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New comment by atrus in "How to head into VR without wearing a headset"

atrus — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 14:10:03 +0000

Just that, sleeping while in some VR world. There are plenty of "sleep with me" VRChat worlds (without the eroticism)

New comment by atrus in "Oxygen-deprived underwater zones may not be “dead zones” but clue to early life"

atrus — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 03:05:13 +0000

There's actually an even more common example that what you've described: water heaters. The cold inlet at the bottom and the hot outlet at the top prevent mixing, and the two waters of different temperatures can maintain their difference for a surprisingly long time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm7L-2J52GU

(technology connections describing it)

New comment by atrus in "Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats"

atrus — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:36:05 +0000

There's been a decent amount of drugs that have been made via a brute force method, but it's a pretty physical process, usually pipetting a few hundred thousand compounds and samples. There's also a lot of drugs where we don't fully understand how they work.

New comment by atrus in "AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible"

atrus — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 10:08:10 +0000

This feels like an AI trap almost. A lot of the badness comes from people who don't want/can't put effort into it, so we all get a deluge of the sameyness.

New comment by atrus in "Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls"

atrus — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:28:54 +0000

Yeah, if the drain in the sink is clogged. US bathroom pipe is 1.25" which will (probably) lead to a 2" and 4" pipe eventually (depending on when, where, and how your house was built ofc). The hole in the sink leads to the same initial pipe.

New comment by atrus in "US police fear Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record them"

atrus — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:00:34 +0000

They'll be fine. As the police often say, if you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide.

New comment by atrus in "Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns"

atrus — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 11:50:33 +0000

At that point though, it's like why. Reddit is, well, trash. It's barely worth visiting without an account, and if you're going to make me jump through hoops to visit, it's time to accept the message of "we don't want you here" and go somewhere else.

New comment by atrus in "I Don't Have a Smartphone"

atrus — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 20:09:19 +0000

Well, yeah, people have been using that phrase for years, if not decades. I'm not sure if you were aware, but they actually trained Claude on human text, so it naturally sounds like the human text it trained off of.

New comment by atrus in "EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application"

atrus — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:46:56 +0000

Because it won't take twice as long, but 10x as long. There's typically a large rush on a new design, followed by a slow tick in sales. Meanwhile you have to pay to warehouse it, pay tax on the inventory, etc.

New comment by atrus in "Pine64 launch $50 smart speaker for Home Assistant tinkerers"

atrus — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:04:54 +0000

You're 75% correct, one of the 4 products does have an amp though.

New comment by atrus in "Tidal AI Policy"

atrus — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:54:35 +0000

You see that a lot in AI (and honestly, other discussions) where people with differing requirements are talking past each other.

Some people are listening to music as an experience, internalizing lyrics, empathizing with the feeling and vibes of the artist. Others are just wanting something pop-y as background noise while they do work. They come together and since they're arguing for different needs, the whole thing turns into a mess.

New comment by atrus in "Epidurals are a miracle technology"

atrus — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:47:42 +0000

> This isn't without its risks to the mother and the child

> The result is unnecessary birth trauma.

Not trying to be snarky, but which is it? This is definitely a situation in which having a midwife there to advocate for you is an absolute plus.

New comment by atrus in "Pre-2022 Books"

atrus — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:04:35 +0000

It's replies like this that make me wonder which is more demotivating to artists. LLMs, or people screeching "it's ai" regardless of proof.

It has to be absolutely demoralizing to make something on your own, and have it immediately labelled ai by someone who can barely spell it.

New comment by atrus in "Amateur may have cracked Linear A"

atrus — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:14:29 +0000

somehow I suspect it was a bit more involved than: Claude, please solve Linear A.

New comment by atrus in "MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second"

atrus — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:21:40 +0000

Which censored prompts do you test with non-chinese models?

New comment by atrus in "DoD Officially Drops 180 Faiths from Military's Recognized Religion List"

atrus — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 23:54:45 +0000

No religion on the list, I suppose that counts.

New comment by atrus in "I Miss Terry Pratchett"

atrus — Sat, 23 May 2026 16:01:21 +0000

Your points are valid, but they're also on the wrong side of what I'm saying; however, you're speaking from the consuming side, I was talking from the producing side.

AI is never going to stop people from creating new things. Will it make it harder or different to make a living? Sure, but ai isn't the first thing to do that, nor will it be the last.

But making a living off of your art is incredibly, incredibly difficult, and always has been. If AI doubled, or halved, your chances of winning the lottery, it still wouldn't really change your odds of winning.

New comment by atrus in "I Miss Terry Pratchett"

atrus — Sat, 23 May 2026 14:16:05 +0000

Is the next Terry Pratchett not writing because AI exists, or because they'll just get accused of being AI?

This is a little like saying no one will ever paint anymore because cameras exist.

It might be harder to make a living off art now (which...debatable), but at no point, ever, was it easy.

New comment by atrus in "Colonization of Venus"

atrus — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:38:40 +0000

Yeah, and the fact that no one is doing "practice runs" on them is telling how serious any colonization effort really is. Zero chance of a successful mars city if we can't even colonize the trivial in comparison ocean.

New comment by atrus in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

atrus — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:23:51 +0000

It's just the "outline" of the controller/puck, it doesn't include internal features for the internals. You won't be building your own controller off these files (without a lot of work).

It's more helpful for making things that conform to the controller, like a holder or stand for your desk or carrying case.