yanyuan

@yanyuan@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your brain is sitting in a sealed, completely dark room with wires coming out of the walls.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I worded it badly and mixed up things with the visual system and the central nervous system.

  So I guess you could say that I was technically wrong and OP was technically right…

  Damn! Still our brains don’t register any darkness, except through the optic nerve… and screw you guys! I’m going home! ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your brain is sitting in a sealed, completely dark room with wires coming out of the walls.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Your eyes are a part of your brain.
  So the only part of your brain that does receive light, is located outside of this dark room. Inside the dark room, there is nothing that senses light or darkness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gonna be a great day!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s true. I know, because I made up you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NSFW⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t get it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2849: Under the Stars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In a program called SpaceEngine, the observable universe is simulated, based on everything we know so far.

  You can fly around freely and if you start at earth, you’ve got this blue beautiful ball right next to you and an ocean of stars all around you.

  First I flew towards the sun with the speed of light. Earth got tiny quickly, but then you realise: it would still take you 8 full minutes to get to the sun at this speed.

  So you pump the speed to millions of light years per second (luckily we can ignore the laws of physics).

  You stop at a random place, some hundreds of millions of light years away from earth.

  And then you realise what astronomers mean when they say: the universe is basically homogeneous. It looks basically the same everywhere.
  And in fact you once again see an ocean of stars in front of you. Just as if you were back at earth. However as you turn around, there is of course no earth, but the same view of an ocean of stars and earth is unimaginable far away. You are alone in an infinite ocean of light.

  This program truely messed with my head (in a good way).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’m guessing a character from TOS?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

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  #nohomo
  #notthatthereisanythingwrongwithit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’m guessing a character from TOS?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No FaceDeer, this is Risa, sweety. Here it’s all about love and fun. So let me show our friend what a true Kevin can do. You can watch… or join us…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A country of roommates⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t call me roommate, buddy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2,000-year-old decorated Roman sandal unearthed in Spain⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That thing looks surprisingly modern.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy active users down, comments steady and posts up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There are dozens of us!

  However, seriously, I like Lemmy the way it is now and I think the shityfication trend will continue for commercial platforms, bringing more users to the Fediverse.

  Still due to the persistent success of things like WhatsApp (despite the existence of Signal), I assume the Fediverse will remain a niche for a long time, if not forever - but hey, I’m glad we have what we have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cardassian? Nah. Conspiracy theory.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Meanwhile all it took to create a sentient AI was a reference to the real world, like “is able to defeat Data”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard a certain Mr. Burns has developed a method to “clean” the ocean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Striking actor Stephen Fry says his voice was stolen from the Harry Potter audiobooks and replicated by AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, he shouldn’t have made this deal with that sea witch!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wish humans could get firmware upgrades⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is, we’re all running on a wild stack of individual spaghetti code, making it impossible to copy paste a solution that was developed elsewhere.

  Would be nice though. However it would make security an even bigger nightmare, too - I think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wish humans could get firmware upgrades⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is outrageous! It’s unfair!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The mass/energy of the tacos comes from the warp core and did not cause a singularity there. So I think we’re safe on that end.

  However, e.g. on a planet with a distributed energy network, we still might be at risk and xkcd’s wisdom is needed more than ever. Also, for science!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The opposite of "Ladies & Gentlemen" would be "Whores & Scoundrels".⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, I don’t know what you mean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The opposite of "Ladies & Gentlemen" would be "Whores & Scoundrels".⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, I don’t know what you mean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The opposite of "Ladies & Gentlemen" would be "Whores & Scoundrels".⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No, I think it would be:

  Not (Ladies and Gentlemen)
  = Not Landies or Not Gentleman