CandleTiger

@CandleTiger@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it’s just what i’d wear on a basic hot day⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you ever wear neatly crisply pressed and ironed business-formal shorts to work?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it’s just what i’d wear on a basic hot day⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know where you’re at but I got an eyeful in New York City a couple years ago.

  People walking to work in the morning on Manhattan — women sheer and braless and obviously on their way to an office job. Multiple such women. 🤯 This is not how people dress where I come from but apparently it’s a thing now at least in The City.

  Also men wearing shirt and tie and leather dress shoes with no socks and a kind of garment I can best describe as “office shorts.”

  I learned on that trip that I am not a fashion person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do wealthy people know if the people they meet are wealthy or not?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  High something Not Rich Yet — people who have a shit-ton of income but blow it all on whatever instead of hoarding it properly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ford, Take Note: Classic Pickup Becomes The EV We Want⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Man that video at the end of the view of the axle from underneath while driving — two separate fan enclosures with small sheet-metal straps and fiddly little electronics-case screws, all facing down toward the road and right behind the wheels?

  This is not a place where you put fans, or big openings into the kind of electronics you need fans to cool, if you want them to keep functioning while driving through salty slush and mud.

  Seems perfect for Southern California

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ford, Take Note: Classic Pickup Becomes The EV We Want⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  • 300M half axles with 930 CV joints

  !!! That is WAY TOO MANY half-axles and CV joints! You need to tone it down guys, TWO half axles with TWO CV joints each is plenty!!!

  No wonder it costs so much….

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨justgermanthigs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, but that last condition excludes almost all the democrats

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare now serves sites in Markdown to AI agents⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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.