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- Comment on Incident 2 days ago:
We’re just talking about doing a diaper change. I don’t know how you can call that “stacking a caregiver hard”.
- Comment on Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates 2 days ago:
Higher protein content than the cow milk variant!
- Comment on Broccoli Blooms 2 days ago:
Raw, it’s a little spicy, similar to radishes. Boiled, it’s very sweet. It can take the place of carrots and turnips in soups.
The simplest preparation that’ll give you an idea of how the ingredients tastes on its own: cut into thin slices and boil in water with a bit of salt and msg (I personally like to use chicken stock).
The outer layer is very tough and fibrous, so make sure to get rid of that first. Depending on the quality of the bulb, you might also end up with one that’s fibrous throughout. Those are not pleasant to eat, and if you happen to get one of those, I assure you that it’s not a typical experience.
- Comment on Incident 2 days ago:
They’re spending that time doing diaper changes. They’re not attending to the other kids regardless.
- Comment on Isn't Batman's questioning Superman because he is an unknown entity basically the same reason Lex Luthor has against Superman? 4 days ago:
What’s the logic behind having plans for taking down an evil version of yourself? Who watches for that to carry out the plan when the time comes? What’s the plan if that person becomes evil and now has the means to combat non-evil Batman? Does he have a plan for that too? Because if so, evil Batman will also have it.
- Comment on Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user. 5 days ago:
I don’t see why they can’t be resold. As long as there’s a market for new AI hardware, there will continue to be a market for the older stuff. You don’t need the latest and greatest for development purposes, or things that scale horizontally.
- Comment on Cutting sucks 1 week ago:
I guess it wasn’t clear what I was responding to. I edited my comment with the quote.
- Comment on Cutting sucks 1 week ago:
Everyone has different nutritional needs. If you’re doing chicken and protein, it’s probably because it’s much easier to measure out an exact amount of macronutrients to fit your needs and fill up the rest on broccoli to make it as satiating as needed.
- Comment on Cutting sucks 1 week ago:
A whole chicken breast during a famine? That sounds luxurious. I was under the impression that animal protein was incredibly rare.
- Comment on Is it normal for young teenagers to snore ? 1 week ago:
If breathing pauses, esp. Followed by a fit, then it’s disorder (apnea).
Only if it happens frequently enough. Apparently, having this happen a few times a night is normal for healthy people.
- Comment on Why do neurotypicals like AI slop? 1 week ago:
Except this isn’t how language works
Language serves to communicate. If most people who know nothing of the subject read your question and understand “X is true” from it, then that is what you’re communicating. Of course, I have no way of actually providing evidence for this besides anecdotes since I don’t have the means to actually run a study on it. But if you’ve had enough human interactions, you’ll have seen a lot of these types of questions where people will genuinely try to answer them as if they’re true, or point to such questions as evidence for something being true. You’ll also often see this for personal attacks (e.g. “Why are you such a doofus?”).
This is probably an area where LLMs can actually be useful since they hold a lot of information on something of an average of what most people think. Give it a sentence and ask how it might be interpreted by others.
People aren’t robots
Yes, and? Humans are meat bags. It costs a lot of energy for meat bags to think, and humans tend to be very energy efficient. If you can get away with doing less thinking, then most people will. This is something I’m constantly being made aware of because my particular brand of autism doesn’t allow me to take advantage of this efficiency, which is what makes it so debilitating.
If you have some familiarity with information theory, it might be more convincing to think about it through that lens and consider how certain interpretations / assumptions lead to higher efficiency.
you’re continuously asserting my claim is false
If I did, I did not mean to. I don’t interact with enough neurotypical people to say whether it’s true or not. I think you can just replace “since” with “if” in my previous comment to correct for this.
- Comment on Why do neurotypicals like AI slop? 1 week ago:
It is not the same thing. When you ask why X is true, you’re not only asking the question. You’re also making the claim that X is true. Since the premise of the question is wrong, you’re making everyone do extra work to figure out why your question isn’t making sense to them and what question you actually need to have answered.
You can invite speculation without making false claims. You also haven’t contributed anything other than anecdotes despite having made that false claim.
- Comment on Great Advertise 1 week ago:
There’s nothing about this image that can tell you with certainty that it’s AI generated, but it’s an art style that has been popular with AI generated images recently, probably due to the simplicity, which makes it harder for it to make mistakes. The trend means that a lot of junk has been showing up with this style and people have a negative association with it now.
- Comment on Why do neurotypicals like AI slop? 1 week ago:
Observation is the first step to formulating a theory, which leads to a hypothesis, which can be experimentally tested.
That would be valid if it was what you did. Except you didn’t. You assumed the hypothesis to be true and asked us why it’s true. You should instead be asking whether or not it’s true.
- Comment on I ain't got no time to maintain some stupid little plastic bread clip. I got a landlord to feed. 2 weeks ago:
They still use those here. I don’t bother with the tape. Just cut the bag.
- Comment on How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday? 2 weeks ago:
- Talking about sex: Perfectly healthy and is something every parent should do.
- Talking about sex toys and flashlights: Also perfectly normal.
- Requesting/offering help in purchasing a flashlight (e.g. take my credit card and buy something under my name or driving them to a sex shop): Normal
- Choosing the fleshlight for them and thus making the decision in exactly what kind of sensations they experience while masturbating: Out of bounds.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Besides the temperature differential that everyone else mentioned, there’s also sometimes the need to defrost the outside bits, which means running the heat pump in reverse and undoing a bit of the heating it already did.
- Comment on The stand makes the difference 2 weeks ago:
It requires a certain amount of flexibility. Some are born with it, others have to work for it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Can’t we just stick to pinky swearing that I’m an adult?
- Comment on What is piefed? 2 weeks ago:
What were the side-effects? I was thinking of implementing something that doesn’t directly federate votes, so it would be good to know what problems I’d need to solve before that can be done.
- Comment on What is piefed? 2 weeks ago:
I believe piefed creates fake accounts to do the voting so it doesn’t federate the actual account that cast the vote.
- Comment on Ice cream trucks still around? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a food truck drive around looking for customers. They’re usually just stationed in one place for the day.
- Comment on Why abc, xyz, etc.? 3 weeks ago:
abc and xyz make sense because they lie on opposite ends of the alphabet, so if you need more variables for either sets, there’s a lot more room to maneuver. If you’re looking for the history of these variables in the context of Cartesian coordinates, I’d start with looking at Descartes’ work. This whole system originated from him, so if he used xyz, then that must be where it came from.
I’ve seen p and q used in various contexts. For example, they could be probability distributions (e.g. KL(p|q)), they could be two points. In these scenarios, we just use p because it’s the first letter of whatever they represent, and q comes after while looking similar so it suggests that they’re the same type of mathematical object.
For indexing, it’s what we commonly use just because we call it an index. You’re not counting or tallying things. It’s a reference to a location in memory. But if you are counting, then c makes perfect sense and I’ve definitely used it in that context. I’ve also used t for indexing if that index represents time. But if there’s no other meaning associated with it, then it’s just an index, hence i.
- Comment on How do you combat boredom? 3 weeks ago:
This had the opposite effect for me. I basically never experienced boredom until I had a kid. The things you have to do to entertain them are so mind-numbingly boring.
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 3 weeks ago:
It’s not that warm flat sodas appeal to me, but rather that carbonated drinks are painful to drink too quickly. If I have a paper straw, it’s also going to be accompanied by a meal, which takes time to eat. Also, if I’m getting a more interesting drink like a smoothie, slush, boba, etc, then I usually get something fairly large to enjoy over a long period of time.
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 3 weeks ago:
I wonder if the people who don’t like them let their drinks sit for hours
Yes
and chew on the straw till they’re soggy
No
- Comment on How does a guy become his most confident around women? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think the example you give is a good one. Consent is always important. You don’t slap a dude’s ass without knowing ahead of time that they’re okay with it.
But that aside, there are differences for sure, and I think the most important one is in starting and ending interactions. If you’re a man interacting a woman, you need to be aware of the safety concerns from the woman’s perspective. In almost all interactions, a man can easily leave with no concern for their safety, but it’s not so simple for women, so you’d want to pay closer attention to any signs of discomfort they’re giving off and end the interaction when appropriate, or not starting one if they’re giving “don’t approach me” vibes.
- Comment on How did websites like TinEye recognize cropped photos of the same image (and other likened pictures), without the low-entry easyness of LLM/AI Models these days? 4 weeks ago:
Yann Lecun gave us convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in 1998. These are the models that are used for pretty much all specialized computer vision tasks even today. TinyEye came into existence ten years later in 2008. I can’t tell you if they used CNNs, but they were certainly available.
- Comment on Can you see magic eye pictures? 4 weeks ago:
It sounds like you might be looking at the left image with your right eye and the right image with your left eye. That’s what happens when you cross your eyes instead of looking past the image.
- Comment on BREAKING: X CEO Linda Yaccarino Steps Down One Day After Elon Musk’s Grok AI Bot Went Full Hitler 4 weeks ago:
But my question is, does it not count as being archived if it’s exactly the same message that’s posted to another platform that is archived?