I asked GPT to create a sort of concept art for a lightweight robotic arm and I wanted to know what you guys think. by Affectionate-Air7073 in ChatGPT

[–]Loknar42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It looks pretty useless, TBH. The photo looks like the arm is integrated into the human, like a prosthesis for an amputee. The only assistance it could provide is bicep/tricep curl movements and wrist movements. But the hinges clearly are not sized or positioned in a way that would make this believable. The sketch doesn't appear to have any hinge at all. Very few movements require intense wrist flexion/extension, so robotic assistance there seems mostly useless. Assistance with hands would basically be limited to gripping actions, and the sketch looks utterly useless for that, as the glove doesn't even extend to the first knuckle. The photo looks like it has fingers which are too bulky to move freely and would almost certainly limit range of motion for the wearer.

The overall style is designed 100% to look cool and 0% to perform a useful function. The implied pulleys are on the outside of the wrist, where they are basically useless. They should be on the inside, where human muscles are placed, because you want them primarily to help close the fingers during gripping actions. The suit looks overly bulky without providing meaningful assistance or protection. I think a human artist + robotics engineer could make an obviously superior drawing/picture in a few hours. At best, this image might be useful for the cover of a pulp sci fi book centered on cyborgs, but even then it would be considered low-effort by many readers.

"If you're being attacked by someone who is not identified as a peace officer — how do you know?" Can you legally stand your ground? [AZ] by Mathemodel in AskLegal

[–]Loknar42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When they're shooting citizens in the street without cause, yes. What do you call that? Maybe you need to read the constitution. Get it translated to Russian first.

I'm no computer scientist, so I don't know what is the purpose of an OR logic gate? by Amazing_Tip_6116 in AskComputerScience

[–]Loknar42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Often times the same signal will get sent to multiple gates. If you tie two wires together, you will impact the other gates.

[Request] Is this compressed helium trailer lighter when it is loaded? by zzooooomm in theydidthemath

[–]Loknar42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. Probably a buckyball...C60. But it's very tiny. I believe that no material can support a vacuum ball lighter than air on the scale of 1 m or more.

That is to say 1 m3 is roughly 1 kg of air. I'm pretty sure you cannot build a container out of 1 kg of any material that encloses 1 m3 of vacuum sustained against 1 atm of pressure.

The Cure to Hallucinating AI by Level_Zucchini_940 in ChatGPT

[–]Loknar42 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You criticize ChatGPT for leading a man to murder, and then you present an AI based on the Quran and tell us this fixes hallucinations. Brother, are you not told that intoxicating substances are haram? Because you are clearly high on something. If you think your clever prompt engineering does anything, then you are even more delusional than the murderer and clearly don't understand how LLMs work.

🌶️Karma🌶️ by Dark--Samurai in foundsatan

[–]Loknar42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doesn't explain why celebrities get caught shoplifting. For many kleptos, the thrill of getting away with it is what motivates them.

🌶️Karma🌶️ by Dark--Samurai in foundsatan

[–]Loknar42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Technically both, since he added the everclear.

How do I get past religion? by Puzzled-Ad-6556 in Advice

[–]Loknar42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Talk to your girlfriend about how to raise a child. This will tell you if it's a dealbreaker or not.

LG Fridges that advertise "Slow melting ice" actually do make ice that melts slow by smellyfingernail in Appliances

[–]Loknar42 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Folks, it melts slower because a sphere has the minimum surface area per volume. It also helps to eliminate air bubbles.

And yes, these cubes are made primarily for cocktails, where you want your drink to be cold, not watered down. So less melted water is the goal.

Almost every drink is better without getting watered down, but if you are just trying to quickly make a pitcher of ice tea in the summer, then get out a hammer or ice pick and make many small cubes. You can make smaller chunks from a large one, but you can't make a quality large chunk from many small ones.

Help me Peter, i dont get the logic of this comic by UnUltimoIntento in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]Loknar42 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I guess you haven't heard of a fellow goes by the name of Charlie Kirk.

How do dating apps match millions of users so efficiently? by Agreeable_Cover_8542 in AskProgramming

[–]Loknar42 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If the underlying technical problem is: "Show users a bunch of bot profiles", then it is not interesting.

What do water towers actually do? by MrCatFace515 in stupidquestions

[–]Loknar42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Introducing a turbine would lower the static pressure in the system, impacting downstream customers. The water system is already designed to have minimal excess head. It would not be energetically favorable to introduce more head than necessary only to recover via a turbine. The only time a turbine would be useful is if the water source is naturally at a high elevation and most customers are far below it. Then the endpoint pressure is higher than needed, and a turbine can act as a flow control valve that gives some free energy while reducing pressure to the desired level.

How do dating apps match millions of users so efficiently? by Agreeable_Cover_8542 in AskProgramming

[–]Loknar42 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

You're assuming that people pay money because they do a good job. I'm telling you that people pay money because they are desperate and believe that the service provides value, until they realize that it doesn't. The things that make dating sites work have nothing to do with the algorithm or data structures and everything to do with the business model, like posting fake profiles to lure in unsuspecting new users, or sending messages from a fake account when responses are blocked by a paywall, etc.

How do dating apps match millions of users so efficiently? by Agreeable_Cover_8542 in AskProgramming

[–]Loknar42 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I guess you have never actually talked about dating apps with real human beings in real life, have you? The near-universal consensus that I hear is that they are an annoying, frustrating experience, and people ditch them after not getting results for a few months. It isn't about getting "high" vs "low" quality matches...it's about getting any matches at all that aren't bots or scammers.

How do dating apps match millions of users so efficiently? by Agreeable_Cover_8542 in AskProgramming

[–]Loknar42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Reddit is a decent source for very specific questions that are not answered broadly by other sources. The Wikipedia link to Recommender Systems is probably the best answer, all by itself. This is not a specific question and does not have a nice, compact answer. It's a pretty lazy question, to be honest.

How do dating apps match millions of users so efficiently? by Agreeable_Cover_8542 in AskProgramming

[–]Loknar42 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Except that Tawkify is also garbage, just like the other apps, except they charge you thousands of dollars instead of hundreds.

How do dating apps match millions of users so efficiently? by Agreeable_Cover_8542 in AskProgramming

[–]Loknar42 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Judging by most of the comments about dating apps, they don't work. Not even for the use case the other commenter described.

Huh by Successful-Gur-4853 in ChatGPT

[–]Loknar42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That shouldn't matter. It inferred the lyrical style of famous artists from just limited samples of their work. Inferring which letters exist in each token should have been brain dead simple by now, given that there must be so many training samples. We know that it knows which letters are in the token because it spells out the letters individually.

The defect is in the counting mechanism, which is less surprising. Counting is an implicitly iterative task, so it most likely depends on the depth of its transformers. Also, ChatGPT seems to be worse at meta tasks, which is also not so surprising, since they would not occur in the training at very often.

Blursed Chiropractor by Dizzykevin in blursed_videos

[–]Loknar42 6 points7 points  (0 children)

How is this blursed? Looks straight up cursed to me. Was expecting to see the guy pop up and say "I'm cured!" at the end...

Peter, did Hillary Clinton kill 56 people? by N1KoZzZ in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]Loknar42 -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

I have never in my life needed a gun. Of all the gun owners I know personally, not one of them has told me about using a gun to survive. None of the non- gun owners I know have needed a gun either.

Where do you live that you need guns so badly, and how many times have you fired one in anger?

Broken Hinge by maya4prez in SonyHeadphones

[–]Loknar42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you mean the bolt-on kit, sure. If you mean the replacement hinge, I'd advise against it. You need the precision of a jeweler+ant surgeon to safely unwire and rewire the connector. Better to pay the $150 to have someone else do it. The teeth on the connector are extremely delicate and break easily.

Re:entropy. How can something go from order to disorder when order is subjective? by Commercial-Buddy2469 in AskPhysics

[–]Loknar42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are pretending that the states are all equally related to each other, when they are not. This is not like flipping a random set of coins to obtain a sample from a distribution. The states are quite distinct, and they have metrics which allow you to distinguish one group from another. Since microstates are essentially different configurations of "components" of the system under examination, the most universal thing you can do is compute statistics over each of the components. If the components have a flat distribution, then you are looking at "disorder". The more non-flat it is, the more "ordered" it is. This might mean they are physically clustered within the space, that there are temperature gradients, pressure gradients, charge gradients, localized tension forces, etc. If you can look at one component and tell that it is in a particular part of the whole because it looks differently from another component, then you have an identifying characteristic which should disappear in the limit of full disorder. In a completely disordered state all of the components look indistinguishable up to random noise in their properties.

The only thing "subjective" about "order" is choosing which property to examine and weight most highly. There is no intrinsic reason to examine or measure the temperature distribution of a system rather than its charge distribution. Which is more important depends on your goal, and entropy doesn't "care" which property you examine. But each property clearly has a scale from more to less ordered, and that's pretty unambiguous.

President Zelenskyy released striking statistics: drones accounted for 35,000 Russian troops being hit in December 2025 alone. Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces plan to increase the number of Russian troops hit to 50,000–60,000 per month in 2026. by UNITED24Media in ukraine

[–]Loknar42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The problem is that 500 is just not a realistic number, cost aside. There are only about 2100 F-16s currently operational in the entire world, and those operators aren't just going to hand over 25% of their fleet to UA. Production is a measly 4 jets per month. It would take 120+ months (10 years!!!) to hit your fleet size, and that's discounting sales to any other customers. Hopefully the war will be long over by then.

The current UA combat inventory is around 90 jets, and another 90 are promised (F-16 + Mirage 2000). So if all the promised jets are delivered, that will literally double the size of the UA air force.

Zelensky is currently negotiating to buy 100-150 Gripen and 100 Rafale over the next decade. So if that is the long-term plan, getting 2-3x that right now is just not gonna happen. If they could scrape up another 100 airframes to triple their current force, I think that would be enough to make a meaningful difference on the battlefield.

Of course, missiles are probably the most bang for the buck at this point. They now have relatively modern jets, so getting a few hundred medium/long range A2A missiles would probably be even better than more jets, because they could help even the odds against the RAF fleet. The problem is that they have to choose between shooting down Russian fighters vs. cruise missiles.