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  • Hoimo@ani.socialtoScience Memes@mander.xyzDear Kevin
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    3 hours ago

    I don’t understand why you’d ever need to know this. What is a phylum anyway? Which animals share a phylum? Are bonobos and chimpanzees in a phylum, a family, a class? And what does that tell us about their relation that we couldn’t already tell from their characteristics?



  • Hoimo@ani.socialto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneHappy ruleversary
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    5 days ago

    The weird thing is, I was off reddit for years already. It’s only because tech news sites reported on the api changes (and boosted the fediverse) that I made the switch. I was doing fine! I didn’t need a new reddit!

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    Nah, actually I did because 4chan was my replacement for the interim (-_-⁠メ⁠)





  • Hoimo@ani.socialtoScience Memes@mander.xyzPiss off!
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    24 days ago

    The strongest urinators are cicadas, but there’s other animals that score higher on the Jet Shape? I guess ~100 Jet Shape must be peak then and everything higher than that is actually a weaker form of urination.

    Edit: the labeled dot is only one of many cicadas and some of them score as low as 1.



  • Yeah, I had some webpages archived and tried to use javascript to clean them up, but I ended up parsing it as xml through Powershell instead. I’ve done something with Python and BeautifulSoup too, a long time ago. Both much easier than JS, but somehow JS is designed to work with web pages? Make it make sense.


  • Okay, from this (and your deleted post), I think I can give you some advice. She’s not normal. Anyone who tells you she’s a nice person is either not normal or doesn’t know her. Don’t accept anyone treating you like that.

    You didn’t mention any ages. It could still be that she’s a fairly normal 14 year old, I guess? Girls at that age tend to go a bit insane. (Boys take a few more years.) If that’s the case, I’d say that she honestly likes you and has no idea how to express it. You still shouldn’t accept her treating you like that, but it could be a salvagable situation. If she’s an adult though, tell any common friends what she’s truly like and never speak to her again.



  • I find it really easy to tell the difference between a human being polite, neat and well-spoken, and an AI being the same (but soulless). I don’t know if I could put it into words though, there’s just something about AI that lacks subjectivity? A human would phrase something in a certain way and stick with it, because that’s the way they experience it, while the AI takes a phrasing at random, only caring about gaining lexical and grammatical points.

    I also think humans overestimate their ability to write clearly and correctly. There’s always some noise in there, even if they’re going full corpo-speak. Unless it’s written-by-committee meaningless corpo, but then I don’t even read it beyond the first sentence. It’s very obvious when someone has tried to strip all meaning from a sentence and the result is not far from AI.



  • Hoimo@ani.socialtoScience Memes@mander.xyzMonkey See Monkey Do
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    Keep in mind that Frozen came out in 2013, 12 years ago. The children who were in the prime target demographic back then (4-10 years old), are teens/adults now (16-22). Some of those kids will have imprinted on Elsa a little harder than anyone intended. So when they start developing their sexuality, they somehow have a preference for blonde braids and pointy noses. There’s really nothing wrong with that. Just be happy it wasn’t Olaf.



  • California-based rightsholder PCR Distributing, which operates under brands including J18 and JAST USA, initiated action against nHentai last summer, describing the site as a significant threat to its business.

    I don’t know them, but JAST sells visual novels and other software (so no hentai) and J18 is a Halland-class destroyer of the Swedish Navy, so maybe they’re being threatened by the amount of KanColle doujins showing the superior physical assets of Japanese warships.


  • It’s definitely possible to store the stories in columns, but there’s also very little reason to do it. I think filepath in SQL and the stories in separate files in whatever format makes the most sense (html, txt, epub). If you ever want to search the stories for keywords, write a python script to build indexes in SQL, performs much better than doing LIKE on a maxed out varchar column.

    I was thinking maybe Elastisearch, but I don’t know how much work that is to set up. For a hobby project, writing your own indexer isn’t too hard and might be more fun and easier to maintain than an industry-grade solution.




  • She’s now at the point where she’s defending her defending of them, so clearly she’s getting pushback. I really don’t mind it though. Most people are normal people with no desire to cause harm. Most people are misinformed about politics. So yes, a bunch of R voters don’t support current events, once you explain to them what’s actually happening. They’ll still vote R next time, of course, because they don’t care enough to inform themselves.