deafboy
@deafboy@lemmy.world
I’m sceptical about all this. In fact, I’m sceptical about everything!
- Comment on Why is the vision correction in VR headsets only an afterthought? 1 week ago:
But would the 2 pictures fit together? When you shorten the lens-display distance, you basically zoom in.
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- Comment on Why isn't apple a popular ice cream flavor? 3 weeks ago:
Sounds like a Babylon 5 character. I vote for Lemmier!
- 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. 3 weeks ago:
omny.fm/…/ep78-does-your-brain-have-one-model-of-…
Why do you see a unified image when you open your eyes, even though each part of your visual cortex has access to only a small part of the world? What is special about the wrinkled outer layer of the brain, and what does that have to do with the way that you explore and come to understand the world? Are there new theories of how the brain operates? And in what ways is it doing something very different than current AI? Join Eagleman with guest Jeff Hawkins, theoretician and author of “A Thousand Brains” to dive into Hawkins’ theory of many models running in the brain at once.
- Comment on Why does the media print rags to riches stories? 3 weeks ago:
Communists and fascist are the conservatives on my side of the planet though. They both appeal on “the good old times, when the world was right”. Both equally glorify physical labor and fights against the intellectualism.
- Comment on Why does the media print rags to riches stories? 3 weeks ago:
It’s the bullshit of hard work will result in success and money.
That’s funny, because it’s not the liberal leaning folks who glorify the hard labor.
- Comment on Why does the media print rags to riches stories? 3 weeks ago:
That only confirms my hypothesis that leftists don’t want a system of governance, but mom and dad…
- Comment on Why does the media print rags to riches stories? 3 weeks ago:
Filthy capitalists, giving people what they want!
- Comment on Why does the media print rags to riches stories? 3 weeks ago:
Yes, reporting on a success of an individual is practically the same thing as openning the gas valve… Jesus F. Christ !
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
The Lust series is pretty good. It’s a horror game similar to Amnesia or Penumbra, except you’re infiltrating a sex cult.
…steampowered.com/…/Lust_from_Beyond_Prologue/
…steampowered.com/…/Lust_from_Beyond_Scarlet/
- Comment on Scammers PANIC After I Hack Their Live CCTV Cameras! 1 month ago:
Publicly spreading the faces of people you’re accusing of a crime
That would be a sound argument if they weren’t doing the crime right there on the video.
- Comment on Youtube deletes and strikes Linus Tech Tips video for teaching people how to live without Google. Ft. Louis Rossman 1 month ago:
I actually like those, and started to watch the channel regularly after the house remodeling series.
What’s barely sufferable are the “we bought stuff from the internet and here it is. check out our sponsor…” videos that’s been published a lot lately.
- Comment on Why is there so much hype around artificial intelligence? 1 month ago:
It’s just that I rarely see a real person be so confidently wrong.
- Comment on Why is there so much hype around artificial intelligence? 1 month ago:
We’ve already established that language models just make shit up. There is no need to demonstrate. Bad bot!
- Comment on 'AI is coming for all of us:' Mass Effect, Metal Gear Solid, and Baldur's Gate voice actor Jennifer Hale weighs in on SAG-AFTRA's games industry strike 1 month ago:
Sure. Let’s protect the proper culture. Like Fast and Furious 10, or the 60th marvel superhero movie rehash :P
- Comment on Why do big corporations get to claim losses, but small businesses can't? 1 month ago:
Yes. Screw the small businesses. All that competition is just fraud and burden to the real corporations :D /s
- Comment on Why do big corporations get to claim losses, but small businesses can't? 1 month ago:
3d printer is subtracted from revenue for tax purposes
That makes sense. Since my profits always oscillated around zero, claiming any expenses had no practical effect.
legitimately running a business, or just trying to save money on their hobby
That’s actually how it started. We’ve installed linux on some old desktop machine with my classmate back in school, set up some services like webhosting, mail, jabber, and started to give access to people for free. No guarantees, no pressure. As we finished school, trying to turn it into a business was a logical next step. It never went big, but we just kept the thing around, bought newer hardware, moved it to a proper housing, did basic maintenance, and years later, here I am owing to the government thanks to my highschool hobby.
- Comment on Why do big corporations get to claim losses, but small businesses can't? 1 month ago:
Well, I fell into a bracket that’s taxed (it’s not officially called a tax, but that’s what it is) by a certain fixed minimal amount. Thanks to my total revenue being relatively low, it makes an absurd amount percentage-wise.
- Comment on Why do big corporations get to claim losses, but small businesses can't? 1 month ago:
IRS will audit you, and could deem you a hobby
Are there any negative consequences? I’d prefer to be downgraded to a hobbyist. Instead, the government has increased my taxes to around 70% of my yearly revenue. Social democracy, fuck yeah!
- Comment on Why 🤷♂️ do users 👨💻 dislike 👎 the use ✅ of emojis 😀 on Lemmy 🐭? 1 month ago:
We can tell you probably have an emotion if you use one, we just can’t be sure what emotion. The emoji you type is almost certainly not the one we see.
- Comment on Anyone else get random cancellation emails from onlyfans? 1 month ago:
When some internet stranger manage to enrage me more than usual, I sign up for a porn site with their email address.
Who did you piss off lately? :)
- Comment on Anon tries to connect with a coworker 2 months ago:
I fail this every single time. I always assume if somebody had something to say, they would’ve just said it. I mean, we’re already having a conversation about certain topic. Why wait for me to ask?
- Comment on My dad fought the Nazi's they lost. The world knows it. What is the deal with their recent resurgence? 2 months ago:
The real billionaires love taxation. It helps them getting rid of the competition.
- Comment on Why is there no sense of "camaderie" in the workplace? 2 months ago:
Forced family is the worst
But this is literally how family works for the first 20 years of your life. You don’t get to choose one. You are assigned one from birth :D
- Comment on Do you prefer RPGs or FPS games? 2 months ago:
Honestly, we should call FPS games for what they really are… point and click.
- Comment on The eeePC... Wii Remote... thing? | f4mi 2 months ago:
If we can all agree not to bring up netbooks ever again, we can pretend the whole shameful era never happened.
- Comment on California man creates AI chatbot to waste the time of telemarketers 2 months ago:
“Hello, this is Lenny…”
- Comment on Is everyone here leftist? 3 months ago:
Single experience? Have you been hibernated for the past 100 years?
- Comment on Is everyone here leftist? 3 months ago:
I could read the lifework of Marx, but it wouldn’t change the unviability of planned economy. My parents and grandparents lived in one.
If we ever stumble upon some kind of mathematical or technological miracle, able to predict the future, I’d be worth to try again. Until then, socialism is a dangerous cult.
- Comment on Is everyone here leftist? 3 months ago:
“In Marxist philosophy, the dictatorship of the proletariat is a condition in which the proletariat, or working class, holds control over state power. The dictatorship of the proletariat is the transitional phase from a capitalist and a communist economy…”
Except, there’s no such thing as a communist economy, so the transitional phase lasts as long as there’s capital to reallocate. Then peoole start to flee across the barbed wire and the facade falls down.