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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would we be able to use the measles virus to reset the immune systems of people with autoimmune disorders like MS or rheumatoid arthritis?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That may well be true, but in my experience every single scientist asks stupid questions every day. The difference between them and politicians is that they write it down and pursue answers relentlessly, while politicians do neither.

  In other words, don’t be afraid of silly questions, everyone is in the same boat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would we be able to use the measles virus to reset the immune systems of people with autoimmune disorders like MS or rheumatoid arthritis?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If this is a new stupid question, perhaps you should make it a separate post.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would we be able to use the measles virus to reset the immune systems of people with autoimmune disorders like MS or rheumatoid arthritis?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This seems like a question that you might ask in an askscience or science community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would we be able to use the measles virus to reset the immune systems of people with autoimmune disorders like MS or rheumatoid arthritis?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And you’re basing your comprehensive and systematically argued in depth response on … what exactly?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's probably for the best that mosquitoes havent evolved so they're bites aren't itchy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

  Mosquito bites itch after they bite, not while they bite. The itch is your body responding to the saliva it injected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't the US build a bridge here to connect Alaska to the mainland? Are they stupid?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They built a land bridge. They even named it. Canada.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yeasty⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  At least they didn’t pour it down the drain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are too many cases where this applies or is going to apply⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For normal use, or for consuming more than 4 grams a day?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are too many cases where this applies or is going to apply⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t even have to benefit the minority to inconvenience the majority.

  For example, two tenths of fuck-all people used the medication Sudafed to extract pseudoephedrine to make meth, but the rest of the world, me included, were required to provide id to buy the stuff from behind the pharmacy counter.

  Same deal for paracetamol. Apparently a few Darwin candidates overdosed and now we can’t buy bulk packs, or any above 16 tablets per box at the supermarket.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1996 Honda acty starter removal. I CANT BELIEVE THERE WAS NOT A VIDEO ON THIS ONLINE…⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is tagged NSFW for no discernible reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI CEO Sam Altman thinks some jobs will be 'totally, totally gone' thanks to AI, but he still wouldn't trust ChatGPT with his 'medical fate'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it was Guy Kawasaki in 1997 who introduced me to the idea of eating your own dog food. In other words, use your own product.

  Given how much Altman is pushing this dog and pony show, I’m happy to trust ChatGPT with his medical fate, which will no doubt reveal just how much this AI is Assumed Intelligence, or in less technical terms, snake oil.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a video game that can run on any sort of device?(besides doom and pong)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Later. Right now lets play Global Thermonuclear War.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps you don’t understand how the fediverse actually works.

  1. You posted in a community which has rules that are enforced by its moderator(s).
  2. That community itself lives on an instance which also has rules, enforced by its admin(s).
  3. The instance lives on server infrastructure also subject to rules.
  4. The countries where it’s posted, hosted and published also have rules.

  In other words, a post is never made in isolation. Just because it was removed is not evidence of censorship.

  Providing a single example of a post you made in an unknown context is not evidence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a video game that can run on any sort of device?(besides doom and pong)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Solitaire, 2048, Chess, Zork

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What is your evidence of the fediverse being censored?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ice treat⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Green Booze … just like nature intended … bit late for St. Patrick’s Day … there’s always next year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s an interesting stance, but ask yourself, where is the line between advertising and promotion or sponsorship.

  I think that requiring that advertising is factual might be a better way to address the issue.

  Ultimately as a society we haven’t come up with a better way to communicate the existence of products and services to each other, and we’ve been using advertising for 5,000 years or so.

  tripandtravelblog.com/the-oldest-advertisement-in…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨self hosted system for managing donations at museum⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A till.

  And an accounting package.

  No hosting required.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Password manager by Amazon⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s the thing … as crazy as a notebook with passwords sounds, it’s not accessible to someone across the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do movie actors or actress keep the skills they learned? Like no one would screw with Keanu after seeing all the John Wick films? And if they did would they just be fucked from the start?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Watching the various motorcycle touring series that Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman made hints at some of the realities of this intersection between life and acting.

  There’s several references to skills that Ewan picked up to make one or other movie and how those skills are now part of “life”.

  I do seem to recall that Ewan also pointed out that these skills were incomplete, pretending to be a chef convincingly requires some actual skills, but not decades of background training.

  I doubt that it’s substantially any different from learning a new hobby and moving on to the next one and starting again. You don’t forget the first hobby and are likely to use some of it in the next one. Other than being taught by an actual expert, which seems like a potential unexpected perk of acting.

  In short, the journey of life is peppered with things you learn, regardless of your chosen profession.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Personal Responsibility⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  WTF … that’s So. Not. Cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I had a hammer …⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re at the WTF stages from reading this, you should know that this saying applies: If all you have is a hammer, then every problem looks like a nail.

  The author appears to be attempting to draw a parallel with AI, but it seems somewhat lost in translation.

  Mind you, AI, or as I like to call it, Assumed Intelligence, is prone to uttering perfectly sounding gibberish which in the industry is known as Hallucinations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want to know!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is not NSFW and tagging it thus makes it less effective, eventually meaningless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this soldered controller repairable by an amateur?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would be extremely careful, since it failed for a reason and you were very lucky not to set the house on fire, which looks like it came pretty close to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there something like a spreadsheet for hierarchical data structures?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a whole range of cli tools to extract and query structured data like that, but you might consider loading it into something like sqlite3 and treating it as a database because those formats are really not intended for queries, they’re designed for sharing data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For some workloads it’s true that you can do the heavy lifting on a more powerful remote machine and transport the results back to an endpoint device like a phone. Websites are a good relatable example of that, as are services like YouTube.

  It’s not universally applicable for many activities that computers are involved with, data analysis, record keeping, simulations and a myriad of other processes.

  Blurring of the lines between these different orders of magnitude is made possible by faster and faster networks, but that’s physically not able to beat processing done inside a single device.

  The more powerful we make computers, the more complex problems we use them for. I suspect that this is unlikely to change as computers evolve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the fundamental differences between phones, laptops, desktops, and beyond is size. While that sounds obvious, it also means that the amount of processing within the device is constrained by that size.

  The constraints relate to how much energy can be used by each device and more importantly, how much cooling is available for the system.

  It means that there’s a physical limit on how much work each device can do without being unusable.

  While miniaturization is a factor, it’s not linear and you can only get so small before you fail.

  So, depending on what you want to do in any given time, the device you use will dictate what’s physically possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If every minority group came together under the same banner they would be the majority, and rights would be much easier to attain for everyone.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a lesson that the religious fundamentalists currently running the USA have weaponised.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a service to check for reposts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A search engine?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨16 Billion Apple, Facebook, Google And Other Passwords Leaked — Act Now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a lot of hype in this article and precious little in the way of verifiable facts.

  Does anyone have any links to something more credible?