silasmariner

@silasmariner@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's just loss.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Couldn’t agree with you more. In particular, the way most state pensions are structured imply infinite exponential growth. It’s gonna be a tough drug to wean off of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's just loss.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sadly it’s not objectively false, it’s merely vague. There’s no equivocation whereby it actually specifies that the unit of measure is the individual animal, rather than, say, kg. It’s just playing on your assumptions (I did assume biomass fwiw, but who cares).

  But anyway, the point made by sheer fucking biomass imbalance is surely the thing to focus on here? Now that we know what it means, and are in agreement that the wording should be clearer, the statistic is still egregious, isn’t it? Humans have taken far too much of the world for themselves IMO. Vastly diminishing returns for us, devestatingly larger impact on the environment, the more we push it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's just loss.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think biomass is probably more important than sheer number for these comparisons. Although I would also accept ‘proportion of world’s arable land being used to sustain them’ as I suspect the ratios come out pretty similar for obvious reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve thought more about it. I bet there’s fucking loads in the placenta.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Might be that. Although your body goes into absolute overdrive during pregnancy, and it’s not beyond the realms of possibility that some of the immune system reactions that kick in manage to eject some level of plastic microparticulates

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lizards in space math⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Stop bringing your practical realism into my dreamworld moral absolutism

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lizards in space math⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe you’re trying to match individuals to dissemination, idk man neither of us were there

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey..⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good story. I’ve bookmarked that one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Been a good couple of years⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For a month or two I still kept the app on my phone. As a memento.

  Reddit’s official UX experiences suck balls

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of them, sometimes. But some are adulated and free and contribute vast swathes to our culture and understanding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A new London bus costs around £300k, so whilst is plausible that the watch cost more than my ‘car’, it’s a pretty stupid way of spending that amount of money…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You say crappy, I say wait. My knees won’t have to bend so much. I’d actually take this if I didn’t have kids

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stack overflow is almost dead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As more and more libraries are open source on GitHub or gitlab or sourceforge or whateverthefuck, asking questions on the libraries themselves (as an issue) is often the right thing to do, too… Less centralised than SO but also the only people who care about how to do things in a lib are people using the lib, so…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The U.S. Just Ran a Solar Storm Emergency Drill. The Real Deal Would Be a Catastrophe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wellllll the implications of the ending of 28 weeks later is that the rest of the world had a reprieve but are fucked eventually…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sure thing, website, my name is Gabe Newell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a lovely little idea, imma steal that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this a joke? Analysis of techniques would be literally asking why an argument were lost, if an argument was indeed lost. Of course you’re making a lot of assumptions there, and I agree you’re not making an effort

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  YouTube will put multiple ad breaks into a popular 8 min video. Which is why I use playtube and/or Firefox with ad block unless I’m too hungover to fully function

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  you can only see that apple is in the chat by pressing cmd+shift+alt+l+7

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨rawdogging it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Was that FPS Commandos or am I getting mixed up?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨rawdogging it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Deep cut

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did you know you can track elons jet from mastodon?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The only reason I give the slightest slightly green toilet-bowl-staining shit about this is because it upsets him and he deserves to be upset

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The past is a grotesque animal in my arse

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The one good thing about all this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well it’s a single trading block with free internal trade, it would be Impossible have different import tax levels for different countries within the union without them being trivial to circumvent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Threatens 104% Tariffs on China as the Mad King Plays Chicken With the Global Economy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I did not know it was possible to snort enough blow to break your anus

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember hearing about somewhere - alphabet or meta or something like that - that basically provided adult crèche facilities for the employees. Way beyond just food - On-site nap rooms. Washing machines. Showers. The works. All to enable just a super unhealthy attitude towards work. Thinking about how much that must’ve affected anyone going there straight after uni when they should have been leaning how to look after themselves makes me shudder with cringe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You have them in comics a lot, I wonder if…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All social media can be anonymous if you want it to be ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dyk, Bobby?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some trees do a bit, I guess? Like, beech trees will release some chemicals to inhibit other plant growth, and iirc their leaves do that as they decompose, as well as the root system itself. But depends on the plant and mostly bunk I believe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roses are red in North Carolina.....⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Needs more jpeg. I can still read it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's Mastodon precious?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh, didn’t realise it was that old. TiL I guess.