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  • Those systems are interesting, but also nightmares to build and maintain.

    Supercritical co2 is a powerful solvent and can corrode most metals.this problem is worse when you increase the temperature.

    Material scientists are working on it, but so far, the few test systems that have been built can’t quite live up to the hype.




  • The most over roasted slop around, sure. There’s a reason why that place serves pure diabetes, their black coffee is kinda gross.

    maybe the coffee is gross so that it can pair with the diabetes. That much sugar needs a very strong flavor to offset it.

    Or Starbucks just uses the absolute cheapest beans on the market and then burns them for that truly consistent char flavor, which they then have to turn into diabetes to make palatable.

    Either way, it’s just not good.


  • Can I have some of whatever you’re smoking?

    Two party systems are a consequence of something called Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem, specifically as applied to First Past the Post voting. Which is technically Duverger’s Law

    If you want a video instead, this one is a classic.

    The names of things rarely have any actual meaning behind them, especially not political names, which were originally chosen to make people think they were patriotic for supporting said party. Or are chosen by the opposition.

    But yes, the tensions that caused the war did exist before the shots were fired, that’s how civil wars work. And yes, reconstruction was halted and reversed by Johnson.

    But the TLDR, being a defeatist is worse than useless, work towards a better tomorrow today. Also, civil wars, the kind with neighbors shooting neighbors and all, are fucking nightmares. Don’t try to start it all early, it will come all too soon on its own, the fascists will make sure of it.





  • Corpo housing isn’t mcmansions. They’re factory built homes shipped to site and dropped on locally poured foundations, sometimes with basements.

    Sure, they can be decent sized, but the mcmansion is overly large and aimed at a different crowd, a crowd that’s increasingly unable to afford them.

    Source; I grew up in a corpo housing development from the 60s or 70s. The houses all looked identical from the outside, but had a few different floor plans, one down the street was actually two of the wrong halves put together, which meant that one of the closets didn’t have a door and could only be accessed by someone crawling in through a gap near the ceiling.

    Thankfully there was no HOA, so the houses quickly picked up some individuality.






  • chaogomu@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldFixed it.
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    I’ll have to find the post, but you did it in two steps, changed the units of mass, and object.

    The post, which is extremely hard to find with the latest slop release from Nvidia, asked the chatbot to consider the exact wording, without babying it into the correct answer. All because the close variations of the phase “X pounds of bricks and X pounds of feathers weigh the exact same” have been used in various textbooks and such for at least the last hundred years or so.

    That means that the chatbot has seen that exact combo of words, in roughly that order, quite a bit more than your use of “100 kilograms of rice”. At least in English.

    You can baby it through when the training data is sparse, but not when there are hundreds of uses of the same phrase over and over again in the training.



  • chaogomu@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldFixed it.
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    Someone posted yesterday with a question asked to AI.

    What weighs more, 20 pounds of bricks or 20 feathers?

    The useless chat bot will always answer with “they both weigh 20 pounds” because that’s what the training data always says when asked about bricks and feathers.