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- Comment on Study finds that fast walking can reduce lung cancer risk by 50%: A simple health indicator for cancer prevention 2 days ago:
Perhaps. Or maybe, people with healthier, more efficient lungs are able to walk faster without breathing heavier. In that case, breathing less might reduce the inhaled carcinogens, reducing the risk of lung cancer.
If you check the actual research, the conclusions are carefully worded to avoid this sort of reporting.
- Comment on Study finds that fast walking can reduce lung cancer risk by 50%: A simple health indicator for cancer prevention 2 days ago:
Probably. Or maybe, people who have healthier lungs don’t need to breathe as much to efficiently exchange oxygen for CO2. So maybe breathing less protects against lung cancer by inhaling fewer carcinogens.
There are simply too many confounding variables to control for all of them. Research like this is important, and it’s not the researchers’ fault. Notice how the conclusions are carefully worded to specifically avoid exactly this sort of news article.
- Comment on Study finds that fast walking can reduce lung cancer risk by 50%: A simple health indicator for cancer prevention 2 days ago:
A research team in the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy at the LKS Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), has conducted a pioneering study that found an association between walking speed and cancer risk. The researchers found that individuals who walk faster have a markedly lower overall risk of developing cancer, particularly lung cancer. This association was consistent regardless of whether walking speed was self-reported or objectively measured.
As always, correlation =|= causation. Walking speed is almost certainly linked to like 15 other good health indicators. Exercise is good for you, and you should do it. But these results do not support the recommendation that fast walking will reduce your chances of lung cancer. These results say that if you already walk fast that you probably have a lower chance of lung cancer. Maybe it is the healthier lungs that allow you to walk faster? Maybe it’s a genetic component that makes you walk faster AND reduces your chances of lung cancer. Maybe they fucked up the sample and all of their slow walkers lived downwind of an asbestos plant.
Again, exercise is good for you. Exercise as much as you can. Cannot stress that enough. The health value of exercise is unquestionable and universal, and a lack of exercise is bad for you in every way. Bad science is bad for everyone, though.
- Comment on Vibe coding has turned senior devs into ‘AI babysitters,’ but they say it’s worth it | TechCrunch 3 days ago:
Senior devs love vibe coding because they have the knowledge and skills to recognize and fix errors. They hate it because it makes morons think they don’t need the knowledge and skills to recognize and fix errors.
- Comment on Fuck you in particular 4 days ago:
For what it’s worth, Vantablack isn’t a pigment, it’s a process for applying carbon nanotubes that absorb light. They don’t sell the “paint” part by itself because it requires special equipment and it finicky. They don’t sell it because then a bunch of social media influencers would try to spray their bathrooms with the stuff and make a bunch of videos about how it doesn’t live up to the hype.
The owner might be a douche who uses the licensing to make himself feel powerful, but there is a justifiable explanation for why the licensing exists in the first place.
- Comment on Every time I make biscuits from a can 4 days ago:
Isn’t that how you’re supposed to do it?
- Comment on Is a gooner the same thing as a wanker? 6 days ago:
Isn’t that a simp?
- Comment on What is it called when you believe the U.S. political parties shouldn’t exist? 6 days ago:
Patriotism. Democracy. Representational Government. Freedom. Liberty. Take your pick.
- Comment on Google should have called it JIF, not WebP 1 week ago:
That’s not an argument. You’re just being insulting and belligerent. Acronyms are not pronounced based on their constituent words. You need to let that go, because it makes you the asshole.
There are two factors that determine how words are pronounced in English, and this is precisely true of every fucking word in the language. There’s the original pronunciation, and then there’s common usage. If English borrows a word from another language, like “bruschetta,” there’s the original pronunciation “brooskett” and then there’s the American pronunciation “brooshetta” because fuck all that. Say either one and you’ll be understood, and you’ll have spoken English. Neither is “wrong” because people know you want some expensive salsa on tiny toast.
It’s the same with gif. There was the original pronunciation, and then basically nobody said the word out loud for 20 years because only nerds cared about the extension format wars. Then the internet brought memes to your grandmother, and suddenly everyone was sharing dancing_baby.gif and hardly anyone knew how to say it. People actively avoided saying the word because they didn’t want to sound stupid.
Then one day, some extra stupid people decided that they had enough of that bullshit, and they would not be made to feel stupid for not knowing how to pronounce a word. They shouldn’t have felt stupid, because again, English doesn’t work that way, but at that time the nerds were strutting around like they had invented confidence. Technical pronunciations were like a geek shibboleth that signaled you had in fact RTFM, and because pendulums swing, techies were bullying people online about it.
But I did call them stupid people, because they were stupid. Not because they didn’t know how to pronounce a word, but because they chose obstinate ignorance over truth. There was a common, original pronunciation for gif, and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with it. The fact that graphics is pronounced with a hard g doesn’t matter in the slightest, because that’s not a rule that ever existed before someone got mad about gifs. The only thing worse than a shitbag who bullies you for being wrong about something is a shitbag who bullies you for being right about something.
Talk how you like. This is, for now, a free world. English evolves, and life is too short to spend your days arguing with an amateur linguist online, because this guy has two thumbs and will absolutely continue this conversation until you regret engaging in it. Be free. Your hard on for the hard g is a stone you carry around for no one, and all you have to do is set it down.
- Comment on Google should have called it JIF, not WebP 1 week ago:
You’re welcome to pronounce any word any way you like. I’m not going to change the way I’ve been saying a word for 30 years just because you don’t like it. If you’re understood, it’s all good.
- Comment on Finally setup nginx as a reverse proxy. 1 week ago:
Check out Immich next. It’s sort of like a self-hosted Google photos except it allows you to own your photos.
- Comment on We are helping 1 week ago:
The water wars will probably kill us off before we run out of oil.
- Comment on We are helping 1 week ago:
No, I’m sorry, the answe is “profit.” The US has a lot of natural gas, and the people who force it out of the ground bought enough politicians to build pipelines everywherr so we could sell gas to more people. Electric and heat pumps are far more efficient, but the cost per btu of heat is so cheap for natural gas that it doesn’t make sense to switch to electric even when the energy costs are low, and the cost to install a heatpump or geothermal might reduce monthly costs, but it would be decades before it pays for itself. Most people don’t expect to live in a house long enough to reap the benefits of more efficient investments.
- Comment on Google should have called it JIF, not WebP 1 week ago:
There’s dozens of us! I’m just old enough to remember when the file format was new and people talked about it.
- Comment on We are helping 1 week ago:
“Effective” is a relative term. Going meatless won’t fix the underlying problems that allowed factory farming to destroy the world. Why aren’t electric cars mandated? Why do we pipe natural gas into homes? The same shortsighted, profit-motivated decision processes will still exist even if we make better personal choices.
- Comment on Google should have called it JIF, not WebP 1 week ago:
More than half. Less than 25% of people use the original pronunciation of gif, and two people in this thread have repeated the absurd misconceptions that popularized the new pronunciation.
- Comment on Google should have called it JIF, not WebP 1 week ago:
There is no wrong. English doesn’t have wrong pronunciations. You’re either understood or you aren’t. There’s the original pronunciation, and there’s the new pronunciation. Both are used, so neither is wrong.
- Comment on Google should have called it JIF, not WebP 1 week ago:
Self-Contained Uoonderwater Breathing Apparatus
Light Aimplification by Ztimulated Uhmission of Radiation
Acronyms do not work that way!
- Comment on Google should have called it JIF, not WebP 1 week ago:
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- Comment on Google should have called it JIF, not WebP 1 week ago:
You’ll never end the debate about how to pronounce Gif. Homophones exist.
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 1 week ago:
Poe’s law, my dude. There are definitely dipshits who make the argument that milk doesn’t need to be pasteurized because breast milk isn’t pasteurized.
- Comment on Drink your stoats 1 week ago:
Wait, is it milk made by stoats, like goat milk, or milk made from stoats, like oat milk? Which ilk of milk is in the same boat? Do you bilk the stoat out of it’s milk? Or is there a moat of smote stoat passed through silk on a float?
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 1 week ago:
Yes, the vaccines are… Are you feeding that baby unpasteurized milk?!? What the fuck, guys?
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 2 weeks ago:
4k tvs existed before the content existed. I think the larger issue is that the difference between what is and what could be is not worth the additional expense, especially at a time when most people struggle to pay rent, food, and medicine. More people watch videos on their phones than watch broadcast television. 8k is a solution looking for a problem.
- Comment on Whatever happened to cheat codes and guide books? They were the best part of gaming they just kind of dropped of the earth is there a rhyme or reason for this? 2 weeks ago:
Christmas presents for the gamer who has everything. I got my son a Breath of the Wild encyclopedia, and he spent hours reading about different enemies and collectibles. It even had a map of korok seeds that he could scratch off (although he gave up when he learned what the reward would be).
- Comment on Whatever happened to cheat codes and guide books? They were the best part of gaming they just kind of dropped of the earth is there a rhyme or reason for this? 2 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, a lot of games introduced cheats as easter eggs. NBA Jam set the standard for a lot of cheat variables.
- Comment on Whatever happened to cheat codes and guide books? They were the best part of gaming they just kind of dropped of the earth is there a rhyme or reason for this? 2 weeks ago:
Three things have changed.
First, GameFaqs put all of it online for free. Why would you buy a book? It’s now a relic of the old web, but it’s still there, filled with cheat codes and guides for all your games. Strategies evolve as players learn new things, so forums have replaced prescriptive guidebooks to accommodate new ideas.
Second, game development has changed. Cheat codes were originally tools for developers to function test. To test a particular level or feature, devs would have to play the actual game. Modern games are not as linear, and modern developers can throw together a test environment on the fly. Game components are more like isolated microservices, so modifying the game to test features does not need to be baked into the code.
The third thing is that everything has an online multiplayer now. Cheats are fun when it’s just you against the machine, but online competitive play is ruined when your opponent has infinite health. Online cheaters still exist, ruining multiplayer for entire communities, but their aimbots and shit cannot be officially sanctioned or promoted in a guidebook.
- Comment on Why cool air is becoming a luxury many Americans can't afford 3 weeks ago:
Building codes. Building codes are the worst example of regulatory capture that nobody is talking about. The way we build homes and offices in the US and Canada is absurdly wasteful and bad for people.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I don’t. It’s part of the call and response of the meme.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Speak for yourself