davidgro
@davidgro@lemmy.world
- Comment on What is the difference between an American liberal and a liberal outside the USA? 2 days 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? 2 days 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? 6 days 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 week 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 week ago:
- Comment on boogs 1 week 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 week ago:
Can those values actually go above 1 even in theory?
- Comment on boogs 1 week 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. 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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] 4 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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 1 month ago:
Similarly: The one with the bear
- Comment on We have one at home 1 month ago:
I was going to go for “Ouya trying to fool with this post?”
- Comment on Caption this. 2 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 2 months ago:
That article wasn’t updated when it became a hurricane later.
- Comment on Snow Kitty 2 months ago:
Oh! I thought the post was just a joke. Thanks!
- Comment on Dear God 2 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." 2 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? 2 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? 2 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 2 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? 2 months ago:
“People” is one specific person. Sxan or something.
- Comment on Anon is forever alone 2 months ago:
Just recently I was imagining a dating site that doesn’t use profiles, just randomly matches people with compatible age and gender settings (weighted by proximity and how long they have waited for a match) and trying to think through how it might work.
There would have to be a penalty for rejecting a match before setting up a date or for cancelling on them, such as a delay before being able to request another match (and maybe double the delay each consecutive time)
Anyway this would eliminate the whole ‘5% of men get 90% of dates’ thing (whatever the real numbers are) - after requesting a match eventually everyone would get one. There would of course have to be a report system for actual problem people. And likely straight women would get dates much faster (more frequently) than straight men, but still more evenly distributed.
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 2 months ago:
I mostly agree, but there’s a few holes in that chart:
My favorite vegetables are salt and ice.
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 2 months ago:
… Is it not?
Being a grain (or even specifically a “Cereal grain”) doesn’t exclude it, see corn.
- Comment on Mom they're fighting again 2 months ago:
I guess I assumed ‘sprout’ meant directly out of the ground instead of a “Brussels tree”.
I don’t recognize a few of the other ones.
- Comment on That's my pile 2 months ago:
I like that it’s exactly the same pile, none of them even shifted while being painted.
- Comment on Anon shops for diamonds 2 months ago:
Ah, I haven’t kept up, I edited my post a little. Thanks!
