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- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 17 hours ago:
theguardian.com/…/power-grid-battery-capacity-gro…
US power grid added battery equivalent of 20 nuclear reactors in past four years
- Comment on I'm moving to another city soon. What are some good apps that could help? Inventory, logistics, etc 18 hours ago:
Spreadsheets are such a killer app.
Anybody know a good TUI spreadsheet app that can import and export csv, or even just a TUI csv editor? I have been unable to find one.
- Comment on the lifestyle 4 days ago:
It me, but excel is the bad option and plotly is the good option.
- Comment on Stop Wasting Pumpkins! 2 weeks ago:
Pumpkin curry is sooooo good.
- Comment on More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI. 2 weeks ago:
Awesome. How much more time off to google software engineers get? I guess it’s none.
- Comment on More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI. 2 weeks ago:
Does this mean “AI was used as a fancy autocomplete”? Because that’s my number 1 use case for AI like copilot, and if that’s the case, over 25% of my code is written by AI. But let me tell you, it still gets it wrong, repeatedly making the same syntax errors no matter how many times I correct it. It starts to get it right, then later reverts to making the same syntax errors, even making up variable names that violate widely known public APIs.
- Comment on Has Dr. Strange ever given a diagnosis mid fight? 2 weeks ago:
For a second I read this as “Dr. Strangelove” and was really confused.
- Comment on What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs 2 weeks ago:
OWC instructions for updating their firmware on macOS are literally “install parallels. Install windows. Run the firmware updater.”
- Comment on What does this emoji mean? Is this a British thumbs up? 3 weeks ago:
It may be the Shaka, but in emoji it’s “call me” emojipedia.org/call-me-hand
- Comment on Proud globohomo 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, chapter 1 page 2 actually haha but the whole book is good.
- Comment on Proud globohomo 3 weeks ago:
This is so Carl Sagan.
And so we got to talking. But not, as it turned out, about science. He wanted to talk about frozen extraterrestrials languishing in an Air Force base near San Antonio, “channeling” (a way to hear what’s on the minds of dead people—not much, it turns out), crystals, the prophecies of Nostradamus, astrology, the shroud of Turin … He introduced each portentous subject with buoyant enthusiasm. Each time I had to disappoint him: “The evidence is crummy,” I kept saying. “There’s a much simpler explanation.” … And yet there’s so much in real science that’s equally exciting, more mysterious, a greater intellectual challenge—as well as being a lot closer to the truth. Did he know about the molecular building blocks of life sitting out there in the cold, tenuous gas between the stars? Had he heard of the footprints of our ancestors found in 4-million-year-old volcanic ash? What about the raising of the Himalayas when India went crashing into Asia? Or how viruses, built like hypodermic syringes, slip their DNA past the host organism’s defenses and subvert the reproductive machinery of cells; or the radio search for extraterrestrial intelligence; or the newly discovered ancient civilization of Ebla that advertised the virtues of Ebla beer? No, he hadn’t heard. Nor did he know, even vaguely, about quantum indeterminacy, and he recognized DNA only as three frequently linked capital letters.
- Comment on LG monitor asking about ad tracking preferences 3 weeks ago:
Seriously! What is smart about these things? It’s smart not to buy this bullshit. It’s 1984 doublespeak just like the “open” in “OpenAI”.
- Comment on LG monitor asking about ad tracking preferences 3 weeks ago:
The phrase “these days” makes it sound like there’s more to it than this thread. Obviously after this post nobody would want to buy LG, but it sounds like there are other reasons.
- Comment on LG monitor asking about ad tracking preferences 4 weeks ago:
Why? What made you go from favorite monitors to “eat shit”?
- Comment on LG monitor asking about ad tracking preferences 4 weeks ago:
It says “Smart Monitor” right there in the screenshot.
- Comment on Uninstalled Copilot? Microsoft will let you reprogram your keyboard’s Copilot key 1 month ago:
I’m surprised they didn’t try to sell it to an ad company.
- Comment on Man who won art competition with AI-generated image now says people are stealing his work 1 month ago:
“people”, not “companies”. Obviously he’s ok with companies stealing it.
- Comment on Why do all languages share the same intonation for questions? 1 month ago:
They append the word “no” to the statement.
“How are you?” Is “you’re good, no?” But the word “no” does not have a rising tone.
Tonal languages are hard for non-tonal language speakers to pick up because of this. On the flip side, it can be tough for tonal language speakers to grasp the tonal inflections in English, and sometimes speak like robots before they understand how to use them.
- Comment on Why do all languages share the same intonation for questions? 1 month ago:
Vietnam’s doesn’t. The rising tone that you hear at the end of an English language question can change the literal meaning of a word in Vietnamese.
- Comment on Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games 1 month ago:
For some of us, finding ways to cheat IS the game.
- Comment on What can I do with US$10K that is a good investment? 1 month ago:
Second vote for VTI.
- Comment on Phonebooks 1 month ago:
I hated how these were delivered to you whether you wanted them or not. So much junk.
They made really great fires though if you tore each page out and crumpled them up.
Also interesting, I took one about an inch or so thick and shot it point blank with a 12 gauge shotgun and tiny yellow circular confetti came out, which was neat to see.
- Comment on SKUNK 1 month ago:
Tail up!
Face in the grass
That’s the way I shoot
Stank funk from my ass
- Comment on What GPU is inside Mall Cop Robots? 1 month ago:
My guess is that the most expensive single component would be the lidar. Prices on lidars can be well over $100k. When I worked with lidar about 5 years ago, IIRC a Velodyne 128 was $160k.
- Comment on They stole my voice with AI | Jeff Geerling 1 month ago:
Sadly, it was Grace Hopper who said “It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.”
Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper (9 December 1906 – 1 January 1992) was a U.S. Naval officer, and an early computer programmer. She was the developer of the first compiler for a computer programming language; at the end of her service she was the oldest serving officer in the United States Navy.
That brings me to the most important piece of advice that I can give to all of you: if you’ve got a good idea, and it’s a contribution, I want you to go ahead and DO IT. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
- The future: Hardware, Software, and People in Carver, 1983
- Comment on xkcd #2988: Maslow's Pyramid 1 month ago:
FYI
While the theory is usually shown as a pyramid in illustrations, Maslow himself never created a pyramid to represent the hierarchy of needs.
- Comment on Where do most of the famous musicians keep their musical instruments? 1 month ago:
“In their sleevies”
- Comment on I wish we as a society would stop pretending that justice is blind, when it very clearly is not. 1 month ago:
If justice isn’t blind, why do we all know what it should be? Because our legal system is the manifestation of justice in our authority structure, and it isn’t doing a good job of living up to the objective principles of justice.
The problem isn’t the ideas of justice, the problem is the judicial branch of government.
- Comment on NHS to use drones to fly blood samples around London to avoid traffic in new trial 1 month ago:
This is why I really don’t want flying cars in the way ground cars operate. And sound proof buildings isn’t enough, because I like being outside.
- Comment on Rose Finch 1 month ago:
Joke’s on her, I’m colorblind.
