soyslurper2

@soyslurper2@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir CEO Alex Karp has mental breakdown in front of reporters⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  AI has to work for the warfighter and for enterprises

  Do you feel like AI is working for you?

  It’s not supposed to work for us. I’m shocked by the honesty. AI is good for “the system”, at the expense of individuals. I’m a little annoyed the clip cuts off there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do fonts for people with dyslexia work?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dyslexic fonts don’t help dyslexia, and the internet’s idea of how dyslexia works is wrong.

  …org.au/do-dyslexia-fonts-work/

  But the new fonts—and the odd assortment of paraphernalia that came before them—assume that dyslexia is a visual problem rooted in imprecise letter recognition. That’s a myth, explains Joanne Pierson, a speech-language pathologist at the University of Michigan. “Contrary to popular belief, the core problem in dyslexia is not reversing letters (although it can be an indicator),” she writes. The difficulty lies in identifying the discrete units of sound that make up words and “matching those individual sounds to the letters and combinations of letters in order to read and spell.” In other words, dyslexia is a language-based processing difference, not a vision problem, despite the popular and enduring misconceptions.

  Researchers put the font to the test, comparing it with two other popular fonts designed for legibility—Arial and Times New Roman—and discovered that the purportedly dyslexia-friendly font actually reduced reading speed and accuracy. In addition, none of the students preferred to read material in OpenDyslexic, a surprising rebuke for a font specifically designed for the task.

  The idea of making fonts more legible is good, but it doesn’t help dyslexia specifically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit repost bots taking over entire communities⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We need a way to scan Lemmy posts for reposts from Reddit, to mark and block them all entirely

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨he did that⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Please include the word “Trump” in your title so my filter removes it next time, American. Thanks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I break my sense of taste?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OP is asking if the intensity of the smell or taste can inherently destroy your sense of it.

  You could activate every single taste bud on the tongue or every single olfactory neuron in your nose to max feels and suffer no lasting damage. Your taste buds and smell neurons get replaced regularly. Your eyes and ear hairs don’t. You don’t need to drink bleach to know how it tastes. You can make a safe equivalent made with non-dangerous chemicals that activate all the same spots. You can’t do the same for light or sound.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I break my sense of taste?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People here keep listing diseases and chemicals when OP is asking about taste and smell.

  Unless you’re drinking bleach, food will never destroy your sense of taste. It’s the same with smell. There are chemicals that are really smelly and can destroy your nose, but smell ≠ nose destruction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is "American posing as a Canadian" a real thing?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do the opposite and pretend to be an American with a generic accent. Even Americans can’t tell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is "American posing as a Canadian" a real thing?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this a bit or are you serious (and why)?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon gets in a bad mood⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  😶

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SBA #236 Sins and Virtues⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a shitpost, not a joke. Get it right

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RIP a gawd⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  iDubbz’ entire thing was about making fun of people and he never broke out of it