AnarchoEngineer
@AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Real 6 days ago:
I’m American and yeah definitely the “it spawned in my head.”
Also the same happens for other languages too, though I’m not around them enough to attach meaning to it. But I’ll dream different languages or hear Russian and French in my head sometimes and have no idea what it means.
What’s crazy is that everytime I’ve remembered and been able to type them out, they are legitimate phrases not just nonsense. I guess my mind just picks up phrases it hears and doesn’t attach the meaning to them fsr just repeats them.
- Comment on s p h e r e 2 weeks ago:
Also isn’t an infinite dimensional sphere practically hollow?
(If you were to integrate the sphere to calculate volume like you do for lower dimensional ones, you would sum the volume of shells—which is just their surface area times a thickness—making it up. With infinite dimensions, each shell becomes infinitely larger than the preceding shell no matter how fine you make the slices. This means the largest shell contains basically all the volume.)
- Comment on Your parents 640x480 glory. 2 weeks ago:
I did it myself on a relative’s very old laptop a few years ago. I think it was specifically the 32bit Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1) upgrade for Windows 95 (maybe 98?)
I just searched it up and was able to find an iso with only 129MB which is still impressive. But that’s a clean install, if I get more time to look into this later, (or if I can find the floppy disks themselves) I’ll try to find the original and send it to you if you want
Also you’re right, the fact it got images is pretty insane. Then again the only real “graphics” would be default icons, and possibly the green landscape but I wanna say that it didn’t even have that background image when I finished the upgrade; I think it was just a solid color. (The real crazy thing I remember was that the laptop had a color capable screen but had a purely black and white OS on it originally lol)
I think much of the kernel carried over. Also I can’t recall if I updated it to 98 before xp or not. That might’ve cut down on the needed install space.
Anyway you’ve gotten me curious, I kinda want to find that laptop now. Maybe I’ll use it to make authentic “Analog nowhere” style art with paint lol
- Comment on Your parents 640x480 glory. 2 weeks ago:
Even using just 8bit color depth you’d only be able to store a single 424x424 pixel image (uncompressed) on a “high density” 1.4MB floppy.
That’s absolutely garbage, but makes it all the more impressive that an upgrade from windows 95 to the first version of windows XP only took two floppy disks.
- Comment on A game changer is in the works 🚨 3 weeks ago:
Having seen many things on the internet I wish I hadn’t, I think there are actually 12 holes. Roughly working top down:
- 2x: gore
- 2x: slightly more socially acceptable gore (especially on non-humans)
- 2x: that’s just weird but not gore I guess
- 1x: mainstream porn
- 2x: I don’t think these work like fetishists think they work
- 1x: this definitely doesn’t work the way fetishists think it works
- 1x: probably uncomfortable, also why?
- (1x: not guaranteed to exist on everyone but the most “vanilla” of all the holes)
- 1x: ouch but some people are into that ig
- Comment on Roger Roger Competition! 3 weeks ago:
The fact art like this exists just makes me all the more certain that if we find any sort of intelligence in the universe, biological or not, someone is going to try fucking them. It will likely be one of the first things someone does.
“Sir we sent in the battle AI’s to dominate humanity before our colonization team arrives.”
“Good how many have died?”
“Uh none. Aparrently the humans find the slight curvature of the bots’ torsos arousing, so many of them submitted to the bots immediately and just started calling them ‘mommy doms’”
“What?!”
[shows commander a clip of sub begging “mommy” battle droid to step on them]
“…”
“…”
“Perhaps we should leave the humans alone…”
- Comment on Teenis 3 weeks ago:
“Uhhh human horn? How ridiculous! Why would a virile male like Lrrr need human horn? I don’t even know what it’s for! What is it something you uh put in salad dressing?”
- Comment on Teenis 3 weeks ago:
If he calls it his “horn” he’s either Canadian or just someone who has watched too much Letterkenny lol
- Comment on Away down South in the land of Traitors, 3 weeks ago:
Right away!
Come away!
Right away.
Come away.
- Comment on FUCK 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t mean that in the “lowkey my dick is huge” way lol. I’m not even that big which is the point because I’m not even in the “size-queen” range and there are still times where it’s annoying. I’d imagine those annoyances get worse as size increases, ego big dicks are overrated.
(PS: Regardless of size, women tend to like men/women/enbies that are good with their hands.)
- Comment on FUCK 3 weeks ago:
Bro trust me it’s better to have a dick that fits than one that doesn’t. Not being able to do certain positions with certain women because your dick is too big to be comfortable for her for is frustrating
- Comment on Anon teaches you about their culture 4 weeks ago:
Cornbread and fried chicken have been around since before 1980, but the rest is pretty generic and fitting. I also have relatives who were moonshiners out in Ohio by a town which is literally called “knockemstiff” because one drink was powerful enough to “knock ya stiff” lol
Not sure the part about criminals fits though. Old men running illegal rooster fights aren’t exactly organized crime haha
- Comment on Anon teaches you about their culture 4 weeks ago:
Cornbread and fried chicken have been around since before 1980, but the rest is pretty generic and fitting. I also have relatives who were moonshiners out in Ohio by a town which is literally called “knockemstiff” because one drink was powerful enough to “knock ya stiff” lol
Not sure the part about criminals fits though. Old men running illegal rooster fights aren’t exactly organized crime haha
- Comment on Prescription 4 weeks ago:
The real curious thing is that these expected neurological rebound effects aren’t universally experienced. Some people are affected more strongly and in weird ways by withdrawal.
Being ADHD probably has something to do with it, but I can take my adderall (a relatively high dose btw) every day for months and then quit cold turkey and feel no noticeable withdrawal symptoms besides being hungrier and laughing at things more easily on the first few days after quitting lol
Now I wondering if there are neurodivergences for which GABA modulators cause different effects than expected and for which withdrawal symptoms might be negligible. Then again, GABA is like the major inhibitory neurotransmitter so maybe it’s not possible for the brain to function/develop well at all with any anomalies dealing with those receptors.
(This is not my field; I’m just curious.)
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
*the importance of getting laid is overstated
Is that better?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
- Travel to a place where prostitution is legal
- hire and/or become a prostitute
- profit (possibly literally)
- Comment on I don't think they're alone on one 5 weeks ago:
I can eat “properly” with a fork in my left and knife in my right or the other way around and that didn’t take any effort to learn I just could do it.
I’m also a pretty good marksman with either hand/stance.
I kind of prefer using my left hand for drinks or eating snacks, but that is likely due to me working/gaming on my computer while doing so.
When I’d play baseball I preferred throwing lefty, but that was a long time ago and I definitely default to my right hand for most things nowadays. Or whatever hand is free.
Like on the bus if the nearest handhold is on my right, I’ll hold it with my right, and then like switch my phone to my left pocket so I can reach it with my left hand easily if I want to scroll memes or text etc. while my right hand is busy.
I will say that I tried drawing with my left hand not so long ago and for the rest of the day I kept getting tripped up, like my mind couldn’t decide what hand to use to open doors or grab things so I’d get up to do something and then freeze up lol. Weird stuff
My drawing did kind of just improve from that one try though because yesterday I decided to try again and I was much more capable of drawing precisely. Still a little shaky but not too bad.
Oh and a few of my family members definitely are preferential for different hands in different tasks, and oddly enough I think tennis is one of them. I know there are more but I can’t remember which other ones they’ve mentioned. Skateboarding with non dominant leg is one but I think that’s a common thing.
Also I really just hate writing with my left hand because everything smudges, and I’m not at the level of DeVinci where I can just flat out write in reverse lol
- Comment on Systems theory 5 weeks ago:
Other animals that build stuff use natural materials. Humans are the only ones that process raw materials into different materials and build with those.
Wrong on both counts. First, animals that build stuff don’t just use “natural materials” they use whatever is available to them. Birds make nests out of everything from sticks to metal hangars and from moss to our “unnatural” polyester products they can get their hands on.
Second, bees and ants and termites and wasps etc. use raw materials like fibers or pollen or grains of clay and sand and typically mix them with their saliva or water or other bodily excretion or all of those together to create building materials.
Animals don’t create stuff with iron or plastic not because we are the only ones capable of understanding resource machines, but because we are in the sweet spot where many tools are available to us. We are large enough to work with fire and hammers. If termites could make steel they absolutely would, but they can’t. They make concrete though because they can. Diatoms make glass (which most other living things can’t do) because they can. Ants farm and domesticate “resource machines” like fungi or plants or other insects (kinda like we do) because they can. We just happened to be in the sweet spot for making our own resource machines without needing to wait for evolution to evolve them.
You could argue that a wooden hut with a thatched roof is a natural structure, but not much else in human architecture
I think most houses even just a few hundred years ago would be “natural” even by your definition.
Clay and mortar are just rocks we mix with water rather than saliva like insects would. Wood from trees like beavers. Slate shingles from, well, slate. The only real issue would be glass for windows and that is a naturally produced resource, we just produce it in an easier way than diatoms do (we actually kinda use their skeletons funnily enough along with geologically occurring silicate sands ofc) and voila you have a relatively modern house. Nails would require a long process but good news you don’t need them to build a house, they just make things easier.
Most of our old civilizations last so long as ruins because they’re made out of stone, sure we mined that stone but so do ants and termites. The roads the Romans built are just as natural as ant mounds are and so are the pyramids (minus the gold caps at the top perhaps).
- Comment on Systems theory 5 weeks ago:
On that note, humans are nature. When other animals build things like beavers building dams, or bees building hives, ants building hills, termites building thermodynamically efficient concrete (sort of) structures etc., we still call those things “natural.”
Point is: all our modern infrastructure is natural because building shit is just what our species does and we are just as much nature as any other species is.
We aren’t special; we’re just another weird species in a long history. We aren’t the only species to build stuff, aren’t the only species reshape the environment around us, aren’t the only species to literally poison the area around ourselves (and hey we mostly do it on accident whereas pine trees kinda do it on purpose). Hell, the Great Oxidation Event literally filled the whole atmosphere with what was—at the time—basically poison. That event not only caused mass extinction on a global scale, but it also changed geology and mineral formation worldwide.
We aren’t special just because our machines are often made of metal instead of proteins. We’re just another species on this rock, and everything we’ve built is just another mark on that rock made by life.
- Comment on I don't think they're alone on one 5 weeks ago:
Nah, use whichever one is closest to her and closest to where it needs to be in the moment, or switch off if one gets sore.
(I’m not fully ambidextrous (my left hand writing sucks), but this is one of the good skills to be ambidextrous in)
- Comment on It took 4 attempts this morning 5 weeks ago:
Come on man, time to get off, I need to use the phone
- Comment on Dumb stance 5 weeks ago:
It carries precisely the weight it indicates regardless.
When someone says “that’s a horrible/evil thing you’ve done!” They are expressing that you have done something they think is immoral.
How you let that weight impact you depends on you and your ability or inability to control your response to it.
- Comment on Gotta go fast 5 weeks ago:
ACTUALLY ITS BOILING SODIUM!!… ~which then gets used to boil water~^superscript^
- Comment on Makes me so wet thinking about it 5 weeks ago:
Porqué no los dos?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
First, I would like to note that I’m not here to assert any “quantum woo” about measurement and the soul or anything. I don’t think conscious observation has anything to do with the collapse; more likely it’s our method of measurement that affects the outcome. In fact I’d assume these phenomena would exist even in a universe without sentient beings. I’m not advocating for solipsism.
My intuition would be that certain kinds of common interactions “cause the collapse” and then: more particles -> more interaction -> more collapse, which would explain the fact we don’t see macro scale indeterminacy but do notice it at a quantum level.
Second, I’ll admit this really isn’t my field. You sound like you know what you’re talking about and have pointed me towards interesting theories and people to look into, so thanks for that, and I’ll defer to your judgement until I have a better grasp on this topic
- Comment on 1 month ago:
The reason I commented was mostly to clarify that Schrödinger’s cat is not like the meme implies. It’s meant to illustrate how weird it is that the cat would be neither alive nor dead until you open the box, not “the cat is in fact both at the same time.”
But that is exactly the point Schrödinger was criticizing, not supporting.
I was under the impression this was more a question than a criticism. He’s asking where the line is between this indeterminacy and determinacy. At what scale to things move from quantum to “real” and why?
Also Bell experiments have proven this indeterminacy you say is absurd. No theory of local hidden variables can describe quantum mechanics. The state is not a local property of the particle/system until it is “measured.” I’ll admit it’s an uncomfortable truth that sounds absurd, but it’s a truth nonetheless.
Anyway, thank you for the more in depth explanations of both the thought experiment and quantum computing.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Not to be the 🤓 but just so we’re clear, the point of Schrödinger’s cat was to illustrate that you can’t know a quantum state until you measure it. Basically just saying “probability exists.”
The reason it’s a big deal is that this probability is a real property. One that is supposed to be only one of two states. But instead it isn’t really in a state at all until you measure it, and that’s weird.
The point is that instead of assuming it is in one state or the other, you can and often should think of both possibilities at once. This is what makes quantum computing useful. Specifically the fact that, instead of working with values, you can work with probabilities, and until you measure the outcome, you can manipulate the probabilities all you want.
So you simply apply operations that increase or decrease the chances of certain outcomes and repeat until the answer you want has an incredibly high probability and the rest are nearly zero. Then you measure your qubit, collapsing the wave function, with a high probability that collapse will give you the answer you wanted.
If you had measured the particle before hand and run it through the system, it wouldn’t work because its state was already decided.
It’s less like “the cat is both alive and dead” and more that “the terms ‘alive’ and ‘dead’ do not apply to the cat till you open the box”
- Comment on I wish I lived on a beach so I could go for long walks on them 1 month ago:
Of course it would, wireless messaging relies on photons which travel at light speed
- Comment on Or a glazed doughnut idk 1 month ago:
Where’s the bush meme for “another horny poster has hit c/shitposting”
Is this number 3 or 4?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Well, time to learn a trade I guess