CapeWearingAeroplane

@CapeWearingAeroplane@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t post my memes on the much room bulletin board for everyone to see unless I print them :/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NSA Claims It Can’t Watch a Tape It Recorded in the 1980s⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The way I understand this, the issue is that without reading it they cannot verify that it doesn’t contain sensitive information, so they can’t give it out. That sounds like a reasonable explanation to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The issue with online voting, no matter what you do, is that someone can force you under threat of violence to vote for a specific candidate, and watch to make sure you do it. Complete privacy in the voting booth is paramount to ensuring that everyone can vote freely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mildred⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honest question: Are there no limits in the US to what you can legally name your child? Where I’m from a name can be rejected if it can “cause significant harm or inconvenience to the child”. This prevents idiots from naming their child “Traitor” or “Terrorist”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So is Israel just going to finish Palestine off?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You are aware that what Israel is doing in Gaza is comparable to the nazi treatment of e.g. the Warsaw ghettos… right?

  Take a step back, and look at the Israeli soldiers mocking Palestinian dead, mistreating the wounded and captured, and shooting at clearly unarmed civilians for fun. All this while they brag about it on video. Look at that and tell me that it doesn’t give you a sick feeling to your stomach of the type you haven’t had since you saw photos of concentration camps.

  There are dozens of children that have literally STARVED TO DEATH if Gaza because of Israel’s actions. They’re dying the same deaths that Jews were put through in concentration camps. Don’t you see the horrifying irony in this?

  Israel is at a point where humanitarian workers from recognised international organisations have been targeted and killed, and they brush it off as a “mistake”.

  I cannot think about anything in the past 70 years that compares to what Israel is doing, and I hope beyond hope that some force will smite their government and armed forces such that the slaughter will stop. Because it is a slaughter. It’s not a war when Israel is counting its dead on its fingers, while there are enough missing Palestinians in the rubble to fill a football stadium. It’s just Israel wilfully bombing, burning and slaughtering, with nobody stopping them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So is Israel just going to finish Palestine off?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Israel recognised Palestinian civilian and security control of the awestruck bank in the Oslo accords from the 90’s. They are blatantly shitting on their own promises whenever a genocidic occupier or their enabling security forces set foot on the West Bank without express permission from the Palestinian West Bank government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why mathematics is set to be revolutionized by AI⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was thinking something similar: If you have the computer write in a formal language, designed in such a way that it is impossible to make an incorrect statement, I guess it could be possible to get somewhere with this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is currency so essential?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, in a perfect world, yes. The issue comes up when someone wears out or breaks the drill, and it needs to be replaced or repaired. Whoever spends time and resources ensuring that we have a drill needs to be compensated somehow, because that’s time they’re not spending on making sure they have food and shelter.

  Follow along that line of reasoning for a couple steps, and you end up with some kind of economic system, and likely some kind of enforcement system, so you’re suddenly back at an early stage proto-state/government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looking at a half circle and guessing that the “missing part” is a full circle is as much of a blind guess as you can get. You have exactly zero evidence that there is another half circle present. The missing part could be anything, from nothing to any shape that incorporates a half circle. And you would be guessing without any evidence whatsoever as to which of those things it is. That’s bling guessing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I 100 % agree on your primary point. I still want to point out that a detail in a 4k picture that takes up a few pixels will likely be invisible to the naked eye unless you zoom. “Digital zoom” without interpolation is literally just that: Enlarging the picture so that you can see details that take up too few pixels for you to discern them clearly at normal scaling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No computer algorithm can accurately reconstruct data that was never there in the first place.

  What you are showing is (presumably) a modified visualisation of existing data. That is: given a photo which known lighting and lens distortion, we can use math to display the data (lighting, lens distortion, and input registered by the camera) in a plethora of different ways. You can invert all the colours if you like. It’s still the same underlying data. Modifying how strongly certain hues are shown, or correcting for known distortion are just techniques to visualise the data in a clearer way.

  “Generative AI” is essentially just non-predictive extrapolation based on some data set, which is a completely different ball game, as you’re essentially making a blind guess at what could be there, based on an existing data set.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USB hubs, printers, Java, and more seemingly broken by macOS 14.4 update⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hehe, I absolutely agree… for reference, High Sierra is v10.13, released in 2017. I’m now running v13, released 2022. They moved from v10.15 to v11 in 2020, when the arm chips were released.

  My old MacBook could probably run 10.15 just fine, but I don’t have any good reason to update it, as it’s only purpose now is to compile distributables for other old machines.

  Also: I really dislike that they’ve been pushing non-backwards compatible major releases so hard since 2020. I’m not updating my OS because I can’t be bothered to break shit, it shouldn’t be like that…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USB hubs, printers, Java, and more seemingly broken by macOS 14.4 update⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe brew dropped support for a high Sierra just a couple years back (2022 I think) but as of now my 2012 MacBook Pro is still chugging along whenever I need to compile or test something for x86 and can’t be bothered to cross-compile from my new MacBook :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't we hear more about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting? It was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, we never found a motive, and it seems no one ever mentions it.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If that is the case, that he was using a gun until it jammed, it makes more sense to me. At the same time, how often does an ordinary gun jam? I’ve used an HK416 and an MG3 during a year of army service (conscription training) and to my memory you could fire many hundred rounds (thousands in the case of the MG3) without a single jam, and a misfire takes about a second (max) to clear.

  Also, I’ve seen people talking about the number of guns someone has also in other settings, as a kind of metric that people who are into guns seem to care about, I guess I’m more wondering about the phenomenon in general than just this specific case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't we hear more about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting? It was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, we never found a motive, and it seems no one ever mentions it.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of people this thing about reloading, but honestly, my reload time after a couple weeks of basic training was under the five seconds you need to pass, and after a couple months of service plenty of people were closer to three seconds. I have a hard time imagining that swapping weapons is quicker. I guess the reloading thing might be the reason to have many guns, but it strikes me as a strange one.

  And really, I’m not only talking about this specific case, I get the feeling that people that are into guns will often focus on the number of guns someone has, also outside this case, which seems a bit of a strange metric to be talking about in general.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't we hear more about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting? It was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, we never found a motive, and it seems no one ever mentions it.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can someone who’s more into gun stuff tell me why people are always talking about the amount of guns someone has?

  What makes 23 different guns better than one good one? I can see the point of having like two, in case the first jams, but based on my (limited) experience I would much rather have a single HK416 than a dozen of anything else.

  Also with fewer guns you need fewer ammo types (unless you for some reason have 23 guns with the same ammo, which to me makes even less sense).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Still wanna know⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there some reason they chose to draw them like this? Does anyone with more knowledge than me about making movies or cartoons have an explanation?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Legendary exit for a legendary creator⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Vsauce for me as well, I like veritasium, because I feel like the questions being asked/answered are legitimately interesting questions/answers. With Vsauce I feel like the whole thing is just about him constructing unnecessarily “out of the box” answers in order to look smart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maestro, a Linux compatible kernel written in Rust.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honest question from someone using C++, though not for systems- or embedded stuff, just for object oriented models that gotta go fast: Why is C++ not in the same ballpark, and not an alternative?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is alcohol measured in percentages?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, it’s practical. If you know something is twice as concentrated (12% instead of 6%) you know to drink it more carefully, rather than if you get a jug of something and it just says how much alcohol is in there, then you have to mentally calibrate how strong it is by considering the volume of the jug vs. how much alcohol there is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1.1 History⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There seems to be a slight misunderstanding here: If you imagine the “moment before” the big bang that is a state where the entire universe is compressed into a singularity, which necessarily has no entropy, because it can only have one state. Once the universe started expanding, you get a whole lot of disorder, because, while you are forming particles (introducing order) those particles are moving away from each other at relativistic speeds. The available volume for the particles (the volume of the universe) increases extremely rapidly, meaning you have more possible microstates than if all particles were compressed into a point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words ‘Forever’ Is Now a Terms of Service Violation⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly! Then you agree that because chatgpt can be coerced into spitting out raw, unmodified data, distributing it is a violation of copyright. Glad we’re on the same page.

  You should look up the term “rhetorical question” by the way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words ‘Forever’ Is Now a Terms of Service Violation⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I scrape a bunch of data, put it in a database, and then make that database queryable only using obscure, arcane prompts: Is that a derivative work permitted under fair use?

  Because if you can get chatgpt to spit out raw training data with the right prompt, it can essentially be used as a database of copyrighted stuff that is very difficult to query.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words ‘Forever’ Is Now a Terms of Service Violation⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  First of all no: Training a model and selling the model is demonstrably equivalent to re-distributing the raw data.

  Secondly: What about all the copyleft work in there? That work is specifically licensed such that nobody can use the work to create a non-free derivative, which is exactly what openAI has done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, you can have too many CPU cores - Ampere's 192-core chips break ARM64 Linux kernel in two-socket systems, company requests higher core count support⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sinne you sees to know a lot about this: I would think that at some point the purely physical size of a device is prohibitive of using shared cache, just because the distance from a cpu to the cache can’t be too big. Do you know when this comes into play, if it does? Also, having written some multithreaded computational software, I’ve found that there’s typically (for the stuff I do) a limit to how many cores I can efficiently make use of, before the overhead of opening and closing threads eats the advantage of sharing the work between cores. What kind of “everyday” server stuff is efficiently making use of ≈300 cores? It’s clearly some set of tasks that can be done independently of one another, but do you know more specifically what kind of things people need this many cores on a server for?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Making plans⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pils?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it seem like women are more wont to make noise in sexual situations while men don't?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Y’all need more combined words! Why can’t we just call it “underskinsfat” or “subskinsfat” and be rid of the problem? I much miss the option in the English language of just plugging together whatever words I need in order to create a word that gets the point across. I hope the devs will add that in a future update.

  Without that option you can’t get words like “ashstuck” to describe the specific situation where someone is stuck somewhere because flights are cancelled due to ash in the atmosphere, typically from a volcanic eruption.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it seem like women are more wont to make noise in sexual situations while men don't?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for sharing! I wouldn’t have guessed that sense of smell could be so heavily impacted! Nice to hear that your emotions are doing better as well :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it seem like women are more wont to make noise in sexual situations while men don't?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool! I didn’t know about the pelvic tilt either, and it’s interesting to hear that both mtf and ftm transitioners (is that the right term?) have similar experiences regarding emotional accessibility. And thanks for opening for questions, I’m going to fire off a couple right away:

  Have you experienced any change in sleep patterns?

  Any significant change in appetite? If yes, how? Both regarding amounts, and what kind of food you “crave”?

  I’m assuming you don’t menstruate, but do you have any kind of hormonal “cycle” that would be similar? If so, how is it?

  PS. It’s veery late in my time zone, so I have to sleep now, but I appreciate any answers I get, and I’m looking forward to reading them :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it seem like women are more wont to make noise in sexual situations while men don't?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve also always thought it may have to do with social conditioning, but possibly on a non-sexual level. My thought is that guys are (generally) conditioned to be more quiet about intimate things, or things that are good, and more loud in “aggressive” situations. This fits well with the factual observation that men are less likely to talk about personal problems with a friend, and more likely to push the boundaries (be vocal) in an interview. In my head, it’s an extension of the “strong, silent” stereotype, which is often regarded as positive. Women, on the other hand, are (typically) socially conditioned to be more vocal about feelings in general. I wouldn’t be surprised if these conditionings bleed over into how vocal people are during sex.

  With that said: I’m a guy, and my gf likes it when I make noises. Once I got used to it, I also learned to enjoy grunting. Grunting is highly recommended.