TranquilTurbulence
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- Comment on Why do some people make such a big deal over ages of someone's account on here? 15 hours ago:
It’s just a quick and dirty rule of thumb that works surprisingly often. If you meet a jedi from Tatooine, it’s a pretty safe to guess that they’re fed up with sand. Same sort of safe guess works with new accounts too.
- Comment on Data hoarders and encryption enthusiasts are the digital equivalent to doomsday preppers 4 days ago:
Initially, you just need to survive. I can imagine that next you’ll start building small communities and fulfilling their needs.
If you can’t get water purification running, the small village won’t grow to a town. If you can’t make your own tools and shelters, it’s going to stay in the tribal stage.
- Comment on Data hoarders and encryption enthusiasts are the digital equivalent to doomsday preppers 4 days ago:
That made me think about what it would actually take to start rebuilding after a zombie apocalypse or some other disaster like that.
First of all, you would need to restart various bits of infrastructure, like water and electricity. On top of that, you would also need to restart the factories that manufacture the spare parts for all the machiens. Those factories also require raw materials, like metals, so initially metal recycling might be the easiest way to do it. No need to start mining new metals until you’ve already used up all the broken cars and sky scrapers littering the landscape.
So, basically you need to get all sorts of heavy industry up and running again. Those data hoarders can help out with the necessary engineering literature, but having some tools is also required.
- Comment on would a underwater pool be filled with air or more water 4 days ago:
How about a pool of mercury or tetrabromoethane? Who said it has to be non-toxic.
- Comment on What's a 'common sense' thing that you genuinely don't understand, and have been too embarrassed to ask about until now? 5 days ago:
It’s not about having enough time. If you see the yellow light, and you are still far away from it, and you can stop the car by gently braking, you should stop. However, not that many people do, because they just don’t feel like it. If people don’t feel like stopping, they don’t.
If the intersection is very close when the light turns yellow, you would need to brake very hard. That’s when I just keep on going to prevent accidents. In that case, it’s not really about time either. You need to know how much distance it takes to stop your car. If you’re driving on bumpy ice, that distance will be greater than in good summer weather.
- Comment on Why do all text LLMs, no matter how censored they are or what company made them, all have the same quirks and use the slop names and expressions? 1 week ago:
So is it like planting the same seeds into different soils, and expecting to get different fruits?
- Comment on This future of piloted personal robots is perfect for lazy racists 1 week ago:
Oh, thanks. It’s been many years since I’ve seen that movie. Had completely forgotten the name too.
- Comment on This future of piloted personal robots is perfect for lazy racists 1 week ago:
There was a stud sci-fi movie where surrogate robot bodies were used for everything. Only very few people actually lived their lives using their real body. Was a pretty cool concept.
- Comment on This future of piloted personal robots is perfect for lazy racists 1 week ago:
Washing the dishes. VR edition. While you’re playing the game, the maid bot does the household chores. Just try not to drop anything valuable in VR, because the bot might break something IRL.
- Comment on The real tragedy of the culture war: the right fights for something that never existed, the left for something that will never be 1 week ago:
In a mostly theoretical sense. America can’t fix its politics without making some radical changes to the voting system, but I don’t expect that to happen anytime soon.
The current system naturally gravitates towards a two-party system, which isn’t quite what I would consider a coalition government. If you have three or four parties actively negotiating about major decisions, that’s when you begin to see the benefits.
- Comment on The real tragedy of the culture war: the right fights for something that never existed, the left for something that will never be 2 weeks ago:
Have you considered forming a coalition government? That’s how much of Europe has been working for a while now. There’s usually a little bit of blue, red and green in the mix. Maybe some other colors too.
- Comment on Not sure where to ask this but why do some wall powered usb-c hubs refuse the charge anything until they are plugged into a computer? 2 weeks ago:
Speaking of passing through PD communications, I have a cheap Chinese power meter that sort of does that but not properly. Hopefully OP has a nice hub that does these things properly.
If you use a setup with a power supply, first cable, power meter and a second cable, you can measure things when connected to a chargeable device like a laptop. It obviously tells the PS to give it 12 V, which it will. Once you unplug the laptop from the second cable, the voltage reading doesn’t drop back to 5 V. Apparently the power meter doesn’t let the PS to know there’s no load any more.
As a result, you get a USB-C cable that gives you 12 V without asking any questions. Guess what happens when you plug in something that can only handle 5 V? Bad things. Don’t ask me how I know.
Anyway, once you unplug the power meter from the first cable, the PS finally gets the message and drops the voltage back to 5 V. Makes me wonder if a hub could behave the same way as my power meter.
- Comment on Poetry is like a set of compression tools for meaning 2 weeks ago:
It’s also possible to speak to two audiences simultaneously. Just vaguely allude to some values without being too specific about anything. With this clever hack you are basically doubling the bandwidth.
Here’s an example: “We stand at a pivotal moment where the choices we make about the resources beneath our feet will shape the world above for generations to come. Our shared future depends on managing what we value with foresight and responsibility.”
So, was I promoting the fossil fuel industry or opposing it? ¯_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on What's happened from July to September 2025 that might make people Google "Worst timeline"? 2 weeks ago:
That seems to be one of the unwritten rules on Lemmy.
Using any kind of AI, or even supporting the idea of using it, will result in downvotes. If you openly hate LLMs, you’ll be rewarded with upvotes.
- Comment on Over the past ~20 years, Google became the de facto entry point for learning new skills and information. Google also sucks now. This is a really big problem. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, the LLM is ok, but nothing amazing. When you have a moderately hard problem, the LLM won’t provide a magic solution. For example, finding a specific movie based on a long description instead of the name, seems to be almost impossible. I have problems like this rather frequently, because I tend to forget the name of the movie but still remember fragments of the plot.
When the LLM screws up movie searches like this, I just end up watching the wrong movie.
- Comment on Over the past ~20 years, Google became the de facto entry point for learning new skills and information. Google also sucks now. This is a really big problem. 2 weeks ago:
It’s a problem if you still use Google. Somewhere around 2015 I switched to DDG, and it quickly replaced Google for me. Since then, I’ve been experimenting with some other search engines too, and currently I’m using Qwant on my laptop.
- Comment on People who rely on their phones/computers to tell time probably forgot or didn't realize that a Daylight Saving Time-Change even happened, some might've forgotten that DST existed at all. 2 weeks ago:
I rely on smart devices to tell the time, but it’s easy to notice DST when the few dumb devices I have are out of sync. If I didn’t have any of those, I would have missed the switch entirely.
- Comment on If "James Bond" is a codename, would a hypothetical female operative filling the same role receive the same codename? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I just found it. Missed the last movies, so I guess I should check it out.
- Comment on If "James Bond" is a codename, would a hypothetical female operative filling the same role receive the same codename? 2 weeks ago:
I have seen some reviews of the live action remakes, and I was not impressed. As a result, nowadays I actively avoid being exposed to those movies.
- Comment on What exactly is the reasoning behind Satan ruling Hell? 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s just Hollywood style engaging story telling. Who cares what any books have to say about Satan. Write some dichotomy and conflict into the story, and people can’t get enough of it.
- Comment on If "James Bond" is a codename, would a hypothetical female operative filling the same role receive the same codename? 2 weeks ago:
I can see why you ask that. Since I didn’t think that comment though very well, now every downvoter considers me a racist. Fair enough. Should have rewritten it entirely, but it’s too late for that now.
Long and nuanced posts are boring to read while short and snappy ones involve skipping all the important details. Also, swiping away carelessly doesn’t help.
I was mainly thinking about the fact that Disney tends to change things significantly and abruptly. For example, many Star Wars fans were disappointed by the changes, so I thought that 007 fans could face similar disappointments. What those changes actually are do not really matter to me. What matters more is how quickly they happen and how much the direction of the entire series changes.
I don’t use the term “woke” to describe the changes Disney makes, since I prefer to distance myself from the crowd that uses it. Focussing more on the rate of change and its magnitude is more interesting to me.
- Comment on If "James Bond" is a codename, would a hypothetical female operative filling the same role receive the same codename? 2 weeks ago:
Didn’t expect a strong reaction like that. Then again, I didn’t think it through before hitting send. My bad.
- Comment on If "James Bond" is a codename, would a hypothetical female operative filling the same role receive the same codename? 2 weeks ago:
Oh. Totally missed that one. Oops. Haven’t sent the last few films.
- Comment on If "James Bond" is a codename, would a hypothetical female operative filling the same role receive the same codename? 2 weeks ago:
If Disney buys the 007 brand, you can be sure there will be black female James Bond.
- Comment on If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 2 weeks ago:
Can’t wait to see someone shove AI into egg times, flashlights and calculators. This kind of innovation just makes me sad.
- Comment on If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 2 weeks ago:
Those were the days… :-)
- Comment on If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 2 weeks ago:
Oh, I totally forgot the www thing. That was super annoying. Good riddance!
- Comment on If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 2 weeks ago:
It’s also investor money talking. Looks like everyone with at least a few dollars to spare wants to get on the AI hype train. They have dumped an absurd amount of money on AI, and now they can’t wait to see those stock prices climb. These expectations put an immense amount of pressure on all AI companies to push their products anywhere and everywhere.
- Comment on If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 2 weeks ago:
Some of the older lemmings here will remember what it was like when every company wanted to make a website, but they didn’t really have anything to put in there. People were curious to look at websites, because you hadn’t seen that many yet, so visiting them was kinda fun and interesting at first. After about a year, the novelty had worn off completely, and seeing YetAnotherCompanyName.com on TV or a road side billboard was beginning to get boring.
Did it ever get as infuriating the current AI hype though? I recall my grandma complaining about TV news. “They always tell me to read more online.” she says. I guess it can get just as annoying if you manage to successfully ignore the web for a few decades.
- Comment on Dandruff is really just flesh crumbs. 2 weeks ago:
It’s also organic, free range and all that.