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  1. Comment on ‘Ideal’ movie running time is 92 minutes, poll claims in ~movies

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    6 movies. Plus 2 more for the extended edition lol

    There's no way LotR would have been able to tell the story it needed in 92 minutes.

    6 movies.

    Plus 2 more for the extended edition lol

    2 votes

  2. Comment on New evidence found for Planet 9 in ~space

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    Obviously a large teapot.

    Obviously a large teapot.

    2 votes

  3. Comment on What if we discover the answers of the Universe, eliminate cancer, halt aging. What's next? in ~humanities

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    We already regularly create new universes with their own secrets. We call them video games. We can only dream how those would work after we solve meat and build a Dyson swarm.

    We already regularly create new universes with their own secrets. We call them video games. We can only dream how those would work after we solve meat and build a Dyson swarm.

    4 votes

  4. Comment on Looking for help scraping and deleting a Reddit account in ~comp

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    My script has a no-CSV mode which is the standard mode for most of these scripts. It cannot delete everything at once per Reddit limits. With the CSV, and so a list of all commend IDs, it...

    there for unknown reasons even with repeated attempts

    My script has a no-CSV mode which is the standard mode for most of these scripts. It cannot delete everything at once per Reddit limits. With the CSV, and so a list of all commend IDs, it systematically eats everything. Probably fails at currently private comments, but the IDs should still be on the list, so a later rerun should mop those up.

  5. Comment on Looking for help scraping and deleting a Reddit account in ~comp

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    I don't have time now so just posting a link https://rentry.co/unreddit Not sure if it still works. Worth a try. Let me know if something's unclear :)

    I don't have time now so just posting a link https://rentry.co/unreddit

    Not sure if it still works. Worth a try. Let me know if something's unclear :)

    2 votes

  6. Comment on Meet Llama 3 in ~tech

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    I know, I use Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral on the regular. I'm saying censoring them is... discomforting.

    I know, I use Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral on the regular.

    I'm saying censoring them is... discomforting.

  7. Comment on Meet Llama 3 in ~tech

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    Claim to own it and censored it up. Screw commercial applications of everybody's personal content, I want a compressed version of the internet as it is.

    Claim to own it and censored it up. Screw commercial applications of everybody's personal content, I want a compressed version of the internet as it is.

    4 votes

  8. Comment on Transformers One | Official trailer in ~movies

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    I don't like Transformers, but I do like Transformers One.

    I don't like Transformers, but I do like Transformers One.

  9. Comment on New Brexit checks will cause food shortages in UK, importers warn in ~food

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    Tories want an even higher separation from EU, even if it makes people starve... so I'd say that firmly falls under "evil".

    too ashamed/evil

    Tories want an even higher separation from EU, even if it makes people starve... so I'd say that firmly falls under "evil".

    5 votes

  10. Comment on What cooking techniques need more evidence? in ~food

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    I freeze sliced, then just remove slices for consumption, so it only ever suffers one cycle. The kind I get handles it no problem, it's great.

    I freeze sliced, then just remove slices for consumption, so it only ever suffers one cycle. The kind I get handles it no problem, it's great.

  11. Comment on Norwegian bridge collapsed ten years after it was built – all because designers focused too much on making it look good in ~engineering

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    It seems to me the goal was the "beauty" of "minimalism", and reusing two existing foundations, so they skipped on adding a third support. At least that's what I gather from the article. Ended up...

    It seems to me the goal was the "beauty" of "minimalism", and reusing two existing foundations, so they skipped on adding a third support. At least that's what I gather from the article. Ended up with two asymmetrical supports instead of awkward 2+1. But I don't know, I don't do bridges.

    7 votes

  12. Comment on What cooking techniques need more evidence? in ~food

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    Freezing most types of bread doesn't harm it. However, fridge is another matter, as you'll have starches retrograde—basically order themselves—which indeed could lead to full crystallization. I'd...

    Freezing most types of bread doesn't harm it.

    However, fridge is another matter, as you'll have starches retrograde—basically order themselves—which indeed could lead to full crystallization. I'd say "bread crystallizing" would be a fitting expression for it in a pinch. Either way, this does in fact accelerate going stale. Ordered starches mean firmer bread and loss of moisture. You'd have to reintroduce moisture and heat it to revert the process a bit.

    4 votes

  13. Comment on How to fix the dreaded 'package appears to be invalid' error when installing APKs in ~comp

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    You create a new version on Google Play or Apple AppStore, and create an internal / alpha test group. You add your team to that group. Android testers need a link to the Google Play store page...

    You create a new version on Google Play or Apple AppStore, and create an internal / alpha test group. You add your team to that group. Android testers need a link to the Google Play store page only they can see, and Apple testers see it all in TestFlight. If all is fine, you can actually publish the version, or just step up the test to a second-level group.

    Both platforms' testing first happens in an emulator, but Apple's is much worse, so sooner or later you need to link a phone to your IDE, and it will build straight to it. I see no real reason to avoid using a personal device honestly.

    Also in my experience 99% of all install errors are caused by signing issues.

    13 votes

  14. Comment on What AI tools are you actually using? in ~tech

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    Can easily make a bot for that. I made one that periodically asks if I watched the shows it recommended to me earlier etc.

    I've also wondered how much value could be gotten out of LLMs that talk at you unprompted. Like, for body doubling or any sort of assistant, they would sometimes initiate the conversation too, right? Or give encouragement unsolicited. I'd actually love it if I told ChatGPT I was doing something, and then an hour later it asked "so how is that project going?"

    Can easily make a bot for that. I made one that periodically asks if I watched the shows it recommended to me earlier etc.

  15. Comment on What AI tools are you actually using? in ~tech

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    This is awesome. Could you describe or even show your typical conversation?

    This is awesome. Could you describe or even show your typical conversation?

    2 votes

  16. Comment on Microsoft to separate Teams and Office globally amid antitrust scrutiny, will cost $5.25/month standalone in ~tech

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    Hope it makes lots of clients drop Teams. I even don't remember the last time a "full", "finished" product from a large company had such an alpha version vibe.

    Hope it makes lots of clients drop Teams. I even don't remember the last time a "full", "finished" product from a large company had such an alpha version vibe.

    5 votes

  17. Comment on Why do some people posting ChatGPT answer to the discussion/debate/question? in ~tech

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    I've made a script that does this, but one LLM pretends to be Pinky, and the other—Brain. Naturally, the latter's job is to plan world conquest, and Pinky asks dumb, yet armor-piercing questions...

    I've made a script that does this, but one LLM pretends to be Pinky, and the other—Brain. Naturally, the latter's job is to plan world conquest, and Pinky asks dumb, yet armor-piercing questions about it.

    It's mostly garbage, but sometimes pure gold!

    5 votes

  18. Comment on Hey, monthly mystery commenters, what's up with the hit-and-runs? in ~tildes

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    Or "this person drops hints of (willfully?) holding enough misconceptions for this to turn into a lengthy and unpleasant tirade to a wall, with a chance of insults" and who has that much time and...

    Or "this person drops hints of (willfully?) holding enough misconceptions for this to turn into a lengthy and unpleasant tirade to a wall, with a chance of insults" and who has that much time and nerve to burn?

    48 votes

  19. Comment on The Space Shuttle misdirection (1991) in ~humanities.history

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    I feel like more prejudice arises from people looking at someone's disability and subconsciously thinking "that could never happen to me", using fallacies such as just world fallacy to then judge...

    I feel like more prejudice arises from people looking at someone's disability and subconsciously thinking "that could never happen to me", using fallacies such as just world fallacy to then judge them. And, of course, fail to accommodate them.

    6 votes

  20. Comment on Memories are made by breaking DNA — and fixing it (in mice) in ~science

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    It always astounds me how much Lamarck was right. Not that it's all that much (and for instance neuron DNA isn't passed on), but it's always more than I expect.

    It always astounds me how much Lamarck was right. Not that it's all that much (and for instance neuron DNA isn't passed on), but it's always more than I expect.