sunsofold

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To “tent with aluminum foil”…⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you sure about that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you could use a Rube Goldberg like contraption on any task you find extremely strenuous, what would it be?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t part of the definition of ‘rube Goldberg machine’ the machine does something simple and easy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The only thing I have that might fit that is Endless Sky, on a certain level. Run missions or trade to get money to improve your ship to run missions or trafe to get money to build a fleet to… You get the idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a lot of expected common knowledge in the history of Israel. It has been in the news near constantly since its inception. Only half a dozen LoL no-lifers have any clue who those guys are. You’d even have to explain what a MOBA was to most people before you could ever get onto the niche understanding of a rivalry in one particular MOBA’s e-sports scene.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every time⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  made by Neil Druckmann, who was also the writer for the game.

  That’s an important key. He didn’t buy the rights to someone else’s work. He basically did a revision of his own work, with all the intimate knowledge of character, narrative, etc. that implies.
  The Last of Us as a game was also basically a playable movie as it was. Someone actually made it into a kind of movie by capturing game recordings long before it ever was made as a live action series. That means he didn’t have to revise it very far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles…⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Metal scouring pads are only a few aisles over. Aren’t they worried about people being able to so easily reach their expensive equipment?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When do we riot?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No one REALLY feels the threat posed by the polycrisis. It’s all complex, intellectual worries about things that FEEL like they’re still just a little ways out, not quite here. People are mostly focused on the here and now and the very near future. The riots happen when people literally can’t feed their kids in the here and now. As long as it’s just difficult, and not impossible, people will struggle on with their nose to the grindstone. Watch for rises in unemployment. CoViD showed what can happen when millions if people find themselves with mountains of free time to use on political action. When enough people are hungry and have no job to distract them, the fires will come.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  ANY project that involves buying a license for an IP to make it is a lie. It is not the same thing as the original. It is, at best, as much like the original as a clone. It might look like it’s related but it’s purely a marketing gimmick to milk your nostalgia for every dollar they can slurp out.

  Fuck nostalgia. The past was shit. You just forgot how shit it was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you people read books?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Reading fiction and non-fiction (I assume this is what you mean by 'hard) are effectively different activities.

  Reading fiction is about getting caught up in an imagined world. The stakes are lower and the expectations are lower. This makes it easier. If you miss the paragraph where a character is described as having a beard, you won’t feel the need to go back to reread when you find out they do four chapters later when they scratch said beard.

  Reading non-fiction is about building new conceptual structures in your mind. It requires more attention. If you fail to understand Nietzsche’s ressentiment in ‘Geneology of Morals,’ you are unlikely to be able to understand the later concept of the ‘priestly’ morality. You will not be able to fully construct the conceptual structures the book attempts to generate.

  Because of this, reading non-fiction is a process of doing whatever is necessary to get all the parts and relations into one’s mind in order to produce a mental tool and then, hopefully, learn to use it. If notes help, write them. Rubber ducking can help. Simple repetition can help. Slowing down can help. Talking to other readers (as in a study group (shoutout to @DGQC on YT)) can help. Concept mapping can help. Sleeping on it can help. Highlighting can help. Cross referencing can help.

  It’s study. What helped you learn in school? Do that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The hypocrisy of YouTube. Better not curse on a video but this is a perfectly fine ad⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And revanced on android.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are Pokemon Showdown Moderators SO against the discussion of "Eating Pokemon"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A big part of moderation is enforcing what makes you (the moderator) uncomfortable. The moderator(s) probably have not come to terms with their views on eating meat, so the question makes them uncomfortable, so they ban the discussion to preserve their own feelings.

  In a less selfish view, it also probably helps preserve the community because many others are also uncomfortable with their unresolved views on eating animals and might be discouraged from participating if it is discussed. You are probably a microminority in wanting to discuss it and the number of free speech absolutists who will die on the hill of your right to talk about eating roast mareep is also a microminority. As the discussion does not really add anything to the community it costs them almost nothing to keep people comfortable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From the last time this was asked: seek professional medical advise. It should not be painful. There are non-medical reasons it might be less than amazing, but it should not be painful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The LLM training corpus includes your sexts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  LLM chatbots are, not as conspiracy but de facto, collecting and using as training data, interactions, including nude photos, from underage users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The LLM training corpus includes your sexts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll just leave this here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's becoming widely accepted that it's not safe to put pictures of your children on social media... (cont. in post)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That would be better, but better still would be to find a solution that doesn’t enable surveillance of the uninvolved. Most people trust neither their government nor corporations to not misuse or abuse the power of their data. Certain public key cryptography techniques could be used, but because companies can’t make money from it, it’ll never happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fair Trade off 🧓🏻⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do Asian women age like that, or is it maybe that there was a huge increase in childhood nutrition, medical care, personal care, and personal wealth hitting Asia starting several decades ago and the very old are those who survived the times before and the younger Asians have benefitted in ways that manifest in their personal appearance? (And also old ladies all over the world tend to shrink a bit)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the US Military can offer free money for college education..and is part of the government then why does the average Joe have to pay back a small student loan?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not free, and it has some limitations. You have to spend years in the military, risking being killed and agreeing to murder people for that money. If you’re a woman, there’s a significant risk of rape as well. Then, if you went to school before joining, but didn’t get it in writing that the military would pay for all your student debt, they won’t. Then, finally, if you survive, come out the other side in good enough mental condition to not off yourself, and go to school, your tuition is limited by certain stipulations. Depending on where/what you want to study, it might not even be enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Return to office propaganda floating around LinkedIn⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s real, but it frames it as though it’s the employees fault for not doing self-promotion rather than the manager’s fault for not keeping track of all the team members it’s his job to support.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does "Woke" mean to you?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To save time, we (as in the world of English speakers) are not on the same page regarding woke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it theoretically possible to construct a self reproducing mechanical device?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think one of the most interesting questions that underlies this would be whether there is a material with correct properties to handle the mechanical forces necessary to perform mechanical computation to allow something like CNC and whether that system could then be complex/simple enough to assemble itself. It might be possible, but I don’t know enough about mechanical computing to even have a hunch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bit harsh?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Part of being powerful is a reduction in cognitive load. You don’t have to worry about what those strange foreign language speakers think or want because you have the guns and money. They have to worry about what you want. Being asked to learn another land’s language places them equal or higher in the hierarchy.

  You just can’t allow that kind of thinking. I mean, what next, calling foreigners human? /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it theoretically possible to construct a self reproducing mechanical device?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If your definition of ‘device’ includes biological machines, that’s us and basically everything else we call ‘living.’

  If you mean purely mechanically, as in with just cogs, levers, etc? Maybe hypothetically? But probably not really. If you ignore a lot of elements it might be conceivable to design a factory that uses mechanical computing to produce and manipulate stock materials being fed into it, but mechanical things are notoriously finicky when it comes to tolerances, so it’d probably take on too much entropy somewhere and wouldn’t be able to repair itself.

  If you allow electronic computers and actuators, it gets easier, but it’s still extremely difficult to the point of practical impossibility to build any system capable of self-maintenance and self-calibration, let alone one that can fully produce every part of itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The way my partner eats avocado.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As in you want to eat just ‘some’ and save the rest? You wrap it up or containerize it just like you would with any other method. As in you what to ‘just’ eat avocado, as in not with or on anything? You squeeze it, bite off chunks of flesh, like with anything else, and then squeeze the pasty parts into your slavering maw. Nomnomnom. Easy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why in America is .08 the legal limit for drunk driving? How come it's not an even 0.10? Who decided at what level being drunk starts? Then 4 beers of 12oz's is 0.08 why is it that small?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not random. It can be malignly motivated by colorism or classism but those still aren’t random. Overreach by those who have been granted a level of power is its own problem, but until we can get a better system going, police are what we have to work with. Pointing out a problem is not enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The way my partner eats avocado.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Such wastage.

  It’s so easy to slice around the pit to split in half and then crush out the flesh. No left behind bits. It comes out as a few lumps and then paste.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why in America is .08 the legal limit for drunk driving? How come it's not an even 0.10? Who decided at what level being drunk starts? Then 4 beers of 12oz's is 0.08 why is it that small?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t cite things on a gotcha response as if it were even momentarily researched.

  1. Police aren’t usually pulling over random people and randomly testing them. If you’re being pulled over for drinking it’s usually because they already suspect something based on your driving. The only exception are checkpoints, but we’ll come back to that.
  2. You would have to be doing something weird even to get a result from almost any of the items listed in your own source. An evidentiary breath analysis unit can read as low as 0.020. The highest ABV in that list (that is food, not an extract) is ~2% for soy sauce. You could drink a pint of that soy sauce, (eeugh!) and by the time the alcohol evaporated from your mouth (it lasts several minutes and would prevent an accurate reading) your BAC would likely be below the detection threshold. Procedure (at least where I was, but likely anywhere) would require a second confirmation test 15 minutes after the first to make sure the first wasn’t caused by oral residue.

  So, worst case scenario, you chug a pint of soy sauce in your car, immediately drive up to a checkpoint on the way to a hospital because of the amount of salt, they test you randomly and get a positive result from the oral residue, and then get nothing when they retest unless you are so small and light that you are probably a literal child.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a hearing on data centers, a resident of Tyrone Township, Michigan, asked a simple question: Have you signed a non-disclosure agreement? Officials refused to answer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for angrily strawmanning what I wrote. It tells me I can just drop this thread. Toodles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you evaluate having more pay vs an easier job?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The best thing would be shorter hours for the same total pay. It has the freedom to add more hours if they want more income, spend more time with the people or hobbies they love if they don’t, and makes whatever headaches the job may include more tolerable. If that’s not an option, it depends on what the headache is. Taking 100g off the scanner I have to lift 50 times each day vs taking home an extra, let’s say 5~10% pay? I’ll take the cash. It’d let me take more time off, do more fun things, etc. and the weight isn’t that much unless you have a prior condition. If it’s something that will make it so I can eliminate the need to scan anything and just get to the more important parts of the job, maybe.

  Let’s be real here, though. If the option was there, any slackager (slacker manager) is going to do neither because that’d take effort. Any company serving manager is going to just not give the raise and tell the employees they complain too much and should be grateful for the work. And any human serving manager will be fired for wasting company funds on unecessary comforts or raises.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a hearing on data centers, a resident of Tyrone Township, Michigan, asked a simple question: Have you signed a non-disclosure agreement? Officials refused to answer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  An NDA is a contract in which someone agrees not to disclose information on a certain set of topics, under penalty defined in the contract or civil liabilities for breach of contract. “Have to talk about it” is an odd phrase for the subject. An NDA doesn’t force someone to talk/not talk about anything. It just creates a strong incentive to not talk about the topics included in the NDA or anything that might arguably fall under those topics because it opens one up to penalties. Many people can and do use NDAs as an excuse not to share information, with some even using a false implication that an NDA exists which prevents them sharing inconvenient information.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a hearing on data centers, a resident of Tyrone Township, Michigan, asked a simple question: Have you signed a non-disclosure agreement? Officials refused to answer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope. All of it. It should be unappetizing to take power over others. If someone wants to have authority to afflict thousands if not millions of people with their existence, they don’t get to have any space to hide their crimes. If they don’t want to make that sacrifice to keep us safe, they can just stay home. No one is forcing them to seek public office.