yoevli

@yoevli@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it worth becoming a Confidential Informant in Chicago where I am currently stationed? I was told by a cop that if I need to or can't afford a reckless driving charge I can become a CI?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re generally required to provide identification if you’re arrested and in some US states police can compel you to identify yourself under certain other circumstances, but otherwise yes, in the US you are never required to talk to police beyond this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people see Adopting a Husky Personality and Culture through life inherently bad⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not going to respond with a lot of depth because I don’t think I have a good enough understanding here to be particularly helpful, but I suspect a collar would be considered as inappropriate in a school because of its strong association with BDSM practices alongside the general societal expectation that one’s sexuality is kept out of the public eye. I think that notion can also apply more broadly to the situation as a whole, at least to an outside observer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a subsect of the minimalist community that's focused on portable living?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Speak for yourself. I buy stuff for my apartment because I want it to feel homey; I don’t really care what other people think of it as long as it looks presentable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happens when the US runs out of SSNs?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This generally isn’t true. The SSA makes an effort to assign a unique number to each individual. It’s happened before where two people have accidentally gotten the same SSN, but they try to avoid this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do our brains process reality? I heard our eyes were just low-res cameras and our brains were doing all the heavy lifting in 'rendering' reality.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So, have you actually used a 144 Hz display yourself?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do our brains process reality? I heard our eyes were just low-res cameras and our brains were doing all the heavy lifting in 'rendering' reality.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Completely untrue and not even up for debate. You’d know this if you had ever used a high-refresh rate display.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You would need to have the right to redistribute the copyrighted material, which is sounds like you don’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we say, "when I look in the mirror" instead of "when I look in a mirror?"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My assumption would be that it’s because we don’t really look at mirrors per se but rather the reflection in them, so the definite article is indicating the fungibility of the mirror itself. This total speculation on my part though and I might be totally wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a "canvas" of the universe? Do we even know? Would a canvas follow the same laws as the paint?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The question hits on some of the most fundamental aspects of our current understanding of reality and theoretical physics. As another commenter pointed out, one potential answer delves into QFT. Just because OP used a metaphor doesn’t warrant you saying they had “too many pot brownies” and there’s absolutely no need to be a condescending jerk here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many floors are under an apartment on the second floor? (No basement)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but that only applies when referring to indices or to the zeroth element specifically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many floors are under an apartment on the second floor? (No basement)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even in the CS world, ordinal phrases are still 1-indexed (e.g. the first element of an array vs element 0).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are MRNA vaccines any riskier than other vaccines?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not even that, more that the correlation might not be there in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why do some people really dislike google??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Public companies are by definition amoral. They’re beholden to their shareholders and virtually every decision they make is informed by this obligation. Morality generally only factors into their decision-making insofar as it affects PR and thus the bottom line.

  I don’t mean to say that Google or any other company is immoral. I use amoral to simply mean that they operate independent of morality. No public company, no matter how much you may like them, is your friend at the end of the day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why do some people really dislike google??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Chromium is open-source. Chrome is not and also happens to constitute a majority of the browser market, and Google has tried multiple times to cash in on this market share to benefit their primary business of advertising to the detriment of users (FLoC, Manifest v3, Web Environment Integrity).

  Likewise, AOSP is open-source, but Google has been progressively dismantling it and making various components closed-source (most recently the dialer app).

  All this to say, Google is absolutely not friendly to FOSS. As a corporation, they’re beholden to their shareholders above all else and they should be treated as an amoral entity, the same as every other publicly-traded company.