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This caustic treat just popped up at the other place, courtesy of David Osland:
'Do we have two-tier policing in Britain? With me in the studio to discuss is a former Tory MP who wasn't charged with betting on the election date, a ferry boss who wasn't penalised for unlawfully sacking 800 workers and a woman who sold £200m-worth of unusable PPE to the NHS'!
100 people died in January, crossing the Mediterranean.
No "specialist search and rescue teams" out for them.
Not even reporting on each boat, let alone putting a name and a few sentences about each one.
We are told yacht owners are "worth" $billions.
Refugees are clearly thought to be worthless. We have to search for news of them.
They are humans in desperate circumstances, often caused by us.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/01/1145997
Bayesian yacht disaster: How specialist search and rescue teams work underwater
https://phys.org/news/2024-08-bayesian-yacht-disaster-specialist-teams.html
Search and rescue for missing persons is always challenging for the specialist recovery teams involved, regardless of the environment they're working in.Jamie Pringle (Phys.org)
My chemo sweatshirt arrived!
It has zippers in both sleeves so that I can wear it while getting my infusions. And it's going to be awesome when I get labs done in the winter because I don't have to take it off.
I got this on Etsy from DangerZTone (https://www.etsy.com/shop/DangerZtone?ref=usf_2020). It can also include chest zippers for those who need them.
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This is both the funniest and saddest thing I’ve ever read on Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friend_of_Dorothy
Got to bring Drogon out at #FanExpoCanada for a (sadly, not well attended) Game of Thrones/House of the Dragon photoshoot.
(Drogon by @komickrazi.bsky.social
Pictures found on FB)
Hitler didn’t operate the gas chambers himself. But he was responsible.
Manson didn’t kill anyone himself. But he was responsible.
Bin Laden didn’t fly the planes himself. But he was responsible.
Trump didn’t storm the Capitol himself. But he was responsible.
Justice matters.
Huh.
So, just now I learned that you can convert miles to kilometers with the Fibonacci sequence?
A mile is 1.609 kilometers.
The Golden Ratio, the ratio between Fibonacci numbers as they get large, is 1.618.
So, within about 1%. And large doesn't need to be that large, it's actually pretty accurate from about 8 onwards.
1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 89 etc etc
5 miles is 8 km.
21 miles is 34 km.
89 miles is 144 km.
etc etc.
Kinda neat IMO.
Mistaking the fact that LLM's "learn" or "evolve" is similar in mistaking the fact that there is "intelligence" in muscle memory.
LLMs are only language muscle memory.
Very finely trained, yes, and injected with reasoning patterns that stem from language use, but that's just it, muscle memory.
it's always funny seeing the preload for prompts from all these companies and it always includes lines like "tell the truth" and "do not lie" and similar and it's just like, the joke about programmers whispering to cursed sand was wrong. _This_ is whispering to cursed sand, politely asking it to do the right thing the way my sister says "please tell me about the weather" to my parents' Nest hub as if it might not if she doesn't say "please".
Although tbh it might not soon with the bs from Google.
(As a side note I snorted my drink seeing MKBHD testing some product and it literally reciting part of the preload prompt to him out loud)
Triple alignment captured near Turin, Italy. The photograph took six years of attempts and was recently featured on the NASA Astronomic Picture of the day.
Credit: Valerio Minato
A new pedestrian-cycle tunnel had been opened under Helsinki's main train station. With an underground bike park for 900 cycles, with chargers and cycle maintenance/wash station.
Cc: @notjustbikes
They say big trucks are just a reality if you want to make deliveries in the city.
I say there's other ways to solve the "last-mile" problem...
There's your beer kegs—sorted.
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Travel fox reporting in.
On mischief patrol duty today. No coyotes detected, but increased levels of vulpine mischief. @cynder_coyote
(Big fox friend belongs to @keeya!)
When you’re searching for your dog realising he’s in perfect hiding 🙈
#pets #PetsOfMastodon #dog #dogs
“That’s when Neil looked at the coin counter meter. it read “000001”:
And, sitting in the coin bucket was a single coin; a quarter dated 1983.”
https://arcadeblogger.com/2017/01/20/centuri-aztarac-finding-the-holy-arcade-grail/
Let me start by saying that this is the most amazingly poignant tale I’ve come across in arcade collecting circles. I’ve written before about incredible rare arcade “finds” …The Arcade Blogger
Who knew that it's possible to boot straight into UEFI setup by just running "systemctl reboot --firmware-setup"? 🤯
It makes all those times I was mashing F12, as soon as the computer started booting, utterly pointless — especially after getting Linux installed.
Well, at least I know about it now.
![[systemctl reboot --help]
--firmware-setup Tell the firmware to show the setup menu on next boot
--boot-loader-menu=TIME Boot into boot loader menu on next boot
--boot-loader-entry=NAME Boot into a specific boot loader entry on next boot](https://floof.org/photo/preview/640/559534 "[systemctl reboot --help]
--firmware-setup Tell the firmware to show the setup menu on next boot
--boot-loader-menu=TIME Boot into boot loader menu on next boot
--boot-loader-entry=NAME Boot into a specific boot loader entry on next boot")
Hey, it´s fursuit friday.
EAST was a nice time again. :)
I hope to meet some cute fluffs at #Eurofurence, again.
Fursuit: Shane
#furry #fursuit #photo #ff
Doin my best gargoyle pose for Fursuit Friday :3
🐕: @norfdog
#Furry #Furries #Fursuit #FursuitFriday #Photography #Anthro #FurryArt #FurryArtist
Another pro tip from me for people who are new to 3D printing: unless you are in dire circumstances, ask yourself if you're about to print something that you could have bought for a ridiculously small amount of money. There are a lot of times you could have just NOT spent 20 hours printing something.
For example, you rarely need to print a tube. PVC pipe is extremely cheap. Use it. Which brings me to a side version of this same point: ask yourself if you could, instead of printing a large object, print smaller objects that would convert something you can buy on the cheap into the thing you're trying to print. Maybe instead of printing an entire storage box for something, you can print an insert that fits into a box you have that holds those things. Back to the PVC thing, instead of printing a large thing that's 90% tube, just print ends that can attach to PVC pipe. Instead of printing a big self waterer for a plant, you could print just a screw on lid that will convert a plastic bottle into one. There's a LOT of prints out there that will turn everyday objects or fairly standardized global products (this is why IKEA is popular with 3D print types) into new things.
Now I'm not saying never ever do this, if you see some special carrying case for something and you like it and want to print it then go for it! But I've met a lot of people who just see a thing, print it, and don't really consider that they could have easily avoided a large percentage of the print by spending $5 or less on some PVC pipe or even grabbing a water bottle for free, and spent that time and plastic printing something else (and for structural things could have had far more strength than a pure 3D print would have had anyway). It's always worth thinking about if there may be a better way to go about it. Sometimes the best 3D printing project results come from *not* printing everything.
