Mesophar
@Mesophar@pawb.social
- Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments 2 hours ago:
We had “reaction papers” when I went to college in the early 2000s, too. It’s usually a weekly or daily assignment in a semi-online course to write a summary and reaction (or, to use a different word, response) to an article or paper. You’d then be expected to comment (critique) on one or two other responses posted by other students in the course. It was a way to encourage critical discussion and thinking on topics.
- Comment on Activist group says it has scraped 86m music files from Spotify 21 hours ago:
So that they don’t get the spotlight on them and get shit down? Unless they have the money and legal representation behind them to fight it, like the AI companies do?
- Comment on Activist group says it has scraped 86m music files from Spotify 1 day ago:
It’s kind of ironic that a preservation focused organization didn’t have any sense of self-preservation. If they quietly scraped and archived songs over time and in the background, there never would have been any attention brought on them.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 2 weeks ago:
You can’t eat gold, and you can only trade gold for food if that person can trade the gold for something else. I’m not going to say there’s no chance of gold being valuable in a societal collapse scenario, but I’d rather wager with resources than a pretty, shiny metal. I don’t see how that’s a position that can’t be understood. Gold works as an intermediary exchange, but direct barter can always be counted on.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 3 weeks ago:
I want to ask genuinely, how is the bookmark different than a tab with tab grouping in this instance? I have the bookmarks bar always visible, and have folders organized on the main bar (rather than the drop down extended bar). Wouldn’t tab grouping do the same thing, just slightly higher?
- Comment on Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support 3 weeks ago:
They mean the game is streamed from a server to the player, rather than running on the player’s hardware. This might not be feasible for every game studio to do, but would actually open up the game for more players to be able to play (since local hardware requirements would be lower).
I think this is a terrible idea for other reasons, but accessibility and anti-cheat aspects of it are not some of those reasons.
- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 4 weeks ago:
I had a teach in high school so the same thing. He’s also note the sides of the road on the way to school so he could find fresh roadkill on the way home.
Made some great venison jerky.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 4 weeks ago:
Damnit, you’re right!
But for real, I think you misunderstand the point of documentation. Even if something were truly, literally flawless, having documentation would still be a net gain. It isn’t only to fix something when it goes wrong, but explains how things are working. If the only way for something to be literally flawless in your world view is for it to be so self explanatory that an idiot seeing it for the first time still understands it perfectly, nothing in computing can be flawless in that way.
The pedantry on this point is so unhelpful as to be actively harmful to the rest of the discussion.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 4 weeks ago:
They didn’t say it required documentation, they said it had plenty of documentation should you need it.
- Comment on Frankenbeans 2 months ago:
This 1000 times. It wasn’t even ambiguous in the novel.
- Comment on Climbers on Mount Fuji’s popular trail drops by 30% following new rules 3 months ago:
Maybe it is my Western, American perspective, and maybe I misinterpreted from the article, but it seems like the entrance fee was implemented mostly to cover upkeep costs of maintaining the trail and surrounding area. It also seems like the entrance fee is what is causing people to use the trail less, which makes sense if they didn’t have to pay for it previously. I don’t see any mention of any other rules that may have caused people to use it less.
Am I missing anything? From my perspective, which totally could be completely warped since I don’t live in a Freedom to Roam country (or at least it isn’t viewed that way), this seems perfectly reasonable. I’m open to hearing why it isn’t, or other ways it could have been implemented. Especially if there was mention of a rule I missed that had more impact than the entrance fee.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I believe it’s a horrible idea whether or not it’s possible!
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 3 months ago:
Those are describing symptoms, though, and could be any number of things. No, there are not other terms currently. That’s why I’m asking you, what do you propose? You are the one that sees there being an issue with this that you want to resolve, what terms do you propose that will describe these conditions, distinguish them from other similar but unrelated conditions (a form of dementia vs stroke vs concussion, etc), isn’t insulting, and is easy to remember?
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 3 months ago:
I’m not saying to completely replace it either, but what are examples of words or phrases you think would be a good “shorthand” for dementia? Anything I can think of is either infantilizing or not actually simpler, just different. And needing to learn a new word might be just as difficult, or might be difficult for other people for different reasons.
I can empathize with patients being embarrassed because they can’t pronounce or remember the name of their own condition, but I feel that the condition itself would pose the same issue with other, substitute words as well. It’s sad and tragic, but I don’t think it can be fixed by a change of language.
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 3 months ago:
I’ve never heard it pronounced any other way?
And my point is that being exposed to the word dementia, and taught what it means and how to say it, is no different than being taught how to say Teflon. When you first learn it, it will be a bit awkward. The more you and people around you use it, the more familiar it will become. That just how language works.
What do you propose we use instead of dementia? How would that be a better solution? I’m not against helping people with better accessibility, I just don’t see where this is a problem that can be solved by changing the words used. Especially since to me it seems like we already do what is being suggested in the title post. We already usually have a general term in common conversation in place of the full medical term used by medical professionals.
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 3 months ago:
How is “dementia” harder than any other word? If they are suffering from brain/memory disorders, wouldn’t any new or novel word have the same issue? I think the opposite would be better, and normalizing simplified forms of the medical terminology (dementia instead of frontotemporal dementia) in every day language allows those words to have deeper roots in someone’s memory, making it less novel and more resilient to certain memory issues.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Only missing putting it back on heat after drying with a paper towel to boil off any residual water
- Comment on ... You're mocking me, aren't you? 5 months ago:
I had to scroll back up because I wasn’t paying attention and my brain initially just saw two dogs… I need more coffee
- Comment on Minecraft and Terraria each fit the other game's title better than their own. 5 months ago:
Maybe anymore Minecraft is different, but when it started it was about mining and crafting tools to mine more efficiently.
Terraria always evokes terrarium to me, which makes it feel like a whole little world, but also felt like it was more contained to me (from title alone).
- Comment on What are the games you played in your youth that you still play today? 5 months ago:
Currently replaying the Sly Cooper series, it will always be a favorite of mine
- Comment on when is "cool" fine and when is it rude? 5 months ago:
I’m also a millennial, and I think it depends a lot on rapport as well. If you regularly talk with someone in text form, and consistently use punctuation, it probably doesn’t come off as passive aggressive than if you suddenly respond with the trailing period. It also probably makes one-word responses a lot more abrupt.
I agree with above, replying “Cool!”, or “That’s cool!” would likely go over much better in that context
- Comment on First/notable 3D games where you could dive below water (and walk on land) 6 months ago:
It’s probably too much for a Raspberry Pi, but it runs perfectly fine on Linux
- Comment on Mammal 6 months ago:
I don’t know if you’re trying to make it sound bad, but calling milk “titty juice” makes it sound better. I don’t like milk, but titty juice makes it sound refreshing.
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 6 months ago:
Damn, hope you graduate to Third Grade by 40!
- Comment on He's always been there for me 7 months ago:
You don’t know that the kid hasn’t already told the mom about the accident. It’s not like she can come pick the kid up, it was her car that was crashed. Relying on a parent and asking them for help in a time of need doesn’t mean the kid isn’t also going to take responsibility. But the parent saying that fishing is more important is absolutely ludicrous. Sure, maybe the dad is too far away to be able to help at the moment, but he said he’s too busy to even talk (yet not busy enough to prevent sending those texts).
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 7 months ago:
The reasoning I moved from Windows to Linux was this right here.
If I’m going to be fighting with Windows anyway, because of the registry giving me issues, then the drawback of “but Linux hard! You have to configure things!” was moot.
- Comment on 4 fundamental forces 7 months ago:
Perhaps the gravity head should be a snail then
- Comment on And then I'll sell my AI, so everyone can make drawings - EVERYONE can be an artist! And when everyone's an artist... no one will be 8 months ago:
I heard it in his voice before I even read “Syndrome”. Idk, maybe I saw the name and my subconscious recognized it before I was aware of reading it, but it fits him too well
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 8 months ago:
Maybe that works for internal and business communications, but if it is communication externally with clients there are a lot of people that just don’t answer their phone. Sometimes it is important stuff, and sometimes there are followup questions.
“XYZ is no longer available. Would you like ABC instead?
How many of ABC would you like?” - Comment on Which actor did not have a single bad film? 8 months ago:
I knew it, I’m surrounded by Assholes
