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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨genius⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  A part like this can have some tolerance because it experiences wear and tear and oxidation, if it had to be down to a few microns perfection, the helicopter wouldn’t fly in both hot and cold temps even on day one. Die and investment metal casting especially with CNC machining, which are common enough processes in metal shops, can actually get down to single digit microns. But this is all moot as no one would ever do this for many reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Garlic sauce⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The box itself is only 6 cal so enjoy without guilt

  Its also gluten free unless you write “gluten” on it in which case it has one gluten

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unquestionably high class⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The Iowa State Fair is doing them for $100, includes gold leaf for some reason, add caviar and Dom and it’s $800.

  Just to point out Iowa wasn’t nearly this stupid when I grew up there in the 80s, they were actually fairly progressive and tech-forward for a while, wish a dash of country polite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unquestionably high class⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  We did make improvements since then, like dousing in butter and cooking only to a delicate texture instead of pencil erasers. If you had the old fashioned style you’d be grossed out too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  So to be clear Microsoft 365 Copilot now includes Copilot? Well shit I was worried Copilot wouldn’t include Copilot, I was just about to ask Copilot if it was in Copilot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's so fluffy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  making a joke

  a whatnow

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's so fluffy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  WTF that’s not porn at all

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Couldn’t we just as easily say that you have to fart them occasionally

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The gut biome isn’t well understood - there are tons (well, pounds) of bacteria we don’t understand well, how they interplay, how they eat and digest and how the body is affected. We’re just now at the point of having biome capsules that can be swallowed instead of fecal transplants, which is an improvement, but we don’t really know what we’re doing. They might take a family member and use their bacteria to treat someone’s GERD for instance - but only in studies and private labs, not at your doctor’s office yet. Now that they know how beneficial it is, they’re hauling ass (hehe) on it.

  We only recently figured out that natural births do better than caesarians in terms of immunity and overall health, because well, women often defecate while they give birth and apparently that’s a good thing for the baby, as well as bacteria in her vagina. There’s sort of an instant bacterial infusion that happens.

  Give it 20 years and there’ll probably be bespoke treatments available for the masses, so I won’t have to listen to my boss give his daily update on his IBS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mom with the real questions ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And he never walked again

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's it going to take to truly stop the US?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  China doesn’t necessarily have to lead to control. Look at their investments in Africa over the past decade. The US stopped investing in developing nations so China took the lead over the fastest developing continent. They’ll have a ton of influence there for a generation at least, will be able to secure deals and lock the US out of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Woops⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And then end where RFK is hoping to score some molly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not 100% sure on this one, but I think it applies to Windows Home and Pro but not Enterprise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This study has been reviewed by other researchers, the original study chose an industrial toilet with a power flush. Notice how this toilet doesn’t even HAVE a seat. It’s like what you find in a hospital, they’re designed to basically flush a cornish game hen in 1 second.

  Your 1.6L swirly home toilet doesn’t do the same, you can use a laser level to see for yourself. If the swirl is turbulent it’ll spray some, but lots of toilets don’t really emit mist much at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Do your business on the floor next to the toilet, problem solved. No more flipping seats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i can't handle coffee⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Me too. I still drink it, but I wish I could handle it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK about Israel’s “Samson Option”: The Nuclear Target List that includes American and European cities…⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep criticizing Israel = antisematism, thats a healthy attitude that doesn’t at all backfire against the Jewish people and faith.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My historic house has a Wikipedia page, I’ve tried updating it with information I know is accurate (I mean, I live here), but it was always removed. Must have a primary source that’s not “individual research” like, you know, counting the bedrooms or fireplaces.

  Which is what lead to me getting our city’s newspaper to interview me, print several facts and stories, and now that published article is a primary source.

  During this process I realized that Wikipedia is pretty goddamn serious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shout out to the NYE shift at all the Emergency Departments around the world.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  When I was a kid, my (pot-dealing, irresponsible as hell) grandmother would take me fishing early in the AM. Before the sun would come up, sometimes we’d set off roman candles in a line. She insisted that I be several yards away, the roman candle be properly set up on level surfaces, everything by the book.

  My ‘responsible,’ upper class inlaws have a 4th of July party where all the kids and grandkids are given roman candles to hold in their hands, with the instructions “try to point them away from people.” Of course they hold them in their dominant hands, too. Sigh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If God truly is ‘all-powerful’ and ‘omnipotent,’ then Jesus dying wasn’t the only way to ‘save us.’”⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  God gives little kids leukemia, or at least allows it, which goes to the problem of evil, that if God is all-knowing and all-encompassing and still allows evil to occur, or has a plan that involves evil occurring, then God is not all-good, God is himself part evil. If God is omnipotent, then there is no reason for evil to exist beyond him having cruel fun at our expense. And that’s not even getting into the non-human suffering.

  Christianity likes the idea that Lucifer disobeyed God and was cast down, but Lucifer IS god, just as much as God is, just as much as we are or the stones and moss in nature are. Lucifer couldn’t do anything other than God’s plan, because omnipotence.

  So the only way the supposedly omnipotent God thought to run the universe requires a large chunk of the souls he created to be cast into hell forever. Why? What the fuck was the point of that? God is petty, spiteful, vindictive, callous and cold. Or not omnipotent. One or the other. You know what? Either way I’m not going to “worship” it.

  And then there’s the most obvious third answer, that there’s no god, which is the only option that makes sense at this level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China Is Banning Tesla-Style Retractable Door Handles Over Safety Concerns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh those Honda engineers would have laughed and laughed. “Aluminum chassis and plastic body support?!” I can hear them say through hysterics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ska ftw⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Scat: the wo-wo-wooo-ba-ba-ba-ba-ski-ski-skiddlidoo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨you're doing ReSeArCh rong!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s funny how as adults we become interested in elements of stuff we were taught and found boring before. But I’m not sure how you’d teach science without “shoving it down people’s throats” because most teenagers simply don’t give a shit about any of it, so pretty much anything you teach will be shoving it down someone’s throat. The better solution would be explaining why electron structure is important foundational stuff. About 98% of the time, in HS, they didn’t explain why we needed to know it, how it would be contextualized in later life - it was simply “learn this so you can pass next week’s test.” And for me, knowing why is crucial to me caring enough to learn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ready set go⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the thing about AI criticism. AI in the LLM sense we know today has been publicly available for a few years, in development for a couple decades. Any criticism about how stupid it is will be irrelevant in 6-12 months. Look at the people trashing AI 2 years ago, how it would constantly hallucinate and produce gibberish code. Now it’s a lot better on both regards. In 2 more years, what then? It’ll be better. Yes we’ll hit the LLM ceiling but there’s a lot of fine tuning to be done.

  Criticize AI for the environmental effects, the inequality that it’s enhancing, how the rich and powerful have access to the AIs that know too much about us. Criticize it for lacking the reality of human composed text. But criticizing it on technical grounds is not the right angle.

  FWIW if you asked both an AI and a HS student to crank out an essay on a random topic, the HS student not having studied the topic, the HS student would be the one making more shit up. Human brains have limitations too. AI and human brains aren’t directly comparable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With how the republican party works in 10 years the presidential candidate will be an open pedophile and they will say they defeated wokeness.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What if the problems you’re complaining about… are foundational to America, not the Democratic party?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ID_10_ts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I got out of tech because I assumed Gen Z would be way better at it than I was.

  I got back in when I realized, I was one of the generation that actually knows this shit, without having a CS degree even.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3185: Sauropods⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure enough I just looked and giraffe vertebrae are 10" long. Weird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dressed to the nines no less.

  We better 86 it with all this numbers business tho.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. 404 Media Tracked Themselves.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was living in a 10th story penthouse apartment as a new building started beside us. The contractor put a webcam high up on the structure so people could watch construction live on a website. They left the control panel fully exposed so all you had to do was find the IP address of the camera and boom, you had full control. I would point it directly at my apartment’s window and wave, or my friends would do silly shit. Every morning the cam would be reset, but they never actually secured it. That’s when I realized how fucked we were, 20 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple, Google tell workers on visas to avoid leaving the U.S. amid Trump immigration crackdown⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Meanwhile both of the, Apple especially, kissing Trump’s ass and licking round the hole. Ballroom Atrocity, sponsored by Big Tech, tells me which companies to avoid.