GreyEyedGhost
@GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Donald Trump Said He Promised Ivanka He Wouldn't Date Girls Younger Than Her | “So as she grows older, the field is getting very limited.” 😬 2 hours ago:
I don’t remember where I heard it first, but I’ve seen a number of his supporters (and Obama’s detractors) get a little miffed when I said, “Remember, the president with five kids from three different women isn’t the black one.”
- Comment on Him and Elon were cybering, calling it now... 1 week ago:
Without even knowing this, I knew “intimate and embarrassing” was referring to money.
- Comment on Can somebody please explain why the world hasn't gone nuclear yet? 1 week ago:
Realistically, the time for nuclear (fission) has past. If we were in the 50s or 60s, and were making a concerted effort to remove fossil fuel energy production, nuclear could have helped us do it. Now, with steadily decreasing renewable energy costs and cheaper and more effective battery storage, it’s a break-even option at best, and takes a long time to implement.
Fusion has a real chance, provided we can figure it out well enough to do anything with it. It may not be economically viable, and it’s hard to be certain before we actually get it working. Fusion could also be more effective for certain space missions, especially to the gas giants and farther from the sun. Realistically, anything closer than Mars does pretty well with solar.
- Comment on Can somebody please explain why the world hasn't gone nuclear yet? 1 week ago:
Yeah, there’s no waste from coal plants…if you don’t count the damage from mining, the storage and spills of fly ash, or the carbon and radioactive material emitted into the atmosphere. Except for those, and the deaths they cause, coal could be the cleanest fuel source out there…instead of one of the most polluting.
- Comment on Can somebody please explain why the world hasn't gone nuclear yet? 1 week ago:
In fact, sodium batteries seem to be taking off and the only downside they have compared to lithium batteries is battery density, which isn’t a problem for grid storage.
- Comment on Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear 2 weeks ago:
You aren’t wrong, either, but if you start doing the numbers for how much forest per person we need, there isn’t enough land. It is carbon neutral, though.
- Comment on Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear 2 weeks ago:
And do the same for solar and batteries, so we can stop using fossil fuels for electricity ASAP.
- Comment on ‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing 2 weeks ago:
That really is the greatest risk for some of thses features. It’s easy to get complacent when something works well, and then you’re in trouble when it doesn’t.
- Comment on ‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing 2 weeks ago:
It didn’t so much as pull as get stiffer to turn out of the lane. Again, that doesn’t happen if your signals are on, so it’s a good reminder to use your signals, too.
Like I said, relying on these assists as replacements for proper driving isn’t something I would recommend. You should still be shoulder checking and using your mirrors. My wife’s vehicle has blind spot detection, which turns on an amber light by the mirror. If you’re changing lanes, it’s an obvious indicator that it may not be safe. A more thorough shoulder check can identify if the vehicle is actually at risk for collision. For example, if you just passed a vehicle and are pulling away, the detection light may still be on, but you aren’t at risk of collision. Alternatively, if I thought the lane was clear and decide to change lanes, the light may be on due to a speeding driver who is approaching to pass me in the adjacent lane. The light will be on even though he isn’t in the way yet, and changing lanes could result in an accident. Or maybe someone has been sitting in your blind spot for a few minutes and you decide to change lanes. A quick mirror check indicates you’re safe, but that amber light says maybe not. If your shoulder check doesn’t catch the problem, you probably haven’t done it well enough.
Again, can be good assistance tools, I don’t think they’re good enough to be replacements yet.
- Comment on ‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing 2 weeks ago:
I rented a Hyundai Elantra. Yes, the wheel will move under your hand. Yes, it has hand detection, which is probably trivial to spoof. When I used it, winter had just ended and li especially on the road weren’t always clear, so it would occasionally disable itself. Trying to change lanes without signals isn’t terrible, but certainly won’t happen by accident.
I would by no means rely on this, or recommend relying on it, just like I wouldn’t recommend relying on blind spot detection, but they can be handy aids to improve your overall driving, and can help catch your mistakes.
- Comment on Next-Gen Brain Implants Offer New Hope for Depression: AI and real-time neural feedback could transform treatments 3 weeks ago:
I absolutely think that privacy within your own mind should be inviolable (trusting corporations and even government to agree is laughable). Iain Banks’ Culture series explores some of these implications, as well as who should be in control of your mental state. It’s messy and hard, and is one of the reasons I currently wouldn’t get a brain implant. I might change my mind if I had ALS, for instance.
- Comment on Next-Gen Brain Implants Offer New Hope for Depression: AI and real-time neural feedback could transform treatments 3 weeks ago:
I likely had undiagnosed depression for decades before I got treatment, from a GP, no less, after being dismissed by a psychiatrist. If you have concerns about your health, keep trying to get help, as long as you’re able.
- Comment on Next-Gen Brain Implants Offer New Hope for Depression: AI and real-time neural feedback could transform treatments 3 weeks ago:
“What am I without my legs?” “What am I without my eyes?” “What am I without my arms?”
What counts as “the real me” has been evolving for decades, if not centuries. I’m not volunteering for brain implants, but I’m not writing off the idea sometime in the future. As for AI, this is going to be more of the ML variety, not the LLM variety. Think more of “neurochemical levels have been trending in a certain direction for too long, release opposing neurochemicals to halt the spiral” and less of a little voice inside your head giving quite possibly incorrect answers to whatever you’re thinking of.
This is absolutely risky stuff, but less risky than recurring electroshock therapy? Hard for me to say. Note that the article is from nearly 2 decades ago, but there are articles in the news from just the last couple weeks.
- Comment on Commodore acquired for a ‘low seven figure’ price — new (acting) CEO comes from the retro community 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 4 weeks ago:
If it makes you feel better, I do that off of Lemmy, too.
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’d be happy if they had an unsupported version, but I get that could cause negative publicity for those who couldn’t accept that unsupported means exactly that.
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 4 weeks ago:
Sadly, SailfishOS is region locked. Being from North America, I can’t purchase their phones, or use the trial/emulation option, which really sucks because I like a lot of what I’m seeing there.
- Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny 4 weeks ago:
There are absolutely jobs where hiring the most qualified person for the job is critical. There are a lot of jobs where the threshold for good enough is far below that, and most companies are at least as concerned at getting the cheapest labor that can fulfill the position as they are at getting the best person (at that lower rate). Adding additional constraints like diversity isn’t going to affect those jobs any more than the company’s desire to save a buck.
- Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny 4 weeks ago:
So if a company traditionally had 10 men employees and now has committed to having gender equality, you see this as 5 jobs where men are no longer considered, rather than it historically being 10 jobs where women weren’t considered?
- Comment on Screenshot from what I'm playing. 4 weeks ago:
Buying prerelease is always a big gamble. Buying before there are reviews from trusted sources is also a bit of a gamble.
Buying games 7 or 8 years after release is generally a pretty safe bet.
- Comment on My dailies 4 weeks ago:
The deck is pretty awesome. I think my big upgrade for it will be some AR glasses like the XReal Air. The idea of a big screen to play on pretty much anywhere really appeals.
I just have to see if I can wait for the next Valve VR offering.
- Comment on Innocent light bulb 4 weeks ago:
It’s been a long time since I laughed about OJ Simpson…
- Comment on Smartphones are Designed to Fail Us (and We Have to Change That) 5 weeks ago:
I don’t remove responsibility from the people, but don’t pretend that companies don’t spend piles of cash on marketing when it has absolutely no influence on their customers’ purchasing decisions. Also, don’t pretend that marketing isn’t pandering to appeal and not function.
- Comment on Smartphones are Designed to Fail Us (and We Have to Change That) 5 weeks ago:
So what you’re saying is that marketing provides a sober, unbiased presentatiin of the benefits and drawbacks of the products they’re trying to sell, and people make rational, informed decisions? No, like you said, most people behave little better than monkeys, and marketing caters to that, further skewing the norms and pushing people to buy things based on perceived benefits while ignoring the real drawbacks. Next you’ll tell me the prescription opioid epidemic wasn’t exacerbated by the claims that the new opioids were less addictive and pharmaceutical companies incentivizing doctors to prescribe them more than necessary, a lot of words that boil down to ‘marketing’.
- Comment on Smartphones are Designed to Fail Us (and We Have to Change That) 5 weeks ago:
You also ignore the role marketing has to play in convincing people that they need those things. Most people don’t need an SUV, let alone a truck, yet I see plenty of people driving these, and even thinking they’re safer than sedans. But they cost more money, which means more profit, and why would it be surprising that people who sell something with a relatively inelastic market want to maximize profit dollars per sale?
- Comment on How do you charge an electric car without a credit card? 1 month ago:
240v wiring is common in Canada and the US, just not all outlets, and until recently not usually in garages. I expect 240v outlets in garages to be more standard in the future.
But, creepy or no, posting on a public forum and not using throwaway accounts and then being surprised that people actually reference your posting history is hopelessly naive.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #18 1 month ago:
Space is almost free, and it’s a good cue to what you’re going to find. It’s how I tell my PerfectDark posts apart.
- Comment on We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink 1 month ago:
Looks like we found someone who believed it was financially necessary for the manufacture of the shuttle to be spread across the country.
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 1 month ago:
I had a teacher mark my answer incorrect because I said women can have hemophilia. They said you can’t because it’s a sex-linked disease. I said sure, but what happens if you have two X chromosomes with that gene on it? Still didn’t get the point. This was in the 80s, and I couldn’t just look it up on the internet and prove how wrong they were.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Our little bastard takes days to settle down after we take him and his littermate to the vet. They’ve been together their entire lives, but if either or both go to the vet, even in the same vehicle, he’s all “Who the fuck are you?!” when we get home. And his brother is all, “Aww geez, what the hell’s the matter now?” Every time.