foggy
@foggy@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 2 hours ago:
Value of assets > value of loan
Hes cash poor but has collateral.
- Comment on Why do so many piece of Hardware come with windows only software requiring admin right for installation 2 days ago:
Top Google result.
- Comment on Why do so many piece of Hardware come with windows only software requiring admin right for installation 2 days ago:
Maybe google it before pretending you know what it does based on the name?
- Comment on Why do so many piece of Hardware come with windows only software requiring admin right for installation 2 days ago:
Autoelevate does handle this appropriately.
It automatically sends the prompt to an admin for review.
It doesn’t automatically allow anything.
- Comment on Why do so many piece of Hardware come with windows only software requiring admin right for installation 3 days ago:
Gross. Tell your IT director about solutions to this problem, like autoelevate. I mean there’s a security tradeoff but, you can have windows prompts for admins automatically prompt an IT admin to review and enter their credentials or deny and request more info. And it’s a very easy deployment for any intermediate IT person.
- Comment on Partner has ADD, do I have misophonia? 1 week ago:
Videogames and YouTube reaction bid can both go to the same singular pair of Bluetooth headphones.
Your partner is not being fair to you. They don’t need to be listening at full volume, either. That’s obnoxious.
Shit, if I wanna plug my guitar in my huge amp and shred guitar all day, do I just tell my gf to deal with it because I’m depressed and have ADD? No, I use amp simulators and headphones.
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 1 week ago:
Okay I’m free now.
Im so glad you gave me this gem.
Your response itself relies on several fallacies… false equivalence, hasty generalization, equivocation, a strawman, and non sequitur reasoning, probably more?
You’re incorrectly conflating logical fallacies (which are clear mistakes in reasoning) with inductive uncertainty or experimental limitations in science. Logical fallacies invalidate reasoning structures. Scientific reasoning explicitly includes uncertainty and error correction as fundamental principles; it’s not fallacious; it’s cautious and probabilistic.
Additionally, your example of Socrates is actually demonstrating deductive validity, a different kind of reasoning entirely. Thus, your argument misrepresents logic and science simultaneously. Please correct these fallacies if you want this conversation to proceed productively
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 1 week ago:
You’re conflating two separate ideas.
A valid arguent needn’t any logical fallacy.
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 1 week ago:
Why do we not have some brilliant mind just fully memorize all of the ins and outs of how these arise and just crush bad faith arguments by simply labeling them in real time rather than engaging with them?
Like, if framed correctly “I don’t engage in logical fallacy. I will immediately call it out, move on, and go back to the relevant topic.”
“Oh you don’t care about starving children?”
“That’s an appeal to emotion. I won’t engage with this obvious logical fallacy. I will address the causes of children suffering to alleviate their suffering.”
“But the cause is illegal immigrants!!!”
“That’s a strawman. I won’t engage with logical fallacies. If you’d like to have a discussion about solving problems, Im all ears, but until we’re done pointing fingers, this conversation is over.”
- Comment on My password is not accepted because it is too long 1 week ago:
Okay so I agree with you that a longer password is better but this in no way indicates clear text password storage.
- Comment on I’m very good at math and would like health insurance. What is the easiest option? 1 week ago:
It’s game theory, so a little math and a little of this and that.
Are you young and healthy? Easy bet.
Are you middle aged and struggling? Difficult bet.
Are you old and in poor health? Easy bet.
Etc.
- Comment on Is it weird to juggle in the park? 2 weeks ago:
I’m approaching 40 And it was hard enough with cable internet being all the rage.
Now that kind of connectivity is 24/7 and on personal pocket sized devices.
I don’t envy today’s youth.
- Comment on Is it weird to juggle in the park? 2 weeks ago:
When you’re 20, you care what everyone thinks about you
When you’re 40, you don’t give a shit what anyone thinks about you.
When you’re 60, you’ll realize no one was thinking about you the whole time. It will be more empowering than depressing.
Skip the worry. Do you. It’s public space and hurts no one.
- Comment on This was Alex Jones once 2 weeks ago:
📽️ Why A Scanner Darkly is a good film
🕴️ Keanu is an agent.
💊 Robert Downy is on drugs
😉
- Comment on This was Alex Jones once 2 weeks ago:
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Waking Life is an excellent movie that every coming of age adolescent should watch.
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Alex Jones got drunk on investigative journalism success. It is not a stretch to say that he and Michael Moore were very similar and on similar paths at one point in history (circa Waking Life, 1999-2001.). . Turns out one of them is both batshit crazy and great at mass manipulation, while the other is still righteous but struggles to get noticed.
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- Comment on My doctor's office now has ads when checking in online 2 weeks ago:
I would absolutely leave that practice.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
My gfs brother married into wealth and is now a trump supporter. He grew up in rural New England.
- Comment on Traveling Salesman is NP-Hard, yet Uber Eats delivery route optimization algorithms exist 4 weeks ago:
That’s not really how Uber eats or similar apps work. Drivers are very rarely on more than 1 delivery at a time.
And again, until our problem size grows to a point where we cannot solve it in polynomial time, it is in P by definition.
Traveling salesman starts to evade computational time at around 20 to 30 nodes.
So because of this, as I said before, it employs a greedy heuristic to make light work on decent guesses for the problem, knowing the problem size will never get out of scope, so doing so is relatively safe.
You’re right that in theory multiple deliveries look like a tiny version of TSP, but in practice it’s nowhere near the scale that makes TSP an NP problem.
- Comment on Traveling Salesman is NP-Hard, yet Uber Eats delivery route optimization algorithms exist 4 weeks ago:
Traveling salesman doesn’t apply to Uber eats.
Just because it’s routing doent mean it’s traveling salesman.
Traveling salesman, and P vs NP is about the difficulty rapidly growing out of scope as the problem size increases.
For delivery, there are exactly 2 nodes. Pickup delivery. This problem is beyond solved, it’s childs play.
Uber eats would fail to give you the best route to hit every taco bell in America the fastest. That’s traveling salesman. It’s traveling salesman because it’s be already out of scope to simply say “find me the best route to hit 1 McDonald’s in every Continental us state.”
- Comment on How do man made hiking trails keep the grass from overgrowing? 4 weeks ago:
I buy it. Yeah different techniques for different terrain, I suppose.
Take for example, this. Here, we’d say to step on that rock, and then leap to that root on the left, then the root on the right, then the fallen tree, etc.
If you don’t, you end up with this. And something that bad will end up closed, or rerouted. Hopefully, it’ll get something like this before it’s bad, and might stand a chance at not needing much more restoration, but again this isn’t nearly as sustainable.
My assumption is, as I was saying about the ruggedness of the terrain out this way, the wider, less ankle-breaking, smooth switchbacks (as opposed to New England and ADK’s tendency to just go more or less straight up huge chutes) of the west coast demand the literal opposite methods to care for the trails.
- Comment on How do man made hiking trails keep the grass from overgrowing? 4 weeks ago:
ADK = Adirondacks.
Green (Mountains), White (Mountains).
It teaches kids to preserve trails by not walking on them, if at all possible. While walking on trails in New York and New England, you should aim for a rock first. If there is no rock to step on, aim for a root. If there is no root, then dirt is ok to step on. But avoid mud at all costs.
This highlights the ruggedness of the terrain out there. Where many hikes elsewhere provide such an ample amount of dirt with so little rock and root to aim for first, it is not a well known trail maintenance practice outside of the region. However, in the region, it is essential. When ignored, large patches of mud that will last all season long start to form. When this happens, trail maintainers either:
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Close the trail until it’s restored
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Reroute the trail permanently
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Lay down wooden planks to minimize further damage (least sustainable option).
This maintenance is tax dollars, and they don’t have a lot of them, so education is the most effective use of that dollar. And that’s why we teach the kids:
Rock before root and root before dirt, and never step in mud if you can avoid it! 🤠
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- Comment on How do man made hiking trails keep the grass from overgrowing? 4 weeks ago:
laughs in New England accent
Absolutely not.
“Rock before root and root before dirt - and never touch the mud if you can help it.”
Literally hiking 101 out here. What we teach the children.
Is also why ~5 miles in ADK, the greens, or the whites, is like ~10 miles anywhere else.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Drown it own by blaring porn.
- Comment on Could I render the computer-generated graphics from Toy Story (1995) in real time using a single modern home computer? 4 weeks ago:
Yes and no.
You could get away with it with lots of tricks to down sample and compress at times where even an rtx 5090 with 32GB VRAM is like 1/64th of what you’d need to do in high fidelity.
So you could “do it” but it wouldn’t be “it”.
- Comment on I'm a 6'1" man with size 3 feet which means every they measure my feet at a shoe store, the Brannock device gatekeeps my gender 4 weeks ago:
Okay Hank Hill.
- Comment on How long does it take for someone to reach a high level of drawing? 5 weeks ago:
It’s a function of how inspired you are to achieve the goal you set, and how many limitations exist for you personally.
Do you have no arms and no legs, and no money? Okay, this is your Everest. But it’s achievable. When? Idk bro. But it IS. As achievable as Everest is for any out of shape average-obese couch potato.
Do you have working arms and eyes, and money for drawing supplies? No other cognitive or motor disabilities to speak of etc? Idk, like 6 months to 5 years-ish. Probably. Depending on how much free time you have and how relentlessly you are able to stay inspired.
There’s no answer, but your drive/inspiration, whatever you want to call it, that’s important.
- Comment on Who would win in a fight, a Gorilla or a Bear of equal weight? 5 weeks ago:
You’re a lot weaker than every gorilla, though.
That matters.
- Comment on Who would win in a fight, a Gorilla or a Bear of equal weight? 5 weeks ago:
+1 to gorillas and no one else considering the intellect part.
Like, guys. Humans are weak. We rule the world.
I think bear can win on brute force, but, as soon as the gorilla sees the attack for what it is and considers a way to counter, the bear is toast.
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 1 month ago:
I read this in a posh British accent.
- Comment on welp, Patreon just destroyed my stable income after a decade on the platform - what now 1 month ago:
“Hey guys come catch all my new videos on my own website”
Put the old stuff on YouTube, FB, insta, tiktok, and encourage traffic to your site.
Profit.
