taiyang

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just sucking some milk out of the strawsage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, ok, I’m fine with paper straws now. Please, no more sausage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just discovered Mini Metro, a puzzle game where you have to create metro lines. Very addictive, but also chill, and currently 50% off on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, a lovely game and so is it’s sequel. I recently gave a spare copy to a student of mine, too, so it was on my mind when I read this post. Enjoy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got electrocuted today⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Glad you’re ok and glad you’re lawyering up. I can’t give you practical advice but I can say there are plenty of games out there suitable for one hand and even just one button. Vampire Survivors got me through some difficult days when I couldn’t spare a hand! Find yourself a distraction until you get better, and hopefully very very rich.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft tries to convince Windows 10 users to buy a new PC with full-screen prompts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Weird coincidence, I just had to replace my Haswell Xeon because of motherboard drath (and while the chip is probably still good, I’m not about to go mobo hunting for a 10yo mobo).

  Biggest irony, now that I can install 11, I’m using the opportunity to just install Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bro 😭😭⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Better than a raspberry!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Orange Dickhead dies before taking his oath again will we party like it's 1999?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or potentially we get another Kennedy in office, this time with extra brain worms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Orange Dickhead dies before taking his oath again will we party like it's 1999?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Come January, that just is gonna be full of really, really weird choices for President.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's fire... Maybe concerning but fire still⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Especially the discovery of hidden content. Need amnesia device for this and a few other games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Classic shooters Unreal and Unreal Tournament are now free and preserved on the Internet Archive⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is very… upsetting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Choose?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh. The campus I teach uses juice box. I wonder what’ll happen to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reggae is christian rock, but cool.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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