shneancy
@shneancy@lemmy.world
just me
- Comment on About to turn the car to a flying car 2 days ago:
holy hell
- Comment on Washing machine 🤤 3 days ago:
not realistic enough, unless they always used the speedrun setting on their washing machine, most cycles are 2 hours or more
- Comment on Anon is a white hat hacker 4 days ago:
/>get sued a week later when a real hacker breaks into their system and the IT department notices a security flaw that would easily be addressed by first few staps in pen testing
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 2 weeks ago:
i don’t get angry at things that don’t affect me lol
i do worry for steam’s future, it’s only this good because “Lord Gaben” has made many great decisions, it may not be a democracy but a good “dictator” is often more effective than a democracy. But what happens if/when Steam goes to shit for whatever reason? the internet will implode
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 2 weeks ago:
not to mention steam’s:
screenshot manager
community card trading
friends & chat
easy to join small muliplayer (friends can just send you a button that launches the game and joins them instantly)
highly customisable profiles
tools & soundtracks
achievemnts
and so much more that can be simply small little fun
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 2 weeks ago:
yeah but the thing is, Steam isn’t even trying to be a monopoly, all of Steam’s competitors just seem to have a hobby of shooting their own foot, repeatedly. Steam is trying to make the gaming experience easier and more fun, and excelling at it!
unlike some other platforms, Steam doesn’t do exclusive deals, literally the only Steam exclusives are Valve’s own games, everything else is up to be decided by devs
- Comment on ♥️♥️♥️ 2 weeks ago:
folks who are really into the denial and orgasm control kink
- Comment on >:( rejected vibes 3 weeks ago:
ah, no i’d rather not be written off as mentally unstable when people read that i in fact looped a 1min 30s track for many, many hours :)
- Comment on Anon has an idea to get laid 3 weeks ago:
yup, you can never “boy who cried wolf” yourself about possible and realistic emergency situations. Sure it sounds like a joke - but it either:
is, nobody does anything, and nothing happens
is, gets taken seriously, and some time and resources are wasted
or
isn’t, gets taken seriously, and a disaster is avoided
isn’t, nobody does anything, and people end up dead or injured
a small waste of time and resources is always a better outcome than possible death and injury
- Comment on brains! 3 weeks ago:
eh, well my answer is going to be most likely unsatisfying because - that just depends on how you count it, there’s quite a few different IQ tests and some of them use slightly different methods of calculating the scores
practically though? a person so disabled they can barely figure out the most basic puzzles that scores below ~20 would probably have significantly lower survival chances basically anywhere, but especially in developing countries where they’re less likely to get help
- Comment on brains! 3 weeks ago:
yes, just as IQ tells you close to nothing about the properties of human intelligence! (only how good you are at taking IQ tests).
Consider this - what does being smart even mean? Does it mean you’re able to solve logic puzzles fast? Does it mean having a good memory? Does it mean being able to make good decisions? maybe it means being able to resolve interpersonal conflicts? or maybe being able to cook something amazing from scratch without a recepie?
IQ seems to be seen as some vague concept of the computational power of the brain, but only when it comes to logic puzzles and remembering things. What if someone’s brain’s computational power instead favours considering the interactions of various flavours to create outstanding dishes? or moving their body to dance the most mesmerising dances?
imagine you’re a scientist though! a man of science, logic and reason, living roughly at the same time IQ was standardised. And you are smart, all your friends think you’re smart - so you set the scale of the entirety of human intelligence to be measured with logic puzzles. Nothing else. All the other stuff is just some talent someone has…
but what if someone is talented at solving IQ tests? Does that mean they’re smart? if there is no discernible difference between someone who’s talented at solving logic puzzles, and someone who an IQ tests deems to be intelligent, does that mean only those who enjoy logic puzzles, and therefore have gotten a lot of practice in solving them, are smart?
another question - is it “cheating” if somebody trains for their IQ test? if someone trains their mind specifically to be better at them - will that person become more intelligent, or just more skilled at filling out IQ tests well? how can you spot a “cheater” like that?
where even is intelligence in the brain? where does it come from? your genetics? your upbringing? your environment? everything at once?
how do you measure something you can barely define? and why with logic puzzles? why not an interpretative dance to the sounds of noise jazz? why not the baking of a pavlova cake? or maybe a rap battle?
apologies for the long rant. IQ is not a scientific measurement, it’s a measurement of how likely you’re to do well on logic puzzles. and whoever popularised it and made it seem like the way to prove you’re better than others infuriates me. the above are my personal, more or less subjective, issues with the idea of IQ, i do recommend this video essay to understand how deeply flawed even the history of IQ is. There’s piles and piles of arguments against IQ, and very few in favour
- Comment on brains! 3 weeks ago:
quora.com/Is-it-even-possible-for-a-human-to-have…
read the second answer to that particular quora question, i believe it outlays what the other guy and i mean pretty clearly
- Comment on brains! 3 weeks ago:
i have indeed noticed there are people alive on that list. But are you going to trust a source that states someone’s IQ to be literally outside of the possible scale when it also just makes shit up a few people down?
i don’t think they’re trying to prove IQ’s legitimacy, just explain the way it’s calculated
- Comment on brains! 3 weeks ago:
any article that lists historical figures with even estimates their IQs can be discarded as bullshit. IQ has specific testing criteria and imo the most important part of it is its basis in general distribution - if we don’t know the IQ of the average peasant, we can’t know the IQ of Shakespeare
besides, IQ is a borderline pseudo science to begin with. i was made to take an official IQ tests and the second i stepped out of the test room i started wondering how is this going to accuratly portray my “innate” intelligence when the vast majority of the things on the test can be learnt or otherwise trained to be better at
- Comment on Humble creating a bundle for this game is wild 3 weeks ago:
it lets me customise the tip/charity/bundle organiser ratio and i’m 85% sure I’ve gone under $7 for the tip multiple times
- Comment on Anon loves proprietary tech 4 weeks ago:
ah of course, money
- Comment on Anon loves proprietary tech 4 weeks ago:
strange, most IT professionals will tell you the only thing you need is Windows Defender and an ability to think before clicking strange download buttons
- Comment on It ain't much, but it's a livin' 5 weeks ago:
🥂
- Comment on It ain't much, but it's a livin' 5 weeks ago:
how do they get the energy to lay new eggs? or grow into full sized moths?
- Comment on To deter predators... 5 weeks ago:
many consider it a weed. always make sure to plant your mint in a pot (even if you want it in your garden just bury the pot with a little bit of the edge sticking out), do not plant it directly in dirt, though if you do, you’ll never again not have mint in your garden? and your neighbours’ gardens too! :D
- Comment on Culture Wars 5 weeks ago:
some bacteria good, some other bacteria bad
- Comment on He protecc 5 weeks ago:
he attac people with dust allergies, with his poop (i am not kidding)
- Comment on He protecc 5 weeks ago:
oh so the creature who’s shit i’m allergic to is fucking immortal yeah? cool, great
- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #47 - Cult of the Lamb 5 weeks ago:
waaaaayyyyy less grindy/waity than graveyard keeper
- Comment on I thought it was an easy question ... 1 month ago:
the cries of alien archaeologists from the far future echo in the distance
- Comment on Pweaty pwease 🥺 1 month ago:
hi, i’d like to unread your post please
- Comment on a murder investigation 1 month ago:
tap on it and turn on the HD view, helps
- Comment on Feral Science 1 month ago:
oh- oop :)
- Comment on Feral Science 1 month ago:
was that expedition inspired by lovecraft or was lovecraft inspired by that expedition?
- Comment on I wanna pet 1 month ago:
could be good old photoshop. First results doing a reverse image search show 2022, which was well before the AI boom