TropicalDingdong
@TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
- Comment on Neuralink competitor Paradromics completes first human implant 18 hours ago:
I’m all for bodily autonomy, and the 100% freedom to choose to do with your body whatever thou whilst.
That being said, I really am not interested in the future like I once was.
- Comment on The city is so lively 2 days ago:
- Comment on The Witcher 3 dev says "one of the longest email threads in our company history" was about "how naked Geralt should be" in the iconic bath scene: "When he gets up, how much butt should we show?" 3 days ago:
- Comment on DeepSeek's distilled new R1 AI model can run on a single GPU | TechCrunch 4 days ago:
Here I’m DM"ing you something. Its very personal, but I want to share it with you and I made it using Deepsite (in part).
- Comment on DeepSeek's distilled new R1 AI model can run on a single GPU | TechCrunch 4 days ago:
Above is what I can do with deepsite by pasting in the first page of your lemmy profile and the prompt:
“This is double_quack, a lemmy user on Lemmy, a new social media platform. Create a cool profile page in a style that they’ll like based on the front page of their lemmy account (pasted in a ctrl + a, ctrl + c, ctrl + v of your profile).”
- Comment on The longer I look the less I can tell them apart 4 days ago:
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- Comment on DeepSeek's distilled new R1 AI model can run on a single GPU | TechCrunch 4 days ago:
Yeah idk. I did some work with deepseek early on. I wasn’t impressed.
HOWEVER…
Some other things they’ve developed like deepsite, holy shit impressive.
- Comment on me an ineffectual: crustacean 5 days ago:
unemployed
- Comment on Does noise from different nearby sources 'add up'? Or do the different sources cancel each other out? In any case, please provide a formula and an example 5 days ago:
Doing so outside of a controlled laboratory setting would be effectively impossible for real world noises.
Actually it happens all the time, because of reflection/ refraction from a single source. Say you’ve got a table saw running in a shop. The sound coming from the saw is a (fairly) constant oscillator.
A shop has hard surfaces and that sound will bounce all over the shop the saw is in. Because it still takes time for the sound to travel and bounce all over, there will be places where standing waves of constructive or destructive interference form. Now there is also a shit ton of other sound bouncing all over the place, so it might not be as noticeable, but standing waves/ regions of constructive/ destructive interference don’t require a lab setting.
Modern phased array antenna are effectively taking advantage of this phenomena.
- Comment on A.I. Companies Believe They're Making God with Karen Hao [1:14:07] 6 days ago:
inb4 NERV
- Comment on Does noise from different nearby sources 'add up'? Or do the different sources cancel each other out? In any case, please provide a formula and an example 6 days ago:
So lets talk about constructive versus destructive interference.
First off, waves are waves. When you have something like a fan, its generating a series of waves. These waves are typically coming at a constant frequency. The frequency here matters.
Sound travels in waves. These waves are pressure waves in a fluid. Those waves don’t just get absorbed by hard surfaces; they reflect or refract. But those waves are both moving through the space, and themselves have a frequency.
This is important because of this you get patterns of constructive and destructive interference in space.
In some areas of a space there will be amplification, because the frequencies are lining up. In some spaces, the waves will cancel out. Those areas will be quieter.
This phenomena is true for all waves.
- Comment on Kremlin calls Trump 'emotional' after US president says Putin is 'crazy' 1 week ago:
- Comment on what's the word for a leg elbow? 1 week ago:
bottom hinge
- Comment on Pooping with friends 1 week ago:
I got my paints down but I ain’t poopin’
- Comment on What's the process of black market weed consumption? 1 week ago:
But I’ve learned so much!
- Comment on What's the process of black market weed consumption? 1 week ago:
I mean, you are stepping into this with some assumptions, then asking us to answer your questions with the, frankly wrong, framework you’ve already established. Like just within the context of what you’ve laid out, its not reasonable to expect anyone to answer. It becomes an issue of actually answering your question versus addressing your assumptions. Also, the manner in which you discuss weed: “you might not have enough time for a good high”; “I would imagine as bad as driving drunk”, “a good dose of the devil’s lettuce”. Its a tell that you have no grounding in experience. If you have 0 grounding in experience, what are you doing making this many assumptions? Maybe consider how little you actually know and reconsider your question accordingly.
Firstly, weed has a long and deep culture that established itself during prohibition. Getting weed from a friend or a dealer, its how it was done for decades, its still the way the majority of people I know who consume it prefer.
In-fact, many of the things you outline as “issues”: they are part of the process. Walking to your friend or dealers house, often with a group of friends, or maybe piling into the car. Its part of the journey, the experience. Buying weed becomes a social activity. As far as people to know who to buy it from, guess what? Its probably at least 25%, maybe even half of everyone you know smokes weed at least occasional. If you are buying off market, its from your electrician friend, or the guy who works food service, or someones brother or sister who has a connection. You call them up, ask if they can hook it up, give them time to do their part (they usually have to go get it themselves), then you head their way, either by foot or skate board, or should you be so lucky, a car. You go, you hang out with your connection, maybe smoke a bit (but not necessarily). Its a social call. Then you get back with your friends, and you walk off to the park to smoke.
As far as smoking, you might have papers, or a pipe. Its pretty common to have both. If you are more serious, you might even go so far as to carry a dab pen and torch with you. Then you smoke. You take a hit and you cough. There can be a bit of a head rush, but thats mostly the coughing. Its a good taste. A rich flavor between tobacco and sweet basil maybe? And then you are stoned for a bit. Its not like alcohol whatsoever. Its just not like that. It does impair you but not at all in the same way. A person who has taken one hit of weed is a far far safer driver than a driver who has had even one beer. Its not like you are falling all over yourself. All a hit is going to do is just makes you a little dumb and have access to more random thoughts than you did previously, like, “Whatever happened to Jon Stamos?” or, “Do red pandas also have thumbs?”. Its not dangerous whatsoever to be walking high, though it might be a bit dangerous to drive stoned. I dont recommend it, but frankly, unless you are like, extremely inexperienced (like first couple times) or extremely high (did a ridiculous amount), its just a non-issue.
The walking somewhere to get weed, scrounging up enough to buy between your friends, then finding a place to go smoke with your friends, its practically a rite of passage in adolescence. And its fun. Its a good time. The walking and going somewhere is practically the point. Its a manner of socializing. Its also something that isn’t built into a “consumption oriented” experience. That’s changing with dispensaries, but there is decades of cultural experience around getting weed from friends. Embedded within your question are views around consumption, capitalism, and even what the entire point of smoking weed actually is. You might challenge some of those views and consider how they are impacting your thinking.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I mean they were openly fascist then, too. Its just that you had (more) liberals and centrists running interference for conservatives to defend the fascistic aspects of their own ideology.
- Comment on 53% of Israeli public opposes aid entering Gaza, new poll shows 1 week ago:
The fascism of the Nazis assuredly felt unstoppable and insurmountable, at the time. And until people made an effort to stop it, it was.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
gefilldafish
- Comment on Dinner is ready 2 weeks ago:
Everyday we stray further from jod.
- Comment on Social media is to democracies what PVP quick matches are to decent players: the worst teammates refuse to take any advice, but are still very vocal. This usually ensures that the team loses. 3 weeks ago:
“team”
- Comment on The mystery of $MELANIA 3 weeks ago:
smelania
- Comment on i broke 3 weeks ago:
Haven’t really thought about it much
The system works
- Comment on YSK: The Guardian is one of the only newspapers in Australia and Britain to refuse all gambling ads 3 weeks ago:
Seems like they werent willing to roll the dice on this one.
- Comment on how to get unbanned from communities? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. The draconian/ editorial banning selects for bad actions on the part of users.
- Comment on !debatebro@ponder.cat - Debate me bro 3 weeks ago:
Yeah so I’m a huge fan of the Intelligence Squared series. I think they do debate, excellently.
I highly recommend reviewing this old gem: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiEI8CtuSKs, which I think is highly relevant today, which addresses the premise “Has Obama overstepped his congressional mandate?”
The way that this debate program works, is that an audience is polled, prior to observing the debate, with regards to the impression or conclusion of the thesis. So some audience members say “I agree, Obama has overstepped.” some say “I disagree, Obama has not overstepped.”. These data are recorded on a per audience member basis.
Once these data are recorded, the debate proceeds. Now I’m not so hung up on the Oxford debate structure (two teams, prime and secondary, minute based timed sections, etc).
Once the debate is concluded, the audience is polled again. The “winners” of the debate are not the team which has the highest raw score at the end of the debate, but whichever team has changed more minds.
Now I’m not interested in the structure of the debate as being important here, so much as, the registering of a prior opinion, and then the registering of a posterior opinion, as a part of the debate structure.
I’m imagining this as either a secondary web page where a debate can be “registered” and then a bot proceeds to become involved in that thread. Users can maybe use the spoiler tag to register their initial opinions (or maybe they need to go off site; clumsy, but simpler). I dont quite know how it would all connect together, but the way I’m imagining it is that its a separate server with, where a question gets “registered”, which spawns a bot (which manages and monitors that specific thread and maintains polls from within the thread).
“influence” someone else’s communications unilaterally is really necessary to a good community
I completely agree. I think that some elements of Lemmy are extremely destructive and toxic because of this. I think communities should be self governing, and that these little fiefdoms are deeply problematic. However, if I was going to develop a fediverse bot app for managing and scoring debates, I would most definitely need mod access to the community.
- Comment on how to get unbanned from communities? 3 weeks ago:
I mean, most of the communities that are heavy handed in their moderation like this, are building themselves to becomes extreme echo chambers. Examples include c/world, c/politicalmemes. One of the worst betrayers of this was @flyingsquid who would regularly get into flame wars with people, then proceed to use their mod authority to ban them. And as much as people complain about people like @jordunlund, they are far, far better as a mod in not abusing their mod authority in this manner (although they have, and its been documented).
However, lemmy is small. And the reality is that the “kinds” of conversations that might happen only in one community are actually happening all over the place. The “conversation” happens wherever the conversation might be.
So instead of worrying to much about it getting unbanned from fiefdoms, you might consider starting your own communities, or taking the conversations you would imagine happening in banned communities elsewhere. The fact is, that the attention and people will follow you if you have good things to say.
- Comment on !debatebro@ponder.cat - Debate me bro 3 weeks ago:
I mean, why would I bother doing that for a community I don’t have influence over?
- Comment on !debatebro@ponder.cat - Debate me bro 3 weeks ago:
Nothing is stopping you from making that tool without mod powers…
Except the motivation, the time, and a good reason to do so.
- Comment on !debatebro@ponder.cat - Debate me bro 3 weeks ago:
Hey make me a mod. I want to build a tool to do oxford debate style scoring and this might motivate me to do so.
