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- Comment on Classic shooters Unreal and Unreal Tournament are now free and preserved on the Internet Archive 2 days ago:
Unreal was one of my favorite to multiplayer because the setting felt fun to explore with my friend, even if they stripped some of the story out. I’m glad it’s available in all it’s glory.
- Comment on Tiny pp 1 week ago:
It’s like with the “do you punch a Nazi?”, even pacifists have limits.
Then again, I think for me it’s ok to hit people where it hurts when you want to hurt them— and penis size is the “alpha males” easy and effective target just like crowd size is a certain assholes weakness.
- Comment on Deleted my Reddit! I am now entirely federated online except for Pixelfed! 2 weeks ago:
I know what you mean, especially news. I mostly do /all and it’s easily a problem there too. I think, possibly down the line, there might be a way to aggregate identical or similar posts, client side.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Please have Harris win so this guy can go to jail or whatever the fuck he’s so desperate to avoid.
- Comment on Every place gotta have the cuck booth 2 weeks ago:
I’ve got a boring engineer friend who’d probably benefit from having a wingman along for an awkward date. I support the three-person date!
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas release 20 years ago today. 3 weeks ago:
Good ol’ Sandy Shores. I wish it wasn’t so spot on sometimes! Not that South LA is much better.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas release 20 years ago today. 3 weeks ago:
Ah shit, here we go again.
But really, I place it second after GTAV, but I’m biased. I was born and raised in LA but I was too young to fully get San Andreas references. But V? I live where Franklins from, work where Michael lives, and have relatives where Trevor lives. It’s not satire, it’s a documentary.
- Comment on Do PhDs HAVE to use Dr? 3 weeks ago:
As others say, it’s not required and you very much can use other titles. Most stick with Dr because of how much time and effort and stress went into it, although I only use Dr. because with my first name it let’s me go by the name of a certain Simpsons character. “Hello, everybody!”
- Comment on Half as Hot 3 weeks ago:
I use this as an example for interval vs ratio; you can’t halve Celsius because it’s an interval scale where zero is arbitrary. Kelvin is ratio as it has an absolute zero-- you very much can halve it and doom near the entire planet next summer
- Comment on Get good. 3 weeks ago:
Two notes from my actual coursework in education and psych; first, baby talk exists for a reason but it’s the singasong voice that matters most, especially when they’re picking up sounds. The funny thing there is you can say absolutely terrible things in a singasong voice and they will love it and remember it better.
Second, the arse in the example isn’t actually all the way wrong, using vocabulary is important especially in that second and third year. I forget the author but there’s some studies that show preschool vocabulary is directly related to parental education and they found it’s because of the vocab the parents use. We’re taking tens of thousands more words learned. Too bad I can’t remember the author, just that it was four letters (and since leaving academia, my zotero is long gone).
- Comment on A useful map for travelers 3 weeks ago:
Damned car lobby keeping us from high speed rail in Antarctica. Just try looking up walking directions on Google maps, you just know it’ll have you going all sorts of ways because there no pedestrian infrastructure!
- Comment on An old Xbox advertisement 3 weeks ago:
This is very… upsetting.
- Comment on Why Choose? 4 weeks ago:
This is an image I didn’t know I needed in my life. I shall now share it without any context to a friend. Thank you.
- Comment on Why Choose? 4 weeks ago:
No, especially not these days. But on Lemmy, if you go unfiltered like me, your All channel will in fact have porn in it… sometimes remarkably high up at like 100+ votes.
I’m too much of a purist to edit my feed though (plus who doesn’t want a little porn, as a treat).
- Comment on We're all on the spectrum 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I used to work in a field with huge samples so significance wasn’t really all that useful. I usually just report significant coefficients and try to make clear what changes by model. For instance, if a type of curriculum showed improvements on test scores, you simply say how much and, possibly, illustrate it by saying if a person went from 50th percentile to 55th percentile.
Every field varies, though. I find it crazy how much psychologists I’ve worked with cared about r-squared. To each their own, I guess.
- Comment on We're all on the spectrum 4 weeks ago:
Frequentist statistics are really… silly in a way. And this coming from someone who has to teach it. Sure, p is less than 5%, but you sampled 100,000 people-- an effect size of 0.05 would be significant at this rate. “bUt ItS sIgNiFiCaNt”… Oy.
- Comment on Just So 5 weeks ago:
There’s the pseudoscience, then there’s the useful stuff. Natural selection is a good rational for human cooperation, for instance, and can be a way to explain why we have a conscience and feel guilt, etc… You know, apes together strong.
Of course, it’s also still hypothetical, but it’s at least better than the philosophical/metaphysical way we explain why we behave ourselves. Just wish the good stuff wasn’t drown out by people with dumb takes.
- Comment on 7 years ago there were no billionaires worth more than $100 billion - today there are 18! 1 month ago:
Ugh, I hate ladderboards for games with cheaters and exploiters on top. Where are the moderarors?! I demand a refund.
- Comment on I'm going insane 1 month ago:
I know you’re going for creepy buuuut I read it more like a dude who doesn’t get what a painting is.
- Comment on No further questions your honour 1 month ago:
I think I’d be a terrible park official. I’d say the same things, but always with a winky face.
Bigfoot isn’t real ;)
That’s our official stance ;)
It’s terrible in most scenarios now that I think of it…
Be sure to stay hydrated out on the trail ;)
Please evacuate the grounds, there is a wildfire burning ;)
- Comment on Read this if you own a Juicebox EV charger 1 month ago:
Oh. The campus I teach uses juice box. I wonder what’ll happen to them.
- Comment on Reggae is christian rock, but cool. 1 month ago:
It’s funny to see both Jon Stewart and Dave Chappelle take two very distinct paths into old age. Actually true of most people in that movie, lol
- Comment on Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it 1 month ago:
Oh man, my independent station is wild sometimes. It swaps between a lot of genres, from punk to classical. They played an Earthbound video game cover once, even. My npr station is relatively fine too.
Corpos 100% ruin radio, though, and that’s been true for a long time. Stations often get incentives to pay the same songs and that’s only gotten worse with time. True across all popular genres, too.
- Comment on Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it 1 month ago:
Yeah no, that’s just a cranky old guy thought. Just today I was watching fairly average looking people promoting music on late shows. You’re probably getting a very thin slice of pop music and ignoring everything else (and hell, even pop breaks that rule sometimes).
Plus, physical beauty and music are both subjective. I try to not get all “old man yells at cloud” about how music “used to be better”.
- Comment on PhD vs Marriage 1 month ago:
I found out today a moron I went to grad school with published a successful book. He’s also an “important” person’s son, though, so it’s less of a jealous thing more of the “this world’s fucked” thing.
My PhD isn’t super useful though so yeah, throw it in the remorse file.
- Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 1 month ago:
I had to update my LG recently and it had to get approval for all sorts of weird shit. Oddly enough, it let me continue using just about everything even after I denied all the very invasive checkboxes. I guess even they can’t deny use of your own tv if you reject the agreement lol
- Comment on LG TVs start showing ads on screensavers 1 month ago:
I haven’t noticed, but I did hear you can root WebOS TVs which include LGs. I may look into it if it gets intrusive. The front page is already showing ads, after all, although not nearly as awful as my fire stick was before.
- Comment on This might also apply to conferences. 1 month ago:
It’s been a while since I learned the history, but if I remecmber right the first schools in the US were religious in nature. But public schooling was generally a huge equalizer, and made the most advances along with workers rights movements, etc.
That said, there’s plenty to be upset about class-wise, just not the class size thing. It’s true that rich families have always done what they could do to get their kids ahead, generally with private school and tutoring. They have a much higher odds of getting into the better colleges, and the more elite schools tend to lead to higher pay after graduation. They’re also doing everything they can to gut public education, which is the whole point of the push for vouchers (which was especially big during the Trump administration).
There’s a thousand more reasons to be pissed off at the rich regarding education, but if I wanted to get into every single one I’d still be in academia (My PhD in Ed was all about that). Actually, now that I think of it, take a look at Learning to Labour by Willis, as I think it reflects your train of thought.
- Comment on This might also apply to conferences. 1 month ago:
Your guesswork is doing a bit too much there. Rich schools also have flat classrooms for smaller groups, e.g 30ish.
The reasons for stadium seating is for size, and that’s true for most schools including community colleges (and even vocational schools). Usually it’s used for classes everyone has to take, like a pre-req. High schools aren’t standardized in the same way, so you generally wouldn’t have a class of 80. High schoolers need more one on one anyway, and teachers require less specialized knowledge, so the numbers just work better that way.
- Comment on This might also apply to conferences. 1 month ago:
Yes, this is the simple and correct answer. Yikes everyone else, you try seating 300 people in a research 1 university classroom.