meco03211

@meco03211@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People are using Super Mario to benchmark AI now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Smack me in the back of the head like yoshi and I’ll swallow anything… anything

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wish they'd stop calling themselves Conservatives⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well one day I’ll be that billionaire. I want that money then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a less stinky way to cook broccoli?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s different. You posted elsewhere that broccoli had sulfurophane compounds which contribute to the smell. Sulfur is pretty universally stinky. It’s in the rotten egg smell, skunks, and fireworks. So if sulfur is involved, it will likely have a strong odor. Cilantro is a genetic issue. There’s a gene on the 11th chromosome that allows a small percentage of people to taste the aldehyde components of the plant giving it a soap-like taste to those people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a less stinky way to cook broccoli?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I took it more of as “broccoli smells good” rather than it doesn’t smell at all. Which I agree with personally. However I’m also not dating op so I’m sure they will give my opinion the appropriate consideration in their decision.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a less stinky way to cook broccoli?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  New partner? Nose plugs?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Which means you are still consuming the burger for 10 seconds fully regretting your decision.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic sues Fortnite cheater, donates his winnings to charity, forces him to publicly apologise, bans him for life, and all but sends him to his room without dinner⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cheating on your wife with a porn start and illegally paying her hush money gets you the white house.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Audiologists raise concern over headphone use in young people⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Studying sure. But this is openly speculating to the uninformed masses. Can earphones cause cancer? Unless you can prove they don’t, that is a hypothesis that could be tested. But more importantly, it’s slop for clickbait bullshit so your aunt can post that to Facebook and feel superior to all the dregs giving themselves cancer by wearing earphones. It’s useless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Speaking honestly, what has to happen for you personally to take to the street in protest of the current administration.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe he means failed to enact meaningful change? I don’t much had changed internally for insurance companies other than getting a legal basis to stamp out any vocal dissent as a “threat”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: This May Have Been Unstalled on Your Device Recently⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The 5 star reviews are… well they are something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook and Instagram to Unleash AI-Generated ‘Users’ No One Asked For⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Keep doing it! My feed is almost entirely people I know or groups I’ve chosen. I’ve blocked probably hundreds of advertisers. Now it’s like quarterly or so when they refresh their advertising scheme that I have to block maybe a handful more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do gangs "jump in" new recruits? Or is that just for movies and tv shows? If so why do they do that kinda seems anti productive.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You seen Fight Club? Making them stand on the porch while they were hit and berated was part of the initiation. It showed they were committed. Similar thoughts to gangs. Unsure how prevalent it still is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fired Employee Allegedly Hacked Disney World's Menu System to Alter Peanut Allergy Information.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does the government define “hacking”? I’d imagine not that specific word.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Annoyed Redditors tanking Google Search results illustrates perils of AI scrapers | "Spreading misinformation suddenly becomes a noble goal," Redditor says.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you remember Boaty McBoatface?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World of Warcraft adds $90 mount to in game store⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had jumped back in when tbc classic was released. I wound up on a dead server. It made end game content essentially impossible. I was hoping to move right into wotlk classic at release as that was my jam back in the day. Except they weren’t going to include the dungeon finder or cross realm groups meaning it would still be a dead server with no chance at end game content. I was done with pointlessly dumb leadership. Unsubbed and found a private server that hits all the right buttons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-powered weapons scanners used in NYC subway found zero guns in one month test⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well I don’t want it to come before me!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that United has significantly escalated their war against basic economy passengers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Obligatory “fuck United”.

  They fucked up my vacation a number of years ago and I have since sworn them off. The most generous interpretation of the incident is that I missed an email updating a time change and arrived at the airport after the flight had left. Their next flight wasn’t until the next morning. My wife and I were looking and there was a flight from a different airline that would have cost them $400 each to book for us (they wouldn’t refund us so we could purchase that separately). The first agent at the counter completely understood our request but simply didn’t have the authority to make that decision. So she got a supervisor. The supervisor did that annoying ass thing where they listen to your request and then restate it in objectively different terms to sound unreasonable. In the end they covered a hotel for the night and gave us $550 each in travel vouchers and lost a customer for life. So they ended up paying way more and lost a customer than had they not fucked around from the start. Had they paid the $400 from the beginning, we’d have given them much higher preference on our future flights which have been many.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Few truly shocked that NFL player used illegal stream to watch his own team⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bought Brooklyn 99 on DVD recently since Netflix thought it was great to only put the first 4 seasons up. My biggest regret is that I didn’t look more to find a brick and mortar store to buy from. Best buy doesn’t even carry DVDs anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a planet was completely covered in water, wouldn't it all be freshwater?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah. I see the angle you’re coming from. I had mentioned in another comment somewhere that essentially all salt without an impermeable barrier between it and the water on this planet would be dissolved (provided it doesn’t saturate the water which would be a horrifically enormous amount of salt). Salt is highly soluble in water and on any timescale that could be relevant would fully dissolve and achieve a general equilibrium. If the planet has water, then it has a star able to warm the planet. There’s no realistic scenario that wouldn’t result in the ocean fully mixing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a planet was completely covered in water, wouldn't it all be freshwater?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But that’s not what’s happening. There’s no “mining” of salt. There’s no significant addition or loss of salt to the ocean. Salt just stays in the oceans here. Freshwater will evaporate and return through rivers and rain. On a planet without land, the salt would still remain in the ocean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a planet was completely covered in water, wouldn't it all be freshwater?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Overall composition of a planet is what would matter, not whether there is land. If there is salt on the planet, it would almost assuredly have salty oceans. Salt diffuses in water. If you put salt into a glass of water and leave it sit, eventually the salt would dissolve and mix completely. Salt water has a different density than water. The act of dissolving involves energy changes. These create small eddies and currents that would mix the water until it was in equilibrium. If there is salt in any form on your waterworld, the only way it wouldn’t be salty is if the salt was permanently separated from the water physically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a planet was completely covered in water, wouldn't it all be freshwater?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The reason water is concentrated in oceans isn’t specifically due to continents existing. Salt doesn’t evaporate so all rain is fresh water. That fresh water falls. When it falls over land it flows to the lowest point it can go. This leads to all flowing water flowing towards oceans and seas. Salt won’t travel upstream. Ergo salt simply stays in oceans and seas.

  Now consider a world with no land. This wouldn’t really differ from a single ocean on earth. Currents and waves will move in all directions at some point which should mix the salt all around. You could get some differences if there were ice caps or icebergs. Those could behave similarly to continents depending on size.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I was selling a bag of flower and sugar to a CI who thought it was meth or coke can I get in trouble? How or why when I am selling a legal substance?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the state. I imagine over the years, enterprising drug dealers have done just that to dupe unsuspecting buyers. It wouldn’t be far fetched that a state would write laws to capture just such an instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare blocks largest recorded DDoS attack peaking at 3.8Tbps⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, I hadn’t even thought of it that way. Good call.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Arkansas can my brother sue the public defender for pressing him to take a deal and was told don't tell the judge you were pressed into this plea because I will jail you mom?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just trying to answer seriously and not assume too much the answer is a simple yes/no. There is no real barrier to filing a lawsuit. Fill out the paperwork and file it with the court. Boom, you’ve sued someone. The bigger question would be if they have qualified immunity (or whatever lawyer version is similar to that) or if it would actually go anywhere. You’d want to talk to a real lawyer (IANAL). That’s at the very least unethical, possibly criminal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare blocks largest recorded DDoS attack peaking at 3.8Tbps⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How many tablespoons of water would it take to kill a small town?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Altech’s sodium chloride solid state battery exceeds expectations⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was entirely unaware of this type of vehicle so my initial comment was made without considering them. If there is a market case for such a vehicle, then they would likely fall into that same category.

  They aren’t common in the USA because of they way emissions laws were written which made it uneconomical in many cases for auto makers.

  This has me insanely curious as to where these are common and what are their emissions laws. Time for a trip down a rabbit hole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Altech’s sodium chloride solid state battery exceeds expectations⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not so much difficulty but practicality. I would see it being similar to having 2 gas tanks in a car where one is for a high octane fuel and the other for a low performance fuel like ethanol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Altech’s sodium chloride solid state battery exceeds expectations⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you meant for a single car, that might be a bit lofty, but for options available it makes sense (ie different trim packages for single model sort of thing).

  I see it breaking down as follows: Grocery-getter for an old couple won’t need much capacity. Just enough to get around town over the course of a day of needed and can plug in and fully charge overnight from a wall outlet. The other would be a battery capable of larger distances but needs a little bigger outlet to charge between stops of a long trip.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do animals feel love and emotion?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think I’ve ever seen dogs, cats and other domestic animals smile because they’re happy and show love to their owners for treating them right.

  My dog “smarls” (smile+snarl) at me when I come home. We’ve taken a still photo of him while smarling and it looks horrifically vicious. It’s like a stock photo captioned “aggressive dog”. But he’s actually happy. The difference is body movement. An aggressive or dangerous dog will be very still, just showing teeth, usually growling and backs away from a threat or quickly lunge if it gets too close. A smarl is usually accompanied by a wagging tail and body wiggles and slowly approaching to get pet.