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- Comment on The people developing vegan meat alternatives must have eaten a lot of meat beforehand so they can replicate the taste and texture. 1 day ago:
Well yes because we have been doing it before patriarchy and we will do it long after patriarchy is dead.
But I will grant you that some women choose to not have children or to breastfeed them (formula exists, as does donated human breast milk and some women who enjoy the experience will breastfeed other women’s babies).
- Comment on The people developing vegan meat alternatives must have eaten a lot of meat beforehand so they can replicate the taste and texture. 2 days ago:
If I willingly breastfeed my child, what moral issue would you or any other person have with it?
If we are forcing a woman to breastfeed or be milked against her will; then that is a different question and a valid moral issue.
Consent matters
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 3 days ago:
Well as I am trying to work as a matchmaker, that is the sort of people who are willing to pay me to find them a partner who is compatible.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 3 days ago:
I can’t speak to men’s systemic issues as I am not a man.
But if you pay a matchmaker to find a woman who is compatible with you and your desires; realize that me telling you these things are deal breakers for the type of women that you want and you need to either address them or expand your definition of what you will accept because here are women different than what you expressed desire for who might not have an issue with the previously mentioned deal breakers.
For the guys who know that and stop demanding the 18 year old super model with the porn star sex drive, an intact hymen and a desire to have kids; they can find someone who is compatible.
(Not that there isn’t a subset of women with a very similar problem themselves)
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 3 days ago:
I would more empathy for lonely men if every one of them that I met didn’t have massive red flags in their attitude and/or behavior towards women.
Like seriously, a 57 year old man wants a woman to have kids with but thinks a 52 year old woman who wants kids wouldn’t have any by then…
- Comment on Damn 4 days ago:
Well in theory in a decade I could become a hot Grandma but hear me out: box of chocolate cookies instead.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Why wouldn’t they work together and then he would have to do all the cleaning/washing/household routines
- Comment on Ants crack the secret to perfect teamwork 5 days ago:
And you choose to stay there until you stop smelling dead.
- Comment on Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation 6 days ago:
Well this is how that technology is going to play out. For the first couple years it will be extremely helpful, to the point that the users stop depending on their own internal memories and their brains start pruning that functionality out. Then generative AI will be used to fill in missing details prior to the start of using them. And then they are going to slowly start feeding more and more lies until they are cheerful about being slaves.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The key is to first get the body you want and then maintain it while you get the mind to match.
Mindless diet and exercise; certainly allow plenty of time for audiobooks and other educational content.
- Comment on The AI Report That's Spooking Wall Street | The majority of companies are failing to see any returns on their AI investments, a report finds 1 week ago:
The numbers are wrong, most are net negative returns on investment.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Well futex based high performance mutex support which is 400x faster than what existed back when 4MB systems were sold. A Constraint solver that doesn’t deadlock, support for a boatload of functionality that didn’t even exist back then.
And most of the size comes from -O3 compiler optimizations that didn’t exist back then and if you build with -Os it is about 512KB of a memory footprint which is smaller than SysV out of the box on Debian. So it is snappy on a 386SX with 4MB of RAM if you go the gentoo route.
People use SystemD because it works better than what came before it and it will be replaced when something actually better shows up. No one happens to have found a generally better solution yet.
OpenRC, Gnu Shepherd, runit and S6 are available for people who like them better but don’t assume that they are generally better for someone else’s use cases until you know what they are.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
22MB is too heavy???
Well S6 is lighter but I wouldn’t recommend it.
Gnu Shepherd is about the same but solid.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Mathematically speaking humans are donuts.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I would more want context. As I know that I am not a charming woman (I believe the phrase was a hellfire demon on wheels) but even my husband (who has a 176 IQ) considers me clever.
Also I realize that we are all dumb about many subjects that are not our interests. And what people find charming can vary greatly.
- Comment on If your happiness is derived from your enjoyment of a false (i.e. fictional) stories, is that truely happiness, or is that technically a delusion? 1 week ago:
If you dig too deep into reality, you will discover that effectively 100% of the population is delusional on no less than 2000 subjects. They just have yet to be bitten on the ass for it.
And people take it very poorly when you start pointing it out; just like you and I will when someone else shows up to do the same thing to us. Historically speaking we lock people up for shouting things that have not yet been accepted by enough people. Like the earth is going to be eaten by the sun (true in a few billion years) or the sky is falling (it is more acceptable when you call it rain).
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It hinges on if the vampire is allowed to be invited in by anyone (like the black plague was) or only by the owner of the house.
- Comment on What are some good "frugal" movie viewing setups? (Recommendations) 1 week ago:
You can get a quality 1080p projector for about $120 (or spend more to get a 4K)
A proper speaker setup for $211 (this bit can go up to crazy prices if you go overboard)
An Intel NUC for $150
And a white sheet for $10 (get the highest thread count you can find)
You can get them at your local retailers pretty easily.
- Comment on Is there a place online where I can apply for a bunch of free books? I was thinking of creating a library in my local county jail to help educate and pass the time in a healthy way? 1 week ago:
Reach out to local libraries, they might even setup interlibrary loans to give you access to even more.
- Comment on Is there a place online where I can apply for a bunch of free books? I was thinking of creating a library in my local county jail to help educate and pass the time in a healthy way? 1 week ago:
Physical or ebooks?
- Comment on AI Is a Total Grift 1 week ago:
If it can’t grow by itself, it is not general purpose artificial intelligence. It would be an overly complicated elevator control system and making its behavior deterministic and simple to reason about would enable it to be used to solve problems in industrial processes safely.
Think SHRDLU.
- Comment on AI Is a Total Grift 2 weeks ago:
It is also a task all good parents do; make sure the lives that they created don’t grow up to be murders or rapists or racists and treat others with kindness and consideration.
- Comment on AI Is a Total Grift 2 weeks ago:
Only for zero sum games
- Comment on AI Is a Total Grift 2 weeks ago:
I think we are talking past each other. Alignment with human values is important; otherwise we end up with a paper clip optimizer wanting humans only as a feedstock of atoms or deciding to pull a “With Folded Hands” situation.
None of the “AI” companies are even remotely interested in or working on this legitimate concern.
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 2 weeks ago:
25 years ago an 8P server had only 8 cores (even if you bought Alpha 21364s) And states needed whole buildings to host their servers. Scaling that down to a single rack is the progress that occurred.
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 2 weeks ago:
Constraint solvers for things such as Medicaid eligibility; OCR tagging for scanned documents; Anti-AI detection for uploaded images; but yes most state services are data entry and batch processing with web front ends.
Also the number of supported users does not scale linearly with the number of CPU cores as Amdahl’s law showed back in 1967.
- Comment on Could I just create my own drive format? 2 weeks ago:
Creating a drive format is the easy part; getting it generally supported is the hardest part.
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 2 weeks ago:
No. A state government needs to support 1/10th of its population actively using its services. Say that state has 10M people; you will want 10k cores for all state services. an 8P server has about 1536 cores and you will need about 7 of them. So it still takes a whole rack even with the COBOL programs and applications written in C and Assembly.
- Comment on AI Is a Total Grift 2 weeks ago:
I agree currently technology is extremely unlikely to achieve general intelligence but my expression was that we never should try to achieve AGI; it is not worth the risk until after we solve the alignment problem.
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 2 weeks ago:
Ok; what application (which benefits society) requires data center level compute beyond physics simulations (which are better suited for quantum computers).