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  • …and we didn’t really trust it lol.

    As you shouldn’t. It was often mixed in a concrete mixer with random plant matter (hopefully at least hemp) and a jar of chemicals from China, then packaged with cool graphics. It was a ridiculously high percentage of the time that what was in the package wasn’t what it was on the label. Per brand you could expect it to be consistent…ish, but it was something like >50% of the time it was not what it said it was.

    It was basically whatever analog wasn’t illegal at the time in China was produced then shipped to the US, and the sketch packagers didn’t give a shit what it actually was.


  • I worked in toxicology, and there wad study on THC and gas-station analog use and driving impairment that was done near a military base. Every time it’s referenced in conferences, the presenter ALWAYS says “if you’re in the military and have illegal drugs in you’re system, it will ruin your life. They also know what drugs and metabolites are tested for, so they make sure it isn’t in their system during random drug tests” *wink-wink*

    There was an interestingly large number of people with weird THC-analogs in their system for this study specifically.


  • Oil, or at least equivalents would be pretty easy to make from raw elements. It’s just random chains and configurations of carbon with hydrogen, toss in some oxygen and nitrogen here and there with some other elements. Wood on the other hand is made from chains of This. It’s so complex and tough that it took 70 million years for something to evolve that could break it down. We think of plastic as lasting forever, but there’s already bacteria and fungi that can break it down, and it even breaks down in sunlight. So in comparison, after about 100 years, something evolved to break down plastic, but it took 700,000x as long for something to evolve to break down wood.


  • I see this as proof of how bad LLMs actually are. You have an AI trained on essentially humanity’s collective programming library. Languages of machines and computers. The result should be ungodly and near perfection. If there was any semblance of understanding in AI, it should be revealed in it’s capability to produce code.

    Although… I can definitely see Microsoft thinking that their code is the example of perfection and training copilot on that rather than github.






  • Inside a janitors closet, behind 24 firewalls, is a single SPARCStation serving the internal financial information for GE.

    A single chair is in the converted closet for Hank to sit when they (it could be one person, or three working in shifts, no one is really sure. But they respond to “Hank”) aren’t putting out the most recent fire. The pile of used extinguishers are replaced daily. Hank likes his job. Hank doesn’t like you. If you’re lucky enough and get access through the 7 biometrically locked doors to exchange the extinguishers, it’s been said you can hear mumblings from inside the closet about “uptime”.

    On September 30th, 2018, John Flannery, the CEO at the time, asked why this was all necessary and considered replacing this system with something more modern.





  • I’m using antix on a 23 year old laptop. Except for web browsing, it’s quite snappy with an IDE SSD (is actually an nvme drive with ide adapter, which is such a waste of that drive, but it’s 2230 and 128GB, so not very useful anywhere else)

    Pretty much any desktop that offers lxqt during installation works pretty well in my experience. I ran tumbleweed with lxqt for a while on a 4 core atom with 4 GB ram and it was quite smooth.