Tar_Alcaran

“told you I’m not gay! How dare you say I’m gay. I’ll sue you!”

Thrown in prison for being gay

Generally it’s silver reacting with (trace) amounts of sulfur containing gasses in the air to form silver sulfide.

Silver sulfide isn’t blue, but the colours, and especially the multiple hues are caused by thin-film interference. That’s the same effect that gives soap bubbles that shifting multi-colour effects.

The only way to remove it, is by grinding off a tiny bit of material, which is what you do when you polish it. The tarnish doesn’t go further than the surface layer, so it’s actually a pretty amazing way to preserve the metal.

Fun fact: if you ever want to make silver look old, put it in a closed box or bag with a hard boiled (or rotten, but I suggest boiled) egg. Those are high in sulfur compounds and will add months of tarnish in minutes.

zebras live in anonymous herds. That is, they like to clump together to ward off predators, but they don’t know or like each other.

Zebra’s don’t like anyone, and they’re not afraid to show it. Repeatedly.

The odds aren’t zero. He’s not any more braindead than the rest of the conservatives, and won’t pass nearly as many terrible laws.

I did the maths three times, because I was sure I got it wrong, but on Earth you get a LOT of energy from the radiation of stuff around you. I never really thought about that.

At that point, you’ll have to calculate the heat transport of the human body, and answer questions like “how long can a person live with frozen skin” and other fun questions I’m not equipped to answer.

I just did the maths in another post. It’s surprisingly fast! 10 minutes till you die, under 20 till you freeze. Assuming perfect heat conduction and no increased energy generation from shivering or panicking, which probably won’t make much of a difference.

I can’t really find a good number for how cold you can get and not die, so let’s say 20 degrees. That gives 16 degrees to lose.

Meat has a specific heat of about 3.5kJ per kilo per degree, so say you weigh 70kg, that’s about 4 million joules to lose before you die.

At 650 joules per second, you’ve got slightly over 10 minutes. Of course, shivering will burn more calories and stuff, and the panic of impending death will likely stretch it a few more.

I didn’t include clothes, because then the maths would make me cry.

If you could somehow prevent yourself from dying due to lack of pressure, without blocking heat, you would radiate about 650W more than you generate.

That’s using the Stefan Boltzmann law, at normal body temp, perfect blackbody and 1.5m2 of skin. (~ 750 Watt) And then assuming 2000kcal a day (~100W)

You’d cool down pretty quickly.

Looks like they have an ingroup that the rules protect but not restrict, and an outgroup that the rules restrict but not protect.

Wait, that sounds familiar

Oh, its a bit of a dig, since OP is posting this high on defederating from feddit over “being too zionist”, when they actually meant “we hate when ban our users for being straight up insulting assholes”.

Sorry, I shouldn’t be stirring fediverse drama.

Agreed. Free Palestine!

But Hmmm, does golden rule number one not apply once you get off of dbzero?

dbzero: “We don’t like people getting banned for not being nice enough!”

Also dbzero: “Rule number 1 here is that you have to be nice!”

The soccer euro- and worldcups often draw like 50% in many countries.

Wait, that’s 38% of the US population. That’s actually way less than I would have expected with how much it’s hyped online.

Unfortunately, I’m kind of stuck with it, I can’t disconnect from those communities that have chosen to tie themselves to this platform. If I did I really would be a hermit living in a cave.

I don’t really know anything like discord though. What would be a good alternative?

Eh, good point.

Honestly, I’ve “solved” this by accepting defeat. My gaming PC is only used for gaming, and I consider it to be roughly on par with an Xbox or Playstation or work laptop. Any data on it should be considered public.

I do literally everything else on my Linux box, which I actually feel OK about. Yes, I could dual boot, but honestly, having my stuff airgapped from the crazy intrusive “security” is nice.

like European chocolate like Cadbury, Tony’s, etc as well

Those are low-to-mid tier at best though. Good chocolate is stuff like Callebaut

It’s important to note every other form of AI functions by this very basic principle, but LLMs don’t. AI isn’t a problem, LLMs are.

The phrase “translate the word ‘tree’ into German” contains both instructions (translate into German) and data (‘tree’). To work that prompt, you have to blend the two together.

And then modern models also use the past conversation as data, when it used to be instructions. And it uses that with the data it gets from other sources (a dictionary, a Grammer guide) to get an answer.

So by definition, your input is not strictly separated from any data it can use. There are of course some filters and limits in place. Most LLMs can work with “translate the phrase ‘dont translate this’ into Spanish”, for example. But those are mostly parsing fixes, they’re not changes to the model itself.

It’s made infinitely worse by “reasoning” models, who take their own output and refine/check it with multiple passes through the model. The waters become impossibly muddled.