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- Comment on Temperature sensitivity feels like it should distinct 1 week ago:
The classic “five senses” works well enough for the basic understanding of how we interact with the world, but doesn’t actually hold up under much scrutiny. You can apparently get up to 12 depending on how you want to define things.
www.press.jhu.edu/…/how-many-senses-do-we-have
The idea of five classical senses dates back at least to Aristotle, himself a rather classy guy. In De Anima (Of the Soul) he argues that, for every sense, there is a sense organ.
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Let’s tweak Aristotle’s definition of what a sense is just a bit. Instead of a sense organ, each separate sense really only requires a different kind of sensory receptor. In the skin alone, there are at least four different kinds of sensory receptors: those for touch, temperature, pain, and proprioception (or body awareness).
- Comment on Do people know what the Streisand effect was about? 1 week ago:
And it was inside a huge (10k+) batch of pictures documenting the entire California coastline. Basically nobody had even seen it at the time she, or at least her lawyer, threw a fit about it.
- Comment on Do people know what the Streisand effect was about? 1 week ago:
I do. I’ve been reading Techdirt for over 25 years, so I’m sure I read the original post where the term was coined at the time it was first published.
- Comment on After Apple originally announced the first version of Halo in 1999, Xbox apparently called Bungie and said "'Steve Jobs can't have that. We're going to buy you.'" 2 weeks ago:
The Pippin 2.
- Comment on Cows are made of grass 2 weeks ago:
It’s carbon all the way down.
- Comment on What OS does the Batcomputer use? 2 weeks ago:
I imagine at least one modern version of the origin of the Wayne family fortune is through the tech industry. So clearly it would run Wayne-dows.
- Comment on Regulations restricting pay disclosure? 3 weeks ago:
Some states have required that job postings must include a pay range for the job in question, so since the company won’t post the range, they refuse to hire in those states.
Not a lawyer, but this sounds shady as hell. Also probably not illegal, since they are specifically avoiding the places where it IS illegal.
There are all sorts of (backwards, ignorant) reasons why they may not want to disclose the pay rate, but it immediately puts me into the worst assumption that it’s some sort of bait and switch scam. They can “unofficially” tell you what some people make, or what the mean earnings are (inflated due to a few high earners), to get you in the door, but most people won’t touch that. Like MLM job where you’re responsible for getting your own business. Or where you get a minimum wage base salary and a few people get huge commissions, but most barely scrape by.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I’ll admit, I only made it through part B. This is where you think that because you are the only one to have this thought, it must be a simulation. It doesn’t actually mean that, but that’s irrelevant anyway because you aren’t: The Anthropic Principle (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle) is a well-known part of cosmology and philosophy.
Living at only one point in time doesn’t have any greater meaning. Flip this the other way: imagine you have a minimal amount of hand-eye coordination, and you can hit a dart board, but not enough to hit a specific number. So you throw a dart and hit a 3. The chances of that are 1/20, and the chances you hit the very specific spot on that 3 is astronomically smaller. That doesn’t mean it’s special, it’s just where you hit.
Your observations and experiences aren’t meaningful because they’re planned, they’re meaningful because they’re yours, and you couldn’t have them at any other time.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
My wife will scrub the dishes, then put them in the dishwasher, and not start it because it’s not completely full.
They’re already so clean, the next person in the kitchen has a very difficult time telling if it has been run or not. JUST too dirty to eat from again, but also too clean to see at a glance. So annoying. I even got one of those clean/dirty magnets so we can signal to everyone, but then people forget to switch it.
- Comment on If video games actually determined our real world behavior, we wouldn't be violent we would be obsessed with powerwashing and all have CDLs. 5 weeks ago:
And if childhood cartoons determined our actions, whole generations of kids would have wiped out the roadrunner population by dropping anvils on them.
- Comment on Emergent introspective awareness in large language models 1 month ago:
Check their account history. They may as well be on an AI company marketing team.
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- Comment on How many people would a generation ship need to have for inbreeding to not be an issue? 1 month ago:
There are different answers depending on the end goal.
Mere survival: Isolated human populations have been bottlenecked to as few as a few hundred individuals and survived, IIRC.
A quick search says biologists like to see 25+ breeding pairs to maintain an animal species (if I’m reading that correctly). So 50-100 seems like pretty close to the minimum.
Long-term colony building with full genetic diversity needs a lot more: At least one estimate is as high as 40,000 people. The high number is for Earth-like diversity in the population, and with no need for any overarching breeding program, so it’s really kind of an outlier scenario. That 40k figure can be pared down significantly if you have strict protocols, or accept some loss of diversity.
So anywhere from 50 people to 40,000 people, but the end result will look wildly different at the extremes.
- Comment on Do xenomorphs, if prepared correctly, taste like shrimp? 1 month ago:
They take on a number of characteristics of the host species where they gestate. Probably depends heavily on that?
Definitely acidic, though.
- Comment on xkcd #3157: Emperor Palpatine 1 month ago:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Palpatine
- Comment on Would spiderman hurt a fly? 1 month ago:
The Boys.
- Comment on Would spiderman hurt a fly? 1 month ago:
Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is strictly catch and release.
- Comment on Someone should digitally remake the Bourne movies and make everyone in the films Jason Bourne 1 month ago:
While they’re at it, let’s include image stabilization. Shaky cam was the worst film fad of the era.
- Comment on They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you? 1 month ago:
I’ve had games purchased for me, but I’m not really into first person shooters, especially competitive ones, and especially especially on a console where I’m stuck using a controller.
So Black Ops III and the Master Chief Collection may be awesome for lots of people, but that’s not my jam.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Seize all electronic devices and scan for logged-in accounts, cookies, browsing history, etc.
Depending on the severity of the crime (if NSA gets involved, for instance) there are ways to defeat Tor, anyway. They have historically maintained backdoors (technical and human) into most telecom networks, and can always “ask” ISPs for a ton of information on a suspect.
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 2 months ago:
I haven’t used revanced in a while, but Fennic + ubo + sponsor block should get you to basically the same place unless they’ve added new features since I used it last.
No separate app required.
- Comment on Whoa! Windows 7's market share surged, tripling in users last month 2 months ago:
- Windows 7 was used to browse web pages on a subset of sites that use the Statcounter plugin, and mostly in one area of the world.
But that doesn’t make a good headline.
- Comment on Should 21-23-year-olds be allowed to date older people? 2 months ago:
Who are you delegating to “disallow” such a thing? Like a law?
- Comment on On Jeopardy, does getting the Who/What/Where/When/Why part of the response necessary? 2 months ago:
I can’t speak for the official rules, but I swear I’ve heard “What is…” in times when that’s not the most appropriate response.
It sure feels like “in the form of a question” is more important than if the question itself makes grammatical sense.
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 2 months ago:
I graduated in 2001 in a tech-adjacent field, and my first job was as a security guard making barely over minimum wage. Things get bad. Things get better.
- Comment on But also, the correct answer is Devil's Due 2 months ago:
Someone had to protect Wesley from Picard.
- Comment on snek go beep beep 2 months ago:
If it looks like a cobra, it’s a cobra, and if it looks like a viper, it’s a viper.
- Comment on Why Shouldn't I Use A Small Gaming PC 2 months ago:
These types of machines certainly have their place, and if it meets your needs, go for it.
The big downside is going to be a lack of upgradability. Most of the core components will be soldered to the motherboard, so no CPU or GPU upgrades, and no replacements if something breaks. I know the one you linked was just an example, and not necessarily “the one,” but its on-board graphics are similar in power to a GTX 1650. Lots and lots of games available at that level, but you’ll be locked out of anything newer with no clear upgrade path later.
For reference, I own something similar, but even older, as a secondary machine. It’s fine for what it does. Just be aware of the limitations. There are ways to build a similar-powered full desktop for about the same price. At that point it’s a tradeoff: would you rather be able to upgrade later, or do you want the simplicity and small form factor (portability, aesthetics, etc)?
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 2 months ago:
The security of their bank balance.
- Comment on What goes here? 3 months ago:
Turtle with a runny nose.
