AbouBenAdhem

@AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, I was supposed to be a twin, but my twin was absorbed in the womb, which is known as "Vanishing Twin Syndrome", but i have a few questions about this⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would OP’s mother bring up the ultrasound in the first place if she were deliberately trying to conceal anything?

  I could see the twin being stillborn and the doctors thinking it was easier to tell the mother it had “vanished”, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Westerners, what's your impression on the Chinese Diaspora? And what does the people around your area of residence think of the Chinese Diaspora?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I live on the edge of my city’s Chinatown (Oakland, California) and it’s an important part of the local culture. I’ve lived, worked, and studied with Chinese/Taiwanese nationals, and if they weren’t there I’d feel like something was missing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect that if Gen Z designed their own cognitive tests, their tests would determine that we older generations were less cognitively capable than them.

  The reality is that every generation adapts in different ways to their own cognitive circumstances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What books have a lot of useful information should I get? (I mean like a Wikipedia thing with vast knowledge, but non-electronic.)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Penguin publishes reference “dictionaries” of various subjects, that are more like mini-encyclopedias. I’ve got ones covering mathematics, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and literary theory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is #FFFFFF white, but mixing red green and blue paint is black?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure I’m accurately visualizing exactly what you’re describing, but I know from experience working with a two-color offset press that the results are quite different if you print two colors in two passes vs one pass (in which the inks are combined on a “blanket” where they effectively mix together before being transferred to the paper all at once).

  In the first case, the result is exactly what you’d expect from a subtractive color model; but in the latter case, the mixed ink that ends up on the paper is no darker than the component inks. The hue is similar whether overprinted or mixed, but the saturation is reduced in the mixed example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When boomers said they wanted to "protect children" from the media, they created MPAA ratings and the Parental Advisory stickers. When Gen X wanted to "protect children" from the media...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Big tech CEOs aren’t creating the surveillance state, they’re just profiting off the demand for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is #FFFFFF white, but mixing red green and blue paint is black?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In theory mixing a bunch of those 3 colors together, you can eventually get down to black, in practice your pigments aren’t perfect

  This is a common misconception, but it has nothing to do with imperfections in the pigments. The real issue is that you don’t want each of your primaries to block a full third of the visible spectrum—you want each to block a narrow band of frequencies that overlaps as little as possible with the sensitivity curves of the other cone cells in your eyes, in order to produce fully-saturated colors. The tradeoff is that intermediate frequencies aren’t blocked by any of the primaries, which is why we need to add black.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is #FFFFFF white, but mixing red green and blue paint is black?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Other comments are discussing additive vs subtractive colors, but that’s not accurate if you’re talking about mixing paints. Subtractive printing (CMYK) works by overprinting transparent inks, where each ink removes a different part of the spectrum. But mixed paints differ in two critical ways:

  • Paints are opaque, not transparent. Unlike subtractive inks, paint doesn’t invariably darken the color it’s painted over—instead it completely or partially replaces the underlying color.
  • Subtractive inks are applied to the substrate one at a time—they’re not pre-mixed and applied in one pass. If you mix paints before appying them, you get more of an averaging than subtraction or addition.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the threadiverse abusing Likes and Dislikes?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You express your like or dislike regarding the sentiment expressed by the post, not the thing(s) mentioned in the post.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the threadiverse abusing Likes and Dislikes?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As an example, imagine a post with a title like “AI is awful” (I’m sure many here has seen posts like that). A Friendica user could reasonably agree with the post and thus “Dislike” it. As in, they also find AI awful and they dislike AI, so they dislike the post, to show their disapproval of AI.

  I don’t believe dislikes are meant to function like that on any platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Japanese flag is a too-scale map of the solar system.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So the Japanese empire was just an attempt to fit the rest of the solar system on their flag?

• Horses must think we’re mocking them when we use them to carry us around, then put them in trailers that carry them faster than they can run.
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you cut a cucumber so that the round slices don't roll all over and off of your cutting board?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Cut the slices at a slight angle so they tilt over if they roll.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you "talk to yourself", you're deemed a "crazy person", but if you turn it to a song, then you're an aspiring musician.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe people who talk to themselves are just songwriters who haven’t figured out a melody yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does most American's give shit to the French when if not for them we would have lost the revolution?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The Fall of France and the Vichy regime were pathetic, but the French Resistance was legendary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drone use at center of El Paso airspace shutdown⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t necessarily sound like the FAA’s concerns were petty.

• If Civ I had been a real-time strategy game, people who started playing a game the year it came out would currently be up to 3965 BC.
  Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨4⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Manfluencers’ are filming themselves trying to pick up women using smart glasses⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s giving me manfluenza.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MOBJECTS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I figured it was just bad OCR.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is H9me Assistant recommended?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In terms of software, yes. But HA can be run on nearly anything—there’s no need to but their hardware to use it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Tool Searches the Epstein Files For Your LinkedIn Contacts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the tool, called EpsteIn—as in, a mash up of Epstein and LinkedIn

  A better mashup might have been “SteptIn”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any way to make nextcloud more like Google Photos?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Having a world map that has pins on it based on location EXIF data in photos

  Don’t you get that in NC already, if you go to /apps/photos/maps ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We will never know the name of a human that lived 50,000 years ago⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On the other hand, the number of humans from 50,000 years ago whose names you don’t know is vastly smaller than the number of humans alive right now whose names you don’t know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We will never know the name of a human that lived 50,000 years ago⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If the name “Naomi” can occur independently in Hebrew and Japanese, it’s probably been popping up regularly since the beginning of language.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not that the watch is an added vulnerability (there’s little info accessible via the watch once the phone is locked)—it’s just a missed opportunity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One shortcoming of lockdown mode, as far as I can tell: you can pair your phone and watch so locking your phone will lock your watch as well, but you can’t do the reverse. It seems more likely that a hostile party would get access to your phone while you still (temporarily) have control of your watch, so being able to lock your phone from your watch would be extremely useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do most people really like the taste and smell of eggs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think eggs, potatoes, and tofu are in a similar category: there are so many drastically different ways of preparing them that it’s impossible to generalize; and when someone does, I just suspect that they haven’t yet found the exceptions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else feel that the beautiful always win no matter how evil they are?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Beauty is subjective—maybe we just find success attractive after the fact?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The rich oppose clean energy because it is renewable. If clean energy became non renewable, or fossil fuels became renewable, they would no longer oppose a transition to clean energy technology⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s simpler than that: the rich support the industries that enabled them to get rich, whatever they are; and when a new industry finally does supplants them, a new group will get rich and fight to preserve the new status quo. That’s the cost of privatized infrastructure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if the Epstein files are the distraction?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think Trump himself is doing it—but I think the people around him see it as a bonus that the Epstein scandal will likely eventually bring him down, because it will release the political pressure while leaving the rest them and his policies intact.