davidgro
@davidgro@lemmy.world
- Comment on Eep 2 weeks ago:
Interesting. That I think that puts it more on the ‘trivially true’ side (that everyone has a different view of everyone else, not necessarily an accurate one).
- Comment on Eep 2 weeks ago:
Huh. To me that seems like it’s either trivially true or it’s nonsense, depending on definitions.
Of course nobody knows anybody 100% - especially not oneself. So each person gets a different view, with slightly different facts and assumptions about each other.
But on the other hand, strong or important personality traits tend to be noticeable after spending just a few minutes with a person.
- Comment on Moder games with Abuse-like controls scheme? 2 weeks ago:
The title made me think you were looking for stuff like QWOP.
- Comment on pro choice 3 weeks ago:
… That’s the joke. (That he doesn’t)
- Comment on pro choice 3 weeks ago:
On the other hand, he Doesn’t think you can double a sphere by cutting it into 5 pieces and reassembling them, so there’s that.
- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 5 weeks ago:
Genuinely surprised that nothing old-school made the list: NES, SNES, Genesis, N64, A2600, etc.
- Comment on What is the difference between an American liberal and a liberal outside the USA? 1 month ago:
Interesting. Hadn’t heard that one. (Or the sentiment)
On a side note, these days I feel like something affecting someone personally means it’s more likely to move them left - see leopards and faces.
(Unless it’s a tax or regulation, perhaps that’s what Phil was thinking of)
- Comment on What is the difference between an American liberal and a liberal outside the USA? 1 month ago:
To most Americans (including myself before reading into it due to Lemmy) Liberal is simply a synonym of ‘left-wing’ and has no distinction at all from that and other terms like ‘leftist’, ‘progressive’, etc. All of these terms mean exactly “not conservative” - mostly in a social sense.
My (weak) understanding is that outside the US, Liberal is a (mostly) economic position - specifically one supportive of capitalism, which both major parties in the US are. (With slight policy differences.)
- Comment on Is This The GREATEST In-Camera Effect of ALL TIME? 1 month ago:
It’s actually an interesting video. (To me at least) Of course the presentation is over-the-top, but they cover some of the history of forced perspective, and how Fellowship of the Ring did it in a way that hasn’t been done before or since in a feature film.
- Comment on boogs 1 month ago:
I think the comic is pointing out a funny hypocrisy that we usually have between land bugs and sea bugs, but they are all bugs.
- Comment on boogs 1 month ago:
- Comment on boogs 1 month ago:
The original post used the word bugs, not insects. (Although the pic does seem to show only insects, I’d interpret that as a stock image fail)
Bugs are such a wide group already that to me it seems reasonable to include branches separated by 400 million years of evolution, much the way ‘fish’ is such a wide group that by a scientifically reasonable definition it can include all vertebrates as a subgrouping.
- Comment on constants r fun 1 month ago:
Can those values actually go above 1 even in theory?
- Comment on boogs 1 month ago:
“Bugs” (obviously not specifically Hemiptera) includes a Lot more than just insects. If you go back to the most recent common ancestor of everything commonly called a bug, I’m sure it’s Way back there and its descendents would include not only ocean arthropods but I’d guess probably most things with shells.
And yes, we are that closely related to fish
- Comment on Look at this. Or don't. 1 month ago:
As another comment said, the wave behavior when not measured is hard to explain if one thinks of photons as little particles that classically would need to go through one slit or the other. It seems each one goes through both slits and self-interferes.
And when measured, sure enough they act like little particles that need to go through one slit or the other.
- Comment on The internet is for porn 1 month ago:
This is from Avenue Q
I recommend it if you get a chance to see it.
- Comment on Engineering 4.0: The Bionic Revolution is Here | Ziroth [9:30] 2 months ago:
I haven’t watched it yet but given the context I’m going to assume they mean ‘traditional’ machine learning and not specifically the LLMs or diffusion models which are now usually called “AI”. I feel like domain specific ML models are not a problem - they don’t scrape the web or require new power plants to operate.
But yeah LLMs are evil.
And I’ll see if I’m wrong after watching it.
- Comment on What game is a guilty pleasure of yours? 2 months ago:
Ah, I got into the dailies immediately in both games, just part of playing for me.
- Comment on What game is a guilty pleasure of yours? 2 months ago:
For me it’s Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. It would be super easy to whale out and spend a bunch of money to get the characters and weapons I want, but I (almost 100%) limit myself to the basically fixed monthly costs.
- Comment on We have one at home 2 months ago:
Similarly: The one with the bear
- Comment on We have one at home 2 months ago:
I was going to go for “Ouya trying to fool with this post?”
- Comment on Caption this. 3 months ago:
By the 10th iteration it will have surpassed the mass of an average adult human.
And at the 21st, will be more massive than the largest Blue Whales. - Comment on Dear God 3 months ago:
That article wasn’t updated when it became a hurricane later.
- Comment on Snow Kitty 3 months ago:
Oh! I thought the post was just a joke. Thanks!
- Comment on Dear God 3 months ago:
Epsilon is not E, storm names went Greek after running out of English letters (skipping Q, U, X, Y and Z.). E in 2020 was Tropical Storm Edouard.
They now no longer go Greek, there’s a list of alternate names and I think it starts over at A.
- Comment on "I Tried the First Humanoid Home Robot. It Got Weird." 3 months ago:
I’m skeptical of it eventually being automated in a useful way, and if it’s not, then this is just an expensive roundabout way to hire a personal assistant/caregiver.
- Comment on I'd like to control my air-purifier with one of those power-socket-timer-switch thingies – Is there a way to "auto-press" those non-mechanical buttons? 3 months ago:
Aww. Modern tech is too ‘smart’ for its own good.
- Comment on I'd like to control my air-purifier with one of those power-socket-timer-switch thingies – Is there a way to "auto-press" those non-mechanical buttons? 3 months ago:
If it’s on when you unplug it, does it go back on when plugged in? If so then turn off its own timer and just use a regular appliance timer.
- Comment on Piping mouse 3 months ago:
The first sentence had me thinking this was a ‘Gen-Z doesn’t know PCs’ thing.
It got so much better.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 3 months ago:
“People” is one specific person. Sxan or something.
