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- Comment on Hamburglar, meet Hat Man 8 hours ago:
MDMA tranq rifle
- Comment on spagett 3 days ago:
Maybe they’re very high up, where water boils at a cooler temperature.
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 6 days ago:
Too many people recorded the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti for them to control the narrative, but all that happened was that one guy got demoted.
- Comment on Correlation equals causation 1 week ago:
Nothing wrong with being weird.
- Comment on Correlation equals causation 1 week ago:
Edibles are better than vapes, too. It isn’t just water vapor and THC coming out of those things. I prefer tablets, though; when I eat a brownie, I’d rather it not taste like I just licked a lawnmower.
- Comment on If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED. 2 weeks ago:
Flashlights are actually where wall-plug efficiency matters most, because nicer flashlights are limited almost entirely by heat. Even if we got to 98% efficiency, going from there to 99% would nearly double the brightness that you could fit in a given size.
Power input isn’t a problem at all, by contrast. A tabless 21700 can do 70A continuously without breaking a sweat, which is over 250W, and that’s with a 5Ah cell, which is plenty of capacity. A 6Ah cell can do about 10A, and that’s plenty for basically any single-cell light out there.
- Comment on If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED. 2 weeks ago:
The highest I’m seeing for wall-plug efficiency (i.e. the percentage of the consumed electricity that’s released as light rather than heat) is 83.2%, and that’s for red LEDs. For anything you’d want to use for general-purpose lighting, the number is much lower.
- Comment on If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED. 2 weeks ago:
LEDs produce about half their input energy in heat, with the other half being light. Incandescent bulbs output about 90% as heat and 10% as light.
- Comment on With all this talk about Ai not being profitable why aren't we using it in video games? I dont mean replacing developers I mean in NPCs in the game. I make them more realistic. 2 weeks ago:
I am a fan of using LLMs specifically to imitate the VAs on demand to pronounce character names. They’re generally good enough that a single word can blend in, and you have a couple minutes during the opening cutscene to run the computation. Just having all of the characters never say the custom player name and instead address them in the second person or with a title is a bit jarring
- Comment on Lab anxiety 2 weeks ago:
“Successfully replicated the findings of Miller, et al, 1962 that dropping the test tube on the way to the spectroscopy machine makes the custodial staff annoyed with you”
Solving the replication crisis, one untied shoelace at a time!
- Comment on Bo'le of wa'er 2 weeks ago:
That’s one guy, and he isn’t exactly popular. If Sir Keith were the only one over there who talked funny, we wouldn’t clown on you guys so much.
- Comment on How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election? 2 weeks ago:
I actually wouldn’t be surprised if Leo specifically endorsed a Democratic candidate, especially if Trump runs for a third term (assuming he even survives until late 2028). Remember, he’s from Chicago and he’s allegedly to the left of Francis, who had some choice words for American fascists.
- Comment on Everybody: If There Was a Meme Museum, What Meme(s) Would You Put In It? (down below) 2 weeks ago:
It’s (in)famous enough to have its own Wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/None_Pizza_with_Left_Beef
- Comment on Everybody: If There Was a Meme Museum, What Meme(s) Would You Put In It? (down below) 2 weeks ago:
None Pizza with Left Beef is one of my personal favorites.
- Comment on Their loss is our loss too 3 weeks ago:
Isn’t it spelled Criss?
- Comment on Is there anyway I can screw around with ICE? I need a new hobby I come from a long line of immigrants. If i send my home address and phone number will they actually come and deport me to choose a cntr 4 weeks ago:
They’re ex-wives, and the ICE agents are already looking for excuses to shoot them.
- Comment on I’m not saying that I agree with right- or center-wing views, and I do condemn transphobia. However, do you think there should be a distinction between critiquing beliefs held by transgender people, and engaging in transphobia? 4 weeks ago:
That would be great, but it still doesn’t address dysphoria, which is actually about sex, not gender, despite the name. We use “gender” to refer both to the societal roles that you (and I) want to abolish and to the sex characteristics that a person wants their body to have.
- Comment on Facts to share at dinner #1: Shagreen 4 weeks ago:
The guy whose source was “I once sanded an entire dining set with a shark” was really cooking there.
- Comment on The Wall People 5 weeks ago:
He’s been pretty quiet lately, though. I wonder what he’s up to? It isn’t like I gave his finger back or anything.
- Comment on How often do you change your towels? 1 month ago:
Gotta rotate between two in case you want to swap them and not do laundry just yet.
- Comment on ASUS plans to produce RAM amid shortage problems 1 month ago:
CXMT just recently demonstrated the ability to manufacture RAM chips. The existing supply is all from Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron. A fourth player should increase the supply.
- Comment on ASUS plans to produce RAM amid shortage problems 1 month ago:
If they made DIMMs with CXMT chips, they wouldn’t need a fab (CXMT presumably has access to those). ASUS already has the PCB production and pick-and-place factories.
- Comment on China's banned memory-maker CXMT unveils surprising new chipmaking capabilities despite crushing US export restrictions — DDR5-8000 and LPDDR5X-10667 displayed 1 month ago:
Edited to fix some mistakes.
unless you mean DRAM specifically in favour of HBM for the datacentre/AI market (which is what they are doing)
Looks like it’s the opposite:
- Comment on How do you "feel" gender? 1 month ago:
Sex means a couple of different things:
- Of the physical characteristics that organisms use to reproduce in a way that combines their genomes, which category an organism or a part thereof fits into at a particular time
- The act of reproducing in this way (short for “sexual intercourse,” but the long version is rare outside formal scientific contexts)
Gender means even more things:
- A euphemism for the first meaning of sex
- The sex (1) that someone wants to have, usually when talking about someone with dysphoria (whose body does not initially match that sex)
- The societal roles that are placed upon people of a particular sex(1)
Trans people were referred to for some time as “transsexual,” because their sex(1) does not match their desired sex(1), but people kept conflating it with sex(2), due to the similarity to words like “homosexual,” which is about sex(2). Thus, it was changed to “transgender,” relying upon (or potentially creating, I’m not sure about the history) gender(2).
This makes discussion of gender(3) more difficult, especially when it does not align with someone’s gender(2), especially when that does not align with that person’s initial sex(1).
The person to whom I replied has a sex(1) of female. They also have a desired sex(1) of female, and that desire is somewhat strong. That’s helpful for them, because dysphoria is by all accounts quite unpleasant. Their gender(1) and gender(2) are both woman.
Because that person is AFAB and satisfied with that, society is highly likely to assign them the gender(3) of woman. However, while they don’t specifically oppose that role, they aren’t thrilled with it either. One can fairly easily imagine another individual for whom the role is hated, but who is also satisfied with their body, making their desired gender(3) different from their assigned gender(3).
What do we call that hypothetical person? Anything to do with “sex” is probably out, because that refers to either attraction or body type. “Transgender” is already in use to refer to people who aren’t satisfied with their body (or, if sufficiently young, the way in which their body will develop without intervention).
“Gender non-conforming” is probably the closest to what we want, but what if the person wants to conform to a gender, just not the one assigned to them? That is to say, what if this person’s relationship to gender(3) is similar to a trans person’s relationship to sex(1), rather than a nonbinary person’s relationship to the same? We could just use the term anyway, but it’s imprecise in this context.
Heck, what word do we use for the person to whom I initially replied? “Cisgender” is more or less correct, but incomplete; they certainly aren’t trans in the common sense, but they aren’t quite as cis as most people either. “Gender non-conforming” isn’t really correct, since they do mostly conform to their assigned gender(3), they just do so out of convenience rather than a sense that that’s who they were meant to be. “Agender” usually implies someone who also doesn’t identify with a sex(1) or gender(1), which is incorrect.
- Comment on China's banned memory-maker CXMT unveils surprising new chipmaking capabilities despite crushing US export restrictions — DDR5-8000 and LPDDR5X-10667 displayed 1 month ago:
The RoC doesn’t make much RAM, to my knowledge. It’s the RoK that does that. Samsung, Micron, and SK Hynix all have their own fabs.
- Comment on China's banned memory-maker CXMT unveils surprising new chipmaking capabilities despite crushing US export restrictions — DDR5-8000 and LPDDR5X-10667 displayed 1 month ago:
The US hasn’t been competitive in RAM in something like 40 years. The PRC is working on catching up to the RoK. I hope they manage to export good RAM soon, because the Korean companies are all cutting back on production to increase prices.
- Comment on How do you "feel" gender? 1 month ago:
One more instance where our language around sex and gender really muddies things.
- Comment on How do you "feel" gender? 1 month ago:
I simply accepted my AGAB
you are cisgender.
Huh? Plenty of trans people accept their AGAB for some amount of time before realizing that it isn’t correct.
i want to ask if you are certain of this, because simply not possessing any feelings positive or negative about your gender doesn’t mean you’d be fine if you woke up as the opposite or something in-between… you would also be forced to see your body and yourself differently because others would treat you as the new gender you are now presenting as. still don’t care?
In my case, still no. I mean, it would be inconvenient to explain to everyone I know why I suddenly look completely different, but beyond that, I don’t think I’d care. Obviously, I can’t know for certain unless it happens, and any experiment that attempted to find out would be absurdly unethical, but I’m as certain as I reasonably can be.
- Comment on Solidarity 1 month ago:
Does the RoK not have selective enforcement laws? In the US, I think the 39 colleagues’ testimony would get him off without anything else.
- Comment on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux 1 month ago:
DP++ HDMI support tells the GPU to output HDMI. If the GPU can’t output HDMI 2.1 over an HDMI port, it can’t output it over a DisplayPort (as a general rule; you could theoretically wire the DP for a higher standard, but why would you?)