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- Comment on i did tho 1 week ago:
That’s not what a frog looks like inside at all.
Oh, wait, this is that thing about explaining a joke and dissecting a frog, right?
- Comment on BYD’s Second-Generation Blade Battery Makes Western EV Tech Look Ancient 1 week ago:
I saw one of those videos, with batteries from vapes, but it wasn’t about saying “look at this cool battery I made”, but rather about saying “look at the waste of throwing away vapes with rechargeable batteries”.
- Comment on The Myth That Wind Farms Are a Guillotine for Birds Is Being Debunked by Hard Data 1 week ago:
Yet another reason to switch to Linux.
- Comment on Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect." 2 weeks ago:
I am not a chatbot
Citation needed
if your interested
Ah, no, that’s a human error. Not a bot.
- Comment on Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket 2 weeks ago:
Or they could charge a customer more if they know the customer always buys the same product.
How so they propose changing an e-ink shelf label pretty customer??
- Comment on Why is the USA attacking Iran? 2 weeks ago:
*its
- Comment on Device that can extract 1,000 liters of clean water a day from desert air revealed by 2025 Nobel Prize winner 2 weeks ago:
www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.aam8743 It really does work better than refrigeration or zeolite based systems.
- Comment on Device that can extract 1,000 liters of clean water a day from desert air revealed by 2025 Nobel Prize winner 2 weeks ago:
This is a bit more serious than the old, frequently-debunked “dehumidifier in the desert” stuff, because it doesn’t depend on cooling the air to get the water out, but using a molecular sponge. If you pump enough air over that, you’ll eventually fill it up, and you can drive the water out by heating it up.
The guy behind this is a serious organic chemist, and his Nobel prize was actually for pioneering and developing these molecules, so it’s not a case of “Nobel prize winner does daft stuff about a subject he’s not an expert in”, either.
I’m still reserving judgement on whether this will be economically sensible, but I’m not dismissing it immediately, either.
- Comment on Device that can extract 1,000 liters of clean water a day from desert air revealed by 2025 Nobel Prize winner 2 weeks ago:
This guy got his Nobel prize for molecular sponges that can bind and release water.
- Comment on Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?" 3 weeks ago:
The most common pushback on the car wash test: “Humans would fail this too.”
Fair point. We didn’t have data either way. So we partnered with Rapidata to find out. They ran the exact same question with the same forced choice between “drive” and “walk,” no additional context, past 10,000 real people through their human feedback platform.
71.5% said drive.
So people do better than most AI models. Yay. But seriously, almost 3 in 10 people get this wrong‽‽
- Comment on Gentoo Linux begins Codeberg migration to eventually phase out GitHub repo 4 weeks ago:
I must have been living under a rock, because I didn’t even know that codeberg existed. I’ve just created an account there, added my ssh key, and successfully pushed a project there. Will be migrating as much as possible (focusing on code that might actually be interesting to others) over the weekend. Thanks!
- Comment on What dating apps are really optimizing. Hint: it isn’t love 4 weeks ago:
The apps have been very kind to me.
On Tinder, I met my GF from 2017 to 2022. We had a lot in common, had some really great times, but the long-distance thing in the end was too much, so when she suggested opening up the relationship, I went back on the apps, and after an open relationship phase, we decided to shift from a romantic relationship to friendship. We’re still good friends, though - I saw her last Thursday when she was in my city.
During our open phase, I met some lovely people (two on Bumble, one on tinder) who for one reason or another weren’t open to a committed relationship, but there was no harm done - we spent good time together and drifted naturally apart once I started a relationship that turned monogamous. No hard feelings on either side.
On Tinder I also met my current (forever) partner. Amazing, low-conflict relationship. We live together and I’ve kind of stepped into the dad role for her son. We met in December 2021, chatted for three months and then started seeing each other, and soon became exclusive. I get along brilliantly with her parents, as does she with mine. We’re absolutely sure that we’re together for life.
I never felt that the apps were leading me into cheap, disposable relationships. I never had issues of “What if the next perfect person is just one swipe away?”
- Comment on Epstein details scrubbed from Mandelson’s Wikipedia page by shady paid editor— As the then-ambassador came under fire, an anonymous user tried to downplay his history of support for Jeffrey Epstein 4 weeks ago:
You should print it out: Image
- Comment on Epstein details scrubbed from Mandelson’s Wikipedia page by shady paid editor— As the then-ambassador came under fire, an anonymous user tried to downplay his history of support for Jeffrey Epstein 4 weeks ago:
Of course! As soon as this kind of thing comes to light, the pitchforks come out. The checkusers have some advanced tools to find linked bad-actor accounts, for example.
- Comment on Epstein details scrubbed from Mandelson’s Wikipedia page by shady paid editor— As the then-ambassador came under fire, an anonymous user tried to downplay his history of support for Jeffrey Epstein 4 weeks ago:
Wikipedia is only a good source on non controversial topics
There’s research showing that controversial topics ultimately get better Wikipedia articles, because they get more attention, and because editors more strongly feel the need to get good quality sources.
- Comment on ‘Manfluencers’ are filming themselves trying to pick up women using smart glasses 5 weeks ago:
Only steers and bears?
- Comment on ‘Manfluencers’ are filming themselves trying to pick up women using smart glasses 5 weeks ago:
Well, if it’s a black bear, shouting and waving your arms will normally chase it off.
- Comment on Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds 5 weeks ago:
Or how bad something is. “I don’t need a scientific study to tell me that looking at my phone before bed will make me sleep badly”, but the studies actually show that the effect is statistically robust but small.
In the same way, studies like this can make the distinction between different levels of advice and warning.
- Comment on Is Wikipedia's Volunteer Model Facing a Generational Crisis? 1 month ago:
Username is relevant?
- Comment on Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads 1 month ago:
For example?
- Comment on Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads 1 month ago:
I’ve installed Lawnchair and I’m quite happy with it.
- Comment on Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads 1 month ago:
Yep. I recently bought a used Pixel 8 and wanted to install a new launcher - my googling turned up Nova launcher, but the app said it had ads, so I looked a bit further and installed Lawnchair instead. Does the job!
- Comment on The singular they is actually such a natural part of the English language, the people complaining about it almost certainly use it without noticing 1 month ago:
Das Mädchen seht am See und es sieht ihn.
The girl stands at the lake and it sees him.
In German, a lake is masculine and all diminutives are neuter, and that includes Mädchen (girl), which is a diminutive of the obsolete word “Magd” (a cognate of “maid”).
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 2 months ago:
Ha, I thought a 1Hz display was a typo until I read the article - that’s the minimum display update, not the maximum: for situations when nothing’s changing on the screen to save battery life.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 months ago:
It’s nowhere close to that level. The GOP/ MAGA has been eroding international trust in America for a while now, but realistically, everybody else is on the outside looking in, and even if America removed all women’s rights, including the right to vote, or annexed Panama, all that would happen would be strongly worded protests and further political isolation of America from the rest of the world.
Nobody wants to fight a war against the USA, and barring something cataclysmic like an invasion of Mexico, nobody wants to sanction the largest market in the world.
TL;DR: America would have to become much poorer or much weaker before anybody does anything.
- Comment on What an unprocessed photo looks like 2 months ago:
#nofilter
