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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Ooh, I've had that on my wishlist for a bit, good time to pull the trigger since its on sale! Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Any neat cheap games under $10 you'd recommend for me to play on steamdeck?

(Ideally, ones that are easy to pause and pick up later, cuz recently had a baby)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ender3 is an outstanding entry point to the 3d printing hobby. It's open source hardware, so no other printer has cheaper parts. And may be the most common 3d printer, so plentiful modification options and tutorials.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I feel like doing it at the city level would encourage rich people to have an "empty" house in Seattle and their "residence" as a second home elsewhere in the state.

I wonder if there is a good proposal to address this sort of gaming.

 

What are the effects of trees/plants on PM2.5 pollution? Are there plants that catch more? Do damp leaves catch more?

Does watering plants with a mist pull extra microparticles out of the air vs a stream? (if so, Do plants mind or benefit from the extra stuff in their water?)

Are there any "permaculture" solutions for air filtration? Could a filter caked with pm2.5 black carbon and whatnot be useful for anything else? Can I manufacture a filter that will reduce pm2.5 using home grown plant materials?

What if I converted a wall of my shed into all filtration material, made it airtight, and pushed air out the other side of the shed under solar power? How would 100sqft of filter give flexibility of filter media?

If I made a giant/parallelized bong in my backyard that constantly pulled air through water to try to catch microparticles, how big would it have to be to have an appreciable effect?

 

Interesting projects studying live tree graft joinery techniques - how to guide tree growth into structures with engineered utility.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Your skill is coming up with wishes that would have improved your life the most. Every moment is filled with regret as you become ever more deeply aware that you wished wrong.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

You are permanently stuck living life at 1x reverse speed. You have already decided all your actions, so you are just watching your life become undone. Everyone speaks in reverse, which is incomprehensible at first but you get used to it in a couple years. You relive every mistake of your life helpless to alter any of it because forward you decided everything. Then your final moment of consciousness is the experience of being sucked into your mother: being unborn.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

when planting a potted plant into unprepared compacted soil, dig a hole twice the diameter of the pot and at least 1.5 times as deep, then mix removed soil with compost and use that to fill the extra gaps.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think OpenAI's own chatGPT detector had double digit false negative and positive rates. I expect as diversity of LLMs proliferates, it will become increasingly harder to detect.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Make super sure it's food grade!

There is no such thing as 100% purity. When stuff is sold in bulk for other purposes - there are contaminants that are irrelevant to the use. Calcium carbonate is used in agriculture, construction, sanitation... Etc.

Bulk chems can sometimes be contaminated with heavy metals or other toxins. Eating that daily could be very bad for your health. If you're going to consume it, make sure you get food grade!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Beautiful. I'd love to grow my own lil pineapple one day

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I've heard this theory. Feels like unrealistic hopeful wishes of people who want AI to fail.

LLM processing will be a huge tool for pruning and labeling training sets. Humans can sample and validate the work. These better training sets will produce better LLMs.

Who cares is a chunk of text was written by a human or not? Plenty of humans are shit writers who believe illogical or clearly incorrect things. The idea that human origin text is superior is a fantasy. chatGPT is a better writer than 80% of humans todat. In 10 years LLMs will be better than 99.9% of humans. There is no poison to be avoided.

chatGPT has an apparent style when used in the default mode, but you can already get away from that with simple prompt tweaks. This whole thing is a non-issue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

High seas piracy is about to enter an exciting new era

 

One of my favorite videos from Kirsten Dirksen's lovely channel.

 

Started my food forest last spring.

  • Put down cardboard and covered in alder woodchips
  • Planted a couple each of grape, blueberries, olive, marionberry, sichuan peppercorn, green tea - basically trying things out and seeing what works in my climate

Was pleasantly surprised when I got out there this year, and everything made it through the winter! (Albeit some appears to be a popular graze with the deer - could slow growth down a lot if I don't protect soon)

Pulling weeds out of sheetmulched woodchips is great - so easy even though the soil underneath is overly compacted clay sand.

 

What should I add to my 'watch soon' list?

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