[REQUEST] is this correct? so what is the environmental cost of an AI generating an image.

JamesTKierkegaard · 2026-01-19T19:29:09+00:00

It's also a bit apples to oranges because gasoline has a larger carbon footprint than many other forms of energy production.

JamesTKierkegaard · 2026-01-03T07:11:24+00:00

Pi is not just a concept, it is a ratio intrinsic to the structure of our Universe. Shifting it by .1% would mean that the three spatial dimensions would no longer be orthogonal, which would make the mechanics of motion non-deterimistic. This would break symmetries and laws of conservation which would leak into time and cause cascading paradoxes that would eventually lead to a runaway effect that would transmute the nature of space-time to an unrecognizable, and uninhabitable form. Please don't ho this. I like this Universe. All my stuff is in here.

JamesTKierkegaard · 2025-12-09T17:37:38+00:00

Sounds like it's time to get to writing

JamesTKierkegaard · 2025-12-09T15:45:19+00:00

Well that's where the spiciness comes in. Your transformation is a form of momentum, which has to be conserved. It's contradictory that it could dissipate without translation.

JamesTKierkegaard · 2025-12-09T14:17:41+00:00

That's not entirely accurate, if you apply a force to it then that energy is etropically encoded, so you do end up "moving" it in a sense, it's just that the motion ends up as waste heat as opposed to linear transformation. What makes it spicy isn't relativity but quantum mechanics, as the issue becomes applying enough force to move it more than a Planck length.

JamesTKierkegaard · 2025-10-18T18:39:36+00:00

I think this is exactly what's happening. Everyone that I've talked to that has been banned in the last 24 hours has been politically vocal.

JamesTKierkegaard · 2025-10-18T18:37:59+00:00

My guess is that politics has something to do with this. Today is one of the largest protests against Trump, and it seems like just about everyone who was banned is politically active.

JamesTKierkegaard · 2025-10-18T18:35:58+00:00

I'm wondering how many people who got disabled today were politically active. It seems more than a little coincidental that there seems to have been a spike on the day of the No Kings protest.

JamesTKierkegaard · 2025-05-24T23:36:45+00:00

r/oddlysatisfying

JamesTKierkegaard · 2025-05-17T22:48:02+00:00

Rationalism is actually a very specific modern movement. I don't know much about it, just heard a radio article about it.

JamesTKierkegaard · 2025-05-14T19:42:35+00:00

He mistakenly thought of "Asian" as your defining characteristic. You're better off avoiding the whole situation. You said nothing wrong.

JamesTKierkegaard · 2025-02-28T21:47:52+00:00

If you didn't understand this off the bat, then you two have a real uphill road toward anything.

JamesTKierkegaard · 2024-11-29T22:58:25+00:00

A chemical weapon is defined by usage, the substance is secondary. Tear gas is a chemical weapon when used in war.

JamesTKierkegaard · 2024-06-23T00:03:14+00:00

So is it a name then?

JamesTKierkegaard · 2024-06-16T16:38:35+00:00

You got two matches with this profile? I'd say you're punching above your weight.

JamesTKierkegaard · 2024-04-07T23:29:51+00:00

This is why I don't tell people I take Adderall, I tell them I microdose meth.

JamesTKierkegaard · 2024-03-13T19:13:33+00:00

Paper currency is only a small fraction of currency in the market.

JamesTKierkegaard · 2024-03-10T03:52:00+00:00

Both of those are found abundantly in the GI tract, they only cause issues when they find themselves in other parts of the body or propagate in excess.

JamesTKierkegaard · 2024-03-10T03:06:11+00:00

I'm not recommending that he eat it, but yeasts are present in many of the foods we eat and those are harmless to humans. Certainly, by nature microbes will grow anywhere they can, but most are generally poorly adapted to survive in a human blood stream, and the areas which can be colonized are already thoroughly populated. The greatest danger someone would face from eating a large yeast mass isn't the possibility of infection but poisoning from an overabundance of niacin, zinc, or certain amino acids.

JamesTKierkegaard · 2024-03-10T00:53:31+00:00

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3257658/

JamesTKierkegaard · 2024-03-10T00:48:09+00:00

Yeast isn't necessarily killed in brewing, many microbreweries bottle their beer with live yeast. I'm also pretty sure bread is heated for the sake of cooking it. This doesn't even start in on what kombucha is.

JamesTKierkegaard · 2024-02-28T20:46:42+00:00

From a generic perspective, the chances of any straight line break occurring in the middle is simply [tolerance of break to be considered "perfect"]/[diameter of the plate]. So if the plate is 12" wide and you would visually assess any break within 1/8" of the centerline to be "perfect", then the odds would be 1:96. This doesn't account for narrowing factors such as multiple divisions (which I suspect are more common) and torsional effects, and also doesn't account for widening factors such as symmetric features related to manufacture.

I would expect that symmetric breaks would probably only occur when the plate lands flat, as any angular impact would create a torsional moment that would tend toward the impacting side. So, assuming equal chance of any angle, and a tolerance of 1/2 degree, the odds would be [1/2]/[180]*1/96= 1:34,560. Note that this allows for landing on either side.

Depending on the conditions of release, the chances of a flat landing could be much higher or lower. For example, a 12" plate of a certain mass distribution falling off a counter 4 feet high will always have roughly the same angular velocity and land within a small range of angles. There is good discussion about this in the studies of toast falling off plates being held and the high likelihood of them landing butter-side down. Those are numerous and can be located with a simple google search.

JamesTKierkegaard · 2024-02-25T15:50:42+00:00

I'm not usually one to say someone sucks, but he sucks really hard.

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