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tonymillion··on Prisma's pgbouncer=true on Supabase made every query 4 round-trips (postmortem)
I tried to read this article but something about the writing style made me go cross eyed. That being said, it sounded like something I had heard before and lo and behold...

Literally raised 4 years ago: https://github.com/prisma/orm/discussions/15164

I'm not sure the real intention of this blogpost, but my takeaway is "someone who has no idea what is going on finds a problem <LLM OF CHOICE> left for them, like a little code land mine".

tonymillion··on WangNet – 1.8 MB, zero-dependency Numberwang adjudication in 11 languages
Now we know...
tonymillion··on Opus 5.0 drives incoherence into the stratosphere
We dont need a SciFi story for that, reality is full of "I was just following orders" statements...

Whether those orders are from a person, a radio/telegram message or an AI output wouldn't really matter.

Edit to add: Charlies Angels and Mission Impossible are two shows where the protagonists get instructions from a faceless controller. That could easily be a TTS from an AI.

tonymillion··on The Silurian Hypothesis (2020)
The fact there is still coal(and oil) in the ground pretty much rules out any "advanced" industrialized civilization that came before us.

I also use the Carboniferous Period as a metric as to why "Advanced alien life" isn't more abundant (and I believe it should be factored into the Fermi equation)...

All those trees growing, soaking up sun, dying and just laying there to be compressed and buried without anything to decompose them, and then humans using them like solar batteries to power civilization (i.e. burning the coal), is one of those million-to-one things that enabled the human race to develop beyond basic society.

We needed all that coal and oil (and gas) based power to get to the point - industrially and technologically - where we could even build solar panels or nuclear to replace them, so its not like you could start from first principals and jump straight to modern power generation either.

The odds that the same sequence of events - fungus and bacteria not having the tools to decompose lignin (or whatever the alien equivalent is) - to happen on an extra-solar planet is ... pardon my pun ... astronomical :D

(yes, I used a dash to separate ideas in a sentence, deal with it...)

tonymillion··on Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
> Thats’s comparable to a single strand of spaghetti holding up about 3,300 one-pound bags of sugar

Is that cooked or raw spaghetti?

tonymillion··on Autonomous flying umbrella follows and shields users from rain and sunlight
Or the Nixie [1] (actually nixie was earlier, but went out of business in 2017)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixie_Labs_Nixie

tonymillion··on Genuinely, my all-time favourite image: Mamenchisaurus hochuanensis
Life imitates art imitating life: The story [1] of the Brontosaurus is an interesting one...

[1] https://obscuredinosaurfacts.com/blog/post/2019/08/31/bronto...

tonymillion··on Fuzix OS
Except it’s not…

https://codeberg.org/EtchedPixels/FUZIX

tonymillion··on It's all a blur
I believe Microsoft of all people solved this a while ago by using the gyroscope in a phone to produce a de-blur kernel that cleaned up the image.

Its somewhere here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/product/computation...

tonymillion··on Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings
That almost looks like a scene from half-life 2
tonymillion··on When ChatGPT turns informant
Or… and bear with me on this…

They could just read your text message and browser history

tonymillion··on Grief gets an expiration date, just like us
That actually happened with texts to a grandmothers phone number that was (eventually) reassigned.

https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/home-news/family-sho...

tonymillion··on Irrelevant facts about cats added to math problems increase LLM errors by 300%
Honestly, the first article about peacock feathers having laser cavities was far more interesting and completely distracted me from the "Cat facts vs AI conundrum" article.
tonymillion··on TrackWeight: Turn your MacBook's trackpad into a digital weighing scale
The best use of the SMS in the MacBook… or should I say SMACKbook

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uvQTTPr9Rw

tonymillion··on Schizophrenia is the price we pay for minds poised near the edge of a cliff
Schizophrenia is the price we pay for owning a Cat

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38041862/

tonymillion··on Show HN: I modeled the Voynich Manuscript with SBERT to test for structure
And let’s not forget “Ken Lee”

https://youtu.be/vUAaHkGpJy8

tonymillion··on Why Fennel?
At that point you’re almost, but not quite into the realm of “forth”
tonymillion··on I tasted Honda's spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again (2021)
Amphetamine Dopamine Ketamine

Now thats a party!

(and as I said in another reply) Strychnine

tonymillion··on I tasted Honda's spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again (2021)
Strychnine

side note: It kills you by making all your muscles tense so strongly that you can't breath any more. The muscles in your face tense in a way that it gives you whats called a "Strychnine Smile".

tonymillion··on Reflect Orbital: Sunlight after dark using a constellation of spatial reflectors
Or just put mirrors on the ground to reflect the sunlight back out /s
tonymillion··on British Placename Mapper
Also doesn’t help that it’s actual name is “Worcestershire sauce” which is even more difficult to say.
tonymillion··on FindMyCat – Open-Source Pet Tracker
Enjoy your toxoplasmosis, and subsequent schizophrenic symptoms… but at least your cats got to hunt all the diseased rats they like, right?
tonymillion··on Connecting two dial-up modems using a VoIP ATA
It would still be encoded, assuming your (analogue) POTS call traversed more than one exchange then it would have been coded to g.711 (ulaw or alaw) for that inter-exchange. Although (from memory) that would be 10ms packets.
tonymillion··on Can you explain Transformers in one sentence? (attention mechanisms) [video]
What about megatron and sound wave… and in fact most of the decepticons

Transformers: Robots in disguise!

tonymillion··on The computational power of the human brain
This kind of question is meaningless, and I’m pretty sure it comes from the old view of neurons being somewhat akin to a 1-1 or many-1 digital switch (it isn’t).

In fact, we currently don’t even know the full extent of the types of neurons in the brain or the way they function and interact [1]

There are neurons that only fire when a certain percentage of their inputs are stimulated, some that have a temporal component to their firing and more.

In all the computer neural net research I read I never saw an implementation that truly explored or implemented more than a few types (like 3-4) of neuronal input and only one type of output

[1] https://qbi.uq.edu.au/brain/brain-anatomy/types-neurons

tonymillion··on Silicon Valley's quest to live forever now includes $2,500 full-body MRIs
Considering they’re superconductors cooled by liquid helium there’s not a lot of scope for “cool-off” lol
tonymillion··on Why is the ocean salty? (2022)
Also in the production of Sodium batteries, which while significantly lower in energy density compared to Lithium, they have bigger cycle counts (and as such are/can be used to buffer grid based wind/solar generation)
tonymillion··on Researchers use AI to find new magnetic materials
And your point is?

Diamonds are a cartel backed, price gouged, selectively distributed, commodity whose only production cost is digging them out of the ground.

On top of that they are pretty much the most common gemstone.

The cartel I mentioned earlier has also had a heavy handed approach towards the producers of artificial diamond.

All of this is a long winded way of saying “what is your point?” Diamonds and Common earth element man made magnets have absolutely nothing in common.

tonymillion··on Are any words the same in all languages?
Didn’t the Beatles write song like that?
tonymillion··on Humanised kidneys grown inside pigs for the first time
Actually there are (Ebola, haemorrhagmific fever etc) are mostly deadly and easily transmissible - however they tend to be self limiting in part because they are so deadly and (luckily) because they aren’t airborne and thus distance … literally the distance between groups of people helps limit them. (Also the fairly short incubation period).

However all of that is irrelevant since the GP was musing on the “huge genetic diversity of humans” being a barrier to xenomutation of animal viruses to humans.

Thats not the case, because humans are pretty much genetically identical to near a 1000th of a percent - so a particularly virulent virus that mutated from an animal to a human because of an organ transplant has a pretty good chance of causing a major pandemic.

You don’t even have to take my word for it, Covid, swine flu, h1n1 are all examples of animal infections jumping - and that’s without the added long term exposure / selection pressure a transplanted organ would provide.

Caveat: I’m all for this kind of research and development given the lack of transplantable organs in many health departments, but I’m also in favor of r&d for artificial replacements too.

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