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davidgro

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  • That's how I felt about the Reddit protests. (Also that a sub going private was counterproductive, but that's another issue)

  • ChatGPT

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  • Fake slop. What will they think of next.

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  • ... That's the joke. (That he doesn't)

  • TIL the last person imprisoned under the Witchcraft Act 1735 was in 1941, A medium claimed to have spoken to the crew of the battleship HMS Barnam, whose sinking had not been made public

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  • Just looked it up, and yeah, you're underselling it. I had no idea

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  • On the other hand, he Doesn't think you can double a sphere by cutting it into 5 pieces and reassembling them, so there's that.

  • TIL the last person imprisoned under the Witchcraft Act 1735 was in 1941, A medium claimed to have spoken to the crew of the battleship HMS Barnam, whose sinking had not been made public

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  • TIL ectoplasm in the ghost sense (as opposed to cellular) is a concept that existed before Ghostbusters. I thought they just took the cell biology term to sound sciency.

  • Linus Torvalds: "The AI Slop Issue Is NOT Going To Be Solved With Documentation"

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  • If you are genuinely asking:

    Because documentation should be accurate and comprehensive. LLMs can do neither.

  • When/how frequently do you replace your phone with a new one?

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  • My previous phone was replaced when the main (for most apps only) camera stopped working, and more importantly, it randomly rebooted frequently whenever Wi-Fi was on. Also, my carrier didn't acknowledge that it used LTE, so it was about to be booted off the network.

    Also the OS was old enough that some apps I used were starting to drop support and I would hear about others I couldn't install.

    And Google Services Framework very often got into a rut where it would use 100% CPU and crash every few seconds, eventually getting bad enough that rebooting rarely helped. I wrote a long bash script to try and monitor it and reset it when it did this (by deleting a file that occasionally seemed to help and killing all its processes at once) but it just got worse over time. I didn't want to do a factory reset for some reason I've now forgotten.

  • What's the most recent lie you told?

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  • My wife asked how many different games I'm regularly playing each day.

  • In defence of swap: common misconceptions

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  • What I don't understand is why there is so much resistance to the idea of having swap plus a separate hibernation file that is only enabled on demand. I finally got it working on my laptop, but it took a Lot of fiddly obscure manual configuration (which I wish I had documented - I don't just mean setting the offset in grub) and it still didn't play well with hybrid sleep, etc.

    This is the only way to have hibernation that works at any memory pressure.

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  • And yet on my phone I wish websites would stop hawking the native app and just let me use the site. In a way I suppose this is the same complaint since the native apps are often a web wrapper with telemetry.

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  • "I am searching for the bones of your father but cannot distinguish them from those of a slave." Diogenes of Sinope (as he was asked by Alexander the Great what he was doing when staring into a pile of bones)

  • T'Pol gets infamous

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  • That's only true if the person watching doesn't rewind it...

  • T'Pol gets infamous

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  • "Cause and Effect" returns to the beginning of the episode several times! (A dozen, a hundred, it's impossible to tell. But actually 3-4 I think)

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  • I think the comic is pointing out a funny hypocrisy that we usually have between land bugs and sea bugs, but they are all bugs.

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  • The original post used the word bugs, not insects. (Although the pic does seem to show only insects, I'd interpret that as a stock image fail)

    Bugs are such a wide group already that to me it seems reasonable to include branches separated by 400 million years of evolution, much the way 'fish' is such a wide group that by a scientifically reasonable definition it can include all vertebrates as a subgrouping.

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  • Can those values actually go above 1 even in theory?

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  • "Bugs" (obviously not specifically Hemiptera) includes a Lot more than just insects. If you go back to the most recent common ancestor of everything commonly called a bug, I'm sure it's Way back there and its descendents would include not only ocean arthropods but I'd guess probably most things with shells. Possibly just most animals

    And yes, we are that closely related to fish