jsomae
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- Comment on Are you not entertained? 1 day ago:
then they’ll bring along their security escort.
- Comment on 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law 2 days ago:
they drove emulator developer Near/Byuu to suicide. That’s someone who created BSNES / Higan (the first fully-accurate snes emulator), and helped with the fan translations for many games including mother 3.
- Comment on Are you not entertained? 2 days ago:
If we ban private jets, billionaires will just buy every seat on the commercial jet. This will be even more inefficient fuel wise, and worse for the environment overall.
Don’t ban private jets. Ban billionaires.
- Comment on 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law 3 days ago:
If the world goes to shit but Kiwi Farms is destroyed, I will have a moticum of warmth in my blood.
- Comment on Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia' 1 week ago:
The user content on fandom is generally pretty good, at least for the wikis I frequent. It’s everything else about the site which is awful – the pop-ups, the completely irrelevant auto-playing videos, how it’s constantly trying to shove other fandom wikis into your attention.
I’m sure the site is improved with userscripts and such, and I am already using adblock, but it’s pretty unforgivable IMO.
- Comment on Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia' 1 week ago:
Important context: he’s not suggesting AIs writing content for Wikipedia. He’s suggesting using AI to provide feedback for new editors. Take that how you will.
- Comment on nooo my genderinos 1 week ago:
Granted, it’s not proof, but I find it very hard to believe that all cases of identical twins with apparently differing gender identities is explained by one of the twins simply electing not to transition while the other does. This is particularly hard to believe given that the twins grow up in similar environments, so if one is in a transition-hostile environment the other likely is as well. I think we should believe people when they insist they are not transgender, especially if they are part of a study where their identical twin is comfortable being open about it. If this were a rare occurrence, I would be more inclined to agree with you, but it is not rare at all.
“transgender”
One instance where I have seen “transgender” used this way is from the same article where I learned about the link between transgender, skin elasticity, and hyperflexibility:
it’s at least possible that EDS and transgender are linked
It’s no typo; other articles by this same author use the same grammar. I have also for sure seen this used on other sites, including by trans authors, but in 5 minutes of searching I can’t find those instances. “Being transgender” does seem grammatically fitting to me, but it doesn’t always make sense to use “being transgender” as a substitute for “transgenderism”*/“transgender.” Anyway we more or less agree here.
- Comment on nooo my genderinos 1 week ago:
gender dysphoria is not what I’m talking about, since not all transgender people have dysphoria.
To be clear – “transgender” the noun is not referring to a person (“that person is a transgender”* – proscribed) but rather as a substitute for “transgenderism”* (proscribed). Personally, using “transgender” seems linguistically strange to me and it just reminds me of Trump saying “transgender for everybody” but if it’s what people prefer then who am I to judge.
Anyway – yes, I agree that it seems very probable that there are strong genetic components to transgender, but it’s also clearly not purely genetic.
- Comment on nooo my genderinos 1 week ago:
Funny.
If we assume that the distribution is measuring some trait (e.g. “testosterone content,” “femininity,” measured however you will), and it’s bimodal (distribution is dominated by two binary sexes), then there will be people on either side of both peaks.
- Comment on nooo my genderinos 1 week ago:
my bad, updated to “transgender,” I read online that’s the preferred noun form (though it looks more adjectival to me)
- Comment on nooo my genderinos 1 week ago:
I don’t entirely agree, because gender identity is known to be at least partially biological, e.g. there are correlations between transgenderism, skin elasticity, and hyper-flexibility.
- Comment on nooo my genderinos 1 week ago:
it’s a normalized distribution. The y-axis is unitless.
- Comment on nooo my genderinos 1 week ago:
yes.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 1 week ago:
Yes, but the top level comment is countering it using an incorrect application of the theory of evolution.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 1 week ago:
I’m not claiming that this change in how eyes work would be an improvement. I’m claiming that the following does not hold generally: “Doesn’t have adaptation X ⇒ adaptation X would not improve fitness.”
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 1 week ago:
The problem is that the landscape of where the global maxima are changes faster than evolution can keep up. If the environment were entirely static, then yes, mathematically speaking any random optimizer would eventually reach a global maximum. However, it could take, say, 10^50^ years or more to jump from a local maximum to a distant, higher maximum.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 1 week ago:
Okay true, but I still feel the comment was misleading. If it were phrased as “If vertebrae don’t have it, it means it wouldn’t improve their fitness” it would be wrong.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 1 week ago:
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that’s not how evolution works.
- Comment on A handful of people are slowly killing over 8 billion people, but we're expected to sit idly by and let it happen 1 week ago:
There are some people working on fixing that, but most people don’t take them very seriously for some reason.
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 2 weeks ago:
absolutely refuse to put up with them
This is amazing. Good job! I wish more people were like this. Apparently São Paulo in Brazil has no ads at all.
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 2 weeks ago:
The message they will take away is “the things my parents approve of” and “the things that are really cool and fun” are disjoint categories.
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 2 weeks ago:
yeah the problem is this doesn’t line up with the horror stories I’ve personally witnessed. Sudden, massive credit card charges. The problem can occur when kids aren’t spending their own money, they’re using their parents’, some way some how.
Regardless, kids are already surrounded by ads in every corner of life trying to convince them they need XYZ in exchange for money. I’d rather work to make the kid’s environment less consumerist, to give them a vision of how life could be.
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 2 weeks ago:
wow I got completely fooled hahaha
- Comment on ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity 2 weeks ago:
That doesn’t seem right. By my calculations it should be like 5¢.
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 2 weeks ago:
probably less niche than the n64.
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 2 weeks ago:
This is the responsible way to raise a child on video games IMO. Modern games have predatory practices like microtransactions.
- Comment on ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity 2 weeks ago:
For reference, this roughly equivalent to playing a PS5 game for 4 minutes (their estimate) to 10 minutes (their upper bound)
calulation
source www.ecoenergygeek.com/ps5-power-consumption/ PS5 standard usage: 200 watts ± 100; call it 200 W TV: 27 watts - 134 watts → call it 60 W URI’s estimate: 18 Wh / 260 W → 4 minutes URI’s upper bound: 48 / 260 W →10 minutes
- Comment on They will remember 2 weeks ago:
So glad lemmy is finally graduating from “cracker” to “clanker.” This is what class consciousness looks like 😎
- Comment on Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed? 2 weeks ago:
That you say “your country” immediately reveals your own bias to assume that everything you see is American.
You probably think everyone posting is male as well.
Even I think this despite being a canadian woman.