milicent_bystandr

@milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemm.ee is recruiting new admins!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You want to know my secret?

  How I survive Lemmy?

  I’m always happy :-D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemm.ee is recruiting new admins!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  if you make mistakes, there will likely be many users calling you out in public.

  I wouldn’t want to let you down, so,

  two new admins, who’s primary duties

  Should be “whose primary duties”

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  For real, though, thank you for your work looking after this instance! And big thanks in advance to whoever takes up the new admin roles. I hope there’s some of you out there who have time to take this up, wisdom to do it well, and patience… because, well, it’s the internet!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yo, Duplo, what you doing on the 24th?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So much that it’s been used to make precision scientific equipment when the normal equipment would cost far far more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yo, Duplo, what you doing on the 24th?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess I’ve been out of it too long - I’ve always found knockoff brands just don’t have the same precision and quality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yo, Duplo, what you doing on the 24th?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed, but what I’ve heard through is that Lego’s finances were really struggling till taking the franchising deals. Given how good the quality of Lego always seems to be compared to cheaper brands, whilst I’d like old-style creative building (and cheaper!) Lego, I feel an unusual sympathy for them getting a bunch of money from these deals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ugh i wish⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s very interesting. Thank you for sharing.

  I hope things work out well for your son.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ugh i wish⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  FWIW, there’s a lot we don’t know - but are learning - about bacteria and the gut. For example, if I’m not mistaken, a baby gets a lot of important gut bacteria from it’s mum through breastfeeding.

  So when I hear all this argument about raw vs pasteurised milk, I expect there really is something of health benefit to raw milk, just there’s a big downside of harmful pathogens that can be cured with pasteurization. That doesn’t mean all raw milk is unsafe. Like with raw eggs in the UK, or not iodizing your vegetables, it can be safer with care over production.

  Anyway, that is to say, I figure there could be some interaction with the bacteria in the raw milk helping your son to digest it.

  But having seen the other comment suggesting homogenisation, that sounds more likely to me. (Just a guess though.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨brains!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I endeavour to be as stupid as possible so more people can be above average.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pluto's Orbit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Second thing I noticed: Ooh, is that so? That’s interesting.

  First thing: its not it’s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Casio made an Oura Ring alternative that's everything but smart⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Beware the Great Eye of Google. Ever it roams, ever it watches.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Casio made an Oura Ring alternative that's everything but smart⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay I misread that title as “Casio made a One Ring alternative”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Thread] Mental Math⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s still different from what I’m thinking of of interim steps, though.

  …but as I think how to explain I realize I’m about to blather about things I don’t understand, or at least haven’t had time to think about! So I’d better leave it there!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Thread] Mental Math⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I reckon we can get a lot closer than an LLM in time. For one thing, the mind has particular understanding of interim steps whereas, as I understand it, the LLM has no real concept of meaning between the inputs and the output. Some of this interim is, I think, an important part of how we assess truthfulness of generated ideas before we put them into words.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Thread] Mental Math⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is a good point, though the architecture of computer neutral networks is inspired by how we think the brain works, and if I understand correctly there is some definite similarity in the architecture.

  Lots of difference though, still!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Thread] Mental Math⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not advanced maths per se; neural networks are amazing! Fuzzy matching based on experience - taken to an incredible level. And, tuneable by internal simulation (imagination).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colours of Blood⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Blue blood may be cool, but red blood is better for you.

  => Nobility is fashionable, but it’s healthier to be a peasant.

  Also, from this table I learn that Europeans of ages past were ruled by octopodes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colours of Blood⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Black, the dark of ages past.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just So⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think, therefore it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tap on the screen⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a joke. Don’t fauce it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, your honour, I did not wear blackface to trivialise the suffering of people who came from Africa. I wore blackface to hide from Facebook Glasses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US couple blocked from suing Uber after crash say daughter agreed to Uber Eats terms⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Off topic, but since this is Lemmy, I choose to interpret your political assessment as,

  • 4 US lapdogs: UK, Saudi Arabia, China and India
  • 2 dictatorships: Canada and Australia
  • fast becoming a dictatorship: Ireland.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smart⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How many?

  It’s complex.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't know the difference between hay and straw⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From different plants. Straw is from, I think, cereals (wheat, barley, etc) whereas hay is from grass(es?).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't know the difference between hay and straw⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a Beatles song about the straw man logical fallacy, wasn’t there?

  Straw Jude

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hear me out⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tri-lo-BITE!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hammerheads sharkz⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “They called him Flipper, Flipper, faster than lightning…” But Hammerhead is a baddie and sharks aren’t supposed to be baddies any more. Sharks are friends, not threats. So Hammerhead slipped quietly into the distance to await his time of glory, when one day he will return to rule the Ocean with an iron fist head.

  Incidentally, dolphins have had a troubled role-reversal in the fashion of popular opinion too. They were friends! Companions! Even amusements for a while, before everyone agreed they should be free. Now they are wanton rapists and bullies. Shed a tear for the poor, maligned dolphin, carrying the disgrace of his ill-behaved friends and relations. All Dolphins Are Not Bad.

  One day the Bottlenose and the Hammerhead will return as friends, splendorous and loved. But will they find the World worthy of their love? Or will they leave, with a parting farewell, and a thanks for all the fish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hammerheads sharkz⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seriously?

  You think way too little about dinosaurs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨C++ should be called ++C⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, because when you write it it’s just C, but when you come back later to check your code it’s gotten bigger and more obfuscated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Magic orbs already exist.

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  dd glass. Unbreakable for your bra, or for copying blocks of data. Or both.