribbling. If people want to write something serious in it, there are far better things for that.
- Comment on LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think. 3 weeks ago:
In my experience, it’s been a bit of a mixed bag. There are some things that work in Linux, and some things that don’t, even after a bit of fiddling. My desktop’s front panel is completely unusable on Linux, for example.
Windows is at least widespread enough that it’s far more likely that parts will work on it at least to some degree. And sure enough, the front panel works fine there.