HexesofVexes
@HexesofVexes@lemmy.world
Why, a hexvex of course!
- Comment on When you know your boss is an insane moron 1 week ago:
Funnily enough, if you actually follow “work to the job, not the clock” you get more work done, and you generally go home early.
You’re also less likely to quit, and more likely to develop and share good practice.
- Comment on Pornhub to restrict access for UK users from February 2 weeks ago:
The internet has many strange rules, one of the unwritten ones is “if little Timmy wants titties, little Timmy is going to find titties”.
No matter how you hard you try, you’re not going to stop this phenomenon. You’ll just push kids to sites that refuse to comply (usually the dodgy ones), or inhabit grey areas (a lot of streamer content counts as softcore), or they’ll get Nd a workaround (current VPN situation), or they’ll just gaslight an AI model into generating porn.
Trying to block access isn’t viable as there is always a work around, what is needed is someone sitting down with a kid to put it into context. That’s not the job of the government, that’s the job of a parent.
- Comment on Womp womp womp womp 2 weeks ago:
So, if your field appears instantly/imminently monetisable, then the private sector is an option. However, the wider benefits of your research are VERY unlikely to reach the wider public in your lifetime. Yes, you will basically be working to make someone else rich. However, this kind of grant is very likely to succeed in academic settings as universities love patents.
If you’re doing abstract or fundamental research, you’re pretty much out of luck - the private sector does not want anything to do with this. However, it’s little better in the academic sector because you have to spend almost all your time chasing grants, or teaching topics outside your expertise (i.e. the ones industry sees immediate value in) to survive.
In short, there is a lot of options to finish things (because everyone loves intellectual property as an asset), but very few to develop them (no-one likes to pay for the groundwork).
- Comment on Womp womp womp womp 2 weeks ago:
“I want to make the world a better place at no real benefit to myself”
“Ok, but only if you beg us for the money”
Modern academia in a nutshell
- Comment on They don't pay me enough for this 3 weeks ago:
Teaching people excel:
- Comment on Trying to dualboot Linux Mint + Windows on a second external hard drive but Windows Setup doesn't let me install on the disk... 3 weeks ago:
Windows on an external drive isn’t officially supported if I remember right. Your screenshot seems to support that.
Honestly, I’d be leery of installing an OS on an external drive as they tend not to age well with heavy use.
Are you trying to necro a laptop with a dead drive? If so, depending on the model, it might just be worth replacing the internal drive so then you can go ahead with your dual boot plan.
Also, quick tip, install windows, then disable fast startup in windows, then disable safeboot in your bios. Otherwise, when it comes time to install mint, you might hit issues with windows saying “NO, MY DRIVE”.
If you install mint and get no grub screen, just boot mint with your live usb and look up repairing grub - should be nice and easy.
- Comment on Huh? 4 weeks ago:
Sign language bar?
- Comment on High value 4 weeks ago:
Get the new “Bagarn Bod” today with this simple trick doctors won’t tell you!
- Comment on Greenland should start utilizing these mfs! 4 weeks ago:
Deploying traditional counter
- Comment on Humans are part of the ecosystem. 5 weeks ago:
Good and evil are subjective - the idea behind “humans are a virus” is an implied negativity. Thus the counterexample mapping to a good virus ;)
- Comment on Humans are part of the ecosystem. 5 weeks ago:
magazine.hms.harvard.edu/…/good-viruses-do
Not all viruses are evil, so it might hold up?
- Comment on The crossover you've been waiting for 1 month ago:
What a terrible day to be literate.
- Comment on Oh boy, rejoin 1 month ago:
Interesting - time to go poke one of the politics lecturers and see what ramifications they had.
To the average person on the street their lack would likely mean little, though I’ll miss the interesting coin designs of the pound.
- Comment on Oh boy, rejoin 1 month ago:
I hear this point a fair bit, could you elaborate more on these special treatments (I know about opting out of the euro, but that’s about it).
- Comment on Word. 1 month ago:
LaTeX supremacy has entered that chat
- Comment on Absolutely nothing 2 months ago:
[✓] Realised I understand nothing
[✓] Time for this planet to die
Definitely check out.
- Comment on People in the UK Watching the The world using the internet 2 months ago:
Yep, because it was never about protecting the children ;)
- Comment on People in the UK Watching the The world using the internet 2 months ago:
I COMPLETELY AGREE - THIS ALL MAKES PERFECT SENSE.
- Comment on People in the UK Watching the The world using the internet 2 months ago:
Imgur blocking is a bit of a pain - half the mods in steam are missing images in their description.
The online safety act also means we get to submit ID to view anything construed as “adult”. Very “av you got a loiscencse for that” these days without a VPN.
- Comment on Labcoat! 2 months ago:
And here we see Professor Moonmoon about to espouse his latest theories on goodboi theory.
- Comment on Stupid sexy raft 2 months ago:
Scientific reproduction, as in reproduction of a study XD
- Comment on Stupid sexy raft 2 months ago:
Scientific reproduction, not sexual reproduction XD
- Comment on Stupid sexy raft 2 months ago:
So, hear me out here, there is a huge reproduction crisis out there. In theory, you could try to replicate this study without the researcher being an asshole and see if it still works out and this would be a valuable line of research that could technically get funded.
I’m going to need a decent ship, some volunteers, and a 101 day supply of daiquiris.
- Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway 2 months ago:
Fair play to you - it just comes off that way.
Each post that hits my feed makes me think “wow, sexism is alive and well”. Glad to hear it isn’t just all rage bait.
- Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway 2 months ago:
Eh, I only ever see that community when a bait post makes it to the front page.
Honestly, I just assumed it was a really elaborate troll group and didn’t bother engaging.
- Comment on UK government set to make support for asylum seekers ‘discretionary’ 2 months ago:
The UK approach to illegal entry is already nuts - they isolate people, teach them helplessness, and pay a fortune to do it.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Check blood vessels, check large intestine, and check heart lights are all on and flashing angrily.
I think the “ohfuckwe’redeadadeadmanwalking” alarm also blares out at least once per morning.
- Comment on And now I'm reminded I have two of these to repair. 2 months ago:
How GLaDOS would hurt us now: Portal 2 turns 15 next year.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 3 months ago:
Erm…
I think there are errors on both parts here…
1.9/170 is about 1.1176%. 4 decimal places is still an unacceptable level of rounding here, but it’sa damn sight better than 0/1 decimal place. Both of you were off on this.
It is definitely right to split rape and sexual assault, they’re very different crimes - combining them is double counting which is a poor faith tactic used to inflate numbers.
1.1176% per year DEFINITELY does not translate directly to that for a lifetime. To put it into context, if you have a 1% chance of being shot each day (assuming BINS) you have a [(0.99)^365]*100% (or 2.6%) of not being shot at all that year - note binomial is not appropriate for rape odds calculations but it’s a nice example of how low odds per year DO NOT translate to low odds per lifetime.
Self report is absolute garbage - it’s the worst form of stat gathering and often leads to socially advantageous answers being given. Using self-report stats as a keystone to an argument is dangerous at best.
The “known rapist” is a tricky one, as it depends how you define rape. Sex under the influence of alcohol you later regret - tricky to place in the at home (you knew them enough to go home with) vs stranger (did you really know them). While it’s nice to give clear cut numbers, this isn’t a clear cut scenario.
/Statsrant
Seems to me you both care about this topic - sounds to me like you should both go data hunting and explore the topic together. Two opposing perspectives makes a great paper, and you generally learn more!
My two cents - being alone with someone is always risky. Trying to assign which is riskier (men or women) is foolish, it creates the dynamic of “men vs women” rather than the desired “everyone vs rapists”.
- Comment on Great to see some actual progress over there 3 months ago:
Tiny Truss Tower?
