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- Comment on Why am I not Irish 1 day ago:
You could try cosplaying as one.
- Comment on Why am I not Irish 1 day ago:
Probabilities can be counterintuitive. Just because something has a low probability doesn’t mean it never happens. You can make those probabilities vanishingly small by stacking specific combinations like ethnic background, first language, country of origin, current country of residence, religious upbringing, and so on. The more you stack, the lower the probability of someone being exactly like you.
I once visited a science expo that demonstrated this by asking questions about traits like eye color, ear shape, and even quirks: Do you write with your left hand? Do you kick a ball with your right foot? Do you peek through a hole with your left eye? When you combine all these factors, everyone turns out to be a “unique” snowflake.
The counterintuitive thing is, even though the stacked probability of you existing might be astronomically small, you’re still here. Unlikely things happen all the time. If you expect to see a specific rare event, you’ll be waiting a million years. If you look at events that have already occurred, you’ll find their probabilities were just as tiny.
- Comment on Why am I not Irish 1 day ago:
It’s unlikely.
The probability of a random English speaking person being Irish is approximately 7.1856/1493 ≈ 0.00481, which is a pretty low number. There just aren’t that many Irish people.
- Comment on What differentiates Lemmy, Kbin, Mbin, and PieFed? 3 days ago:
Fair enough. Should have gone with C#. Would make a lot more sense. For some reason, my mind was wandering in all the wrong directions when writing that.
- Comment on What differentiates Lemmy, Kbin, Mbin, and PieFed? 4 days ago:
That would make more sense. Best of the both worlds.
- Comment on What differentiates Lemmy, Kbin, Mbin, and PieFed? 4 days ago:
The idea behind Python is to get the community to contribute. More people know Python than Assembly or Fortran. At some point, running a FOSS project like Piefed becomes a numbers game. Having more developers is useful in the beginning.
If Piefed grows significantly, it might make sense to rewrite the whole thing in a different language, but right now, contributions matter more than efficiency.
- Comment on Why do horses allow humans to ride on their backs? 5 weeks ago:
The default setting in a horse’s mind is to not allow anything on its back. They will bite and kick you if you try. However, there is a clever way to change that setting, as ancient humans had discovered.
Horses are different from many other animals, such as zebras. Horses are clearly more malleable. That default setting can be changed if you’re skilled and patient enough. With zebras though, the setting to bite and kick is pretty much hard coded.
Some animals, such as camels and llamas can also be tamed and even ridden, but they will always know their position in the tier list of life i.e. way above all humans. They will tolerate humans up to a certain point, but once their patience runs out, the unfortunate human in their immediate vicinity will feel it in their skin. These animals are a bit like cats, but 10x more dangerous.
- Comment on What is the best way to drop 50lbs in two months without spending alot and no fad diets? 5 weeks ago:
Turns out, there are people who practice that sort of extreme fasting. BTW going back to normal eating doesn’t happen in a day.
- Comment on What is a good present to get your dentist and dental assistant as a way of showing thanks? 1 month ago:
Lawful Evil answer…
- Comment on What would you do if you knew your neighbor was an ICE/DHS agent? 1 month ago:
Congrats, you’ve just leveled up your antistalking skill.
- Comment on Are there any women here who felt they didn't deserve to be called women? 1 month ago:
I think gender stereotypes don’t serve us well. They set unrealistic expectations, which results in anxiety and sadness if you don’t meet them.
Men and women have so much in common, even though specific attributes are commonly attributed to one gender. For example, being gentle or rugged are human traits, and they aren’t exclusive to just one gender. Sure, men tend to be more rugged, but men also have a gentle side. Being gentle isn’t feminine IMO. It’s very human to be sensitive or emotional at times.
Stereotypes may give you an idea of general tendencies of behaviour, but they aren’t exclusive. Even though most women usually aren’t rugged or tough, it doesn’t mean women can’t have those qualities. They absolutely do. Culture is making people hide the human traits that don’t fit a specific stereotype.
- Comment on How much RAM is in your average EV car, and is it DDR5? 1 month ago:
If it’s running Linux, you can get away with just 2 GB.
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 1 month ago:
I identify as a human. Even if there might be some evidence implying I could be a sentient brain scan simulation running on an android, I’m not ready to accept any of that just yet.
- Comment on How do I properly and safely clean smartphone? 1 month ago:
Other people have already given sensible suggestions, but I’ll mention one group of chemicals that can damage your phone: bases.
If your phone has aluminium parts, highly concentrated bases will begin to gradually dissolve them. Hopefully nobody was thinking of using dishwasher tablets to make a soap solution for your phone. That’s a bad idea, since the resulting solution has a very high pH-value (base). What about the power used for washing clothes? Same thing. Even regular hand soap is also basic, but it’s nowhere near that extreme.
Exposure time also matters. If you just wipe the phone with a damp cloth, the time will be very short. If you really want to damage the aluminium parts with hand soap, it’s going to take an absurdly long time to do anything. However, those dishwasher tablets are different beast.
Temperature matters too. These kinds of reactions happen faster if you heat up the solution.
- Comment on How do you "process" hundreds of tabs you haven't gotten a change to go through? 2 months ago:
If you haven’t needed them for such a long time, they probably weren’t all that important anyway.
Same goes for all the physical items in my home. If I haven’t needed something in a long time, there’s a good chance I never will. This is how I reduce digital and physical clutter in my life.
- Comment on How do you "process" hundreds of tabs you haven't gotten a change to go through? 2 months ago:
When I asked this question, I found out about raindrop.io. It’s a service where you can dump links and go through them when you feel like it.
The idea is, that if you know you won’t be checking a specific tab today, you can just save it in raindrop instead. I don’t like to have lots of tabs open anyway, but there are some sites I like to save for later. Stuff like vacation planning can produce twenty tabs just like that, and I’ll just throw them all into raindrop.
Most of them are sorted into logical categories, and I’ll go through them when I remember to. For example, vacation planning will be useful later. When that time comes, I’ll start opening all those links I’ve accumulated over the months.
- Comment on Someone, I'm thinking with multiple accounts, is downvoting EVERY comment I make. Mildly aggravating, mostly sad for someone like that. Can I find out who and just block them? 2 months ago:
Lemvotes is a pathway to many discoveries some consider to be depressing.
- Comment on Can other countries impose sanctions on the US? 2 months ago:
Living without American software would be fine IMO. American silicon is much harder to replace though.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Would it help if you were to revolt, rewrite and rebuild?
- Comment on [Serious] If a human is trained by AI slop and then they make something with their own hands, is it still art? 2 months ago:
In the age of romanticism, art usually depicted idealized and beautiful things. Then realism emerged, and artists also stared painting poor and ugly people. In social realism, the art was supposed to make you feel a bit uncomfortable. All of that was still clearly art.
I think art requires an intention. When you paint a picture of a seagull covered in oil, you may want the viewer to feel something about the petrochemical industry. When you take a photo of Chinese children working in a toy factory, you might want your audience to feel what the children are going through.
When you’re painting using digital tools, you may draw the same line 20 times to get it just right. As an artist, you have a goal in mind, and you will keep pressing undo until each line in the drawing meets your criteria. If you generate a hundred pictures with an AI and pick the one that fits your goals, you’re essentially acting as a curator of art. There’s a goal and an intention behind the selection process. That’s why the one picture that didn’t get deleted is art.
What if if there’s zero human involvement? If there is no selection process guided by goal or intention, is that still art? Maybe. What if the viewer still feels something when looking at the result. Maybe that could make it art. What if you just look at the clouds or a sunset, and that makes you feel something. Is that art too? This is where it gets really messy and the categories fall apart.
- Comment on [Serious] If a human is trained by AI slop and then they make something with their own hands, is it still art? 2 months ago:
You’re encountering a common issue. People simply enjoy neat boxes and categories, but the world is inherently complex and chaotic, making such categories largely irrelevant. While you can create arbitrary categories for everything, these definitions will inevitably be flawed. They’re still useful but far from perfect, with areas of ambiguity and contradictions.
Consider, for example, where one species ends and another begins. It’s a messy and fuzzy situation, so we simply draw an arbitrary boundary. Similarly, what even constitutes “living”? Draw a line and don’t worry about the details.
The same problem arises in art. Who created this painting? Well, it was primarily the work of Mister A, but he received significant assistance from his apprentices B, C, D and E. It’s complicated. Let’s just draw a line and stop worrying about the specifics.
What even is art? It’s very messy. Expect uncertainty and contradictions within these fuzzy categories. Yes, but is this slop? Yet another category problem. Same answer.
- Comment on Could you be relatively healthy if you replaced traditional carb sources with skittles and multivitamins? 2 months ago:
Are people really expecting vitamins to heal disease? No wonder why you called it a scam. I just thought that vitamins would just do their nutritional job instead of performing muscles.
- Comment on How to deal with agression? 2 months ago:
Try to figure out if there’s a pattern. Maybe all the aggression-inducing events have something in common. Maybe that’s an emotion you haven’t processed or even noticed.
Could be a moment where you feel hurt, ashamed, vulnerable, helpless, hopeless, or whatever. Start by naming that emotion.
Once you figure that out, you can start processing that emotion and what causes it. Eventually, anger and aggression won’t control you anymore.
- Comment on What is the difference between an American liberal and a liberal outside the USA? 2 months ago:
And they still find so much to bicker about. I wonder how European coalition governments look like to Americans.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
You get zooted. Here’s a video that explains everything you need to know.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
And then there are also point and click adventure games and even visual novels. Who hates those?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I hate online PvP FPS games, and I know it’s a 100% skill issue. I like to think that the same logic also applies to those who hate all games.
- Comment on Touch Screens Are Over. Even Apple Is Bringing Back Buttons. 2 months ago:
Yeah, that would be nice. My previous car had a diesel engine, so you can imagine how much I would have loved to have a heater in there. Also, the windshield was totally old-school too, so no heating there either. Just start the engine, and start scraping. Every. Morning. Well, at least the seats were warm, but literally nothing else was.
- Comment on Ergonomic keyboard + laptop? 2 months ago:
For a small desk just big enough for a laptop, ergonomic keyboards aren’t an option. However, if you have a large desk but still can’t fit a nice keyboard, consider decluttering to create more space.
- Comment on Touch Screens Are Over. Even Apple Is Bringing Back Buttons. 2 months ago:
In colder parts of the world you actually drive with mittens on. I have no idea how’s that going to work with modern touch screen cars.