TheFogan

@TheFogan@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we at a point in human history where we can get robotic limbs and other things to better our day to day lives? Like a robotic arm where I can pick up 100lbs with one arm and so forth?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t the obvious problem whatever your arm lifts, the rest of your body has to support? an “arm” alone attached to a frail human body would pretty quickly hit its limits, and lifting 1000 lbs is basically giant exo skelleton level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are lemmings so touchy about downvotes?⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I think slashdots also most useful for if I recall, basically no ability to vote.

  IE If I remember right, as a lurker you get no votes. You basically have to participate, and if you get votes on a post, you then get a handful of votes you can use on others. I do wonder how a system like that would work on other sites. If a modernized form of it could work on a reddit like site etc… Would on the surface appear to be a way to counteract bots, but also run the risk of say one bot getting votes and automating a circle jerk with it’s clones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If my cell provider gives me Netflix w/ads for free, can I pay to upgrade it to remove ads or am I locked in?⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  from what I’ve seen yes, at least in spectrum’s case they basically give you ad subsudised for free, and for something like 8.99 you can upgrade that to ad free. I think most give that option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are lemmings so touchy about downvotes?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean both in reddit and lemmy the concept of downvotes was never meant to be a “agree” or “disagree”, even “like or dislike”. It’s meant to be a “good for discussion” vs “hinderance of discussion”. AKA lets say we’re discussing linux distributions, I come across this.

  Person A: I like linux mint, it’s much easier to install, I like the defaults and my printer just works with no setup.

  Person B: “Linux mint is for noobs, arch ftw”

  Within that, as I am personally a die hard fan of archlinux, so in the agree vs disagree system, I should downvote A and upvote B.

  But in a discussion based voting, I’d perhaps respond to A with my pro’s or cons of arch (though in this situation probably agree if the user in question sounds to be a newer user, though I may still make a case for possibly the pro’s of using arch even as a starting distro.

  Meanwhile person B, is hostile, gives zero details for WHY anyone should use arch, does absolutely nothing to open discussion or actually help anyone make an informed decision.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If dogs have such a great nose, why do they sniff other dogs asses? Wouldn't it smell like shit or not a good smell?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean I think they figure those things out off sight and initial body language etc… generally they do the sniffing asses after they’re already pretty confident it’s a dog. I think more of “how’s your mood right now, are you healthy, what are you up to”. I don’t now fully what information they get, but it’s stuff we don’t really think about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s lots, but just like everything, very few people actually can stick with and use them. Probably the thing that I think would be a logical feature in most chat programs, would be if say you put in your timezone into the client somewhere, then when you type a time you put some character before it like *3:30pm - the chat client could determine your timezone, put it in chat as UTC, and each recieving client could automatically convert it to their users timezone (and I suppose some kind of tag to make it so people know it is already translated to their timezone).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the m-word a slur for people with dwarfism? If so, what are more appropriate terms to use other than dwarf?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  From what I’ve seen, there’s definately a vocal group of little people, that consider it a slur. What percentage of actual people with the condition that think it I have no idea

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why do we punish people when nothing bad happened ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because the whole idea is to discourage people from behavior that is likely to cause bad things to happen. Obviously when bad things happen we go “I wish someone had stopped the person before people died”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long will it be before everyday AI like chatgpt can easily do videocalls?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, was going to say currently you have to do tests on video calls if you aren’t sure, IE currently you need to ask a video caller to do something like, spread out 3 fingers and wave them in front of your face to break AI

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean in short, no paying in non currency is still taxed. Same problem that’s mostly glossed over when say you win a new car on a gameshow or similar, and why in reality the gameshows offer you cash value for the car instead. (because a broke ass family winning a top of the line car that they could never afford, still has to pay taxes on the prize… that they also could never afford). and yeah paying in something that is going up in price, means the company has to budget with either spending all of your sallary up front to buy what they are going to pay you massively up front… or know that they don’t actually know what they are going to pay you, then add in a concept like “at will employment” obviously you are motivated to quit or renegotiate if the price crashes, and they need to fire you or re-negotiate if the price skyrockets.

  On top of course of limited goods, because the company buying them will drive the price up further.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I join a "subreddit" I found on a different lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What is an instance?

  Some don’t like this comparison, but effectively think of lemmy in similar forms to e-mail, IE you can e-mail your friend who uses a different mail service, by adding @whatever.com to their username. the whatever.com in e-mail that’s called a domain usually, but in lemmy that’s considered the “instance”. The only difference is rather than just saying “that’s not an address” lemmy assumes if you don’t specify, you must mean the one where you are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the approach to nudity and sex in films and tv so vastly different between the US and Europe?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean it’s fair to say in some movies there’s jarring scenes that pull from the rest of the concept of the movie. IE if you are watching a rom com, and they decide to throw in a 30 minute chase scene, it’s likely to detract from rather than add to the movie. Some scenes bundle well, some scenes bore half of the audience, and would have done better as seperate things.

  It’s always fair to complain about parts of a movie that you didn’t like, because the quantity of complaints on the whole either encourages the existing movie makers to shift their movies, or in the best case scenerio, encourages someone else to make a movie more focused on the things you like without the parts you don’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Walmart in my town didn’t clearly don’t care lol⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  draw a mural that includes all the things that make santa clarita famous. Of which a google search would have most likely said it’s near the beach, has a six flags, and is a prime movie shooting location.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come Pornstars don't teach Master Classes? So the average joe or joness can improve relationships and get better orgasms. Who would be better than pornstars?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t need to be mutually exclusive.

  They aren’t exclusive, but they aren’t the same thing, so there’s no real confirmation that a pornstar knows more than your average woman on, enjoyable sex rather than looking like she enjoys it.

  Concept of Pornstars teaching satisfying sex is to me on par with WWE wrestlers teaching self defense classes. Sure some WWE wrestlers probably have actual training in that category. But there’s probably more people with just a focus on actual self defense fighting that could do the job better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sometimes nature is a tattle tale⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Amusingly I learned about this with one of my dogs. He was significantly bigger than the rest of his litter by a huge margain, when we told the vet about it the guy just said “must have a different dad”. like it was the most common thing on earth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  basically all arosol’s do that as well, same for pam and just about every other spray, and yeah it’s shady as hell, it’s much like tictac’s are technically sugar free… in spite of being 90% sugar, because their serving size is 1 piece.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come when paying cash for gas, it is not like a coke machine where you can insert your money? And when it hits that limit it clicks off?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I imagine it’s just the added difficulty that the dollar dispensers are finicky and break down enough when dealing with small amounts of money. There’s a reason why coke machines themselves are shifting more to card payments now that everythings over a few dollars. Plus being outdoors overnight is kind of a security nightmare as they don’t want people taking crowbars to them. hoping for cash (even when there’s no cash in them)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saw this at the store this morning, took a double take⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah I saw that on another post… and did look it up myself, in the US they can be sold, but legally they cannot include the word cigarette anywhere in the labeling or packaging, on amazon they do indeed put it in the title of the listing, which is against the law, but not particularly well enforced, the packages themselves though you can also see clearly they don’t use the word cigarette for exactly that reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saw this at the store this morning, took a double take⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, like candy cigarettes and big league chew.

  Yeah… Which was also a bad idea… of which most of the world won’t accept in the modern age.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_cigarette#Sales_laws

  Big league chew, I guess was a bit more on the fence because it’s less obvious and it avoids any words that directly link it to chewing tobacco.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s amazing the amount of things we’ve never observed before suddenly having endless videos now that AI sludge is clogging up the world.

  Remember the old meme of “paranormal/bigfoot sightings” per year timeline… with a point where there’s an enormous drop at “camera invented”, and then bounces back with “photoshop invented”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do believe I used to watch a documentary about a Coyote in the desert, and quite a bit of that involved it on a paved road as well. I do believe it understood more complicated things than just pressing crosswalk buttons, if I recall it flat out knew how to place orders from an Acme Catalog an assemble quite a few fairly complex machines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox loses $70 billion in value as company blames lack of viral games⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Stupid child developers… why aren’t they coming up with new good ideas!

  Also totally nothing to do with people getting terrified of letting their kids on there as, they do more to get in the way of police stings arresting child predators, and do nothing to combat them themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Linux Version of Windows 11⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah something like Wine, but running natively in the Linux OS.

  I think here’s where you are a bit off in understanding…

  Linux is not an OS. It’s a kernel. Long story short, technically “Linux” has no graphic interface, cannot even run commands without a shell attached etc…

  Obviously when most people say “linux”, they mean a linux distribution, which is the linux kernel, with a bunch of software bundled and installed on top of it when you install. WINE is no different than “x” or “wayland”. which are by definition, software running on a linux kernel, that is necessary to run a program designed to be graphical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will Hollywood's remake of Parasite really succeed?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure the Hollywood version will not be good, but it won’t be because of those cultural factors. It’s not hard to find equivalents to certain cultural artifacts, and rearrange plot points to fit a different setting. What the American film will fail to do is to be as biting in its satire of class differences, because Hollywood executives think it won’t sell well.

  I agree there, I don’t think it’s impossible or even difficult to make the movie that hits the same themes the same way, there’s absolutely zero thought in my head that it’s not possible to make something purely with American culture, systems, housing and foods that conveys 100% of the same message, in some ways possibly even better

  However, there is a very high chance that somewhere in the production line decisions are made by someone who either determines that the things that made the movie popular, aren’t compatible with American audiences, and will intentionally dumb them down or change the actual themes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do americans living in Red States really despise american living in Blue States?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sadly that does tend to be how most biggotry works. they quickly conclude that most the people they actually meet and spend time with are “the good ones”. Kind of the way it usually works, the ones that don’t fall into their expectations must be the exceptions… so that the rule can stay in place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just got arrested for a supposed DWI even though I blew a 0.0000000. Don't cops need to read your Miranda rights to you? I asked for a blood or hair follicle test and I was denied. WTH is happening?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Very much not a lawyer but in the US from what I understand you don’t have to consent to a field sobreity test at all (IE the breathalyzer), but the cops can require you to come to the station for, the tests that they refused to give you.

  As far as Miranda rights, that’s kind of misunderstood, in short if you weren’t formerly brought into an interogation room. or put in jail, it’s not a strong requirement for them to read it.

  I don’t have the full picture but if you aren’t in jail, then you’ve basically got a BS ticket. They might be able to hit you for reckless driving or something if you were swerving or something in your driving lead to the actual suspicion and they have it on dash cam, but the DWI itself, should fall apart instantly without evidence.

  I know my ex got out of a DWI that she was very guilty of, simply by police incompetence (cops lost the test results),

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Once lunar colonies are established, would they attempt to break away? What would independent lunar republics look like?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To me honestly the idea of non earth colonies are an amazing potential, IE I feel like most of the good in the initial US founding came from basically being able to start later in the game with knowledge others didn’t have, and thus make a better government than currently existed faster, thanks to not having the centuries of red tape and “tradition” to deal with. Of course after that head start I think they set themselves up in a way that made them progress slower than the rest of the world.

  Now it feels like the actual true start needs to be another form of that, and best part of a non earth civilization is, it would be perhaps the first recorded history of expanding into an area, that we aren’t actually just killing off and replacing an existing civilization. So true governance from zero is actually on the table.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally my favorite tattoo of an idea to play with the viewers ignorance. I want a tattoo that is just “Leviticus 19:28”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s expensive, a lot of pain and time… so it’s usually a safe assumption that it has a meaning to them. But obviously like everything it’s not universal… clearly there is a (hopefully small) percentage of people who get a tattoo because of a random drunkin whim, or to impress someone etc…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Before Wolverine got his adamantium body, could he grow back his bone claws do to his healing factor? Or is it just for skin muscile and organs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  well yeah why I used the word “more evil” rather than just evil.