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- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 3 days ago:
Not a dumb question. I think it’s because the Occipital lobe is an evolutionary old part of the brain. It’s right on top of the brain stem the oldest part.
The newer parts developed between the eyes and the older parts of the brain. Pushing the eyes forward. That’s my understanding but I might be wrong.
Hopefully if I am wrong someone jumps in and provides a correction.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 3 days ago:
No blind spot and better light detection. The light having to pass through the nerves causes a lot to be lost.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 3 days ago:
Cephalopod precursors evolved eyes and then brains developed from the eye so their eye is structured correctly.
Vertebrate precursors evolved the brian first and the eye evolved out the brain as a sensory stub. So it’s upside down and inside out like in picture.
The nerve cluster goes through the back of the eye splits and folds back to end in light receptors. Light hase to go through the nerves before hitting the sensor.
There is even a reflective layer after the sensors that gives the sensors a second chance at picking up the light. This is what causes the red eye or green eye you sometimes see in flash photography.
It would require a genetic rebuild to fix this and the intermediate steps evolution usually use would be so disadvantageous they are selected against. So the right combo of mutations to give us a working octopus eye is VERY unlikely to happen.
- Comment on The nuclear-powered submarine crisis 5 days ago:
The scrubber absorbs the CO2 it doesn’t break the O2 from the C. So H2O to H and O2 to CO2 to storage in the scrubber.
Here is a link to the various methods used for the steps. www.marineinsight.com/…/submarines-get-oxygen/
- Comment on The nuclear-powered submarine crisis 5 days ago:
Any sub could but only nuclear bother. They have the power generation to run the process and stay down long enough to need it.
Other subs run on batteries and need to surface to recharge. So making oxygen would reduce how long you can stay down not extend it.
- Comment on The nuclear-powered submarine crisis 6 days ago:
Subs have a big advantage in that they make their own oxygen from all the water around them.
- Comment on Why It's OK to Block Ads (2015) 6 days ago:
I remember the add that made me install my first add blocker. It stated playing the sound of knocking on glass and a voice going “Hey You!”. With a looped videoof some guy waving at me.
Every so often one gets through my blocker and they have only gotten more annoying.
- Comment on [Discussion] What is the most niche genre that you like? 1 week ago:
Truly strange other. For anime Blame (the city), and Knights of Sidonia (Gauna). Same author for both. Live action / novel Solaris. Babel-17 for some of the side aliens.
- Comment on [Discussion] What is the most niche genre that you like? 1 week ago:
Not anime but Rustlers Rhapsody is worth checking out.
- Comment on True art is polarizing 1 week ago:
It’s a companion piece to Fountain by Marcel Duchamp.
- Comment on About Star Trek Starfleet Academy blacklash 1 week ago:
It’s not that diversity is a negative. It’s a plus and a core part of Star Trek from the beginning. NuTrek has great diversity and terrible story telling that feels like it’s using the diversity as a crutch.
It’s like Ben and Arthur. I totally support the message that gay marriage should be allowed. However the movie is complete garbage because of how bad the story is told.
- Comment on About Star Trek Starfleet Academy blacklash 1 week ago:
Kurtzman is by all accounts a good person. He is however terrible at making good entertainment and a specially good Startrek.
- Comment on Makes sense 1 week ago:
I know of one instance. Pirate plundered a ship ruining a false flag. It was actually from a nation he was friendly with. Buried the treasurer in the hope they wouldn’t find out.
- Comment on Larry Ellison Just Quietly Became the Most Powerful Man in America 2 weeks ago:
Founder of ORACLE (one rich asshole called Larry Ellison). They are make the most used commercial database software.
- Comment on Iykyk 2 weeks ago:
What’s the show?
- Comment on W.a.m.d.i.i. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on GOG NSFW Giveaway 3 weeks ago:
Most are older games with sequels or newer games by the developer. So they are probably hoping you like them and buy the sequel.
- Comment on It's utterly hypocritical that the "defence" industry/sector is not called what it really is, the war industry. 3 weeks ago:
Old joke from when I was in engineering college.
What’s the difference between a electrical engineer and a civil engineer?
One builds the bombs one builds the targets.
- Comment on Airlines urge senators to reject bill limiting facial recognition 3 weeks ago:
Part of the reason it’s so fast is they have the passenger manifest already. So they start the search checking against the hundreds of people that just arrived. Instead off the much larger overall database.
- Comment on Human civilization won't last forever; someday there will be a last movie ever made 3 weeks ago:
Dead internet theory for a dead world.
- Comment on As an American, I'm offended at AliExpress' portrayal of my people. 4 weeks ago:
My culture is not your costume.
- Comment on Is Mexican food uniquely good with alcohol or have I just been conditioned? 4 weeks ago:
You mean Taco Bell lied to me!?
Seriously though a good classic street taco is amazing.
- Comment on What are the best single episodes to show people new to Trek? 4 weeks ago:
I think the important bits are easy to pickup in context. There is a war and it’s not going well. Sisko is trying to bring a powerful neutral party into the war and is willing to do very questionable things to do it.
As a Star Trek fan I had given up on DS9 during the original airing of the first season. Latter I caught Pale Moonlight by chance and it impressed me enough to watch some more. Then I went back and watched all the earlier stuff. Now it’s my favorite Star Trek.
When I first saw it I knew Star Trek quit well but had no idea what was going on in DS9 and had no trouble following the story.
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 5 weeks ago:
And counties that have their own sales taxes. So not even within the state is the rate the same.
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 5 weeks ago:
People like porn involving characters they like. Look at all the rule 34 content. Games give you a chance to engage with the characters before the fucking.
There is also a bit of T&D as you build anticipation while playing the game.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 5 weeks ago:
I worked on a terrain render of the entire planet. We were filling three 2 Tb drives a day for a month. So this would have been handy.
- Comment on YouTube's Latest Update Shows That Online Monoculture Is Dead 5 weeks ago:
It’s a side effect of the “no algorithm” philosophy. Without anything to suggest what you might like generating high amounts of new content let’s you dominate the feed. News is easy to generate on a daily basis.
The thoughtful channel that puts out a video once every two weeks gets on the feed once every two weeks. Then low effort garbage like man carrying things gets on the feed every day.
They need to at least let users block channels from their feed.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Accidentally Reveals They've Been Using ChatGPT for Sub Translations 5 weeks ago:
It can’t be worse than some of the netflix translations.
I just watched Apothecary Diaries with the wife. The subtitles are basicly fanfiction. I know characters reply wakarimasu a lot but you don’t need to make up dialog. The new stuff often conflicts with the actual story.
- Comment on Can you see magic eye pictures? 1 month ago:
So depending on why you might be able to train it. If you don’t have a lazy eye and have good vision you may want to look into it.
If your brain is just not fusing two good images there is a good chance you can train it to do so. Having done experiments in this field I can tell you it makes a measurable difference in performance.
A good read on the subject is below. The part where she first sees a tree in 3D is a good example of what you are missing.
Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist’s Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions by Susan R Barry
- Comment on Can you see magic eye pictures? 1 month ago:
Yes. They require stereoscopic vision. When I was doing research on 3D displays about 10% of subjects had to be rejected because they were stereo blind. They had no idea they were that way.
One woman said that explains why she had the nickname clunk in high school. She had a habit of rearending cars.
