mushroommunk
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- Comment on It would be so funny if China colonizes Mars, then the Martian Colonists declare independence, and Mars become a new bastion of Freedom and Prosperity. 11 hours ago:
Parallels to The Expanse too
- Comment on Halloween is a more giving and fun holiday than Christmas 16 hours ago:
All my friends and I have felt this way for a few years now. My wife and I are the planning to spend $200 total on Christmas and that’s including the dinner we’ll likely host for friends.
Halloween is fun and my wife and I get into it but it’s also becoming a very commercialized thing around us. Everyone buying the massive 12 ft skeletons and trying to outdo each other with the yard and giving out bigger and bigger treats. Someone was handing out full Doritos bags this year, not the single serve, we’re talking family size.
I think my wife and I are going to try getting into Mari Lwyd next year instead.
- Comment on Thank Mozilla for Killing Localization on Support Mozilla (And Replacing Human Contributions With AI Bots) 3 days ago:
I do some volunteer work on ocalizing for Welsh and some Spanish. AI translations are hot garbage still even for the larger languages like Spanish. You can get a general idea of the intent most of the time, but that’s about it. It’s nowhere near good enough to replace humans with yet, definitely not good enough to overwrite what they’ve already translated.
- Comment on Change my mind 5 days ago:
Of course a sheep cheese philistine would argue in the comments. Get on the Llama cheese level
- Comment on Might not be efficient, but at least it... Uhhh, wait, what good does it provide again? 6 days ago:
If AI can do your job in minutes you’re either: A fool pumping out AI slop someone else has to fix and you don’t realize it.
Or
Doing a job that really shouldn’t exist.
LLMs can’t do more than shove out a watered down average of things it’s seen before. It can’t really solve problems, it can’t think, all it can do is regurgitate what it’s seen before. Not exactly conducive to quality.
- Comment on Forever young 6 days ago:
My buddy and I weren’t doing so hot last year and used Halo Infinite as our therapy. Pretty sure both of us alternated between being called a bot and a cheater every other match. It’s amazing sometimes just how bad you can do and still be called a cheater. (High plat to low diamond lobbies, we weren’t amazing)
- Comment on Looking for an Itch Recommendation? 1 week ago:
I and looks like most others read this as “a game to scratch my itch”. If OP means games specifically from itch.io they should spell that it a bit more because that’s very different.
- Comment on Looking for an Itch Recommendation? 1 week ago:
Have you tried animal crossing or Calico? Any of those “build your home” kind of games could be good.
Journey is often recommended too for cozy.
As a slight oddball one, maybe Fez or What the Golf
- Comment on YSK: A simple trick to keep your bananas ripe for a lot longer. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t suspect AI per se, but it feels more like just copying questions and answers from Reddit. Which yeah ok it’s basically what other AIs do.
- Comment on YSK: A simple trick to keep your bananas ripe for a lot longer. 2 weeks ago:
Have you tested it? Thoroughly? Side by side in controlled conditions? Tell you what, I’ll post my sources. You post yours, and we’ll compare.
[Source one] (youtu.be/cHu10C1DAds?t=13m) - Ann Reardon tracked down the origin of this myth and put it to test. She’s got an actual degree in food science and makes it approachable for people without a science background. She shows clips of the bulk gassing. I got curious and tested it at home with a similar method to her except I used entire bunches of bananas and gave each bunch their own room to control the process more. I did control for sunlight and temperature as best I could do those were equal across the bunches. The fridge banana was indeed the only one that didn’t ripen at the same time as the rest.
Source two - a paper discussing how ethylene gas works to trigger ripening and that bananas (and other fruits) are picked green and then gassed with ethylene to control the process. It talks about how this gassing kicks off the process and once it starts there’s no stopping it because the enzymatic processes have begun and enough ethylene gas has already permeated the membrane. It also mentions needing hypobaric conditions to stop mature fruit from speeding up the ripening of immature fruit. Which a fridge although not negative pressure is closer than ambient.
Source two - External application of ethylene to induce ripening suppresses a bananas internal production of ethylene gas. It’s already producing less than it would on a vine because it doesn’t need to.
Okay now where’s yours?
- Comment on YSK: A simple trick to keep your bananas ripe for a lot longer. 2 weeks ago:
This poster doesn’t know what they’re talking about. The bananas are picked green, stacked in a warehouse, and then the whole thing is fumigated with ethylene gas. This triggers the ripening process. It doesn’t come from the stem or anything like that (in commercial setting, if left as a bunch on the tree maybe)
- Comment on Backups of Backups 3 weeks ago:
For my buddy and I our critical data doesn’t change often so once or twice a year when we get together we swap drives again. Simple spinning discs for us. No need for hardware or anything to keep them running. They just sit on a shelf just in case something happens we can hand it back to pull the data back onto a running server
- Comment on Backups of Backups 3 weeks ago:
My friend who lives a thousand miles away swaps hard drives with me that are backups of critical stuff. He keeps my data, I keep his. As others have said your garage is a start but you really want some sort of geographically separate backup.
- Comment on Scientists Growing Colour Without Chemicals 3 weeks ago:
Oooo, quercetin, so spooky like myricetin and kaempferol. I can’t even go outside for fear of the chemical cyanidin. Wait. Those are just banana flavour compounds. My bad.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 3 weeks ago:
Oh good lord no. Who knows what bacteria they’ll start ingesting because the water is “raw”
- Comment on This future of piloted personal robots is perfect for lazy racists 3 weeks ago:
I mean it’s been a while since I watched any of it but I recall there being space Nazis and they used their overwhelming force to subjugate others.
- Comment on Bewildered enthusiasts decry memory price increases of 100% or more — the AI RAM squeeze is finally starting to hit PC builders where it hurts 3 weeks ago:
For some that’s their main hobby. If they’ve got an emergency fund, retirement account, and can cover expenses, why shouldn’t they save for their hobby? Seems like they’re doing it the smart way.
- Comment on Our bad 3 weeks ago:
“Taste the rainbow” getting new meaning
- Comment on Jurassic Bark 4 weeks ago:
“Ed…ward…”
- Comment on NOW! 4 weeks ago:
Although I agree and run a free grill myself, this looks like one of those computer controlled pellet smokers, not a regular grill. Not a straight comparison to grilling.
- Comment on question 4 weeks ago:
Sorry, only lambdas.
- Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice 4 weeks ago:
If there’s science for this you have I’d love to see it. I’m the exact opposite. Some good hot sauce on beans and rice and I eat twice as much it’s so good.
- Comment on The oldest Minecraft server, MinecraftOnline, is being shut down by Microsoft 4 weeks ago:
I dunno about child grooming, but certainly something unsavory. The child grooming is more on Roblox these days.
- Comment on Is it weird to simultaneously feel love and hatred towards parents? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, sounds like you’re starting to figure some things out for yourself. This is all natural and fine. You’re empathizing with the choices they made and trying to understand why but also recognizing issues you have.
Keep thinking and growing. You’ll do fine.
I also didn’t have friends growing up. It’s never too late, just can take more effort. I didn’t really start thriving until after college.
- Comment on Is it weird to simultaneously feel love and hatred towards parents? 4 weeks ago:
It really depends on why you hate them. Lots of parents truly care but are terrible at expressing anything other than commands. This can lead to a lot of tension as you grow older and begin to want more freedom.
My parents were abusive assholes. Mother was a classic narcissist who would make us compete for signs of her affection. I hate her completely for how she raised us, but recognize that part of her had to actually care as she did put a lot of effort into our education.
It’s a complex relationship between a parent and child.
- Comment on Velma can't math. 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Why would I buy this? 5 weeks ago:
Nintendo Intensifies - Comment on arborholing 5 weeks ago:
That reminds me. Need to go clone some grape cultivars and do some more guerilla gardening at my buddy’s house
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know if they’re accustomed to the norms more but Hooters starts as in person encounter. It’s already a very different dynamic from lurking online amongst hundreds watching a person knowing they can’t see you.
- Comment on arborholing 5 weeks ago:
Sadly I’ve still never seen any real papers on this being an actual theory.
I’m still want to believe I’m Ent livestock though.
