naught101
@naught101@lemmy.world
- Comment on Chaos 1 day ago:
I suspect because they occur everywhere in nature (in trees, water channels, shorelines), and the eye has evolved to expect them.
- Comment on What's the thing you're supposed to be doing right now instead of scrolling? 2 days ago:
Sleeping. I also have no underwear on. Good luck in your naked meeting.
- Comment on What's the thing you're supposed to be doing right now instead of scrolling? 2 days ago:
I’m also waiting for code to finish running. By which I mean the internet.
- Comment on Seriously though what the fuck is wrong with this guy 2 days ago:
archive.today and archive.is are two separate services, run by different people, are they not? The Wikipedia page just says that archive.today was mirroring archive.is’s contents.
- Comment on What's the difference between ignorance and stupidity? 3 days ago:
Ignorance is not knowing things (e.g. facts).
Stupidity is not being about to think about things (e.g. lacking reason, being unable to make a good decision even when given all the useful information).
Making a bad decision out of ignorance isn’t necessarily stupid. Making a bad decision despite knowing the consequences is.
- Comment on How do I become more "woke"? Just to aggervate the right a little. 5 days ago:
Read more history.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Those companies aren’t paying for quality software, they are paying for support and vendor lock-in.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
All scientific supercomputers use Linux
This is not true. Supercomputers do, but in my research centre there are still lots of people using Windows and Mac. Linux usage is definitely way higher than the broader populace, but it’s not “all”.
- Comment on If the US Military can offer free money for college education..and is part of the government then why does the average Joe have to pay back a small student loan? 1 week ago:
Flip side of that: the government needs strong incentives to convince people to get blown up or shot at while on the job.
- Comment on Which movie have you seen where an actor started as an extra prior to becoming famous? 1 week ago:
I just re-watched Jurassic park, and realised he’s in that too. A few years before Pulp Fiction
- Comment on What does "Woke" mean to you? 1 week ago:
I think technically that would be a downdate
- Comment on Not a single one 2 weeks ago:
I’m in Australia, it’s already happening… smh.com.au/…/green-energy-is-shielding-australia-…
- Comment on Not a single one 2 weeks ago:
Not many places where there’s no wind AND no solar within a reasonable distance of a large population…
- Comment on Not a single one 2 weeks ago:
Baseload has always been bullshit, see e.g. ceem.unsw.edu.au/…/MarkBaseloadFallacyANZSEE.pdf
It’s even more irrelevant now that battery storage can level out multi-day variability.
- Comment on How did you guys deal with the death of a parent? 2 weeks ago:
I haven’t had a parent die, but a close friend. As others have said, it sucks, it’s hard, it comes in waves. Gradually the waves fade into ripples that just become part of who you are.
Long term, one of the things that helped me most with grieving is the Mexican concept of the three deaths, which I picked up initially through the Pixar film Coco. The idea is basically that people live on beyond physical death in the memories of others. To me this isn’t all that different to normal memories of living people (that you haven’t seen in a while). Those people still influence the thoughts and emotions and actions of the people who knew them, and in that way they continue to be part of the living world.
Idk, it doesn’t change the fact that they are gone, but it makes it also feel like they are still here in a way that means the love that existed before is still here too.
- Comment on How did you guys deal with the death of a parent? 2 weeks ago:
💪
- Comment on Fuck you Whatsapp 2 weeks ago:
I badgered mine repeatedly for years and now basically everyone I know is on it.
- Comment on Why do bumblebees die under the tilia? 2 weeks ago:
Ah, a connessuier of aeroplane chickenpox!
- Comment on So majestic! 2 weeks ago:
:(
- Comment on Is it really possible that the Maggats will keep Mitch McConell on life support until the midterms? Or will they just let him die and try a sympathy vote? 3 weeks ago:
The job they wanted enough to sacrifice their morals
Not a very big sacrifice in most cases
- Comment on Fingies 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. It dies (more often after procreating a couple of times). Death is also useful at a species level because it makes space for new (potentially fitter) individuals
- Comment on "I think Kirbati just gave up when it came time to name cities" 3 weeks ago:
Not quite. There are a few Christmas Islands. This one is one of the larger islands of Kiribati, in the mid Pacific. The one with the soldier crabs is an Australian territory in the Indian ocean.
- Comment on "I think Kirbati just gave up when it came time to name cities" 3 weeks ago:
Also note: it’s pronounced “Kiribas”, and yes that means the island is pronounced “Kirismas” - Christmas island (for the usual colonial reasons)
- Comment on Fingies 3 weeks ago:
I mean, I think they also evolved on steppes and open plains, where running fast is not too often super dangerous, so breaking a leg is not common enough to counter balance the advantages of being fast.
- Comment on Fingies 3 weeks ago:
It’s survival of the genetic line that reproduces enough to stay alive. The weird shit is often related to path dependence, or is just not enough of a detriment to affect evolutionary outcomes.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Do what you want. I think it’s only gonna be difficult if you expect everyone else to do it too. People close to you will likely pick it up and run with it though
- Comment on Why is most music today follow a math cadence? Then add rhyming? Are artist today really that bad they have to resort to that instead of it natural stuff? 4 weeks ago:
I make music, and I have a maths degree, and I understand this claim (e.g. harmony is ratios, rhythms are time divisions), but it’s not really actually useful. And lots of the best music does a lot of weird stuff that breaks the mathiness (e.g. microrhythms, groove, microtones, borrowed chords, etc. etc.).
- Comment on Why is most music today follow a math cadence? Then add rhyming? Are artist today really that bad they have to resort to that instead of it natural stuff? 4 weeks ago:
TIL, thanks! Still not that sure how to comprehend OP’s question
- Comment on Why is most music today follow a math cadence? Then add rhyming? Are artist today really that bad they have to resort to that instead of it natural stuff? 4 weeks ago:
What had math got to do with rhyming?
Did Mozart and Beethoven even write music with lyrics?
- Comment on How do I deal with children following me around in video games? 4 weeks ago:
Quality comment