porous_grey_matter
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- Comment on You got it, buddy 2 hours ago:
Sure, but many of those words for specialised doctors came to English through French, not directly from Latin or Greek. And I don’t think that you can reasonably argue that English words with French origins aren’t by now a native part of the language. We use many of the same names in Dutch too, coming from French loanwords.
- Comment on You got it, buddy 6 hours ago:
“ear-nose-throat” is commonly used in English.
And it kind of is like the medical field popped into existence in the 1700s.
- Comment on yeey 1 day ago:
Only stuff that starts off heavier than lead, and even then not everything, some decay chains stop at thallium instead. Cobalt, with atomic number 27, won’t ever become lead, with 55 more protons.
- Comment on yeey 1 day ago:
Nickel is not extremely edible lol
- Comment on To what extent has Smartphones replaced Computers? Has Smartphones replaced Computers for you or people you know? Will Phones and Computers eventually merge into one device? 2 days ago:
Compute can be outsourced to the cloud (not that I think that’s good, but it does lift the limit on small devices)
- Comment on Survey: More Than 1 In 4 Americans Feel They Need To Make $150,000 Or More To Live Comfortably 2 days ago:
Those are pretty low taxes
- Comment on Seriously, it was all the rage back when I joined my first instance. 6 days ago:
I miss orbs
- Comment on Perovskite-based image sensors promise higher sensitivity and resolution than silicon 1 week ago:
There have been some improvements but their poor stability is still the biggest problem yeah
- Comment on Perovskite-based image sensors promise higher sensitivity and resolution than silicon 1 week ago:
For many kinds of them, yes, but not literally all
- Comment on Who remembers alt.fan.tonya.harding.whack.whack.whack ? 1 week ago:
Really recommend listening to the “you’re wrong about” episode about her
- Comment on To thy own self be true 1 week ago:
That’s exactly what it is
- Comment on Vibe coding is to coding what microwaving is to cooking. 1 week ago:
Not really, it has a couple of niche uses mainly because people externalised the cost of coming up with a good analytical solution to their data processing problem (e.g. medical imaging analysis) which would be vastly more efficient and give insight into the underlying mechanisms, but that would cost grant money rather than VC capital and further externalised energy and environmental costs which are finally born by us, the taxpayers. Ultimately the technology as a whole is delivering very little value and like all hype bubbles mainly serves as a way of further enriching billionaires. But text generator go brrrrr
- Comment on Vibe coding is to coding what microwaving is to cooking. 1 week ago:
The github copilot in vscode is a little less shit than the generic ms copilot (but it still sucks ass compared to just writing anything yourself)
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 1 week ago:
Those people don’t exist, they are just an excuse for you to be cruel
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 1 week ago:
but even if we had enough of that, there’d still be mentally ill people and drug addicts that would prefer to live on the street
How about we get there first and then you can hand wring about any of these supposed people who are left?
- Comment on Fun to do 1 week ago:
Ok boomer
- Comment on I'd be screaming too lmao 2 weeks ago:
They’re quite a lot pointier, I think it would help
- Comment on I'd be screaming too lmao 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t even have a tip on lol
- Comment on Due to American politics I'm afraid of using high speed rail in Germany 2 weeks ago:
Heh, “high speed”.
- Comment on p is for pHunky 2 weeks ago:
And the same origin, it’s not a coincidence they all start with P
- Comment on kiwis! 2 weeks ago:
The Tokoeka (North Island Brown Kiwi) has never been gone from the wild, there’s always been over 20,000 in the wild, mostly in Northland, Coromandel, Te Urewera, and Tongariro. The Southern Tokoeka is also hanging on alright in Rakiura (Stewart Island) and a little in Fiordland. The Roroa (great spotted) and little spotted are near extinct in the wild, the little one particularly is totally wiped out from the North Island and mostly only found on predator free island sanctuaries now.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 3 weeks ago:
See you’re looking at it from the point of view that it would serve the player experience, but that’s not what it’s for, it’s to mine your data
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 3 weeks ago:
Yeah but GameStop’s entire existence depends on crypto meme hype, while Meta’s depends on extracting our data as efficiently as possible
- Comment on OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries to “subhuman” men 4 weeks ago:
“negligent” is letting them off way too lightly
- Comment on Kinda fucked up tbh 4 weeks ago:
They’re old enough to have finished a master’s degree
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 4 weeks ago:
Imo comparing it to a Disney movie is even a bit disrespectful to that masterpiece of animated cinema. I do get what you mean. But it just has so much more heart.
- Comment on Dont call this number again, we uphold the laws of physics in this home 4 weeks ago:
KB mirrors: am I a joke to you?
- Comment on Switzerland Unveils World’s First Operational Solar Railway Project 2 months ago:
Don’t get me wrong I still think it’s dumb
- Comment on Switzerland Unveils World’s First Operational Solar Railway Project 2 months ago:
It’s putting e not the best idea but it’s considerably less stupid than those, considering they managed to actually build one
- Comment on Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’. 2 months ago:
Just look around what they produce
Exactly, a thin wrapper around results from public research, almost nothing novel or valuable