chaogomu

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes Wi-Fi guidance, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Tannerite comes to mind. It explodes from a high impact, and little else. I’m not sure what sort of yield you’d get. That stuff mostly just makes a pop and smoke.

  I have heard of people using it on stubborn tree stumps, but that’s several pounds of the stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes Wi-Fi guidance, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Atomize, from the original Ancient Greek adjective atomos, meaning “uncuttable” or “indivisible”.

  Seems pretty apt to me. You have rendered it into its smallest constituent pieces through physical means, any further reduction requires chemical processes, or high energy physics. Coincidentally, a simple spark provides both.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes Wi-Fi guidance, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  As the bps space YouTube channel has shown, reliability is paramount in any launch, especially a guided launch.

  That and people duck when shit flies at them, unless it’s supersonic, which again, as bps space has shown, control of a supersonic flight is extremely difficult to get right.

  This is a guy who landed a hobby rocket like a tesla booster.

  But at $100 a pop, you could have backups. (or payloads)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t say that an alcoholic in his 70s who died from cerebral hemorrhaging was assassinated.

  Stalin spent the last 15-20 years of his life getting blackout drunk every single night. He also forced all of his top ministers and generals to join him in this drunkenness.

  The full story is wild.

  Then when Stalin died, everyone sort of knew that he was having a medical emergency, and they left him laying on the carpet to die for hours.

  Which is also a wild story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fixed it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, it’s actually an interesting demonstration of the power of training data on a chatbot, after all, they’re just feeding it back to you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fixed it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll have to find the post, but you did it in two steps, changed the units of mass, and object.

  The post, which is extremely hard to find with the latest slop release from Nvidia, asked the chatbot to consider the exact wording, without babying it into the correct answer. All because the close variations of the phase “X pounds of bricks and X pounds of feathers weigh the exact same” have been used in various textbooks and such for at least the last hundred years or so.

  That means that the chatbot has seen that exact combo of words, in roughly that order, quite a bit more than your use of “100 kilograms of rice”. At least in English.

  You can baby it through when the training data is sparse, but not when there are hundreds of uses of the same phrase over and over again in the training.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fixed it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They did ask it to consider and repeat the exact wording of the question, yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fixed it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone posted yesterday with a question asked to AI.

  What weighs more, 20 pounds of bricks or 20 feathers?

  The useless chat bot will always answer with “they both weigh 20 pounds” because that’s what the training data always says when asked about bricks and feathers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fixed it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, twenty feathers and twenty pounds of bricks both weigh twenty pounds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US in one image⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A correction, dead soldiers are only sacred for about 30 seconds of the broadcast, after that it’s the “idea” of soldiers and not the messy reality. Always phased as “our brave men and women”.

  Anything more than that and people might start questioning why those soldiers were there in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sex appeal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know why Hollywood doesn’t tap more stage actors.

  I did some minimal acting in college, just Acting 101 as an elective, and I could probably do a better job than about 30% of TV actors with just what I learned in that class.

  Seriously, just study Uta Hagen’s Respect for Acting and maybe join a community theatre for a play or two.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your tricks won't work on me⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Bleach mostly suffered from the fact that Ichigo mostly reacted to shit and never had his own goals or desires.

  The first arc is interesting because he does want to rescue Rukia, but then he immediately repeats that arc in a less interesting way. And from then on, he just goes with the flow, and fights whoever is lined up next.

  Contrast One Piece and Naruto, because they also started at about the same time, Luffy and Naruto both start with firm goals. They want, and that drives the story. Ichigo just reacts, other people drive the story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We don’t have room in the carbon budget for a world war.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The areas where most food grows will be rather hot and dry, but with lots of storms.

  Some years will get things like atmospheric rivers that flood everything.

  Extreme weather events will be the new normal basically everywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in North Dakota fraud case⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That particular archive has a nasty habit of changing the content of saved articles, and then hijacking your browser to launch DDoS attacks on people the secretive owner of the archive doesn’t like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Checkers, not chess.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So throwing the cards down a set of stairs, or maybe into some dense bushes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This community in one meme⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, the snakes could be poisonous, and the killer could be feeding you to them, but he’s just telling you his plans for body disposal, not his method of killing you. He’ll likely use a knife, that way he can give the snakes bite sized pieces. You will be alive for this at first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sad News! AI's RAM Hunger Finds a New Victim in the Orange Pi Neo Linux Handheld⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That power grid thing is what will ultimately pop the bubble.

  The lack of last mile fiber is what popped the dot com bubble.

  Turns out, spending a fuckload of money on unusable infrastructure is a bad thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Myth That Wind Farms Are a Guillotine for Birds Is Being Debunked by Hard Data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Reading the article. Wind turbines do kill birds, but it’s worse in certain areas, at certain times of year, and even certain times of day.

  We can plan around these known quantities.

  Also, guy wires and power lines can kill birds. Not quite as often, but sometimes a bird will hit the wire rather than land on it.

  But the main killer of birds by far is furry and has cute little claws.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Before Zuck hired Joel Kaplan to specifically cater to right wing interests.

  It was kinda nice yeah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musk fails to block California data disclosure law he fears will ruin xAI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forget his child porn image generator, what sort of training data did he use to get that result?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨there is a special place in hell for these scientists⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It looks like their setup, but I don’t see any recent videos. Jan 15th was their last one. I think they have a patreon with bonus clips and advance stuff.

  Might be from that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The list is realistically so much longer.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You do know that uranium oxide is water soluble right? The ocean has more radioactive material in it than the land does, also water is very good at blocking radiation. That’s why it’s used for spent fuel cooling pools.

  So the physics says that if you’re going to have fallout, the ocean is the best place for it. Provided that the fallout doesn’t float. Then it will most likely end up washing up on the shores of Japan.

  The key here is that the bombs available in 1950 were orders of magnitude weaker than modern nukes.

  Castle Brovo alone was stronger than every bomb from the MacArthur plan combined.

  Using hundreds of Castle Brovo sized bombs would fuck up the world, using the bombs MacArthur had access to? Not as much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the personalized prices. That’s step two.

  This one is the digital price tags that let the store manager or corporate office instantly raise prices throughout the store for everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The list is realistically so much longer.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell, just look back a bit for the shit done in the open.

  I submit King Leopold the 2nd of Belgium. In Belgium he’s known as “the builder king” because he spent so much of his own money to build parks and civic buildings and such.

  Money that was acquired through what was described at the time as Crimes Against Humanity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The list is realistically so much longer.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem with Waco was the firebombing itself. The cops wanted a big standoff rather than just arresting the cult leader when he went out into town, which he did repeatedly.

  Leaderless cults can be picked apart without gunfire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The list is realistically so much longer.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the recent trend.

  Well, the American government, and the Israeli government, the Russian government, the Chinese government, the UK government, the German government, and a bunch more, add in the dictatorships who can’t fuck around outside their own boarders, and you basically have every government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The list is realistically so much longer.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For MacArthur, that plan, while horrific, wasn’t as bad as you’re painting it, if only because the bombs would have been much lower yield than modern nukes.

  It would kill millions, especially if he used ground burst instead of air burst, but the actual global effect would be negligible. Cancer rates would spike in Northern Japan, but the fallout would mostly be over water.

  Air burst would have even less effect, because there would be no fallout. (fallout is stuff from the ground that gets mixed with the radioactive material and free neutrons in a ground burst nuclear explosion, it’s heavy so it falls out)

  Still an insane plan and MacArthur was justly fired for it and a bunch of other similar insanity, I just wish the Dulles brothers had been similarly fired for the shit they pulled.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ohio EPA weighs allowing data centers to dump wastewater into rivers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What it sounds like is the data centers are using untreated river water, and then are wanting to put that untreated (and now hot) water back.

  This is better than using municipal water, which goes through expensive treatment to make it safe to drink.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Putting data centers in space is a good way to keep people from destroying them. Thermodynamics on the other hand, will have a field day with them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨President Donald Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Trump and Hegseth tried two different things simultaneously. They tried to deem Anthropic both a hostile actor, which would cut all DoD contracts off completely, and then also tried to declare them essential and force them to ignore the safety limits set forth in the contract, which is the supply chain thing.

  So yeah, the incompetence is showing as it always is.