shneancy
@shneancy@lemmy.world
just me
- Comment on Facepalm on multiple levels 43 minutes ago:
it’s not difficult to clone a star with 20 year old software either
- Comment on Yes that is definitely what I was going for, thank you 6 days ago:
you can technically unteach your autocorrect a word but you do have to catch it trying to “correct” it and longtap the culprit, which can be tricky when it only happens sometimes and you have a habit of typing fast
- Comment on Yes that is definitely what I was going for, thank you 1 week ago:
my phone occasionally decided to “correct” “that” to “thar”, it is deeply annoying
- Comment on Dinner bell is going off 1 week ago:
freestyle & impromptu intermittent fasting
- Comment on Head banging to the Saudi Arabian national anthem 1 week ago:
i’d absolutely ask Thomas Bergersen and Nick Pheonix
- Comment on Emma 1 week ago:
this may be my favourite picture on the Internet, every time i see it it makes me laugh without a fault
- Comment on Google's AI made up a fake cheese fact that wound up in an ad for Google's AI, perfectly highlighting why relying on AI is a bad idea 1 week ago:
there’s also the problem of techbros and companies everywhere thinking that AI is omniscient and can replace every other profession. who needs a human journalist when you can train an AI on their work (because they work for you and their work is your property ofc) and then just fire them all because you have a perfect AI that you can just set to run forever without checkig its work and make infinite money :)
- Comment on Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games 1 week ago:
common Valve W
- Comment on Plot devices IRL 1 week ago:
yeah that’s fair. i always assumed that common TV trope was meant to convey that the two people know each other so well they can recognise each other just by their footsteps, so i was a bit confused by this parody of it
- Comment on Plot devices IRL 1 week ago:
can others not tell who’s coming by the pattern and sound of their footsteps? i can recognise my mum’s footsteps really easily
- Comment on I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand 1 week ago:
i don’t use iPhones anymore, that was the one time i tried them and aside from the size and some features i much prefer the openess of android
- Comment on I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand 1 week ago:
every time i “upgrade” my phone it gets bigger, i hate it. the perfect size was what whatever iPhone 5 was doing, i want to go back to that
- Comment on Emojiis are hieroglyphics 2 weeks ago:
Ankh wedja seneb (𓋹𓍑𓋴 ꜥnḫ wḏꜢ snb) is an Egyptian phrase which often appears after the names of pharaohs, in references to their household, or at the ends of letters. The formula consists of three Egyptian hieroglyphs without clarification of pronunciation, making its exact grammatical form difficult to reconstruct. It may be expressed as “life, prosperity, and health”, but Alan Gardiner proposed that they represented verbs in the stative form:[citation needed] “Be alive, strong, and healthy”.
from wikipedia
- Comment on Emojiis are hieroglyphics 2 weeks ago:
hll👋
hll👋
brs🍻🍺?
tm⏰️?
19:00☀️🌙
hm🏠?
rhm🫵🏠
dl🤝
dl🤝
fixed it
- Comment on The deed is done. 2 weeks ago:
that’s fair, i think i enjoyed Elden Ring the most of all soulslikes because if you can’t be asked to memorise a specific boss you can just go somewhere and come back strong enough to two hit the one that gave you trouble
- Comment on The deed is done. 2 weeks ago:
have you considered playing with the approach that soulslikes are really rhythm games and boss battles are dance offs (to death)?
this perspective allowed me to enjoy soulslikes more
- Comment on I never realized this 1 month ago:
the concept is only “nebulous” to people who are talking out of their asses, when they haven’t even bothered to look past the word definition and strawman memes about the patriarchy
man, please, stop making yourself look like a fool, go read about it, it’s really not that hard
- Comment on I never realized this 1 month ago:
you could swap the subject of criticism with “the devil” in any sentence and it would be the same though?
“the devil (covid-19) caused a pandemic”
“the devil (billionaires) is pushing more people into poverty”
“the devil (adhd) is making me procrastinate doing the dishes”
“the devil (you) has really weak criticisms of feminism, since if only he read about it, he’d realise he can see and feel the effects of the patriarchy everywhere. and the way he talks right now makes me believe he only knows the concept from strawman memes”
- Comment on I never realized this 1 month ago:
pointing out how someone’s mother’s last name is just their grandfather’s last name ignores the point the person was trying to make in favour of going “well akschually”.
a woman who feels more connected with her mother and prefers her last name over her father’s last name has made that decision based on her emotions associated with her family relationships. And it was a choice she had to make against the default way surnames are given.
people rarely do things like going through lengthy legal processes to get the necessary paperwork to change your last name for shit and giggles. Instead of “well askchanelyling” people’s choices, think a bit on why they made that particular choice, or you could also ask them
- Comment on I never realized this 1 month ago:
mostly laughing at women it seems
- Comment on Just trying my best to make you turds smile 1 month ago:
hot
- Comment on Stop wasting money on shrinks and drugs - read this book 1 month ago:
tbf, i’ve once met an autistic person who was just an ass, and they excused all of their assholery by saying “i’m not rude to you or anybody, i’m autistic, i don’t intend to be rude, if you think anything i said is rude you’re hallucinating”
and i know for a fact it’s not the autism’s fault, because quite a few also autistic people criticised them for being an ass so
- Comment on Patient gamer badge of honor on the Steam Replay 2024 2 months ago:
in my defence of new games, couple of the Early Access ones i’ve seen grow beautifully with meaningful quarterly updates and clear dev maps. i’m especially happy with Enshrouded and i feel like with a full release the current price will double as it’s already a massive world and the map is half filled
(similarly how i got satisfactory in early access in a cheap af bundle and now the game is like double the price of the bundle it was in)
- Comment on >:( rejected vibes 2 months ago:
ah, no i’d rather not be written off as mentally unstable when people read that i in fact looped a 1min 30s track for many, many hours :)
- Comment on brains! 2 months ago:
eh, well my answer is going to be most likely unsatisfying because - that just depends on how you count it, there’s quite a few different IQ tests and some of them use slightly different methods of calculating the scores
practically though? a person so disabled they can barely figure out the most basic puzzles that scores below ~20 would probably have significantly lower survival chances basically anywhere, but especially in developing countries where they’re less likely to get help
- Comment on brains! 2 months ago:
yes, just as IQ tells you close to nothing about the properties of human intelligence! (only how good you are at taking IQ tests).
Consider this - what does being smart even mean? Does it mean you’re able to solve logic puzzles fast? Does it mean having a good memory? Does it mean being able to make good decisions? maybe it means being able to resolve interpersonal conflicts? or maybe being able to cook something amazing from scratch without a recepie?
IQ seems to be seen as some vague concept of the computational power of the brain, but only when it comes to logic puzzles and remembering things. What if someone’s brain’s computational power instead favours considering the interactions of various flavours to create outstanding dishes? or moving their body to dance the most mesmerising dances?
imagine you’re a scientist though! a man of science, logic and reason, living roughly at the same time IQ was standardised. And you are smart, all your friends think you’re smart - so you set the scale of the entirety of human intelligence to be measured with logic puzzles. Nothing else. All the other stuff is just some talent someone has…
but what if someone is talented at solving IQ tests? Does that mean they’re smart? if there is no discernible difference between someone who’s talented at solving logic puzzles, and someone who an IQ tests deems to be intelligent, does that mean only those who enjoy logic puzzles, and therefore have gotten a lot of practice in solving them, are smart?
another question - is it “cheating” if somebody trains for their IQ test? if someone trains their mind specifically to be better at them - will that person become more intelligent, or just more skilled at filling out IQ tests well? how can you spot a “cheater” like that?
where even is intelligence in the brain? where does it come from? your genetics? your upbringing? your environment? everything at once?
how do you measure something you can barely define? and why with logic puzzles? why not an interpretative dance to the sounds of noise jazz? why not the baking of a pavlova cake? or maybe a rap battle?
apologies for the long rant. IQ is not a scientific measurement, it’s a measurement of how likely you’re to do well on logic puzzles. and whoever popularised it and made it seem like the way to prove you’re better than others infuriates me. the above are my personal, more or less subjective, issues with the idea of IQ, i do recommend this video essay to understand how deeply flawed even the history of IQ is. There’s piles and piles of arguments against IQ, and very few in favour
- Comment on brains! 2 months ago:
quora.com/Is-it-even-possible-for-a-human-to-have…
read the second answer to that particular quora question, i believe it outlays what the other guy and i mean pretty clearly
- Comment on brains! 2 months ago:
i have indeed noticed there are people alive on that list. But are you going to trust a source that states someone’s IQ to be literally outside of the possible scale when it also just makes shit up a few people down?
i don’t think they’re trying to prove IQ’s legitimacy, just explain the way it’s calculated
- Comment on brains! 2 months ago:
any article that lists historical figures with even estimates their IQs can be discarded as bullshit. IQ has specific testing criteria and imo the most important part of it is its basis in general distribution - if we don’t know the IQ of the average peasant, we can’t know the IQ of Shakespeare
besides, IQ is a borderline pseudo science to begin with. i was made to take an official IQ tests and the second i stepped out of the test room i started wondering how is this going to accuratly portray my “innate” intelligence when the vast majority of the things on the test can be learnt or otherwise trained to be better at
- Comment on It ain't much, but it's a livin' 3 months ago:
🥂