GreyEyedGhost
@GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Blackbird Interactive acquires full ownership of Hardspace: Shipbreaker IP 1 day ago:
Having played it, it works pretty well. I would be happier if more games with 6 DoF used the same control scheme on the Deck, but that’s my biggest concern.
- Comment on Uncovering the Deceptive Logic That Exposes Jordan Peterson - YouTube 5 days ago:
There is a difference between confidence and expectation and faith. The scientific method has 5 steps.
- Question
- Research
- Hypothesis
- Experiment
- Conclusion
Yes, as a general rule, scientists believe a certain outcome will occur. This isn’t faith, though, this is an expectation based on their knowledge and the research they’ve done to design the experiment. They then go on to ignore their beliefs and test it anyway. They do this because they don’t operate on faith, they operate on proof. And if the outcome isn’t something they expect, which has certainly happened, they then they to find out why, design new experiments, and perform further studies until they have confidence that they have a good understanding of what they’re studying.
If they were operating on faith, they could skip all those steps and just go on what they believe, like with Aristotle believing women had fewer teeth. This leads into other related components of the scientific method: verification and repeatability. A good experiment can be repeated by another scientist and get the same results. And why would they repeat the test? Certainly not due to faith!
- Comment on What is the maximum number of potatoes you could grow in your house or on property you own before it becomes a crime? 1 week ago:
Pretty sure I played that game…
- Comment on The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement 1 week ago:
The problem is, have you ever noticed how much hotter you are in a parking lot on a warm day than when you are in a park? Well, now those events are happening on a parking lot and not a park. Furniture can be designed to work on turf, or temporary fixtures could be put in place to mitigate the drawbacks of furniture on lawns, but the absorbed and reflected heat will be hard to get rid of. Hopefully this area is small enough to not have a big impact on the temperature there.
I honestly don’t think it looks bad, but I suspect it’s more for Trump to put his stamp on it than anything else, and to erase the efforts of others before him. And I suspect it will be more uncomfortable than it was before.
- Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport." 2 weeks ago:
Okay, I see what you’re saying there. I don’t agree with the stance for the first part, but that’s a personal choice. After all, the government could not only not incentivize building in a flood zone, they could make it illegal.
- Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport." 2 weeks ago:
And I’m aware of unexpected turbulence…I just don’t see getting banged about that big a deal. Shit happens. Wrong place, wrong time… Sure, put on your seatbelt when you’re sitting down, but even if you don’t you’re probably not going to die from it
“J. E. Littlewood, a mathematician at Cambridge University, wrote about the law of truly large numbers in his 1986 book, “Littlewood’s Miscellany.” He said the average person is alert for about eight hours every day, and something happens to the average person about once a second. At this rate, you will experience 1 million events every thirty-five days. This means when you say the chances of something happening are one in a million, it also means about once a month. The monthly miracle is called Littlewood’s Law.” - David McRaney
This is why people build houses in flood zones. What are the odds this will affect me? And every year, people gamble with those one in a million odds, and someone loses. Then their friends console each other at the funeral that it was a freak accident and who could have predicted it would happen? And why were they in that position? Because people don’t have an intuitive grasp of statistics, particularly low probability and high frequency, and what the are odds it will happen to them. But it’s happening to someone all the time, and much more likely to the one who says, “Well, it probably won’t be me.”
- Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport." 2 weeks ago:
There are certainly things that can be done better. My instance should give an idea about how much my government can do about this problem. That said, just like in a car, there is no good reason you shouldn’t be wearing your seat belt most of the time. And there are plenty of situations they can’t fix, such as clear-air turbulence. But the seat belt still helps.
- Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport." 2 weeks ago:
There are things you can control and things you can’t. I can’t keep the planes out of each other’s airspace, but I can keep my seat belt on.
That would be more insightful if I wasn’t a pilot…
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I’m not.
- Comment on Resources 3 weeks ago:
Well, it looks like you’re seeing two side to this topic and I, and possibly the op, see at least 3.
- Comment on Resources 3 weeks ago:
What does antinatalism being a slur have to do with the topic at hand?
- Comment on Resources 3 weeks ago:
Because I’m curious what your opinion is, and you’ve made a point of speaking on a very closely related topic.
- Comment on Resources 3 weeks ago:
So what is calling anyone who has a child a breeder?
- Comment on They even got their own island 3 weeks ago:
As in, at the surface and readily used? Yes and no. Sure, there was some amount of oil at the surface, but it’s very low grade and mixed into the soil. This presentation has an image on the first page to give you an idea of what they’re starting with. It looks more like asphalt than oil (and is very similar). In fact, this stuff is so difficult to extract that, even though it was known about in the 18th century (by Western civilization), it wasn’t mined until 1960.
- Comment on Donald Trump Said He Promised Ivanka He Wouldn't Date Girls Younger Than Her | “So as she grows older, the field is getting very limited.” 😬 3 weeks ago:
I don’t remember where I heard it first, but I’ve seen a number of his supporters (and Obama’s detractors) get a little miffed when I said, “Remember, the president with five kids from three different women isn’t the black one.”
- Comment on Him and Elon were cybering, calling it now... 4 weeks ago:
Without even knowing this, I knew “intimate and embarrassing” was referring to money.
- Comment on we are creators 5 weeks ago:
It’s absolutely possible, quite likely now. It would probably be too big a project to do anywhere but earth and maybe the moon right now. But the doors it would open if completed…
- Comment on we are creators 5 weeks ago:
First, we need an autofactory. This is not a minor step.
- Comment on My son got Nikes so he doesn't get teased. 5 weeks ago:
I’m sorry, I misread your statement. I think we’re on the same page.
- Comment on My son got Nikes so he doesn't get teased. 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, the good news is no one has ever suffered permanent damage from verbal abuse, so no problems, right?
And why is physical violence no-tolerance (except when it isn’t) but verbal violence is a-okay?
I’m not saying physical violence is okay, and I never have. In fact, I generally go the other direction, saying that physical violence should be a last resort for solving problems, and that those who use it clearly don’t have better tools to solve their problems. And know which groups is known for not having a lot of experience solving problems? Kids. That’s why we have adults supervising them. And training those kids that verbal violence is okay, and a great way to harass your peers, is, to put it bluntly, pretty fucking stupid. And some of those kids learn that a suspension isn’t that big a deal to some of the kids they bully, which is a hell of a lot better lesson than the adults around them were teaching them.
- Comment on My son got Nikes so he doesn't get teased. 5 weeks ago:
Most of my immediate family are on Android and use Signal. I’m happier this way.
- Comment on Duke University lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies and signal transduction 1 month ago:
I think truck nuts are tacky and stupid, but if you want them, I don’t see why my opinion should matter. Now, if they were big enough that they were dragging down the street and making sparks, maybe they should be banned. I’d find that funnier than the normal style, too.
- Comment on Screenshot from what I'm playing. 1 month ago:
Buying prerelease is always a big gamble. Buying before there are reviews from trusted sources is also a bit of a gamble.
Buying games 7 or 8 years after release is generally a pretty safe bet.
- Comment on The White House is paving over the Rose Garden with concrete. People are outraged 1 month ago:
Mark that shit as NSFW, please. That’s worse than Burns’ portrait.
- Comment on Innocent light bulb 1 month ago:
It’s been a long time since I laughed about OJ Simpson…
- Comment on How do you charge an electric car without a credit card? 2 months ago:
240v wiring is common in Canada and the US, just not all outlets, and until recently not usually in garages. I expect 240v outlets in garages to be more standard in the future.
But, creepy or no, posting on a public forum and not using throwaway accounts and then being surprised that people actually reference your posting history is hopelessly naive.
- Comment on IRS Makes Direct File Software Open Source After Trump Tried to Kill It 2 months ago:
They are a better source than anything you’ve provided, yes.
- Comment on IRS Makes Direct File Software Open Source After Trump Tried to Kill It 2 months ago:
You’re right, Wikipedia is a terrible primary source, because it isn’t a primary source. So, while you should never reference it in a paper or dissertation, the sources it references are perfectly valid. The good news is, I’m not writing an essay or dissertation, and I don’t have to follow the correct rules for those. I did you the favor of clicking two links deeper (it took about a minute) and finding the information where they talk about all those cases that the judges totally threw so they could force you to pay illegal taxes. Now, I can’t make you turn that link purple, but if you do you might get the other side of that argument that you apparently haven’t stumbled across in your decades of examination. Good luck.
- Comment on IRS Makes Direct File Software Open Source After Trump Tried to Kill It 2 months ago:
Sorry, saw your response just after I had posted the same in response to his comment.
- Comment on IRS Makes Direct File Software Open Source After Trump Tried to Kill It 2 months ago:
There is no historical agreement that the earth is round, but guess what?
When the second argument that is listed in Wikipedia is that Ohio doesn’t count when it had been a state for over a century before the amendment was proposed, I start to think these arguments are specious at best. It seems every judge the case had gone before agreed with that stance, which also sounds like historical agreement to me. Given the amendment was proposed due to the Supreme Court overturning income tax as unconstitutional, it also appears the courts were more than willing to rule against income tax prior to this supposedly dubious amendment.
Do you have any evidence that is stronger than the Obama birther conspiracies?
- Comment on IRS Makes Direct File Software Open Source After Trump Tried to Kill It 2 months ago:
What do you mean by questionable circumstances?