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- Comment on Calcrelatable 2 weeks ago:
I think this is actually still an issue. On PCs the space bar + up + left arrow keys conflicts on some keyboards. Try it: open Notepad, press two arrow keys and then space. Most of them works but if you hold up and left, it will not make a space.
This is annoying in racing games, when you want to accelerate, turn left and use the hand brake at the same time.
- Comment on And 299999999 is divisible by 13 2 weeks ago:
But only in base 10.
- Comment on Know thy enemy 2 weeks ago:
the fact that developing countries will industrialize in the same way western countries have and will start to produce similar environmental emissions
That’s not a fact. It makes more sense for developing countries to skip directly to renewable energy sources.
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 3 weeks ago:
Well it isn’t 6.
From Wikipedia:
In 2002, lecturers and students from the University of Plymouth MediaLab Arts course used a £2,000 grant from the Arts Council to study the literary output of real monkeys. They left a computer keyboard in the enclosure of six Celebes crested macaques in Paignton Zoo in Devon, England from May 1 to June 22, with a radio link to broadcast the results on a website. Not only did the monkeys produce nothing but five total pages largely consisting of the letter “S”,the lead male began striking the keyboard with a stone, and other monkeys followed by urinating and defecating on the machine
Mike Phillips, director of the university’s Institute of Digital Arts and Technology (i-DAT), said that the artist-funded project was primarily performance art, and they had learned “an awful lot” from it. He concluded that monkeys "are not random generators. They’re more complex than that
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think there are any" rant" communities?
Lemmy needs that kind of large general topic community to redirect users to smaller niches communities.
I too also wouldn’t want to mod it, but I think it’d be great for herding up angry lemmy users sharing the same frustrations, so they could be redirected or start new communities for the particular topic.
The reason is that everyone enjoy reading and writing rants about something, so the rant community will automatically grow many subscribers coming in from all kinds of searches.
For example, a user ranting about “womens pants without pockets” would get much more engagement than someone just creating and posting about a community for womens pants. The rant comment section would also already often include the potential users for a new community.
The general discussion doesn’t really cut it, because it’s too nice and polite and weird angry rants don’t really fit in there.
The thing is that (also in real life) when someone needs something bad enough, they’ll get angry, and that anger can be channeled into something useful, because they’re willing to collaborate with others who can help them or who at least supports them.
- Comment on Every place gotta have the cuck booth 3 weeks ago:
Ooh, it’s a wedge table.
- Comment on Please be patient. 3 weeks ago:
The whole thing is an abstraction. The nucleus isn’t actually tiny ball shaped things mashed together, but rather cloudy stuff which would probably not be identical if we could actually see them. The quarks that make up protons and neutrons are considered elementary particles and identical, but they don’t move around much unless energy is used to split them.
The electron however is an elementary particle that moves outside of the nucleus and can move from one atom to another. So the hypothesis is that if we could follow one electron from the big bang to the end of the universe, and this electron could move both forwards and backwards in time, it would potentially be enough with just one.
It probably doesn’t hold up very well, but it’s an interesting thought experiment.
- Comment on Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn 3 weeks ago:
This is clearly a “why not both” situation.
Emissions must be cut and new technologies for reversing existing damage must be developed. There’s a whole bunch of different things that needs doing, because there is simply no single solution, but using one approach to argue against another is certainly not helping anyone.
- Comment on How are scammers getting my email address? 3 weeks ago:
It can happen in many ways. If you’ve ever used your mail for anything, then the address is out there.
Just the other day I got an email addressed to 50+ people with every email in the “to” field. Ironically the mail was about online security…
Obviously it’s a breach on GDPR, but the damage is already done. If just one of the other recipients has been hacked or has forwarded to someone who is or has allowed some dodgy app to syncronize contracts, the scamners now has all the emails.
There’s absolutely nothing I could have done to prevent it.
- Comment on A popcorn bucket with 3 holes, to share with friends 4 weeks ago:
Yes, my idea is that the sand is dense enough that anything lighter than a huge gigaton worm would not feel the fluidity. Like insects walking on water.
Anyway, I just searched it, thinking that someone else might have an idea, and it turns out that the biological explaination is that they’re not worms, but legless lizards.
- Comment on A popcorn bucket with 3 holes, to share with friends 4 weeks ago:
Maybe its quicksand with just the right density for worming.
- Comment on Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't? 4 weeks ago:
If my phone didn’t have a cap, I’d hotspot it all, which is basically the idea of cellular home internet routers I found a home router without a cap, which time will tell to be true, but it’s still more expensive than my phone with a very large but not unlimited cap.
They want to get paid, that’s the reasoning. The amount of data is really irrelevant except for pricing.
Roaming fees used to be the same until EU stepped in. Hopefully EU will eventually step in and order a full stop to ALL CAPS too. We live in the “future” now, right? Bring me ny free unlimited connection so I can download that car they talked about.
- Comment on I hate link rot 4 weeks ago:
If you’re refering to the r-link system, just unplug the fuse and plug it back in, in the fuse compartment. The hardware reset will fix most issues and even unlock otherwise locked features.
- Comment on Diatomic 4 weeks ago:
You need a ledger line through the lowest note, otherwise the two first notes are identical, and this neither diatonic or even heptatonic.
- Comment on Is it normal to feel tired of technological progress? 4 weeks ago:
I bet those 40 hours are more stressful than before.
Efficiency has increased,so you’re probably doing a whole lot of more tasks with the same time, but the bureaucracy still exists. It’s just a different kind of bureaucracy.
While we no longer need to stand in line to get a rubber stamp on a paper from some rude clerk just to pay a bill, we now need to download apps, keep the systems up to date, manage user accounts and input the data exactly how the app wants it. While the individual task might be somewhat easier than before, it is now expected that you do a whole lot more of these bureaucratic tasks yourself. All the tech bloat creeps up and makes every little task a little more difficult than before.
- Comment on I rented many games solely based on their covers, only to be mildly disappointed when I got home. 4 weeks ago:
Aka. Bop’n’Rumble for Commodore 64.
It wasn’t all bad. The gameplay was alright.
- Comment on A decline in arable land 4 weeks ago:
I acknowledge that it’s a wild take, and I want to stir up shit.
However, in Denmark m, we do not benefit from a domestic production at all, because it’s mostly shipped out of the country for feeding livestock elsewhere.
Most of the food available to me is from Ukraine or Spain. I do not have the option to eat donestically produced foods, yet 60+ of the land around me is used for farming.
I absolutely apploud the few farmers who do have local distribution, but those only account for very few percentages of our land.
- Comment on A decline in arable land 4 weeks ago:
No, it’s not a bad thing.
Denmark being at 60% is horrible. It is land used by less than 0.1% of the population.
They don’t even contribute to the GDP. Tthe entire business model relies heavily on EU susidies and couldn’t exist without it. Always moaning about the weather, pricing and competition, fixing the papers to always show a net loss, yet still driving massive luxury cars because apparently Mercedes is the only brand that can drive on the paved roads between the fields.
However, politically, these thousand people who own or rent all the farm land have way too much power, because they have somehow managed to convince everyone living in the vicinity of this manure desert called agriculture that they somehow also benefit from the success of the business, even if they don’t.
Fuck farming. It’s a dirty industry.
- Comment on Honey 4 weeks ago:
Honey is a by-product of bees, the same way that all human made food is a by-products of humans.
- Comment on Vital Statistics 4 weeks ago:
One, maybe, but penguins live in huge colonies.
- Comment on American Freedom 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on I'd also wear this VLC media player costume 1 month ago:
- Comment on I don't want to call Twitter X out of spite, but calling the travesty that is X Twitter is an insult to the people that made Twitter what it was. 1 month ago:
They have $44 billion dollar bills to wipe away the tears.
- Comment on Can I DIY water backwashing through my basement drain? 1 month ago:
If it comes up the basement drain, then the obstruction is further down, and so you can’t really flush it from the drain and out. You need to find the sewer service well further out and flush it from there and in.
It’s likely a broken pipe taking in sand or branches, so flushing it won’t be a permanent fix. A plumber can probably fix it from outside too, so it doesn’t have to be very expensive.
You don’t need to waste your money on snakes and that kind of stuff. If a regular hose on full blast can’t loosen the obstruction from outside, then you need a plumber anyway.
- Comment on I hate how anything without "world" in its name is just about the US 1 month ago:
Americans generate the majority of English-language Internet content.
Doubt.
There are 1.3 billion people who use English on the internet as a first or second language.
- Comment on Trying to earn a record for "youngest person to <insert a thing>" is just an IRL speedrun 1 month ago:
The gif is of a 2 year old Indonesian kid who made the internet rounds some years ago for smoking two packs a day and the parents “couldn"t stop him”.
He quit smoking later though.
- Comment on How do our brains process reality? I heard our eyes were just low-res cameras and our brains were doing all the heavy lifting in 'rendering' reality. 1 month ago:
You’re right. OPs second question is more specifically about vision, while I answered more broadly.
Anyway, comparing it to data from a camera is not really possible.
Analoge vs. digital and so, but also in the way that we experience it.
The minds interpretation of vision is developed after birth. It takes several weeks before an infant can recognise anything and use the eyes for any purpose. Infants are probably blissfully experiencing meaningless raw sensory inputs before that. All the pattern recognition that is used to focus on things are learned features and so also dependent on actually learning them.
I can’t find the source for this story, but allegedly there was this missionary in Africa who came across a tribe who lived in the jungle and was used to being surrounded by dense forest their entire life. He took some of them to the savannah and showed them the open view. They then tried to grab the animals that were grassing miles away. They didn’t develop a sense of perspective for things in longer distance, because they’d never experienced it.
I don’t know if it’s true, but it makes a point. Some people are better at spotting things in motion or telling colours apart etc. than others. It matters how we use vision.
So the idea of quantifying vision to megapixels and framerate is kind of useless in understanding both vision and the brain. It’s connected.
Same with sound. Some people have proved being able to use echo localisation similar to bats. You could test their vision blindfolded and they’d still make their way through a labyrinth or whatever.
Testing senses is difficult because the brain tends to compensate in that way. It’d need to be a very precise testing method to make any kind of quantisation for a particular sense.
- Comment on Do animals feel love and emotion? 1 month ago:
They definitely do show sympathy, sadness, fear and joy, which are unrelated to being rewarded with food and trained behaviour.
I don’t see why they shouldn’t have a full range of emotions. It seems simpler and more natural than developing a transactional response only.
The bigger question is what emotions even are. If it’s a chemical or biological reaction then it’d be weird if other mammals didn’t have about the same emotions as humans.
It’s difficult to see how an animal feels unless you know it well. I can mostly see how my own dog is doing, but I have no idea what mood a random dog on the street is in.
- Comment on How do our brains process reality? I heard our eyes were just low-res cameras and our brains were doing all the heavy lifting in 'rendering' reality. 1 month ago:
It is also possible to consciously alter the subconsciousness. For instance, by creating sensory input for yourself by saying things out loud to a mirror. Your ears will hear it, your eyes will see it, and your subconsciousness will then process it just the same as any other experience.
With enough repetition it will make a difference in which neurons are active whenever the brain comes to making a decision on that thing.
- Comment on Trying to earn a record for "youngest person to <insert a thing>" is just an IRL speedrun 1 month ago:
