CandleTiger
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- Comment on justgermanthigs 1 week ago:
Boiling it must kill the elastic on the white cotton underwear in fewer washes
And the elastic on the fitted sheets.
And… sometimes I like to wear underwear with blue penguins on it…
Granted it’s hygienic but the rest of the world appears to find regular soap and warm water to be sufficiently hygienic without boiling.
I’m not saying Germans are wrong I’m only saying Germans are exceedingly more German than other people are.
- Comment on justgermanthigs 1 week ago:
We don’t boil our clothes.
Like, what the shit? That’s just you. Your underwear is not going to last very long if you treat it that way.
Germans are weird about laundry.
- Comment on The first major AI documentary drops March 27, from the Academy Award-winning filmmakers behind "Everything Everywhere All at Once" and "Navalny" 2 weeks ago:
I am ready for it
- Comment on If the next pres. is a Democrat and wants to roll back all of Trumps bullshit. How can they do that quickly and efficiently? 2 weeks ago:
Right, but that last condition excludes almost all the democrats
- Comment on Cloudflare now serves sites in Markdown to AI agents 3 weeks ago:
A token is the word for the base unit of text that an LLM works with. It’s always been that way. The LLM does not directly work with characters; they are collected together into chunks less than a word and this stream of tokens is what the LLM is processing. This is also why the LLMs have such trouble with spelling questions like “how many Rs in raspberry?” — they do not see the individual letters in the first place so they do not know.
No, the LLMs do not all tokenize the same way. Different tokenizers are (or at least were once) one of the major ways they differed from each other. A simple tokenizer might split words up into one token per syllable but I think they’ve gotten much more complicated than that, now.
My understanding is very basic and out-of-date.
- Comment on Another Biscuit Island Banger 3 weeks ago:
Taking a piss means going to urinate.
Taking the piss means screwing with someone, specifically by saying stuff you don’t believe as if you believe it.
I’ve never heard any variation on this phrase to mean loafing around as a euphemism, but taking frequent bathroom breaks is definitely a time-honored way of avoiding work.
Full disclosure: I am not British
- Comment on LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market 4 weeks ago:
Doesn’t the Apple TV remote also have a trackpad as it’s main control?
- Comment on SpaceX is seeking FCC approval to launch 1M satellites into space; SpaceX claims the fleet will orbit the Earth and use the sun to power AI data centers 5 weeks ago:
Indeed, the plan for SpaceX is to literally launch computers into orbit to have orbiting data centers.
No, I cannot explain why this seems like a good idea to anybody. Beyond, “Elon Musk likes juicing his stock by announcing useless sci-fi plans that won’t come true”
- Comment on China's humanoid robot firms make up half of exhibitors at CES 2026 1 month ago:
it is the only thing giving them an advantage over the USA
That’s really not true at all anymore. China is an absolute manufacturing powerhouse. Almost all of the industry that used to be the USA’s strength in the ‘50s is China’s strength now.
They haven’t been the cheapest labor anymore for a while now and they don’t need to be.
Don’t get me wrong, the USA has other, newer strengths now — tech and design, among others. But they do appear to be throwing them away and ceding to others — especially China — as hard and fast as they can.
On the other hand, humanoid shape for robots seems like an extreme waste of technical complexity and cost, so in my opinion this particular article is mostly showing up how China is also beating the USA at being faddish and dumb following tech fashion.
- Comment on Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why 1 month ago:
Is this for real? That’s incredibly stupid.
- Comment on Nvidia insists it isn’t Enron, but its AI deals are testing investor faith 2 months ago:
If you want to get advantage from a speculative fund making a bet on a popped bubble, then you need to be already invested now, before the bubble bursts. (And also, you/your fund need to be right that it’s really about to pop now, and not later)
Once the race is over it’s too late to bet on the ponies.
- Comment on Last Year on My Mac: Look back in disbelief – The Eclectic Light Company 2 months ago:
I mean… it’s not slop. It’s a good, old-fashioned well-supported rant about how Apple has abandoned good user interface design.
<old man shakes fist at cloud> I do wish that anal-retentive, careful, thoughtful geeks would come back into power in place of flashy shallow thinkers.
- Comment on Last Year on My Mac: Look back in disbelief – The Eclectic Light Company 2 months ago:
“Users don’t like MacOS’s liquid glass, especially not me, but they released it anyway and this is bad.”
- Comment on The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Backlash Against Gemini, Sora, ChatGPT Is Spreading in 2025 - Newsweek 2 months ago:
Try to find a big rig truck wash near your location on Google maps. I cannot. Only 57 million car washes and no way to filter them out.
- Comment on Be careful with this information 2 months ago:
And you’re not going to share the results of your research??
- Comment on Perfect size for brats 3 months ago:
I don’t know where you’re from but it’s clearly not Chicago.
- Comment on Libraries are cool 3 months ago:
Turns out that, taken as a topical behavior across the general population of library users, it’s really fucking intensely difficult.
- Comment on It's important! 3 months ago:
Insert Sartre
joke_serious philosophical statement _ here“I’m sorry, we’re out of cream. Would you like your coffee with no milk, instead?”
- Comment on I love fucking pasta 3 months ago:
Nobody’s fucking raw pasta, mate
- Comment on When kids come trick-or-treating, what happens if I choose trick? 4 months ago:
Mark Twain talks about tipping over outhouse and other pranks as the main activity on Halloween. So I guess if we assume he’s an honest narrator of his time (definitely in doubt…) then trick or treating is a mass extortion
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 4 months ago:
I’m probably the only Fediverse user who sees your thorns and thinks, “No actually do that more,”
No, ðere are two of us.
- Comment on Elon Musk says he needs $1 trillion to control Tesla's robot army. Yes, really. 4 months ago:
If they were hoarding cats, or rusty cars, or old refrigerators, or piles of scrap metal, etc., the authorities would intervene, and get them help for their mental illness.
This is a common misconception.
“The authorities” (USA viewpoint) are really extremely unlikely to intervene in any way at all with hoarding, and even more extremely unlikely to provide any kind of useful mental health intervention.
If the hoarding is causing a public safety hazard then the authorities may eventually start fining the hoarder until they do whatever is minimally required to clear the hazard.
Much much more likely, if the hoarder is renting, the landlord may evict them which is one of the many paths to homelessness.
But by far the most common outcome is that the authorities do nothing whatsoever to stop or help with harmful hoarding behavior.
In this way, crazy aunt Florence and Elon Musk are similar.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
From the article:
we do not claim it is true
That’s some hard-hitting journalism right there
- Comment on For crying in the sink, stop posting imgur links 4 months ago:
I suppose I’m not sure but I doubt it. Usually when they block something it comes with a big red warning that you’re violating corporate blah-blah by even thinking about this page and you should reconsider your questionable decision-making or some words to that effect.
For Imgur the site loads and the all-important ads load, but the images just time out.
- Comment on For crying in the sink, stop posting imgur links 4 months ago:
Imgur blocks VPNs, or at least it tries to. The images won’t load when connected to my work VPN. Seems to work fine from Mullvad though so I guess they’re not doing that great on their blocking.
- Comment on A miss communication 4 months ago:
It is a 1982 Lincoln or close enough. Damn, I’m good! But it’s a photoshop they stretched out a short segment through the corner lights to be unnaturally long.
- Comment on A miss communication 4 months ago:
Somebody ID this car for me? Make, model, and approximate year? I really want to know.
I’m thinking maybe 1982 Lincoln??
- Comment on How long can someone physically walk for? 5 months ago:
I guess different people have different special talents.
- Comment on How long can someone physically walk for? 5 months ago:
You really do. Have you tried it?
- Comment on How do I keep a 9 year old from constantly licking erasers and putting them in his mouth 5 months ago:
Is eating erasers going to get you more ostracized than constant nagging from the teacher to not eat erasers?
