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- Comment on What's with companies naming things "MyNoun"? 6 days ago:
Remember a few years back when all new companies were just normal words with (all/most of) the vowels removed?
It’s all fads. Creativity requires more risk than the current environment is willing to accept. So you just do whatever everyone else is doing and call it revolutionary anyway.
- Comment on Games that have now or will be turned 40, 30, 20 and 10 years old as of 2026 1 week ago:
The original Japanese release of The Legend of Zelda was February 21, 1986, making it 40 in just under three weeks.
North American and European releases were in the summer and fall of 1987, though.
- Comment on What is the best way to drop 50lbs in two months without spending alot and no fad diets? 1 week ago:
I did a pretty extreme weight loss a few years back, and in two months, I lost 20 pounds.
Even that was a bit more than is recommended without strict medical supervision. Two pounds per week is kind of the upper bound of “normal” weight loss. Don’t attempt more without a very, very good reason, and an even better doctor.
- Comment on What would you do if you knew your neighbor was an ICE/DHS agent? 1 week ago:
Whatever I would do, I most certainly wouldn’t post it on the internet.
- Comment on How do I keep a brand new one of these mats from wanting to keep curling up on the ends? 1 week ago:
You can’t attach it to the floor, but can you use some good double-sided tape or super glue to attach small steel weights to the underside of the corners?
Any home improvement store should have some flat bar. 1/8" or about 3mm should be flat enough to avoid a tripping hazard, but check local regs for commercial properties.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 2 weeks ago:
There is no market Microsoft won’t half-ass* their way into.
* Purely as an expression. Teams is nowhere near usable enough to give it that much credit.
- Comment on /c/fuckai in shambles rn 3 weeks ago:
And they both serve under a man with an artificial heart. Genetic enhancement is illegal, but cyborgs are a-ok?
- Comment on Is there anything like a Beholder monster before 1975? 4 weeks ago:
I wonder if they could have been inspired by the writings (and some illustrations) of HP Lovecraft? I’m no lore expert there, but a Beholder wouldn’t be out of place by the side of some of the others.
- Comment on In order to be allowed to drive, you don't just have to promise to pay if you hit someone, you have to pay in advance in case you hit someone 4 weeks ago:
No argument there.
- Comment on In order to be allowed to drive, you don't just have to promise to pay if you hit someone, you have to pay in advance in case you hit someone 4 weeks ago:
Whatever you pay in insurance is unlikely to cover the damages won by an injured party. That money is coming out of the pockets of people who will never cause an injury.
Good drivers subsidize the assholes.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 5 weeks ago:
The lid always goes down when not in use at my house.
“It’s a shit receptacle, not a water feature” has been repeated to anyone who doesn’t know the rule.
- Comment on What would happen to a werewolf in space? 1 month ago:
The ISS orbits at about 400km. The distance to the moon is about 385,000km. From the moon, and especially the sun, the Earth and ISS are basically in the same place, so the phase of the moon doesn’t appreciably change in low earth orbit.
A werewolf on Europa (and others) could be in a full moon much more often. Even on the side facing away from the sun, it may still have plenty of light due to the reflection from Jupiter.
Maybe they would have to hide away from society once per month whenever they turn into a human monster?
- Comment on "When did video games become so violent and scary?" -Wreck-It Ralph 1 month ago:
And Mortal Kombat hit consoles in 1993, so the big, controversial hits weren’t limited to PCs in the early 90s.
- Comment on Why are there so many Christmas songs, yet hardly any New Year's ones? 1 month ago:
And gym memberships.
- Comment on You've probably met someone who has killed a person 1 month ago:
Yes, but I haven’t seen him since he killed two people, partially because he’s been in prison for the last ~28 years.
- Comment on Is there a mechanism in the USA to undo presidential pardons years later if political corruption has been proven as motivation to give these pardons? 2 months ago:
Judges don’t pass laws, but they can create plenty of loopholes out of thin air. Qualified Immunity doesn’t exist in any statute (to my knowledge), but it is a de facto legal standard, for one example.
- Comment on Temperature sensitivity feels like it should distinct 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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 months ago:
The Pippin 2.
- Comment on Cows are made of grass 2 months ago:
It’s carbon all the way down.
- Comment on What OS does the Batcomputer use? 2 months 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? 2 months 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] 2 months 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] 3 months 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. 3 months 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 3 months 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? 3 months 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? 3 months ago:
They take on a number of characteristics of the host species where they gestate. Probably depends heavily on that?
Definitely acidic, though.
