Sergio
@Sergio@piefed.social
- Comment on I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it? 4 days ago:
Most countries have some kind of “disaster preparedness” suggestions, be they for earthquakes, floods, tornados, WMDs, etc. A lot of these suggestions overlap: have a stock of food, know where important documents are, think about where you’d shelter, etc.
There will probably not be an extinction-level event. But at some point in your life you may experience an emergency where you need a stock of food, to know where your documents are, to have a place to shelter, etc. So maybe it’d help you out to make plans for what you’d do in case of a general emergency/disaster.
Here are a couple useful documents that were made in the US:
- Comment on Ska ftw 1 week ago:
!ska@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Ska ftw 1 week ago:
Varies by generation of ska.
- first generation: “Keith & Ken with Byron Lee & the Dragonaires - Jamaica Ska” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhLjOgUXut8
- second generation: “Madness - One Step Beyond” - https://youtu.be/SOJSM46nWwo?t=29
- after that idk
- Comment on Boxing day nightmare 1 week ago:
They shoulda used the bones to make religious art, like in the Capuchin Crypt in Rome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capuchin_Crypt
- Comment on Say, the country/countries you have citizenship in, decided to not want you anymore and threw you to some random "3rd world country", how do you survive? 2 weeks ago:
lel OK ya got me. Hey, you should post on !chadmctruthstruth@lemmy.world I kinda miss that place.
e.g. check this out for comparison: https://lemmy.world/post/35529168
- Comment on Say, the country/countries you have citizenship in, decided to not want you anymore and threw you to some random "3rd world country", how do you survive? 2 weeks ago:
This reminds me of when I was a kid growing up (in developing nations), and people would show up from the US demanding all the same services that they had back home.
- Comment on Are there any abandoned fediverse community you'd like to see resurrected? 2 weeks ago:
Everett True comics: !truecomics@midwest.social
it’s kinda frustrating bc all you need to do is go to one of the sources here:
https://lemmy.world/comment/12653544
grab a cartoon, and post. Many posts got well over 100 upvotes. Unfortunately I’m maxed out on how much I can currently contribute to things. - Comment on chemotherapy mother 2 weeks ago:
This puts me in mind of Bizzaro Fiction .
- Comment on why we need billionaires 2 weeks ago:
kek Chad McTruth is thanking me bc I’m his only fan.
- Comment on at what point in life it's too late to go back to school? 3 weeks ago:
Was gonna say this. Some jobs will help pay for classes (max 1 at a time) and some will even let you take the classes “on company time.” With Distance Education this is easier than ever. I took classes while working for a couple years, then was gonna take a semester off work and finish a Master’s Degree. (but ended up doing a PhD instead.)
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 3 weeks ago:
Traditional German food is supposed to make you sated so you can go back to the fields and work! And the go to the army and fight! And then go to the ruins and rebuild!
This is frickin awesome. Ima tell this to my German-American relative. They come from a family of farmers, come to think of it.
- Comment on Christmas, do I need to say more? 3 weeks ago:
Looks awesome! I’ma cross-post it to !gothindustrial@lemmy.world …
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Thoughts and prayers. 4 weeks ago:
There’s a 1957 romantic comedy movie with a subplot about reference librarians feeling threatened that a computer will take over their jobs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desk_Set
- Comment on Threads alternative 5 weeks ago:
FYI check out pixelfed. Here’s a preview: https://pixelfed.social/web/explore
It’s basically a replacement for Insta rather than Threads, but the upside is it tends to be less technical. Also iirc it includes all the image posts from Mastodon. If you create an account, click on “Global Feed” and start following individuals and hashtags.
- Comment on Authentism 5 weeks ago:
The tenure commitee was on the fence until they learned that he authored this package.
source
idk I make it up.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Team Rocket would!
- Comment on TIL smoking is good for your body 5 weeks ago:
bawk
Dang, I didn’t even notice. I’ma spell it that way from now on. I won’t bawk at doing so!
- Comment on We've done it, boys 5 weeks ago:
And yet the somehow charge more for it.
- Comment on PhD student or imperial harem? Same thing, I guess. 1 month ago:
I call dibs on being that strategist guy. (I only saw the first season tho, I hope he didn’t get weird in the second season.)
- Comment on Is lemmy dying? 1 month ago:
I think all piefed instances rely on cloudflare, tho the recent downtime made em start thinking of how to do otherwise. I keep my old lemmy accounts around in case I need them. e.g. lemmy on slrpnk.net worked OK bc they don’t use cloudflare.
- Comment on Is lemmy dying? 1 month ago:
Check out this feed of communities NOT focused on politics, tech, or memes: https://piefed.social/f/highsignal
And here’s a feed of meme/humor-oriented communities NOT focused on politics or tech: https://piefed.social/f/highmemecontent
There are plenty of others, those are just the ones I like.
@uri@infosec.pub
- Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice 2 months ago:
Frozen peas are great for that too. Goes with a lot of different dishes. just throw in a handful, or make a side-dish.
- Comment on "What is the oldest country in the world that still exists?" is a Ship of Theseus problem. 2 months ago:
iirc, in Political Theory or International Relations they have more precise definitions of what makes up a “nation” vs a “country”… I did a quick search tho and can’t find a good summary.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 months ago:
Right, but I think that’s a good thing, from an LLM-designers’ point of view. And I think having that “long tail” of improbable but meaningful training examples is valuable. Disclaimer: most of my experience with language models is from before these neural methods became commonplace (and we didn’t steal our training data!)
p.s. I kinda liked seeing the thorns, fwiw.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 months ago:
We should use it until it becomes popular then stop using it bc it’s not cool any more.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 months ago:
Harsh! I thought it was just someone with a non-English keyboard that wasn’t configured correctly.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 months ago:
Lunar Astronaut 1: Heaven forbids that now?
Lunar Astronaut 2: Always has.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 months ago:
That’s very interesting. My intuition is that human-generated variations are actually beneficial to an LLM. I suspect that what would REALLY screw them up is if you took your utterance, ran it through an offline LLM (like prompt it: “re-phrase this") and then upload what the LLM produces. But then you’d be looking at, and exposing people to, LLM output all day.
- Comment on Do Americans expect the NK protest to achieve anything? 2 months ago:
Politicians keep track of public sentiment, because it affects their jobs.
People generally don’t want to protest, they just want to get on with their lives. If large numbers get up and start protesting, that means there’s a lot of energy there which politicians can use for campaign phonebanking and canvassing and donations.
