Sergio
@Sergio@piefed.social
- Comment on at what point in life it's too late to go back to school? 2 days 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 days 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? 5 days ago:
Looks awesome! I’ma cross-post it to !gothindustrial@lemmy.world …
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 1 week ago:
- Comment on Thoughts and prayers. 1 week 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 2 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 2 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 2 weeks ago:
Team Rocket would!
- Comment on TIL smoking is good for your body 2 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 2 weeks ago:
And yet the somehow charge more for it.
- Comment on PhD student or imperial harem? Same thing, I guess. 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 1 month 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. 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month ago:
Lunar Astronaut 1: Heaven forbids that now?
Lunar Astronaut 2: Always has.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 month 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? 1 month 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.
- Comment on We are not reading old public domain books because it's not profitable 2 months ago:
someone was running a group reading of Dracula in one of the vampire communities a while back
Yep, it’s happening on !vampires@lemmy.zip, click this link to see: Dracula Readthrough
- Comment on She's a pain in my rear but she keeps me straight! 2 months ago:
- Comment on It's true... 2 months ago:
Here on the fediverse, you’re treasured NOW, fam!
- Comment on It's true... 2 months ago:
My BFF went to school to be a funeral director, where they learned how to embalm on donated cadavers. So when my BFF was dying, they arranged to have their body donated to a local medical university, kindof as a way of “giving back”. The program didn’t disclose exactly what the bodies would be used for, but they said many of them were used for medical training. Anyway, in both cases (embalming training and medical training) apparently “unusual” bodies are still useful. Also, it greatly reduced funeral expenses because the program provided free cremation afterwards.
So, people should still consider donating their bodies after death, someone will probably find some value in it.
- Comment on Happy Weekend Murica 2 months ago:
Insane Clown Posse - Fuck The World.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
We can’t just create more 18 year olds on demand,
Well, there’s an easy way to get a lot of 18 year olds, but ICE is making sure that won’t happen.
- Comment on What flavor are marshmallows? 2 months ago:
I’m glad to hear that. Otherwise we’d be confronted with the possibility of vast factory farms of mature beavers having their “castor sacs” milked daily.
- Comment on What flavor are marshmallows? 2 months ago:
Possibly. But there are several different types of vanilla. Also:
An estimated 95% of “vanilla” products are artificially flavored with vanillin derived from lignin instead of vanilla fruits.
and
However, vanillin is only one of 171 identified aromatic components of real vanilla fruits.
Also you may be amused to know:
In the United States, castoreum, the exudate from the castor sacs of mature beavers, has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a food additive,[54] often referenced simply as a “natural flavoring” in the product’s list of ingredients. It is used in both food and beverages,[55] especially as vanilla and raspberry flavoring, with a total annual U.S. production of less than 300 pounds.[55][56] It is also used to flavor some cigarettes and in perfume-making, and is used by fur trappers as a scent lure.
- Comment on What flavor are marshmallows? 2 months ago:
OK, I’ll look at the ingredients.
CORN SYRUP, SUGAR, DEXTROSE, MODIFIED CORNSTARCH, WATER, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF GELATIN, TETRASODIUM PYROPHOSPHATE (WHIPPING AID), NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, BLUE 1.
https://www.kraftheinz.com/jetpuffed/products/00600699003285-marshmallows
Looks like there is some kind of “natural and artificial flavor” besides sugar and corn syrup. Wat are those? Dunno. Apparently it’s legal to have secret ingredients that are not disclosed unless a Non-Disclosure Agreement is signed.
