bisby

@bisby@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 🤖⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 🤖⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UwU brat mathematician behavior⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kanyes new album⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨yo mama joke⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  this isn’t an aneurysm, this is just how gen alpha talks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a little guy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Correct.

  For the hemotoxin, you aren’t going to “just wait for the effects to wear off.” The toxin will kill you.

  For the neurotoxin, you can just wait out the effects by countering the symptoms. Can’t breathe? Respirator can save your life.

  The hemotoxin itself is doing terrible damage, but the neurotoxin itself doesn’t do any “damage” other than disabling systems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a little guy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Getting bit by a venomous snake in Australia and you’re blood starts to disassemble itself. The only counter is antivenom or die. Your blood breaking down is what kills you. And there is no way to separate the bite from that.

  Being able to counter the venom in such a simple way is what makes it different. You can logically break it down into steps that are separable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree with your definition of “killed Linux gaming.” It killed native Linux development perhaps. But using Linux for gaming is more viable than ever thanks to Valve. They single handedly boosted Linux gaming, if anything.

  And they also offer more than the competition. For a while there games on EGS were just telling people to get support on steam forums because epic had nothing for supporting games they sold. Steam has forums, screenshot storage, achievements, remote play, friends lists, a shopping cart (🙄) and is adding new features like clips. I’m not using steam because it’s a monopoly, I’m using it because it’s a better platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*Ackshually*⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hades meaning “the underworld” and not referring to the greek mythology. I believe also referred to as Sheol. It refers to just “the common grave of man” and not specifically “hell” as often depicted.

  Basically, “everyone comes back from the dead.” A lot of this section has flowery prose for over describing everything. “Graves and death give up their dead” is basically just “the dead come back to live so they can be judged” (which just further illustrates that nothing happens when you are dead, because you have to be resurrected just to be judged)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*Ackshually*⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The way a lot of it works out in the bible, is that when you die right now. you die. There is no afterlife, you’re in the grave. thats it. but then during the end times mentioned in 20:13-15, ALL the dead people are resurrected. And then the good ones get to stay alive and the bad ones go back to being dead. Thus a second death. So there is no “afterlife”… you are either eternally alive after armageddon, or eternally dead.

  Being dead is basically just being non-existant. Fully unaware of anything. Which if you are to believe the bible, that means you’re cut off from god entirely, who despite having just murdered basically everyone, is supposedly pure love and joy. So the end result is living in eternal bliss that is so great that you can’t even fathom, or being cut off from that and never even having a possibility of anything. FOMO of god is the ultimate punishment.

  I’m not even a religious person and the existential dread of “if it’s truly nothingness after I die, i won’t even have a way to experience the nothingness, everything will just stop” is enough to keep me awake some nights. So I can see how eternal nothingness was enough for the original authors to be considered horrifying consequence for not being religious enough, without having to resort to eternal physical torture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*Ackshually*⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If we’re ackshually things, lets cover the references to the lake of fire in the bible.

  In revelations 19:20, there is the beast and the false prophet being tossed into the lake of fire.

  In revelations 20:9, a bunch of people are explicitly consumed by fire from heaven. Consumed, not burned forever.

  Then in revelations 20:10, the devil is added to the lake of fire with the beast and false prophet, and those three burn forever. But not the common folk.

  Lastly, in revelations 20:13-15, hades and death give up their dead, and people are judged. Bad people are tossed into the lake of fire, explicitly labeled as a second death, but not mentioned as being eternal torment.

  So in conclusion, the devil himself is spending eternity burning in the lake of “fire” (not lava or magma, nor is it underground, this is the apocalypse, this is happening on the surface of the planet that is being bombarded with heavenly shit), he’s not doing any torturing there. He is also not the one sending people there, and sinners don’t burn forever, they die when cast into the fire.