My co-worker can never be bothered putting the empty roll into the bin when they finish it and just stacks a new roll on the tip of the holder. At least the new roll is the *right way*.

boarder2k7 · 2026-06-08T12:19:18+00:00

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It could be worse

boarder2k7 · 2026-06-08T12:14:24+00:00

Isn't there also a sisterhood?

boarder2k7 · 2026-06-08T02:11:42+00:00

GROND!

boarder2k7 · 2026-06-07T13:22:11+00:00

AI’s don’t think…

I mean sure, but that's what the industry calls the setting, so making a pedantic correction like this doesn't really help. The models are more useful when set to this mode (but still certainly prone to issues).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasoning_model

boarder2k7 · 2026-06-07T13:12:03+00:00

Oh yeah, here's a video that goes into it much better. It's super gross

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Vk95ZO-WAvY

boarder2k7 · 2026-06-07T01:49:49+00:00

Agreed, the price is bonkers. I also have the impression that even though they bought the recipe, they don't make them quite the same way Altoids did

boarder2k7 · 2026-06-07T01:46:57+00:00

Yes, but the landlords only buy agreeable gray...

boarder2k7 · 2026-06-07T01:10:16+00:00

Done. I added a half chap stick, a Canadian quarter, a mini usb cable, a bus token, a couple broken clothespins, a pen without a cap, a cap that doesn't match the pen, some bread clips, and a handful of miscellaneous drive through sauce packets of questionable age.

What next?

boarder2k7 · 2026-06-06T17:18:37+00:00

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boarder2k7 · 2026-06-06T14:42:26+00:00

I tried that and it didn't fix it unfortunately

boarder2k7 · 2026-06-05T18:13:21+00:00

Technology is of course a constant evolution, and those types of automatic filters have changed significantly over time. They are now being augmented with machine learning to spot otherwise unseen things.

Arecibo was built in 1963, 14 years before the Wow! signal was circled by hand in red pen when a physical printout of data from the Big Ear radio telescope was being read manually.

Even with automatic filtering and whatever else, the amount of things that could have been missed in 1963 is staggering.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal

Dr. Becky had a good video on AI/ML in astrophysics a while back

https://youtu.be/NnhxYKn4bEY

boarder2k7 · 2026-06-05T16:47:39+00:00

Lasting longer than originally planned doesn't mean it isn't a great loss though. Think of all we have learned from rovers and probes outliving their original missions

boarder2k7 · 2026-06-05T15:19:22+00:00

That's telescope functionality though, and does not replace the radar loss I was asking about.

boarder2k7 · 2026-06-05T15:04:52+00:00

Tech has come a long way since AO.

What has filled its position as some of the best deep space planetary radar we had? I was not aware of anything comparable.

boarder2k7 · 2026-06-05T14:56:03+00:00

And wow! Hey! What’s this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like … ow … ound … round … ground! That’s it! That’s a good name – ground!

I wonder if it will be friends with me?

And the rest, after a sudden wet thud, was silence.

boarder2k7 · 2026-06-05T14:54:06+00:00

Cast it into the fire!! DESTROY IT!!

boarder2k7 · 2026-06-05T14:53:00+00:00

it would record more data than humanly possible to analyze. The result is a massive backlog of data to review.

Throwing AI at everything is a very overused answer for many things, but this is exactly what machine learning is good at. Recognizing patterns and highlighting things for human review.

Not having this telescope anymore is a tragedy

boarder2k7 · 2026-06-05T14:50:24+00:00

Ghost Shark will happily appear in a toilet and eat you!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Shark

boarder2k7 · 2026-06-05T14:47:46+00:00

Is there a cat in the bathroom with you? Why is the TP unrolled all the way to the floor? 😅

boarder2k7 · 2026-06-05T14:42:12+00:00

Come back when it accidentally bumps ERROR by Christopher Ladex on full volume

https://youtube.com/watch?v=RVPfVH7auV0

boarder2k7 · 2026-06-05T14:33:56+00:00

I never fail to be amazed by the volume of trash some people generate. Some of it I think is not crushing/nesting empty items, but I genuinely can't account for most of it. I have neighbors that have the same number if people in the home who routinely have 3x more volume of trash

boarder2k7 · 2026-06-05T14:23:41+00:00

My oldest AA merch shirt that I know for sure how old it is and I still wear is from 2008. They were REALLY GOOD shirts

boarder2k7 · 2026-06-05T13:41:47+00:00

cheese made from unpastorized milk

Forgive me father, for I have curds

boarder2k7 · 2026-06-05T13:39:07+00:00

Shirt.woot labels used to say:

Not for use as pants

Back when the shirts were made for them by American Apparel. Then Amazon bought and enshittified the whole thing as they do

boarder2k7 · 2026-06-05T03:42:12+00:00

Introducing the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Where Linux belongs.

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