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New comment by CarRamrod in "The 2-Year Apartment Rule"

CarRamrod — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 10:12:43 +0000

Duly noted.

New comment by CarRamrod in "The 2-Year Apartment Rule"

CarRamrod — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 08:53:35 +0000

The best thing I've found after dealing with mold is a simple 3% hydrogen peroxide solution that is sold in any drugstore. Put it in a spray bottle and soak the area deeply enough and it should kill it down to the roots.

And a plus is that when it breaks down the only fumes it gives off is pure oxygen, unlike other cleaners like bleach. It did such a good job that I use peroxide as a general purpose cleaner now.

I will add one note that you should rinse your hands regularly if cleaning with peroxide. Just a few days ago I had a leaky spray nozzle, and the peroxide was on my finger long enough that it was able to soak in. It turned my skin chalk-white and caused an uncomfortable bubbling sensation inside my skin. I had no idea it was even a reaction that could happen. It only lasted for a few hours, but it's not something I would want to happen again.

New comment by CarRamrod in "Shepherd's Dog: A Game by the Most Dangerous AI Model"

CarRamrod — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:35:47 +0000

BAA VRAM EWE

New comment by CarRamrod in "GPT‑5.3 Instant"

CarRamrod — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 23:21:17 +0000

>Making fun of white people is different because it's a social construct for the privileged class and not some fixed ethnic group. It's a critique of power and not a group of people.

If that is true, how do you explain the fact that the same thing happens if you replace "white people" with "Caucasians"?

New comment by CarRamrod in "3D-printed carotid artery-on-chips for personalized thrombosis investigation"

CarRamrod — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 06:08:11 +0000

>artery-on-a-chip devices

Can they run DOOM?

New comment by CarRamrod in "The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality"

CarRamrod — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 10:21:19 +0000

The last two times I purchased men's socks off the shelf at a big box store, they looked like fishnets after I put them on. Perfectly normal looking, brand name crew socks.

New comment by CarRamrod in "Bad Actors Are Grooming LLMs to Produce Falsehoods"

CarRamrod — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 08:15:49 +0000

It's agendas all the way down

New comment by CarRamrod in "Singularities in Space-Time Prove Hard to Kill"

CarRamrod — Wed, 28 May 2025 07:32:36 +0000

>Maybe the universe has some crazy repulsive force when atoms or subatomic particles get really really close (closer than in neutron stars, where atoms are femtometers apart).

The Celestial Ick

New comment by CarRamrod in "The British sitcom that swept through the Balkans (2023)"

CarRamrod — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 09:43:22 +0000

>Alan Partridge

Let's not forget that the Alan Partridge character was borne on Chris Morris' absolutely genius radio show "On The Hour", and made it onto tv on Morris' televised successor "The Day Today".

Which reminds me of the actual high water mark of British comedy, which was Chris Morris' third and final series "Brass Eye". He rustled too many feathers with that one.

It's a damn shame that those shows have been wiped from YouTube. For my money, Chris Morris is the most unappreciated creator of the 90s/00s, limey or not.

New comment by CarRamrod in "The British sitcom that swept through the Balkans (2023)"

CarRamrod — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 08:34:18 +0000

You might not like it, but this is what peak bri'ish comedy looks like.

https://youtu.be/B74_ZoniuPE

New comment by CarRamrod in "New antibiotic that kills drug-resistant bacteria found in technician's garden"

CarRamrod — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 06:52:52 +0000

Birds, mostly

New comment by CarRamrod in "Open source, 3D-printable smart chess board"

CarRamrod — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 08:10:04 +0000

You can use a cheap desktop CNC machine to mill circuit boards.

New comment by CarRamrod in "Brain scans of infants reveal the moment we start making memories"

CarRamrod — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 10:39:41 +0000

i'll let you go ahead and explain how they controlled for squirming, I'm interested

New comment by CarRamrod in "Brain Scans of Infants Reveal the Moment We Start Making Memories"

CarRamrod — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 08:08:41 +0000

How vivid are we talking, on a scale of 1 to Young Sheldon? https://youtu.be/od6Zq5T57R0?&t=26

New comment by CarRamrod in "Brain scans of infants reveal the moment we start making memories"

CarRamrod — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 06:54:14 +0000

>Failure of any of these steps [encoding, long-term etching, and recall of memory] causes amnesia. So, which steps are responsible for the erosion of baby memories?

>Who knows! Kids squirm around too much in MRI machines! But they start encoding things around a year, or maybe before, or maybe after!

I've been clickbaited

New comment by CarRamrod in "ChatGPT can't kill anything worth preserving"

CarRamrod — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 08:39:55 +0000

Define 'magic'.

New comment by CarRamrod in "Athena landed in a dark crater where the temperature was -280° F / -173° C"

CarRamrod — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 09:28:52 +0000

There's a mote on the crack on the Mössbauer spectrometer on the instrument arm on the rover in the hole in the bottom of the sea of tranquility

New comment by CarRamrod in "Why young parents should focus on building trust with their kids"

CarRamrod — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 07:51:50 +0000

Perhaps a more accurate title would be "Why parents of young children should focus on building trust with their kids". In any case, thanks for the enlightening article.

New comment by CarRamrod in "How does DeepSeek work: An inside look"

CarRamrod — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 10:16:44 +0000

Back when I started using LLMs for writing code I would type out long, gently phrased explanations about why it was wrong, as if I was teaching a pupil, hoping it would help. I'm sure a lot of us did. If they can parse and mine those prompts, they'll have a nice little metacorpus to build on.

Now I just tell it to stop being stupid over and over until it does a good job. I wonder if it would improve the model to keep all of the beratement in the training data.

Edit: Apparently a 'metacorpus' is a swollen nematode ass. My sincerest apologies, bros.

New comment by CarRamrod in "Fair Pricing"

CarRamrod — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 09:57:23 +0000

Note to self: Make something good enough that friends will feel the need to make up pitches for their friends to use said thing.