BCsven
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- Comment on I'm not sure they will 9 hours ago:
A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices, that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena with a mimicked theme.
Memes carry a lot of meta data that is unspoken, a single meme can be worth a thousand words
- Comment on Gamer complained that he turned on his old PS3 for MGS 4 and found out that Sony had disabled his account - he lost his games due to prolonged inactivity 1 day ago:
Ha. Corporations. TD bank did this to my kids Savings Accounts. When in one day and accounts had been archived due to lack of deposit or withdrawal activities. Like WTF they are 8,10, 14, how many transactions did you expect they’d make.
- Comment on Park benches don't "open" until 10am 2 days ago:
In metro Vancouver area theyve bought old hotels and other buildings and set up barrier free housing. But it doesn’t totally fix it because some, due to mental health, still don’t want housing (or rules that go with housing) and some are destructive and start fires.
Its a super tough problem that needs a root cause fix in early childhood years when kids need a good life.
A former addict/homeless person also mentioned that all the comforts, and safe injection sites, free clean drugs, etc just insentivized them to keep using, since there wasn’t hardship to force change.
Its like a no win situation, right now.
- Comment on Microsoft Paint and Photos Embed Server-Issued GUIDs as Invisible Watermarks in Locally-Generated Images 3 days ago:
In the last 5 years (in the west) it has gone from 1% to 5-6%. So instead of 1 out of 100 people you meet having a Linux aystem, 1 out of 20 might. That’s a significant change. Before trump in the white house it may not have eclipsed Windows use (even though their market share has been dropping for a decade), but with Trump threatening the world countries have seriously reconsidered dropping Microsoft Products for sovereign security. Without a Microsoft product there is no reason to run a bloated MS OS anymore.
- Comment on This is what happens when AI trains on Instagram shitposts 1 week ago:
Number Twosday
- Comment on Well if that isn't just about the most evil thing you could openly admit to doing. 1 week ago:
Since COVID some Conservative people I know have become like those animals that can’t comprehend things that didn’t happen right in front of them.
My kid is a teacher (in Canada so they are paid really well). But its solely on them to develop all the lessons and gather everything needed. They are working to do this after hours and weekends.
- Comment on Philips shouldn't exist. Torx plus is the best fight me 1 week ago:
Yeah hex (Allen Key) heads are a pain for that, especially if they are cheap loose fitting heads, then you don’t know if you have they right key
- Comment on The FTC is cracking down on companies that charge you a "personalized price" 1 week ago:
That’s a different issue, if the selling price doesn’t cover costs it gets adjusted, its meant to prenet citizens being ripped of by price gouging practices or like the bread price fixing scandal we have in Canada.
- Comment on The FTC is cracking down on companies that charge you a "personalized price" 1 week ago:
Should adopt the Indian system where items have a government set maximum price on items and its printed on the item.
- Comment on U.S. warns Siemens devices can be hacked amid fears Iran is breaching water plants 1 week ago:
SaaS sucks. Outsourced IT is only good for the vendor not the client signing up for it.
- Comment on Philips shouldn't exist. Torx plus is the best fight me 1 week ago:
I usually replaced all the JIS with socket head cap acrews for this reason.
- Comment on Philips shouldn't exist. Torx plus is the best fight me 1 week ago:
? Is this sarcasm. Robertson’s aren’t imperial or metric, they are numbered
- Comment on When I was younger my father taught me how to box. Using my fists. How come in movies or tv shows it's all about hitting with the elbow now? How does one train to hit with your elbow? 1 week ago:
Because it is the movies. If you are getting in close enough to use your elbow you are also putting yourself at risk of being hit/injured/grappled.
Boxers with long arms can strike an opponent suddenly, with less risk if being close to somebody.
Best offense would be catapulting large rocks from a safe location, but this doesn’t make for good movie melee scenes :)
- Comment on That's just science 1 week ago:
I’d have to go back and find the science article, but it was something about sunrise, sunset which would often provide end of spectrum red or blue, while full daylight provided a lot of green light spectrum. Plants having to balalnce processes in full spectrum would overload/oveheat so they evolved to reflect or transmit through 80% of that spectrum.
They mostly use red and blue for photosynthesis because those seem more steady during daylight hours in various seasons and hours of the day. Cloudy day still gets infrared end through etc.
The green overlaps into red and blue zones. Its not so much that it is higher energy than blue, but a wider amount of spectrum total energy the plant wants to avoid.
- Comment on That's just science 1 week ago:
We have diverse geography, and genetic diversity. Obviously this plant worked out a way to use the high energy of the wide green ranhe, without overcooking itself. But if you compare all plamt leaves and grasses of plant life green is the most common.
- Comment on That's just science 1 week ago:
Plants look green because the green spectrum has a lot of energy, and to stop over heating and leaf burning and messing with the delicate photosynthesis, plants reflect or let green mostly pass through and only use about 20% of green soecturm energy, while mostly use all of red end and blue end… At least that’s what I heard on a science show.
- Comment on Subtitles for Tinnitus 2 weeks ago:
Mine is more like if you mic’d a freshly poured glass of soda and the popping bubbles were mapped to electronic tinkling noises
- Comment on CAH at it again 2 weeks ago:
Exactly, he’ll just get more pissy
- Comment on President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him" 3 weeks ago:
Yeah if any of you guys build a time machine, I know Hitler is a target, but please tell Obama to not goad the Donny.
- Comment on onions 3 weeks ago:
Try dried fried onions. They always have them at Indian Grocery stores, or dutch shops.
You can skip whole steps in recipes of browning, caramelizing onions for sauces , stews, etc just dump a few tablespoonsfulls in. Also makes excellent brown gravy base with some soysauce and Marmite.
- Comment on onions 3 weeks ago:
Nsfw
- Comment on Money doesn't solve everything, but it helps. 3 weeks ago:
Oof that’s rough
- Comment on Money doesn't solve everything, but it helps. 3 weeks ago:
I live in an area of high Indian immigration. They typically have multi generational homes. They are often larger homes, since everyone can contribute to the mortgage.
But the main thing that stands out is the children always have family around, sometimes cousins live in the same house too. Isolation doesn’t seem to be an issue. There’s always support and task sharing, so parents aren’t burnt out at end of day struggling to parent.
Out of 1000s of homeless people I see in Vancouver, they are mostly white or indigenous, rare to see an Indian homeless person here.
And then there is the huge community they have, besises church/temple meeting, but meeting in parks daily.
I think we lost a lot of community and circles of support when we adopted the isolation type lifestyle of “modern” life.
- Comment on Mars Bar from the 1990s found during house clearance - shrinkflation in action 3 weeks ago:
There was a dollarstore knock off mars bar we bought for a while 50¢ each
- Comment on Mars Bar from the 1990s found during house clearance - shrinkflation in action 3 weeks ago:
I visited a chocolate confection assembly plant. The only things humans do now is random tasks like flip the random bar that for sone reason fell odd obto conveyor or shift the skewed box on the pallet, or open the door for a shipment.
The rest was automatic, from the pipes running chocolate throughout the plant to the final gluing and boxing.
The costs are materials, and the factory operation cost, labour is almost nothing. So to increase profit they really can only cheapen or lesson the materials
- Comment on Mars Bar from the 1990s found during house clearance - shrinkflation in action 3 weeks ago:
Yep, one of my favourites before, after they changed they were so bad though; somebody working for them offered a store tray full and we just refused.
- Comment on How to move a sofa 4 weeks ago:
My wife has a physical disability, she is an “asker”, as in knows she will need help from others and so will ask random people, and also connects a lot of people together. Maybe not everyone becomes that, but it sort of forces you to.
- Comment on It'll be ok. Nobody's going to judge you. 4 weeks ago:
Yep, it is bad naming. I took it in highschool but it didn’t really make sense till I saw how it described electric fields with the wave 90 degrees into the flat page.
- Comment on 🏭🏭🏭 4 weeks ago:
Thus the happy faces up front
- Comment on Google shuts down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project as it focuses on Gemini 5 weeks ago:
Alphafold is like the foldit program that used to need a human to supply rotation suggestions on chemical branches of the protien. The goals were to mainly minimize surface area, and set hydrophobic chains in or out. This ideal lowest energy state would be the likeliest natural folding solution.
While folding small wasn’t always the exact solution to a problem, it narrowed the testing down for researchers (so they could work on a subset) and helped solve protein problems.
Alpha fold just uses generative AI to jiggle and wiggle and rotate the chains until they found these state solutions. Its a highly valuable tool for science.
