TheFogan

@TheFogan@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Does Hitler have a right to privacy?" and other big questions in research ethics.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah to me that’s the biggest objection… he’s long dead, he has no surviving family that wants good for him to my knowledge. So to me that’s kind of on the same level as, digging up mummies. The evil actions he commited in life don’t really come into play here, and agreed it’s really stupid idea to think that his behavior is genetic.

  Kind of reminds me of when most of the nazi generals swore to have no kids to not carry on their DNA, except one, who said “No I won’t sign that pledge, that’s eugenics which is nazi ideology”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the US we have Breast Cancer Awarnes month and a bunch of others. All we do is throw money at a problem and hope it goes away How come the Gov don't take care of people from starving?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But then what leverage would horrible jobs have to prevent you from quitting if you weren’t worried of starving? and where is the money to start more wars and fund failing nations like argentina going to come from if we spend all our taxes helping the american people

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How hard would it be to trap gated communities by crashing dozens of cars into the front of their gates blocking them from leaving ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean… depends on how long you are looking to keep them in. Assuming the community is half way wealthy (which, kind of is normal), then cops and tow trucks would be pretty quick to respond, and well, blocking it with cars etc… would seem prohibitively expensive and legally troublesome (as there’s no way in hell it’s not getting traced to you).

  I’d agree with the concept, sabatoging the gate mechanism with a chain, or vandalizing the electronics would likely accomplish a similar goal, without abandoning an expensive vehicle that is easy to trace back to you. (which again, even in the best of scenarios is likely only inconveniencing the residents for a few hours).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do air purifiers really reduce dust much?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the point being made is, dust doesn’t stay in one place. Dust on hardwood floor or carpet gets kicked up when you walk on it, leading it to eventually land on tables/shelves etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The wait for GTA 6 has now been so long it must be some kind of record - right? [Eurogamer]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The wait is nothing, though I guess the definition of “active development”, publicly confirmed development etc… To my knowledge HL3 has been in some form of development since, HL2, but

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean there’s that… but there’s also the fact that nobody has been stupid enough to break the seal on the Mutually Assured Destruction nuclear issue. Report after report shows trump is really really anxious to find a reason to use a nuke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did we go from being against fake pictures of the moon to accepting things like changing out the entire sky?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  was claiming to be able to take superzoom photos of the moon, but were actually just replacing the very fuzzy moon with a clear image

  theverge.com/…/samsung-fake-moon-photos-ai-galaxy…

  is indeed samsung that did this.

  Now you see, that’s the problem there… they were claiming to do X, but were actually doing Y.

  Just as lets say if we did have AI person removal… but you said "actually lets you see what’s behind the person that would obviously be a problem, as obviously that’s actually impossible.

  Likewise you hear space zoom… you have to point the camera at the moon… you assume that the camera is capturing the moon, and the image you are looking at is the moon in real time. Obviously not likely to happen but imagine for a second while you were looking at the moon through your camera, and say a meteor hit the moon leading to an enormous explosion and crater that would be visible through a telescope, or hell maybe something extreme enough that it’s at least partially visible even to the naked eye. The feature as described would let you see it enhanced in more detail than you could with the naked eye, while in reality it would replace the abnormalities and give you a picture of how the moon looks in it’s training data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are bots on lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This sounds like a post a bot would make!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do they do with aborted fetuses?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m far from an expert on the topic, I believe things like unused tissue (IE also things like amputated limbs, bad organs etc…) is more or less cremated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do they do with aborted fetuses?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  from my understanding it’s usually donated to medical research, but due to some anti-abortion rhetoric falsely producing fake stories of them being sold, it’s otherwise discarded as medical waste.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nothing’s new bloatware includes Facebook services that can’t be uninstalled⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well yes or nazi’s, but for the most part having a stance on Nazi-ism wasn’t a driving factor for many to purchase EV’s. People bought EV’s specifically because that’s one of the main advantages of an EV, is they were expected to be better for the environment.

  Why I point that out in the nothing phone. It’s selling point was the glyphs that let you roughly know what messages were coming in on your phone while it is face down. So in short you could set your phone down and know if your wife was texting you with an emergency, while not hearing a ping and turning away from your friends to see that you have enough energy for candy-crush. IE literally the exact opposite of facebooks marketing

  which you know is literally the opposite of facebooks marketing plan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nothing’s new bloatware includes Facebook services that can’t be uninstalled⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To me I’m most supprised on this one, I mean, wasn’t the whole point of the nothing to be a phone that doesn’t distract you as much, lets you stay in the moment.

  what the hell kind of partnership is this. This is as dumb as say an electric vehicle company partnering up with climate change deniers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fictional⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Degrees Celsius is based on freezing and boiling point of water, so if they came up with a base 10 numbering system and water is key to their biology, then they’d probably come up with that.

  Waters boiling point isn’t a constant though… it’s dependent on the atmosphere.

  Hell there’s also no telling if our preference to base 10 is relative to our number of fingers so neither of those are givens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨arborholing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean it’s true… but there’s a pretty reasonable case that humans aren’t sentient. We think we’re doing shit for a good reason but at the end of the day on a large scale we’re just going through the motions of what our environment leads us to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Enemies⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, only Top Assasains do that, mid level ones don’t introduce themselves, or ask for your side of the story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THE CRAZY PILLS⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that is why I made sure the qualifiers were there, obviously I don’t spend time on tiktok, and it looks like most people finding what’s most likely the discussed video was just taking 2 pills, and hell for all we can know from that maybe she actually did have a headache or something wrong.

  I’m fully aware the current administration is nothing but liars misrepresenting everything they have ever come accross.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THE CRAZY PILLS⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean if someone is doing that it actually would be the rare example where I could say someone is trump deranged. All medication prescription and non prescription is about weighing the potential risks vs benefits. Taking normal dosage of Tylenol is mostly harmless, and the reason a blanket statement of “it’s no harm, just don’t take tylenol” is a horrific mischaracterization even IF the studies cited showed a clear and blatent causal relationship between Tylenol and potential issues, because it’s simply weighing risk of treatement vs nontreatment. IE fever and pain are also things likely to negatively impact a pregnancy as well as the health of a mother.

  Taking any medicine while pregnant, when you do not currently have any condition it is treating is just stupid risk, and if you are taking more than the recomended dosage just to flex on an idiot, you are becoming an idiot yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨two sides⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean the obvious thing is, I know I’m not capable of being that great, I do actually note how much better I could be at my expertise if I spent a bit more time studying it and less on meme’s… however it’s pretty clear I’m not anywhere near the running of pushing humanities understanding forward.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨two sides⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Newton is so strongly the posterboy for how you can be brilliant in one area, and still so wrong in so many others. He spent about equal time looking at physics, alchemy and some bullshit da-vinchi code search for secrets in biblical numerology. Can you just imagine how much further he could have pushed physics and mathmatics if he hadn’t spent 2/3rds of his time chasing red herrings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh nooo!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank goodness for the red circle, I’d have been sure the focus was the 2 guys in the water.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember episodic gaming? Former Telltale devs are bringing it back for the release of Dispatch, and there's a chance it might work this time | Eurogamer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With regards to taletells implimentation of it, I found it pretty badly done. IE namely they used it for choice based story games… but I felt them pretty damn weak in that area. (in the sense that 99.9% of the story is pretty set in stone, and usually based on the most common choice, you go back and do the opposite, and everything plays out pretty much identically except maybe one or 2 one liners will change).

  IE I remember the walking dead… Kenny was a mostly cool guy, who was always in conflict with a hot head old man, obviously the natural way most people play is to take kenny’s side in the conflicts. In the end the hothead leaves you for dead and kenny saves you.

  then replaying it… basically with constantly taking hotheads side, being a jerk to kenny at every juncture along the way. so you get the alternate ending, where hothead punches you out, and kenny saves you… but adds in the comment “even if you are an asshole”. while rescuing you.

  and honestly the episodes just branch that further in story, largely they clearly didn’t have the resources to make a wide ever branching story that you think it is… so you just get little bits that all merge back into the same path overall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Trying to figure out if you are joking, or you are from a nicer country that getting paid sick leave is something everyone gets. Good chunk of the american work force, has to negotiate with their boss, go to a doctor that’s going to charge them between $50-$200 so they can tell you “yep you have a cold, here’s a note so you can prove it to your boss”, so you can give that note to your boss and not get fired for taking some UNPAID days off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I think the real thing is just not understanding how bad a cold without an immune system would be. IE only real way to put it in context is, read up on what an immune-comprimised individual goes through when they get a cold.

  It’s a bit like saying

  “why is my countries missile defense so crappy, whenever we’re attacked there’s chunks of metal all over the ground, so much smoke and noise it makes it hard to sleep, why are we so bad at defending from missiles”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What D&D alignment would my character(s) be?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fully agree that, well the actions are blatently evil. Would be evil even if Catherine were actually an animal. I’d say inflicting suffering on any being with no end goal other than to inflict suffering, is kind of 100% the definition of evil.

  Where I disagree is the law/chaos axis being based on local laws. IE a paladin doesn’t suddenly become chaotic if he enters an evil nation that demands everyone to take part in sacrificing babies. To me that axis is always on whether you are more rigid in following the rules, you care about the way you get the results, rather than just the end result.

  To me I would say, there’s not enough details in the story to gather long term opinions on Natasha, as IMO it’s more of an overarching concept of consistency. So with the information given, I’d rule

  NE.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this still on the ace spectrum or what?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Very hard to judge with that context. Not minding sounds just like non-sex repulsed asexual. (going off the fact that you don’t seem to be implying wanting to do so, and haven’t said anything along the lines of “wanting to”.

  IE the real question is would you enjoy having sex with someone, and/or do you even have romantic feelings.

  ace is a huge crazy spectrum, but what I generally hear about is

  aromantic - IE do not feel romantic attraction

  asexual - does not feel a desire to have sex.

  sex repulsed - (this does not appear to apply to you, that’s when you are actually sickened when confronted with sex).

  So without full more detailed view on you, unless your tone of “I don’t mind” is different than what I think of when I hear that. (IE I don’t mind emptying the dishwasher, or taking out the trash).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If spiderman shoots webs from his wrists would not the tension of shooting and swingiing up a skyscraper pretty much break his wrist? Also why SpiderMAN shouuldn''t it be SpiderTEEN?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  actually if I recall that varies a lot on the series/comic. The original one invented the web shooter and synthesized the web material. But if I recall in the original comics there were some points and versions that had organic, peter’s clone had organic webs, . Rami’s version of spiderman for the movies had organic webs.

  But yeah the long and short of it is, the actual spider powers, are stregnth, durability and quickened reflexes. Which when you factor in impossible durrability as the power that kind of covers the not breaking off his arm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we talk about the Roblox situation?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean I’m sure there’s been some… but well how popular would they be. I mean the long and short of how it has to be done… no private messages, all public messages heavily monitored. Which unfortunately isn’t a recipe for making a site popular with kids.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every damn time.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well they better, in california everything gives them cancer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would be mad, but, I’d also say go. Honestly when I was about 19, my mom more or less did this, in short she spent weeks talking up a hair dresser friend at church, commented that she played D&D, Eventually arranged for me to join her, and get a hair cut.

  I talked with her, didn’t really go anywhere, From my understanding the girl afterwards kind of responded to my mom something along the lines of “I know you are hoping I’d be your son’s future wife but that’s not where I am in life right now”, and all the embarassment went on my mom for that.

  So yeah, if you ask me, give it a shot, if it sucks, you’ve got solid standing to tell your dad not to do that shit again, if it’s good, maybe something good can come from it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do gangs that collect protection money actually do any protecting?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Though to my understanding, it is from them… to my knowledge if a shop gets broken into, in their territory you don’t call them, they already are aware and hunting down the perpetrators. Kind of what gang wars are… one gang basically declares an area their territory, if another gang takes action in that area they are basically declaring a gang war.

  Obviously gangs know it’s bad for business if they want to collect protection money, and they aren’t overwhelmingly the biggest thing to be afraid of.