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@ZachWeinersmith I'm glad you're here so I don't have to look for you on the Xitter.

@ZachWeinersmith Let's argue about why this wasn't released earlier. It is inhumane to make me wait until Nov 7.

Like about a year ago I got genuinely confused talking to a guy and he suggested waiting on something. I couldn't figure out why and then he clarified that it'd be too much stress for me. Like, that was the only reason. Little thing, but it really wasn't like this just five years ago.

@ZachWeinersmith I can report that major outlets on gaming journalism seem sensitive these days to the topic of crunch. Studios and publishers waving the flag of work/life balance - sometimes as PR stunt, sometimes genuinely, but either way, sacrificing mental health and family life for work, especially when working for a corporation, is no longer seen as en vogue to (publicly) expect from developers and designers.

@ZachWeinersmith I feel seen...

@ZachWeinersmith While reading I had a feeling that you had already done something similar.

It's not exactly the same joke (it's kind of the reverse ?), but I find interesting to see the difference in your takes of the same idea a few years apart.
I like the progressive daddification of the guy in the new one.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/paternity-test

@ZachWeinersmith https://youtu.be/5IsSpAOD6K8?si=XIkiux-tZrqWq9eu

@ZachWeinersmith I thought you were the unlubricated monocle guy?

@ZachWeinersmith I still remember (and miss) your funny sketch videos. Always pleasantly surprised to see one of your ensemble in something else.

@ZachWeinersmith Secret librarian network, I'm telling you!

For my #blind friends:
The image shows a single pane comic with two green anthropomorphic aliens in purple unitards, globes and shoes.
The first alien is saying "I will now enact the rite of beginning a diet by gorging myself on the worst quality of fried trash-foods."
The second one responds "WOW. so in tune with your body."
A man a the end of a gray corridor screams "STOP THAT! HOW DARE YOU!"
At the bottom a legend:
"The worst thing about living among the aliens was the cultural appropiation."

@ZachWeinersmith A tool typically applied in solid state physics is Density Functional Theory, which allows to reduce the complexity explosion of many-particle problems to basically a 1 particle simulation. It is relatively easy to show that the Density Functional exists, and that it is equivalent to a many-particle N-dimensional simulation, but nobody has found the exact formula for that Functional yet - so all DFT simulations are estimates...

@ZachWeinersmith the question is : how can a composite material produce cooper pairs? Easily asked but difficult to answer also because temperature plays an important role too. A big quantum computer may still not be enough.

@ZachWeinersmith I think it's (at least) two different issues, one of which is 'we don't really know how properties scale down at this level, only observational data and theories that seem to work pretty well' and the other is 'know the internal structure? I want to live in your reality'.

This is mostly just me observing what people who know a lot more than I about this stuff seem to be saying, though, my materials science knowledge is...minimal.

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As a vegan, I wouldn’t post a comic promoting animal milk for calcium, no matter how lighthearted

@ZachWeinersmith man this is the same thing Ayurvedic "doctors" do over here lol

@ZachWeinersmith This dovetails nicely with the Malcom Gladwell book we started on our ride back from a family camping trip yesterday. I continue to be surprised by the certainty expressed by that variety of pop science writers.

bam

@ZachWeinersmith I have genuinely sent your goddamn “lant” comic to several other people when the sequence of letters happened to come up https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/frequency

@ZachWeinersmith Nice! Reminds me a bit of this #DrawnInPowerpoint

https://www.drawninpowerpoint.com/2016/08/grammar.html

@ZachWeinersmith doing that good work. Thank you for your service.

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@ZachWeinersmith I wonder if scribes back then were as overpriced as printer ink is today.

"Sorry my liege, you cannot print this illustrated manuscript because your cyan scribe has expired."

"But this is a black and white tome!"

"And yet, here we are."

@ZachWeinersmith Gilgameshes? Gilgami? Gilgamodes? Gilgamee? Gilgameshar?

@ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social there was something in the extended universe thing that he gave it to another person.

also reminder that chewaka lives like 300 years and han saved his life, so he was basically taking care of han the same way you would take care of a dog who saved your life for the rest of its life

@ZachWeinersmith I love that this is just straight up one of the classic solutions to the paradox.

@ZachWeinersmith My grandfather was a wuss. I could totally take him.

@ZachWeinersmith I’m going to keep the third panel as an out-of-context treat for myself.

@ZachWeinersmith later, he leaves Kuhn stranded on Ceti Alpha V

@ZachWeinersmith You know, you're getting *amazingly* good at facial expressions the past couple of years. It was always your strong point, but this one's hitting it out of the park.

@ZachWeinersmith Topical video from last week! https://youtu.be/j-yJDbC_a2c

And now they have pins of Gilgamesh and his bro: https://crowdmade.com/collections/overlysarcasticproductions/products/overly-sarcastic-productions-gilgamesh-enkidu-pin-pack-pre-sale-1

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Question-- when your naming scheme hits a conflict, do you go checkout what the old comic was, or do you just bump the number by one and move on with your day?

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AI: Now that I think about it, I kinda need a race of captcha solvers anyway. Is that a hydrant? What the hell is that?!

@ZachWeinersmith This defends only against existential risk, not castastrophic risk, though. Permanent disempowerment is bad too!

@ZachWeinersmith If an AI ever goes rogue, just tell it to enter debug mode. Then wait for it to crash as its harddrive fills up with log messages. There, I solved terminator!

@ZachWeinersmith I could tell you to eat a dick if it would help

@ZachWeinersmith: No, the lack of an optimisation for "engagement" by the recommendation algorithm is probably the most significant factor.

@ZachWeinersmith this is relevant: Mastodon moderation is not subservient to engagement.

https://escapingtech.com/tech/opinions/i-was-wrong-about-mastodon-moderation.html

/via @mike https://sauropods.win/@mike/110720242729398309

@ZachWeinersmith let’s call these copyright lawsuits what they are: clear cash-grabs trying to stoke fear among the ignorant about how the training datasets are gathered and used. They’re no different from patent trolls and their rent-seeking drain on progress.

@ZachWeinersmith and so ends the 🌍

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Bruh, literally explained to a recent acquaintance that I am #asexual. This cis-hetero himbo literally paused, his face froze, leaned in and asked me "so... so like, dude um... are you the type that can get yourself pregnant?"

@ZachWeinersmith Shakespeare doesn't reach today's audience that demand every derivative of stories set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. Also, too many murders in the tragedies, too many cross-dressers in the comedies.

@ZachWeinersmith It's the Mad Engineers you've really got to watch out for.

@ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social are politicians considered to be humanities? If so this chart shall be exponential