zout

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[–] zout@fedia.io 1 points 3 hours ago

Probably PU is the cheapest option.

[–] zout@fedia.io 1 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Researchers in UC San Diego’s Department of Ecology...

...The biodegradable plastic included sustainable material developed in UC San Diego laboratories and sold by the university spinoff company Algenesis.

I'd like to see the reproductability of this one. Another thing is they only compared PU, one of the nastiest plastics which should be banned. I think most plastics in use today are packaging plastics like PE, PP, PET, PS. Not that I like those ones better, we could do without a lot of the plastics we have today, and we don't even need replacement in a lot of cases.

[–] zout@fedia.io 1 points 3 hours ago

Isn't MacOs based on BSD in the same vein?

[–] zout@fedia.io 15 points 4 hours ago

Like I said in another thread, this has been the case in the Netherlands for at least since the eighties (€4,32 an hour if you're 15, still below €10 if you're 19) . And employers abuse the shit out of it, hiring young people as cheap labour and trying to get rid of them before they turn 21.

[–] zout@fedia.io 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

From the view point of the law it is.

[–] zout@fedia.io 1 points 4 hours ago (3 children)
[–] zout@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago

I don't know about Montana, but you could find the same kind of places in Austria or Northern Italy, anywhere in the alps really.

[–] zout@fedia.io 6 points 1 day ago

From a billionare's perspective. From normal people's perspective the other way around.

[–] zout@fedia.io 10 points 1 day ago

You could get lucky and find gold AKA bitcoin.

[–] zout@fedia.io 4 points 2 days ago

We can actually, just get rid of the concept of money and live the post scarcity life.

[–] zout@fedia.io 4 points 2 days ago

So, 25% being the upper limit, what's the lower limit?

[–] zout@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago

It depends on the subject. For some things I use search engines, for some things I'll just google for books or research on the subject matter and obtain pdf's for those, some stuff on relevant internet fora, and it used to be that youtube had some good info, though lately it's overrun by AI slop.

 

So, in the last ten days I've been reading the "dumb luck and dead heroes" series by Skyler Ramirez. I stumbled onto this series on Goodreads, probably in the "also enjoyed" section for another book.

Initially, I tought the books were ok, but reading them, I found the storyline going in some strange directions. I also find it strange that there is hardly any character development in the books. I dug into it a little deeper, and found that all of these books have been published in the last two and a half years, together with some other books 14 in total.

So, digging a bit further into his profile on Goodreads; He's currently reading his own books, books by an author named A.B. Franklin who just published his first book, and an author named Jack Bodett who has published six books this year. A.B. Franklin is returning the favor and reading Skyler Ramirez' books.

All in all, this makes me guess that these writers make extensive use of LLM's while writing these books. I googled Ramirez' name, and found his website. Visiting the website only confirms the feeling that it's all LLM and AI imaging.

Any toughts on the subject?

 

The toilet seat in the bathroom upstairs has two part hinges, where you mount two pins on the toilet and snap the seat and lid on. Something broke in the snapping part this week. Fixed it by removing some plastic from the clamping mechanism, put some epoxy putty in there and around the pins, then placed the seat back. It's still on there today, so it worked I guess.

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