Semi-Hemi-Demigod

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 1 month ago to news in Gas stoves increase nitrogen dioxide exposure above WHO standards – study

I have an induction hot plate and while it's great for boiling water or searing steak it will invariably burn anything I attempt to cook on low because it just uses high heat for a shorter amount of time instead of doing a constant lower power.

I'm probably going to get an induction stove next, but I'm not buying one that I don't get to test out first to avoid this. I really hope the full-size ones don't do this but I don't trust companies on principle and they'll do something stupid like that to save money.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to news in Gas stoves increase nitrogen dioxide exposure above WHO standards – study

They heat up quickly and they’re very easy to clean.

I keep seeing people say this as a benefit of glass-top electrics, but this has never been the case with any one of those I've used. A boil-over invariably leaves a grimy black ring that can't be scrubbed off even with hours of scrubbing. So they end up looking grimy.

Meanwhile, my sealed gas burners are easy to get clean. I just sweep up the crumbs and then dump some boiling water and a couple drops of dish soap and wipe it up.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 1 month ago to news in 'Shark Tank' star Kevin O'Leary says pro-Palestinian student protesters are 'screwed' because employers can identify them through AI

The protestors should include this civil engagement on their resumes. Find employers that agree with their stance against genocide.

That's going to be hard when the government makes it illegal for companies that take federal money to boycott, divest, sanction, and now even criticize Israel. Just hiring someone with that on their resume could be a problem.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 1 month ago to showerthoughts in Does Big Ben imply the existence of a Little Ben?

Not just Little Ben, but also Medium Ben and Not-Quite-As-Big-As-Big-Ben Ben

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to technology in Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app

Intermediate? Nah, junior. They're cheaper after all.

But senior devs do a lot more than output code. Sometimes - like Bill Atkinson's famous -2000 line change to Quickdraw - their jobs involve a lot of complex logic and very little actual code output.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 1 month ago to technology in Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app

I think the reason they're useful for writing code is that there's a third party - the parser or compiler - that checks their work. I've used LLMs to write code as well, and it didn't always get me something that worked but I was easily able to catch the error.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 1 month ago to news in Ron DeSantis bans 'global elite' lab-grown meat

Good! I only want free-range, hormone-free, grass-fed global elite

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 1 month ago to technology in The Man Who Killed Google Search

favored increasing revenue from ads instead of user experience and functionality

That just makes sense. Companies want to make their customers happy, and users aren't Google's customers

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 1 month ago to news in 'This Will Ruin My Life and Career': Cheating Site Ashley Madison Is Overflowing With Sextortionists

Didn't that data breach also uncover that the site is 99% men, with the remainder being bot accounts or scams?

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 2 months ago to lemmyshitpost in We can do all three things at once

Nobody is going to re-certify a plant built on 1960s technology

Yeah, that's why they're re-starting one built on 1970s technology

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 2 months ago to lemmyshitpost in We can do all three things at once

I wouldn't build a new power plant, but reactivating existing ones makes sense and is cheaper per GW than solar and reactivation has insignificant emissions.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 2 months ago to lemmyshitpost in We can do all three things at once

I don't think nuclear power was killed by NIMBYs, at least not entirely. In the 1970s and 80s the financial world started taking a much more short-term view. Nuclear power plants have such a huge up-front cost that you aren't going to see returns for decades. When the market wants numbers to go up every quarter they're not going to finance something that won't make a profit for 20 years.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 2 months ago to technology in Catholic 'media ministry' defrocks AWOL AI priest after it told faithful you can baptise babies in Gatorade and that, sure, it can totally perform your wedding

The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.

Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning to believe things they’d have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City. It had never heard of Salt Lake City, of course. Nor had it ever heard of a quingigillion, which was roughly the number of miles between this valley and the Great Salt Lake of Utah.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 2 months ago to lemmyshitpost in Oddly specific question

Yeah, but that's not the decadence they're talking about. They mean things like "feeling like yourself" and "having good sex."

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 2 months ago to technology in Higher-paid employees looking for work are having a tough time, and it could be a sign of a shift in the workplace

These higher-paid workers used to be promoted to senior management or even executive roles. But since people are working longer than ever, those roles aren't available and people are getting stuck.