Dalvoron

@Dalvoron@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's uncle is sick⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  About 90-95% of humans have died at some point in their lives so yeah very likely we will follow suit at some point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2024 is about 75% done. Let's recommend the best games of 2024, but with a twist: only the ones with no paid DLC!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  #Shadows of Doubt

  An alternate universe corpo city filled with generated crimes to solve. You get a case board, scan for fingerprints/footprints, talk to witnesses, look up sales records, check out cctv cameras among loads of other stuff. All of it is happening live in the city - everyone has schedules, an apartment, a workplace, an inventory, an email account, a blood type, a shoe size… - so that murder/kidnapping/robbery literally happened in the game while you were crawling through vents looking for an envelope with sensitive documents that someone asked you to steal. Just yesterday I got to a crime scene super quickly and caught a murderer leaving the scene of the crime with the murder weapon on their person. There are deus ex style body augmentations too.

  One of my favourite cases was a woman who got murdered. I had the husband pegged for it but couldn’t pin it on him. His fingerprints were all over the place and he was on the cctv but they lived together so that wasn’t really evidence. The case went cold. A couple of days later the HUSBAND is murdered and I’m stumped. Just go looking for anything related to the guy and hope I stumble across something useful by accident. So eventually I break into the husband’s boss’ apartment and find a bouquet of flowers with a note for the boss from the husband. It turns out the husband is having a secret gay affair with his boss. The boss kills the wife so he can be with the husband. Husband doesn’t want to be with a murderer I guess so the boss kills him too!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Glowworm⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have thumbnails set on my phone so I only ever saw the full image. That said, I looked at it without my glasses with my arm outstretched and I’m going to guess they saw either buttcrack or titcleft

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨buddy comin in hot⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No jesus was not a fuck baby, Mary probably was. Immaculate conception is not the same as virgin conception. Immaculate means God did not curse her for the sins of Adam and Eve (which God had previously done with everyone else), which is usually called “original sin”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is he cheating on just me or with the Second Law of Thermodynamics?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This particular flavour of survivorship bias is also called the anthropic principle

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Geography 101⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In Ireland it’s Éire, while Iceland is An Íoslainn, so it doesn’t really work 😕

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Conversing with Mathematicians⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If we know the values of ln(-1)¹⁰ and pi¹⁰ we hypothetically could calculate their divided result as -1 instead of using strict logic, but it is missing a few steps. Moreover logs of negative numbers just end up with an imaginary component anyway so there isn’t really any progress to be made on that front. Typing ln(-1)¹⁰ into my scientific calculator just yields i¹⁰pi¹⁰, (I’m guessing stored rather than calculated? Maybe calculated with built in Euler) so the result of division is just i¹⁰ anyway and we’re back where we started.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Conversing with Mathematicians⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, everything they said is well established and correct

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Living⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No thank you, I don’t want to imagine this please

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Applications⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have seen 1 called a trivial factor, but I have never seen it excluded entirely from a factor list: perhaps it’s a cultural thing like how 0 is/isn’t a natural number depending on where you are from.

  On further research it seems like my earlier critique about requiring exactly two prime factors is a little off in any case, as it would exclude e.g. 4 (which only has one prime factor). It seems like semi primes must be a product of exactly two prime numbers so I think any definition based on number of factors is doomed to over- or under- define these semi primes as they could have either three or four factors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Applications⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well primes themselves are the product of exactly two factors, only one of which is prime, so we need to specify semi primes as having exactly two prime factors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Applications⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  *numbers that are the product of exactly two prime factors

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨space⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like the idea that time machines are like phones in that you need a receiver to pick up the signal. A consequence is that you can only travel back to the time that the machine was turned on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The original party god⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  KG is also in two other bands, he has his own shit going on

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The duality of particles⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  youtu.be/ia4YrCShFrQ?si=w5OYNEaNRpG8QvMZ for reference

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please Stop⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In practice, this makes these networks very resilient to fraud.

  Could like, 51% of the owners just coordinate to kind of, do a fraud?

  Sybil attacks sound like the kind of thing you’re talking about. I don’t have the expertise to go into it, but one person (or a group) creates lots of nodes and uses that influence to do bad things to the network, potentially including fraud. Or as you suggest, legitimate users can just coordinate to do whatever they wanted (see ethereum vs ethereum classic if you want a chuckle).

  I want to make a note that the networks are only resilient to a specific type of fraud - people trying to enter data in a way that doesn’t meet the criteria of the system. That’s all well and good for wallet to wallet transactions, but when you have transactions going off chain (like buying something, trading for other kinds of coins, doing anything with crypto exchanges), there are still plenty of other kinds of fraud that are possible and happen all the time, because while the chain is fairly trustworthy, nothing else about the system is. Most kinds of fraud involve doing things that technically you have permission to do, because you lied to people to access their password or promised them bigger returns in the future or missold a product or service etc and all of that is still possible under crypto. In some cases crypto is more vulnerable to these things because of having no central authority or regulator or laws or whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use DuoCards for flash cards. The word games are FOCLACH (basically wordle in Irish), litreach (guess words from people saying them in 3 Irish dialects) and seafóid (basically Waffle in Irish). The games are all browser based apps so not in app stores, but DuoCards is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My experience is that duolingo is a good component of language learning but is bad as a whole package. I have that, a flash card app, daily word games, and a YouTube channel for a children’s TV network in my language. None of them individually would teach me the language, but collectively they reinforce each other and fill in many gaps. Alas, neither innovative language nor lingodeer have the language I want at the moment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Thanos had, instead of randomly wiping out 50% of all living things, he had instead in each species wiped out only the dumbest 50% what would the reaction of each avenger have been?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There is an addendum to his plan that might have made it make sense. If he had said something like “I’m giving the universe the chance to make better decisions”, suddenly having half as many people means (probably a little more than) half resource consumption, half the carbon emission, and more time to figure out and implement solutions to these problems. I’m not sure how the housing crisis would pan out, I expect it would get worse. It also makes more sense that he destroys the stones after “I gave the universe its chance, now the ball is in its court”.

  This also solves the doubling resource problem. His motives are to pressure people to change their ways. Giving them more stuff might cut hunger, but you’ll just have that hunger again in 50 years and we’d probably increase carbon output to boot, and destroy more environment to get these doubled resources.

  I don’t know enough about the stones to say whether “infinite resources” or whatever cheat code would have worked, but they certainly could have dropped a line that it wasn’t possible, or that it would cause more problems than it solved (how does chemistry even work in this universe? If nothing ever gets used in reactions then the chemistry that makes our bodies work is borked)

  But anyway, as the Russos did not put this line in, the premise was flawed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion [2]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Pikmin 4. It’s real good. I was always more interested in the environmental puzzles than the combat so the lower difficulty suits me just fine. I got to credits yesterday, then ::: spoiler turns out there’s a whole extra pikmin 1 campaign in there and seems like at least one more area in the main campaign. Must save Oatchi! :::