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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I humbly reserve the right to give you a hug, if you’d consent, for all you did for us. Also I would like your permission to kick you in the balls for this “announcement”. If your biology doesn’t allow for that, don’t worry, I’ve got a magic spell that can give you balls just long enough for me to kick them.

    Just kidding, love you <3






  • First of all, microwaves emit non-ionizing radiation and thus can’t affect anything biological except for heating it. Wifi uses the same radiation and we bathe in that all the time, it is totally safe.

    Second of all, even if the microwave blasted huge amounts of ionizing radiation into the underwear or even food when heating, it will NOT turn the food radioactive. This is a common misconception and radiation is often used to treat food in order to kill all the microbes, this makes the food very resistant to spoiling. Often MREs used in the millitary are treated this way to give them a large shelf life, which is a really good feature to have. The food is totally safe to eat (at least from a radiation standpoint).

    It is possible to use radiation to make something radioactive, but the energy levels need to be extremely high. Think inside of nuclear reactors high. This is actually a large reason for radioactive waste, not just the spent fuel, but a lot of parts used inside the reactor become radioactive. This is why nuclear fusion reactors still output a lot of radioactive waste, as parts used inside the reactor (especially the shields) become radioactive.

    However it’s important to know radioactivity can absolutely spread and contaminate stuff. This is not because of the radiation, but because of the material itself spreading. It’s usually in the form of dust that spreads, gets stuck all over the place and especially when it gets inside of biologics it can be a real problem. But the exact same risk exists for toxic materials that aren’t radioactive, for example asbestos fibres.





  • Thorry84@feddit.nltome_irl@lemmy.worldme_irl
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    I got a new mouse for work the other day and was surprised at the packaging. It was super compact and 100% paper. It looked really nice, was super easy to open, did a good job of holding everything and protecting it from impacts. There were no plastic bags inside, the mouse itself was in a velvet like pouch, which was somehow completely made from paper. All of the other stuff was either in little boxes or an envelope.

    It made me happy because the whole thing was pretty much perfect and did it’s job as best it could. The thing being so compact made sure it could be shipped in large quantities without taking up any room. It also made me kind of sad of how wasteful those huge plastic boxes were in the past. Turns out with a little bit of effort, we could have done so much better all this time.


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    I have heard Samsung is bad so often on the internet, but my personal experience is different. I’ve used a Samsung washing machine for almost 10 years now and it still works and looks like the day I bought it. It’s very easy to use, has a large front loader door, is quiet and power efficient (as far as that’s even possible with a washing machine). Never regretted it.

    My brother also has a Samsung washer and dryer, because he loved how large the door was on my washing machine, so he bought one as well. It has served him fine for about 5 years now.

    But hey, maybe I’m just lucky with the one I’ve got.

    Before this one I had a Beko washer and dryer. I was unemployed at the time and didn’t have a lot of money, so I wanted a cheap model. The salesman in the store said it was bad (this was a long time ago, when they still had salesmen) and would break within a couple of years. But they did upsell an extended warranty for 5 years, which my mom paid for so I could afford to get the washer and dryer. Those units had served me very well for over 15 years. I did have to repair them a couple of times, but nothing major and some normal wear items. I sold those when I bought the Samsung as an upgrade. I switched to natural air drying instead of a dryer for environmental reasons, so I didn’t buy a new dryer.



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    Well that’s sort of half right. Yes you can run the smaller models locally, but usually it’s the bigger models that we want to use. It would also be very slow on a typical gaming computer and even a high end gaming computer. To make it go faster not only is the hardware used in datacenters more optimised for the task, it’s also a lot faster. This is both a speed increase per unit as well as more units being used than you would normally find in a gaming PC.

    Now these things aren’t magic, the basic technology is the same, so where does the speed come from? The answer is raw power, these things run insane amounts of power through them, with specialised cooling systems to keep them cool. This comes at the cost of efficiency.

    So whilst running a model is much cheaper compared to training a model, it is far from free. And whilst you can run a smaller model on your home PC, it isn’t directly comparable to how it’s used in the datacenter. So the use of AI is still very power hungry, even when not counting the training.



  • Really? I never heard that before. What would they care about how their caps are? I can’t see it having any impact on them at all. A lot of people got pissed about it when Coca Cola was one of the first to change the caps in line with the regulation, so if anything it hurt Coca Cola.

    Also even though large corporations are almost always totally evil, it’s not impossible for them to do something good as well. Probably not for the right reasons, but still, one thing doesn’t exclude the other.