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- Comment on Fax 3 days ago:
hey, fax machines are cool
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 1 week ago:
Gizmodo didn’t always look like the penny arcade website, did they?
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 1 week ago:
As tempting as that sounds, I can no longer touch-type on practically any other desktop. Give me a Dvorak phone, and I wont be able to thumb type either…
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 weeks ago:
Euro bonds, the EU needs to start issuing bonds
- Comment on Humid Acid 3 weeks ago:
is… isn’t most soil full of bacteria and fungi? what’s with the “vs”?
- Comment on If you have ANY Canadian ancestor, you are likely a Canadian citizen as a result of recent changes in Canadian law 3 weeks ago:
fuckin’ just tell me im living in Interesting Times why doncha
- Comment on If you have ANY Canadian ancestor, you are likely a Canadian citizen as a result of recent changes in Canadian law 3 weeks ago:
shredded cheese
- Comment on New Ways to Corrupt LLMs: The wacky things statistical-correlation machines like LLMs do – and how they might get us killed
5 weeks ago:
It’s almost like basing your whole program on black box genetic algorithms and statistics yields unintended results
- Comment on It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds 5 weeks ago:
And this is why I do the captchas wrong.
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 5 weeks ago:
It’s not strength, but rotation. Shoot a photon at the cube at a certain spot, you get data out of it. Hit the same spot in the cube with light that is polarized perpendicular to the first, and you get different data out of it.
Er… that’s what it sounds like, anyway…
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 5 weeks ago:
those are the places that most need it though
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 5 weeks ago:
See, now this is the tech I would understand pouring billions into. Give every nation on earth a durable copy of the last 100 years of medicine, physics, biology. That’s what a reasonable ruling class ought to do.
- Comment on Scientific Exposure 1 month ago:
Nah, science has always worked like that. This is what peer review is for.
What’s better than finding evidence that proves your own preconceived notions? Finding evidence that contradicts someone else’s. Schadenfreude is the great engine of scientific progress.
- Comment on Particle Physicists Detect ‘Magic’ at the Large Hadron Collider 1 month ago:
Sorry, that was just the Dean of Unseen University again.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
glowing?
- Comment on Amazing 1 month ago:
- Comment on spongebob big guy pants okay 1 month ago:
is this the biologist’s equivalent of “assume a flat, frictionless plane”
Assume A Perfectly Homogeneous Liquid Mouse
- Comment on Stupid sexy raft 1 month ago:
Except everyone hates on the politician instead.
- Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 2 months ago:
State terrorism is a contradiction in terms. Legally, terrorism is violence carried out by a group that is not recognized as a state internationally. States cannot do terrorism, the term exists to protect their monopoly on legal violence. George Washington was a terrorist until the British empire recognized and began doing business with the constitutional United States. We see a similar change occurring with Taliban members and the present government of Afghanistan.
More importantly, though. You claim liberal democracy is fundamentally incompatible with authoritarianism, yet if we dig into the present and recent past of the United States, we find policies that match the list you have provided.
The Lavender Scare and Hoover’s FBI, the Red Scare and COINTELPRO, the police response to Kent State anti-war protests in 1970, the police response Columbia’s anti-genocide protests last year, the ongoing existence of privately run labor camps and prison farms.
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 2 months ago:
Ok, but R&D on a given product eventually stops. Over the lifetime of a good, it becomes a smaller and smaller proportion of overall costs.
- Comment on Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console 2 months ago:
everything else is just sitting there waiting to be obsolete in a couple years
a bit out from the cutting edge, sure, but obsolete? This aint the 90s or the Aughts any more.
A machine put together 10 years ago will still run most things fine. Not at the fanciest settings, but fine. This is essentially the same criticism PC gaming has been lobbing at consoles for years, and now we have essentially a PC masquerading it’s way into the console wing of the market – of course the same criticism still apply! It’s not incredibly beefy because it doesn’t need to be. Different audience, different requirements.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 2 months ago:
More than that, most of the old testament is stories about how you don’t debate God, you don’t test God, and you definitely don’t force God’s hand.
Honestly, this Intel guy is cute compared to the Christian Zionists, who somehow think God wants and will be happy with their attempts to manufacture prophecy.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Part of the reason the show works is that we never really see Federation life outside of Starfleet. Mostly this is for practical budget reasons; what does a post-scarcity egalitarian society actually look like? That’s difficult to depict in a show designed to recycle the same set every episode and only very occasionally go outside to film.
So what little we see of the civilian federation looks… a lot like the US. There’s a president. Member
statesplanets. Constant references to US history. A military that operates how Americans like to think their military works, rather than what it actually historically has done.Newer shows take this even further. Section 31, as it was first introduced, was supposed to be a highly illegal, unsanctioned conspiracy acting in the shadow of the proper Federation. Now they’re presented as the ultra official, coolest badasses who are the only reason any of the egalitarian principals are able to survive.
- Comment on Relatable. 2 months ago:
Homestuck
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 2 months ago:
I feel like if I was gonna put a computer attached to a motor & heater inside a bed, the very first step would be making sure that if the software goes wrong, it always defaults to staying bed shaped and not catching fire.
I know I know hindsight is 20/20, I’m sure I’m just missing something. Venture capitalists would just give their money to any random idiot with a pitch, right?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
lol
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
the Sun does the same thing but also with a profit motive
- Comment on Not a meme, just superpawsition 2 months ago:
Some answers may literally beyond our comprehension.
Sure that may definitely be the case. But in practice, that means we should be exhausting the comprehensible possibilities first. Many Worlds is an explanation of last resort.
- Comment on Not a meme, just superpawsition 2 months ago:
The point of the thought experiment is that a cat that is both alive and dead is absurd and clearly not what actually is happening. Schrödinger intended it to demonstrate that quantum mechanics was not a complete description of the universe, we’re still missing something(s).
- Comment on Jesus hates American "Christians" 2 months ago:
You know Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, right? How early roman christians viewed and treated Jewish people is reasonable context to include in a conversation about the history.