Mesa
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- Comment on If simulation is possible, we could upgrade reality to 4D 1 month ago:
*A fourth dimension can be time.
Time is a very convenient choice for a fourth dimension, but “fourth” is purely namesake. There’s no reason we couldn’t describe our world in our three familiar spatial coordinates with an additional coordinate for temperature, for example. We just don’t easily conceptualize it that way because it feels less contiguous according to how we currently frame our model of reality.
Disclaimer: my sources include internet research and far too much time to think. I’m absolutely open to discussion and new ideas in whatever form.
- Comment on Because mosts music tastes stagnate after your teens, you are actually admitting your parents music is better - because they are the ones making it. 1 month ago:
People that say shit like this don’t listen to music enough to make such sweeping claims. Your parents may have had music tastes that you align with closer than that of your teenage years.
Not to mention that the “old music” is fairly selectively the ones that stood the test of time, while the younger generation is still experimenting and figuring things out. Expand your horizons; don’t fall victim to the bias.
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- Comment on There is a trove of flash animation that is completely lost to history 2 months ago:
Certainly. I don’t think I ever watched or played it, but I remember young me pronouncing it “zack-see-oh zack-see-oh” every time it came up, which was a lot because I lived on Flash games.
- Comment on Skateboarding is just "The Floor is Lava" on wheels 5 months ago:
Ah, but you thought about it for more than a quarter of a second. That’s not allowed.
- Comment on It must confuse English learners to hear phrases like, "I'm home", instead of "I am at home." We don't say I'm school, or I'm post office. 6 months ago:
Yeah, it’s definitely convenient in most cases, I would say. Though it can also be inconvenient when messaging, because sometimes said need to add context can read very unnaturally in an otherwise grammatically correct sentence.
- Comment on Autotune is just a "beauty mode" camera for your voice. 6 months ago:
Ironically, autotune is more akin to pixelating an image.
- Comment on It must confuse English learners to hear phrases like, "I'm home", instead of "I am at home." We don't say I'm school, or I'm post office. 6 months ago:
They likely meant to say “adverbial phrase.”
- Comment on It must confuse English learners to hear phrases like, "I'm home", instead of "I am at home." We don't say I'm school, or I'm post office. 6 months ago:
Verbose HTTP is looking great.
- Comment on It must confuse English learners to hear phrases like, "I'm home", instead of "I am at home." We don't say I'm school, or I'm post office. 6 months ago:
I just want to point out that English’s future tense does exist, but it’s just non-distinct in many cases because, well, as you’ve said, English is fucked.
“We’re eating steak.”
You need context to determine whether this statement is talking about the present or the future. So much of the language is implied contextually that you can just drop off words and assume the listener will understand.
“What are we eating?” vs. “What are we eating tonight?”
It’s so funny because whereas a lot of other languages have rules with defined exceptions here and there, speaking English is more of a theoretical approach.
It feels like English just happened one day and we’re all trying to figure out why.
- Comment on We should name the moon. Most people don't call their pets "dog" or "cat". 7 months ago:
Most people also don’t see a multitude of different moons on a day-to-day basis.
- Comment on Has anyone used a programmable keyboard with "home row mods" like this? 8 months ago:
It’s a cool experiment, but:
Over time, the negative feedback from these misfires has trained me to type more slowly and thoughtfully, burdening my mind with uncertainty that impedes my natural typing rhythm and unconscious flow of thoughts onto the computer screen.
I get using the modifiers as a potential accessibility solution. But if you’re otherwise able to type on the keyboard just fine, this is easily counterproductive.
- Comment on Should a toggle button show its current state or the state to which it will change? 8 months ago:
In my opinion, any button in terms of graphical UI design simply dispatches an action with no arguments regarding state. There doesn’t exist a dichotomy between a “toggle” mechanic and a “standard” button as far as the button itself is concerned.
Whether or not you want to update the visual representation of that button is a separate concern.
- Comment on dotnet developer 8 months ago:
“They are dying; it is what it is.”
Easily hits one of the 10 things you do not want to hear the president of your country say.
- Comment on Floating-point arithmetic 8 months ago:
That’s both really cool and very concerning at the same time. I’d be scared to play lol.
- Comment on It's not DNS 8 months ago:
Is it working? -> (Yes) --> Fix DNS
- Comment on There's more people who wake up at the same second than people who fall asleep at the same second. 9 months ago:
This, and also just that it’s not that deep. It’s ShowerThoughts, not ShowerEpiphanies.
- Comment on Imagine everything humans could accomplish if we were not a commerce based civilization. 9 months ago:
This horribly underestimates the laziness, indifference, and selfishness of the general public. It only works if you zoom out enough to ignore the individual’s interest.
- Comment on ifn't 9 months ago:
The better try-catch. More intuitive if you ask me.
- Comment on A lot of YAML 11 months ago:
Fair
- Comment on Nightmares are just your brain doing combat readiness drills 11 months ago:
Maybe we should check your basement.
- Comment on A lot of YAML 11 months ago:
You’re on ProgrammerHumor… Why do you expect the jokes to cater to you if you’re not a programmer?
- Comment on The thing I could be jealous about working for the church. Your position is based on your love for God. That would be like you were the president of your company because how much you love spiderman. 1 year ago:
Your position is based on your love for God
I know this is ShowerThoughts, but even two seconds of thinking is sufficient to refute this. Also, if we’re starting our scheduled hourly anti-crusades, shouldn’t we be claiming the opposite: that often the highest members of the Church / churches exhibit the most ungodly and unfaithful behavior?
- Comment on A fun simple game 1 year ago:
The game we see here is Russian Russian Roulette.