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- Comment on In the modern day, the USPS only exists to enable cheap marketing spam 3 days ago:
…and convey legal threats.
- Comment on A completely useful compulsion I have. 4 weeks ago:
Of course, how could I forget about the oddest prime!
- Comment on A completely useful compulsion I have. 4 weeks ago:
And if you are left with a prime number of eggs?
- Comment on Math is amazing! 5 weeks ago:
It means you’re using JavaScript.
- Comment on 1994 white Kevin 1 month ago:
“Drop off” makes it sound like he’ll carry you.
- Comment on No matter how crooked a mirror is, it always shows you a straight image. 1 month ago:
Here’s a hint: if a mirror truly did not flip anything, then when you looked into a mirror you would see your back, and it also does not “rotate” you. So how can you see your front?
spoiler
A plane has a “normal” (a direction coming “out of the mirror”), and it basically flips things in that direction (front to back). It might help the understanding (and possibly the creepiness factor) to consider just the outer few atoms of your hair/skin that reflects light… and you are roughly seeing that, in the mirror in the same orientation that it actually is IRL if it were pushed into the mirror…
- Comment on No matter how crooked a mirror is, it always shows you a straight image. 1 month ago:
There was a time that i was really confused as to why a mirror regardless of orientation would change left-hands to right, but not transpose heads and feet (or the like)…
- Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’ 1 month ago:
I hope it’s not “worse than useless” (which would mean “misleading”), as my goal was simply to find more identifiers for discussion or research than: norway, thorium, 1959…
- Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’ 1 month ago:
According to a modern statistical oracle:
In 1959, Norway achieved a notable milestone by starting up its first nuclear reactor, the JEEP I (Joint Establishment Experimental Pile), located at Kjeller. This reactor was primarily used for research purposes, including early experiments with alternative nuclear fuels such as thorium. While JEEP I itself was not a thorium reactor per se, it laid the groundwork for subsequent Norwegian research into thorium as a nuclear fuel. This early phase demonstrated Norway's scientific interest in thorium, leveraging its domestic thorium resources and contributing to later thorium reactor experiments. - Comment on Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims 1 month ago:
odometer += sensor * this_is_just_for_debugging_i_promise(odometer); - Comment on Irresistible 1 month ago:
Something about that fastener seems out-of-class with the rest of the sign.
- Comment on U.S. Lifts Sanctions on Wife of Russian Billionaire Rotenberg 1 month ago:
Something about “state-sanctioned wife” sounds creepy.
- Comment on Bols 2 months ago:
It’s unclear to me if (1) she intended to say that and the second panel is her dominate-knowing-mania, or (2) it was a fruedian slip and the second panel is her internally death-spiralling because she can’t believe she just said that.
- Comment on Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio 2 months ago:
- Comment on Spilled My Coffee, Now I’m a Ghost Eating Pizza in Another Dimension 2 months ago:
Sounds like an anime title
- Comment on Strange behavior with images 2 months ago:
Probably a front-end/back-end version difference. What I observe of those ‘error in store’ is that they are actually “error: success” messages (i.e. it worked, but the front-end doesn’t understand that).
- Comment on Just got my OpenWrt switch - what configurations / preparations should I do? 2 months ago:
Maybe run a bandwidth speed test, and enable/set qos to 95% of that value… I found that’s an easy way to kill the buffer bloat (way better latency).
- Comment on At the request of the Turkish government, X blocks access to student and opposition accounts amid nationwide protests. 2 months ago:
Wasn’t it one of Musk’s stated reasons for buying twitter to prevent exactly this?
- Comment on my dreams in colour 2 months ago:
Kinda surprised how long it took me to see the alien, almost a jump-scare.
- Comment on If you have a circle of friends, then by definition they are all fringe 2 months ago:
If we had a seperate word to mean an unfilled/hollow circle I would jave used it, bit alas… oh, wait a minute… a ring… dang it! Still not sure how I feel about the implication of friend-wedges, though.
- Comment on If you have a circle of friends, then by definition they are all fringe 2 months ago:
It’s really stupid, so prepare yourself for disappointment… Consider a circle, and then identify it’s fringe. Any point on the circle is on it’s fringe. Same thing holds if all your friends joined hand-in-hand to make a circle. Every one of them is a fringe element of the circle, because that’s what a circle is.
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- Comment on Show top LLMs buggy code and they'll finish off the mistakes rather than fix them. 2 months ago:
I noticed they aggresively build out todo comments, even if it’s not possible to do in place they take a wild stab at it.
- Comment on The chair 2 months ago:
Clear sign of a confusing interface.
- Comment on Don't forget to readjust it's position in your pants 2 months ago:
Only forward? Kinda need to go forward and back repeatedly, no?
- Comment on FCC chair says we’re too dependent on GPS and wants to explore ‘alternatives’. 2 months ago:
I was going to comment on the +/-8m accuracy being a let-down, but apparently that’s the accuracy of GPS too.
- Comment on I want to -NOT THANK- AT&T for being extra shitty and eliminating community forums. Less information for all! 2 months ago:
Much like that thing that restores the youtube downvote counter, it ought to be possible to make a platform that gives comments, corrections, and annotations to ANY webpage to other users of that platform.
- Comment on You knew it was coming: Google begins testing AI-only search results | This version of Google won't show you the 10 blue links at all—Gemini completely takes over the results in AI Mode 2 months ago:
Of all the sources of truth, why pick auto-complete?
- Comment on Nicole 2 months ago:
I guess you’d need to mint it as an NFT? :-)
- Comment on Nicole 2 months ago:
That sounds ominous…
