JakenVeina
@JakenVeina@lemm.ee
- Comment on Aaron Paul stars in Dispatch, a story based superhero management game from ex-Telltale devs 6 days ago:
Shit, that sounds worth a look.
Makes me wonder, they have such a big budget as to afford Aaron Paul? Dude ought to be commanding a pretty high salary these days. Is his fee just a lot smaller than I’m thinking? Is he just LOOKING to get into video games?
- Comment on What do we think will be GoTY and which game do we think should be? 1 week ago:
I haven’t even played it, and I know it should be Balatro. That game has taken the gaming world by STORM.
- Comment on What are some great games that require you to bust out a notebook and pen? 1 week ago:
Honorable mention fir Outer Wilds, cause taking notes and keeping track of things you learn is critical to the gameplay, but the game actually provides an excellent UI already it already.
Also, Elden Ring and other FromSoft games are a contender, cause when you meet a random NPC that says like 3 lines of dialog and doesn’t repeat them, you’re gonna have trouble remembering any of that 20 hours later when yoy meet them again.
- Comment on YEET 2 weeks ago:
“No credit for partial answers!”
- Comment on You to have read it carefully and slowly ... 2 weeks ago:
I actually didn’t get fooled by the first line, but I did by all the rest.
- Comment on Do you think being left-handed gives any unique qualities or advantages compares to other right handed? 3 weeks ago:
I can’t think of any time I’ve felt lile being left-handed is an advantage.
- Comment on just three women have died and 50783 babies have been saved by Texas' abortion law. A damn good trade if you ask me. 3 weeks ago:
Considering those quotes talk about defining “living systems” or “groups of organisms”, as opposed to individual cells (and again, elaborated on even moreso within the full linked articles), I’m gonna have to say “no, they’re not really excluded at all.” Their entire purpose is to meet up and initiate replication. An egg and sperm cell are each one small part of a much larger system of ongoing life. The same can be said for a fertilized egg, an embryo, and so on for most stages of development in a womb.
If you want to insist on a definition that says egg and sperm cells aren’t alive, or aren’t an organism, you’re gonna have a hard time saying that a fertilized egg or an embryo are. They don’t replicate on their own, either, not without a very specific environment and set of stimuli.
Also, sperm cells DO replicate, to an extent. They undergo forms of mitosis and meiosis, during their growth. And an egg cell absolutely replicates. Like any other type of cell replication, it needs certain stimuli to initiate it. I.E. it needs to be fertilized.
- Comment on just three women have died and 50783 babies have been saved by Texas' abortion law. A damn good trade if you ask me. 3 weeks ago:
From the National Institute for Health
In biology, it is generally agreed that organisms that possess the following seven characteristics are animate or living beings and thus possess life: the ability to respire, grow, excrete, reproduce, metabolize, move, and be responsive to the environment
The article as a whole elaborates that even trying to pin down a single definiton of life is a bit of a fool’s errand, much less trying to use such a definition to support arguments about when life starts or stops.
From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (which actually is just re-quoting an entirely different article, one of many discussed within)
We propose to define living systems as those that are: (1) composed of bounded micro-environments in thermodynamic equilibrium with their surroundings; (2) capable of transforming energy to maintain their low-entropy states; and (3) able to replicate structurally distinct copies of themselves from an instructional code perpetuated indefinitely through time despite the demise of the individual carrier through which it is transmitted.
From a University of Minnesota Introduction to Biology course
All groups of living organisms share several key characteristics or functions: order, sensitivity or response to stimuli, reproduction, adaptation, growth and development, regulation, homeostasis, and energy processing. When viewed together, these characteristics serve to define life.
In short, there really isn’t any unified definition of life. Comparing different definitions, there’s common themes that emerge, but nothing that supports saying conception is when it starts. If you’re going to use that definition, you can’t support it by saying that “science” defines it that way.
- Comment on just three women have died and 50783 babies have been saved by Texas' abortion law. A damn good trade if you ask me. 3 weeks ago:
It doesn’t. Life is a continuum, it doesn’t care what artificial labels we try to put on things. A fertilized egg is just as alive as an unfertilized one, or a sperm cell, by any scientific definition of life, highlights how useless it is to try and use that definition to argue about abortion.
- Comment on Anon needs cooking advice 4 weeks ago:
When it comes to something like meat, the biggest thing is that the salt can penetrate into the meat itself, rather than just sit on the surface. Same goes for things like potatoes or pasta.
Other than that, I couldn’t really tell you, on a technical level, but you can be sure it boils down to “chemical reactions.”
If you’re curious or skeptical, you can experiment pretty easily. Make a batch of tomato sauce, and seprate it into two portions. Salt one before simmering it for a few hours, and the other one after. Most people will be able to taste the difference.
- Comment on Anon needs cooking advice 4 weeks ago:
It won’t be quite the same as having salted the pasta and the sauce, while cooking it, but “salvageable”, absolutely.
- Comment on Cannot load additional pages in Jerboa 4 weeks ago:
Interesting. The web UI doesn’t give me that issue. It is HORRENDOUSLY slow, though. It periodically freezes for as much as minutes at a time.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to meta@lemm.ee | 9 comments
- Comment on I'm going to try not to swear when you're around. Is this a good apology to a coworker? 1 month ago:
A quality apology consists of 3 things:
- An explanation of what you did that was wrong, and why it was wrong
- An explanation of what you’re going to try and change about yourself, to avoid the same mistake
- An expression of remose. I.E. the word “sorry” or “apologize”.
Your proposed apology has all those elements, so you’re already ahead of most folks. But there are a few suggestions for improvement in this thread that I think are also good.
“if you felt so, I apologize”: I don’t read this as you apologizing for how the other person feels, since you clarified that earlier. But I think it’s fair that others might read it that way, so you’re better off eliminating the ambiguity. You’re apologizing for what you did, without considering that others might (validly) consider it inappropriate.
“I’ll try to control myself around you”: similar deal, it should be clear that this is about you, not them. And when it comes to swearing in a workplace, it’s pretty-darn common to consider it inappropriate and unprofessional, no matter who you’re around. Maybe part of your apology needs to focus on how the behavior is unprofessional, and you simply needed help recognizing that, as you’re (possibly?) new to the professional working world.
- Comment on Seeking feedback: how should lemm.ee move forward with external images? (related to frequent broken images) 1 month ago:
Option 2 seems like the optimal idea, on paper, if Option 1 isn’t feasible, but Option 3 doesn’t really bother me, if there’s trouble with Option 2’s implementation. I don’t consider privacy at an IP-tracking level really that much of a concern. This is a social media platform, my privacy is my anonymity.
It sounds like maybe Lemmy itself coupd use some enhancement with regard to how and when it decides to proxy, and what it does when proxying fails. If we can get a better experience by swapping to Option 3, until such enhancements are maybe made in the future, that sounds fair to me.
- Comment on Seeking feedback: how should lemm.ee move forward with external images? (related to frequent broken images) 1 month ago:
The issue last year was with someone, or many someones, uploading CSAM (child sexual abuse material, I.E. child porn). Like, SPAMMING it out to a bunch of Lemmy servers, which then federated it out across the whole network, in REALLY high volume. Obviously, no one wants to see that, but the legal concern is liability. For some servers, depending on where they’re hosted, that means they can be held responsible for “hosting” the content, once it’s been federated to them.
- Comment on Seeking feedback: how should lemm.ee move forward with external images? (related to frequent broken images) 1 month ago:
I’ll wager “no” to your question. That sounds like something the Lemmy codebase itself would have to implement, not smething that’s just configurable.
- Submitted 2 months ago to meta@lemm.ee | 0 comments
- Comment on Let's discuss: Hollow Knight 2 months ago:
First game I ever played where I was like “yo, I actively WANT to do the speedrun achievement, and the deathless achievement.” So, first game where I ever did those things. Maybe I’m just crazy, but I found them way easier than I expected.
Also, a prime example of storytelling through music.
- Comment on Aldi announces wage increases up to $23 an hour; hiring thousands of employees 3 months ago:
Cashier stations with chairs are VERY rare, yes. The general trope is that managers/owners think it makes workers appear lazy.
- Comment on Aldi announces wage increases up to $23 an hour; hiring thousands of employees 3 months ago:
Cashier stations with chairs are VERY rare, yes. The general trope is that managers/owners think it makes workers appear lazy.
- Comment on Aldi announces wage increases up to $23 an hour; hiring thousands of employees 3 months ago:
Cashier stations with chairs are VERY rare, yes. The general trope is that managers/owners think it makes workers appear lazy.
- Comment on How do you set up wake up alarm and not miss it ? 3 months ago:
Practice getting up in response to your alarm.
Seriously.
Once or twice a day, in the middle of the day, go lay down in bed, like you’re going to sleep, and set your alarm for maybe 5-10 minutes. The moment it goes off, shut it off and stand up. Teach your body the habit of standing up, immediately, in response to the alarm. So long as you’re getting enough sleep, you’ll start doing it in the morning, on reflex.
- Comment on Darth Vader Didn't Come Alive Until James Earl Jones Gave Him a Voice. 3 months ago:
“I used ‘Darth’ as my handle on the CB radio,” he told the New York Times magazine’s Dave Itzkoff in 2014. “The truck drivers would really freak out—for them, it was Darth Vader. I had to stop doing that.”
“I have altered the speed limit. Pray I do not alter it any further. Over.”
My god, can you imagine just chatting on the radio and that voice suddenly coming out of your dashboard?
- Comment on Slapping Chicken 3 months ago:
Let’s assume the chicken has to reach a temperature of 205C (400F) for us to consider it cooked.
Remind me never to let this guy cook for me.
- Comment on shapez 2 is a big hit with over 150,000 copies sold in less than a week 3 months ago:
They took the genre and distilled it down to the purest gameplay-focused form that they could. And for an Early Access title, it could absolutely be a full release today. No bugs, no performance issues, nothing feels missing or incomplete, except maybe a few minor QoL bits. The success is deserved.
- Comment on Hugh Jackman as The Wolverine 2000 vs 2024 4 months ago:
The pic from 2000 looks pretty reasonable.
- Comment on This shitpost is preventing shutdown 4 months ago:
Inside the kernel, even!
- Comment on Day 4 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 4 months ago:
Shit, this is a cool idea. I might have to steal this.
- Comment on Friday Facts #419 - Display Panel & Inserter pickup fixes 5 months ago:
That inserter issue has been annoying for so long.