Rinox
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- Comment on Can't get that metallic taste out of my mouth 3 days ago:
Does it count as DIY or professionally installed if you are a professional doing it yourself?
- Comment on Rabbit was once an NFT company that it wants you to forget about 1 month ago:
On Pixel (but probably also other phones) you can press and hold the power button to summon the assistant. Put chatgpt or whatever as your assistant and you have a rabbit equivalent with one button summon.
- Comment on Rabbit was once an NFT company that it wants you to forget about 1 month ago:
Good luck making an AI you are 100% sure is PG rated.
Btw someone already put chatgpt+whisper in a kid’s plushie/toy, saw it on an old WAN show. The lag is tremendous though
- Comment on Carl? 1 month ago:
Iirc is to attract birds so it can infect the bird and use it to reproduce. After the bird has eaten the parasite out of the snail’s eyeballs, the snail can often regenerate and keep living as usual. This is what I recall from a YouTube video at least ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on checkmate, big geology!! 1 month ago:
Yeah, it pretty much blew out that whole section of coastline, that big hole is called a “caldera”. It’s still active btw, you can go and check it out if you want. Look for Solfatara di Pozzuoli.
You can also look at the Greek island of Santorini, where the whole western and central part of the island was blown off during the bronze age iirc. Historians speculate the eruption, earthquake and tsunamis caused by the event could have partially influenced the collapse of the Minoan civilization, the rise of the Mycenaeans, turmoil in Egypt and possibly even the fall of the Chinese empire due to a global winter. Crazy stuff
- Comment on checkmate, big geology!! 1 month ago:
Except Vesuvius, which looks like a volcano, but in 79CE erupted violently sending lave, magma and molten rocks several kilometers away, exactly like the stuffy nose you described. It completely destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum, burying them for thousands of years.
Still nothing when compared to the destruction that the “Campi Flegrei” brought 37’000 years ago, completely burying a huge section of the Campanian coastline.
- Comment on Antybooties 2 months ago:
I mean, we could even try to extract how this works and use it to create a biological processor. Or a myriad of other stuff. This is actually a really interesting discovery
- Comment on Evolution isn't linear. 2 months ago:
In Italian Digimon it’s called Digievolution
- Comment on Evolution isn't linear. 2 months ago:
Yup, the T. rex is just extinct, chickens are the closest thing that remained after the cataclysms that wiped out pretty much all dinosaurs.
Same reason why humans didn’t actually descend from monkeys, both monkeys and humans descend instead from a common ancestor that does no longer exist. This is why, IMO, Digimon could be a better representation of evolution than Pokémon, since one Digimon can evolve into many different forms, so that kitten could become a fridge, but also a dragon or a knight with cannons, depending on the evolutionary line.
Then again, I doubt any of these were intended as a realistic portrayal of anything at all, least of all the theory of evolution.
- Comment on Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don't come with a requirement that drivers watch the road 2 months ago:
Will it pull a Tesla and switch off the autopilot seconds before an accident?
- Comment on Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don't come with a requirement that drivers watch the road 2 months ago:
It’s not really an issue. 99.9% of the time the passengers will already be safe and the pedestrian is the one at risk. The only time I see this being an issue is if the car is already out of control, but at that point there’s little anyone can do.
I mean, what’s the situation where a car can’t break but has enough control where it HAS to kill a pedestrian in order to save the passengers?
- Comment on Eww, Copilot AI might auto-launch with Windows 11 soon 2 months ago:
I don’t know, isn’t it a huge money sink rn?
- Comment on Eww, Copilot AI might auto-launch with Windows 11 soon 2 months ago:
It helps sometimes with code, when I can’t find a solution on Google.
- Comment on acceptable screws 2 months ago:
Nobody calls Allen bolts hexagon either.
That’s not true when working internationally, since it can have different names in different nations. In Italy is Brugola, in Germany Inbus and in other places it has other names. Everyone understands what a hex key is though
- Comment on Round 2 🚢 3 months ago:
No, I don’t think they’d work the same. If military subs are rated and tested similarly to big ships like aircraft carriers, they are extremely resilient again underwater explosions
I doubt that this thing, if it existed, would be as durable.
- Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families 3 months ago:
The 30% it’s always been the standard though, so not just Valve. That figure comes from retail, where 30-50% is still standard practice. You could argue that retail has higher costs, therefore needs the higher cut, but when Valve created Steam, they probably went with what worked.
What I really hate about Steam and all online shops, is that you can’t resell something you purchased second hand. If I can resell my physical copy of a game or movie, I should be able to do the same with the digital version. Also the fact that they can remove access to the product you bought whenever they want. In my opinion, we need a law that specifies that what you buy is yours, and you get to do whatever you want with it, even if the manufacturer doesn’t like it.
- Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families 3 months ago:
It’s the only way I can see it working. Otherwise, you could just make infinite cheat accounts.
- Comment on This was the first result on Google 3 months ago:
“Hot tube” seems like a slang for some kind of drug device. Like a weird bong or something
- Comment on Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says 4 months ago:
Also, can you name a nation without laws that negatively affect you or could be considered stupid?
- Comment on Midjourney might ban Biden and Trump images this election season 4 months ago:
There’s never enough proof for some people. There are Holocaust deniers ffs
As for China, the proof is in the pudding. Can you go there and openly speak about it? Can anyone just go up to the camps unannounced and check? Or can you only go there when and how the government wants, like the Nazis did when they invited the International red cross to one of their camps and made a little movie about it to show how humane they were, and then at the end of the film they simply sent everyone there to Auschwitz?
- Comment on Across America, clean energy plants are being banned faster than they're being built 4 months ago:
All that precious wind we need for top soil erosion
- Comment on I had some that looked exactly like this 4 months ago:
The most permanent solution is always a temporary solution
- Comment on Wack job 4 months ago:
I don’t know, have you seen the tattoos on Salvadorian gang members? Now imagine some of them surviving till they are 80.
- Comment on SUV stolen from Toronto driveway shows up 50 days later — AirTags tracked vehicle from Canada to Middle East, offering glimpse into shipping routes used by car thieves 5 months ago:
Bicycles can’t be stolen
- Comment on European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying 5 months ago:
That’s because it was entirely voluntary. It should be integrated in the browser by law, and the choice should be binding
- Comment on SR-72: US secret hypersonic jet to allegedly break sound barrier in 2025 | Believed to be a top-secret project of the US Air Force, the SR-72 is touted to reach over 4,000 mph (6,437 kph), making i... 5 months ago:
Btw the lack of American affordable healthcare is by design, not due to budgetary constraints. The US military budget is actually not completely unreasonable in comparison to GDP, being 3% and including social security for veterans.
In comparison Russia is now spending 6-7% of GDP on the military, possibly more since the Russian economy is shrinking. China is around 2%, and the world average is around 2% still. The US has a massive economy, so their 3% dwarfs all other countries.
As for healthcare, the US government is already spending twice as much per person as other western countries. If the US government wanted affordable healthcare, they could make it happen yesterday, all while reducing healthcare expenditure. The problem is just a political one, not an economic one.
- Comment on OpenAI suspends ByteDance’s account after it used GPT to train its own AI model. 6 months ago:
I don’t know about that. Training your AI on someone else’s AI feels a lot like drinking someone else’s piss. I doubt you are going to extract much innovation out of that
- Comment on inches plus coins equals metric system 6 months ago:
That’s obviously not what I’m talking about.
Not really that obvious. The imperial system is not used in base 12. It’s used in base 10 like everything else, therefore, if it were consistent with its units (which it isn’t) it would be more like 12 -> 144 -> 1728.
Since changing how we count is honestly not realistic, the prospect of having to deal with a system that’s not based on 10 is kinda scary.
- Comment on inches plus coins equals metric system 6 months ago:
I don’t agree. It might sometimes be cool, but with a numerical system in base 10, having a unit system in base 12 becomes really hard to manage. Let’s take meters:
1m = 10dm = 100cm = 1000mm VS 1m = 12dm = 144cm = 1728mm
How many mm is 15 dm in each system?
To make a base 12 system work, you’d need to change the numerical system also, by adding two new digits, like we do for hexadecimal numbers, so you’d have …8-9-A-B-10, where A = 10 and B = 11 (in 10 base), so that 1m = 10dm = 100cm but in base 12.
Anyway, good luck trying to pass that, I’ve seen people who can barely count on their fingers, let alone understand a new base 12 numerical system. And for what?
- Comment on inches plus coins equals metric system 6 months ago:
Depends for what. Still better than random scales like 3, 12, 1760 and units that don’t mean anything like hundredweight, which isn’t even one hundred anything, unless it is because you live in another part of the world where the same word means a totally different thing.
Fancy a pint?