AlolanYoda
@AlolanYoda@mander.xyz
- Comment on You cannot learn without failing. 4 days ago:
- Comment on What is this shit? 2 weeks ago:
Can you explain this a bit better?
I’ve seen many journals with this “open access” option (where the authors pay for open access, rather than the readers paying to read it). But the paid option never skipped the peer review process, as far as I can tell.
I just think the last author of this paper is a big deal in his field and can do whatever
- Comment on Now that's an interesting question 3 weeks ago:
I have seen variations on this online for a long time, and this has always baffled me: do strangers in America really go up to random people who are speaking foreign languages and tell them “you are in X, speak Xese”, a language they may or may not speak? Even among people who share their native language?
- Comment on That's why it's called science fiction duh 5 weeks ago:
Maybe I am in a different environment (particularly not being American), but the old scientists still exist and are still hard at work. In fact, all scientists I know (and I work in academia) care very little for misinformation on their day to day lives. They’ll make fun of it, but don’t have any more contact with them than anyone else. They still spend most of their time working on their actual projects. The only thing that changed is that now they’re bending over backwards to include AI in their grants to make sure they’re accepted, but having to include the latest buzzwords is nothing new.
Science communicators, on the other hand, yeah, those probably have their hands full with fixing misinformation.
- Comment on The Downtrodden Billionaires 1 month ago:
Did you write this? This is gold
- Comment on I love the future. 1 month ago:
Wait, didn’t the Greeks famously lose at Thermopylae? They’d turn it around later but that’s one of the most famous “celebrated losses” in history
- Comment on I'll show them 2 months ago:
And yet never implemented! Good guy Sony getting a patent so nobody else will do this
- Comment on Proud globohomo 5 months ago:
Maybe a terrestrial globe? That would explain why some have a point labeled “Bangkok”
- Comment on Star Citizen devs report drying funds, micromanagement, overspending, and episodic release for Squadron 42 5 months ago:
I think I’d like a game with those exact prices… In in-game currency
- Comment on Anon finally touches grass 6 months ago:
Wait, really? Whenever I spend more time at work or at home I tend to forget how many really attractive people are really out there. Whenever I go out after a long period of time I end up being positively surprised. I would also not look at Tinder as an example, but because of the opposite: people on tinder look much uglier than in real life. But then again, usually outside you don’t look at people for more than one or two seconds, while on tinder there’s loads of photos for you to examine every single flaw
- Comment on Love is love 6 months ago:
I’m glad I’m not searching for romantic advice in this thread because if I were I’d have a headache.
Should I search for a friendship instead of a relationship? Should I make a move? Should I make a move on my friends?!
- Comment on AI Artefacting 7 months ago:
As an extra advantage to the nose pinching trick, I no longer turn every dream into a nightmare from seeing my distorted figure in the mirror!
- Comment on RuneScape is increasing their membership price by 50%, and Reddit is trying to censor it 7 months ago:
Oh no a massive time sink
(thanks! I have a lot of nostalgia for Runescape but don’t want to waste months of my life, so I’m considering getting a single player server up and running with a like 10x exp multiplier. Now to decide on 2003, 2009 or 2012…)
- Comment on The problem with sleeper ships 8 months ago:
Children of Time, not Earth! Also gets my highest recommendation.
- Comment on Before times. 8 months ago:
I guess that analogy was the coelacanth of lemmy comments.
- Comment on I can whistle at the speed of sound 8 months ago:
You are being downvoted as if your point was offensive or harmful. You are wrong, but it’s totally counter intuitive and I think this is a mistake that everyone makes when studying introductory physics. This would be correct for anything moving at relatively low speeds. But when you’re talking about light, or anything that goes so fast that “percentage of the speed of light” starts being a useful unit to describe their speed, this concept starts being a bit weirder.
This is actually the basic principle of Einstein’s theory of relativity: the speed of light (in a vacuum) is the same for all observers, regardless of their frame of reference. That means that if the laser pointer emits a laser, the light is moving away from the pointer at the speed of light. If the pointer itself is moving at a speed reeeeeally close to the speed of light… Then the laser will STILL be traveling away from the pointer at the speed of light. And if you, an observer in a frame, see the pointer moving at near the speed of light emit a laser… The laser that the laser emitted is also traveling at the speed of light from your point of view.
And there’s no wordplay here. I don’t mean that it’s light, so of course any speed it travels at is the speed of light. I mean that if you measure its speed from any reference frame, you will get around 300000000 m/s, or around 671 million miles per hour. No matter if you are also traveling at near light speed.
- Comment on Anon is asking the difficult questions 8 months ago:
Thank you. This comment resonates a lot with me, as despite it having been over a year I’m still struggling with coming to terms with having had to break up a 5 year-long relationship for my own good (it’s not that long in the grand scheme of things). The way I would describe it is that she was molding me into the person that I was expecting to become when the relationship started, which was totally different from the person I ended up evolving into. I am glad I did it, but I still struggle with the pain I caused her during the process.
I had back surgery last year at 29, and while I didn’t end up disabled, I’m seeing my life change in small ways because of it. It’s weird feeling so young but having to limit certain activities because you could become paraplegic if anything goes wrong.
I didn’t have anything to add to your comment, I’m just glad you posted it!
- Comment on Oh god, that can't be good... 8 months ago:
I would have assumed it was a simple image edit/photoshop job for meme purposes. That’s what it looks to me anyway.
But I’m not going to zoom in too much because, AI or not, fake or not, it’s giving me nausea!
- Comment on Irresistible 9 months ago:
The selective attraction exerted on the cat by the Richard black hole reveals that Richard is allergic to cats, as cats are attracted to people allergic to them [1].
[1] - ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling et al., lemmy.dbzer0.com (2024)
- Comment on Academia to Industry 9 months ago:
I’m 30. Almost have a PhD.
Also playing video games and crying
- Comment on 'LLM-free' is the new '100% organic' - Creators Are Fighting AI Anxiety With an ‘LLM-Free’ Movement 10 months ago:
AI will start hiding penises in its output, everybody loves it, you ushered in a new era of peace and prosperity worldwide, all peoples united by their love for hidden AI genitalia. Well done!
Play again?
- Comment on yay, no dunning kruger for me! hold up, oh no 10 months ago:
Oh! I’m in the beginning stages of learning Dutch, but there were several words I didn’t know, which made me feel extra stupid. Well done!
- Comment on Hedgehogs 10 months ago:
If the hedgehog has the seven chaos emeralds, it can still take on the boar even with the triforce of power.
If not, then it’s more of a toss up, but we should note that there is one registered instance of the hedgehog collecting triforce pieces so my bet would still be on the hedgehog.
- Comment on Name & same. :) 10 months ago:
dck
- Comment on Futures 11 months ago:
It’s not like this makes up for everything else, but there is gravity on Mars
- Comment on Giveaway! Win your Steam Copy of the 'Captain’s Edition' of Star Trek: Resurgence! 11 months ago:
I was not expecting giveaways on Lemmy!
Honestly I haven’t seen much of this game (having a PhD to finish and all, I haven’t allowed myself to hahaha), but I am hopeful that it will allow me to try to solve conflicts with diplomatic and out of the box thinking instead of just combat, and having it feel like I haven’t cheated myself out of content: it bothers me that I can’t avoid conflict in most games without feeling like I’m missing out, and Star Trek is the perfect IP to make it work.
Thank you for the giveaway! Best of luck!
- Comment on How can I create an alter ego for publishing stories? 11 months ago:
Yes. That implies you are on the same level as Stephen King.
You should publish as Steven Emperor ;)
- Comment on I like this text. In which Lemmy community can I best share it ? Thanks. 11 months ago:
Trust me. We’re never gonna let you down.
- Comment on I like this text. In which Lemmy community can I best share it ? Thanks. 11 months ago:
I’m glad life ends but I’d rather have a few more centuries before it does! The two ideas are not mutually exclusive
- Comment on You are in this solar system, but we do not grant you the rank of planet 11 months ago:
“Where is Eris? Is it safe? Is it all right?”
“It appears that, in your anger… You classified it as a dwarf planet.”
“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”