blandfordforever
@blandfordforever@lemm.ee
- Comment on I was today years old when I found out Glomming on some Glizzys means eating some hot dogs. 1 week ago:
Now you and the other Jr high kids can communicate your super secret plans
- Comment on Even his doctors are full of it 1 week ago:
Do you have a home traction/decompression setup?
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 weeks ago:
My brother in law was still using windows 7 and it had never occurred to him that this might be a security risk. Normal people don’t care.
- Comment on Sketchy social media post gives BlackBerry fans hope for the return of the smartphone brand 3 weeks ago:
Cool form factor, if it can run Linux.
- Comment on They said the packaging would be discreet! 3 weeks ago:
Seems like my package has been delayed in transit!
- Comment on Get your new PebbleOS watch 5 weeks ago:
Awesome!
- Comment on Get your new PebbleOS watch 5 weeks ago:
I’m with you on this. If it could come with a privacy-respecting smartphone app hosted on F-Droid, that would be so great.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 1 month ago:
It seems like it was a situation where everyone felt like they got a good deal and nobody felt taken advantage of.
Stop trying to make it sound like he was exploiting his friends. There are costs and liabilities to owning a house. It’s not just free once you’ve paid it off.
- Comment on Trans is Trans 1 month ago:
Once you remove external forces from the material, do some of the cis isomers feel safe enough spontaneously become trans? Better keep those trans heathens away from my Bucky ball field.
- Comment on Trans is Trans 1 month ago:
They didn’t mix up transgender and transgenetic but they did take any study involving testosterone or estradiol and slap the label “gender affirming” on it.
Guys, understanding the effects of hormones on immune response and cancer incidence has implications far beyond “gender affirming” care.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 1 month ago:
I agree with your sentement but sometimes places become gentrified and the original inhabitants can no longer afford to live there.
I’m not saying that it’s good or the way things should be but it is a reality.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 1 month ago:
If his math is right, and assuming that his property tax is about 1-2% of his home’s value per year, then the value of his home has increased about 15-30x the original value.
Its hard to be sympathetic.
- Comment on frfr no cap 1 month ago:
Maybe they were just asking what the crazy bump is. I think its just supposed to be the crest of her pelvis.
- Comment on It'll happen to you! 2 months ago:
Fair enough.
Just be sure to keep lubricated while you permit all that sliding.
- Comment on the definitive proof that you weren't your parent's favorite 2 months ago:
These are the kinds of highly plausible suppositions that I come here for.
- Comment on It'll happen to you! 2 months ago:
Well, I don’t know much about the resolving power and maximum refresh rate of human vision but I’m guessing that the monitor they described is close to the limit.
The analogy refers to someone who has their thinking constrained to the current situation. They didn’t imagine that computers would become resource-intensive multimedia machines, just as this person suggests that video cable wouldn’t be asked to carry more data than would be necessary for the 8k monitor.
I can imagine a scenario with dual high resolution screens, cameras and location tracking data passing through a single cable for something like a future VR headset. This may end up needing quite a bit more data throughput than the single monitor–and that isn’t even thinking outside the box. That’s still the current use case.
Do you have a crystal ball over there? I still think it’s a clever analogy.
- Comment on It'll happen to you! 2 months ago:
640k of RAM should be enough for anybody
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 2 months ago:
Now hold on there, I’d let them do the ads and the vehicle tracking bs if the car was nice and it was free.
If I’m buying the car, there’s no fucking way.
- Comment on Is it time to ring the alarm on internet door cameras? 2 months ago:
Gr8 b8
- Comment on brains! 4 months ago:
Look, I’m saying the same thing that I also found on Wikipedia. You just put the scores in order and then you fit them to a normal curve. This is what it means to scale them ordinally and then fit this to a normal distribution.
Its clear that we aren’t going to agree on this.
You seem to incorrectly think that an IQ of 0 would mean zero intelligence when I have explained exactly what an IQ of zero would mean.
- Comment on brains! 4 months ago:
I’m not saying intelligence is a normal distribution. I’m saying that IQ scores are a normal distribution.
The metric, IQ is a normal distribution because that’s how the metric is defined.
I’d like to hear your explanation how an IQ of above 200 is possible and what that would actually mean.
Its only possible if there are about 10x more humans. With a population of around 80 billion, the smartest one person would have a z score of roughly 6.6 and an IQ of roughly 200. This is calculated from a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15, which is how it’s defined.
- Comment on brains! 4 months ago:
I think the confusion is that IQ is not an objective measurement. It’s subjective.
Its not like say, height, where you can have a normal distribution and then a statistical outlier.
The IQ point isnt a constant, tangeable unit of measure, like an inch. Intelligence isn’t something you can put a ruler up to and say, oh that’s weird, this person with an iq of 300 is a statistical outlier.
IQ is defined statistically. You use some method of claiming that each person has a certain ranking of intelligence. Then you use a defined mean and SD to determine what IQ value that corresponds to, in the context of everyone else in the population.
- Comment on brains! 4 months ago:
You provided a link to reader’s digest. It’s not the most credible reference.
A negative IQ score and an IQ score above 200 would be possible with larger populations.
- Comment on brains! 4 months ago:
I have to disagree.
IQ as a measure of intelligence doesn’t work that way. The number can’t just get higher and higher because a person is really smart. A supreme, godlike intelligence doesn’t have an IQ of say, a million. IQ has a statistical definition.
If there are about 8 billion humans, then 1 of them is “the smartest” in some way. 1/8,000,000,000 is 1.2x10^-10, this has a z score of 6.33.
The current smartest person will have an IQ of (6.33x15)+100=195. No one has an IQ of 200. This isn’t because a person can’t be any smarter, it’s because this is how IQ is defined. If a pure, perfect, godlike intelligence exists in our current human population, their IQ is 195.
- Comment on brains! 4 months ago:
I understand that you’re saying there are more incredible geniuses than full on retards.
However, IQ scores are a normal distribution with an arbitrarily defined mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15.
So, IQ scores of 0 or 200 are both 6.6 standard deviations from the mean. If IQ is truly a normal distribution, you’d expect the number of people with IQ scores <= 0 and the number with scores >= 200, to be exactly the same, simply because this is how the scores are defined.
If you try to look up what proportion of the population falls outside 6.6 standard deviations, the z-tables don’t go out this far. It’s essentially 0%
- Comment on brains! 4 months ago:
Contrary to popular belief, we’re all profoundly stupid. Even the smartest among us spend enormous effort in their struggle to comprehend our surroundings.
- Comment on Haha SO TRUE! 5 months ago:
OK, I thought this was a study that was actually performed (and just happened to be written by a snarky author) until I got to the part about the effort scores. This is some high quality absurdity.
- Comment on Tiny pp 5 months ago:
Pretty sure you be able to cite a source for that.
- Comment on McDonald’s posts biggest decline in global sales in four years 5 months ago:
I was on a road trip and noticed a McDonald’s in a gas station that I’d stopped at. I was hungry so I took a peek. It was like $15 for a combo with what I assumed would be a pretty nasty burger. No thanks. I can get something delicious for that much money.