Plus even if you could get an exact number of USDA calories (which you probably could do with hyper-processed foods) there's no guarantee that your body would extract that exact number of usable calories because that's a function of your individual digestive system and how it responds to certain inputs.
I’ll go first, I took my mom’s college textbooks which came with discs for a couple distros and failed to install RHEL before managing to get Fedora Core 4 working. The first desktop environment I used was KDE and despite trying out a few others over the years I always come back to plasma. Due to being like 12, I wanted to...
Slackware was my first distro too, probably around 95 i think as I got a CDR copy from a friend in high school. It's certainly not been my daily driver for that whole period, but I think I've probably at least had a linux system operational for nearly 30 years.
I've been using Windows since maybe 92 and MacOS since 86. I think Solaris is the only other OS I've used a significant amount. There days I've got a Macbook Pro for work, Windows 10 for photo editing and Kubuntu Jammy for everything else.
Some congressional Democrats say three large tax preparation firms sent “extraordinarily sensitive” information on tens of millions of taxpayers to Facebook parent company Meta over at least two years.
Generally, insurance companies aren't taking that risk. They can decline to renew your policy if they give you 120 days notice, so, for the most part, they are only insuring the next year.
This is all about the immediate risk of major hurricanes and the rapidly climbing costs of rebuilds. I know people in Colorado are really struggling to rebuild because costs have risen so much recently and insurance didn't keep up. I recently moved insurers (to Farmers, ha) and increased my rebuild amount by nearly 30%. That certainly came with a policy hike, but gives me enough that I have reasonable confidence I could indeed rebuild a comparable house.
I suspect there's also a risk concentration problem with some insurers. I've got to imagine they are looking at massive computer models of possible hurricane tracks and seeing scenarios where there's an outsized exposure. Still, what is curious to me is that they can't price it in as that's essentially the business that they are in. Would the required rate increase really be that unpalatable?
I wanted to try a japanese dish called tamago kake gohan, it’s basically raw eggs mixed with rice. The problem is that I’m scared to get salmonella from it. Do you guys think it’s safe to eat them? I’m currently living in Brazil. Also, I saw this article telling that the brand I buy my eggs from is exporting to Japan,...
About 45W for my router, fiber endpoint, switch, three wireless APs and a Pi4 running Home Assistant. I've got a synology running separately that I suspect uses more, but I haven't measured it recently. Thinking about putting the synology in the crawlspace as it's kinda loud.
Major depression has previously been associated with abnormalities in REM sleep. Excess REM sleep would diminish noradrenaline, resulting in decreased binding to the ɑ-2 receptor in the medial frontal lobes comprised of the ACC and the medial prefrontal cortex. The absence of REM sleep with TSD may give some participants a...
If i'm reading that correctly, it was one night of sleep deprivation followed by one night of good sleep.
I've always found that the night after an all-nigher I sleep really well and wake up feeling pretty rested and good, but interesting to see that apparently only happens for some people.
I think the problem is that most of us define "rich" by the accumulation of wealth, but for tax purposes it's usually defined as annualized earned income. Many billionaires pull no salary, and manage to defer capital gains so effectively pay very little tax.
But I think we focus on the wrong loopholes. The ability to accrue capital gains forever and not pay taxes on it, then die and let your heirs take advantage of a basis step-up is fucked up. Maybe if your net worth exceeds a certain amount then you should have to mark-to-market annually and pay taxes as if you sold and rebought at the market price.
It is kind of a disaster for emergencies. Twitter is the defacto social network whenever any disaster strikes round here, the sheer volume of people, emergency services and the versatility of hashtags make it great for that.
But I can't see how a publicly funded disaster tool could work well. The wonder of twitter was that everyone had it, I was near to the #marshallfire and it was amazing to see that tweet feed. There were a mix of government teams, regular people, first responders, news agencies, utility companies all posting a massive fast moving feed of data. Then it was effectively filtered by your own connections to bring you things that were posted by people closer to your network.
Plus the feed of that data (and that a bunch of tweets were geocoded) was fantastic resource for researchers trying to measure the impact of the fire and how people reacted in a fast-changing disaster situation.
There's no way that all those people would have installed a FEMA-sanctioned disaster app.
And considering how many subreddits announced they were moving to discord, that doesn't entirely fit.
In a lot of ways this probably means nothing. The Fidelity valuation was at best an informed guess and it's now an informed guess. Though it matters a lot if you are considering taking Reddit public, since many other players will look at what they did and try to do something similar because they don't want to look like they aren't paying attention.
Also worth noting that reddit control the metrics that they release for a lot of this.
There's no real measure of good engagement vs shallow engagement, so they can find a way to show that user visits are up even if the worthwhile content is starting its slow slide. Shit, i probably used to visit reddit once a day for 12 hours, but now i visit 5 times a day when i instinctively enter the URL.
I think most of these are third party metrics collected from ad services, we've seen a few choice ones from reddit about how little traffic has dropped but of course Reddit will find ways to express an ever rising metric until they can't.
Facebook somehow reports near magical user growth, but 90% of the people I'm connected to it barely seem to be there.
I strongly suspect, but can't prove, that the 80/20 rule applies to reddit. I expect 20% of the users create 80% of the content and engagement, and that even if only 1% of reddit leaves it's almost certainly coming out of the productive 20%. However i'll bet Reddit will never start openly sharing stats about how engaged the top quintile of their users are, because that provides too much insight. Much better to talk about monthly active users and count those of us that flip over there by mistake or for one community we can't replace here.
Consider this thing displaces about 5 m^3 of water, you'd want it to be buoyant after dropping the ballast, so the entire vehicle needs to weigh in at under 5000 kg. You've got 400kg of humans, and probably another 600kg of batteries and other equipment.
That means you need your pressure vessel to be under 4000kg. To fashion a 151cm OD cylinder, that was 252cm long, with spherical end caps out of titanium that was 10cm thick you'd need (if my math is correct) a weight of 7,853 kg. That would sink to the bottom of the ocean floor, which is decidedly unattractive.
I'm certainly not a lawyer but I think this is not really condoning his behavior, it'd likely still be prosecuted under an acceptable law, but that the law itself was too restrictive about what would be considered a threat. Does that seem right?
@ernest how do I report a Magazin on kbin.social ? There is a usere called "ps" who is posting to his own "antiwoke" Magazin on kbin.social. Please remove this and dont give them a chance to etablish them self on kbin.social. When I report his stuff it will go to him because he is the moderator of the magazin? Seems like a...
I expect that instances will get more locked down, perhaps those of us on an instance can vouch for new users who might join, but I can't see how a volunteer admin could police a million user instance. I used to run a 10k user discussion site and while that wasn't a fulltime job it was still a giant pain in the ass at times. If we can get in a steady state where an instance has a core of active posters and lurkers then that seems better than infinite growth.
That then surely leads to federated instances that each represent the tolerances of their admin(s) and they presumably federate or not with other instances with similar sensibilities.
In the end the nazis will get their nazi instance and federate with likeminded types - they get defederated everywhere else and wont really be a problem (maybe for the FBI). (Though I'm not certain that all internet nazis truly are, i think there a group of trolls that get their kicks from being controversial and will get no joy by being surrounded by people who accept them)
The problems are going to be in the gray areas. For example, the argument that trans people don't deserve to exist... I find that abhorrent, but there are people who will happily say that on TV, and there are CEOs of $44B social networks that appear to agree. Some instances will tolerate that on the grounds of free speech and others will not, then the admins are left trying to decide what's grounds for defederation.
However in my limited experience, the thing that kills projects like this is too much navel gazing. There will always be some trolling and noise, but if the remaining users expend all their energy talking about it then the whole thing collapses in on itself. I feel like this is starting to happen on reddit where lots of subs are consumed by meta, but the best thing we can do here is get out and create active communities.
⭐ What programming language do you use most of your life? Why exactly?
Most of my time I worked with almost the entire .Net stack, and in recent years it's Unity, so my language is C#
There were episodes in my life with mobile, many web stuff, java, c++, databases, etc.
@maxim Most of my professional life has been C# at this point, though I still tend to think of myself as a Java dev. Using more python and js for personal projects though.
First professional work was in Turbo Pascal and i've used some variant of MS Basic from age 6 to age 41 so sadly that's my most long lived language skill (haven't touched it in a few years though)
Currently, on the main instance, people have created 40191 accounts (+214 marked as deleted). I don't know how many are active because I don't monitor it, but once again, I greet all of you here :) In recent days, the traffic on the website has been overwhelming. It's definitely too much for the basic docker-compose setup,...
Obviously that's a tried and tested model with email, but i'm not sure there's a great way to implement that on federated servers without keeping the model fine tuning pretty secret. Any spam detection AI model that's public can simply be used to train better spam.
My past experience with this sort of thing suggests it's probably better to focus on identifying some kind of humanness score. Since kbin instances are responsible for moderating their own user population (I believe) that means they could quite easily keep a good running score of how viable an account is. Some of that could be ML that picks up on both the information content and uniqueness of a post, but you can also infer a good amount by how much interaction it gets with other users who also have good scores.
There's also some interesting stuff in the upvote structure. If you draw a directed graph of who-upvotes-who then spammers and trolls tend to form much more distinct islands than regular users do.
For example if someone creates something new that is horrible for humans, how will AI understand that it is bad if it doesn't have other horrible things to relate it with?
This is a really good talk that outlines some possible criteria for intelligence and demonstrates how close chat GPT is or isn't on those different ones
I wanted to post this here since I want to help as much as I can in my own way to people coming here for the first time. I hope it is useful and helpful! I tried to assume low knowledge with the Fediverse in my responses which I collected here from a different post and assembled into a single article....
I boosted a post on Mastodon this morning as @grahamsz and when someone replied to it, they tagged my indieweb mastodon handle and I got a notification on kbin.
How is kbin linking @grahamsz@kbin.social with @grahamsz@indieweb.social - i've never explicitly connected them and only reference my mastodon profile with a rel=me on my homepage.
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What was your first experience using Linux? How old were you? Stick around or did you go back to windows before eventually circling back to Linux?
I’ll go first, I took my mom’s college textbooks which came with discs for a couple distros and failed to install RHEL before managing to get Fedora Core 4 working. The first desktop environment I used was KDE and despite trying out a few others over the years I always come back to plasma. Due to being like 12, I wanted to...
3 tax prep firms shared 'extraordinarily sensitive' data about taxpayers with Meta, lawmakers say (apnews.com)
Some congressional Democrats say three large tax preparation firms sent “extraordinarily sensitive” information on tens of millions of taxpayers to Facebook parent company Meta over at least two years.
Farmers Insurance pulls out of Florida, affecting 100,000 homeowners (www.yahoo.com)
How safe is it to eat raw eggs?
I wanted to try a japanese dish called tamago kake gohan, it’s basically raw eggs mixed with rice. The problem is that I’m scared to get salmonella from it. Do you guys think it’s safe to eat them? I’m currently living in Brazil. Also, I saw this article telling that the brand I buy my eggs from is exporting to Japan,...
How much power does your home lab take?
Mine runs at 30watts at idle....
One night of total sleep deprivation shown to have antidepressant effect for some people (medicalxpress.com)
Major depression has previously been associated with abnormalities in REM sleep. Excess REM sleep would diminish noradrenaline, resulting in decreased binding to the ɑ-2 receptor in the medial frontal lobes comprised of the ACC and the medial prefrontal cortex. The absence of REM sleep with TSD may give some participants a...
Pence mocked for saying ‘I don’t really buy the rich need to pay their fair share’ (www.independent.co.uk)
Twitter seeing 52% of its links removed on google after user requirement change (boingboing.net)
[VERGE] Twitter has started blocking unregistered users (www.theverge.com)
cross-posted from: https://radiation.party/post/32518...
Fidelity cuts Reddit valuation again (techcrunch.com)
Fidelity has further slashed the estimated worth of its holdings in Reddit and Discord as well as SaaS startup Gupshup.
Reddit protest plunges user engagement, site activity and ad portal visits (techcrunch.com)
Reddit protest by its community moderators has impacted user engagements, traffic and visits to its ad portal since its beginning on June 12.
The First Images of the Titan Submersible bein bought ashore (i.imgur.com)
https://i.imgur.com/VVUPtOD.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/NT1cxe4.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/iLV7QBU.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/Vlf5EJ1.jpg...
This emergency exit is bricked up, but the emergency exit sign is still there (feddit.de)
US Supreme Court sides with man who sent female musician barrage of unwanted messages (www.reuters.com)
"Antiwoke" magazin on kbin.social posting bullshit like "how to end Wokeness" and "Time to reject the extrem trans lobby harming our society" How to report ? he is the moderator of that magazin. (calckey.social)
@ernest how do I report a Magazin on kbin.social ? There is a usere called "ps" who is posting to his own "antiwoke" Magazin on kbin.social. Please remove this and dont give them a chance to etablish them self on kbin.social. When I report his stuff it will go to him because he is the moderator of the magazin? Seems like a...
/kbin server update - or how the server didn't blow up
Currently, on the main instance, people have created 40191 accounts (+214 marked as deleted). I don't know how many are active because I don't monitor it, but once again, I greet all of you here :) In recent days, the traffic on the website has been overwhelming. It's definitely too much for the basic docker-compose setup,...
OC ELI5 - How does artificial intelligence understand what is right and what is wrong for humans?
For example if someone creates something new that is horrible for humans, how will AI understand that it is bad if it doesn't have other horrible things to relate it with?
A small FAQ to hopefully help new users to kbin (kilioa.org)
I wanted to post this here since I want to help as much as I can in my own way to people coming here for the first time. I hope it is useful and helpful! I tried to assume low knowledge with the Fediverse in my responses which I collected here from a different post and assembled into a single article....