iAvicenna
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- Comment on Applying 'extreme heat' to lithium-ion batteries reportedly restores their capacity, and I think it's the sustainable tech breakthrough of 2025 12 hours ago:
so putting batteries in the fridge wasn’t useful after all, we should put them in the oven
- Comment on Bill Gates Bought His Daughter A $16 Million Horse Farm As A Graduation Gift — But Ex-Wife Melinda Says The Kids Were Raised Very 'Middle Class' 2 days ago:
I suppose, to her, having millions of dollars is soooo far away from her life that she has to look at it with binoculars and so she thinks that it should be middle-class.
- Comment on Macron ‘to make state visit before Trump’ as UK seeks closer ties with Europe 2 days ago:
when a labour party is more willing to kiss a Tyrant’s ass than a center right president
- Comment on Yes, Ma'am. 3 days ago:
uhhhh what is the cobra for?
- Comment on Did you know you can track elons jet from mastodon? 4 days ago:
gives him anxiety, the same shit he causes on millions world wide by funding extreme right wing movements
- Comment on Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety 4 days ago:
I spent a couple of minutes on that website, but I still don’t understand what it wanted me to do
- Comment on Whistleblower Accuses DOGE of Letting Russians Access Government Accounts in Shocking Security Breach 1 week ago:
I will never get tired of this
- Comment on Google wants to make its 2M-mile fiber network fully autonomous by year’s end 1 week ago:
“We will have AI agents that run the network with no manual intervention.”
Sounds hard to believe.
- Comment on OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry. 1 week ago:
billionaires are a systematic threat to the tech industry.
FFY
- Comment on For the First Time, Artificial Intelligence Is Being Used at a Nuclear Power Plant 1 week ago:
Oh shit had already forgotten about this amid so many other scandals. The guy who said this is running the whole of US like a fucking medieval kingdom, another reality slap in the face. At that time I was like, “surely no one right in the mind would vote for this scammer”.
- Comment on For the First Time, Artificial Intelligence Is Being Used at a Nuclear Power Plant 1 week ago:
I unfortunately don’t can someone explain?
- Comment on Determining the reason no one replied to your Lemmy post. 1 week ago:
I think one needs to include parameters like how soon after the topic was created the comment was made and how deep is it in the comment tree. If you for instance consistently comment on 1 month old topics or reply on comments ten levels deep you will get very few interactions.
- Comment on For the First Time, Artificial Intelligence Is Being Used at a Nuclear Power Plant 1 week ago:
NOOOOOO ITS DOING NUCLEAR PHYSICS!!!111
- Comment on Okay, who had Trump loyalty pins for Apocalyptic-Bingo this Sunday? Games just getting started, stay tuned! 1 week ago:
keep giving the man crazy ideas, this is the way
- Comment on Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len() 1 week ago:
good point I try to initialize None collections to empty collections in the beginning but not guaranteed and len would catch it
- Comment on AI slop farms are churning out fake heartwarming videos about Trump figures. 1 week ago:
this screenshot looks more like the beginning of something else. I wonder where they trained their AI model on hmm…
- Comment on Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE 1 week ago:
no conflict of interest, none at all
- Comment on Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len() 1 week ago:
It is not “assume” as in a conscious “this is probably a bool I will assume so” but more like a slip of attention by someone who is more used to the bool context of not. Is “not integer” or “not list” really that commonly used that it is even comparable to its usage in bool context?
- Comment on Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len() 1 week ago:
If there is an alternative through which I can achieve the same intended effect and is a bit more safer (because it will verify that it has len implemented) I would prefer that to commenting. Also if I have to comment every len use of not that sounds quite redundant as len checks are very common
- Comment on Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len() 1 week ago:
I feel like that only serves the purpose up to the point that methods are not over reaching otherwise then it turns into remembering what a method does for a bunch of unrelated objects.
- Comment on The poop psa absolutely no one asked for 1 week ago:
If you think just because a party is named labour things are guaranteed to get fixed it is wishful thinking and you are in for a disappointment. I will vote for labour anytime over any conservative government but these problems are systematic and four years of labour government and some new taxes will not fix those. And a criticism of a system that has been broken for more than a decade with multiple labour governments in charge in the same period is not a criticism of the current government. And people like you who think that labour governments or democrat parties cannot be criticised because the alternative is much more horrible are the ones lacking discussion maturity and rationality and the reason why better alternatives cannot get a foothold. If you think current labour is a perfect government then it is you who should get over yourself.
- Comment on The poop psa absolutely no one asked for 1 week ago:
One year is old wow? If you are 20 years old maybe but otherwise it means you have spent like 10+ years navigating the problems of this system and getting frustrated at every turn. One year of improvement does not undo all those years of hardships. I have had friends going back to their own countries for treatments because of these waiting times and sometimes because their problem was not taken seriously, my wife being one of them, a close friend of mine another. Calling a fair criticism of a system that has been horrible for the last two decades of someone’s attempt to “achieve something” and “spreading misinformation” sounds directly from the fascist’s handbook.
- Comment on The poop psa absolutely no one asked for 1 week ago:
well even if you are taken seriously there is a very high chance you will be hit by waiting times still
- Comment on Trump excludes smartphones, computers, chips from tariffs 1 week ago:
is this going to turn into some sort of Brexit? “Okay we did this shit to impress our voters but we don’t want any of the actual effects so we will just add many other tiny conditionals that roughly amount to nullifying the whole thing”
- Comment on The poop psa absolutely no one asked for 1 week ago:
in most places you will first need to consult an intermediary person (like a GP or family doctor) who will tell you to wait and observe for a while anyways. it is not like you go to the hospital and they immediately test you. you need to bleed out of your anus for quite a while before they take you seriously…
- Comment on The poop psa absolutely no one asked for 1 week ago:
to be honest more common reason could be polyps though so dont go crazy the first time you see blood on your stool.
- Comment on Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len() 1 week ago:
I don’t know, it throws me off but perhaps because I always use len in this context. Is there any generally applicable practical reason why one would prefer “not” over len? Is it just compactness and being pythonic?
- Comment on Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len() 1 week ago:
isn’t the expected behaviour exactly identical on any object that has len defined:
“By default, an object is considered true unless its class defines either a bool() method that returns False or a len() method that returns zero, when called with the object.”
- Comment on Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len() 1 week ago:
Well fair enough but I still like the fact that len makes the aim and the object more transparent on a quick look through the code which is what I am trying to get at. The supporting argument on bools wasn’t’t very to the point I agree.
That being said is there an application of “not” on other classes which cannot be replaced by some other more transparent operator (I confess I only know the bool and length context)? I would rather have transparently named operators rather than having to remember what “not” does on ten different types. I like duck typing as much as the next guy, but when it is so opaque as in the case of not, I prefer alternatives. For instance having open or read on different objects which does really read or open some data vs not some object god knows what it does I should memorise each case.
- Comment on Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len() 1 week ago:
If anything len tells you that it is a sequence or a collection, “not” does not tell you that. That I feel like is the main point of my objection.
