thesohoriots

@thesohoriots@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I need a flicker free LED lightbulb running in the 3000 K range.⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  It’d be a big spend, but you can get some Hue dimmable A19s with a bridge for your home and set them to whatever color temp you need. It’s not accurate to specific temps (I can’t ask it for 4000k) but with a little tinkering in the spectrums and sliders you could get it close.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are a young person you have no idea how bad everyone and everything smelled until at least the 1990s.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You can also just take a trip to the Waffle House off I-95 in Florence, SC. It allowed smoking when I was there in 2014 and probably still does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bird flu⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I love a clinical trial. Sign me the eff up. That being said, as you mention, there are some issues with the speed of trials. And in particular, the demographic spread that volunteers for clinical trials in the US is a problem because it’s typically a monolith: white women, college educated, generally healthy, ages 18-35 IIRC. Proportional representation is hard to find, and distrust in public health is (for good historical reasons) low in minority populations. Pulling in a wider swath of people isn’t possible, and researchers are missing massive chunks of data from which trust could be built.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI recommends coming up with a 'secret word or phrase' to make sure your family know you're you and not some hellish AI copycat⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Mom, I’m getting fed up with this orgasm!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First Look: Loops, by Pixelfed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I just got the TestFlight access to Loops and it’s janky. A useable web UI would go a long way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably - Scientific Reports⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A sestina based on the rules is, formally speaking, easy. Ask me to write one that will be studied after centuries, and you’re asking for Petrarch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wouldn’t be a good look for that wankpanzer if a $5 tool from Walmart could bust through its windows. Better call it a Cyber-izer and sell it for $200.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk Fans Are Losing So Much Money to Crypto Scams⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The article said nothing about intellectual disability, but it did suggest some older people contextually from their complaints. Here’s an actual citation from one of the complaints that I think sums it up perfectly:

  Now, i’m an intelligent [person], at least I consider myself that to be. I am a huge fan of elon musk and tesla. I only bit into this because it did sound too good to be true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cable companies ask 5th Circuit to block FTC’s click-to-cancel rule | Cable companies worry rule will make it hard to talk customers out of canceling⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My phone plan just dropped the $10/month discount for autopay because they’re price-gouging shit garglers. The second I clicked on the “port out number” option, they put up a banner offering $10/mo off for the next year. I do appreciate not waiting three hours on the phone just to turn down the offer anyway. MVNO it is!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'll share a troubling fact with you if you share one with me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s an anecdote about a U2 naming a song “One Minute Warning” if I recall correctly: many years ago, when a UK prime minister learned the US got 6 minutes, they asked how long the UK would have. The response: “I suppose we’d have about a minute.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has "Self-Driving" devolved?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are also many more Teslas on the road, and the “full self driving” incidents are more widely reported on since the new ownership likes to overpromise and vastly underdeliver. Other commenters have already addressed the tech side, but a few years ago, the Tesla-specific FSD was found to be active right up until a split second before some prolific collisions with emergency vehicles, leading to speculation on liability. Tesla aside, I think it’s just laziness on the part of drivers used to FSD doing the menial tasks of driving.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opened an old scientific instrument to see if it works...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate Duracell for this reason. Thank god we finally got decent rechargeables.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Shorts can now run up to three minutes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re going full Australian coffee. YouTube medium shorts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm listening to a motivational speaker at a corporate conference when I realize...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Related: Connor O’Malley has a great (nsfw) stand up special on YouTube called “Stand Up Solutions” satirizing start-up VC hustle culture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank you!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Boofaccino

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pill bottle⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My dude, what are you putting in your iced tea

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if walk in clinics offered euthanasia services?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wouldn’t work, they’d need appointments to keep up with incredible demand and scheduled maintenance for the ol corpse wiggler out back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the least suspicious way to get OTC meds through airport security?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Example of note: France won’t sell Sudafed, so bringing any might be a risk unless you have a printed and signed rx. That being said, their pharmacies are pretty good. Shoutout to the migraine medication with codeine in it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2.9 billion hit in one of the largest data breaches ever — full names, addresses and SSNs exposed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Stack on another “Free monitoring, 2 years”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Defense⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Earn bonus points with the phrase “your reach exceeds your grasp”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Guns Of Fury’ Combines Metal Slug and Symphony Of The Night, Coming in 2024 | Retro Gaming News 24/7⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Traditionally, and fingers crossed this one is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Guns Of Fury’ Combines Metal Slug and Symphony Of The Night, Coming in 2024 | Retro Gaming News 24/7⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nintendo: $45, take it or leave it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Foldable iPhone Launch Faces Delay Until 2026, Faces Design Roadblocks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t stretch my dumb fingers to swipe down from the top with my thumb, one-handed, on a 14 or 15. The 13 mini is perfect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most consumers hate the idea of AI-generated customer service⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You know what, it was the n+1 piece! Thank you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most consumers hate the idea of AI-generated customer service⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a NYT article somewhere, and I’ve been desperately trying to find it, about a woman who worked as some kind of real estate(?) call center AI augmenter. Essentially people would call in about listings or something, and she had to step in when the AI went off the tracks or didn’t know how to answer questions, matching its tone/inflection while refusing to acknowledge that there was a human stepping in. She ended up being super burnt out from the job. So the whole system was just super redundant, awful for the people working there, and as we’ve come to expect from AI, just a half-baked turd sold to some MBAs for a mint.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games that stuck with you⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  SOMA. Duplicating consciousness across multiple bodies and the branching off of one particular conscious mind to carry the narrative while the others were left behind was a fascinating concept for a game to engage with. Plus the atmosphere was a sublime nightmare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  An interesting case (from a book which I unfortunately can’t remember the name of) from when Jack Benny’s career transitioned from radio to tv: he hated the laugh track, so much so that he demanded it be cut way back and lowered in volume. He also utilized it in an unexpected way: when he had a live audience in certain cases, if a joke or gag got an unexpected big laugh that he didn’t think deserved the reaction, he’d fill in a laugh track with a more muted response.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk Begs Advertisers to Return as Twitter's Revenue Plunges⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That and a set of kneepads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doesn't the need for a permit fundamentally contradict the US's ideals of free speech?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s part of a performance, for example. I guess the point of the debate here is that context matters and that you can do it under very, very specific circumstances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doesn't the need for a permit fundamentally contradict the US's ideals of free speech?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Free speech” is very much misunderstood as a form of carte blanche as your example demonstrates. It’s written as “Congress shall make no law…” etc., implying you’re protected only from the federal government, but as time and court cases and legal discourse have shown, there are limits and implications for lower legislatures to model from. The classic hypothetical example is “yelling fire in a crowded theater.” Can you? Yes. Should you? Unless there’s a fire, no, then it could cause panic and injury, and you’d be responsible. That sort of thing.

  Tl;dr to answer your question: no.