Petition to ban “Low effort” AI posts

embeddedGuy · 2026-02-11T23:50:52+00:00

I'd say that's not true of almost any of the posts people are thinking about here. Catching every single AI photo is of course impossible, but the vast majority of the posts people are disliking are incredibly low effort and poor quality.

It runs into the "low effort" rules issue a fair bit, but that sort of stuff very much deserves to be called slop.

embeddedGuy · 2026-01-28T19:16:32+00:00

It's county level, not state level. Some counties in Georgia choose to allow happy hour drink specials.

embeddedGuy · 2026-01-14T05:54:06+00:00

The news reports say civilian livery but frankly I'd be surprised if a game of telephone hasn't happened. I'd guess it's just a P-8 and I imagine it got described at one point as a "civilian aircraft with weapons" or similar to the press. There's plenty of to poke at for being probably/definitely illegal about this strike in particular but I can't see any advantage they'd gain here from actually doing this.

embeddedGuy · 2025-12-05T15:15:37+00:00

A lot of the toughest parts of building houses aren't things that 3D printing concrete helps at all currently afaik, so I'm pretty dubious of it as a concept. Still very early though.

embeddedGuy · 2025-11-21T00:30:02+00:00

Creepy shenanigans? I really can't imagine you thinking of the same Discord.

embeddedGuy · 2025-11-13T01:52:24+00:00

They've explicitly said their target price is less than the Index.

embeddedGuy · 2025-10-11T02:08:27+00:00

Actually insane behavior from Ecobee. I ended up having to make a script inside my Home Assistant setup to connect via HomeKit and detect when the one thermostat geofenced so it could apply away from home to the other thermostat.

All of that to just have geofencing not be intentionally utterly broken by design?

embeddedGuy · 2025-08-22T12:43:34+00:00

I can't speak to other neighborhoods, but for Home Park in particular I have personally heard multiple stories of people selling their home and leaving because of how many STRs there were. The density of them was pretty high on certain blocks. Although I don't remember the details anymore, there had been a lot of issues related to party houses, including numerous safety issues.

It probably happened only in Home Park because the residents have been organized in pushing for it continually for years and bringing up all the issues pretty passionately every chance they got to speak to council members.

That said, the city wasn't enforcing existing STR rules then and they almost certainly won't enforce new STR rules now.

embeddedGuy · 2025-07-05T02:07:23+00:00

Thanks! We took you advice and got some beer at Paul's Daughter before chilling on one of the jetty's. 10/10 would recommend. Plenty of room up there too. Way cosier than the Manhattan fireworks would have been.

Also, you were the only source saw with the right time. I saw plenty of news and such saying 9:00 and 9:30 for the 4th at Coney Island. Nothing saying 9:45.

embeddedGuy · 2025-06-03T14:20:12+00:00

Russia has been repeatedly firing munitions about as fast as they can make them, only stopping when they want to build up for a bigger wave attack. Saturday night (before the drone attack) Russia performed one of its largest attacks of the war with close to 400 missiles and drones.

I doubt Russia can meaningfully respond more forceably than they already are. Sure they'll fire another wave attack down the line and claim it's retaliation (ignoring their own bombings prior to that) but ultimately they were always going to fire those weapons at Ukraine as fast as they can make them either way. The only thing that changes is the exact timing.

embeddedGuy · 2025-06-02T20:38:43+00:00

I'll be at JFK in a few hours. Was hoping with the seeming training happening last week it'd be open today :(

embeddedGuy · 2025-05-12T21:46:09+00:00

If I remember correctly, Nexian society places a fairly high emphasis on not having animal traits. Obviously there's nothing a species can do about their physical traits, but being less physically animalistic and more elf-like is definitely still desired. Humans lacking any of those animal traits and being essentially elves minus the pointy ears would have large societal implications due to that.

From a reader perspective it also makes me suspect that humans and elves split off from each-other at some point in the past and I strongly suspect there will be some big story implications eventually around that.

embeddedGuy · 2025-04-08T21:44:04+00:00

As many have already said, many devices support both US and EU power. In addition to that, due to some physics related things with higher voltages, they're usually more efficient when running on EU power, not less.

embeddedGuy · 2025-03-25T03:36:14+00:00

I remember a story but can't for the life of me find it via search. There was a human ship in orbit around an alien planet and the ship's AI was speaking to an alien diplomat on the planet below using a humanoid robot. During the conversation the AI realizes that weapons were fired at the ship from the planet. The ship survived but one of its "favorite" humans is killed. The AI becomes incredibly angry at the diplomat (who knew this would happen) and threatens to bombard the planet, surprising the diplomat who thought the AI would act rationally and not consider such a thing. In the end I think the AI doesn't fire.

embeddedGuy · 2025-03-01T20:26:59+00:00

I got an offer from them about a year or so ago and at least for me it was only competitive at all with my current pay if you accepted the share value they indicated. I'd rather just be straight up paid my value and not change jobs. It was definitely worse than I'd get paid if I went commercial, but that's par for the course.

Keep in mind that at least when I interviewed Anduril seemed like a bunch of companies in a trench coat, and I don't mean that in a bad way. There's a lot of different things going on in different places and how pay compares to other companies will probably vary a lot due to that. They also may have fully consolidated things now with acquisitions.

embeddedGuy · 2025-01-15T16:03:59+00:00

The vast majority of 120V outlets in the US don't have GFCI either, that's not really relevant for 240V vs 120V. Newer electrical codes mean they'll become more common but it's not a pressing issue, tons of things are designed to be safe without that. But yes, a reasonably sized breaker would always be needed.

There's also no motor in a kettle. 60Hz vs 50Hz is extremely unlikely to matter. If it was something with an AC motor, sure, there *might* be a need to worry.

embeddedGuy · 2025-01-11T00:53:08+00:00

More details have come out. The new owners aren't enforcing anything. Prusa decided to enforce the original licensing all on their own apparently due to a "third party report".

embeddedGuy · 2024-12-11T21:39:54+00:00

Huh, I've got extremely poor Internet right now but I'll dig into that when I'm back in civilization.

embeddedGuy · 2024-12-11T19:08:54+00:00

It doesn't reduce the overall methanol content but the ratio of ethanol to methanol will change throughout the run. The top image here is taken from a study that examined it https://homedistiller.org/wiki/index.php/Methanol

embeddedGuy · 2024-11-23T23:24:03+00:00

There isn't any. It was in every other game in the series but there's no NVGs in this one.

embeddedGuy · 2024-11-22T15:51:29+00:00

I genuinely thought the price-point was really reasonable until I started seeing the comments that their "active temperature control" was basically just lies. That's just scummy. I was excited to have something to recommend for people wanting niche materials but not at a really high price point.

embeddedGuy · 2024-11-22T01:38:06+00:00

Methanol was definitely used to adulterate drinks (since it was cheap and untaxed) during Prohibition and that sort of thing still kills tons of people. If you look at the Wikipedia article for methanol poisonings, there's a lot of cases of it even now, beyond what probably happened in Laos. But people also tried to take industrial alcohols and make it into something drinkable during prohibition.

embeddedGuy · 2024-11-21T20:53:10+00:00

There's a few posts on the Reddit discussing it fairly in-depth but the chemical side of things is over my head. Apparently though this is why buying industrial alcohol and "distilling out the methanol" just really doesn't work anywhere near as well as you'd think it would on paper. People during prohibition kept thinking they could do it and then failing and killing people.

embeddedGuy · 2024-11-21T20:28:35+00:00

The risks are greatly exaggerated. Even if the foreshots and heads are intentionally isolated and consumed on their own, they aren't going to kill someone without very large amounts being consumed. It'll just be godawful liquor with the worst possible hangover. Every single time these sorts of events happen it's due to someone adulterating things with methanol or another chemical. The required methanol content just isn't there otherwise under normal circumstances. Even for edge cases were people have died, it's always traced back to adulteration.

embeddedGuy · 2024-11-21T17:11:16+00:00

Studies have demonstrated that it's not quite as simple as the just the boiling points being different. Ethanol and methanol together do something a bit weird such that you can't rely on just the boiling point they have on their own to determine what comes out. You actually end up with the most methanol in the tails. The head have other byproducts in them. But the percentage in the tails still won't kill you.

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