thevoidzero
@thevoidzero@lemmy.world
- Comment on Jesus hates American "Christians" 1 week ago:
I mean if you believe in God knowing everything and everything is happening because of his will then that gives you the ability to rationalize everything, doesn’t it?
Oh you have cancer? God gave it to you, if you didn’t deserve it he’s have cured it. Done, use that everywhere: poor, homeless, immigrant, race, sick, traffic, lightening, flood, airplane crash, school shooting, …
That’s why blind faith is dangerous. And the idea of afterlife because they just do whatever now.
- Comment on If chickens are modern dinosaurs some dinosaurs probably tasted like chicken. 1 week ago:
Stop eating gamers
- Comment on xkcd #3148: 100% All Achievements 3 weeks ago:
War against education
- Comment on xkcd #3148: 100% All Achievements 3 weeks ago:
Minimum payment is dependent on your salary and you can die with debt.
Making education free would have been way better that making college expensive and then providing loans.
- Comment on THE SIMULATION 1 month ago:
Wouldn’t all simulation have bugs, or all be bugs free. It’s the same code you’re running.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 1 month ago:
This was going on under the surface all this time, growing and growing, people just did not see it as a valid concern thinking “crazy people” or “stupid people” will “come around eventually”. They did not expect there’d be enough of them to pull the carriage backwards.
- Comment on Speculation 2 months ago:
Crabs holding each other’s pincers into a crab train.
- Comment on protein! 2 months ago:
If you find half a worm, you just spit it out, cut/bite out the wormy part and continue. Can’t throw the whole fruit. Although the worms I remember in guava make hard shells around them as they eat, so most times you bite into it, know immediately, and throw that part.
- Comment on Im an unworthy Fraud when it comes to Tech 2 months ago:
It’s mot boring though. You just have to find things. I see so many interesting projects, and so many interesting ideas that I want to implement but run into time/skill issues. Summer is when I can just forget about other things and develop what I want, but I think after university I won’t have much time at all.
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 2 months ago:
Exactly, how do you even fight with the OS except just making it bit hard for them lol. You have to tell the OS what pixels to put in the screen, there’s literally no way you can hide things from the OS if they want to know.
- Comment on you don't know me 2 months ago:
Wow I have opposite problem. I don’t like reading papers that much. And while I do write I don’t like to spend too much time there either, so I just end up procrastinating by making new things with plots, analysis, codes, helper scripts and such.
- Comment on Do dams pregame? 3 months ago:
Flood control is very close to my area of research. My research involves effect of dams on river water and I don’t get to talk about it often, so it was fun. But I haven’t actually worked on a dam control or made policies, so my work is more theoretical what ifs.
- Comment on Do dams pregame? 3 months ago:
As others have mentioned they already do that to a degree they can with the uncertainty of forcast. It’s called Forcast Informed Reservoir Operation (FIRO).
Important thing is that the forecast is uncertain farther you go in future, and smaller the area you’re looking at. So the policies will have to take that into account, you can’t simply empty your reservoir because if your forcast is wrong and you don’t get enough rain, then you don’t have the precious water anymore for dry season. But if you’re wrong on the other side you get flood issue.
Satellite data and a lot of ground sensors are in place that help us better forcast the future storms along with improved computation and technology, but nothing is sure, and it might get worse with current situation. We already have problems because of previous funding cuts causing us to lose so many sensors.
Also a fun fact, we’ve had dams for so long that we don’t know the natural flows for so many rivers so we can’t calibrate our models well. Basically we built dams long before we started measuring the rivers. I’ve been meaning to publish this, but it’s just stuck in a draft for almost a year now :(
- Comment on KDE's Android TV alternative, Plasma Bigscreen, rises from the dead with a better UI 3 months ago:
Game controller works fine in the computer. It’s the applications that need to support it. Problem is finding normal applications (not games) support it. I could map the controller to keyboard keys, but it’d be nice to have it work directly.
- Comment on KDE's Android TV alternative, Plasma Bigscreen, rises from the dead with a better UI 3 months ago:
I am just using Firefox to open web sites for most things. For games I open them directly. And I have kdeconnect to control it from my phone.
Ideally I’d love a launcher that just stays on there forever, with some virtual desktop options where I can open different apps. If it can support game controller to choose apps along side kdeconnect it’d be the best.
- Comment on KDE's Android TV alternative, Plasma Bigscreen, rises from the dead with a better UI 3 months ago:
I want it to be run as a desktop environment. Is that possible? I already have laptop connected to tv with hdmi. I just use it like a normal computer. But I don’t have any applications that can work well with that setup with TV like UI.
- Comment on Signs that rhyme 3 months ago:
After coming here I can’t tell how to say g and z differently. Why are they doing this :(
It had perfectly different sounds.
- Comment on blursed 3 months ago:
Killing cancer cells: easy Not killing normal cells: hard
Guess who found an easy way to get PhD.
- Comment on Having the ability to lie and manipulate with no remorse will get you much further in this world than having morals and being correct 3 months ago:
Sure but it’s lonely at the top. If you rise to the top by backstabbing people, you’ll end up exactly how some people right now are, and you keep trying to accumulate more and be great or whatever messing up everything else and being hated.
While a simple life with your loved ones will give you satisfaction. And satisfaction is the key to happiness. Rather satisfaction is the ultimate happiness.
- Comment on Cold water was probably less refreshing for early humans due to most cold water likely only being available during colder weather. 3 months ago:
Icy water yes. But cold water was available, the whole reason people find cold water refreshing is because running water/spring water etc are cold and more likely to be safe to drink. While stagnant water were more likely to be warm and have more bacteria, making it lot less safe.
- Comment on Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos in your camera roll you haven’t yet shared 3 months ago:
I use messenger on Facebook web through. I do have the app as well, but the web works.
- Comment on 🐇 🐇 🐇 4 months ago:
Honest opinion programming is easy and fun when you learn it and it saves you time and allows you to test your ideas. Creating something gives you dopamine.
Problem is before people even try any programming for themselves, they are introduced to it through school or work where they have to do it for homeworks or analysis while also learning new things. And they hate it.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Same way people in the past probably said there’s no way you can make anything work without a mechanical mechanism? Can you imagine what an electronic device/chip would look to someone from far past? People thought humans couldn’t fly.
Those “fundamental science” is just us making sense of the universe in a way we can observe it and even then we don’t know everything. Can you imagine how different the universe looks if you just shift the electro magnetic waves you can see.
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 4 months ago:
Warm as in heated water, yes. Room temperature or lukewarm water from the pipes, NO.
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 4 months ago:
Wait people don’t like drinking water? Drinking water (not warm) when you’re thirsty is a really good feeling. I only struggled with forgetting to drink water when I’m not thirsty, but once I am I drink.
Seeing the sugar addiction and soda problem maybe it was because I didn’t drink those regularly growing up. They were just treats. Also as a child we had fun eating certain fruits that were sour/bitter and then drink water after that, it makes the water taste sweet.
Maybe you can try eating/licking lemon/lime a bit and drink water later.
- Comment on Nine out of ten dentists approve! 5 months ago:
$4/month for this article.
- Comment on Nine out of ten dentists approve! 5 months ago:
That’s what I think about so many home/traditional cure. Maybe it works for those people due to placebo effect, and I’ve lost that magic because I’m too critical of everything.
- Comment on DRM-Free OnlyFans Downloads See Widevine Project Nuked From GitHub 5 months ago:
Git works through ssh. So you need the same system as sshing into your machine. You just make a user group git and then let git and ssh handle things. And if you don’t need people to push to your repo, then it’s a lot easier as it’s now similar to hosting a website/file server.
- Comment on It's kinda crazy that we willingly give money to companies in advance (say for gift vouchers and pre-orders) 5 months ago:
Yup gift cards are like money but with limited use. And sometimes expiration dates.
I think there’s significant portions if it that don’t get used at all, which is free money (profit) to the company. Or maybe they don’t count it as profit because people may use it, idk.
- Comment on What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good? 6 months ago:
Problem with MS word is you can’t really put vector images in it externally without it being weird. I think that’s why people are used to drawing it in the software.