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Just this guy, you know?
- Comment on Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳 3 days ago:
-20°F is -29°C
(A handy thing to remember is that -40°F is -40°C)
- Comment on Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE 4 days ago:
I really think you should try. This us the Internet after all!
- Comment on ‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid 1 week ago:
That was the default buy, yeah. Now it’s going into a non-US esg filtered one that I can’t remember.
- Comment on ‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid 1 week ago:
There are screened index funds like this www.justetf.com/en/etf-profile.html?isin=IE00BFNM…
Although we’ve now moved a good chunk to small capitalization and non-US to have less exposure to the coming tech bust.
- Comment on 'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells 2 weeks ago:
That’s some fancy active cooling on that computer. Possibly overkill.
- Comment on Hurry pls it's urgent 2 weeks ago:
A lot of people still go by the NATO vs Warsaw Pact division that we grew up with. I still have to envision Czechia as the western part of Czechoslovakia.
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 2 weeks ago:
To repurpose The Fermi Paradox, if AI allows anyone to easily make a useful product, then where are they all?
Is that The AI Fermi Paradox?
- Comment on Bye Bye Big Tech: How I Migrated to an almost All-EU Stack (and saved 500€ per year) 3 weeks ago:
How did the EU manage to keep their back doors secret where the USA didn’t?
- Comment on Typical monopoly people 5 weeks ago:
One major issue is that it’ll expose all regional differences in pronunciation in the spelling and now we’ll disagree about the spelling instead.
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 1 month ago:
The cheese slicer is a great Norwegian invention and much used in all the Nordics. And The Netherlands. And Germany?
I think it mostly boils down to “what is cheese” to you. If you think you can even have an argument about whether you should cut “cheese” with a cheese slicer, then you come from a place where they make sense.
In my fridge I’ve got parmigiano, gorgonzola dolce and I just finished a rare piece of emmenthal. A slicer would have been useful only with the last one of those.
But my sandwiches! I hear all my fellow northerners cry. They’re great with brie or toma. No slicer needed.
- Comment on Earth needs more energy. Atlanta’s Super Soaker creator may have a solution. 1 month ago:
It’s probably time to put the kettle on and stay away from the Internet, and perhaps other people on general, until you’re feeling better.
- Comment on Earth needs more energy. Atlanta’s Super Soaker creator may have a solution. 1 month ago:
If that’s the literal point, then why on God’s green earth are you talking about tea? And milk?!?
- Comment on Earth needs more energy. Atlanta’s Super Soaker creator may have a solution. 1 month ago:
And yet it’s too hot for a proper cup of green tea.
- Comment on US urges Europeans to oppose EU plans for loan to support Ukraine 1 month ago:
Well yes, they’re trying to steal this money for themselves. Or probably Trump himself personally.
- Comment on "enjoy the show" 1 month ago:
Good guy Google maintaining the integrity of the timeline.
- Comment on New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds 3 months ago:
So those would be the model S and X electric handles and not the 3 and Y mechanical ones? Yeah, that seems like a safety issue.
- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 5 months ago:
Faithfully projecting a globe onto a flat surface is impossible and all projections have to balance a number of compromises. Mercator retains compass directions and the shapes of land masses but entirely sacrifices relative scale between equatorial regions and polar regions. This makes it great for navigating a 17th century vessel. Other projections strike a different balance, like this one, and sacrifice compass direction and land mass shapes in order to perfectly retain scale. On this map, my little Arctic island looks like someone stepped on it.
IMO a balanced projection will compromise on all the nice properties a projection can have, and if that isn’t acceptable, then get a globe.
- Comment on Mexit, not Brexit, is the new priority for the UK 5 months ago:
Sure you do. You go there for the Indian food and the Thai food and we have a Burmese place we go to each time we’re in London.
And sure, might get some bangers and a pie while we’re there.
- Comment on This boomer couple would be hit with $700,000 tax bill if they sold their mansion 5 months ago:
And will make a 3.5 million dollar profit from that transaction.
- Comment on ICE agents pointed guns at a US citizen when she walked out on to her yard to ask why they were arresting her (legal immigrant) partner. 5 months ago:
I’m just going to leave you this link: …wikipedia.org/…/List_of_ethnic_armed_organisatio…
Check the Active list and the founding years. This was not a disarmed population. What the Tatmadaw did or did not allow was not much of a concern outside the central plains.
But these messages are being deleted, so whatever.
- Comment on ICE agents pointed guns at a US citizen when she walked out on to her yard to ask why they were arresting her (legal immigrant) partner. 5 months ago:
The fuck are you on about? Civil wars happen regardless of the population being armed or not. See Myanmar.
Off topic, but Myanmar has had local militias for decades and they were in varying states of rebellion until the democratic reforms in the 2010-2020 period. Yes, the civil war has spread further now, but this was in no way a disarmed country.
- Comment on Is it just my area or has this been an insanely humid summer? 6 months ago:
Icelandic here. Still no summer.
Just kidding, it was Tuesday last week.
- Comment on Why do people hate coldplay? 6 months ago:
Unflavoured, unsweetened, full fat yoghurt is the only yoghurt. You’re thinking of sweet, vanilla low-fat yoghurt.
- Comment on Deserved? Poll inside 6 months ago:
Just acknowledging the correct singular and spelling of spaghetti.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
No it did not. But it may have wronged it.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 6 months ago:
Would that be a problem when travelling to the… oh, right, we’re not doing that anymore… would this be a problem for Europeans travelling to Canada?
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 6 months ago:
So… they chose to make a very Pixel-specific OS and you’re mad at Fairphone?
- Comment on If AI was going to advance exponentially I'd of expected it to take off by now. 7 months ago:
I do not.
- Comment on If AI was going to advance exponentially I'd of expected it to take off by now. 7 months ago:
How about this, this is a real easy one. What type of function is this:
There is a theorem that “all smooth functions are locally linear”. In other words, most “normal” functions are indistinguishable from a straight line on the graph if you zoom in far enough.
So that’s not just no than easy one, it is an impossible one.
- Comment on If AI was going to advance exponentially I'd of expected it to take off by now. 7 months ago:
Or you can just admit you dont have any data to quantify your assertion that AI advancement is exponential growth.
Ah, that’s a fair argument. LLMs growing exponentially is just an assertion being made and we’re supposed to believe that then the steep growth must be just around the corner.
But all over this post you’ve got heavily downvoted comments that sound like you are misunderstanding exponential functions rather than doubting that they’re the right model for this.
We might be on the steep part of an S function right now.