silasmariner
@silasmariner@programming.dev
- Comment on hubris go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 1 day ago:
This is a very very good video. I loved the review of Atlas Shrugged
- Comment on Anon isn't a Microsoft fan 2 days ago:
That’s a good book! Fascinating that the author was hoping to write about the rise and fall of Tether, but it never quite fell, so he ended up with the climax being SBF’s downfall
- Comment on It's just loss. 3 days ago:
Misleading you to what conclusion that you wouldn’t otherwise have reached?
- Comment on It's just loss. 1 week ago:
Couldn’t agree with you more. In particular, the way most state pensions are structured imply infinite exponential growth. It’s gonna be a tough drug to wean off of.
- Comment on Anon takes shots at Donkey Kong 1 week ago:
You could start Starfox without the extra chip if you did some trick with the cartridge, but there were big black bits on the screen or something? It sorta worked but it sucked. I can’t remember any more details than that.
- Comment on It's just loss. 1 week ago:
Sadly it’s not objectively false, it’s merely vague. There’s no equivocation whereby it actually specifies that the unit of measure is the individual animal, rather than, say, kg. It’s just playing on your assumptions (I did assume biomass fwiw, but who cares).
But anyway, the point made by sheer fucking biomass imbalance is surely the thing to focus on here? Now that we know what it means, and are in agreement that the wording should be clearer, the statistic is still egregious, isn’t it? Humans have taken far too much of the world for themselves IMO. Vastly diminishing returns for us, devestatingly larger impact on the environment, the more we push it.
- Comment on It's just loss. 1 week ago:
I think biomass is probably more important than sheer number for these comparisons. Although I would also accept ‘proportion of world’s arable land being used to sustain them’ as I suspect the ratios come out pretty similar for obvious reasons.
- Comment on Anon describes experience 2 weeks ago:
Well that’s just upsetting. What’s the point of even asking trick questions like that if you’re just gonna provide an inaccurate answer? Like, it’s absolutely terrible teaching. If you’re not comfortable teaching the concept of negative numbers just… don’t ask questions where the answers are negative? Completely batshit
- Comment on Anon describes experience 2 weeks ago:
It’s just a greentext. It’s fake.
Also gay.
Mostly it’s a fetishization of being the minderstood smart kid with scenarios that aren’t true but feel true.
Pretty fake. Pretty gay.
I don’t really like the slur I’ve been using here, but authenticity requires it. Oi moi.
- Comment on Lizards in space math 2 weeks ago:
Stop bringing your practical realism into my dreamworld moral absolutism
- Comment on Lizards in space math 2 weeks ago:
Maybe you’re trying to match individuals to dissemination, idk man neither of us were there
- Comment on Hey.. 3 weeks ago:
Good story. I’ve bookmarked that one.
- Comment on Anon conserves power 3 weeks ago:
Actually wait this is glib as fuck and probably wrong, I retract it. You could have the capability to understand, given specific allocation of resources but only do it rarely, without violating any information theory fundamentals
- Comment on Anon conserves power 3 weeks ago:
But then you just have the same paradox writ large. Maybe we, as a collective, can entertain understanding of a single mind - but the generalisation of us as ‘the mind’ rather than ‘a mind’ includes all of us, and must therefore be left wanting
- Comment on Anon loves The Lord of the Rings 3 weeks ago:
Fair. Braid is, in some ways, the video game i consider most worthy of the status of ‘art’ so I couldn’t not say it, although it’s certainly not like LotR in that respect. OoT OTOH, feels like it fully fits
- Comment on Anon loves The Lord of the Rings 3 weeks ago:
Braid and Ocarina of Time are the two that come to my mind…
- Comment on Anon conserves power 3 weeks ago:
It’s a pretty trivial informational paradox for a mind to comprehend itself – comprehension of its comprehension of itself then needs further comprehension… So yeah. Only a much more complex mind can understand a given mind
- Comment on Too many non-working holidays in America. 4 weeks ago:
Fellas, is it woke to like holidays?
- Comment on Anon predicts the future 5 weeks ago:
It largely won’t happen. We’re near a ceiling on what predictive models can do, and it’s still painfully obvious when something’s bot-generated. Porn is one where I can actually see that changing because people have never minded absolutely trash porn, but the arts as they currently exist are not gonna vanish
- Comment on Anon predicts the future 5 weeks ago:
Not gonna double my response - OP deserved it more - I will say another ‘fair enough’, give you an upvote, and leave it at that
- Comment on Anon predicts the future 5 weeks ago:
Good response, happy with that. Sorry about the implications, I think I just found it a fusty conservative choice. Had it been Infinite Jest and Chaucer I probably wouldn’t have bothered responding. Sometimes the idea of ‘classics’ can seem… narrow and dull. Just wanted to mitigate the notion it was all brown bread (not that I don’t love your suggestions tho’)
- Comment on Anon predicts the future 5 weeks ago:
Why start there with British and US authors? Why not 100 years of solitude, Disgrace, and dream of red mansions?
- Comment on originality 1 month ago:
You’re doing the lord’s work
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 1 month ago:
A new London bus costs around £300k, so whilst is plausible that the watch cost more than my ‘car’, it’s a pretty stupid way of spending that amount of money…
- Comment on originality 1 month ago:
Ignoring capitalisation you can add as many buffalos as you like and still be parsable. I’ve only ever heard buffalo used as a verb in this one context, though, so seems a bit forced to me
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 1 month ago:
You say crappy, I say wait. My knees won’t have to bend so much. I’d actually take this if I didn’t have kids
- Comment on Sure thing, website, my name is Gabe Newell 2 months ago:
That’s a lovely little idea, imma steal that
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 2 months ago:
Is this a joke? Analysis of techniques would be literally asking why an argument were lost, if an argument was indeed lost. Of course you’re making a lot of assumptions there, and I agree you’re not making an effort
- Comment on Forced to lie on a questionnaire 2 months ago:
Discord, YouTube, Lemmy and Reddit was the list in the comment you replied to. I was referring to that list. Seems like we just had our wires crossed in the ambiguity in your usage of ‘those’ in the comment ‘I don’t use any of those’ wherein you were referring to the OP and I thought you were referring to the comment you replied to. Does that sound right to you?
- Comment on Forced to lie on a questionnaire 2 months ago:
You’re… You’re on Lemmy now? How can you claim not to use ‘any of those’ when you’re posting on one of those?