14th_cylon
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- Comment on Is it normal to see this static when you close your eyes? 1 week ago:
the brain is always trying to find pattern in incomplete data. one of the explanations i have seen is that when our ancestors were sitting around the fire, those who saw the tiger or something lurking in the dark had better chance to pass their genes than those who didn’t.
it is why we are seeing patterns in clouds and random geometrical shapes on walls and stuff like that.
- Comment on Is it normal to see this static when you close your eyes? 1 week ago:
I feel a doctoral dissertation could be written here.
i feel you may be trying to break into open doors.
- Comment on Jeff Bezos reportedly launches new AI startup with himself as CEO 1 week ago:
we are using the word startup quite liberally, huh?
- Comment on Study concludes cybersecurity training doesn’t work 3 weeks ago:
I guess I don’t understand the metric of success.
i guess you will find if you read the study mentioned in the article.
it is certainly possible that the study, or its interpretation in the article, is bs - i did not read either one of them. i am just stating in the vacuum that if something does not work (which is what that headline presents as conclusion of the study), then wasting time and money on it is worse than doing nothing.
- Comment on Study concludes cybersecurity training doesn’t work 3 weeks ago:
no. training costs time and money, so if it has zero effect, then no training is clearly better.
- Comment on Study concludes cybersecurity training doesn’t work 3 weeks ago:
mfa is not going to help when people will literally transfer their money to a scammer, because the scammers convinced them that said money are in danger and only way to protect them is to transfer them to “secure account”
- Comment on What's the name of the early-mid 2000's song that sounds like Beyonce, starts with a "dun...dun... dun DUN!" guitar part, and the singer makes this "dabudabudabu" sound? 3 weeks ago:
you can find correct song by typing nanana, so… 🤷♂️ www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nananana
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 3 weeks ago:
trump is literally issuing sanctions on his own citizens and they applaud him for it. i don’t think sanctions will work here 🤷♂️
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 3 weeks ago:
i really do not want to hold your hand. you started talking to me, refused to clarify and you are trying to pretend like you “won”. how was kindergarten today?
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 3 weeks ago:
i have no idea how it relates to what i said.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 3 weeks ago:
i still have no idea what you are trying argue.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 3 weeks ago:
not every situation is as extreme as you make it and while you have a point, it doesn’t make mine invalid
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 3 weeks ago:
what?
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 3 weeks ago:
and no sane woman should believe that, because if she will later find the guy was lying, it is not going to be the guy having to deal with the consequence. so it is quite stupid take.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
i have to insist on the fact that they don’t prescribe glasses to people who see fine without them, but you do you and good luck.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
people who see fine without them usually don’t get prescribed glasses. just find ones that fits you, your vision is more important than what some clown on the street might think.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
You would rather not see? Time to talk to a therapist.
- Comment on Anon finds a plot hole 5 weeks ago:
and that is unfortunately game theory problem without working solution, which is why we are fucked :(
- Comment on A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley 1 month ago:
Cannot be soon enough
- Comment on If you lose your memories, are "you" dead? If a close relative/friend lose their memories, are they still "your relative/friend"? What the hell even is memory? How sentimental are you about memories? 1 month ago:
it’s not your memories which define you
it is your behaviour what defines you and if you lose the memories, at will affect the behaviour, so i am inclined to say yes, you are different person then.
it is similar to when you lose a loved one to a cult, be it maga or some religious cult. they are no longer the same person. you want to get back the person they were before, but right now, even if you kidnap them and lock them in your basement, they are not the same person.
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 1 month ago:
I don’t like framing things in terms of doing a bad thing = being a bad person.
premeditatedly doing bad thing = bad person
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 1 month ago:
it turned out that there are, in fact, stupid questions…
- Comment on Should 21-23-year-olds be allowed to date older people? 1 month ago:
exactly this, they already are, so what is the point of your question, op? if you want to ban something, go back to your church, you will find like-minded
soulsmorons there. - Comment on So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*? 1 month ago:
man, there is a lot of ominous babbling without actually saying anything of a substance. while you specifically say “i am not having a psychotic episode of anything like that”, it is not really clear whether you can be the judge of that. please talk to a professional if you can.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 1 month ago:
basically, yeah. internet is network of computers spanning all earth. intranet is smaller network of computers. intranet is often more private network under more centralized control of someone, with limited access from outside, that can be operated for example by some corporation or university, accessible only for employers or students (possibly using vpn to remotely connect to the network).
www. is the name of the service - http is a protocol it uses.
e-mail is the name of service - to access it, lot of people use http protocol if you use webmail, or imap or pop3 protocol if you use some dedicated client (like thunderbird, outlook, or others). smtp protocol is used to send the message to another mail server (you may have also been asked to configure it when manually configuring some dedicated e-mail client).
ftp, ssh, bittorrent,VOIP telephony using SIP protocol, IRC are other useful services. all these services can be run on network of any size, internet or intranet.
for example majority of modern doorbell systems are running on sip protocol and they are basically small VOIP phones running primarilly on a limited intranet in one specific building, but, due to nature of what they are, they often have an option to forward that “call” into any other telephone number in case no one picks it up at home.
small web-developers routinely run their own web-server of their own desktop, which may only be accessible locally, from that one computer or their small home network, to test the web pages they are developing. whether it is still world WIDE web is funny academical question then, because that web is not very wide in such case.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 months ago:
at similar age, a teacher told me there can’t be polygon bigger than 360-gon, because that would be a circle. i wasn’t of course in a place to fight with her, i just thought “wtf, how dumb is this bitch?”
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 months ago:
no, the internet is not the world wide web. www is just one of many services provided on the internet and it can be used on the intranet that is completely cut off from the rest of the world.
there is a terminology question then if it is still really the world wide web or rather small web, but the fact stays that services provided on http protocol and internet are not the synonyms. same as mcdonald is not asynonym for “a restaurant” even if specific person may not have visited any other restaurant in their life.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 months ago:
it is why kobe bryant helicopter crashed. the pilot lost in a fog thought he is going up, when he was just accelerating down really fast. there is air crash investigation episode about it.
- Comment on what can I do at my workplace during downtime? 2 months ago:
Learn to program.
you probably missed this part:
I don’t reckon I could study something for college, write a book or poetry or learn a foreign language, as I couldn’t concentrate.
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 3 months ago:
and how many ads do you think all these now gone power users were displaying and consuming? 😂