Qwel

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  FYI, subliminal messages, as in “messages that you can’t see but your subconscious will be affected by” are not a thing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subliminal_stimuli

  I remember watching a science show where someone wanted to demonstrate them, blatantly failed, tried again, failed again, called a psychologist to try better, and failed again. At the end the guy excused himself and said that it must surely be working for everyone but him, for some reason. Except no one actually managed to get it working, the guy who invented the concept later admitted he faked the result.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What did XP do? I’ve never heard someone complain about it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw it, I’m installing Linux⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Looking at the specs, I would guess it is

  You can setup a Ventoy USB stick if you want to try multiple options

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s similar in that it has an application launcher at the bottom, a windows-like start menu, and aims to be simple.

  Zorin has a modern UI where Mint is more windows-7-ish. They don’t have the same file explorer, settings app, app store, generally the core apps are different.

  Look they’re quite different, it’s hard to make a full comparison, just run a Mint .iso in gnome-boxes if you’re curious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bewildered enthusiasts decry memory price increases of 100% or more — the AI RAM squeeze is finally starting to hit PC builders where it hurts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you actually feel your computer slow down? I would guess your 20 unused tabs would be swapped out and the rest should run relatively fine

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anyone here ever doubted if your parents were your "real" parents? Is it normal to have these weird thoughts?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They might disinherit you for being disrespectful? That’s insane. Did they threaten you to do that? If the relation is that bad I can understand why you would care. My parents would just think I’m being weird.

  I hadn’t thought about a DNA test, but I definitely don’t see how it could help me with my life. If it comes positive, nothing changes. If it comes negative, I don’t see the administration doing anything about it. They won’t even know you passed a test, even if they had procedures for these cases. You or your parents would need to bring up the issue in a legal procedure for the administration to consider it.

  What I mean is that if you have issues with your parents or tutors, knowing what they are exactly does not fix the issues by itself (surely there is a better angle to think about it?). I understand that you would think about it, but if you don’t like thinking about it, I think you usually don’t need to invest yourself into it. Like, you can keep the obsessive thought without worrying about it. And that will make it stop over time. I don’t know how much sense this makes, it made sense to me back then :shrug:

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anyone here ever doubted if your parents were your "real" parents? Is it normal to have these weird thoughts?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I did, and shrugged it off

  for me this is the same kind of questions as “maybe the universe was created 5 seconds ago”. It’s impossible to resolve, and doesn’t change anything

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨for future fireflies⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It helps I guess ? Making some of the conditions more likely makes the sum* of all conditions more likely

  *math vocabulary may be approximative

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xubuntu website hijacked to serve malware⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And the hashes are displayed on the website that got compromised

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battlefield 6 releases today and it will not be playable on any Linux / SteamOS system⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the franchise still popular nowadays?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long can someone physically walk for?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The body is not designed to keep effort going at all costs. You will be informed when you have a cramp, because you should slow down and wait it out before continuing. The whole point of pain is to react to broken stuff, usually by stopping using it.

  It will however keep life going at all costs, sometimes digesting replaceable muscles into energy for non-replaceable elements. But it’s more about starvation resistance than about chasing. It could also be the case if we were a specie of static filter feeders

  A lot of the human body has been affected by long walks and runs, and we do have (well, not me in particular) over-average stamina developped presumably for hunting. It’s just the specific exemple of muscle digestion that I’m going after here

  this knowledge comes from, uh… idk :3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's just science, i guess⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey so, is this a normal thing in meta analyses ?

  We identified 46 studies for inclusion in our analysis. Of these, 27 studies reported positive associations (significant links to NDDs), 9 showed null associations (no significant link), and 4 indicated negative associations (protective effects).

  27+9+4 is 40 I think ? What happened to the 6 other papers ? I’m always confused by the whole “we ignored half of the studies and we won’t tell you why”, if they can also ignore some of the 46 studies they selected, what does the 46 number mean ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨whats your dumb purchases?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A blank 10cm by 10cm square piece of aluminium. About 2 cm thick

  I think I wanted to know how it felt. Like, the vibe of aluminium