mushroommunk
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- Comment on A conundrum 2 days ago:
With new water heaters yes, do your maintenance. Old water heater that came with the place and hasn’t been touched in years? Yeah, the advice is to actually not flush it because you don’t know what cracks that gunk might be blocking up and it will be more likely to fail on you sooner.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Horned Demon and Marco Polo jokes aside, I say run with it. As much as millennials get crapped on for choosing weird names they’ve at least suck to it and I’d hope it would make room for more names. It has meaning to you, go for it.
Every kid will get picked on for their name at some point.
- Comment on Trump posted this in Truth. 3 days ago:
I dunno, his government tracks so far with what I remember of the film.
- Feeling of Endless Hell
- Waiting for it to be over
- Everyone dying or in pain, in some cases at the hands of their own stupidity
- Pretty much the only person who gets what they want is the one main character leading the thing
- Swamp
- Comment on xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure 4 days ago:
Eh, not a problem at all. You can’t make it look exactly like my other three and I make sure to use the same tape measure throughout a project, really after the first couple cuts I’m not even using it I’m using the cut pieces to measure against.
I don’t care what the number actually is, just that I can mark in the same spot consistently.
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 6 days ago:
I haven’t read the paper but they might mean “Generative AI”
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 1 week ago:
Google has actually released a software update to try to prevent the modem battery issue and are replacing the battery in affected models for free. Rare easy win from a megacorp
- Comment on As a treat 2 weeks ago:
It’s the salt mostly. Especially with indoor cats who often don’t get wet food and so are on the under hydrated side of things as they tend to not drink as much as they should.
Technically any without garlic or onion is safe for them to have a tiny bit as a treat but it’s so incredibly easy to overdo that it’s just safer to not give it to them.
Too much nitrates or nitrites is bad for cats yes, but they’d have to eat an excessive amount for it to be a concern and again the excess salt would be a bigger issue first.
- Comment on Informative review 2 weeks ago:
I can (potentially) explain the double bagged paper. Growing up in the South that was the de-facto cooling rack, no wires racks. They were cut open, laid on any flat surface, them cookies or cakes or what have you were laid on them to cool. They’d wick away moisture or grease and be easy clean up.
Free with groceries and if they were double bagged you had enough for a double batch of chocolate chip cookies while also usually guaranteeing (usually) the bag wouldn’t split from condensation or something before you got home.
- Comment on Informative review 2 weeks ago:
They’re talking about bubble foam tea. Sure that was a thing but at least in any part of America I’ve been in, boba tea and bubble tea from the start was the tapioca pearl drink.
Some people get this purist notion that things can only ever be one thing and screech if someone uses a term differently.
- Comment on Informative review 2 weeks ago:
The “bubbles” refers to the little edible tapioca balls at the bottom.
The name started as “bo ba”, the Chinese name for the tapioca pearls, and the west turned it into “bubble”. No idea what the original Chinese means, could just be bubble.
It’s often a sweeter milk tea (though pretty much anything goes these days)
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 2 weeks ago:
That’s a good point for the future, but I meant on my Pixel 6a and I bought it directly through Google.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 2 weeks ago:
That’s yet another trend that’s made me less and less interested in things. You’re not wrong though and will likely be my fall back
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 2 weeks ago:
Devolving*
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been hemming and hawing. Switched to Linux pretty much full time for my PC, this will push me 100% into FOSS phone. Over half my apps I use would get blocked
- Comment on how do you slice it?? 2 weeks ago:
Not necessarily. Two objects can still have friction in a vacuum together.
- Comment on how do you slice it?? 2 weeks ago:
In a vacuum
- Comment on how do you slice it?? 2 weeks ago:
Sorry, I need that in dishwashers or ping pong balls
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 2 weeks ago:
Codeberg was running Anubis. Apparently several bots have started just solving Anubis and scraping away again.
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 2 weeks ago:
A lot of the forums I’m seeing talked about where more technical or objective kinds. Like in a car forum there’d be repair manuals or parts lists, fountain pen forums would have loads of images comparing inks side by side for different shades and hues. Those are the sorts of knowledge centers being discussed and reminisced about a lot here.
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 2 weeks ago:
That’s currently being argued in the courts. There’s a lot that goes into it from right to distribution, to proving that although the AI bot can’t reproduce everything even though it normally doesn’t. [arstechnica.com/…/study-metas-llama-3-1-can-recal…](A very real example of reproducibility)
There’s also arguments about how they accessed large amounts of content. The law doesn’t just recognize whether you can access something or not, but what you access it for. There’s laws about accessing things with the sole purpose of using it to develop a commercial product. All of it is a tangled mess that there’s no current clear answer to (legally, morally I think there is but that’s very opinionated)
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 2 weeks ago:
I think there’s a lot of solid arguments against letting AI steal everything, but with the scraping there’s an even more immediate problem. They don’t rate limit or do it in an intelligent method. It becomes a full blown ddos that has take down entire sites and slowed many more to the point of near uselessness.
They’re in a very literal sense crashing large chunks of the Internet and causing havoc.
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 2 weeks ago:
Doesn’t really solve the AI scraping or the silo problem and as Code erg found out recently, solving the AI scraping DDOS is never ending
- Comment on U.S. takes 10% stake in Intel as Trump flexes more power over big business 2 weeks ago:
Honestly this. Their cpus melting down over the past couple years and their refusal to even acknowledge it hurt their image more than any potential backdoor could.
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 2 weeks ago:
I feel like we could find ways and tools to help in that situation without stealing the entirety of human knowledge, boiling our planet, and spending a small nation’s GDP. Like better code library discovery or a better mentor environment amongst coders.
I’ve also seen plenty of people get pointed in the exact wrong way to do things by leaning on generative AI and then have to spend even more time getting back on track.
- Comment on Solar panels in space could cut Europe's renewable energy needs by 80% 2 weeks ago:
Feasible? Only time will tell. Possible? Caltech did it two years ago. Look up MAPLE. Wireless energy transfer to/from space was achieved.
- Comment on Looking for a way to make a proportional timeline out of an Excel or CSV file 3 weeks ago:
Is there a specific format you want it in at the end? That’s a relatively easy python script and would probably produce a clearer timeline than Excel if all you want is an image or something at the end.
