BillyClark

@BillyClark@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Kills at Least 2 More People in Yet Another Illegal Boat Bombing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You know, I have this long-standing dream of owning a sailboat and going for extended trips at sea. I haven’t done it because it’s far too expensive, and also because of my responsibilities on land. But add a new one to that. I’m somewhat concerned that a US war vessel will attack me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CW: Picture of a severe vaccine injury, NSFL⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You know, looking at that little scarring in the context of the vaccine, I’m reminded that I heard that there’s this famous idea that milk maidens are historically seen as the very definition of pretty, and that the idea stems from the fact that they tended to get cowpox, which protected them from smallpox.

  So, basically, before smallpox vaccines, the typical woman was so badly scarred somewhere visible like her face by smallpox that a woman who simply didn’t have those scars would be considered extremely pretty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It turns out that Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You know those influencers who are like makep addicts? They often use shading or tape to change the shape of their faces. I wonder whether they could fool facial recognition technology as well.

  The difference being that a person made up like that won’t stand out as much as a person wearing Juggalo makeup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if it has a base designation, but there is a way to represent natural numbers without 0. You just use 1, and numbers are distinguished by the number of 1s. So you’d count 1 11 111 1111 11111 and so on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Tits⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What you want to do is go to a search engine, and do an image search for mind blowing great tits. You’ll probably have to turn the content filter off because the image may be gory. Then, just go to the page associated with the most relevant image.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4th dimensional jokes⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You can observe that this dark matter joke is funny:

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe, maybe not⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This feels like when my phone is guessing who is calling me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if he wrote that post character-by-character.

  But actually typing out the code is the least difficult part of programming, once you’ve been doing it for five or ten years. You have to understand the code that is already there. You have to decide the behavior, either way. You have to review the code, either way. Design the local and overall architecture. Design interfaces and APIs.

  The fact that he thinks typing out new code took so much effort basically means that he was never a decent programmer. His statement betrays that he doesn’t even understand what’s difficult. People with his level of understanding of a topic shouldn’t broadcast their ignorance publicly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia's DLSS 5 Is a Slap in the Face to the Art of Video Game Design⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I find it interesting that the AI parts of the video have very little video in them. They have the original game moving along, and then they show the AI version and mostly keep it as a still. I suspect that they did this so that you can’t do a side-by-side comparison and see that the AI version doesn’t actually play as well as the original version.

  Also, I’ve got to wonder about how it must feel to be an artist who worked on one of these games, and watch the thing you carefully hand-tuned to match the artistic vision of the game design be replaced by the mindless addition of wrinkles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ooh! Now do it in base π.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨send thoughts and peer review⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Religious people aren’t bothered or surprised at all when their prayers don’t come true. On the other hand, if their cell phone or car or air conditioner suddenly stops working without warning, they’re absolutely shocked and dismayed.

  My point is that even the most religious people actually believe in science far more than they believe in their religion. They’re just too stupid to realize it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With regards to cutlery, do you prefer a spoon or a fork for eating cake?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I knew a guy like that. We went to a restaurant together and he ordered a salad, and started eating it with a spoon.

  Normally, when a person does something unusual, I don’t say anything, but I was surprised. It had never even occurred to me that a salad with broad leaves could be eaten with a spoon.

  So slightly taken aback, I said to him, “Why aren’t you eating a salad with a fork?” And he replied, “I am accustomed to eating with a spoon.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That one time when he made cheese and it broke the ship⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In the early seasons, I couldn’t figure out how the fastest ship in the area could travel in one direction and still keep meeting the same people over and over.

  I was too distracted by the insanely nonsensical main storyline to ever worry about Neelix.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End Season 2 • Sousou no Frieren 2nd Season - Episode 8 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve got to respect their ability to make characters interesting to watch despite some of them showing nearly no emotions.

  And similarly, action packed fight scenes where everybody is calm and focused.

  But I think they did Fern a little dirty here. She should have beaten that guy without having to wait for the fog to clear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Strangely, the nurse told me about psyllium husks and didn’t mention any of that other stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Most people aren’t eating enough fiber. When I got my recent colonoscopy and they found polyps, they said to eat more fiber.

  I read the article, but unless I missed it somehow, it didn’t say much about fiber.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3218: Subduction Retrieval⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The subduction zone has turned into a production zone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨spoopy figs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I heard recently that one of the mushrooms that is popular as a vegan meat substitute lives off of some sort of living creature like insects or something.

  But realistically, it’s all the circle of life. Animal life is part of the circle. Probably all plants have consumed nutrients that came from an animal in some way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ray is basic.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “If a tree is so basic, then why aren’t there trees growing in the middle of the ocean?” seems like the sort of argument that would impress Ray.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Faith IX⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes but that means that they’re using evidence that it’s not AI and saying that means it is AI. It’s insanity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Faith IX⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does AI use odd words and sentence structure? I think it does the opposite unless instructed otherwise. It uses the most precise common words that work and the most common sentence structure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hoot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Before humans invented barns, barn owls were actually called “bar nowls”. They were a type of nowl that lived in bars. It wasn’t until barns were invented that they changed species and changed into owls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The new Voyager game was pretty bad.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like the Voyager game is worse than the Voyager show.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stubborn, maybe, but if it ain't broke⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My impression is that carnivores need teeth that pierce and rip, so they can’t do much ruminating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Under the most ideal circumstances, how 'clean' is drinkable tap water by the time it reaches our taps?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, whatever few microorganisms there are won’t generally do very well because there’s not much for them to consume.

  But there are some, which is why you should always use distilled water instead of tap water when it’s important to avoid microorganisms such as with nasal irrigation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forgive me, Doctor, for I have sinned: I haven't watched anything Trek in almost 2 months⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think a lot of people are reluctant to prop up Paramount these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Webb’s Infrared Vision Reveals Planetary Nebula that Looks Strikingly Like Celestial Brain⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess now we know what Marvin was talking about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fat labrador topilogy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think a dog’s nose has two separate nostrils that connect somewhere along the way on the inside. That’s not a sphere. It’s a torus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3D Printer Reviewers: Being honest in this industry will put you out of a job.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  China is a shitshow, legally speaking. The Chinese government basically encourages Chinese companies to steal international IP. If you sell any products to China, you can expect them to steal any novel ideas inside. There’s no recourse even for big companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re still scamming the shit out of businesses with their corporate software. Oh and they have Azure which I’m guessing makes money.