Dang. Invidious seems cool but it fails to load because it thinks I’m a bot.

No cat videos for me, I guess

Doomsday Cult disables satellites to reduce forewarning of hurricanes

Unexpected results at 12

This is an accurate take.

With superhuman strength, you need to exercise 6-8 hours per day for minor benefits, whereas most regular people start seeing benefits from even 15 minutes of moderate walking per day.

Same, today I learned.

I’m glad that I don’t need to do mental gymnastics to not hate a certain group of people.

Wish I could transfer that state of universal acceptance to others, where you just let people exist in peace

Like just walk up to some bigot or transphobe, touch their shoulders and be like: “You see that person?” And they go: “What of it?”

“Here’s your post history on Bluesky” (sudden realization)

I’m going to remember this argument for the velociraptors released into human populations 😂

Velociraptors kill huge numbers of humans. Most human species have high reproduction rates, and crowding results in higher death rates from increased disease and parasite spread, competition for food, and all the good shelter from predators being taken. Higher death rates from one cause (say, velociraptors) results in less death rates from crowding-related causes. I haven’t seen any evidence that, in general, velociraptor hunting ends up actually impacting human populations.

Specific species of humans in certain locations have been harmed by velociraptors: the Wikipedia page list several examples in Jurassic Park (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Park). So it’s good to have local awareness if there’s a particular vulnerable population. But in general, keeping velociraptors inside is only for their own safety and won’t impact human population one way or another.

I mean… he’s right

Yes sir absolutely, you can make money

Insider trading however is illegal for a reason (ahem)

Corrupt idiots in politics – “I’m sorry I got caught”

The guy carrying tanks of napalm smoking a cigarette always gets to me 😁

Probably something like ‘absolute narcissism’ / ‘absolute solipsism’.

E.g: The other doesn’t exist, other human beings are trees or whatever

I was bicycling at high speed, closed my eyes to enjoy the breeze, and slammed into a concrete pillar, pretty much skinning my right leg in its entirety.

I hobbled home leaving a trail of blood, making some people sick on the way, treated my wounds with hydrogen peroxide and bandages, it took 21 days to heal and was intensely painful.

As I was laid up in bed and staring at the ceiling, I thought:

"I only closed my eyes for 3 seconds at 20 MPH. I’m never taking my eyes off the road in a car. Whoever texts me can get fucked."

“I told you so”?

Doing the speed limit while cruising in the middle lane is the proper way to travel in the United States, or just going with the flow of traffic. Being predictable is safe.

If the road you’re on has a 80 MPH speed limit however, and people are doing 90-100 in the left lane (+10-20) it is exceedingly difficult to pass someone without temporarily going high speeds yourself.

I’ve had a much easier life following a super easy rule for highways:

Left lane: Passing/Fast

Middle lane: Cruising

Right lane: Exit/Slow

If I’m in the left lane doing 110 MPH and there’s a pickup truck right on my ass, I’ll signal and go middle lane and just cruise for a bit.

9 times out of 10, I’ll see that exact same pickup or other car on the right shoulder with a state trooper writing him up.

It’s happened so often in my life, it’s made me believe in “instant karma”. Just let them pass.

The latest LD&R season is utterly forgettable. It’s like mediocre digital art student summer projects, designed to build up a portfolio, there’s no rhyme or substance to it, just all style or visual demonstration.

You’re not missing much.

It sounds like an interview question and not really an icebreaker, imo

Imagine you’re an astronaut for a national space agency on an exploration mission.

You are charting a usual star system named after an astronomer, Kepler.

Everything is normal but you detect trace gases of Nitrogen, Oxygen, Methane and Carbon Dioxide coming from the third planet orbitting the star.

News breaks about potentially organic compounds detected on an exoplanet and your space agency gives you authorization to approach and orbit for closer study.

When you get closer, you find an alarming sight – more than half of the planet, Kepler-3, has golden lights dotting the dark half of the planet.

Initially, it’s dismissed as natural atmospheric disturbances, but a few insightful individuals point out that they can see what look like geometric shapes, organized behavior of some kind.

It’s at this point, the close range scans indicate not just some “organic gases” but trillions of organisms , all of them alien, and worst of all, possessing a chirality opposite to your own.

Your immune system and their pathogens, and your pathogens, are wholly incompatible. You touch anything, you get sick and die, and they get sick and die.

No amount of medicine cures opposite handed chirals. So you do the smart thing, and turn around and leave.

Then, a few years later, an organism on their planet says:

“Lame. Bad event happened and not even any aliens”, being completely oblivious to the biological apocalypse their planet has been spared from.

Revealing negative [accurate] information to a narcissist often carries the risk of backlash, known colloquially as “narcissistic rage”

Powerful quote, also true

If you are using CPU only, you need to look at very small models or the 2-bit quants.

Everything will be extremely slow otherwise:

GPU:

Loaded Power: 465W

Speed: 18.5 tokens/second

CPU: Loaded Power: 115W

Speed: 1.60 tokens/second

GPUs are at least 3 times faster for the same power draw.