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New comment by bedane in "A definition of AGI"

bedane — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 10:45:48 +0000

a significant % of what I do day-to-day is dedicated to the task of finding sexual partners. how does this translate?

if it doesn't, how do you define "any task"?

New comment by bedane in "F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash"

bedane — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 12:12:08 +0000

is insurance for military equipment a thing? I had no idea.

If you have very deep pockets like a nation has, why not simply replace the lost hardware and never insure/pay premiums(which would be calculated to net a profit to the insurer)?

New comment by bedane in "Psilocybin decreases depression and anxiety in cancer patients (2016)"

bedane — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 11:37:00 +0000

I think this says more about the usual psy drugs we're prescribed and use.

they don't do jack shit.

New comment by bedane in "Psilocybin decreases depression and anxiety in cancer patients (2016)"

bedane — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 11:34:45 +0000

this stuff cured a lot of problems I had been trying for years to get rid of, overnight. (literally) mind-blowing

bonus, it made my buddy quit drinking

variance, it made my other buddy delusional and stupid. hasn't really recovered

New comment by bedane in "“Most promising signs yet” of alien life on a planet beyond our Solar System"

bedane — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 10:27:49 +0000

a fart/sewer odor is indeed a sign of life

New comment by bedane in "Whistleblower details how DOGE may have taken sensitive NLRB data"

bedane — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 14:45:06 +0000

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New comment by bedane in "Automatically tagging politician when they use their phone on the livestreams"

bedane — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 12:01:22 +0000

Nope it's useful.

Those people need to feel some kind of pressure and invasive monitoring. Because they're the ones who vote to allow it or not.

New comment by bedane in "DiffRhythm: Fast End-to-End Full-Length Song Generation with Latent Diffusion"

bedane — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 15:41:08 +0000

the "prompt" is the 10 seconds original audio file + the lyrics, right?

absolutely crazy

New comment by bedane in "DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data"

bedane — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:27 +0000

conveniently sweeping aside the fact that those who depend the most on the 'inefficient' programs/agencies that are being 'optimized' are the poorest and weakest members of society. those who can afford private everything will be fine.

New comment by bedane in "Is Everyone on Adderall?"

bedane — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 08:40:50 +0000

a lot of knowledge workers indeed use it (and ritalin/MPH) as a productivity enhancer

it feels (a bit too) good and helps for a while

if you have an addictive personality, you'll find out that, eventually you'll start abusing it, and there will be no turning back. you'll HAVE to 100% quit.

New comment by bedane in "Induce Lucid Dreaming"

bedane — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 11:04:34 +0000

I'll stick to nonfrequent mushroom use, thanks. My sleep and dreams are fine.

New comment by bedane in "Robinhood launches crypto trading in the European Union"

bedane — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 09:24:57 +0000

some of their older ads say 'no fees'

is that still true? how do they make money then?

New comment by bedane in "Web3 Is Going Just Great"

bedane — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 10:04:11 +0000

censorship-resistant payments and finance

regulated blockchain applications however, have no utility I can think of

New comment by bedane in "Google execs admit users 'not happy' with search after Reddit blackouts"

bedane — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 11:56:32 +0000

from the bottom of my heart: congratulations on making the web an unusable pile of garbage. It probably took a lot of effort, but you googlers incontestably pulled it off.

google [cooking recipe] 15 years ago: -> first result: text based bullet point list of ingredients, followed by concise how-to

google [cooking recipe] today: -> page after page of awful results where the data will be hidden in a monetized video and/or buried under a mile of irrelevant stories and ads

New comment by bedane in "Google Translate “Get well [Swedish firstname]” translates to “fuck you”"

bedane — Tue, 09 May 2023 14:34:57 +0000

french trick

input 'baiser' -> Google translates to 'kiss'

now add a female first name after 'baiser', 'kiss' will become 'fuck'

New comment by bedane in "Steven Spielberg: ‘No film should be revised’ based on modern sensitivity"

bedane — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 09:54:42 +0000

What about racist stereotypes? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nx4ekJ0i_w

New comment by bedane in "The Old (2018)"

bedane — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 12:25:58 +0000

Having to work at 80 is not a good thing

New comment by bedane in "Push notifications are now supported cross-browser"

bedane — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 14:09:03 +0000

Thanks for contributing to making the web a worse place, little by little, brick by brick. It's still barely usable but I trust that one day you and your peers will manage to make it unusable at all.

New comment by bedane in "Visual ChatGPT"

bedane — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 10:19:22 +0000

"It's who you know"

New comment by bedane in "Ask HN: What is your experience with SSRIs?"

bedane — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 06:51:29 +0000

for me (depression) they had no effect at all