Nemo

@Nemo@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do gamers make irl money? if at all?⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally, I wait tables.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What was the Nazi Germany equivalent to "Ted Lasso"?⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s about empathy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ice cream trucks still around?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  We have dueling ice cream trucks around here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How active is too active while being on lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  browsing local-all by new is one thing

  browsing true all by new is beyond the pale

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can't a liquid move faster than the speed of sound in that medium?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So, sound is vibration, right? And it’s going to vibrate as fast as it can, at the fastest rate that liquid can move. So it’s not that the rate of movement comes from the speed of sound; if anything, it’s the reverse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are you doing when you call someone, don't leave a voicemail or text, they call you back right away but you don't answer?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I send them text messages if it’s not urgent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are you doing when you call someone, don't leave a voicemail or text, they call you back right away but you don't answer?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What kind of sociopath has their phone ringer on in 2025?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are you doing when you call someone, don't leave a voicemail or text, they call you back right away but you don't answer?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If I called, it was an emergency, and I can’t answer the phone because I’m elbow-deep in emergency.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did websites like TinEye recognize cropped photos of the same image (and other likened pictures), without the low-entry easyness of LLM/AI Models these days?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As a transmillenial student of AI / ML, great write-up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did websites like TinEye recognize cropped photos of the same image (and other likened pictures), without the low-entry easyness of LLM/AI Models these days?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They had the AI models of those days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you see magic eye pictures?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You need a repeating visual pattern, a fairly busy one. Then you need a greyscale image of what you want the “magic” picture to be. You deform the repeating pattern by the intensity of the greyscale image.

  When your two eyes overlay the background images, your brain highlights the distortions and interprets them as depth… at least if your eyes are good enough to give your brain that information in the first place.

  If you want to know more, the algorithm to do this is public, and you can set it up in eg. javascript in an afternoon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you see magic eye pictures?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope! But I’ve made them. I needed to go find someone with more normal eyes to test my creations for me, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t like it, no. But it won’t be replaced, just like the wild west Internet of yesteryear wasn’t replaced: it’s still where we left it. And so will these behemoths be, when we move past them.

  Don’t believe me? Livejournal and mySpace are still running, at the same addresses. Your old login still works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is wrong with being "Black Pilled"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no ideology described as being “pilled” that’s anything but toxic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please settle a debate. A kid in the womb is better off listening to stuff like cat in the hat so it can be read to it at bedtime? Or history of the world during the womb and read it later?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s mostly about the sound of your voice. My eldest got Vonnegut and Law & Order. So much of the latter that both before and after birth the “dun dun” sound from the show noticeably calmed her down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the funniest insult / joke you've come up with on the spot?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Waiting tables, this is for real. 90% of the women I see are made up for date night^*^ and all my coworkers are more attractive than average.

  ^*^ but not the men, many fewer men dress up for dates than women do

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't the US government just tax illegal immigrants a little bit more than the Average american? Then use those funds to fix infastructure or a new WPA of the 21st century?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If they’re using fake papers to work, they’re paying income tax (and payroll tax is paid for them as well) but can’t file for a refund or unemployment insurance payments. They pay into Social Security but won’t be able to collect it (though I think anyone under 50 can probably relate to that).

  When they buy things, they pay sales tax like anyone else.

  They pay their landlady’s property tax if renting and pay it themselves if not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The needs of the many cannot outweigh the human rights of the few.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even conservatives use to boast the virtue of achieving higher education. In MAGA times what is the pathway to success?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If MAHA has their way, the path to success is bootlicking Glorious Leader with pulling up our own bootstraps to stomp on the underclass.

  They’re not conservatives. They want to conserve nothing. They seek only to destroy anything in the way of their own power, like all fascists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many homes in rural areas have a front yard full of junk?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Junk removal is expensive and if you’re outside of a municipality all trash pickup is done by private arrangement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  20 if I can get away with it, 18 otherwise

  and NEVER socks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can it take months to get over being laid off?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I loved my old job and being forced out was both sudden and heartbreaking. It’s been almost two years and I still get a pang through my chest when I see something that reminds me of it. It’s like a bad breakup, in that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What distinction are you making, here? Everybody seems, to me, to be a black box that only relates to others through their inputs and outputs. How else can I like someone, if not by what they put into the world?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any Engrish-like community in here?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that a typo, or you’re looking for a community based on casual racism?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Earth will only be around for another five billion years or do, so no.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s the one being unreasonable.

  He’s recently made one big change that he likes and is interested in trying other big changes. See if you can direct him to try something a little saner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe try again without the misogyny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is with the obsession with gender neutral language on relationship topics ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are times when it’s relevant and times when it’s not, and the latter is a lot more prevalent.

  But on reddit, the real reason is because about three years ago reddit admit let mod teams know that misgendering anyone was a violation of site-wide rule one, and if we mods didn’t crack down on it, the admin would crack down on US.

  Insisting on gender-neutral language is a way to keep clear of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is flirting redundant?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I only did what was necessary, my life would be pretty miserable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is flirting redundant?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So you should just treat the person you’re interested in like you would any other person.

  But flirting is how I treat every other person!