voracitude

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[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Where did you hear that setting your phone on fire works fix the screen? Out of curiosity.

[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-not-killing-aosp-3566882/

Developing situation and I'm not laser-focused on it (I have other stuff on my mind like a broken bone and the fascism going on) hence "may", but this ^ is what I'm going off. Don't get me wrong, I run GrapheneOS myself and it's a great daily driver; I've just been looking for alternatives because of this news.

[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

Ehhh, graphene may not be the best rec anymore given Google isn't publishing AOSP source anymore and we don't know if we can force them to through court. postmarketOS seems good, probably, but I've never tried it myself. Calling any other opinions!

[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Friends don't lie to or manipulate friends. Just gonna leave that for your consideration. Obnoxious housemate sounds like she has a disorder, she may need psychiatric help. Good luck bud.

[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

This wasn't "his brain matter", these were "neuronal organoids" (clumps of neurons) grown from harvesting white blood cells and turning those into stem cells. Then the clumps were networked together with a literal wire to conduct signals between them, for timing.

Usually in organoids networks the wire delivers either regular, repeating inputs ("clean" pulses) as a reward for succeeding a task, or a random signal ("noise") for failure; this is how they're "trained" to play Pong for example:

In more advanced closed-loop setups, organoid cultures are embedded within simulated environments that allow them to “interact” in a game-like world. By using high-density multielectrode arrays (MEAs) to deliver patterns of electrical signals, researchers can create closed-loop feedback systems that enable organoids to process and respond to certain inputs (Kagan et al. [2022]). For instance, in one experiment, monolayer neuronal cultures were given sparse sensory feedback about the consequences of their actions within a simulated game. The organoids displayed short-term memory by organizing themselves in goal-directed ways, effectively learning to complete simple behavioural tasks. This capability, made possible by reinforcement learning, allows organoids to adapt based on feedback, akin to how a human brain might learn from trial and error.

(https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(22)00806-6)

These same methods are being used to train organoids as Machine Learning compute substrates, because they're much more efficient than silicon: https://aapsopen.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s41120-025-00109-3

[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

No. He is the commander in chief. The military is America's army, not trump's.

[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Hey now... at least maggots have a legitimate place in nature.

[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They're trying to start World War 3.

[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

When adenosine builds up in the brain, the only way for the brain to get rid of the accumulation of it is by sleeping

Incorrect, the body reuptakes adenosine readily as part of the respiratory cycle. In the absence of external administration, it is physically impossible to build up so much adenosine that it can kill you precisely because it is so readily downregulated to inosine by ADK, or upregulated to AMP and ATP through phosphorylation.

You might be thinking of other toxic substances that build up as part of respiration; some of those like amyloid beta plaques (once thought to play a role in Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases, but maybe not) are only cleared by the glymphatic system.

I recommend reading the last paragraph of your article again, as it doesn't actually say adenosine is responsible. It just says that adenosine makes you sleepy, and sleeping helps clear toxic buildup from the brain via the glymphatic system (which is true). The wording is just bad and implies adenosine is one of those toxic substances.

[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I realised my comment was woefully undercooked shortly after posting it 😅 It's worth noting though that issuance isn't the standard to be met; if the court doesn't sign off on a subpoena, it's not legally a subpoena and can't be enforced regardless of who issued it.

[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

A subpoena is a court order. Courts do not equal Congress. Separation of powers, and all that.

Edit: To clarify, courts don't issue subpoenas, they sign off on them. Because this hasn't been issued as a subpoena or signed off on by a court, it's not a subpoena and cannot be construed as one. At least, within the bounds of the law. Which as we've seen don't really matter at the moment.

[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

I love working 100 hours a week, it's the happiest I've ever been

Uhhhhhhh

Look, I did that to launch my first company. I did it for 3 months. I was not happy - I was suffering a hypomanic episode and it was detrimental to my marriage and health. I get it, sometimes it's necessary when you're building something. Framing it like this though seems... creepy. I don't like it.

 
 
 
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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by voracitude@lemmy.world to c/roguelikes@lemmy.world
 

"Noita, but fish" indeed.

Alternate link if the lemmy.world one doesn't load properly:

spoiler

 
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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by voracitude@lemmy.world to c/aimusic@sopuli.xyz
 

I forgot the link earlier, I am extremely dumb.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by voracitude@lemmy.world to c/noita@sopuli.xyz
 

Thanks for checking out the second version of my Noita fan track! This one sounds kinda like Scandroid. I did and do love the first version which was much closer to power metal, but I wasn't happy with a lot of aspects of it. I re-wrote the lyrics, re-generated the whole thing from scratch using Suno, and then spent ten hours figuring out the basics of DaVinci Resolve to add all the different animations and transitions. It's still not perfect but I'm happy with it... for now.

I hope you enjoy it!

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15137538

I had my best run going in over 280 hours. I had a homing rock wand, infinite spells and vampirism (infinite healing with the oceans of blood from corpses, not to mention grinding up the meat realm), an unmolested potion shop in the mines, and so many hearts I had 451 health with Vampirism. A fast teleport wand, a black hole wand I could have used to dig to parallel worlds eventually. I had killed The Alchemist and the Meat Realm boss with my sick homing quantum-split plasma beams on a Sparkbolt + Trigger.

Then I found Touch of Water.

No room in my inventory, onto my chainsaw wand just 'til I could get back to a Holy Mountain to save it for later. Saw a corpse, thought I'd top off my health and fired my chainsaw wand.

Actual footage of the event:

I finally feel like a real Noita!

 

I hope it's okay to cross-post this here! I'm not trying to spam, I didn't realise there was a difference between the different instances and thought my posts to one would be visible across all. I'm still getting the hang of this Fediverse thing 😄

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Touch of Water (noita.wiki.gg)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by voracitude@lemmy.world to c/noita@lemmy.ml
 

I had my best run going in over 280 hours. I had a homing rock wand, infinite spells and vampirism (infinite healing with the oceans of blood from corpses, not to mention grinding up the meat realm), an unmolested potion shop in the mines, and so many hearts I had 451 health with Vampirism. A fast teleport wand, a black hole wand I could have used to dig to parallel worlds eventually. I had killed The Alchemist and the Meat Realm boss with my sick homing quantum-split plasma beams on a Sparkbolt + Trigger.

Then I found Touch of Water.

No room in my inventory, onto my chainsaw wand just 'til I could get back to a Holy Mountain to save it for later. Saw a corpse, thought I'd top off my health and fired my chainsaw wand.

Actual footage of the event:

I finally feel like a real Noita!

 

This hits hard 'cause I was one of the fans so hopeful that Starbound would be Terraria 2 (In Space), and backed it on Kickstarter.

The presentation is a bit editorial at times, but I feel it's a pretty good overview of the game and the context surrounding its development, hype, and downfall.

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