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- Comment on Does Instagram or YouTube Shorts get you? 2 months ago:
They should take down their shorts.
- Comment on Is there a standard/preferred list order for non-alphanumeric characters? 2 months ago:
If your input is limited to ASCII, sure.
But ASCII is only a 7-bit standard, and only supports those characters needed by American English computer users in the 1960s. Lots of characters you might see in “plain text” are not part of ASCII; including all accented characters, all non-Latin alphabets, and many common symbols and punctuation marks including these: £€¢©™°
(Yes, you could get accented characters in the pre-Unicode days using 8-bit “extended ASCII”, e.g. IBM/Windows code pages. However, those are not really ASCII and they will break if the text is interpreted as the wrong code page.)
Unicode collation is the Right Thing today.
- Comment on Where do guns go when people are done using them? 6 months ago:
The modern notion of “interchangeable parts” was developed for guns; they’re made to be maintained and repaired. Parts that wear out can be replaced. You can still get new replacement parts for guns made over a hundred years ago.
- Comment on Why do people want games that are just stories without any gameplay, these days? Why not just watch a movie for that? 7 months ago:
There’s lots of kinds of games.
You want chess? There’s chess. Like, no other game has better software than chess. Lichess is maybe the cleanest goddamn game experience that anyone’s ever written in code. There’s no bullshit whatsoever. You can just run it and play chess, with the computer or with a human. It’s just a game.
The best Go game I can point you to is KGS and it’s not as good as Lichess.
You want to play a run-around-and-whack-stuff-with-a-sword game? Yeah, buy yourself a Nintendo and play the latest Zelda game. They’re good at that. Especially if you have a strong stomach and don’t get all pukey when your guy goes flying in the air.
Or you want to play a Dungeons & Dragons game with factions and fights and gnolls and hot drow ladies? Yeah, you go install Steam and play Baldur’s Gate 3. It’s okay if you didn’t play Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2.
- Comment on Assuming a button that, every time you push it, your intelligence goes up. The obvious and sane thing to do is to push the button all day. Yes? No? Maybe? Is there something that I'm missing here? 7 months ago:
Well, if you keep pushing the button eventually you will be smart enough to figure out something even better to do with your time. Then push it once more to check. Then if the idea still seems like a good plan, go do it.
- Comment on Attention is required for thinking. Advertisers fight for attention. The Buddhists say that attention is the axis of reality. Attention might even be LOVE. But what exactly is attention? 7 months ago:
Going much more speculative here:
Some of the parameters for attention seem to include:
- Speed and rhythm of attention shifts. Am I focusing solidly on one thing? Or am I switching back and forth between several things, like a student driver who must keep track of their feet and their hands and other cars and pedestrians and signals? When I am distracted, how reliably do I return to an intended object of attention? (I say “rhythm”, but “melody, meter, and rhyme” might be a better analogy.)
- The ratios between attention on different sorts of targets: external (senses, objects in the world, people saying words at me), bodily (stuff my body is doing: motions, itches, weird inner ear noises, gait, hunger), and reflective (stuff my mind is doing: inner voice, memory recall, making plans, worrying about that weird inner ear noise).
- The strength of episodic memory formation; and the subjective passage of time. Short-term memory is how we perceive time passing; people who are not forming short-term memories (e.g. alcoholic blackout, senile dementia, high psychedelic doses) don’t notice time passing, experience frequent deja vu, repeat the same “discovery” over and over, etc.; they may have extended attentional focus on a single object because they’re just having the same thought repeatedly without forming memories.
- Comment on Attention is required for thinking. Advertisers fight for attention. The Buddhists say that attention is the axis of reality. Attention might even be LOVE. But what exactly is attention? 7 months ago:
I can drive, listen to music, and have a conversation but it starts to overload my brain at that point, as most of my attention is focusing on driving.
The usual computer analogy is multitasking, in which the kernel rapidly switches from one process to another. A single CPU core may switch between running code for my browser, my chat program, the temperature monitoring process, and the wifi driver; this happens so quickly that it appears to me that all of them are running “at the same time”.
Attention also shifts quickly. When you are doing two things “at the same time”, attention is switching back and forth between them! You’re not really constantly attending to the music and the road; ideally you switch back to the road often enough that if something surprising happens there, you can respond to it in time.
We know from experiment that when people have more distractions going on while driving, they actually do respond slower to surprises on the road. Eating a bagel with the radio on and your kids in the back seat is actually hard, and really does slow down noticing the dog that just ran out into the road.
- Comment on Attention is required for thinking. Advertisers fight for attention. The Buddhists say that attention is the axis of reality. Attention might even be LOVE. But what exactly is attention? 7 months ago:
Attention is a feature of minds, wherein a mind can have awareness of lots of inputs (senses, internal thoughts, emotions, etc.) but dedicate most of its “thinking power” to only one or a few things from its awareness at a time.
(“Attention” is narrow; “awareness” is broad. You can be aware of the color of the wall next to you, even if you are not attending to it.)
What does attention do? Attention selects; attention shifts. You can switch from focusing on this sentence, to your breathing, a sound in the distance, the taste of your coffee, your plans for the day, the texture of your socks.
Shifting is not a bug; it is what attention is for. That is why we have it.
There is a rhythm to attention shifts. They can happen quicker or slower; and more or less suddenly. This rhythm differs from person to person, activity to activity, and with emotional and hormonal changes.
Some people are more aware of their attention shifts than others. Some people feel more control over their attention shifts than others. Some people’s attention shifts are more or less in tune with classrooms or offices or other environments that expect certain sorts of tight control.
Meditation allows us to notice and gently alter the parameters of attention.
Spontaneous attention shifts are important! If a loud bang and the smell of sulfur happen from the closet next to you, your attention will probably no longer be on reading this message. If a loved one bursts into the room weeping in despair, your attention will no longer be on reading this message. If the smell of baking pies drifts into the room, your attention will no longer be on reading this message. (At least, if you’re like me. Mmm, pies.)
Focus is also important. When someone “gets in the zone” they may not notice many things that otherwise would grab their attention. They might even fail to attend to the smell of pies; and the weeping loved one would take a little longer to grab them than otherwise.
Attention works along with self-awareness. Attention does the shifting; self-awareness creates the sense of continuity: even though you are sometimes reading and sometimes thinking about pie, you still have the sense that you are the same person. Even though there is not really any such thing as “a self” (q.v. anatta), it is pretty useful to remember that “you” have a body and that it is pretty similar to the body “you” had yesterday.
- Comment on How do poor people in the states give birth without money? 8 months ago:
I don’t have a credit score, and have never had a problem renting. It’s getting a mortgage that I can’t do without a partner who’s been consistently paying off a credit card for decades.
- Comment on How should I handle an ex friend who feels like he needs to bully me to raise his own self esteem? (We're adults) 8 months ago:
Last year, he reported me to the college because I was doing students’ homework for them for some extra cash. He said that what I was doing was depreciating his Diploma. I guess I get it, but what kind of friend would try to get me in trouble for something as harmless as doing people’s homework?
One who believed that you had already betrayed him, apparently. That’s not an excuse for ongoing harassment, though.
In many academic institutions, including some of the highest reputed engineering schools, your former friend would have been considered equally guilty if he failed to report your academic dishonesty. Asking you to quit cheating would not be an acceptable alternative; that would be concealing your violation.
Dude is still being a harasser, which is also unacceptable conduct. Two wrongs don’t make a right. But you’re still pretending you did nothing wrong. That’s not super great either.
- Comment on Will people respond better if you say you're teetotal, or straight edge? 8 months ago:
If “no, thanks” is not treated as a complete sentence, you’re in a bad crowd. Doesn’t matter if it’s beer with the coworkers or MDMA at a trippy cuddle party. “No” requires no further elaboration.
- Comment on I'm watching Wargames(1983), could local people have heard the missile doors opening during a test? 8 months ago:
My impression is that US missile silos are located mostly in sparsely populated areas of the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains, where there are not a lot of locals to overhear the garage door opening.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Surely then the Arabs will give it back to the French, whom they conquered it from at the end of the Crusades … but the French have to give it back to the Arabs … who have to give it back to the Greek Christians that they conquered it from … who have to give it back to the Romans … then the Jews again … then the Babylonians (the pre-Arab Iraqis, that is) … then the Jews again … then the Spanish and Moroccans as the ethnic descendants of the Sea Peoples (the original Palestinians) … eventually it goes back to the Akkadians or something, right?
- Comment on Why do many folks play follow the leader even into adulthood? 8 months ago:
Asking why like this has the implicit flawed premise that human behaviors like this are products of conscious thought.
This is not generally a flaw. We can ask “why?” questions about lots of natural processes that don’t involve conscious thought. For example, a lot of plant growth follows mathematical patterns; the “why?” is that this optimizes the use of space or of sunlight, so it’s favored by evolution.
- Comment on Is there an alternative to "motherfucker" that people would actually use? 8 months ago:
- Puppy toucher
- Scuzz junkie
- Seat sniffer
- Lostprophet
- Arsebagel
- Enjoyer of Other People’s Sheep
- Soldier of 4chan
- Doucheballoon
- His Imperial Knobnobblin, Huffboy Crustmaster Studmuffin of the Lousewortshire¹ Studmuffins
- Trumpie
¹ Pronounced “Loser”
- Comment on Does the Federal Govt in the US consider Hemp as a product completely separate from Cannabis and as a legitimate business? 8 months ago:
That increase to .1% is probably to keep existing industrial hemp farmers legal. It’s not going to have an effect on federal marijuana law. Federally-legal hemp farmers have to report their locations so that their crops can be later checked to make sure they’re not actually federally-illegal marijuana.
- Comment on Does the Federal Govt in the US consider Hemp as a product completely separate from Cannabis and as a legitimate business? 8 months ago:
This question is actually two different questions mixed together:
Do hemp farms, middle men, and retail from seed to sale get tax breaks and incentives for having a business in the US or do they get the same cash only treatment as the Cannabis industry?
To answer these two questions separately:
- There are not special tax incentives to promote growing industrial hemp. However, hemp growers can receive federal crop insurance, loans, and environmental incentives that apply to all agricultural producers.
- However, industrial hemp is not a cash-only business like state-legalized marijuana, as it is federally legal.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
No US employer may legally forbid their workers from discussing their wages or working conditions with one another for the purpose of labor organization.
- Comment on What do you call the next major American holiday which will occur on Monday, October 9th? - Lemmy.world 8 months ago:
Curiously, Google Calendar calls it both!
- Comment on What is the name of this type of image 8 months ago:
My understanding is that’s literally what a big chunk of North America looks like at night, when viewed from space with a sufficiently long camera exposure.
- Comment on Bike Riders of lemmy, you okay with me riding my eScooter in the bike lane? 8 months ago:
The best place for electric scooters on most city streets is in the regular traffic lanes. This is also the best place for bicycles in most cities. Unless your particular city and route have actually safe bike lanes, you’re better off just acting like any other vehicle, using the regular traffic lanes, and following all traffic laws and signs.
(Yes, you’re slower than cars; but so is a horse rider, and they’ve been allowed on city streets since long before cars existed.)
Many sorts of “bike lane” make the streets less safe for cyclists and scooter users. Lanes that are also used as streetside parking are not safe, as attempting to use them requires swerving in and out between parked cars. Narrow lanes that are adjacent to streetside parking are not safe, because of the “door zone” problem. “Lanes” that are really part of the gutter are not safe, because they accumulate debris (tire chunks, mufflers, road sand) – all of which are much more dangerous for cyclists and scooter users than for drivers.
There do exist high-quality bike lanes in some cities. They are clearly marked and separated from the regular traffic lanes (sometimes with barriers); they don’t share space with streetside parking; they often have their own traffic signals.
If there are safe bike lanes, then yes, they’re an appropriate choice for electric scooters. The reason for this is that the speed, maneuverability, and vulnerability of electric scooters are much closer to those of bicycles than to either cars or pedestrians.
But if there aren’t safe bike lanes on the specific route you need to take, just use the “slowest” (in most of the world, rightmost) regular traffic lane. Most of the time, be in the center of this lane, not hugging the right edge; this makes you more visible, keeps you out of the “door zone”, etc. You may move right to allow faster traffic (i.e. cars, trucks, motorcycles) to pass, if it is safe to do so.
(Note: In some places, such as California, cyclists are required to stay to the right insofar as it is safe. This does not mean biking in the gutter or “door zone”, because those are never safe.)
Like bicycles, electric scooters should never be ridden on city sidewalks adjacent to buildings, due to the risk of colliding with pedestrians coming out of building doors. Blind pedestrians, very elderly pedestrians, pedestrians pushing delivery carts, nearsighted pedestrians who have lost their glasses, and other pedestrians with limited eyesight are all legitimate users of sidewalks. Do not expect that pedestrians can see or dodge. When using pedestrian features such as sidewalks or crosswalks, both cyclists and scooter users should dismount and walk their vehicle.
- Comment on If reincarnation was proven to be a reality, how would it change the shape of our society? 8 months ago:
What’s it shaped like, then?
In some versions of the reincarnation story, you die, you come back as another human, pretty much at random.
In other versions, maybe you’re a human, maybe you’re a better human – which is to say, a higher caste, class, race – or maybe you’re gutter scum and deserve to get stepped on. This sort of version tends to be favored by archdukes and other sorts of shitheads.
In still another version, maybe you’re a chicken or a bug; so be nice to chickens and bugs, because that could be your grandma.
And then there are the funky versions of the reincarnation story, where you probably don’t even end up in this same world at all. If you suck, you get reincarnated as a tortured ghost in a hell dimension. (There are lots of those; Dante had no freakin’ idea.) If you’re awesome, maybe you get to be an angelic being who spends your whole life rapturously singing the praises of the Almighty. Doesn’t that sound fun?
- Comment on Are you fishing for good conversation or just teasing the squares? 8 months ago:
We used to call it “freaking the mundanes”.
- Comment on What makes a content creator an influencer?? 8 months ago:
Narcissism.
- Comment on What is the attraction to kids? 8 months ago:
There are no blue cats in the training data, but the AI can interpolate between a blue parrot and a gray cat.
- Comment on The Minecraft wiki has been moved from Fandom to Minecraft.wiki 8 months ago:
Is it that, or just the reverse?
- Comment on Why is cooking a food item method called different things by what the item is, or what is the criteria? 8 months ago:
They’re slight variations in technique. Poaching is usually at a lower temperature than boiling, for instance.
- Comment on How do you call in English 8 months ago:
A and B are column headers; X and Y are row headers.
- Comment on Why do sports commentators talk soft bullshit? 8 months ago:
They’re not reporters; they’re entertainers.
- Comment on How should I wash dishes/surfaces in contact with raw chicken? 9 months ago:
Hot water and soap. If you have a dishwasher, it gets plenty hot enough to kill bacteria on surfaces.