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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Based on some plausible sounding number I found online, a megabygte is around 500 typed pages. So this thing was 1875 pages of text.

  I wonder when the break-even point was for digital vs paper media from a size/weight standpoint.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tall tails⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, in 40 million years, you can match the beaver fossils to the bones of their still living descendants and find similar features.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Virtual Boy: Nintendo Classics - Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  lol the actual Virtual Boy only had 11 titles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saw this on another instance and knew it belongs here.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Saw it in Seattle too.

  Really tempted to paint a dick on it and see AI remove it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump posted this in Truth.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that “Redux?” We just picked it up, but haven’t watched it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump posted this in Truth.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We just got it on DVD. It’s the “Redux” edition. 3 hours 22 mins. It’s the 6th longest movie in our collection behind LoTR extendeds, Beh-Hur, and Lawrence of Arabia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump posted this in Truth.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never seen Apocalypse Now, but I get the feeling Trump has never seen Apocalypse Now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It can be made quickly and efficiently, even by people without skills or talent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The company is literally called “Name Fatso”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's been downhill since 2020⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fall of 2012. Obama wins again. Weed is legal in some states. Gay marriage. Nuclear powered tank lands on Mars. iPhone 5.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It can be made quickly and efficiently, even by people without skills or talent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chirp in Fahrenheit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a grasshopper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My favorite board game!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wrote that after a six hour flight after a two day bender of a wedding. Didn’t even realize it was a euro plug lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My favorite board game!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  fu

  Fuses protect wires in the walls, not what you plug into the socket.

  If the tine in the neutral socket makes contact before live, it’ll probably just pop the fuse. Hot first, and you better hope it’s a GFCI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get Ready⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I ordered mine with no herring

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Something about psychological warfare idk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I read “Priceless, the Myth of Fair Value,” William Poundstone attempts to explain this phenomenon.

  First he mentions the advent of the “99-Cent store” the first of which was created by a shopkeeper who noticed sales increased when prices were 99-cents despite the same item being even cheaper before.

  One theory as to the beginning of this phenomenon dates back to British colonialism in America. Conversion from British shillings produced an odd-penny prices in local currency, so the strange prices were associated with higher quality imported goods.

  Another theory comes from the invention of the cash register. Since change could only be made after the sales amount was punched into the machine (and recorded for later review by the shopkeeper), odd prices made it more difficult for employees to sell items on the sly and pocket the cash. Unless that employee had a pocket full of change.

  Though he admits that neither of these explanations (if even valid) would explain why specifically prices ending in 9 (called “charm prices”) are so popular.

  A experiment carried out at the University of Chicago found that when different versions of women’s clothing catalogs were sent to a random sample of people, the same item would sell better at $39 than at $34.

  This is interesting especially because it partly debunks the “mental rounding down” that allegedly happens when you see a price ending in a 9.

  Some people have come to associate it with things being marked down or somehow discount, and studies showed that higher end brands see less benefit from charm prices. A study showed that a charm priced item sold similarly well to a non-charm priced item that had an explicitly called out sale price (like “$40, reg $48”).

  I know when I worked at Circuit City, the status of the item was sometimes coded into the price. $x.99 was normal price while $x.97 was clearance, etc.

  Ultimately, we do it because it works but there’s no definitive answer as to why it works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suggest some games according to my laptop's hardware⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  trying to draw perfect file selection rectangles around round objects on your desktop wallpaper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any FLOSS alternative's to Ground News?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  hackaday.com/…/crunching-the-news-for-fun-and-lit…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So the output from the LLM is just a text description that’s fed into another, smarter piece of software that interprets that text into an order? What task is the LLM actually doing in this case?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can someone who understands this better explain to me how this thing actually places the order into whatever POS they use? Like if LLMs are just advanced auto-complete, I get how they can do “fuzzy” tasks like answering questions, but how do they do rigid tasks like entering the tacos into whatever system the cash register and kitchen use?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  someone didn’t buy the season pass

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Call 1-888-GOT-GUNK NOW!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it weird that my greyhound eats her eye goobers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nooo my genderinos⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting take. Thanks for sharing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nooo my genderinos⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The point is that he just assumed there was nothing more to know. And he was wrong (tho I’m not gonna knock the dude who invented calculus too hard).

  The comic is trying to point out that bigotry is generally born out of a lack of curiosity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nooo my genderinos⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  now do quantum

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nooo my genderinos⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When Newton worked out the laws of motion, he figured they had to be correct because they were so simple and elegant.

  He had no idea that relativity was going to come in and fuck his shit up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The forgotten war on the Walkman⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Living in a city, I can kind of get it. The number of people who simply walk in front of my bike because they’re absorbed in their phone has made my commute stressful. I ended up installing a car horn on my bike which I’m sure makes their commute more stressful.

  Perhaps the Walkman was the first time technology isolated people from the world around them.

  Or I dunno, books.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, if they just made it easier to craft a formula (like, I dunno multiple lines, some kind of better color coding of matched parentheses, etc), that’d go a lot farther.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you got in a time machine⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I introduced my wife to Funkwhale, and she’s been ripping all of her old CDs from high school.

  Not only did she not label all of the CDs, some of them were mixes from friends that had surprise mystery tracks added in as a joke.

  In one case, she had a ska band cover of a song from Rocky Horror that even Shazam couldn’t identify.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨0°mg⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  0 Rankine is pretty fucking cold.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is actually an extra hand in the shot where Neo signs for the package in his cubicle. It’s lying on his desk and wearing a watch. They later cropped it out, and that shot is a little granier as a result.