Bluskale

Bluskale , 5 months ago to news in Gen Z boys and men more likely than baby boomers to believe feminism harmful, says poll

Tbh, I’d think men would self exclude from these jobs because they’re afraid they will look less masculine working them.

Bluskale , 8 months ago to news in One Regulation Could Have Stopped a Nationwide Car Theft Wave. Why Don't We Have It?

To generate as much profit for their shareholders as possible.

Even that is not really their legal responsibility… if you’re thinking of their fiduciary duty, that means there is a responsibility to act in the best interests of the corporation & shareholders (rather than, eg, putting personal gain forefront). “Best interests” doesn’t necessarily mean “make the most money possible right now”, particularly if it can be argued that there would be long term damage to brand reputation etc by doing so.

Bluskale , 8 months ago to technology in Zuckerberg: Actually, Threads Is Great, Approaching 100M Monthly Active Users

Wait, what’s the connection between monkeys and gazelles that makes this make sense?

Bluskale , 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to news in San Jose woman loses limbs after battling bacterial infection from tilapia

While freezing should kill multicellular eukaryotes (worms or other parasites), bacteria are pretty hardy, even to things like freezing. Plus, even when they aren’t, they make up for it in numbers… if you kill 99% of 10 million bacteria, you still have a hundred thousand that can subsequently repopulate if they are thawed left to grow a bit (even in the fridge). I’m not sure about these Vibrio strains, but the infective dose of some E. coli and Salmonella strains is measured in quantities less than 1000 bacterial cells.

Edit: reading a bit, probably this won’t be doing much growing at fridge temperatures (prefers warm water after all), however infections have been reported from oysters that were tested at about 900 cfu/gram of meat, so it might take (coincidentally) about a hundred thousand bacteria to cause an infection (~10g/oyster * 900 cfu/gram * 12 oysters or so). This isn’t very much… you probably have at least 1 to 100 million cfu/g of various bacteria on chopped lettuce, for instance.

Bluskale , 10 months ago to technology in Google’s Search AI Says Slavery Was Good, Actually

LLMs aren’t AI… they’re essentially a glorified autocorrect system that are stuck at the surface level.

Bluskale , 10 months ago to games in Minecraft's recent EULA changes place heavy restrictions on Java servers

Just for the record, Bedrock has free mods too. If they’re packaged appropriately, they even install automatically when you open them. The main difference is there isn’t a way to lock bedrock to a specific release version, so things tend to break over time as the game changes. This make the very large & complicated compilation mod packs impractical on Bedrock.

Bluskale , 11 months ago to technology in New Imaging Technology Provides a Quick Look Inside a Human Being, Radiation Free

I wish the article touched on the nano particles more… like, what happens to them after you’re done? Are they dissolved or expelled (or do they pile up in various parts of the body and cause chronic issues…)?