GreyEyedGhost

@GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨10 miles to escape a bill⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It sounds like the hiker was reasonably qualified, and had a device to contact emergency services if things changed (assuming he was still able to use them). Certainly not the choice I’d make, but my qualifications are much different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cool Japan 🌸⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Because normally dogs shouldn’t be in restaurants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨take their money and arrest those responsible⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Capitalism moves manufacturing to a location with less regulation or the overhead from regulation, resulting in more profits for the capitalists. This is clearly not because of capitalism.

  Spoiler

  /s for those who need it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨take their money and arrest those responsible⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But that also means that if the top 10% cut their consumption by half, we would have blown past the required targets to not have global warming pass 1.5° C, even if the other 90% didn’t change a thing. And they would have still been engaging in massive consumption by anyone else’s standards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨take their money and arrest those responsible⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You should read Terry Pratchett’s Boots Theory. Many people don’t have the option to pay more up front to consume less, if there is even an option to buy a more expensive but longer-lasting item in a given market any more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨take their money and arrest those responsible⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. If you’re paying for the car outright, your free cash every month will be higher, which can go back into savings. If you’re financing the car, your monthly expenses will quite possibly be the same or lower, because you pay for gas every month, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I like Pepsi Zero better than Coke Zero, and drink even amounts of Coke and Pepsi Zero at work to reduce the amount of sugar I consume.

  Now both soda camps can hate me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Cold slows many chemical reactions, including this one. Nuts will last even longer in the freezer.

  Removing them from an oxygen environment will also slow the reaction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨scrutinized but efficient method⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If someone can’t see the absurd humor in buglers fearing the random theft of their beloved instrument, well, imagine how much brighter their world could be. Deciding to take this as a personal attack or an attempt on my part to feel superior to you was a choice you made.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨scrutinized but efficient method⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Some men fear this for the same reason buglers always lock their doors.

  Because bugles are awesome and you would be a fool to trust a burglar to keep his hands off one?

  Also, autocorrect tried to change bugles to burlesque, which would have been confusing and funny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can AI act without initial human input? Does this show AI can have freewill or am I deceived?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with every statement here except the last. The whole history of AI is pretty much a sequence of:

  • “It will be real AI when it can do ‘this’.”
  • Programmers figure out a way to make it do ‘this’.
  • “Okay, it’s doing ‘this’, but not in a way we would call AI.”
  • “Alright, then what would you need for something to be AI?
  • Return to the top.

  LLMs are pretty amazing and they can do some things very well, and reasonably fit under the category of AI, but not so much what is referred to as AGI. And they’re developed using some really shitty practices, etc. But prior to their invention, the idea that we could have a computer do what they do was a reasonable idea of what AI would be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Vampire's are semi dead, then how come a steak thru the heart kills them if they are dead already? Do they still pump their own blood?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That was the premise used in Blade 2 for some types of vampires. Also, traditionally, believed vampires were often beheaded (not sure if it was to kill them or after killing them) and buried with their head between their legs, presumably to stop them from healing and becoming active again. It was very effective, mostly because vampires aren’t real.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The weight of responsibility, the knowledge of coming glory⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or two broken arms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the hate against Pit Bulls? Everyone I've met are super friendly like my BC. Or are they the new Doberman for this cycle?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For this to be reflective of an even amount of bites per number of each breed of dog owned, half the dogs owned would have to be pit bulls. That doesn’t match my very casual observations. This site, whose accuracy and validity I haven’t bothered to verify in any way, puts pit bulls at about 20% of the dogs sent to shelters. It seems very likely that the dog fatalities are outsized relative to the number of pit bulls owned in America.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And his point will still stand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As Gabe said, piracy is’nt a pricing issue, it’s a service issue. This problem has been addressed before and it will be again, if need be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I already addressed that. Steam has DRM, because Steam wouldn’t exist without it, and the physical copies publishers sold instead would still have DRM. There are DRM-free games on Steam - they don’t require publishers to use it. Direct your ire where it belongs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would think that the ESA would be happy for free support of their opinion. Unfortunately, the law is on their side. If you don’t like it, you have two options: try to change it or pretend it isnt true. One is easier, and I suspect both are about as likely to change things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t own any software! All software is licensed, yes, even FOSS software. The only software you own in a traditional sense is public domain which not only is a vanishingly small portion of software made, but is also a category that is difficult or impossible for software to be made a part of, depending on the laws in your country.

  This is no different for Steam vs. anywhere else you can buy games, even with physical copies. The only benefit of physical copies is that it’s much harder to remove access to those games after you purchase the license, unless there is online activation or DRM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With a lot of companies no longer doing physical games, then would that give rise to more Piracy? How will video game preservation work then?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s probably been about a decade since I bought a game on physical media, and that would have been a Nintendo product. I don’t think I’ve purchased a PC game on physical media for a couple decades, and yet I keep hearing about pirated copies of them. I don’t think physical copies disappearing will have a significant impact on the level of piracy in either direction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨foil⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to be confused with yoots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do tires have the width and diameter they do?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gyroscopic effect for bicycles is neither significant nor necessary. How are bikes with 12” wheels or less going to take advantage of that? There are some functioning bikes on this page whose gyroscopic force would be less than 1% of the mass of the bike and rider. They’re certainly a contributing factor, to varying degrees, but even on bigger bikes they aren’t substantial. Some guys at Cambridge went out of their way to prove that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Apple Lie at the grocery store⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on your definition of veganism. There is no animal product in it, but to use it in the quantities we do requires the destruction of a lot of habitat that certain animals require to survive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Take the medicine for one week" is monday-sunday or monday-monday?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen two, and can describe them. Please do me the pleasure of describing what these 0 cats look like. Perhaps I can recognize them if I come across them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Take the medicine for one week" is monday-sunday or monday-monday?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My first thought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Take the medicine for one week" is monday-sunday or monday-monday?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The number sets have names that are reflective of that. Whole numbers are positive integers and 0 while natural numbers are only positive integers. You never see 0 cats, and the number of places where the number of cats is 0 is infinite (or approaching the number of places in the universe). Neither of those are really natural (not unlike cats) and are particularly hard to explain to younger people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Betrayal (Sound on)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, because they have bad judgement. That ride is awesome!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it seem when people quit smoking years later they get lung cancer or some sorts of cancer? Like alcoholic's quit drinking and usually die of something they'd die of while drinking?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if I enjoy your questions to raise engagement strategy, but don’t stop just because of me. If I decide I don’t enjoy it, at worst I’ll simply block you and hope you continue to succeed with whatever you’re hoping to achieve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve’s Steam Controller stock shortage will last until next year after fans massively exceeded expectations⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There have been a number of posts on Lemmy about how to get it to work with non-Steam games, particularly if you also have Steam installed. This may be easier on Linux than on Windows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Linux? Those guys who like to talk about themselves?"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Windows users think about Linux all the time. “Why is this web site down?” “Whats happening with Cloudflare?” etc. They just don’t realize it’s Linux and don’t notice it all unless it happens to stop working. Them not thinking about it isn’t lack of concern or interest, it’s complete ignorance of the reality they live in. In fact, they probably have a computer with a *nix derivative OS that they use every day, whether their smartphone is Android or iOS.