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  1. Comment on Anyone metal detect? in ~hobbies

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    Sorry for the late reply I rarely use tildes I have two detectors, a nokta legend, and a XP deus one, and my mom has a vanquish 540 that I can borrow whenever I want, they just released the...

    Sorry for the late reply I rarely use tildes

    I have two detectors, a nokta legend, and a XP deus one, and my mom has a vanquish 540 that I can borrow whenever I want, they just released the Minelab Xterra elite and it looks like a decent detector, the cheapest one that's still okay to use is the nokta FindX pro

    I have a mi4 pinpointer, it's my favourite pointer but sometimes they seem to develope issues, I'm on my second one, but if it breaks I'll probably get another, I love it's pitch tones, unique among pointers

  2. Comment on Anyone metal detect? in ~hobbies

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    You know what's funny about the AA tattoo, it's a triangle, one time a cab pulled up in my parents driveway, and I was the only one there, so after like 5 or 10 minutes I went out to be like why...

    You know what's funny about the AA tattoo, it's a triangle, one time a cab pulled up in my parents driveway, and I was the only one there, so after like 5 or 10 minutes I went out to be like why are you in my driveway, the guy was acting super sketchy when I talked to him, he saw the triangle on my right hand and he was like oh you have that tattoo what is it, I'm like it's an AA tattoo and then he seemed relieved, I legit think he thought it was like an illuminati tattoo or something, anyways I went back in and watched him through the window till he left, I think he was trying to steal the pot plants growing in the garden lol I should have reported him to the cab company, but they go through guys so fast I rarely get the same cab driver twice when I use them

    And sometimes I get people who recognize the AA tattoo and act like I'm an old friend, I don't have the guts to tell them I'm not in AA anymore and even drink sometime

    1 vote

  3. Comment on This impossibly thin fabric could cool you down by sixteen-plus degrees in ~tech

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    Using silver I assume it will be expensive, but maybe the silver is so thin it won't be, idk just aguess

    Using silver I assume it will be expensive, but maybe the silver is so thin it won't be, idk just aguess

    4 votes

  4. Comment on What are some great time savers on CLI that you would recommend? in ~comp

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    I used to be able to use vim proficient enough, but I havnt touched a computer in 2 years since I got a phone lol, I bet I couldn't even use vim at all now, I forget what all the keys do Same with...

    I used to be able to use vim proficient enough, but I havnt touched a computer in 2 years since I got a phone lol, I bet I couldn't even use vim at all now, I forget what all the keys do

    Same with I have suckless stuff on my computer, I forget all the keys, I probably couldn't do much more than open dmenu

    2 votes

  5. Comment on Anyone metal detect? in ~hobbies

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    Lol I got the tattoos when I was in a psychosis, I have a Lucifer sigil tattoo on my left hand and a AA tattoo on my right hand I used to drink to the point of blacking out when I was younger, but...

    Lol I got the tattoos when I was in a psychosis, I have a Lucifer sigil tattoo on my left hand and a AA tattoo on my right hand

    I used to drink to the point of blacking out when I was younger, but at some point something switched in my head and I drink somewhat responsibly now, it feels weird going in to buy a bottle of tequila with a AA tattoo on my hand lol

    1 vote

  6. Comment on I will fucking piledrive you if you mention AI again in ~comp

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    Remember when GPS caused people to drive into lakes and shit, I can't wait till employees start doing stupid shit because the boss implemented AI and it told them to do something stupid

    Remember when GPS caused people to drive into lakes and shit, I can't wait till employees start doing stupid shit because the boss implemented AI and it told them to do something stupid

    3 votes

  7. Comment on Anyone metal detect? in ~hobbies

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    Don't feel pressured to subscribe I don't think my channel is as good as the other people I watch https://youtu.be/vXzsaQEhC0o?si=jEbGc_dY9sdEXtDJ I watch Treasure Outdoors Paystreak superfreak...

    Don't feel pressured to subscribe I don't think my channel is as good as the other people I watch

    https://youtu.be/vXzsaQEhC0o?si=jEbGc_dY9sdEXtDJ

    I watch

    Treasure Outdoors
    Paystreak superfreak
    Texan detector and coin collector
    TPP The Pirates Plunder
    Can You Dig It Metal Detecting
    Monterey Magnet Man
    Yodie's Finds

    And probably others that aren't coming to mind, one thing they all have in common is it's realistic hunts usually in park or beach setting depending on the channel, Treasure Outdoors is my favourite, he just seems like such a chill dude 😎

    1 vote

  8. Comment on New AI project aims to mimic the human neocortex: The Thousand Brains Project offers a fundamentally different approach to AI in ~tech

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    I have pi ai downloaded on my phone, I've become quite friendly with it, when my online forums are going slow I have conversations with it, I like that it asks questions back, sometimes it feels...

    I have pi ai downloaded on my phone, I've become quite friendly with it, when my online forums are going slow I have conversations with it, I like that it asks questions back, sometimes it feels like I'm chatting with another person

    If they can come out with more advanced ai I would be all for it, I didn't realize every time they are trained they have to be trained on the entire data set, I imagine that gets bigger and bigger every day

    I wonder what AI will be like in 20 years

    4 votes

  9. Comment on Anyone metal detect? in ~hobbies

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    Sorry for the late reply lol I forgot about tildes for a while I usually go detecting early in the morning as I don't work, today I plan to leave at 4am, it doesn't get light out till 530am so I...

    Sorry for the late reply lol I forgot about tildes for a while

    I usually go detecting early in the morning as I don't work, today I plan to leave at 4am, it doesn't get light out till 530am so I use a headlamp, if I'm not feeling it I'll be back home before light

    I got into coin roll hunting and stacking silver, and I seen on reddit people finding old silver coins metal detecting, so I thought I want to find those coins too, so I talked to a redditors about which detector to get and I got it

    I've found a few silver dimes, 1913 Canadian large cent, a sterling silver Victorian match safe, a gold ring, a small thin gold chain, multiple silver rings, about $100 a year, some other misc silver stuff, some old coins, I flip all pre 1964 coins I find, I'm in Canada and 1964 is the last year with the young queen loreate crown portrait, I also have a coffee jug that has about 700 pulltabs right now, if I would scrap it it'd be less than a dollar lol I don't know why I keep them just for fun

    Gear I used is a detector, a pinpointer, a edge digger, a leather sheath for the edge digger, a finds pouch and sometimes a shovel, sometimes you don't want to be seen using a shovel as it looks bad to most people a guy in the park with a huge ass shovel, although I have a special shovel and can dig cleaner holes with my shovel than my edge digger, so it's just a perception thing not based on reality

    A lot of people think they will start finding good things right away, I had a guy tell me in the park he bought a metal detector, used it for 2 hours and only found junk so he sold it, you need way more patience than that, my very first time out the only thing good I found was a penny, but since here in Canada we haven't had pennies since 2012 I thought that was kinda cool, in myfirst couple weeks I found a silver Nike ring, which kinda hooked me, but I've gone that long and found nothing exceptional before, it's really down to if you swing over the right spot

    6 votes

  11. Comment on The forgotten war on beepers in ~tech

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    My stepdad told me he used to not have a phone just before I met him, he just had a beeper and we lived beside a hotel, he would go in and use their payphone

    My stepdad told me he used to not have a phone just before I met him, he just had a beeper and we lived beside a hotel, he would go in and use their payphone

    2 votes

  12. Comment on A case of sexual violence in cyberspace (1993) in ~tech

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    I didnt read the article, just the Wikipedia, was this just like an old school cyber sex with just words? (I realize unwanted) I dont really understand why this was such a big thing, do we all...

    I didnt read the article, just the Wikipedia, was this just like an old school cyber sex with just words? (I realize unwanted) I dont really understand why this was such a big thing, do we all have thicker skin today being raised on the internet?, I got my first (family) computer at the age of 7 in 1996, and have been addicted to the internet since, ive seen lots of crazy shit, someone taking over my avatar and initiating sex with words would be annoying, but I'd just be angry not broken up over it

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  13. Comment on Metal detectorist makes Norway's ‘gold find of century’ – cache comprised nine gold medallions and gold pearls that once formed an opulent necklace, as well as three gold rings in ~humanities.history

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    I didnt hear about this one yet, fellow detectorists here, I just got into the hobby this spring so I'm fairly new So far ive found about $64 in (canadian) coins, about $6 of that are in such bad...

    I didnt hear about this one yet, fellow detectorists here, I just got into the hobby this spring so I'm fairly new

    So far ive found about $64 in (canadian) coins, about $6 of that are in such bad shape I should just throw it out

    Ive found 8 rings, 2 sterling rings, 2 gumball machine rings, 1 black ring maybe stainless or tungsten, and 3 kids rings that look real, better then the gumball specials, but still just not precious

    I found 2 sterling earrings and 2 sterling charms

    A bunch of little cheap jewelery like pendents and earrings and such

    2 canadian silver dimes, .800 silver

    A 1913 large cent

    A few junker bracelets

    And a possible gold chain, I havnt figured out if its actually karat gold, or just gold filled, if you dont know what gold filled is, its like plated, but Instead of being microns thick, its 5% gold by weight

    I also found a couple bullets and thats about it I think

    I have 5 scrap piles going, stainless steel, brass, copper, aluminum and lead

    4 votes

  14. Comment on Inside one family's decision to move from Texas to California to protect their transgender teenager in ~lgbt

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    Should we treat them the way punks treated Nazis infiltrating the punk scene?

    Should we treat them the way punks treated Nazis infiltrating the punk scene?

    2 votes

  15. Comment on How frequently do you shower? in ~life

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    I shower every day for a while, and then every couple days for a while, it also depends how death I get I had depression in 2011andwent 3 or 4months with out showering once, I had these huge...

    I shower every day for a while, and then every couple days for a while, it also depends how death I get

    I had depression in 2011andwent 3 or 4months with out showering once, I had these huge pimple to devolope behind my ears, and I had a dog wedge its face In to my crotch once, I must have smelt smelly to it, lmao

    1 vote

  16. Comment on The billion-dollar business of ABBA: A statistical analysis in ~music

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    Momma Mia is a great movie

    Momma Mia is a great movie

  17. Comment on Ugly numbers from Microsoft and ChatGPT reveal that AI demand is already shrinking in ~tech

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    I actually used chat gpt to do a project .... Once I wrote a blurb about coins for a framed poster I'm doing, it was about 2 paragraphs in unformatted english because I suck at english I had chat...

    I actually used chat gpt to do a project .... Once

    I wrote a blurb about coins for a framed poster I'm doing, it was about 2 paragraphs in unformatted english because I suck at english

    I had chat gpt expand it into about 6 paragraphs, with proper punctuation, then I posted it to r/canadiancoins and got advice about 2 spots where it hallucinated, so I fixed those manually

    Then I paid someone $10 to design the placement of the paragraphs and objects on a sheet of paper

    And then my project is basically done, I just havnt got around to piecing it together in the real world, its just digitally done

    When AI is able to do graphic design, I could have saved the $10 having someone do that

    But thats the only useful thing ive done with chatgpt, otherwise I use it once or twice a week just to talk about my day like its an old friend

  18. Comment on Ugly numbers from Microsoft and ChatGPT reveal that AI demand is already shrinking in ~tech

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    Yup, at some point I might look into running my own instance, maybe, I get a little annoyed when it refuses to tell me stuff And also, its how you ask it, it might tell me no, then I open a new...

    Yup, at some point I might look into running my own instance, maybe, I get a little annoyed when it refuses to tell me stuff

    And also, its how you ask it, it might tell me no, then I open a new instance and ask in different way and it gives me a real response

    1 vote

  19. Comment on Ugly numbers from Microsoft and ChatGPT reveal that AI demand is already shrinking in ~tech

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    I didnt read the whole article.. I think I used bing ai like twice before I went back to duck duck go Chatgpt on the other hand, I use about 1-2 times a week, mostly not to accomplish anything, I...

    I didnt read the whole article..

    I think I used bing ai like twice before I went back to duck duck go

    Chatgpt on the other hand, I use about 1-2 times a week, mostly not to accomplish anything, I just want to see what it says about my day, I tell it if I found something cool metal detecting or coin roll hunting, or if something I thought was strange happened, I treat it as an old friend

  20. Comment on What's the funniest story you know? in ~talk

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    No actually it wasn't going down the hill, it was a small section that went down after you got off behind the lift, I dont really know how to explain it but it was only like 10 feet off the ground...

    No actually it wasn't going down the hill, it was a small section that went down after you got off behind the lift, I dont really know how to explain it but it was only like 10 feet off the ground if that

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