howrar
@howrar@lemmy.ca
- Comment on It's still captivating 1 day ago:
Naw, that definitely defies the laws of physics.
- Comment on I am looking to broaden my youtube channels that I follow. What female channel are you following? 3 days ago:
Food / cooking:
- www.youtube.com/@imamuroom She used to do a lot of bento boxes but has since switched to regular home cooking. Good for getting meal inspirations.
- www.youtube.com/@AcreHomestead She does a lot of “meal prep” style videos and food preservation, including lots of freezer meals. Also good for inspiration.
- www.youtube.com/@Doobydobap She has a few long-ish videos that give a good high level overview of Korean cooking. The majority of the channel is more vlog-like but I’ve only watched her cooking videos.
- www.youtube.com/@CSaffitz Mostly does desserts. Her recipes tend to be on the more complex side. I’d look to her if I really want to perfect a recipe.
Others:
- www.youtube.com/@theleanbeefpatty Gym videos. More of a mindless entertainment channel than informational. She has a pet pig.
- www.youtube.com/@Caroline_Winkler Interior design. She has a peculiar sense of humor that’s not quite my style, but the information is good.
- Comment on Is it morally wrong for an immigrant or naturalized citizen to "keep a low profile" and avoid speaking up against the government in order to minimize the risks of denaturalization/deportation? 3 days ago:
I’d add that they also have your roommate at knife point. I don’t think it changes the answer too much, but it’s closer to the scenario that OP is probably thinking about.
- Comment on It was all a lie, wasn't it? 1 week ago:
Where did all your pipes and wiring go? What insulates the building?
- Comment on But I am mighty!! 1 week ago:
Like father, like son.
- Comment on Anon conserves power 1 week ago:
We don’t need a single mind to understand the entirety of how the brain works. One of the powers of human knowledge is its distributed nature arising from our ability to write things down and create abstractions. What matters in the end is that we as a collective understand the brain.
- Comment on Sorry, groceries. 1 week ago:
Every day is an emergency
- Comment on Is there a medieval equivalent of the youtube channel "Primative Technology" 1 week ago:
This reads like a Google AI summary. I love it.
- Comment on A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit 2 weeks ago:
I’m not reading any anger in their message. Seems like a pretty innocent joke.
- Comment on A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit 2 weeks ago:
My days pretty much consist entirely of work, chores, gym, spending time with my kid, and sleeping. If not for the flexibility I get from work, I don’t think I’d ever be able to do groceries.
- Comment on Only 1 in 3 Euro consumers are trading in their old phones 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know if it’s the same in Europe, but here in Canada, I’ve only seen the option to trade in old phones when you’re buying one of the fancier phones with a bunch of bells and whistles I don’t need. There no way they would give me enough for this phone to make up for the price difference.
- Comment on Spicy food never affects my gut and everyone thinks it's really weird. How unusual is this and what could be happening to explain why spicy food doesn't affect me? 3 weeks ago:
Anyone want to take a capsaicin pill for science?
- Comment on Is empathy based on a financial bell curve? 3 weeks ago:
I think what you’re observing is the interplay between two variables with opposing correlation with respect to wealth:
- Having empathy
- Ability to display empathy
Poorer people might have more empathy, but their ability to show it is inhibited because of lack of resources (time/energy/material). Wealthier people may have all the means to display empathy, but they’re less incentivized to do so. At some point in the middle, you get a sweet spot where there’s both sufficient desire and ability to do good.
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 3 weeks ago:
Growing up, I didn’t like water either because I didn’t like the taste. No one around me could understand how I could dislike it because water supposedly tastes like nothing. BUT IT DOESN’T. WATER HAS FLAVOUR. Anyway, I later figured out that filtered tap water tastes a lot better than the bottled kind.
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 3 weeks ago:
To me that means an autonomous being that understands what it is.
A little thought experiment: How would you determine whether another human being understands what it is? What would that look like in a machine?
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 3 weeks ago:
As far as I’m concerned, “intelligence” basically just means the ability to do things that we consider to be difficult. So it’s both very hand-wavy and a constantly moving goalpost. So a hypothetical pacman ghost is intelligent before we’ve figured out how to do it. After it’s been figured out and implemented, it ceases to be intelligent but we continue to call it intelligent for historical reasons.
- Comment on Why do I drag my feet when it's time to start a new task even if I know I'll enjoy it once I get started? 4 weeks ago:
I can understand some negative sentiment in contexts where it’s used dismissively (e.g. “I’m [self-diagnosed] autistic and I don’t have this issue, so you’re obviously just a bad person”), or if you use it as an excuse to be a shitty person. Although I’d say that a professional diagnosis wouldn’t make any of these scenarios better.
In your case, you’re experiencing problems and you’re trying to solve them. A self diagnosis helps a lot in narrowing down what the causes could be and help you prioritize different potential solutions to try. It makes no sense to handicap yourself and try to fix things like a neurotypical person when you have good reason to believe you’re not.
- Comment on What would it take to make Gemini suitable to be president of the world? 4 weeks ago:
I think if you ask “what would an ideal world president look like?”, you’ll get an answer to your question. The qualities that make for a good human leader should be the same as that which make a good AI leader.
- Comment on Why are you here and not on Reddit? 4 weeks ago:
The main reason is that they took away my preferred app, and the official app is excessively noisy (visually) to the point that I just can’t parse anything on the screen without huge effort. Doom scrolling is supposed to be brain off time, not brain work extra hard time.
- Comment on Bait or r*ta*d*ti*n. Call it. 4 weeks ago:
I’d also be surprised if no one goes after him for trying to run away from debts. If we know anything, it’s that most laws only apply when they benefit the rich, and he’ll be making a lot of rich people angry if it turns out he did have extra money squirreled away.
- Comment on Bait or r*ta*d*ti*n. Call it. 4 weeks ago:
The real question is whether the collapse of his house of cards will lead to a 99.7% loss of wealth or >100% loss. He won’t be a billionaire anymore if it’s the latter.
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 4 weeks ago:
The kid actually answered the question. The teacher’s expected response is basically “no, your question is wrong and I refuse to answer it.”
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
If a government raises taxes for something so that working class people cannot buy it, that government becomes richer by exploiting the working class.
- If the working class cannot buy it, then they are not getting taxed. If the government is making more money from implementing that taxation scheme, then all that money has to come from those who are wealthier than the working class.
- You only become richer if you hold on to the money. The government’s job is to spend that money to the benefit of its constituents, not hoard money.
In the past there have been ice ages while the atmospheric CO2 level was 10 times higher than it is now.
Implying we want another ice age?
The notion that eating insects will save the world seems a little dubious.
I agree
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Legally, yes. But laws get broken all the time.
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 5 weeks ago:
When someone starts complaining about what bathroom everyone is using, you can’t just ignore it and hope it goes away. It’s your job as their superior to address these issues.
Similarly,
Their gender/identity should have absolutely zero impact on the ability to do their job.
Making this stance clear requires talking about gender identity and politics.
- Comment on science never ends 5 weeks ago:
There’s also the “science” that is your policy choices (personal or public policy) based on the science(n) and your values, risk tolerance, and lifestyle. Since the latter factors can change a lot over time, these policies can also fluctuate wildly and give the impression that “science” fluctuates wildly.
- Comment on Consistency is key 5 weeks ago:
I’ve never gotten sick from undercooked chicken either, but that doesn’t mean I’m willing to take the risk. Gastro is no fun, and well done burgers taste great (unless maybe if you use very lean meat?) so it’s all upsides with no downsides.
- Comment on Consistency is key 5 weeks ago:
Are you maybe just using very lean ground beef? In my experience, 15% ground beef is very hard to overcook.
- Comment on We Went To Luigi's Trial. Here's What Everyone Is Missing. 5 weeks ago:
For the same reason I’d attend a meeting and complain afterwards that it could’ve been an email, despite knowing that I was going into a meeting.
I think it’s reasonable to expect the video formats to only be used when it’s a good medium for communicating whatever it’s communicating.
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 1 month ago:
Life is more expensive when you’re disabled. That’s not news. But why should you be mad about changes that help other people save money? What you should be mad about is that the savings are turned into extra profits instead of going towards making your tickets cheaper.