MajorasTerribleFate
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- Comment on Windows 11 could actually become the same kind of mistake Sony made with the PS3 25 minutes ago:
Your ADD person should consider getting a tankless water heater, financial resources permitting.
- Comment on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues 2 hours ago:
DX IW
DirectX Infinity War? I have no context for this, and of course I could look it up, but not doing so is more fun.
- Comment on Windows 11 could actually become the same kind of mistake Sony made with the PS3 5 hours ago:
For many of us, our brains are rolling things around all day but not necessarily completing thoughts or doing anything useful with it. Then, stop focusing on screens or whatever and get into an environment that has little to no mental stimulation, and all that stuff comes crashing out of “the ether” (back of the mind) and assembling at wild speeds. It’s called ADHD*.
*Obviously, there’s more to ADHD than this kind of thing, and people with ADHD aren’t the only ones who find time to think in the shower.
- Comment on Why did Montreal need to prove that it's a real place? What happened to the people who called it Montimaginary 2 days ago:
I have a real problem with running into Monti in the halls.
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 5 days ago:
I heard that if you don’t get your groceries via Walmart+ delivery, then it’s smuggling.
- Comment on Winter burrow SBI controversy 6 days ago:
I’m not sure I’d say the consumer has a right to know, per se, but they may well have an interest in knowing. Whether or not a developer/publisher/whoever opts to provide this kind of information may itself be a factor in consumers making a purchasing decision, and, if some information isn’t being provided up-front, consumers can and should ask questions. Ideally, those questions and the answers would be public-facing.
I am a little miffed at responses down this comment chain somehow seeing your opinions as evidence of bigotry. It’s, like… people can disagree, people can have thoughts about things. Just because someone seems not to agree on one point doesn’t make them your polar opposite on everything, and surely shouldn’t lead to name-calling and gatekeeping. That’s the kind of behavior that leads folks to see everyone on “the other side” as extremists of some kind, if every time you interact with them they just jump to hard responses at the slightest provocation.
To be clear, that part was all directed at the others’ behavior, not really yours.
Signed,
A lefty non-bigot who doesn’t think anyone in this thread (among those whose comments I read) is showing any actual signs of bigotry
- Comment on Bacon 6 days ago:
- Comment on If they need to post THIS it's probably not a place you want to go to 6 days ago:
Fun fact: decimal representations of sevenths follow a repeating pattern of the same 6 digits in the same order, from a different starting point:
1/7: 0.142857142857…
2/7: 0.285714285714…
3/7: 0.428571…
4/7: 0.571428…
5/7: 0.714285…
6/7: 0.857142…Something similar happens with 13ths, but there are two different sets of six repeating digits, with 1, 3, 4, 9, 10, and 12 (thirteenths) using one set of digits (769230) and 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 11 using the other (153846). Note the mirrored pattern of numerators here: 1_34______9A_C (using hex-like letters to represent digits over 9) and 2__5678__B. There’s probably a great reason for that but it hasn’t occurred to me, and I’ve never looked it up.
I also greatly enjoy that this happens with the two numbers most associated with luck, 7 and 13.
- Comment on I've heard New Yorkers are devastated 6 days ago:
Correct.
- Comment on Bacon 1 week ago:
“Guess he saw my pig use the dog and figured it out.”
wut
- Comment on Thank you, Boston 1 week ago:
So, sort of like “good, fast, cheap: pick (at most) two”, except “kind, polite, fast: pick (at most) two”.
- Comment on When Xfinity has an outage, I don’t pay for those days. The government’s been shut down for 39 days so can I pay 39 days less in taxes? 1 week ago:
I love it!
- Comment on When Xfinity has an outage, I don’t pay for those days. The government’s been shut down for 39 days so can I pay 39 days less in taxes? 1 week ago:
The government isn’t a corporation separate from the people that you contract with. It is the organization OF the people to look after common interests. Ideally, anyway; it just turns out that, like almost any organization, people looking out for their own interests first get attracted to the positions of power.
Backing out of your financial participation means you should lose out of all of its benefits, like roads, schools, firefighters, and subsidized food/whatever prices. Also legal protection of any kind, so it’s the Purge against you, specifically. Have fun!
- Comment on Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race 1 week ago:
The culpability and misdirection of western states is not evidence for the innocence of China or anyone else.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 1 week ago:
Believing or showing the belief that people are motivated chiefly by base or selfish concerns; skeptical of the motives of others.
I’d characterize my view as understanding that people may be motivated by selfish concerns, but not assuming that any given person I’m interacting with is. As far as “skeptical” in this context, I’d say it’s a little too strong to describe my process/viewpoint. In the purest, binary form of “skeptical” vs. “unquestioning”, sure, skeptical. But in the sense of “eying suspiciously”, not so much.
“Extend[ing] the benefit of the doubt” and “keeping myself open to the possibility (and hope) that someone is being honest with me”, for me, both describe what I’ll try to describe more deeply:
Barring prior contrary experience with or knowledge of a person, I begin with the assumption that they are honest and not intend to take advantage of me. Any simple statements or requests they make that don’t seem costly or detrimental to anyone, I’ll generally accept at face value. If they present a statement contrasting with my current understanding, or if they request something of me that could potentially cause myself or someone else harm (bodily, reputation, resources, whatever), I start more consciously evaluating what they say/do to ensure as best as I can that I’m not being convinced of something out of line with my interests. I still don’t assume here that their motives are malign, just that they may have too different of a worldview for me to risk not carefully considering what is presented to me.
In the event that I have or gain reason to think the person’s interests may be against my own, I stay on much higher alert to avoid being conned or convinced of anything. Generally I’ll also try to increase the physical and/or social distance between us, because my natural state is not suspicious and it’s exhausting to keep that much guard up.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 1 week ago:
I’d say, at least for me, I try to remember that “cynical” is not always correct. Under the same idea as “trust, but verify”, I extend the benefit of the doubt, but less so when there is some real risk or cost to me. I lose little to nothing in keeping myself open to the possibility (and hope) that someone is being honest with me, while still looking for the signs that they might not be. Please don’t take any of this to imply blind trust.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 1 week ago:
I find that viewing the world cynically is self-reinforcing, and it is a difficult cycle to escape from. Accurate or not, I prefer to think of humans as broadly better than that, without sacrificing pragmatic vigilance for the parts of my life where assumptions of potential innocence aren’t too risky.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 1 week ago:
Permit me to restate: Hanlon’s Razor is a good thing to keep in mind to keep from becoming cynical about the whole of humanity. That said, any situation of importance (security or health, for example) has too great a risk to rely on Hanlon’s Razor, and people facing these should remain vigilant.
As far as basic interpersonal relationships and other relatively low-stakes scenarios, sure, granting some benefit of the doubt can be useful when there aren’t glaring red flags.
All that said, I suppose I agree with you that Hanlon’s Razor is probably not broadly applicable enough in our world to be valuable as a rule of thumb. I prefer to “imagine others complexly”, keeping in mind that the motivations, feelings, and histories of other people are not really reducable to simple caricatures. As such, I try not to make judgments/assumptions about why someone might say or do a particular thing, and where possible/reasonable extend them grace. This is not meant to interfere with the social contract of tolerance: anyone willfully intolerant of someone else who is protected by the contract of tolerance is not protected by the contract of tolerance.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 1 week ago:
I am of the opinion that Hanlon’s Razor best applies to isolated or infrequent occurrences. When something has been going on for monrhs or years that hurts or takes advantage of people, the more likely explanation becomes malice.
- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 2 weeks ago:
Economic instability is generally better for the people who can weather the storm, i.e. those with resources to spare, because (as you say) they can buy assets on the cheap when the less fortunate run out of cash to survive on and have to liquidate.
It’s long periods of stability that seem to let the lower classes build up a little. Yet another reason why war and strife is of benefit to the rich.
- Comment on Michael 2 weeks ago:
(tongue-in-cheeck devil’s advocate)
And everyone knows the best way to do things is never change them. Like music, and bigoted voting rights.
- Comment on Michael 2 weeks ago:
Gymer Bro Michael
- Comment on Who was your first childhood videogame crush? 2 weeks ago:
For me, it’s the teeth, the hair spikes seem to be jutting in too many directions, and the basic layout and width of her face/head seem off.
- Comment on Who was your first childhood videogame crush? 2 weeks ago:
You would need a machete to go further “west”.
- Comment on Who was your first childhood videogame crush? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on You're so predictable 2 weeks ago:
I, too, am speaking tongue-in-cheek.
- Comment on Scientific explanation 3 weeks ago:
So you’re saying that 2 protons closer than 15 cm would collapse into a black hole? That’s got me pretty worried, because I have a lot more than 2 protons within that proximity in my body, by at least an order of magnitude or so
- Comment on Scientific explanation 3 weeks ago:
Hawking radiation
- Comment on You're so predictable 3 weeks ago:
I bet you’re from the kind of place that has the head of state and head of government be the same person. I mean, I am too, but I bet you also are.
