knightly
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- Comment on When Does Instagram Decide a Nipple Becomes Female? 2 weeks ago:
I’ll take this as a good faith question, and the short answer is that gender is a lot more complicated than that.
Yes there are two archetypal roles involved in sexual reproduction, but even that isn’t so simple. There isn’t just one feature that defines male or female, but a combination of traits including chromosomes, gametes, anatomy, hormones, etc. In the real world, some folks are born with features that don’t all agree with one or another archetype. Intersex people aren’t common, about 1 in 2,000, but their existence proves that sex isn’t just a binary. There’s diversity to sex that requires a more complicated scheme to account for everybody.
Gender, likewise, doesn’t follow the one-or-the-other model. Most folks are cisgender, but some folks have a gender that doesn’t agree with what people assume their sex is, or no gender at all, or a gender that doesn’t fit into the man/woman spectrum. It gets complicated quickly because gender is where sex and society intersect. Some cultures have different expectations based on gender, and some even have more than two recognized genders.
- Comment on When Does Instagram Decide a Nipple Becomes Female? 2 weeks ago:
Precisely.
Gender isn’t binary, there is no such thing as a male or female nipple. That distinction is something that Humans made up.
- Comment on How can we get to Mars faster 2 weeks ago:
Irradiated water is fine.
You’re thinking of radioactive water, which is water with radioactive stuff in it.
Subjecting regular water to regular amounts of radiation is fine, even if it’s high-energy gamma rays. If there’s enough radiation to make water itself radioactive then you have bigger problems than radioactive water.
- Comment on Not allowed to work from home 3 weeks ago:
Bonus, you can ask for clarification on everything.
- Comment on Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts 3 weeks ago:
The argument could be made economically rather than ideologically.
Capitalism has a failure mode where too much capital gets concentrated into too few hands, depressing the flow of money moving through the economy.
But Capitalists start crying “Socialism!” as soon as you start talking about anti-trust.
- Comment on Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts 3 weeks ago:
Tulips all the way down…
- Comment on Which adjective should come first, modular or versatile? 3 weeks ago:
The latter is correct.
English has a fixed adjective order:
Determiner Quantity Opinion Size Age Shape Color Origin/Material Qualifier
“Versatile” is an opinion and “modular” is a qualifier.
“The single, versatile, large, new, round, blue, local, modular thingamawidget.”
- Comment on Israel drops 'depleted uranium bombs' inside Beirut: Official 5 weeks ago:
Oh good. I’ll just line my lungs with paper, then?
- Comment on Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code 1 month ago:
*with or without
FTFY
- Comment on Peter Molyneux thinks generative AI is the future of games, all but guaranteeing that it won't be 2 months ago:
Generative “AI” is not “AI”, it’s a overlarge statistical model of written language. It cannot make NPC dialogue more lively because it has no concept of “liveliness” or “boredom”. A 10-minute conversation is impossible, anything more than a few words and the models very rapidly lose consistency. You can see this for yourself by playing one of the many “AI Dungeon” attempts at using large language models to run a text adventure.
- Comment on Peter Molyneux thinks generative AI is the future of games, all but guaranteeing that it won't be 2 months ago:
Generative AI is a statistical model, not something that can understand what makes a good plot…
- Comment on US grid adds batteries at 10x the rate of natural gas in first half of 2024 2 months ago:
Since you are all knowing, explain to me exactly how deep earth mining is less costly and better for the environment than deep earth drilling.
Easy, just compare the amount of pollution required to make a battery and a solar panel with the amount of pollution required to extract and burn fossil fuels for the equivalent power output over the duration of the renewable’s working lifetime.
Oh, and don’t forget. Fossil fuels are useless without an engine to burn them, so you need to account for those infrastructure costs as well.
- Comment on US grid adds batteries at 10x the rate of natural gas in first half of 2024 2 months ago:
Do you want the math or would you prefer less reading and more pictures?
- Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers 2 months ago:
Patreon deserves to die, their cut of the subscription income is extortionate for what amounts to a very limited web hosting platform.
Open-source alternatives like Mirlo or Cloud Patron will take its place, it’s only a matter of time.
- Comment on Mpox not new Covid and can be stopped, expert says 2 months ago:
Still could be if our leaders wanted to put in the effort…
- Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers 2 months ago:
You’re joking, but you’re right.
Once the content has been created, the near-zero marginal cost of online distribution makes the concept of charging for copies wholly untenable.
The furry community figured this out years ago, our creators work on commission or paid subscription through Patreon or one of its ilk. They (mostly) don’t care where you freely share their work because they already got paid.
- Comment on UK | Girl died from sip of Costa Coffee drink after ‘failure to follow allergies processes’ 2 months ago:
Telling someone that you can’t serve safely to eat elsewhere is being responsible…
- Comment on UK | Girl died from sip of Costa Coffee drink after ‘failure to follow allergies processes’ 2 months ago:
It’s food service, that responsibility has always come with the territory. Allergies aren’t a new thing.
- Comment on UK | Girl died from sip of Costa Coffee drink after ‘failure to follow allergies processes’ 2 months ago:
You’ve got that backwards.
Service jobs deserve much better wages and training so they can kill fewer people.
- Comment on 62% of Funded Blockchain and Web3 Companies Attract Fewer Than 100 Monthly Organic Visitors 2 months ago:
But you have to check to make sure the chatbot isn’t hallucinating the answers it gives you, so you could be even more efficient by just looking it up in the first place and skipping the extra step.
- Comment on 62% of Funded Blockchain and Web3 Companies Attract Fewer Than 100 Monthly Organic Visitors 2 months ago:
I am an expert in this and cryptographic chaining of a public ledger is like large language models, interesting but ultimately useless.
- Comment on 62% of Funded Blockchain and Web3 Companies Attract Fewer Than 100 Monthly Organic Visitors 2 months ago:
Giving your cryptographic chaining a pointless acronym doesn’t make it useful.
- Comment on 62% of Funded Blockchain and Web3 Companies Attract Fewer Than 100 Monthly Organic Visitors 2 months ago:
Public ledgers predate crypto BS by decades and are not improved by cryptographic chaining between entries.
- Comment on 62% of Funded Blockchain and Web3 Companies Attract Fewer Than 100 Monthly Organic Visitors 2 months ago:
There’s no benefit there that would be useful to anyone. If you need a publkc ledger then you can just do that and skio the crypto BS
- Comment on Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new $5 microcontroller board, on sale now 3 months ago:
Oh hey, Raspberry Pi still exists.
Did they ever fire that cop?
- Comment on Let's skip this one 3 months ago:
Can’t blame them for keeping Earth under quarantine, just imagine the nonsense they’d have to clean up if humans escaped containment. XD
- Comment on Appeals court halts return of net neutrality | The Sixth Circuit’s temporary stay comes only weeks after the Supreme Court overturned Chevron deference, weakening the FCC 3 months ago:
There’s no such thing as a free market.
- Comment on Heritage Foundation insists it was not hacked by “gay furries” 4 months ago:
Oh, it’s true. Even without any unlawful computer access, the amount of personal info your average IT furry can access is pretty astounding. There’s furries quietly keeping things running in the background across tech, finance, industry, science, and just about everywhere.
Our Bacon numbers are tiny, too. It might be six degrees for any two random humans, but in the furry community you rarely have to go farther than friend-of-a-firend-of-a-friend.
So; if you’ve got a problem, if nobody else can help, and if you can find them, maybe they’ll know another furry with the exact know-how you need.
- Comment on Qualcomm spends millions on marketing as it is found better battery life, not AI features, is driving Copilot+ PC sales 4 months ago:
At some point you have to ask yourself if it would be less hassle to switch now or to try and tough it out until Windows becomes unbearable.
- Comment on Redditor has worst possible experience with Google’s new Find My Device network 4 months ago:
Not much I can do about that, but I can at least keep them off my network so that info isn’t associated with my IP address.