ranzispa
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- Comment on 6 days ago:
Don’t know about the small window thing. We had turkeys for a while, but to be fair it was more about domestic animals than food source. Those things would get huge. I remember once some friends were coming to visit at night and seeing them on the roof got scared and ran off.
- Comment on Labcoat! 6 days ago:
TIL animals may be allowed in chemistry labs. But then again, still remember my professor’s being very clear that mouth pipetting is bad idea, to then show us how to do it just in case.
- Comment on HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs 1 week ago:
It’s clearly a move to make torrent for movies unviable and get funding from Netflix.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’ 1 week ago:
Do you have a cluster with 10 A100 lying around? Because that’s what it gets to run deepseek. It is open source, but it is far from accessible to run on your own hardware.
- Comment on Cloudfare outage post mortem 1 week ago:
Before today, ClickHouse users would only see the tables in the default database when querying table metadata from ClickHouse system tables such as system.tables or system.columns.
Since users already have implicit access to underlying tables in r0, we made a change at 11:05 to make this access explicit, so that users can see the metadata of these tables as well.
I’m no expert, but this feels like something you’d need to ponder very carefully before deploying. You’re basically changing the result of all queries to your db. I’m not working in there, but I’m sure in plenty places if the codebase there’s a bunch of query this and pick column 5 from the result.
- Comment on Elon Musk has an h-index. 3 weeks ago:
PIs often have no idea what people in their group are actually working on. They may at times just give a general direction of what research should be about. It is common for people doing research for a company to list the CTO or whatever relevant figure as author. The fact that you do not do it reveals nothing regarding the fact that this is quite common practice.
- Comment on Elon Musk has an h-index. 3 weeks ago:
He paid for the research. While I do agree, this is very common in academia. The PI will most often be last author even if he didn’t read the paper.
- Comment on Elon Musk has an h-index. 3 weeks ago:
Why would that be? He’s probably just the last author of a bunch of valid articles published by his employees. He probably did not take part in the ideation or writing of those articles, but that is quite common in academia as well.
- Comment on xAI used employee biometric data to train Elon Musk’s AI girlfriend 3 weeks ago:
You really think he personally conducts job interviews or that he could pass down the clear message not to employ transexual people? It has over 1200 employees, it is likely some of them are transexuals.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 5 weeks ago:
I imagine if this ever becomes a problem, they can just set th and the thorn to the same token in the LLM and it will then make no difference at all which is which.
If this ever becomes a problem in training the solution is extremely easy.
- Comment on Banana 5 weeks ago:
Carp for best results, may be substituted with salmon or tuna but do not expect the same quality.
- Comment on ----E 5 weeks ago:
I am convinced editors got the joke and now shuffle reviewers around just so that the worst one is reviewer 2.
- Comment on Utter nonsense 5 weeks ago:
Anything that involves statistical mechanics is just black magic. There should be a Nobel prize just for people who are able to wrap their mind around it.
- Comment on Utter nonsense 5 weeks ago:
Me: oh it’s a reaction scheme, so they start with this and end up with this. I’ll assume everything in the middle is correct and they get what I asked them.
- Comment on Banana 5 weeks ago:
Also you harvest them every two weeks. Want to sell them already? Just stick them under a plastic carp for a couple of days and they’ll be ripe and yellow.
The bad part is loading trucks of bananas is hard work, those things are heavy.
- Comment on Banana 5 weeks ago:
People are working on that already. Did not work until now as far as I know.
This is a problem that has been known for a while.
- Comment on Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago. 5 weeks ago:
Oh, I see. Indeed anonymised data should be fine under GDPR. However it is often very difficult to anonymise data. Some things are easy to anonymise, other are very complex.
For a small company who does not mainly work with data, the easiest solution to comply with GDPR is indeed just deleting the data altogether.
- Comment on Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago. 5 weeks ago:
That happens. Still, many companies do not. Some companies are unaware of the legislation.
I was informing one worker of a company of one such law.
Many companies do not break the law even though there are no controls just because that is the right thing to do.
- Comment on Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago. 5 weeks ago:
Are you advising breaking the law just because nobody checks?
- Comment on Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago. 5 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure GDPR requires websites to abide to user requests to delete their data. You may wish to review that with your company.
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 5 weeks ago:
Fair enough, prioritise people who actually work and do things. They deserve housing before anyone else.
Then also people who do not work and make money off of others people’s work may have a house.
- Comment on a merry band of fungi spotted today 5 weeks ago:
Oh, that is true. I was looking at the one turned over which appears to me to have brown spores. It’s difficult to tell these things from a single picture.
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 5 weeks ago:
Rented a flat from a family for 3 years. The flat had not been renewed in over 60 years, but I was alright with that. The flat had several problems, they never wanted to fix.
One day the electrical system starts going out over and over again, fuses would burn every few days. I had to tell them that in case of fire they’d be responsible for everything I had in the house before they agreed they should fix the electric system.
Since they were going to fix the electric system, they decided to do a bit more work and change the floor and a few things more. They wanted to increase the rent 50% to account for these improvements; even though that is illegal I accepted, since they were in fact improving the flat.
I had to move out for two months while the works were going on. One week before the end of the works, the flat was really not done yet. I asked several times whether it would be ready, because I’d need to find and accomodation in the meanwhile. I asked for a discount of half a month so that I could cover expenses and because nobody knew when they would actually complete the works.
The day before I was supposed to get back into the flat, they decided that I was posing way too many conditions and kicked me out. They decided to keep the safety deposit because a plastic floor old over 60 years had started cracking. 8 months later, they still have some boxes of stuff which is mine but never have time to meet me to give it back to me.
Time has passed and I still have to go to a lawyer, because I the meanwhile I had a bunch of trouble to solve. I’m sure I can win a trial against them, but even if I do win the trial I’ll have gone through a bunch of trouble just to get my safety deposit back. I’ll be doing it just because they need to fuck off, but still…
Now, most people renting places were I live are exactly like this. It is not big corporations, it people who got one or maybe a few flats on rent.
- Comment on Universities are embracing AI: will students get smarter or stop thinking? 5 weeks ago:
Professors started writing books for the students to study. Will students get smarter or stop thinking?
- Comment on a merry band of fungi spotted today 5 weeks ago:
From the picture it looks like brown spores to me. I had never seen Armillaria sp, but from pictures I must say it does look very similar.
I’m not sure about the spores color, could be white or could be brown. That color resembles very much the color of cyclocybe just picked. It goes more brown a while after picking.
- Comment on Meta is removing its Messenger apps for Windows and macOS 5 weeks ago:
Somehow they believe this will increase their user base…
- Comment on Yes, yeeeees, YEEEEEEEES 5 weeks ago:
Te technology Is not really designed to prevent that, it is designed to be decentralised. Now, email is decentralised but everyone uses Gmail.
Imagine Reddit closes and everyone from there flocks into lemmy. Will small instances stand the influx? Will single maintainers with a small server allow 10 million new users in their instance? Most likely not, either they will limit subscriptions or they’ll close down.
As such the most likely thing to happen is that someone with money opens a big instance which can host all those people. And there, you got Reddit exactly as it was.
- Comment on a merry band of fungi spotted today 5 weeks ago:
Not really. Can’t be sure from pictures alone, but it does really look like them. I don’t know many lookalikes, but I guess there could be. If that is the case, that is one very tasty mushroom to pick.
- Comment on a merry band of fungi spotted today 5 weeks ago:
Is that cyclocybe aegerita?
- Comment on Massive Chicken of the woods 5 weeks ago:
It’s large, but it feels a bit dry already. Not sure whether I’d eat that one.