bisby

@bisby@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you're smarter than the teacher that wrote the test⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wrote the original reply as a joke. Clearly we’re not playing by any sort of rules here. so worrying about the difference between digit and number is kinda funny. but then I thought it would be fun to actually drastically overthink it and be overly pedantic about what the question says.

  So no, not bitter. I just have a very bad sense of humor and find dumb things entertaining.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you're smarter than the teacher that wrote the test⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Now isn’t the time to start being pedantic about rules.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you're smarter than the teacher that wrote the test⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a 0 in the bottom row. That is the smallest number. That’s why these were all wrong. Also it says number singular and they circled all 3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Context⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For a second I thought “Maybe I saw it in a different community and TheRealKuni is just being picky about cross posts.”

  mander.xyz/post/46153727 - nope. In this community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real and True⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I had 6 (3x 27" 16:9 monitors), and then wound up with a 34" 21:9 ultra wide for my middle monitor. The side monitors stopped fitting on the triple monitor arm I had, but just barely. Enough that turning the monitors portrait made them fit again… so I’m pretty close to 10 right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Psychedelic Exoskeletons⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of animals have a sort of orange/green colorblindness I thought. Tigers being orange are actually well camouflaged for their prey. So orange looks amazing and isn’t necessarily making them stand out.

  This is an amazing picture though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When they say repeated, they mean repeated for all time ever. Has someone ever used the phrase “how are you today?” … yes. Has someone ever used the phrase “Pablo Picasso is my favorite brand of watermelon” before? Probably not. There are probably a lot of phrases with varying levels of “have existed before”. That previous sentence might be an entirely original one.

  But there are plenty of other sentences that can be conveyed that actually exchange information but don’t generate new sentences. “So, what do you do for work?” “My favorite color is green” are almost certainly not new sentences.

  A better breakdown of my sequence of numbers with the exact same values might be

  1, 1, 2, 3,
  1, 1, 4, 5,
  1, 1, 6, 7,
  1, 1, 8, 9
  1, 1,
  1, 1,
  1
  

  And now you have a repeated intro section per line and a sequence of totally unique numbers to that line.

  “Most numbers are repeated” could mean that if you pick any given number from all the 21 numbers, it more than 50% likely to be a “1” you pick, just because 1 shows up so often.

  “Most numbers are NOT repeated” could mean that if you if you pick any given number from the 9 unique numbers that show up in the set, you are 88% likely to pick a number that only exists once. But if any of these numbers were to be repeated even once, for any reason, that part stops being true.

  In language, this just means that some phrases are going to be purely templates like “Hello” but some phrases are informational without being new: “I like turtles” and some are completely never happened before.

  And depending on where your mental anchoring is, “we have a lot of repeated phrases in our lives, how could MOST sentences be new” or “repeating things would get old” … that stat may be hard to believe or surprising, or very obvious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Hello, how are you?” has been repeated plenty. But after that things start to vary.

  In the sequence of numbers 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9… Most numbers only appear once even though most numbers are a repeat.

  • There are 9 possible numbers and most (88%) of them are not repeats
  • "1" accounts for most (60%) of the entries in the sequence.

  If we assume “hi, how are you?” is “1” and most sentences are another number, we can see how even with common phrases being repeated frequently, most sentences may tend to be original.

  (I’ve not done the math and I’ve definitely not studied language enough to say how dubious or accurate the claim is, you just piqued my interest and I started trying to rationalize it all)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cant Decide 🤖⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. But that’s wrong because lying about current events is wrong. This is what I meant about framework. AI is a tool in that regard and not the problem. There is plenty of “real” journalism out there spreading lies too that I have problems with.

  I’m fortunate I guess that most of the AI slop I dismiss is things more akin to baby panda sneezing scares mom panda. Where it doesn’t REALLY matter if it’s real because there are no consequences. It’s either funny or it’s not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cant Decide 🤖⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If someone were to say to you “why did the chicken cross the road?” You wouldn’t demand that there is actually a chicken. You would accept it as a framework for a joke.

  The same holds true for staged videos or AI or anything. Is the framework important to the point? A video claiming people can fly and using AI as proof… That’s problematic. A staged bit where it would still be funny if it was just told verbally by a standup comedian? Who cares how real it is, the realness was never the point, the concept of the situation was.

  Almost all comedy movies are just long staged bits.

  And “how funny would this be if a standup comedian told this as a joke” vs “the context of this potentially actually happening is very important to the underlying humor of it” is a variable line for people. And that’s ok. Unless someone is in danger (don’t let someone jump off a cliff because ai said they can fly), other people’s lines don’t really affect you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I go crazy will you still call me Superman?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That picture is uranium though? In the picture it has yellow oxides forming on the outside.

  In the same way that if someone posted a picture of a rusty piece of iron, we’d still say it was iron, even though iron is a silvery-grey metal, but in the picture, it would be reddish/brown.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My friend is buying a new PC and he is deciding between air cooler and AIO, which should be get?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t disagree. But cooling performance does impact CPU performance in some cases even without “overclocking”

  And in very hot running chips, it can start to matter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My friend is buying a new PC and he is deciding between air cooler and AIO, which should be get?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Boost clocks depend on thermal headroom. Better cooling will get you better performance still, even if you aren’t manually over clocking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Attitudes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They also get a power trip out of it. Some people would do that for free

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “on your machine” requires you to have a machine. This isn’t for people with computers already. This is for people who are already looking for a new machine, and this becomes the “ready out of the box” option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feynman rules⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's very thick and lustrous.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  youtu.be/XvXRaSvxmqg

  Reminds me of this old commercial

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨predatory giraffes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My uncle always used to say a silly little poem:

  Birdie, birdie, in the sky

  Laid a white one in my eye

  I don’t laugh, I don’t cry

  I’m just glad that cows don’t fly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨soda⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If this were an actual public service, the solution would be to make sure people’s needs were met so they didn’t feel obligated to take comical amounts of soda.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨soda⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Things in favor of Peyton here:

  • Corporations in general
  • There is no rule against it
  • 7-11 has a pretty regular event where “fill a silly cup, feel free to be absurd” is a thing, so there is precedent
  • That amount of soda is still probably profitable for the company, fountain soda is incredibly cheap
  • This isn’t regular consumption and clearly not a regular occurrence, if beverages were regularly freely available, it wouldn’t be exciting to do this and this type of behavior would go away – you have to hoard service when public service is an artificially limited quantity.
  • This didn’t deprive any other customer of soda – the only downside here is a corporation losing a few cents of profit.

  Things against Peyton:

  • Hoarding is a bad mentality to be in (agreed with you here)
  • It will take days to drink that much soda, and it will be flat and nasty

  When poor people get a windfall of money, they tend to spend it all. It’s why lottery winners tend to wind up broke. Because historically, money is a “use it or lose it” for those people. If you’ve been trained your whole life to adapt to things, it can be hard to do the right thing when those things no longer hold true.

  Americans cant have decent public services because they abuse them… results in Americans desperate for public services… which results in Americans taking extra advantage of any public service that is available… which results in a mindset that Americans abuse public services… which results in less funding… Its a vicious cycle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨don't trust cowboys or people doing cowboy voices⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You had a stroke because your mom cancelled your WoW sub?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UwU brat mathematician behavior⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. Clearly i is current. What is this i=√-1 nonsense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hideo Kojima proposes a game where the protagonist forgets abilities if players take too long a break⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tarkov is a live service game. Which has its own ups and downs. Tarkov has benefits of having some things progress while you are offline. Things happen at the server level while you’re gone.

  Not every game needs to be a live service game though or try to use live service features in a single player offline game.

  Unless there is a very specific reason in the game mechanics why in game time is 1:1 with real time, it doesn’t make a lot of sense except to be divisive and a discussion point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With the classic to end it⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. Shrimp fedthechimney allafraidhoe. A classic pasta to go with rice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At least 4,500 Americans per year die from hydroxyl acid exposure⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hydroxyl acid? That sounds even more dangerous than hydrogen hydroxide, which is a notoriously dangerous base!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kanyes new album⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or it could be because of the weird old timey sentence structure. And it’s actually equivalent to:

  Why do you call me (the Lord), “Lord”

  Similar to “Why do you call me, your boss, ‘Boss’, but then don’t do the things I tell you to.”

  Once to establish “I am Lord” and once to establish “And you call me that”.

  Either way, it’s a translation, and not the original text anyway. So I dont know why people feel the need to put borderline gibberish on the side of their car.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kanyes new album⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The word LORD in Bibles is actually the same thing as when people put G-d instead of “God”… Anywhere LORD appears in a bible in block capitals, the original text actually had יהוה - the tetragrammaton. Which is “god’s name”, and they decided that printing the name would be using it in vain, so they replaced it with something else, so people could read the bible without sinning.

  It wouldn’t surprise me if “Lord יהוה” appeared somewhere in the original text and just got written out as “Lord LORD”… but again, actually knowing anything about religion isn’t actually the point of using religion as a bludgeon for controlling the masses. Why proof read your sign when you need to get out on the streets to let people know they aren’t doing things your Jesus’s way.

  Or it’s possible they just wanted it to be taller without being wider. and couldn’t figure out font sizing, so they just doubled it up.

  Or they think that doubling a word adds emphasis or something.

  Or they’re just complete morons. It’s probably this one.

  And either way, I dont think repeating a single word erroneously would make an an aneurysm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kanyes new album⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t aneurysm and is just poorly laid out mixed with old timey language.

  Why call ye me “Lord”, and do not the things which I say?

  “Why call ye me Lord” is the same question verb/object ordering of when someone says “what say you?” … “why do you call me Lord”

  “Do not the things which I say” is just replacing “don’t do” with “Do not.” It’s really weird in modern english. But you don’t need a second do to make sense. Heck, the previous sentence didn’t need a “do”… “You need not a second do” is a perfectly valid sentence, that’s just not how colloquially we form sentences anymore.

  But more to your point, anyone who has a sign this big on their car is probably more concerned about the time Jesus said “homosexuality is a sin” [citation needed], and less about the time he said “love thy neighbor” [Mark 12:31].

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is smarter than a genius⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to realize that convenience and simplicity are sometimes a feature. Just Works™ technology has a lot of value (assuming the thing does in fact just work).

  I don’t have any Apple products, but there are plenty of other categories in my life where I’ve paid more for a worse product just because I didn’t have to think at all about the one I got.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What job do you need this hard hat for?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tory Bruno, CEO of ULA wears a cowboy hard hat. Clearly this is how you become rich.