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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla charging stations become ‘car graveyards’ as batteries die in subzero temperatures, abandoned cars left in the lot after cars wouldn’t charge⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s people having their battery die while they wait for an open charger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't be stopped⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Enough calories to feed you for the rest of your life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can a thorough sleep study reveal about a person's sleep and well-being?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why did you get the sleep study? It kinda sounds like you did it for fun if you don’t know what you’re potentially expecting from the results.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pick your poison. Dystopian style⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Welcome to Twitter, every idea has to be distilled into the smallest version and skewed into ragebait.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2872: Hydrothermal Vents⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you. This made no sense to me at first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lifehack for naive schoolchildren⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this is the best answer. Just because magnetism is not visible doesn’t make it magic. The source of the forces doesn’t change where those forces go. A lot of these perpetual motion machines can be simplified to a situation that makes intuitive sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the permanent timestamp in CCTV footage sometimes change color?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No one gonna mention anything about how that dude is lucky to be alive? Holy shit I thought this was going to be a different kind of video.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s important to consider why you think this. Try and explain what makes someone stupid.

  I do tend to agree with the general statement that most people are pretty fucking stupid. If IQ were a meaningful number of intelligence, I’d wager that it’s heavily skewed left. Meaning that the common saying of “think of how stupid the average person and realize half of all people are below that” is even worse when you use the median.

  For me, what makes someone stupid is lack of curiosity, lack of drive to learn, and lack of critical thinking. I think stupidity is a learned trait, and our modern society is doing its damnedest to make sure children learn it as soon as possible. Never question authority, you only need to memorize so you can pass the test, and you will be spoon fed the information.

  Then soon as you get out of school, you have to get a job and occupy most of your time with work or sleep, you’ll likely get only two-three hours of time to yourself each day, meaning you’ll lack the time to break out of the cycle. And the system compounds at most jobs. Your manager is likely stupid, meaning they want you to never question authority, just do what they tell you, and ask them very little questions.

  I also think the trillions of dollars that are spent on advertising strongly influences this. And being constantly bombarded with psychological manipulation encourages stupidity.

  I also think stupidity is compounding in and of itself. The less you know, the more you can just make hasty assumptions, then use those assumptions as fact for your next set of assumptions.

  It’s also contagious. Being around people who are less stupid than yourself makes you feel bad, so you aren’t around them much or encourage them to join you in being stupid.

  There is a massive difference between not knowing something, and choosing to not know something. Just about every person in the world has access to the greatest source of information that has ever been created. There are free courses on just about every topic you could ever desire to learn, fingertips away.

  There is also a massive difference between knowing something and rote memorization. Being able to follow the logical chain of facts is very important, so is being able to critically think about a topic. I think being “bored” is great at combatting stupidity in this way. Spending time with no stimulation is great for engaging your brain in actual thoughts. Consider dedicating time to just thinking: no audiobooks, music, podcasts, video games, movies, TV shows, social media, books etc. Just sit and be bored for a while. Meditation is a great entry into this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's dangerous to go alone. Take this.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943_steel_cent

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a good tool for visualizing your raid needs from your capacity and total number of drives.

  www.seagate.com/products/…/raid-calculator/

  I’ll preface that I’m no raid expert, just a nerd that uses it occasionally.

  The main benefit of most raid configurations is the redundancy they provide. If you lose one drive, you do not lose any data. It’s kinda obvious how you can have 1:1 redundancy, you just have an exact copy of the drive. But there are ways to split data into three chunks so that you can rebuild the data from any two chunks, and 5 chunks so that you can loose and two chunks. Truly understand how raid does this could easily be an entire college course.

  Raid 0 is the exception. All it does is “join together” a bunch of drives into one disk. And if you lose an individual disk you likely will lose most of your data.

  Another big difference is read/write speed. From my understanding, every raid configuration is slower to read and write than if you were using a single drive. Each raid configuration is varying levels of slower than the “base speed”

  I typically use raid 5 or 6, since that gives some redundancy, but I can keep most of my total storage space.

  The main thing in all of this is to keep an eye on drive health. If you lose more drives than your array can handle, all of your data is gone. From my understanding, there is no easy way to get the data off a broken raid array.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's that time of the year again!⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve literally never heard GUI said as “gee ewe eye” before.

  You could just say UI, avoids the gooey phobia and sounds less weird than g u i.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's that time of the year again!⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think those make sense as deviations. I’ve heard “my sequel” but you’re absolutely right about postgresql.

  The name is kinda irrelevant like hard vs soft g in gif. People know what you mean when you say either.

  But in that same vein, the creator of the “graphics interchange format” says the pronunciation is soft g, but basically everyone says hard g… So “official” pronunciation is kinda irrelevant.

  I don’t judge anyone who uses whichever term they want, but I’ve just noticed the general trend in my smallish interaction bubble.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's that time of the year again!⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The only people I know who actually call it ess queue ell are either too new to know the “sequel” pronunciation, or the type of person you generally smell before you see.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My entire inheritance is a box⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was a bad pun on “parallel”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My entire inheritance is a box⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d guess it’s beside the others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have a software joke, but I’m not ready to release it yet⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a mathematics joke, but it doesn’t count.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨and then when I actually try to apologize to people I end up making it all about myself again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure if I’m misunderstanding or if the other commenters are misunderstanding. Sounds like you want to stop being enabled by other people.

  The answer is you cut those people out. If they are actively encouraging bad behavior you have expressed the desire to change, then your only option is to minimize the amount of time you spend with the person. Martial Goldsmith has a really nice book on how to effectively change behavior called Triggers. (Yes the name of the book is terrible)

  Or maybe I’m just extremely sleep deprived and not getting the joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Very few people realise how environmentally devastating this game is.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I have never seen a golf course next to a hospital… Maybe it’s regional, but near me, most courses have many made ponds that hold rain water and you can smell the pond water when the sprinklers come on. The ponds can hold several Olympic swimming pools worth of water.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Very few people realise how environmentally devastating this game is.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of the US corn crop goes to animal feed, so no you don’t get food from it. At least not directly. If you totaled up all of the land used by golf courses, you’d be at .1% of just the amount of land used for animal feed. And about 1% of the land used by home lawns.

  They’re not that bad, there are much worse enemies than golf courses in general. Again, courses that are in the middle of a city that do nothing but increase property value are terrible, but most are perfectly fine and use way less water than you think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Very few people realise how environmentally devastating this game is.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Most courses use man made ponds as both hazards and as retention ponds so they can use that rain water.

  You know what uses three times the amount of water per acre? Corn. And almonds use about ten times more water than corn. And people have only just started caring about lawns, that use two orders of magnitude more water, fertilizer, and land than golf courses.

  Golf courses really aren’t that bad from an ecological point of view when compared acre per acre to other large man made structures. They’re generally pretty small when compared to other large landscaping projects at 30-80 acres. The issue is when a city has like twenty courses just for the purpose of driving up housing prices.

  Would that land be better as a park? Probably, but this is the US, someone would see an unprofitable “empty” plot of land and throw million dollar houses on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More like guidelines⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  How much water, by weight, is in an empty cup? Round to the nearest amount an average 17th century merchant could identify.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There once was a programmer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You absolutely can ask it for code you plan to use as long as you treat chatgpt like a beginner dev. Give it a small, very simple, self contained task and test it thoroughly.

  Also, you can write unit tests while being quite unfamiliar with the syntax. For example, you could write a unit test for a function which utilizes a switch statement, without using a switch statement to test it. There’s a whole sect of “test driven development” where this kind of development would probably work pretty well.

  I’ll agree that if you can’t test a piece of code, you have no business writing in the language in a professional capacity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I tame my frustration toward my aging parents?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Controversial, but until they are diagnosed with a mental illness, you have to assume they are in control of their actions regardless of their age. If a medically mentally sound 70 year old man is sexually harassing people, he’s just as guilty as someone half their age (not saying your parents would do that, just proving a point).

  My personal opinion is you choose who you have relationships with, including family relationships. If you want to keep a relationship with them, you have to accept that they are choosing to act this way (again, assuming no medical/mental conditions) and decide to love them anyway.

  If they are actually experiencing mental decline and not just relaxing their inhibitions, as so many older people tend to do, then you need to get them to a doctor fast. Everything from medication side effects to vitamin deficiency can cause mental decline. If they have early dementia, or some other incurable mental ailment, talk to a therapist about how to handle the situation and stay sane yourself. Caring for someone you know will never get well is extremely hard emotionally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ex-Linus Tech Tips employee alleges mistreatment and poor conditions: “no one gets a break” - Dexerto⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I was being unclear about my opinion on the timing. I meant to say take the timing out of the equation all together.

  But yes, as a relative of someone who has been assaulted and sexually assaulted, my opinion is speak out loudly and immediately when faced with this kind of stuff. Every minute you waste speaking out is another minute the assaulter roams free. I get that some may be uncomfortable with that, and they should speak out as soon as they are emotionally able to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ex-Linus Tech Tips employee alleges mistreatment and poor conditions: “no one gets a break” - Dexerto⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to play semantics like the insanely bad take from Linus, but this isn’t just a conversation, her accusations are serious.

  I was clearly being unclear, the timing isn’t important here. The me too movement showed that a lot of people who faced some of the same things she did stayed quiet for years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ex-Linus Tech Tips employee alleges mistreatment and poor conditions: “no one gets a break” - Dexerto⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I do think a healthy amount of scepticism is healthy here. Her accusations are worded very carefully to not directly target anyone in particular and there is no proof of her accusations nor any way for LMG to dispute her claims because of how they are worded. Not to even mention the timing. It’s all a little too convenient.

  That said, scepticism doesn’t mean blind faith in LMG, and it doesn’t mean tearing down the accuser. The new CEO getting an independent investigation is the best thing possible and we should hold our judgement until the result of that investigation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The condom business does not seem sustainable tbh.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. That was my point. Definitely not that children are a handful and many people would rather not have that responsibility thrust upon them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT In Trouble: OpenAI may go bankrupt by 2024, AI bot costs company $700,000 every day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like you’re undereducated on how and when AI models are trained. Especially for the gpt model, it’s not “constantly learning” like other models. It’s being tweaked in discreet increments by developers trying to cover their ass, and get it to less frequently say things they can be sued for.

  Also, AI are already training other AI, that’s kinda how AI are made… There’s an AI that detects how well a given phrase follows another phrase, and that’s used to train the part of the AI you interact with. (arguably they are part of the same whole, depending on how you view the architecture)

  CGP gray has a good into video on how bots learn, it’s pretty outdated and not really applicable to how LLMs learn, but the general idea is still there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The condom business does not seem sustainable tbh.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Stories I’ve heard in the last year from my friends and co-workers:

  • Bragging about how they got 5 hours of sleep last night because their newborn finally slept until 6am

  • A “funny” story about how their 5 year old managed to get a hold of some chewing gum and got it stuck in their hair and all over a rug

  • A potty training “success” story about how their toddler remembered to pull down their pants, but remembered mid shit they should have sat on the toilet, so they shat all over the bathroom.

  • They found a juice box their kid bit a hole into and then tucked under their car seat… By smelling it rotting

  Trojan just needs to get a group of parents together to tell stories about their kids and paste them word for word on the back of their boxes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT In Trouble: OpenAI may go bankrupt by 2024, AI bot costs company $700,000 every day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s definitely gone down hill recently, but at the launch of gpt4 it was pretty incredible. It would make several logical jumps that a lot of actual people probably wouldn’t make. I remember my “wow moment” was asking how many M&M’s would fit in a typical glass milk jug, and then I measured it myself (by weight) and got an answer about 8% off. It gave measurements and cited actual equations. I couldn’t find anything through Google that solved the same problem or had the same answer that it could have just copied. It was supposed to be bad at math, but gpt4 got those types of problems pretty much spot on for me.

  I think that most people who have tried the latest AI models have had a bad experience because its power is distributed over more users.