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- Comment on Who farted? 4 hours ago:
The heart surgeon in
Scrubs who is based on a real-life friend and medical advisor to showrunner Bill Lawrence is Dr. Jon Turk, who inspired the character of Christopher Turk.
Here are the key details regarding this connection:
- Real-Life Basis: The character of Dr. Christopher Turk (played by Donald Faison) is based on Dr. Jon Turk, a real-life physician who served as a medical consultant for the show.
- The Name: The character’s name “Turk” is derived directly from Jon Turk.
- Character Role: In the show, Turk is the best friend of protagonist J.D. and becomes the Chief of Surgery at Sacred Heart Hospital.
- Context: Bill Lawrence often utilized real doctors to advise on the show, which helped maintain medical accuracy alongside the comedy.
Note: The main character J.D.'s name is also based on a real person, Dr. Jonathan Doris, who was a college friend of Bill Lawrence and served as a medical adviser to the show.
- Comment on Mandola effect 1 day ago:
Isn’t the quote: No, I am your father!
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- Comment on ✨️ DIVA ✨️ 1 day ago:
Oh
- Comment on Banan 2 days ago:
Ai slop from google
A genetically modified Cavendish banana (specifically the QCAV-4 line) has been developed with high resistance to the devastating
Panama disease Tropical Race 4 (TR4) fungus. The resistance is achieved by inserting a specific gene, RGA2, derived from the wild banana Musa acuminata ssp. malaccensis, which helps the plant defend against the soil-borne wilt fungus.
Key details about the resistant gene and modification:
- The Gene (RGA2): While the Cavendish already has the RGA2 gene, it is largely inactive or expressed at very low levels in conventional Cavendish bananas. The modified version (QCAV-4) uses a highly active version of this gene from a wild, resistant banana.
- Effectiveness: Field trials showed that QCAV-4 was highly resistant to TR4, with only 2% of plants infected, compared to 66% in non-GM control plants.
- Development: The modification was developed by researchers from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT).
- Approval: In February 2024, the Australian government approved this genetically modified banana for commercial release.
- Future Development: Researchers are also using CRISPR gene-editing technology in partnership with Fresh Del Monte to potentially activate the banana’s own existing RGA2 gene, rather than introducing one from a wild source.
- Comment on Banan 2 days ago:
There is already a cavendish variety that resists the fungus or what is it attacking it, but it was created using gene manipulation so it’s not allowed in the EU
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 3 days ago:
Oh yeah for sure, I have seen tests that are pretty useless, for me the way I do it is I write the first one or two tests then instruct copilot to follow the patterns and then it does well, ofc I have to double check it, but reading is easier than having to write it.
- Comment on They played us for absolute fools 3 days ago:
Putting Descartes before the whores was an all timer reddit comment
- Comment on No need to be rude 3 days ago:
Based on my lived experience I don’t think it’s as much as the brand as it is the horsepower available to you, I have owned a Kia Stinger briefly, that’s a fucking Kia, even though Albert Biermann former head of BMW’s M division helped create it, but it had a V6 engine and 370hp stock, if you put your foot down it roared and kept pulling even above 160km/h.
The thing was I bought it as a weekend fun car, but shortly after I had to change work and needed to commute to work and let me tell you, it’s hard to drive a car like that calmly. There was even a psychological effect that “I can’t let this Ford Craprerra overtake me”
And yeah, with that amount of power at your feet, everyone else is in the way and blocking you.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 3 days ago:
Granted lots of mediocre engineers also use the “freeze the results” method for meaningless test coverage,
I’d be interested what you mean by this? Isn’t all unit tests just freezing the result? A method is an algorithm for certain inputs you expect certain outputs, you unit tests these inputs and matching outputs, and add coverage for edge cases because it’s cheap to do with unit tests and these “freeze the results” or rather lock them in so you know that piece of code always works as expected or it’s “frozen/locked in”
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 3 days ago:
You are presupposing that your opinion about LLMs is absolutely correct and then of course you arrive at your predetermined conclusion.
What about the free LLmodels available out of china and other places that democratizes the LLMs?
Therefore, to strive for a balanced approach towards AI puts you on the wrong side of the battle for humanity, and therefore human history.
Thanks for not being dramatic, lol.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 3 days ago:
LLMs will generate the tests based on how the code works and not how it is supposed to work.
You can tell it to generate based on how it’s supposed to work you know
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 4 days ago:
I will try to have a balanced take here:
The positives:
- there are some uses for this "AI"
- like an IDE it can help speed up the process of development especially for menial tasks that are important such as unit test coverage.
- it can be useful to reword things to match the corpo slang that will make you puke if you need to use it.
- it is useful as a sort of better google, like for things that are documented but reading the documentation makes your head hurt so you can ask it to dumb it down to get the core concept and go from there
The negatives
- the positives don’t justify the environmental externalities of all these AI companies
- the positives don’t justify the pc hardware/silicone price hikes
- shoehorning this into everything is capital R retarded.
- AI is a fucking bubble keeping the Us economy inflated instead of letting it crash like it should have a while ago
- other than a paid product like copilot there is simply very little commercially viable use-case for all this public cloud infrastructure other than targeting with you more ads, that you can’t block because it’s in the text output of it.
Overall I wish the AI bubble burst already
- Comment on E gjithë bota është shqiptare 6 days ago:
Don’t forget that Top Gear scene
- Comment on Tips 6 days ago:
All fake Makita tools lol
Likely made in the factory or right next door, lol
- Comment on Tips 6 days ago:
It’s a double edged sword in that for some people this is meaningless bullshit, in that they are struggling to pay for groceries, there is nowhere to lower their standards to.
On the other hand I have watched quite a bit of financial audit videos by caleb hammer, and have seen plenty of statistics that shows that simply put lots of people especially Americans are caught up in consumerism and live beyond their means for either status, or because that’s where they get their gratification from.
The solution is to accept that no matter what you buy you will be only happy for a fleeting moment, better to embrace minimalism and fuck consumerism, it’s also better for the planet, not just your wallet.
- Comment on The AI explosion isn't just hurting the prices of computers and consoles – it's coming for TVs and audio tech too 1 week ago:
My TV channels now come in through an app and just recently it started working on my Nvidia shield, still I can’t really disconnect the net from my samsung tv because explaining to my father how to use the tv app is already hard, he would not handle using it through the nvidia shield.
- Comment on The AI explosion isn't just hurting the prices of computers and consoles – it's coming for TVs and audio tech too 1 week ago:
I was thinking how this will affect cars, all of them have a bigass tablet in the middle nowadays
- Comment on Hostile architecture 1 week ago:
False, their mama would take up both ends of the bench
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents' 1 week ago:
I have boycotted them since their stupid launcher that was nothing but greed, and also when Idle it ate up like half my ram
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents' 1 week ago:
This shit has to be fake, right?
- Comment on Get this filth out of my sight 1 week ago:
Fair enough, lol
- Comment on Get this filth out of my sight 1 week ago:
That’s pretty sad.
- Comment on I can still get down with the best of 'em! 2 weeks ago:
In 2004, 24 years after 1985
I like your math, using your math I have a 20cm dick
- Comment on LG Electronics unveils 2026 Gram Laptop line with aerospace composite - up to 50% lighter than macbooks 3 weeks ago:
Makes it easier to throw into the bin after 2 years when shit stops working, unlike on a macbook
- Comment on No contest 4 weeks ago:
The star wars universe as a whole is supposed to be in the dark ages after the glory and progress during the High Republic they are stuck/regressed, which is why everything looks like it’s cobbled together
- Comment on What Are You 5 weeks ago:
Ah, I was wondering why people are randomly saying instagram
- Comment on How solar panels generate electricity 5 weeks ago:
Around here a bunch of people used to have a summer shower setup, which was just a black barrel filled with water up high
- Comment on How solar panels generate electricity 5 weeks ago:
My cousin (not Vinny) has solar panels to heat his water to like 50 C all year long.
And also photovoltaics for electricity.
There are also combo units that’s solar and PV in one, supposedly the water cooling down the PV panels should help keep it at optimal temperatures
- Comment on Cloudflare report reveals global internet internet traffic grew 19% in 2025 - but a lot of it was just bots 5 weeks ago:
All those real reddit users
- Comment on How solar panels generate electricity 5 weeks ago:
That would be for photovoltaics not solar, no?