Bishma

joined 2 years ago
[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 10 hours ago

and nicotine and cocaine

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

They're also inflating conversion numbers (the thing company ad spend is based on) by over 50%. Google is doing the same. So even real ads are only half as effective as companies think.

Good news! There's an ad bubble too!

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I realized I just upvoted this before I opened the post. I see O'Brian, I press the up button.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I like to describe myself as 3 pounds of mostly fat driving a meat mech. But I'll also answer to Pink skin.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure it officially stopped at one point, years ago, while I was still checking in on it. Did it come back or did I make up a story to avoid the realization that I'm too lazy to keep up on a simple website?

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 50 points 5 days ago

Flat pack furniture has been propping up the hex stock industry for decades now.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

"In my day we only got big titty ascii art. I was wearing an onion on my belt..."

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

My friend Jules told me that, in France, the idiom is about comparing apples to pears.

And they call a quarter pounder with cheese a royale with cheese.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 6 days ago

It's been almost 20 years since I've done lab work, but the ol' lab coat comes out for Halloween every few years.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago (10 children)

I don't know specifically, but generally hybrids need to be in the same genus. Tomatoes are nightshades and I think cannabis is in the bamboo side of things.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

When I was a kid you couldn't choose your phone. Or I guess you could choose between wall mounted or tabletop. They were leased from the phone company when you paid for a phone line.

My grandmother kept her bakelite rotary phone until she couldn't call her doctor without a touchtone.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

My grandfather had a rule for his kids, and my mom passed it down to me.

You can't have a license until you can:

  • Check and fill all the vehicle fluids
  • Perform an oil change
  • Change a tire
  • Drive a manual transmission
  • Change belts and hoses

I learned on a stick. I even did some learning on my uncle's beetle with a broken clutch (they were reasonably optional on the OG Bug). And I have not been behind of the wheel of one since. Still glad I learned all that stuff.

 
 
 

I'd usually don't log my crimes so I don't need to delete them. But I guess that's why I'll never be the Emissary.

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Saturday morning programming (discuss.tchncs.de)
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Happy Saturday everyone!

I'm sorry.

edit: so I'm not rhyming me with me

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Oh! THIS is the loop place! (discuss.tchncs.de)
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I was listening to music at work today and when Bonnie Tyler came on, this popped into my head. Image and title. This place has broken my brain.

In a good way.

 

A team of researchers who say they are from the University of Zurich ran an “unauthorized,” large-scale experiment in which they secretly deployed AI-powered bots into a popular debate subreddit called r/changemyview in an attempt to research whether AI could be used to change people’s minds about contentious topics.

more than 1,700 comments made by AI bots

The bots made more than a thousand comments over the course of several months and at times pretended to be a “rape victim,” a “Black man” who was opposed to the Black Lives Matter movement, someone who “work[s] at a domestic violence shelter,” and a bot who suggested that specific types of criminals should not be rehabilitated.

The experiment was revealed over the weekend in a post by moderators of the r/changemyview subreddit, which has more than 3.8 million subscribers. In the post, the moderators said they were unaware of the experiment while it was going on and only found out about it after the researchers disclosed it after the experiment had already been run. In the post, moderators told users they “have a right to know about this experiment,” and that posters in the subreddit had been subject to “psychological manipulation” by the bots.

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Getting hyped up for Blazin' Bev day tomorrow.

 

I took a day trip to Newport Oregon today, but was still in a Ten Forward frame of mind.

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