psud

@psud@aussie.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guerrilla Women⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone is chemical

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lab toys⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  RF isn’t magic. It is awfully finicky though, so don’t touch the BNC cable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lab toys⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  People with little mechanical sympathy definitely have less luck with equipment

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lab toys⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Having worked in tech support for a system that I knew very well, I often saw problems vanish when users attempted to demonstrate them with me present

  People would say my tech aura made it work

  Really though people just take more care when an expert is present, and so avoid whatever error their earlier carelessness caused

  I wonder if people who experience the opposite encourage less care among those around them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jewel Beetles⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In the stone age and during an ice age

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calcrelatable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I originally learned qwerty and touch typed at 60WPM, during a really boring job before smartphones and before we had internet to the desktop at work and I entertained myself learning to type again, but on dvorak

  So after 3 months I was back to 60WPM

  I really like that dvorak has all the vowels on the left of the home row, and t and h are on the right of the home row right where finger tapping cadence works for “th”

  So my speed hasn’t increased, but my fingers don’t need to move as much for common words. I don’t think it’s worth it if you play games on the computer, many games don’t map keyboard controls well. Eg Minecraft moves everything to whatever key is in the same place as the qwerty key; 7 days to die doesn’t change anything, so you need to choose keys for everything, or if you’re happy with the defaults, just change the ones that conflict when you fix “wasd” to “,aoe”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need a vexillology community!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see zero subscribers, zero posts. I’m not breaking that streak

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wednesday it is, my dudes.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I must

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨damn, must've just missed him⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Although dictionaries will show words that significant parts of the population say are wrong, I’m still going to say octopuses is also correct because octopus is an English word and English usually pluralises like that

  Octopusen is not common since octopus is too new to get that style of English plural

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clever, clever⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are workflows using LLMs that seem fair to me, for example

  • using an LLM to produce a draft, then
  • Editing and correcting the LLM draft
  • Finding real references and replacing the hallucinated ones
  • Correcting LLM style to your style

  That seems like more work than doing it properly, but it avoids some of the sticking points of the proper process

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clever, clever⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  LLMs can’t cite. They don’t know what a citation is other than a collection of text of a specific style

  You’d be lucky if the number of references equalled the number of referenced items even if you were lucky enough to get real sources out of an LLM

  If the student is clever enough to remove the trap reference, the fact that the others won’t be in the University library should be enough to sink the paper

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pressure vs Temp⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t say I have ever considered myselfgender fluid due to my gender perfectly fitting the shape of its container (ie me)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No excuse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For safety.

  When you back in you have good visibility on your way in - you see in and behind the spot you’re taking as you drive past it to line up

  When you leave you have excellent visibility ahead as it’s on front of

  Also the car is easier to steer into the spot in reverse

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No excuse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess some people are really bad drivers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No excuse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Leave the spot just the opposite way to which you entered the spot. Then try again.

  Ideal: exactly centered between whatever defines the spot (lines, cars, kerbs)

  Ideal’: close to a kerb and far from the neighboring car/line

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Absolute Units⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think any wild animals other than humans have obesity problems

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honey⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bees are a symbol of labour. You couldn’t make them work harder if you tried. European honey bees collect far more nectar than they will ever eat, it’s like they’re planning for fimbulwinter

  So what exactly is the problem with using honey?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fruit Flies⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Insects

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 1900s⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Before the before times (given that the before times are 2019 and earlier

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeast in sugar is going: I’ll just convert this to poison (ethanol) to keep everything away, then whenever I’m hungry I’ll break that poison into acid

  Humans: hold my… Wait a minute let’s make beer!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Magic Mineral⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Asbestos stories go like that. Thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fruit Flies⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess not everyone has easy access to booze

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fruit Flies⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Slaves? We have electricity and automation. Although slaves might make things easier, slaves are people and should have the same freedoms as you and me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fruit Flies⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That really makes me wonder what you mean by liberal

  My take on the word highlights individual freedom except where it interferes with other’s individual freedoms

  My take has most regulation put on corporations, ie. you and I are pretty free; Google has rules to follow (and so does the butcher, baker, and candlestick maker)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fruit Flies⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have rescued so many fruit flies from my beer. You hardly need to drown them, just present them with a 5% ethanol by volume solution and let them drown themselves

  (My beer system is outside in my courtyard, fruit flies love the drip tray)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fruit Flies⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t you drive a car?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fruit Flies⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s even the old Marx brothers joke “time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana”

  The fruit fly trap taught to me by an entomologist friend is baited with wine, suggesting the fruit flies want fermenting fruit

  The trap: get a plastic fizzy drink bottle; bigger is better

  Cut off the top. The cut piece is a cone

  Place the cone (the top piece) upside down on the rest of the bottle

  Sticky tape the joint

  Bait with cheap wine or leftover wine or beer

  Her tastes were revealed in the description of baiting the trap — she specified red wine, but I have tested with various booze and fruit flies have no taste, they’ll go for anything. You could probably extract bait from the sourdough starter you made in lockdown and kept alive despite never making bread after that first try

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Synthesize deez nutz⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are those of us nostalgic for the 3DO

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Urticaria⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It may be you’re allergic to something in your food. I used to get chronic low grade urticaria on my upper arms that antihistamines wouldn’t touch but it went away when I went on a very limited exclusion diet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eels⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It looks like other eels don’t necessarily follow the mostly tail body plan of electric eels; morays seem to be less than 50% tail by length