tyler

@tyler@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6 AM Monday. Dreading whatever fresh hell awaits this week. Cranky, definitely getting a cold. Barely awake. Husband starts blasting this song that is now stuck in my head for all eternity.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck yeah, what a great song and game and show. Man I miss that shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is This Social Media?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thankfully I think most people are idiots who wouldn’t be able to name what their operating system is so I also don’t give one shit what they think Reddit is either. Turns out most of the population can’t use a dictionary or we wouldn’t be calling idiots Nimrods.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is This Social Media?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But it’s not. Someone edited wikipedia to put a definition only cited in one business article from 2010. It was never the common definition until news companies started calling anything they didn’t understand “social media” because it became a catch all. Forums aren’t social media.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is This Social Media?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t give one shit what Wikipedia says. I’ve argued this on here before. Wikipedia’s definition includes every website on the planet because of how wide ranging and useless of a definition it is. Defining social media in that way makes the meaning useless and only serves politicians who want to block things they dislike on the internet. Essentially “social media” == internet to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is This Social Media?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No: you don’t follow “real identities”, it’s a forum, not a user generated feed of personal life details, the votes are not likes/dislikes of personal content, but upvotes and downvotes to indicate whether that post belongs in that forum or not. For the most part users are not generating any media at all, though they can (exactly like a forum). The basis of the site isn’t around following anyone or the content they’re generating, but instead subscribing to communities.

  It’s only social media if your definition of social media is “people commenting on stuff” which would mean that almost every website on the planet is social media. Clearly one of these definitions is wrong and I don’t really understand how we got to the place where “commenting on stuff” made it social media when it’s clearly not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, and not calling them fish is even more scientific. From a grouping perspective, (which is how you refer to it) there is no such group.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish

  In a break from the long tradition of grouping all fish into a single class (‘‘Pisces’’), modern phylogenetics views fish as a paraphyletic group.

  Paraphyly is a taxonomic term describing a grouping that consists of the grouping’s last common ancestor and some but not all of its descendant lineages. The grouping is said to be paraphyletic with respect to the excluded subgroups. In contrast, a monophyletic grouping (a clade) includes a common ancestor and all of its descendants.

  This is in contrast to the class Mammalia which is a complete clade.

  In other words, I could make up a branch of science called foobarthology that studies Jurassic raptors, whales, and the Rock Dove, but that doesn’t mean those things are related, or a ‘true’ scientific group of their own. It just means I put them together for some other reason, either cause it’s easier for the requirements of the job, or I wanted to, or many other reasons including historical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not even my cat ;_;⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I misread this as “I got gas cool”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the even more nuanced answer is that “fish” is not a scientific category so comparing it to mammals makes no sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. Fruit…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bird Calls⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Correct, it also could have been a call for a predator approaching. In other words, life or death.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Be an Audio Bug⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The security wasn’t patched. Any firmware update can be modified since the keys are provided with the update. So while the patch may have been applied, it’s not permanent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is land/sky so cleanly split between mammals/birds?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a lot of good answers here but there’s some missing things as well.

  To start with, there was a separate category of flying dinosaur, those with ‘fingers’. They could climb trees, grasp things, etc. They were large and heavy. The heaviness was due to the increased weight that these joints added, including in their legs. When disaster struck, the lighter dinosaurs (descendants of today’s Aves) were able to escape the disaster due to reduced energy usage, snapper energy requirements, etc. The heavier ones were not.

  Second, there are a lot of categories that birds fall into. Like others have said, birds in isolation eventually revert to flightlessness. It’s advantageous.

  I’m not sure why you think mammals/birds are the dividing line either. There are many animals that “fly” that aren’t birds (bugs, bats), and there are many mammals that aren’t on land as well (whales, bats, etc).

  I feel like your question is maybe more a question of “why are mammals so dominant” which probably comes down to many differences in avian biology, adaptations that explicitly make life easier in the sky vs land. Better usage of oxygen, ability to lay eggs out of reach of predators, explicit bone structure for flying. Flightless birds have lost many of these things. Mammals have other adaptations that make life easier for them on land. Trying to cross this boundary usually results in disaster for the evolutionary line and so it doesn’t happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon learns a new spell⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon learns a new spell⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  idgi

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hygiene⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait are you suggesting I put a crumb tray under my chair or that my chair already has a crumb tray and I never noticed?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discuss:⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Birb

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Bringing your games to other platforms is how you’re going to win" - Circana⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Uhhhhh. Yeah, yeah they are. lol. Like, what a weird thing to claim.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Bringing your games to other platforms is how you’re going to win" - Circana⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not talking about being able to run on those other hardware. I’m talking about Nintendo devs literally being able to write code for that other hardware. You expand to numerous platforms you get more bugs. You need more devs. You need devs that know more platforms. It has nothing to do with Nintendo gimmicks. It has to do with building for more platforms just by default being more buggy (which is exactly what happens).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Bringing your games to other platforms is how you’re going to win" - Circana⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nintendo’s exclusives likely wouldn’t work as well on other consoles or would show significant bugs or problems. Their games are purpose built for their hardware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo touts high employee retention rate after loss of Microsoft jobs rocks Xbox Game Studios⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your numbers are so far off as to be meaningless. If the real numbers are half that, and you compare to their competitors, then it’s an entirely different story. The numbers you provide are completely integral to your argument, and your numbers being so wrong means you’re just complaining about nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you still remember?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To anyone reading this, generate a password for your security answer and stick it in your password manager. It’s safer than trying to remember a fake security answer and much safer than using a real security answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dropped more food.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry 😞

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stellantis abandons hydrogen fuel cell development⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  lol my wife literally was the project manager for a hydrogen site in Arizona. No clue where you got your information, but it’s just absolutely incorrect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stellantis abandons hydrogen fuel cell development⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hydrogen does not have to be a byproduct of petroleum production, you can drill just for hydrogen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bring them back!!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It is 100% capitalism’s fault. Those scientists are doing a job because we live in a society that necessitates having one to meet our basic needs.

  absolutely not…

  Your take is grade-school level simplistic that just assumes they simply have to be bad people instead of understanding the complexities of systemic forces that dictate our society.

  no. My take is that if you remove capitalism, can the bad science still occur? Is it possible at all for it to occur? Yes. Since the scientists are the ones doing the science. It’s not business doing the science, it’s not capitalists doing the science. It’s the scientists doing the science.

  And they don’t have to be bad people at all. They just have to not think about the consequences of their actions. Inattentive, ignorant, unable to think more than a few minutes into the future. None of these things make them bad people. But it does make them bad scientists. And it does make the science bad.

  Please, for the love of God, learn to look beyond the surface of something and learn why things are the way they are instead of just assuming nonsense.

  holy shit, you’re the one not looking beyond the surface of something. Capitalism is always the boogie man for people like you. Like for fucks sake dude, scientists can be bad. Science can be bad! We literally have bad scientists in the white house right now claiming all sorts of shit that is going to get people killed! And it has nothing to do with capitalism. RFK Jr literally believes the bullshit he says, and it’s because of bad science, not because he’s being paid to say it.

  Think about Jurassic Park like this: if those scientists were given those tools and told to build a park and told they weren’t going to be paid for it, but all the tools they needed would be given to them, could the park be built? Now ask the exact same question but replace scientists with “capitalist”: “if capitalists were given science tools and told to build a park and told they weren’t going to be paid for it, but all the tools they needed would be given to them, could the park be built.”

  The answer is incredibly clear. Without the scientists, the park would never be built. It doesn’t matter how much money exists on the planet. It doesn’t matter if it’s capitalism, communism, anarchism, whatever-fucking-system, the park isn’t being built without the bad science. It doesn’t matter how many other employees you put on that island, the park isn’t getting built without the bad science.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bring them back!!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s just a dumb way to act like those scientists don’t have a will of their own. Those scientists have ethics (or a lack thereof). They have their own will. They are not forced to work on the project that has no scientific outcome. They’re either working on it because they’re bad scientists, because they’re evil, or because they think it’s cool. All of which is bad science. It’s not capitalism’s fault. It’s unethical scientists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bring them back!!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But it’s not a zoo, like even in the slightest. It’s a theme park.

  They don’t have a full dinosaur genome so they literally make stuff up. Not only that, but just like with the Colossal Bioscience stuff that’s literally happening right now, there’s no learning for these brought-back-to-life creatures so they will not behave anything like their actual prehistoric counterparts. It is bad science because there’s no reason to be doing the science at all. It won’t replicate anything from the past (for so so so many reasons) and it has so many unethical things to get past before it’s even slightly in -eh- territory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bring them back!!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a recent Behind the Bastards episode on the main dude behind Colossal (who is actually a very well known scientist) and exactly how he is using science to do bad things without considering the consequences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bring them back!!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In addition to what you’re saying, a big part of the movie is why are we doing this? Is there anything to be gained from it? We’re currently having that conversation with the “dire wolves” that Colossal Bioscience has created. They’re not actually dire wolves, in any sense of the word, so all we’re learning is how to genetically modify creatures. We’re not learning anything about the creatures themselves. There’s no purpose to doing the same with Dinos, there’s no dna left to match against and the environment is completely different, they wouldn’t act the same at all.