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- Comment on What is piefed? 13 hours 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 days 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 days 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? 5 days 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! 6 days 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! 6 days 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 2 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 2 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?
- Comment on BREAKING: X CEO Linda Yaccarino Steps Down One Day After Elon Musk’s Grok AI Bot Went Full Hitler 2 weeks ago:
Would that stop them from duplicating the information on other platforms?
- Comment on What is wrong with being "Black Pilled"? 2 weeks ago:
Which comment is saying that? Everyone is being pretty explicit about the differences between choosing not to date because you’re uninterested versus because you think you’re too ugly.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 2 weeks ago:
I can see the appeal. I’ve just had bad experiences with devices that use digital controls, and you necessarily need digital controls if you’re going to automate these things. Everything breaks eventually, but simpler devices can usually be easily fixed whereas anything that relies on specialized circuit boards are outside of my wheelhouse. I would be much more comfortable with owning one of these if they released information on how these circuits worked so that replacements can be made even if the company disappears.
- Comment on How does AI use so much power? 2 weeks ago:
I can confirm as a human with domain knowledge that this is indeed a commonly used approach when a model doesn’t fit into a single GPU.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 2 weeks ago:
I agree, but that should be a separate device. One that I can use in any grill or oven. There’s no reason for the grill itself to have that feature, especially if it can potentially brick the whole thing.
- Comment on In languages which use complex written characters (such as Chinese's logographs), is there an equivalent to English's "text speak" shorthand? 2 weeks ago:
I’m still learning, so I don’t know the language well enough to give you examples. One of the things I’ve seen is using single Latin characters as replacement for Chinese characters that are homophones. This is often seen when writing things out in dialects that have unique words that don’t exist in the Mandarin writing system.
- Comment on Let’s Encrypt Begins Supporting IP Address Certificates 2 weeks ago:
How many bits is a /s mask?
- Comment on I am looking to broaden my youtube channels that I follow. What female channel are you following? 3 weeks ago:
Food / cooking:
- www.youtube.com/@imamuroom She used to do a lot of bento boxes but has since switched to regular home cooking. Good for getting meal inspirations.
- www.youtube.com/@AcreHomestead She does a lot of “meal prep” style videos and food preservation, including lots of freezer meals. Also good for inspiration.
- www.youtube.com/@Doobydobap She has a few long-ish videos that give a good high level overview of Korean cooking. The majority of the channel is more vlog-like but I’ve only watched her cooking videos.
- www.youtube.com/@CSaffitz Mostly does desserts. Her recipes tend to be on the more complex side. I’d look to her if I really want to perfect a recipe.
Others:
- www.youtube.com/@theleanbeefpatty Gym videos. More of a mindless entertainment channel than informational. She has a pet pig.
- www.youtube.com/@Caroline_Winkler Interior design. She has a peculiar sense of humor that’s not quite my style, but the information is good.
- Comment on Is it morally wrong for an immigrant or naturalized citizen to "keep a low profile" and avoid speaking up against the government in order to minimize the risks of denaturalization/deportation? 3 weeks ago:
I’d add that they also have your roommate at knife point. I don’t think it changes the answer too much, but it’s closer to the scenario that OP is probably thinking about.
- Comment on KAOSnow, a totally new take on Democracy 3 weeks ago:
Absence of moderation is in itself a form of censorship.
- Comment on It was all a lie, wasn't it? 4 weeks ago:
Where did all your pipes and wiring go? What insulates the building?
- Comment on But I am mighty!! 4 weeks ago:
Like father, like son.
- Comment on No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites 4 weeks ago:
I think the idea is that you keep the layout as simple as possible such that you don’t need any code for it, css or otherwise.
- Comment on YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3 4 weeks ago:
The problem with the subscription feed is that it shows you every channel that you’re subscribed to. If I only want to see cooking videos for example, then it has to be through the standard YouTube recommendations page. What it needs is the ability to manually group channels and let us choose which set of channels we want to see.
- Comment on Is there a medieval equivalent of the youtube channel "Primative Technology" 4 weeks ago:
This reads like a Google AI summary. I love it.
- Comment on A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit 5 weeks ago:
I’m not reading any anger in their message. Seems like a pretty innocent joke.
- Comment on A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit 5 weeks ago:
My days pretty much consist entirely of work, chores, gym, spending time with my kid, and sleeping. If not for the flexibility I get from work, I don’t think I’d ever be able to do groceries.
- Comment on Spicy food never affects my gut and everyone thinks it's really weird. How unusual is this and what could be happening to explain why spicy food doesn't affect me? 5 weeks ago:
Anyone want to take a capsaicin pill for science?
- Comment on Is empathy based on a financial bell curve? 5 weeks ago:
I think what you’re observing is the interplay between two variables with opposing correlation with respect to wealth:
- Having empathy
- Ability to display empathy
Poorer people might have more empathy, but their ability to show it is inhibited because of lack of resources (time/energy/material). Wealthier people may have all the means to display empathy, but they’re less incentivized to do so. At some point in the middle, you get a sweet spot where there’s both sufficient desire and ability to do good.
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 5 weeks ago:
Growing up, I didn’t like water either because I didn’t like the taste. No one around me could understand how I could dislike it because water supposedly tastes like nothing. BUT IT DOESN’T. WATER HAS FLAVOUR. Anyway, I later figured out that filtered tap water tastes a lot better than the bottled kind.