dustyData
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- Comment on WAT DA 2 days ago:
It is comparing height paw to the shoulder, not the length. It’s the standard way to measure quadrupeds.
- Comment on bad bitch 5 days ago:
It’s all about composition
- Comment on Choose your Nope Rope 1 week ago:
Entirely different things, and I think the meme actually correctly corresponds to orthopedics. It’s a pediatric specialty, and unfortunately, most of the treatments are some form or another of restraining body parts so they grow straight. Hence the snake tied to the rod in order to remain straight instead of wrapping and slithering around.
- Comment on What do other languages use for "magic" words; or names and titles in fantasy and sci-fi novels or cinema? 1 week ago:
Yeah, I would say I’ve read magic spells, in English and other languages, are more traditionally associated with rhymes than specific words. Latin associated to magic is through catholic ritualist use of Latin. Even then, it was more about repeating prayer phrases, like in stereotypical exorcism or funeral rites. Gothic novels, for example, straight up used catholic prayer in Latin to convey magical intent. But it was not vaudeville magic or modern day superpower magic like in pop culture.
- Comment on How did far-west era US dealt with "Male loneliness" 2 weeks ago:
Never conflate loneliness with not getting laid. Thereby lies the first in a long streak of mistakes.
- Comment on How did far-west era US dealt with "Male loneliness" 2 weeks ago:
extreme disconnect between researchers/academic writing and how the general populace interprets the word
This is the bane of sciences communication. No, the way I’m using the word is not the same you use and therefore your interpretation of my research is wrong. Prescriptive arguments about semantics are irrelevant and don’t fix the situation in the slightest, if anything they muddy the waters and worsen the quality of the discussion.
- Comment on Christmas Animals 2 weeks ago:
I told you, I’m not arguing. I actually agree on that point.
- Comment on Christmas Animals 2 weeks ago:
Not arguing here. But just want to point out that disability subculture usually arises as a survival response in the face of discrimination and segregation. Everyone has a need for community and a sense of belonging. When broad hegemonic culture rejects you and your presence, belonging is found in the one distinctive feature that it the cause for the rejection. See also gay subculture as a response to homophobia, US black culture as a response to racism, feminist sorority subculture in response to misogyny, etc. So it is not rare to see disability subculture as a response to ableism.
- Comment on I think there's an imposter amongus 2 weeks ago:
She probably did. But the reviewer won’t know that as the paper (should) get anonymized before review. The author’s own name will be censored all the way throughout the paper.
- Comment on I think there's an imposter amongus 2 weeks ago:
It’s a catch-22 situation. You are supposed to disclose if you wrote the thing you’re citing, but also cite in third person, and also it should be obfuscated for the peer review. So, what happens is that you write something like “in the author’s previous work (yourownname, 2017)…” then that gets censored by yourself or whoever is in charge of the peer review, “in (blank) previous work (blank)…”. Now, if you’re experienced in reviews you can probably guess it is the author of the paper you’re reviewing. But you still don’t know who it is, and you could never guess right whether it is Ruth Gotian or not. So you’re back to the tweet’s situation.
- Comment on What is this colour? 2 weeks ago:
Orange, fite me…
- Comment on Thank Goodness You're Here - most absurd & hilarious game what did I just play? 2 weeks ago:
There’s a couple of raunchy jokes. One implies a fish is a man’s penis, and he orgasms when you slap the fish repeatedly. There’s the cow you milk with a motion that imitates male masturbation. Also a couple of body horror stuff that look like an anus you enter into a fleshy intestine like cavern. Lot’s of sexual innuendo in dialogue jokes. Definitely not a kid’s game. Maybe play it first, it is a short game, and gauge if it is proper for your kid before playing it with them. Since the game is linear and most interactions are not optional. It’s more like teen immature humor.
- Comment on A Gaming Tour de Force That Is Very, Very French 3 weeks ago:
There’s a story mode that auto-skips all the combat.
- Comment on A Gaming Tour de Force That Is Very, Very French 3 weeks ago:
It has a very generous and flexible difficulty setting. Plus accessibility options. I started on normal and have been dropping down the difficulty whenever I gets too much, or disabling the skill based parts altogether. Then back up whenever a particular fight seems interesting, just to see how it plays out. It doesn’t penalizes you at all, as it should. It is truly a game designed to be enjoyed fully, it never gets in the way of the player’s enjoyment.
- Comment on How does the private equity bubble compare to the AI bubble if at all? 3 weeks ago:
Yes, that’s rack space. It is not even half of the costs of a data center. I know because I’ve worked in data centers and read the financial breakdowns of those materials. They are also useless without actual servers and deprecrate their value really fast.
- Comment on How does the private equity bubble compare to the AI bubble if at all? 3 weeks ago:
Rack space is literally the only thing valuable that would be left. Those GPUs are useless for non LLM computation. The optimization of the chips and the massive amounts of soldered RAM. They are purpose made, and they were also manufactured very cheap without common longevity and endurance design features. They will degrade and start failing after less than 5 years or so. Most would be inoperable in a decade. Those data centers are massive piles of e-waste, an absolute misuse of sand.
- Comment on Autonomous valet robot that parks on its own [00:30] 3 weeks ago:
“I’m so privileged and selfish that I will burn the planet down and kill everyone before having to walk more than a block or use public transport.”
- Comment on Autonomous valet robot that parks on its own [00:30] 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Autonomous valet robot that parks on its own [00:30] 3 weeks ago:
Good, unless you have some disability it shouldn’t be.
- Comment on This, a pen, and coffee 3 weeks ago:
The Seinfeld effect. Today they seem clunky, janky, unpolished or uninspired. Because you have way better modern examples to compare them to. The catch is that when they came out, they were the first. People have said the same about the Beatles, the rolling stones, the og legend of Zelda, counter strike, etc.
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 4 weeks ago:
Changing stuff on a single player video game is not cheating.
Cheating can only exist on a competition, like on multiplayer, because you are expected to fair play with another human being.
To think that playing on your own and changing the parameters of play is cheating is a limiting and constrained, and honestly sad, point of view. It’s like punishing a kid for imagining that a toy has super powers. Extremely soul crushing and anti-creativity. If you are playing on your own, then there’s no cheat. Your play, your rules, no punishment for changing your mind. The play field exist to play, not to impose arbitrary and oppressing notions of real life judgement. You can’t cheat, when you are just playing for fun.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 5 weeks ago:
In his honor, I still lick walls in videogames to this day.
- Comment on What game is a guilty pleasure of yours? 5 weeks ago:
This is whybI play Ravenfield. Sure, it’s bots. But an hour session usually scratches the itch for a few months. Plus I don’t have to deal with awful lobbies and trash talk.
- Comment on When a website tells you that you broke a rule, but doesn't tell you what the rule is. 5 weeks ago:
Nope, they showed you a thing that said they got to erase anything and everything you uploaded at their own discretion for any reason, and you clicked “I agree”.
BTW, according to their TOS, they own everything you upload to their site
- Comment on When a website tells you that you broke a rule, but doesn't tell you what the rule is. 5 weeks ago:
They aren’t hidden. It was probably on the Terms of service somewhere. They are not legally binding, nobody reads them, but is the way the company runs anyway. They’re not a cloud service, they claim they are a social network for image hosting. So they have no duty of care with user’s personal data or privacy.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
“…with FSR.”
That there is a huge difference.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
As someone who has hooked up computers to TVs all his life, I can tell you. Just turning on with a controller directly into game mode is a massive game changer as it is a pain to get it working today. Look for guides about it and see the batshit hacks people have come up with.
That and the overabundance of Bluetooth antennas. Oh, and it also comes with super fast WiFi 7 special connection for the frame inside the box. Also, heat and sound management. Gaming PCs are little space heaters, very efficient during cold weather and a pain in the ass in hot climates. Keeping them cool takes an assortment of turbines and makes the living room sound like an airport. If this thing is as power efficient, quiet and cool as advertised, it will be the gaming enthusiast’s dream.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
That’s the feel good warm marketing Sony spun for the thing. The PS3 sold around 88 million units. It flopped at first because it didn’t have any games for it. The Linux thing was a quirky fun but ultimately useless feature. You had to code custom software for the thing, it had no commercial software for Linux on a PS3. Its sales ballooned after it became the cheapest bluray on the market, and it was after the removal of otherOS support.
Less than 10 thousand were used for distributed computation clusters. The famous navy supercomputer only had 1.7 thousand units or so. Against the global sales numbers it was barely a rounding error.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
That’s the feel good warm marketing Sony spun for the thing. The PS3 sold around 88 million units. It flopped at first because it didn’t have any games for it. The Linux thing was a quirky fun but ultimately useless feature. You had to code custom software for the thing, it had no commercial software for Linux on a PS3. Its sales ballooned after it became the cheapest bluray on the market, and it was after the removal of otherOS support.
Less than 10 thousand were used for distributed computation clusters. The famous navy supercomputer only had 1.7 thousand units or so. Against the global sales numbers it was barely a rounding error.
- Comment on "Whatever You Get Your Podcasts" 1 month ago:
Many free open podcast apps and webpages aggregate and index RSS feeds. Where you can simply search the podcast name and they will find the correct feed for you. Never had an issue.
