owenfromcanada
@owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Halloween is coming up, folks. So here's your fourth idea for a group costume 2 days ago:
LOOK AT HER BOOOOONES!
- Comment on Worst photo editing ever 2 days ago:
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 3 days ago:
I use Qobuz, as I understand it pays the most to the artists. It’s $11/month CAD, which is still doable for me. Not sure if it’s “worth it” in the long term scope of things, but monthly I listen to music from a hundred or so albums (not every track from every album, so it’s hard to estimate what it would otherwise cost to buy).
I wouldn’t pay that much to Spotify or Google, though. Fuck them.
- Comment on Is it true that the natural lifespan of humans is only 38 years old and we only live past that because of loads of modern medicines/technology? 4 days ago:
I’m not sure what the difference between “lifespan” and “expectancy” is other than semantics, given the context of your questions. Regardless of what our DNA says, our life expectancy is typically in the 70s or 80s, and that hasn’t changed much throughout known human history, so it has nothing to do with modern technology.
- Comment on Is it true that the natural lifespan of humans is only 38 years old and we only live past that because of loads of modern medicines/technology? 4 days ago:
No.
People have lived into their 80s for millenia. Average lifespan used to be shorter because of the amount of infant mortality. That is, anyone who made it out of childhood was likely to make it at least to their 60s, barring things like war and plague.
The simpler explanation is that the study is cookydooks.
- Comment on Video Games: 🙃 2 weeks ago:
We know all about blocked paths
- Comment on Some important facts to always remember 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on We need more signs like this posted everywhere 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on I always thought that the airbags are in the steering wheel 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Why do narcissists have such fragile egos? 5 weeks ago:
I expect the causation is the other way around. Someone with a fragile ego may become narcissistic to protect themselves.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
It lets me know they use Arch.
- Comment on Out of 10. Be specific! 5 weeks ago:
Dali/10
- Comment on After Disastrous GPT-5, Sam Altman Pivots to Hyping Up GPT-6 1 month ago:
No.
Exhibit A: current US administration…
- Comment on After Disastrous GPT-5, Sam Altman Pivots to Hyping Up GPT-6 1 month ago:
Sure, the earth will roast and people won’t have water, but they won’t have to fund artists anymore!
- Comment on Would it be weird to ask my brother if I could tag along when he goes out with his friends? 1 month ago:
You can ask him, just try to not put a bunch of pressure on him for it. Explain where you’re coming from and how you feel.
- Comment on Would it be weird to ask my brother if I could tag along when he goes out with his friends? 1 month ago:
Sounds reasonable from what you’ve said. What’s your relationship like with your brother? That’s probably the biggest factor.
- Comment on What Trump Is Really Up to in Washington 1 month ago:
Shenanigans. Same thing he’s been up to for decades.
- Comment on youtube thumbnail 1 month ago:
Based on Fediverse lore, I’d guess at least 3 days
- Comment on youtube thumbnail 1 month ago:
So this is what that person was doing…
- Comment on Why is the abusive parent always portrayed as being the father, why is the mother never portrayed as abusive? 1 month ago:
Watch Carrie
- Comment on Where is he going, chat? 1 month ago:
Are you to have me believe, as God’s own truth, that a hole full of water, a mere column of water, itself took parachute in hand and affixed it to this feline?
- Comment on Any good Android games that aren't roguelikes? 1 month ago:
Exiled Kingdoms is a great old-school RPG. Paid but worth it.
- Comment on Vibe check! 1 month ago:
BCCC
- Comment on nothing against that guy, but this was a funny glitch 1 month ago:
- Comment on Funny how there were no food allergies 1 month ago:
- Comment on Eh close enough 1 month ago:
- Comment on 1 month ago:
How does Wikipedia continue to be such a bastion of awesome in an increasingly shitty internet? Keep on, good folks!
- Comment on Me right now 1 month ago:
I may not know much.
There’s no “but”, I’m just clueless.
- Comment on Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about? 2 months ago:
So whenever there’s a new tech innovation, there are two instances of it.
The first is the actual tech innovation, that often finds a specific use in a few industries, then just becomes part of how things are.
The second is the venture capitalist innovation. It has nothing to do with the technical stuff (as long as the tech is complex enough to impress the average 5th grader). It’s more a concept or an idea, and a lot of big promises of unending potential. And as soon as the potential is there, stock prices go up. And that’s the only point.
The second one blows up big, then deflates quietly when the next thing takes everyone’s attention away. The actual tech innovation usually just finds its niche and quietly chugs away.
Any time anybody talks about a “tech revolution” or some similar word vomit, they’re presenting the second thing. Currently we’re on “AI” (i.e. LLMs), which will become a niche novelty when the next big thing comes along (I give it a few more years).
- Comment on Biblically accurate SpongeBob 2 months ago:
BE NOT AFRAID, SQUIDWARD
