bss03
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I’m also on Mastodon as hachyderm.io/@BoydStephenSmithJr .
- Comment on Just because you're a slob at home do you have to be an inconsiderate slob in public 4 days ago:
Agreed. Feet look clean and healthy, and if they were removed from shoes, I can guarantee they have less foreign matter on them then the shoes they were removed from, so I’d prefer them on the seat cushion rather than the shoes. If they were removed from shoes, they might be sweater and have more bodily products in general than the shoes they were removed from, but I doubt the seats on public transit are going to long avoid sweat and skin.
Some people’s insistence on covering all body parts at all times in public makes no sense to me.
- Comment on Need those unit conversions 5 days ago:
In Contact (I can’t remember if the movie, book, or both), they counted out things in terms plank lengths and quarks / leptons.
- Comment on When you die, what do you want to be done with you? 2 weeks ago:
I think you can have a POV without having a body, and you can “be somewhere” based on your POV rather than your body.
But, I also think that probably not the only reasonable guess at what the uploaded experience is like.
- Comment on When you die, what do you want to be done with you? 2 weeks ago:
If it is possible for the mind to survive the death of the body, I also think uploading would be fine. It’s a risk to be sure, but not having a body would actually address a lot of my current disappointments.
If resurrection is possible, I’d like to think the death could be prevented. But, I’ll take it if uploading is not available and death of the body is still inevitable.
- Comment on When you die, what do you want to be done with you? 2 weeks ago:
Any parts that can be used to improve a human life should be used that way. Then any parts that can be used to improve animal/plant life should be used that way. Then the rest should be disposed of in the manner that consumes the fewest resources.
But, I’ll be gone; you guys can do whatever with it; I won’t care.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 1 month ago:
II think it’s entirely possible the world is fucked. Climate crisis won’t come during his 2nd administration, but the 4 years we lose in national and international regulation is going to make it impossible to prevent.
It’ll be slow, but before 2061, I expect the death of the global Internet, and global shipping, and most air travel. Electrical grids will fracture or fail and the pieces used for smaller (at most regional) grid. Cities won’t be able to maintain the sewer pumps, and Cholera will start killing people again. Gas lines will stop maintaining pressure.
I don’t plan on sticking around that long. My BP has always been bad, so I figure just indulging my vices will make this no my problem, and I don’t have a partner or descendants.
If you prefer not embracing despair, I suggest looking into how you and your dearest can survive without infrastructure. Local food production, local power and medicine production. Don’t count on supplies you can’t retrieve within a day of travel, and don’t count on the state to maintain roads. “Solarpunk” might be a good search term. Also, might prepare for unpredictable shifts in the local climate, like preferring indoor growing.
If anyone has data that says we can avoid climate collapse with no new national or international regulation before 2029, I’d love to hear it. Please.
- Comment on Subway 2 months ago:
I would have preferred Mr Mayo
- Comment on stars & sharks 2 months ago:
Bones evolved for the first time: “485 Ma First vertebrates with true bones (jawless fishes)” – en.wikipedia.org/…/Timeline_of_the_evolutionary_h… (Vertebrates existed without a bony notochord before then.)
But the Appalachians were started much earlier: “The geologic processes that led to the formation of the Appalachian Mountains started 1.1 billion years ago.” They were basically finished growing by the time bones existed: “Around 480 million years ago, geologic processes began that led to three distinct orogenic eras that created much of the surface structure seen in today’s Appalachians. [d] During this period, mountains once reached elevations similar to those of the Alps and the Rockies” Since then, it’s just been wearing down. – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_Mountains
- Comment on The four horsemen of the dogpocalypse. 2 months ago:
I like it, but I like most Mtn. Dew flavors.
Definitely inspired by peach tea, if that helps.
- Comment on The four horsemen of the dogpocalypse. 2 months ago:
Have you tried Sweet Lightning? It’s a KFC exclusive flavor that hasn’t escaped containment the way Baja Blast escaped Tace Bell.
- Comment on unwatchable!! 3 months ago:
/c/SuicideByWords ?
- Comment on Slapping Chicken 3 months ago:
I think the phase change costs of the water content will also be a significant factor that isn’t included.
- Comment on Why are doctors so hands off and unhelpful in the USA? 3 months ago:
Most people never become auto-didacts. Most auto-didacts still benefit from formal training because above average gross performance can mask subtle mistakes until the mistake becomes root cause for a significant error.
Under significant pressure (like a well-written dramatic fiction, but almost never IRL), most doctors will be willing to perform a procedure without formal training, but under normal conditions, they know it is not worth the additional risk.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
infosec.pub is pretty tolerant…
- Comment on Technically Correct 4 months ago:
Inconsistent enforcement of “the rules” is the most common form of systematic marginalization.
It’s also easy of centrists to excuse, since it could happen to anyone, even when the statistic show to it is overwhelmingly correlated with some protected trait.
- Comment on Uh oh 4 months ago:
If you do have to do it, you can hit 1234 or any other 4 digits after the 911 and you will still be connected to emergency services.
Source: accidentally called 911 when trying to make an international call and not understanding when the phone system needed the 9 prefix (only for internal extensions).
- Comment on Youtube replaced unicode emojis with fucking images 5 months ago:
I have been in meetings which people who thought the fact that a user could use a different font, even only intentionally, was “unacceptable”.
I hope those people aren’t directing the ship at YT, but could be.
- Comment on Youtube replaced unicode emojis with fucking images 5 months ago:
Consistency. They don’t want to be at the whim of your font (which for many users will be the OS default). While it’s not frequent, sometimes Apple (iOS) or Microsoft (Edge) will have a very different interpretation of a Unicode emoji, which makes the UX of comments containing those emoji inconsistent between YT users.
- Comment on When does investing become gambling? 5 months ago:
The DJIA (e.g.) isn’t “the house”. It isn’t something you are competing with in that your losses are its/their gain. You are misunderstanding both investing (in general and the stock market specifically) and gambling when you make that confusion/analogy.
Not beating the market but having positive returns is only “losing” when infinite exponential growth is the goal. Beating the market but having negative returns is not “winning”.
- Comment on When does investing become gambling? 5 months ago:
Just because you are wrong about your expected value calculations (or were right but the actual return was on the lower end of the range) and have made a bad investment doesn’t change the fact that it was an investment because you were doing it for the returns.
In short, performance doesn’t matter for this distinction, at least IMO.
- Comment on When does investing become gambling? 5 months ago:
Cube theory clearly established that hot dogs are tacos. It’s all based on the location of structural starches.
- Comment on When does investing become gambling? 5 months ago:
IMO: When you do it for the entertainment/feeling/rush, it’s gambling. When you do it for the returns, it is investing. I also think the other poster that mentioned investing as being interested in the success of the endeavor, that would exclude shorting and I think might be a useful distinction.
Casino games and sports betting all have lower expected value (probabilistic value) than their cost, so they are not something you can do for returns (you have better expected returns by not participating).
There are plenty of people that are misinformed, dishonest, or stuck finding a bigger fool that will sell you a gamble by calling it an investment, and expected value is not guaranteed value.
- Comment on A fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the water 6 months ago:
New messages will show on all your devices, but yes, it is intentional that old messages are not available to new devices.
- Comment on isopods are friends 8 months ago:
Arkansas here; used Rolly-Polly as childhood name for isopods.