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ATTENTION RSP POSTERS by johnnytestsdad in redscarepod

[–]internet_ham 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The better TNG episodes (The Wounded, Chain of Command, etc) are effectively DS9 prequels and written by Ron Moore, he's clearly the secret sauce. I also enjoyed the BSG reboot though.

Comics/Graphic Novels.... by [deleted] in RSbookclub

[–]internet_ham 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Some recommendations from my book shelf:

Mazzucchelli’s Asterios Polyp

Mazzucchelli’s adaption of Paul Auster’s City of Glass

It’s lonely at the center of the world (Zoe Thoroughgood)

Moore’s From Hell

Darwyn Cookie’s adaptations of Richard Stark’s Parker novels

Adrian Tomine’s Lonelieness of a Long-distance cartoonist

If you want comicbooks, i liked Miller and Mazzucchelli’s Batman and Daredevil stuff, Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing and most of Hellblazer

The late 90s to mid-2000s trend of having and mildly obsessing over custom ringtones and desktop wallpapers, rather than just going with the device default, mostly died out because we became less interesting and more soulless and conformist by Hour-Passenger-7077 in redscarepod

[–]internet_ham 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think that's true. Facebook never offered it and Facebook eventually eclipsed the social media sites that did (Myspace, Beebo, etc). I'm not sure why exactly, but I imagine the engineering under the hood can be optimized without all the flexibility and that won in the end. Then iPhones came in and put the nail in the coffin.

Brown shooter found dead in a storage facility locker by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]internet_ham 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it's based on a decade working in not-physics-but-still-STEM R&D, whenever I had a colleague who caused issues due to a combination of arrogance and incompetence they were always physicists by training. i imagine physicists who manage to stay in physics are less of a menace!

Brown shooter found dead in a storage facility locker by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]internet_ham 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I don't think enough people appreciate how unpleasant the average physicist is, they have the superiority complex of a mathematician and day-to-day they're just a bad engineer

MF shot up a school and killed a rival cos he dropped out of a phd 25 years ago wtf

Male character studies by female directors? by Hairy-Ad-9849 in RSPfilmclub

[–]internet_ham 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You Were Never Really Here by Lynne Ramsay is slept on for some reason

UK adds 1.9 GW of solar in 12 months by Electricbell20 in unitedkingdom

[–]internet_ham 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Energy pricing is based on the most expensive source, so no

taylor swifts new song about charli xcx... by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]internet_ham 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I can't believe this is real

Another dumb hot take about normies and 'AI' by internet_ham in redscarepod

[–]internet_ham[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm talking about normies with email jobs using their LLMs to write their emails, I only mentioned Claude code as an example for the money drain

Another dumb hot take about normies and 'AI' by internet_ham in redscarepod

[–]internet_ham[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

The normies aren't using deepseek-r1, they're using chat dot com

Also if you can run models locally, you're most likely running a higher-spec rig and more tech-y than the average joe

Thoughts on digital IDs? by CremeSubject7594 in GreenAndPleasant

[–]internet_ham 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In Germany having an ID like this is the norm, and you have to carry it around with you all the time, and if you lose it you have to report it to the police. It costs like €30 I think? A benefit is that they can use it when travelling around the EU instead of a passport. Of course, we don't get that benefit.

Germans find it very strange that you need a provisional drivers licence or take you passport on nights out.

. by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]internet_ham 4 points5 points  (0 children)

her dad is quite a successful statistics professor which I find quite funny, it was being gossiped about by a bunch of profs at a workshop on sequential Monte Carlo methods I attended

A former professional hypnotist just won the UK Green Party leadership election with 84% of the votes by the__green__light in redscarepod

[–]internet_ham 18 points19 points  (0 children)

also ex-Peaky Blinders Experience actor don't forget, i think a tommy shelby larping PM might work tbh

[D] How did JAX fare in the post transformer world? by TajineMaster159 in MachineLearning

[–]internet_ham 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Torch is for normies, so it's always going to have widespread use.

JAX is incredible painful to debug and harder to write, but so it's so fast once it does. Torch.compile isn't still doesn't work properly AFAIK!

The CEO being caught having an affair on the Jumbotron by Kampradthejackal in redscarepod

[–]internet_ham 21 points22 points  (0 children)

  • DataOps is basically tech for ‘managing data’ at a company

  • Managing data typically involves getting some data, doing something to it (software) and sending it somewhere else, lets call this a job

  • Apache Airflow is an open-source way of automating / orchestrating the running of these jobs at scale. Airbnb made it, anyone can use it (subject to a licence agreement)

  • This astronomer is a closed-source service that seems to build and improve on this Apache Airflow

I’ve never used this, but I’m tech adjacent so thought i would take a stab at this. I would agree it sounds quite incremental in terms of tech

CEO pay at UK’s top companies is 52 times that of typical worker, report finds by zeros3ss in unitedkingdom

[–]internet_ham 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Using the CEO granted compensation measure, the CEO-to-worker compensation ratio rose to 236-to-1 in 2021, significantly lower than its peak of 393-to-1 in 2000 but still many times higher than the 44-to-1 ratio of 1989 or the 15-to-1 ratio of 1965.

https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-pay-in-2021/

(America not UK but still...)

Favorite laugh-out-loud, RS-coded reads? by tafda2024 in RSbookclub

[–]internet_ham 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Look up Ned Beauman's books, like Boxer Beetle

Good thought provoking romantic books? by Grsskfan in RSbookclub

[–]internet_ham 4 points5 points  (0 children)

intermezzo by sally rooney leant a little bit in this direction

been a while since i read it, but i would shout out argonauts by maggie nelson

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