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Comment on Help adding LED lighting to bookcases in ~life.home_improvement
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Comment on The spies who knit codes into sweaters in ~humanities.history
zipf_slaw LinkCool idea, but I would think that the "facts on the ground" would be changing faster than someone would be able to encode them in a knit. Your sweater is always out of date.Cool idea, but I would think that the "facts on the ground" would be changing faster than someone would be able to encode them in a knit. Your sweater is always out of date.
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Comment on How Ukraine uses precision drone strikes to hobble Russian oil refineries in ~society
zipf_slaw LinkKinda weird (and unfortunate, obv) to think that now that we are buying some diesel from Russia, that some of these Ukranian strikes may technically be impacting US resources in an antagonistic...Kinda weird (and unfortunate, obv) to think that now that we are buying some diesel from Russia, that some of these Ukranian strikes may technically be impacting US resources in an antagonistic way, one way or another.
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Comment on Amazon uses its tracking data to guess whether shoppers have a flat butt and no friends in ~tech
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Comment on Amazon uses its tracking data to guess whether shoppers have a flat butt and no friends in ~tech
zipf_slaw Link ParentThis take doesn't make sense to me. Generally, I assume, people are only remodeling one bathroom at a time, and contractors (who will be working on more than one bathroom) are a minority and...The classic one I've seen on the internet is someone buying a toilet seat and getting a bunch of ads for toilet seats afterwards, as if amazon is stupid for doing that. The way I see it, any average person is highly unlikely to purchase a toilet seat at any given time. Someone who's recently purchased a toilet seat has a vastly higher chance of purchasing another toilet seat, since they might return the first one or have another bathroom to work on later.
This take doesn't make sense to me. Generally, I assume, people are only remodeling one bathroom at a time, and contractors (who will be working on more than one bathroom) are a minority and generally won't buy their stock from Amazon. And people who've chosen a toilet seat have likely made their decision on style/quality and won't be changing their mind, so they don't need ads for more/different.
All assumptions, obv, but they make sense to me.
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Comment on Deciding whether (or not) to have a child in ~life
zipf_slaw Link Parent"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but...Have you ever wished you weren't born? That your parents hadn't had you?
"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?"
-Quote from a bigoted evolutionary biologist who has, at times, said decent things.
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Comment on Angine de Poitrine review – mind-boggling math rock mastery from freaky Québécois duo in ~music
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Comment on Little late but...anyone interested in fantasy football? in ~sports.american_football
zipf_slaw LinkI'll just take this opportunity to mention I've only played FF twice in my life, probably 20 years ago, and I won both seasons. Stopped watching sportsball in general right around then.I'll just take this opportunity to mention I've only played FF twice in my life, probably 20 years ago, and I won both seasons. Stopped watching sportsball in general right around then.
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Comment on I made a chill minimal 3D golf game that fits in 13 kilobytes - Sunshine Golf Classic in ~creative
zipf_slaw Link ParentI think I enjoyed that game as well. Do the lines: "Oooh, can't be too happy about that one!" and: "Looks like he hit the tree, Jim!" ...sound familiar?since the 90s (I believe it was Jack Nicklaus 5, because you could make your own courses
I think I enjoyed that game as well.
Do the lines:
"Oooh, can't be too happy about that one!"
and:
"Looks like he hit the tree, Jim!"
...sound familiar?
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~movies
zipf_slaw LinkSo the jist of the article is that it has confused social media fans (fans of a movie that hasnt been released yet??? are they really fans?) but only quotes TWO (2) X users.... What's the point of...So the jist of the article is that it has confused social media fans (fans of a movie that hasnt been released yet??? are they really fans?) but only quotes TWO (2) X users....
What's the point of this?
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Comment on Ukraine attacks Russia with hundreds of drones - one of Kyiv’s largest aerial assaults of the conflict in ~society
zipf_slaw Link ParentDid some envelope math - a 757 carrys 11K gallons of jet fuel (kerosene). That is 4.6 Giga Joules of energy. The GBU 43 (MOAB, largest conventional bomb) has a 46 GJ yield. An order of magnitude...The reason 9/11 was such an effective attack is that international airliners are basically massive flying bombs. They carry more energy than even the largest conventional bombs ever built
Did some envelope math - a 757 carrys 11K gallons of jet fuel (kerosene). That is 4.6 Giga Joules of energy. The GBU 43 (MOAB, largest conventional bomb) has a 46 GJ yield. An order of magnitude larger than a wide body Boeing's fuel capacity (removing effect of kinetic energy).
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Comment on Waving goodbye, carrying my bundle on a stick in ~talk
zipf_slaw Link ParentI have 10, haven't deployed any, and arrived with the Reddit API wave a couple years ago.I have 10, haven't deployed any, and arrived with the Reddit API wave a couple years ago.
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Comment on An AI created viruses not found in nature in ~science
zipf_slaw Link ParentThere is a scifi book I read many years ago about a situation like this - there was a huge Valdez-like oil spill in SF Bay and in order to clean it up they release a GM-bacteria designed to eat...There is a scifi book I read many years ago about a situation like this - there was a huge Valdez-like oil spill in SF Bay and in order to clean it up they release a GM-bacteria designed to eat petroleum and it wound up disintigrating the world's plastics, which caused.... issues.
Ill Wind, it's called. Don't recall the quality of the story/writing.
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Comment on DuckDuckGo’s anti-AI sunglasses won’t spy on anyone in ~tech
zipf_slaw Link ParentKind of odd to do so, since they use AI summaries on their search returns.DDG should give out their logo + anti AI stickers
Kind of odd to do so, since they use AI summaries on their search returns.
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Comment on OpenAI and Anthropic endorse call for US government to "pace" AI progress in ~comp
zipf_slaw Link ParentI don't mean to be pedantic, and setting aside the current details, but you can continue to release better models and still be reaching a plateau. "Plateauing" (vs having plateaued) implies it's...I don't mean to be pedantic, and setting aside the current details, but you can continue to release better models and still be reaching a plateau. "Plateauing" (vs having plateaued) implies it's ongoing, not finished, and model improvements can be incremental.
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Neuromancer | Teaser trailer
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Comment on There are three types of farters. Which one are you? in ~science
zipf_slaw LinkEnrollment in the study is currently paused due to the internet hug of death, I'm sure - this study comes up in social media a few times over the last couple years and probably causes some swings...Enrollment in the study is currently paused due to the internet hug of death, I'm sure - this study comes up in social media a few times over the last couple years and probably causes some swings in demand for the devices used in their study. They don't know if they will resume enrollment..
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Comment on Sen. Lindsey Graham dies at 71 after ‘brief and sudden illness’ in ~society
zipf_slaw Link"I've never wished a man dead, but there are some obituaries I've read with pleasure." -a famous person"I've never wished a man dead, but there are some obituaries I've read with pleasure."
-a famous person
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Comment on Modern, abstract art makes me angry in ~arts
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Comment on Modern, abstract art makes me angry in ~arts
zipf_slaw Link ParentSkill is multi-factorial too: skill to paint accurately is one type of skill. Another type is determining how to generate soemthing that will make people feel things they wouldn't normally. The...Skill is multi-factorial too: skill to paint accurately is one type of skill. Another type is determining how to generate soemthing that will make people feel things they wouldn't normally.
The former is being in tune with the medium, the latter is being in tune with peope (and the medium).
I think when I made my 9' live edge redwood slab bookshelves, I used a custom (DIY) build with components from https://www.superbrightleds.com/. It was several years ago, but I'm pretty sure this was the vendor. The two power supplies fit within some fake books I bought and run three shelves each. Here it is during the build, the strips are embedded in an groove cut in the back of each slab, so the light bounces off the back white wall. https://imgur.com/a/gtBxXiF
Each strip can be programmed individually if desired.