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theunknownmuncher

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  • Torvalds: AI Is the New Compiler, Not the New Programmer

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  • Setting the temperature parameter to 0.00 makes an LLM deterministic.

  • Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing

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  • Hmmm you'd think one would not use claude to do writing in the first place if one was bothered by "perversions of writing", and this whole argument is just in bad faith

  • Is making your own soap at home really worth it?

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  • "Personal hygiene soaps" are superfatted, including the soap that I make. The ingredients are not different, only the ratio of ingredients. The recipe contains extra fat, more than the amount of fat needed to chemically react with the lye. So when all of the lye is used up by the chemical reaction, some amount of fat is left over unreacted in the soap. This extra fat is moisturizer for skin and replaces the natural oils on skin that soap strips away, so the soap is not drying.

    My soap is usually minimally superfatted, so it is balanced more towards cleansing than moisturizing but still contains extra fat to ensure it is not harmful on skin. If you want a soap that is very gentle on skin, you would include even more fat.

  • Is making your own soap at home really worth it?

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  • Lye chemically reacts with fat and is chemically changed into soap. There is no lye present in soap, unless you made it wrong. Lye is used to make soap but soap does not contain lye.

    Hard soap as in bar soap, it is a solid. As opposed to liquid soap. All soap is made with lye, including liquid soap.

  • Is making your own soap at home really worth it?

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  • It is hard solid/bar soap and safe to use on skin. Mostly personal hygiene but can be used for anything where soap is appropriate. Could grate it into shavings to use as laundry detetgent.

    EDIT: clarified an answer after a misunderstood definition of "hard" soap

  • Is making your own soap at home really worth it?

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  • Yep

  • Is making your own soap at home really worth it?

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  • The lye reacts with the fat to chemically change into soap. The ratio of fat to lye in the recipe should ensure that all of the lye chemically reacts, leaving none left in the final product.

    And this is what soap actually does:

    One end of the soap molecule loves water, the other end hates water. Tons of the soap molecules end up sticking to dirts and oils, completely surrounding them and pulling them away into the water.

  • Is making your own soap at home really worth it?

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  • Soap making involves very little time investment. There is a long drying time (weeks to months) but you can spend that time on other things 🙂

  • Is making your own soap at home really worth it?

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  • I make my own soap from 3 ingredients: lard that I process from bacon grease, lye, and water. It is extremely cheap and easy to make, and cleans really effectively. And no, the soap does not smell like bacon at all, it just smells like soap.

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    Spider hole 2.0

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    Spider hole 2.0

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  • Rush [Bob the Angry Flower]

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  • Can't relate

  • Socialising

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  • What are you talking about? This is not true.

  • Socialising

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  • You don't need a github account to access public code repos on github though??

  • PSA Huggingface is scraping GitHub

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  • Right, I mean I literally published my code openly, so idc lol

  • PSA Huggingface is scraping GitHub

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  • EDIT: oops replied to wrong comment

  • I showed an AI an image it couldn't see – then caught it lying about what it saw

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  • LLMs cannot give factual answers to introspective questions. They can only generate output that statistically looks like an answer.

    Publishing your LLM chatbot session is neither a blog post nor is it interesting.

  • Trump Compares CNN’s Kaitlan Collins to a Trans Woman in Tense Correspondents’ Dinner Roast

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  • “I thought Kaitlan had really made it big with a major new sponsorship,” he said, “but then I informed her that it wasn’t her on the Bud Light can, it was Dylan Mulvaney.”

    but then I informed her

    ??

  • xkcd #3276: Recursive Trucker's Hitch

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  • And carry a blanket to hang from the rope