AbouBenAdhem

@AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now that the US is under influence by Russia, what will happen to Whistleblower Edward Snowden?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I doubt Trump will do anything that could be perceived as encouraging more whistleblowers, at least while he’s in office.

  Best case—a Democrat wins the next election, Trump gives up on trying to stop it, and pardons Snowden on his way out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you pronounce "centaur" and why?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s in a Greek or ancient Latin context I pronounce it with a hard C, but if it’s a general English context I pronounce it with a soft C.

  I’m not sure what the third way would be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beyond RGB: A new image file format efficiently stores invisible light data⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, jpeg converts to lab (or something similar, I think). But the dimensions are the same: one channel for lightness, and then a number of channels one less than the total number of sampled frequencies to capture the rest of the color space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beyond RGB: A new image file format efficiently stores invisible light data⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Spectral JPEG XL utilizes a technique used with human-visible images, a math trick called a discrete cosine transform (DCT), to make these massive files smaller […] it then applies a weighting step, dividing higher-frequency spectral coefficients by the overall brightness (the DC component), allowing less important data to be compressed more aggressively.

  This all sounds like standard jpeg compression. Is it just jpeg with extra channels?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huawei says its AI phone has 'emotions' trained by DeepSeek⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So they’re adding phone capabilities to Tamagotchi?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Titles Are Written Like This?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The same reason we capitalize peoples’ names, since a title is the proper name of a written work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mother⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  After the predator instantly becomes enamored with the adorable baby quokka, and calls her own kids over to play.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some animals are more equal than others!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When picking location for reincarnation USA is a really popular choice but don't pick it, it's a total bait and switch.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, be sure to fully specify the location—one time I just put “Athens” and ended up in Athens, Georgia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I like Molly White’s recent take, that it might be more productive to treat this as a labor issue instead of a copyright issue (at least in principle). Even if the AI corporations aren’t technically re-selling copyrighted works, they’re still profiting from the authors’ unpaid labor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Lemmy instance where 80% of the most generic posts are deleted⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If there are a bunch of posts on a particular topic, shouldn’t it keep at least one of them? Otherwise it would tend to completely filter out the most significant or interesting topics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cause-effect was always a broken narrative. Twice-broken when you attach a pricetag.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think we’re usually conscious of the availability of multiple narratives to the point that we can mentally simulate each one and compare their potential utility.

  The choices we consciously make are the ones that arise inside of narratives, not between narratives themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cause-effect was always a broken narrative. Twice-broken when you attach a pricetag.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  we will choose the one in which we profit the most

  I think we’ll choose the narrative most consistent with our existing worldview, even if it hurts our own interests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cause-effect was always a broken narrative. Twice-broken when you attach a pricetag.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Causality, like entropy, is an emergent property that’s hard to pin down formally, but is a critical element of any narrative. I’m with you that far, but how do price tags and double breakage figure in?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X (Twitter) is down in worldwide outage.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It just depends on which type of serifs he puts on the X.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What host names do you use?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Home assistant: domus
  Nextcloud: nimbus
  Router/firewall: murus

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If any external factor made you create art, would your art be created by that factor?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess in that sense you could say the only “creator” is the Big Bang.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New technology could save declining honeybee populations⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And the honeybee populations least in need of saving are the big commercial operations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robots might be gross⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe not—current AI seems more focused on mimicking and distilling human behavior than on reasoning out optimal behavior on its own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Between Linux or Windows which do you think will be first to have a viable OS for quantum computers?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Quantum circuits aren’t general-purpose computers—they’re added to conventional computers to allow them to perform a small handful of algorithms more efficiently. I don’t believe any of those algorithms would benefit a general operating system enough that an OS would be modified to require the use of one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨can you boot a server if someone tries to connect⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe so—see Wake-on-LAN.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  States are explicitly prohibited by the Constitution from “enter[ing] into any treaty, alliance, or confederation” with foreign states, but there are plenty of cases of state and local governments joining economic partnerships and initiatives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Violence alters human genes for generations, researchers discover.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume the “epigenetic signature” they describe is some kind of methylation?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a thousand years, will historians regard today as the digital dark ages?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If the dark ages were so called due to the shortage of sources, ours will be called the glare-blind age in contrast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The big bang left a carcass and we're the maggots.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Careful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parasites successfully deliver drugs to the brain.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a compromise between RFK Jr’s organic parasites and Musk’s synthetic brain implants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study finds bullies have more children than non-bullies⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess a purely statistical consequence of this would be that the typical child has a greater-than-random chance of having a bully parent, and that chance increases with the number of siblings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla stock sees massive plunge as abysmal sales figures released⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are the people who would have bought Teslas now buying other EVs, or passing on buying a new car altogether?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study reveals that honeybee dance ‘styles’ sway food foraging success.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do insects have something analogous to a hippocampus for remembering places?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft tests ad-supported Office apps for Windows users⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s like saying you can continue to do business with the guy who keeps trying to stab you if you keep out of arm’s reach.

  It’s not wrong, but it’s not addressing the underlying problem.