checkyoursudo (u/checkyoursudo)

checkyoursudo commented on Cape Station, future home of an enhanced geothermal power plant, in Utah gatesnotes.com/utahs-hott... · Posted by u/mooreds

ajkjk · 4 months ago

It's so silly to use statues of liberty as a metric when nobody really knows how tall it is either (famously it's a lot smaller than people expect).

checkyoursudo · 4 months ago

One statue of liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World, Liberty Island, NYC) is approximately 4 times the size of one statue of liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World replica, Île aux Cygnes, Paris).

Easy peasy.

checkyoursudo commented on An LLM is a lossy encyclopedia simonwillison.net/2025/Au... · Posted by u/tosh

simonw · 4 months ago

I think you are missing the point of the analogy: a lossy encyclopedia is obviously a bad idea, because encyclopedias are meant to be reliable places to look up facts.

checkyoursudo · 4 months ago

I am sympathetic to your analogy. I think it works well enough.

But it falls a bit short in that encyclopedias, lossy or not, shouldn't affirmatively contain false information. The way I would picture a lossy encyclopedia is that it can misdirect by omission, but it would not change A to ¬A.

Maybe a truthy-roulette enclyclopedia?

checkyoursudo commented on Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial trial.medpath.com/news/5c... · Posted by u/amichail

aerhardt · 5 months ago

Where I live (Spain) there’s a massive intergenerational gap between how our parents ate and how we eat and exercise. A huge number of people around me go to great lengths to control what they eat and make an effort to move. I see it at the beach, at the restaurant or at the gym. You can ask anyone in the older generations if younger people are physically healthier and you’d find an almost unanimous yes. Coincidentally we have one of the highest life expectancies in the world. None of this is given.

checkyoursudo · 5 months ago

I am not sure I would rely on observations of gyms and beaches for whether people are healthier for fear of selection bias. Going to the beach and seeing mostly fit bathers is like going to the hospital and seeing mostly sick people and thinking that can be generalized to society.

Why would you ask old people if young people are healthier than they were? Surely, Spain compiles medical statistics.

Anyway, Spain appears to have the same weight issues as everywhere else:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9105543/

checkyoursudo commented on Holding Cellphone while driving is illegal, California court rules latimes.com/california/st... · Posted by u/firefoxd

whiplash451 · 6 months ago

If you’re engaged into a serious accident and your phone history shows that you were texting while driving, this law will get you under a pile of trouble.

checkyoursudo · 6 months ago

I send texts via voice command/dictation all the time. How would this be distinguished?

checkyoursudo commented on AI Horseless Carriages koomen.dev/essays/horsele... · Posted by u/petekoomen

pjc50 · 8 months ago

Where's the IBM slide about "a machine cannot be held accountable, therefore a machine should never make a management decision"?

Of course, often it's quite hard to hold management accountable either.

checkyoursudo · 8 months ago

Isn't a solution to assign vicarious liability to whomever approves the use of the decision-making machine?

checkyoursudo commented on Fragment of a human face aged over one million years discovered sciencedaily.com/releases... · Posted by u/docmechanic

danielbln · 9 months ago

Why is that crazy? Looking at human history, this doesn't come as much of a shock, does it?

checkyoursudo · 9 months ago

Humans do like to fuck.

checkyoursudo commented on MacBook Air M4 apple.com/macbook-air/... · Posted by u/tosh

checkyoursudo · 10 months ago

This is seriously the thing I like the most about my 2017 and 2023 macbooks. The trackpad feels so good. Every other manufacturer that I have tried, and no it is not all of them but a lot, they all make my fingers feel bad after using them. I don't know if they are rougher or textured somehow? The only one that does make my finger pads feel sore is the macbook.

checkyoursudo · 9 months ago

NB: "the only one that does[n't] make my finger pads feel sore is the macbook"

checkyoursudo commented on MacBook Air M4 apple.com/macbook-air/... · Posted by u/tosh

spaceman_2020 · 10 months ago

My pet peeve is the trackpad

How on earth are there literally ZERO non Apple laptops with a trackpad as smooth as Apple’s?

This is an old technology. Surely someone must have reverse engineered this by now?

checkyoursudo · 10 months ago

This is seriously the thing I like the most about my 2017 and 2023 macbooks. The trackpad feels so good. Every other manufacturer that I have tried, and no it is not all of them but a lot, they all make my fingers feel bad after using them. I don't know if they are rougher or textured somehow? The only one that does make my finger pads feel sore is the macbook.