Rhaedas
@Rhaedas@fedia.io
- Comment on don't look up :) 1 day ago:
"Why does the ephemeris keep getting lower and lower?"
- Comment on I will burn this fucker to the ground... internally 1 day ago:
It's a close match. It seems to get messier as the generations get younger. Xennials in the US were a very narrow window that mirrored the entry into the computer age. Of course the easier route many take is to just call someone older a Boomer and younger a millennial, ignoring the fact that millennials are reaching midlife now.
- Comment on I will burn this fucker to the ground... internally 1 day ago:
That may be more Xennials, a limited cross-breed of the two that grew as computers started moving into public use. Older Gen-X grew up knowing both the world before computers and the one during their spread, so some of us had opportunity to learn as it evolved.
I'm always on the fence with the generation stuff. I think logically it's about as valid as astrology, and yet sometimes it seems that it fits people.
- Comment on I will burn this fucker to the ground... internally 1 day ago:
There is absolutely exceptions, and the whole generation thing is a bit ridiculous if carried too far. I didn't take your point that seriously, just saw an opportunity to provide my own example. I will also add that my father (a Boomer/silent gen) was a smart person, mechanically gifted, even a patent holder, yet he could not for the life of him figure out computers. It was a baffling disconnect. My son, who I mentioned as being far smarter in tech than I could be now, is not mechanically inclined and will admit to that. So yeah, everyone has their skills... if anything I think of myself as a jack of many trades that I'm decent in, but none that I excel high in.
- Comment on I will burn this fucker to the ground... internally 1 day ago:
As a Gen-X, I taught my millennial son how to build a computer (and he knows much more than me now). I assure you I know how to find where on the menu to convert to PDF. I also know how to do it via something like Gimp, or other tools. I also know when to not convert it to PDF. :p
- Comment on Worse than stubbing your toe 2 days ago:
If you have video I can estimate the size and shape of the piece. Of LEGO.
- Comment on Harsh 4 days ago:
Don't panic. Shut everything down. Call the Fuel Rats.
- Comment on Red, gold and green. 5 days ago:
That's karma for you.
- Comment on The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees 1 week ago:
I never could get into poems much, but this is genius.
- Comment on Giving good Hedera 1 week ago:
Is this more, "this isn't going to end well, better spread some seeds"?
- Comment on JFC, who did this?! 1 week ago:
He left the ending ambiguous for the reader to imagine what happens. He missed out on twisting the knife.
- Comment on On Jeopardy, does getting the Who/What/Where/When/Why part of the response necessary? 1 week ago:
Which is technically correct, since you are answering "What is [the answer]?"
- Comment on JFC, who did this?! 1 week ago:
That seems to happen to a lot of adaptations of his work. I think he may have even admitted that he's not great at ending what he starts.
- Comment on JFC, who did this?! 1 week ago:
Vague to avoid spoilers. Must be Mandela effect. I remember it being passed around to each person. Which honestly made it more horrible.
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 1 week ago:
Just to clarify - so you don't believe in any of the supernatural stuff and are just about the better teachings of Jesus? Aka a Jefferson bible take?
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 1 week ago:
A nitpick, none of the gospel writers were eyewitnesses, the documents were written long after Jesus was gone. They are interpretations of stories passed down, and all four gospels have different takes on events. So the phrase "gospel truth" is very ironic in its definition.
- Comment on Friday is a great F word 1 week ago:
U is for you and me.
- Comment on Elephant in the room 2 weeks ago:
"Okay,
ManBearPigthe elephant is real. What are we gonna do about it now, huh? What are we gonna do that's gonna make any difference now, Susan?" - Comment on What would happen to the Earth if it got booped by a giant asteroid going super slowly? 2 weeks ago:
The thought experiment goes past everyone's point on gravity eventually creating a velocity that is devastating. What would such a mass (between 100 and 180 km in diameter based on map of Corsica) do if it just magically settled gently onto a land mass and then gravity came into play? It wouldn't be extinction level, but there are lots of regional effects to consider. Weather patterns would be a huge one. Continental plate deflection, which would affect ground stability and water flow. Certainly earthquakes if anywhere near even smaller fault lines. A change in Earth rotational speed and wobble.
- Comment on Not rule 2 weeks ago:
Or Main Character Syndrome, which is the other side of things. The default is somewhere in the middle, varying with the individual. It's probably harder to not see yourself as central most of the time (but not necessarily Main Character), simply because of being trapped in that viewpoint.
- Comment on Not rule 2 weeks ago:
Sonder - the profound feeling of realizing that everyone, including strangers passing in the street, has a life as complex as one's own, which they are constantly living despite one's personal lack of awareness of it.
- Comment on Jeebuz Rode A Velocirapture 2 weeks ago:
Little birds are so cute, until you watch them hunting for prey and imagine yourself at that scale.
- Comment on I get texting and driving being a danger. But back in my day you could eat drink change radio stations etc. Why weren't laws implemented back then? 2 weeks ago:
Which is why the case for having tactile buttons instead of a screen is so strong. You can use feel to use these controls while still watching the road.
- Comment on Autism has been announced! 2 weeks ago:
Even those autism outdates Tylenol. So Tylenol makers are time travelers.
- Comment on Autism has been announced! 2 weeks ago:
So that's the Microsoft connection.
- Comment on Experts disagree 2 weeks ago:
So then he's a capitalist, all about consumption.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 2 weeks ago:
If the lines were rotated some 22 degrees you'd have more of a realistic regional division of foods types for most places. As it is G and D has so much diversity that it's not much of a loss either way.
- Comment on The inner fire of my hatred COULD melt steam beams 2 weeks ago:
I've always thought that the best password security possible would be to always have the real password fail a few times. People who know their password will keep trying it, someone else will try a different one. It's a variation of not giving an error that tells what failed.
- Comment on OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws 2 weeks ago:
I'd say extremely complex autocomplete, not glorified, but the point still stands that using probability to find accuracy is always going to deviate eventually. The tactic now isn't to try other approaches, they've come too far and have too much invested. Instead they keep stacking more and more techniques to try and steer and reign in this deviation. Difficult when in the end there isn't anything "thinking" at any point.
- Comment on Wait... 3 weeks ago:
That's it. My memory of the details were a bit off. I do recall a few times have vivid but short dreams where there was something or someone very important and the end of that dream hit hard as a loss, but this person's dream was far above that.