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- Comment on Helldivers 2 now delisted in 177 countries 1 week ago:
In my experience with telemetry, it’s100% about understanding how the product is performing and being used, and 0% about monitoring individual users. Telemetry data has little to no value for anyone not directly supporting the product.
- Comment on we love those power laws 1 week ago:
Nuclear artillery shells are an actual thing, though.
- Comment on Imagine denying other living and breathing lifeforms agency to thrive amd change lol lol lol 1 week ago:
I believe at least one state—Wyoming, maybe—has a guarantee in its constitution that citizens will have a clean and healthy environment, or something along those lines. It effectively creates a duty to protect the environment.
- Comment on Anthropology 2 weeks ago:
Seems like any aliens advanced enough to study us would very easily figure out that hand gestures are a form of communication.
- Comment on space 4 weeks ago:
If they were really the same thing, traveling into the past would be trivial. Greg Egan’s Orthogonal series explores the consequences of space and time actually being the same thing. You can also the the difference in formulas related to proper time, where terms for space and time have opposite signs.
- Comment on once in a lifetime 5 weeks ago:
Hollywood must really suck at business if they can’t keep their essential workers from going in strike every decade or two and taking down a bunch of good shows when they do.
- Comment on listen kid 5 weeks ago:
Part of what makes an eclipse cool is that the sun is still overhead and too bright to look at, but everything else is almost as dark as at night.
- Comment on ))<>(( 5 weeks ago:
I’m not sure what you’re getting at with your source. I’m taking about physical, non-graphic scientific calculators from the 1990s.
- Comment on ))<>(( 5 weeks ago:
RTS = rock taper scissors FPS = frock paper scissors
- Comment on ))<>(( 5 weeks ago:
Ah, I wasn’t thinking of calculators that let you type in a full expression. When I was in school, only fancy graphing calculators had that feature. A typical scientific calculator didn’t have juxtaposition, so you’d have to enter 6÷2(1+2) as 6÷2×(1+2), and you’d get 9 as the answer because ÷ and × have equal precedence and just go left to right.
- Comment on ))<>(( 5 weeks ago:
I’ve never seen a calculator that had brackets but didn’t implement the conventional order of operations.
- Comment on life pro tip!! 5 weeks ago:
The numbers don’t add up. If you can get 21 billion food calories from total annihilation (which I checked is right), you’d get nowhere near 18 billion food calories from a fusion reaction. Maybe if works if you assume “calories” for the fission reaction means metric calories, since food calories are metric kilocalories.
I hate the way the word “calorie” ended up with two wildly different definitions.
- Comment on the internet 1 month ago:
Such a good game.
- Comment on degree in bamf 1 month ago:
What pitch fork?
- Comment on shoot for the moon 1 month ago:
Degrees are the freedom unit!
- Comment on degree in bamf 1 month ago:
It’s easy to do when you’re part of the two most privileged groups.
- Comment on shameless b8 1 month ago:
At least it’s easy to remember the conversion between hours and seconds.
- Comment on degree in bamf 1 month ago:
As a white dude, I would be horribly embarrassed to do something like that. I hope the guy in the story learned a lesson from it.
- Comment on double slit 1 month ago:
I’m totally in agreement that the observer effect is not caused by consciousness, but…
What is consciousness to the universe anyway? It’s nothing but a system of electrical impulses,
This is a claim unsupported by evidence. I submit to you that just as we can explain the observer effect without invoking consciousness, we can also explain cognition without it. We can’t even prove consciousness exists at all! I know I’m conscious because I directly experience it, but I can’t prove to another person that I experience anything, nor can I prove to myself that anyone else experiences anything.
I know my consciousness, memory, and the brain are intimately connected. I know that what people describe as a loss of consciousness on my part is strongly correlated with gaps in my memory. I know those gaps correspond to time periods when period tell me I’m unresponsive to stimuli. I even know other people become unresponsive in connection to same kinds of things that cause gaps in my memory, and they likewise describe similar experiences to mine when, say, they ingest substances that I’ve found to alter my behavior, and which feel like they alter the quality of my consciousness.
All of that is to say that we have very good reasons to suppose that consciousness (if it exists) interacts with the world of measurable phenomena all the time, and that other people experience consciousness. But what we can’t do is measure the difference between a conscious being and a p-zombie. There’s plenty of correlation, but correlation is famously not causation, and we don’t have a testable theory that would explain the causal link, or allow us to test whether, say, a cat, a tree, or an LLM is conscious.
- Comment on Interview: Alex Kurtzman On The Influence Of Fan Feedback And The Legacy Of ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ 1 month ago:
I think you mean not San Francisco.
- Comment on I hate the term "Boomer Shooter" 1 month ago:
Don’t be such a tardigrade.
- Comment on suck it, math nerds 1 month ago:
That approach works for area but not for perimeter, because cutting off the corners gives you a shape whose area is closer to the circle’s, but it doesn’t change the perimeter at all.
- Comment on suck it, math nerds 1 month ago:
Eek, that makes my skin crawl. Taking what you said literally would imply that π² = π.
- Comment on suck it, math nerds 1 month ago:
I’m pretty happy with being able to write integers in a finite number of digits. Wouldn’t want to give that up.
- Comment on suck it, math nerds 1 month ago:
Not sure where you’re going with the decimal thing. Pi had infinite digits in any base because it’s irrational.
- Comment on The glass is half empty in the Goldilocks zone. 2 months ago:
Everyone knows Earth isn’t real.
- Comment on neanderthal flute 2 months ago:
Homo sapiens playing flutes is cultural appropriation!
- Comment on the fuckgraph 3 months ago:
The lines are relations. The dots are people.
- Comment on Prison Architect 2 - Official Announcement Trailer 3 months ago:
What if you treat receiving subsidies as a failure condition?
- Comment on Ubisoft Wants You To Be Comfortable Not Owning Your Games 3 months ago:
I wish rent-to-own was a more common model. Unfortunately the only examples I know of in real life involve customers paying several times the retail cost of the items they rent before they actually own them.
What I’d really like to see is a system that keeps rental and purchase prices roughly where they are, except that once you’ve paid rental fees equal to the purchase price, it counts as a purchase. That would relieve me of having to guess whether I’ll be using something enough to buy it, and I doubt it would hurt seller’s profits.