rustydrd

@rustydrd@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whose bright idea was it to give the morning people enough power to set the "business hours" anyways‽⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  As an extreme “owl”, I’m also on that journey, although it remains a struggle. What helped me a lot is to set an alarm in the evening to trigger my evening routine without depending on my internal sense of time. My preference is still different, hence the struggle, but my body accommodated to the routine fairly quickly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FuckYourHeadlights - A community for people to organise and vent about ridiculously bright lights⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No downvotes from me. I cycle every day, it’s my only mode of transportation, and the number of poorly adjusted lights on other people’s bikes is staggering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I sit in my basement and do nothing, I can't fuck things up⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Cereal is now stuck to the bottom of the cup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avowed made me scream to my doctor: “I am a wizard!”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Slightly OT, but how did you like the game?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨smort⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t that charisma-based?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨smort⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The left side is the position that definitions of intelligence are all arbitrary, and that psychologists just make up tests and call what it measures “intelligence.”

  The middle is the position that there is a real thing that can be called “intelligence,” which can be defined in different (meaningful) ways, and that intelligence tests are objective ways to measure it.

  The right side is the position that intelligence is still real and can still be defined in different ways, but that we can never directly measure intelligence and instead observe it indirectly through observable indicators like someone’s performance on an intelligence test. This means that any statement about intelligence, while real and definable, are contingent on the specific tests used to measure it.

• smortsh.itjust.works ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facepalm on multiple levels⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  not sure WHAT the Roman one is holding, but it doesn’t look like any recognizable weapon.

  In this case, it may just be AI generated garbage. But historically, the Roman eagle was sometimes stylized holding bolts of lightning (as a reference to Jupiter).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Lemmy needs a higher-level sign-up procedure that hides the complexity of the fediverse. This could be a webpage with a simple, clutter-free interface that handles picking and registering on an instance from a curated list semi-automatically, for example, by asking you 3-4 questions before giving you a suggested server that fits your responses (that you can change) with a button to register right away (and handle the occasional additional sign-up requirements that some instances have).

  IMHO, 90% of users will never interact with the “federation” aspects of Lemmy after that, and they also don’t need to. I personally don’t feel like Lemmy being federated has much of an impact on my user experience day to day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Emma⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ωϵϵσ

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Civilization 7 not fun?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Civ games at launch are often a bit of a mixed bag, and the games improve over time with patches and expansions. That being said, the game isn’t even fully out yet, and early Steam reviews are notoriously unreliable and undifferentiated. For your first civ game, maybe look at earlier titles like Civ 5 or 6. They have aged very well, I still play 6 all the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For-profit Pie Adblock (from the founder of Honey) called out for copying uBlock Origin open source code without credit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t that illegal? What kind of license is uBO under?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lazy scientists announce there are probably several kinds of squirrels but they move too fast to be sure⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “More research is needed.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vegan drink Oatly can’t call itself ‘milk’, judges rule⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mall, now with vitamin R!

  Kidding aside, dairy companies are embarrassing themselves. Everyone I’ve ever met just calls it oat/soy/almond/whatever milk anyway, regardless what’s written on the package, even if they don’t drink it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's next after Half-Life?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe the Metro or BioShock series? They play quite a bit differently, but they scratch the same itch for me, and I see them on sale quite a bit (especially Metro).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bombs Awat⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People ITT must’ve forgotten about the salmon cannon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  See it more like “preventing a website whose owner refuses to comply withEuropean law from operating in the EU”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wrappers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wrappers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s about 5-9 mm too much.

• To all the people who say the senior professor must be an author but the undergrad who did everything can'tsh.itjust.works ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Magic Words⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This guy peer-reviews.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looks like a toy 'yota.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t pull it back too far, though, or else it’ll flip on its back and go nowhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s hilarious. I just love how AI is basically like a 6-year-old who weaves his favorite new expressions into everything without fully understanding what it means.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ah yes, regression⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re having proportion of explained variance problems I feel bad for you son
  I got ninety nine problems but a fit ain’t one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hmmmm⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there’s still a difference between describing a concept in a way laypeople would understand and describing it using plain English. The latter is what I consider good scientific writing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hmmmm⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it really science, if it doesn’t sound like something Neil deGrasse Tyson would say to himself for 30 minutes straight in front of his bathroom mirror?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Horrors We've Unleashed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’re asking for a kind of nuance that most Info Warriors are unable to provide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Horrors We've Unleashed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Up next on Info Wars: “They’re turning the mosquitoes gay!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A match made in heaven! 😍⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never had Mountain Dew, but I always imagined it would taste like shower gel or shampoo. The scents/flavors even have similar names.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This might also apply to conferences.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yellow = weak bladder