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Are there any common household items or products that you think are designed incredibly poorly? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] hbar@lemmy.ml 25 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Wine bottles. After thousands of years of drinking you would think humans would develop a bottle design that doesn't dribble down the side after pouring.

Are there any common household items or products that you think are designed incredibly poorly? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] hbar@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Light bulbs! I thought when we moved away from the traditional incandescent the new stuff was supposed to last forever. Why do they die all the time!?

What is the most bizzare opinion you have ever heard from a teacher or professor in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] hbar@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Biomedical engineering professor teaching an entire course on how DNA in its natural state is not actually a double helix and that Watson and Crick were wrong. The guy spent decades of his career after getting tenure pushing this crusade of his. It was a great class and I loved it.

What is one video game cheat code that will you will always remember? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] hbar@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

Razzle dazzle root beer

If you could choose who was president who would it be? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] hbar@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

Russ Feingold, or Thom Hartmann

What's your favorite volume measure? Mine's 1/2 cup or 125 ml. So handy. in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] hbar@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago

A peck, equivalent to 2 dry gallons. Yay imperial units!

Sudo user vs root in c/linux4noobs@programming.dev
[–] hbar@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Thank you for the clear explanation!

Sudo user vs root in c/linux4noobs@programming.dev
[–] hbar@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

Thanks, this is very clear.

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Sudo user vs root (lemmy.ml)
 

Hi, I've been fiddling with PopOS the past year on an old laptop and I like it. I'm getting ready to convert my windows 10 desktop to Pop and leave windows behind entirely, before I do I want to be sure I understand a few security concepts.

I've read suggestions that say don't run as root, create a separate user account and only use root when necessary. Do you give that user account sudo privileges? If so, is that any different from just being root?

Also I've installed the ufw firewall but left it with default settings. Is that something I need to look into more?

Thanks in advance!

If you had to teach a subject in school, what would it be and why? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] hbar@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Real topics: Data Science, or maybe Quantitative Physiology

Topic near and dear to my heart: How to pick up a new hobby quickly and then immediately move on to the next hobby.

As badly described as possible, what is your favorite video game? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] hbar@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Conker's Bad Fur Day

As badly described as possible, what is your favorite video game? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] hbar@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Flower boob trampoline

Why do people dislike California? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] hbar@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

California is cool, I just don't like LA. It's dirty, crowded, has traffic 24/7, and everything is expensive just to name a few reasons.

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Asteroid the size of 100 hot dogs to pass Earth on Monday - NASA (www.jpost.com)
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Looking for epic space operas (lemmy.ml)
 

I really enjoyed The Hyperion Cantos, and the first few Dune books I read a long time ago (may reread these now). Can anyone recommend some other books (or series) along these lines? Huge stories on an epic scale, space battles, cool future tech, etc.

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New model offers a way to speed up drug discovery (news.mit.edu)
 

Very cool application of LLM to screen potential protein-drug interactions.

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Titanic asteroid the size of 84 orcas to pass Earth on Monday - NASA (m.jpost.com)
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Visual captions: Using large language models to augment video conferences with dynamic visuals (ai.googleblog.com)
 

Pretty cool demo

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Distinguishing academic science writing from humans or ChatGPT with over 99% accuracy using off-the-shelf machine learning tools (www.cell.com)
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Distinguishing academic science writing from humans or ChatGPT with over 99% accuracy using off-the-shelf machine learning tools (www.cell.com)
 

Interesting article, I wonder how much longer new language models will be detectable like this.

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