Rivalarrival
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- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
$5000-$15,000. If you can’t afford a vasectomy reversal, you can’t afford kids.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
While it’s not guaranteed, chances are very good that it can be reversed. If you change your mind later, you can attempt to reverse it.
Nobody should be having kids before the age of 30 anyway.
- Comment on I need to tell you something unsatisfying: your personal consumption choices will not make a meaningful difference to the amount of enshittification you experience in your life 1 day ago:
- Comment on Does trump know he cheats at golf? 2 days ago:
Trump.doesn’t even know who shits in his pants.
- Comment on Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages 2 days ago:
It’s just a separate part of your ISP costs.
- Comment on Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages 2 days ago:
Any good VPN will let you choose the jurisdiction of the endpoint.
- Comment on Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages 2 days ago:
VPN, with an endpoint in a nation where Signal isn’t particularly popular, so nobody thinks to fuck with it.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Blocked that comm, just so I wouldn’t accidentally violate that rule. No sense in getting emotionally invested in a post I’m not allowed to discuss.
- Comment on I explained economics to my nine year old 3 days ago:
It’s less to do with “tiny variables” and more with the fact that the foundation of the “system” is the capricious whims of human fancy.
“Economist” falls in the same category as “alchemist”, “astrologist”, “psychologist”, etc.
- Comment on As governments around the world are set to make the Internet more restrictive and privacy-invading, we need a solution 4 days ago:
Your proposal is acceptable.
- Comment on How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news? 5 days ago:
Sometimes you need an up-armored Komatsu D355A to cut that path through the forest.
- Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport." 5 days ago:
Without pilot intervention, the closest they would have come would have been 4.85 nautical miles laterally, and at the same altitude.
With the pilot intervention, the closest they came was 4.85 nautical miles laterally, and 500 feet vertically.
- Comment on New Executive Order:AI must agree on the Administration views on Sex,Race, cant mention what they deem to be Critical Race Theory,Unconscious Bias,Intersectionality,Systemic Racism or "Transgenderism 5 days ago:
A non-compliant LLM can’t win a government contract. That’s about it.
- Comment on On Tuesday afternoon, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists 5 days ago:
To me, it seems like they are arguing that “testing” whether a hammer can smash your thumb doesn’t actually provide any useful information on the safety of a hammer.
To me, it seems they are saying that Estwing makes a better hammer than Fischer-Price, even though the Fischer-Price hammer is far less likely to cause injury if you hit your thumb.
All this article says is that we shouldn’t stuff a general purpose LLM like ChatGPT into a Tickle-Me-Elmo.
- Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport." 6 days ago:
Agreed. The point of a conservative warning is to give plenty of time and opportunity to react without bouncing your passengers off the ceiling.
Fault for the loss of separation seems to be on the controllers. Not all separation incidents are the same, though. This one seems to be rather minor. By my estimation, the encroachment was a maximum of 264 yards, and the duration of that encroachment (without pilot or controller intervention) would have been less than 10 seconds. Too tight, yes. It needs addressed so it doesn’t become a habitual violation that could lead to more severe encroachment by these controllers. But there was no real danger of bodily harm from this encroachment.
Fault for an overly aggressive maneuver is on the pilot. There was a risk of injury from that overly aggressive response. The pilot’s actions elevated a minor, no-risk event to one that risked serious injury to the passengers and crew. But, he was following instructions from a device designed to improve aviation safety, and the nature of the warnings from that device, an over-response is much safer than an under-response. He has to trust his instruments, and his instruments (erroneously) told him to push the nose down, quickly, lest he hit another plane.
TCAS is designed and intended to reduce risk and prevent harm. In this specific incident, though, it seems like the TCAS-RA actually increased the risk of harm, by calling for an immediate action that wasn’t actually necessary to prevent harm. Is there a way to improve TCAS?
I, too, would like to know how often TCAS incidents were recorded before and after the layoffs. Those layoffs definitely harmed aviation safety. But if someone were injured in this incident, I don’t think I could point the finger at the controllers or lack thereof. This particular incident seems to suggest a shortcoming in the TCAS system.
- Comment on pegged 6 days ago:
Australian, not American.
We would have deep fried that shit.
- Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport." 6 days ago:
Visualization from flight data: youtu.be/VTAUMP2le3c
- Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport." 6 days ago:
Just to put this into perspective, here’s a visualization of the flight data. The two aircraft were never on a collision course. They slightly violated a 5-mile separation requirement: their closest point of approach was 4.85 miles. The pilot did need to respond to the TCAS alert, but that alert was very conservative.
- Comment on YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless" 6 days ago:
UPS stores (and many others) offer mailboxes, similar to PO boxes. Unlike PO boxes, they will accept packages from other shippers as well as USPS. Also, they’ll only put mail in your box if it is addressed to you specifically. No bulk mail or “Current Resident” bullshit.
- Comment on Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule 1 week ago:
I kept pushing my previous employer for a midnight-8pm Saturday, and a 4AM-midnight Sunday shift, but couldn’t get them to approve it. 40 hours a week, 5-days off.
- Comment on Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule 1 week ago:
I thought “996” meant 9 hours on Monday, 9 hours on Tuesday, 6 hours on Wednesday, then a 4-day weekend.
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 1 week ago:
Does it have to be a lawsuit? Can it be a big guillotine instead?
- Comment on I want this on a t-shirt 1 week ago:
Napalm sticks to
kidsKiddie Diddlers. - Comment on I want this on a t-shirt 1 week ago:
I read once that you can use a tampon instead of a rag, but I think that would likely blow out when you throw it. But, you could stuff a corner of the rag into the bottle, and then force a tampon in behind it to secure the rag/wick.
The US Army publishes a field manual on improvised munitions. I’ve been meaning to read it.
- Comment on I want this on a t-shirt 1 week ago:
filling it with alcohol/gasoline
You’ll want to experiment, but a 50/50 mixture of gasoline and diesel fuel will give improved results. You can also dissolve Styrofoam packing peanuts and/or soap flakes in the gasoline to give it a stickier consistency.
- Comment on North Korea and South Korea isn't working. Let's try West Korea and East Korea instead. 1 week ago:
How about a North/South Korea, and an East/West Korea? All four quadrants meet at Panmunjom. You can cross on the diagonal, but never a row or column.
- Comment on How active is too active while being on lemmy? 1 week ago:
I had a reddit addiction very bad and im trying to replace it with lemmy…
Have you considered switching to something safer? Maybe heroin?
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Neuralink filed as ‘disadvantaged business’ before being valued at $9 billion 1 week ago:
- Comment on Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket 2 weeks ago:
Luigi Mangione, white courtesy phone. Luigi Mangione, white courtesy phone please.
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 2 weeks ago:
F-Droid is a decent replacement for the play store. Lots of FOSS and less-enshittified apps available.
