SoleInvictus
@SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Transgender, nonbinary and disabled people more likely to view AI negatively, study shows 2 days ago:
Disabled, vehemently anti-AI enby here. The only thing I’m good at professionally is being a great big brain, so taking knowledge work away from me makes me angry.
- Comment on This 81-year-old still works at Home Depot to support herself and her 90-year-old husband 5 days ago:
Don’t forget that capitalism is literally the only viable economic system, full stop. Before its advent in 1463 by Bernard H. Capital, nothing worked, anywhere, for tens of thousands of years. The world was in turmoil. Cats associated freely with dogs, the Keebler elves were not properly enslaved, and humans lived on a diet of pine needles, grubs, and sea water. Pure madness.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 6 days ago:
No no, you don’t get it. Every single person in the world must love it for it to be the greatest game. Until that day, they’re just pretenders.
/s
- Comment on Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better world 1 week ago:
Microscopes are crucial for diagnosing infections but can cost millions of pounds, making them entirely inaccessible for many people across the globe.
Good article but this stood out as a massive exaggeration. They can cost millions, much like a car can cost millions, but I can pick up a microscope sufficient for most clinical laboratory work for around $200-300. A cheap epifluoresence microscope can be acquired for around $2k.
Still an inaccessible amount for many, but it’s several orders of magnitude cheaper.
- Comment on Jury orders Tesla to pay $329m to plaintiffs in deadly 2019 Autopilot crash 1 week ago:
Reading an article on Musk’s erratic, ridiculous behavior from over a year ago makes me pine for the world’s previous level of insanity.
- Comment on FBI uses facial recognition technology, online photos to identify and arrest ICE Portland protester 1 week ago:
Temporary tattoos can help confound identification.
- Comment on How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday? 1 week ago:
It depends - are their arms broken?
- Comment on US pushes to revoke scientific ruling that underpins climate regulations 1 week ago:
If I had known I was going to be living in the Clown Country, I’d have gone to clown college so I could be better prepared.
- Comment on sharks are older than polaris 2 weeks ago:
Plant bard would be the best, assuming you can avoid predation.
- Comment on After 4 years my banana tree decided it was time to fruit! 2 weeks ago:
Disclaimer: I’m a microbiologist, not a botanist, although I took a bunch of botany and mycology courses to fill my elective requirements and for… recreational reasons.
There are a few cultivars, like double mahoi, that’ll produce fruit twice before dying back, but 5-6 is unusual.
The usual cycle is a single “trunk” (pseudostem) will grow, flower, fruit, then die. As it grows, it’ll produce daughter plants which appear as additional, initially smaller trunks which follow the same cycle, just offset in time from the parent plant.
Did your plant have multiple trunks? If so, it was actually multiple plants. If not, you possibly had a plant with a novel mutation that could have been very lucrative.
- Comment on well? 2 weeks ago:
I gave it some thought and got vertigo. I’m going with counterclockwise.
- Comment on well? 2 weeks ago:
Get hooked on meth, it’ll wildly change your priorities.
- Comment on well? 2 weeks ago:
It meshes well with my occasional feeling that reality is just circling the drain.
- Comment on its painful each time (┬┬﹏┬┬) 2 weeks ago:
This is great advice. I want to add that it helps to have the necessary social skills to make those friends. I highly recommend Dale Carnegie’s How to Make Friends and Influence People. It’s old and a bit hokey but the advice is solid. It helped me grow from being awkward and largely friendless to awkward with a few friends!
- Comment on its painful each time (┬┬﹏┬┬) 2 weeks ago:
I have a similar rule I call the 2/3 rule. I’m willing to put in around 2/3 of the effort required to keep any sort of relationship going. If the other person consistently can’t put in 1/3, I’ll be cordial but won’t otherwise do anything more for them than I’d do for a stranger.
- Comment on How active is too active while being on lemmy? 2 weeks ago:
It certainly won’t annoy anyone unless your content is actively bothering people. A certain fungally named user posts and comments constantly and I typically enjoy their content, while another brachycephalic canid religious savior does the same but constantly stirred shit so went on my block list. Content good, melodrama bad. People will like you if you are reasonably kind, respectful, and genuine.
Usage time really is a personal choice. I track my usage and keep it to 1.5 hours (2.5 on occasion, like if I’m sick) or less daily. Otherwise, it starts to adversely affect my mental health and personal relations.
- Comment on RTX remaster mod for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines looks like witchcraft 2 weeks ago:
Allegedly it’s supposed to release in October. The original release date was in 2020, so I suppose we’ll see!
- Comment on The Star Wars Outlaws flop - Guillemot blames waning interest in the franchise 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, the Baby Yoda Show was its last dying gasp for me. I see the same pattern in most industries: something is profitable, so lean hard into it until the bubble bursts. It’s great for short-term profits but bad for long term and worse overall.
- Comment on The night water 3 weeks ago:
Aged water, thank you. Aging just makes some things better. Whiskey? Better with age. Cheese? Better with age. Prosciutto, beef, wine, pound cake, and pickles? All better with age.
You know who doesn’t think things get better with age? Anyone in the Epstein files.
- Comment on I'm not sure if I'm the stupidest smart person I know, or the smartest stupid person. 3 weeks ago:
Prep the burn unit, they’re going to need an escharotomy after that third degree burn.
- Comment on Leading AI Models Are Completely Flunking the Three Laws of Robotics 3 weeks ago:
Critical thinking is indeed dead for much of the population.
- Comment on Louis Vuitton 3 weeks ago:
I get it now. Thanks!
- Comment on Louis Vuitton 3 weeks ago:
I’ve read that article twice and I still don’t get it. What am I missing?
- Comment on Windows 11 will soon be able to describe images on your screen using AI — and it'll all be done locally 3 weeks ago:
Linux has come SO far. I first tried it about a decade ago, wrecked my install, and came crawling back to Windows. A few months back, I installed Ubuntu (tease all you want, peanut gallery, it’s better than Windows) on my laptop and it’s so much better. It just works great, I have my system customized to how I want it to work, and the poor CPU fan is no longer blasting even when the system is idle. My battery life also gained almost an hour.
- Comment on Windows 11 will soon be able to describe images on your screen using AI — and it'll all be done locally 3 weeks ago:
The blind or vision impaired would appreciate this.
- Comment on Eating would be weird if we didn't enjoy it. 3 weeks ago:
Yep. Only potatoes and salt, plus multivitamins to make up for the massive nutritional defecit, for 5 days. I was already experimenting with an elimination diet due to food allergies and a friend mentioned this week long potato diet to help reduce food cravings. Potatoes were a safe food so I thought I’d give it a try.
It was awful. Day 4’s dinner was an entire pizza.
- Comment on Eating would be weird if we didn't enjoy it. 3 weeks ago:
I tried this with potatoes. It’s miserable and I broke after four days.
- Comment on the unseen worlds 4 weeks ago:
I spent like twenty minutes looking. I’m stumped!
- Comment on Chinese Scientists Create Cyborg Bees That Can Be Controlled Like Drones for Undercover Military Missions 4 weeks ago:
Unfortunately, even though it sounds adorable, that’s a myth. There’s nothing about bees or bumblebees that would make their flight theoretically problematic.
- Comment on YSK: You can make supercapacitors out of cement, water and carbon black 4 weeks ago:
Failed electrical engineering major here - it turned out I was built to be a scientist, not an engineer, but it took a year of EE classes to figure that out.
Regarding energy storage, capacitors aren’t much different than batteries, but they can charge/discharge faster, have lower energy density (units of stored energy per units mass), and self-discharge faster, hence why they aren’t used in place of batteries. For something where weight and volume aren’t an issue and with no need for long-term storage, like a solar-equipped house, a huge cap would be a great option. I’m trying to figure out how to build one of what’s described it the article now.
The rate at which a capacitor discharges varies just like a battery, proportional to the resistance of the circuit. The reason most folks associate capacitors with “shorted terminals go boom” is the maximum rate of discharge on a capacitor is much higher than a battery, plus some capacitors operate at a much higher voltage than is practical for a battery, increasing the likelihood of generating a small arc. Shorting the terminals with a conductor makes a low resistance circuit so it just dumps its charge, whereas a battery would max out at a much lower rate, typically making a toasty wire versus a vaporized or melted wire.