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@mhague@lemmy.world
- Comment on Texas lawmakers signal plans to expand DEI ban into college classrooms 2 days ago:
Growing up I watched that conservative dad rant about diversity hires from American History X. They haven’t grown at all as a culture.
- Comment on Mega-Dosing 3 weeks ago:
I tried googling ‘jimmy fallon vulcan’ and couldn’t find that picture, just him joking about a statue. It’s spot on though
- Comment on Oh fuck no 3 weeks ago:
They’re unaliving censorship, or however younger generations say it.
- Comment on I don't trust like that. 3 weeks ago:
I like the wasps around my house, they’re Apache wasps I think. I’ve shooed them away, worked next to them, they just watch me or fly around. Seems I need to really try to anger them.
Mud daubers are cool too but their life cycle is nightmare fuel, I feel for the spiders.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
My favorite part of Transformers was when my government had the script changed to include Marines being heroic. We really needed good PR after that whole Afghanistan and Iraq thing.
- Comment on How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/ 4 weeks ago:
If you smoke weed you’re more likely to wear converse. It’s aesthetics. When someone says they’re anti abortion I usually see it as aesthetics. They want others to see them as being anti abortion. That’s what they get out of it.
It isn’t a literal belief. Democrats reduce abortions, much better than cons. Being anti abortion should mean voting for Democrats… IF you were still taking things literally. It’s not misinformation or lack of education, it’s misaligned priorities.
They’re just trying to be a tribe and signal allegiance. To have literal beliefs that you live by regardless of “your side” is a completely different game to what they’re playing.
- Comment on Honey 4 weeks ago:
How is there 4 posts but one reply? Who said something first, the “bees, not animals” thing?
- Comment on Oxbowin' 5 weeks ago:
The one with the blue little window.
- Comment on Shigeru Miyamoto comments on AI, says "Nintendo would rather go in a different direction" 1 month ago:
They’re still figuring out the internet
- Comment on ISPs tell Supreme Court they don’t want to disconnect users accused of piracy 1 month ago:
Terminating service over allegations of piracy. Kicking someone off the internet because an automated copyright system accused them of piracy. That’s crazy.
- Comment on Rose Finch 2 months ago:
They’re all in survival mode too. Imagine if they had their equivalent to a balanced diet, low stress, targeted exercise, and science dedicated to bringing out their all.
- Comment on Hollywood and Netflix Report Piracy Threats to the EU, Call for 'Intermediary' Action 2 months ago:
Next time an artist makes a big deal about being ripped off I’m going to contrast “working hard and then getting ripped off” with “underregulated industry manipulating society for profit” and view them in a that light.
“Please support a thing that degrades society, goes after defenseless small fry, and unnaturally suppresses culture… I have to feed my family.”
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 2 months ago:
Reload the video multiple times. They will show a few different ads and then give up. It even works on console YT apps which have more ads.
I guess it affects impressions? I figured they would have fixed that, but this still works so whatever.
- Comment on What's the oldest game anyone here has played in 2024? 2 months ago:
DOOM, 1993. Finally went through and beat it. Also recently sat down and learned how to edit wads as well as picking up ACS for advanced map scripting. Still a great game.
- Comment on Who is your favorite character from The Legend of Zelda - Ocarina of Time (Nintendo 64)? 3 months ago:
Ganondorf wasn’t developed that much and was kinda just tyranny, death, and despair from what I remember, but I liked the idea of a villain that won and now it was the hero that had to destroy the current world and make something new.
Link because his storyline in oot and mm is insane.
Also, shout out to the music box guy related to the song of storms. Iconic.
- Comment on It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose 4 months ago:
If Spock takes the bait then 10. I feel like I’d learn a lot.
- Comment on Linksys Velop routers send Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext to US servers 4 months ago:
From what I can find, by “These routers send your credentials in plaintext”, they actually meant to say, “The mobile app sends credentials in plaintext.”
If you use the web interface then your credentials are not sent in plaintext. The routers themselves also don’t send credentials in plaintext.
The people who found this out got that wrong, and a lot of people are confused because they didn’t expand on “in plaintext.” They could be a little more professional / thoughtful.
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 4 months ago:
I don’t see how what conservatives say has anything to do with reality.
Biden has been “senile” and “too old” for years now, during which time we’ve had a functioning Biden administration.
The Trump admin was limp, chronically understaffed, weak, ineffectual. That’s what they’re pretending is better than Biden. Conservatives don’t even care about senility so if you hear them rag on Biden and think they’re right, you’re not understanding what they’re really saying.
- Comment on The most irreplaceable thing 4 months ago:
Memes According to Garp
- Comment on Eco-friendly beyond comprehension 4 months ago:
Why walk when you can ride?
- Comment on How do you even call that? 5 months ago:
Looks like a lava shader material preview but instead of a ball they used something food shaped.
- Comment on ‘Nothing short of horrific’: Amnesty criticises arrest of man in Qatar ‘trapped’ by police on Grindr 6 months ago:
Why didn’t the gazelle just be in the middle of the pack? Then it wouldn’t have been singled out and hunted down.
- Comment on we are in dire need of new memes to criticize marxist-leninists 6 months ago:
It’s funny seeing it out of nowhere when you’re used to it being like giving somebody the middle finger.
- Comment on Goku gives Cell a Senzu Bean 6 months ago:
On one hand, the point of Goku is that he isn’t a good person, he’s more like a force of nature. A lot of things he does isn’t good by normal measures.
On the other hand, he’s a messiah figure. He is the savior of earth, a god, and his actions have worked out so far. If it’s bad but Goku does it and nobody can change his mind, then it’s good.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip 6 months ago:
When a computer reads some signal, the 0s and 1s in it’s memory is the data. The data must be processed so that the computer can understand it.
This computer is using threads to read neuron activity. It must necessarily receive data because if it didn’t it wouldn’t be reading neuron activity. They’re the same thing.
This data is processed so that the computer can make sense of the brain. Once it understands some activity it generates signals that can control external devices.
Here’s another example. Imagine a device that monitors the heart and does something to fix a problem. The device would get data on the heart and process the data so that it can perform it’s function.
Wouldn’t monitoring health concerns and mitigating data loss be extremely important in these scenarios?
- Comment on Nintendo Switch Is Removing Integration for X, Formerly Twitter 6 months ago:
Put it this way: If you took a thread talking about some tech from a joke community, and a thread about the same topic from a generic technology community, you won’t be able to tell them apart. People will bring the same energy and mindset to both. Jokes and “lol get rekt company I hate” will be pushed to the top, because they totally contribute to the discussion, while basic observations like “removing functionality is bad” will be pushed down. 👍
- Comment on Israel-Hamas war: Netanyahu vows his country will 'stand alone' if it has to after Biden's weapons supply threat 6 months ago:
“We will give you weapons for the iron dome, for your missile defense systems, for your operations in the north, for anything involving Iran, and of course we’ll give you anything needed to defend from a direct attack.
We just won’t give you anything to use in Rafah.”
“I guess I’m all alone then!”
- Comment on Stack Overflow and OpenAI Partner 6 months ago:
Not SO or it’s methods, I mean the human experience. It can be awkward to be new to it all and to feel the frustration/tunnel vision associated with being stuck on one problem… and then step back and have to dissect your issue, structure your question correctly, etc.
It’s just how it is, for exactly the reasons you stated. You can capture every little problem people face in programming, or you can hone in on useful patterns in goals, problems, and solutions, and educate people on how to see these things.
- Comment on Stack Overflow and OpenAI Partner 6 months ago:
The idea of SO is a little awkward too I think. With something like Wikipedia we’re presumably in an academic mindset. Carefully gathering information, sources, structuring it all. And even then people can get turned off by the ‘bureaucracy’ or nitpicking or whatever.
When people show up at SO they’re probably more in a “I can’t figure this damn thing out!” mode. We’re struggling with a problem, keeping a bunch of junk in our head, patience being tested, but we’re still expected to have a bit of academic rigor in our question and discourse.
- Comment on Stack Overflow and OpenAI Partner 6 months ago:
Yeah but a lot of people don’t really know what SO is for. They think you just go there and get help and call it a day. But the entire point is to produce structured questions, discourse, and answers aimed at future readers. Super specific, no-context, or duplicate problems are not useful. If you are not trying to generate useful content, don’t go to SO.
It’s no different than people thinking Wikipedia is rude because they don’t differentiate between useful knowledge for a general audience vs unsourced ramblings about a topic.
Just look at all the people getting frustrated at being told “you should probably do it a different way.” They really don’t understand that just because they’re asking the question, it’s not all about them.