FelipeFelop
@FelipeFelop@discuss.online
Mid 50s, first went online on a 70s BBS, JANET user in the 80s.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
scientificamerican.com/…/how-do-i-know-im-not-the…
It’s impossible to prove that anyone else or anything else exists. It’s also impossible to know whether my brain is deceiving me.
- Comment on Why were online subscriptions once rare, but now they are everywhere? 10 months ago:
I’d say companies THINK they will make more money. That might be true with big, complex software that can be sold as a service that people will use (Photoshop, Windows, Office etc) or services that offer a lot (like the original version of Netflix or Amazon Prime)
But it’s not true for things you can take or leave. (Such as most mobile apps which now have to really on sales to boost conversion rates from Free tier to subscription).
Then you also have the issue of a fragmented market so even previously successful services like Prime are looking to get more money by adding extra costs (eg Prime Video will have adverts from the summer unless you pay $40 extra per year as a new top up subscription)
So it’s more of a theoretical reliable income.
- Comment on Why do we have an internal monologue? 10 months ago:
We do actually know quite a bit about the Internal Monologue and other forms of intrapersonal communication.
There isn’t one single use for it or benefit of it (in the same way water has many uses)
- Comment on Purported Discovery Season 5 episode titles 10 months ago:
Interesting links to Three Body Problem there.
- Comment on How to remove smell from lunch box? 11 months ago:
As far as I know, only HDPE is suitable for vinegar. Other types of plastic react with even a weak acid causing swelling/softening.
- Comment on How to remove smell from lunch box? 11 months ago:
Why does bleach come in plastic containers ? Acids on the other hand (like vinegar) come in glass containers .
- Comment on How to remove smell from lunch box? 11 months ago:
Why would bleach damage it?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
UK: anywhere that sells batteries has to have a disposal facility.
- Comment on I Can't Drink Now Like I Used to a Few Years Ago (26M), is that Normal? 1 year ago:
As well as the medical effects, there’s also the realisation (age varies when this happens) that going out in order to get drunk is not a good time.
- Comment on Could we use AI to update 4:3 media to 16:9? 1 year ago:
Very true, I remember a few years ago someone converting old cartoons to a consistent 60 frames a second.
If they’d asked an animator they’d have found out that animation purposely uses different rates of change to give a different feel to scenes. So the improvement actually ruined what they were trying to improve.
- Comment on Why do phones come with SMS delivery reports turned off by default? 1 year ago:
This is true. When I checked on this about five years ago (in the UK), the cost per message was about £0.00001
With the reduction in the number of SMS sent, it now costs more to bill them. In the UK, even the cheapest monthly contract has unlimited calls and texts. There a pre-pay tariffs as low as £3 a month with calls, texts and some data.
- Comment on Why do phones come with SMS delivery reports turned off by default? 1 year ago:
As well as the charges issue there are three other points.
They are delivery reports not read reports.
Because of the way they are implemented they are low priority on the network and will be dropped at busy times. (This means the lack of a delivery report doesn’t necessarily mean it wasn’t delivered)
They don’t work reliably across different message centres. If you and the recipient are on different message centres, You’ll get a delivery report when it reaches the next message centre. (This means that a delivery report doesn’t necessarily mean the message was delivered)
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Prodigy’ Finds New Home At Netflix After Paramount+ Cancellation 1 year ago:
Apparently it’s a tax write off.
It’s risky though because a) Star Trek is no longer all in one place b) if it’s a hit then Netflix benefit.
- Comment on Why is cooking a food item method called different things by what the item is, or what is the criteria? 1 year ago:
I think it’s a pretty accurate answer. The OP asked why it’s sometimes calked poaching and sometimes boiling. The answer being that they aare different things.
- Comment on Why is cooking a food item method called different things by what the item is, or what is the criteria? 1 year ago:
Boiling and poaching are not the same. Frying and sautéing are not the same.
- Comment on I have an apartment where the dumpster is a car's drive away, and taking trash down involves 4 staircases. What is the best way to ameliorate this situation? 1 year ago:
Must be in the US then.
- Comment on I have an apartment where the dumpster is a car's drive away, and taking trash down involves 4 staircases. What is the best way to ameliorate this situation? 1 year ago:
I think they are in the US. It operates without the sort of protections that most of the world has.
- Comment on I have an apartment where the dumpster is a car's drive away, and taking trash down involves 4 staircases. What is the best way to ameliorate this situation? 1 year ago:
But how far is that?
- Comment on Is there a more politically conservative part of the fediverse? 1 year ago:
And that’s were moderation (the act of moderation) comes in as a first step rather than instant defederation.
- Comment on Is there a more politically conservative part of the fediverse? 1 year ago:
I haven’t mentioned anything about Trans people at all ? There’s nothing to negotiate and I don’t agree that trans people have a right to be treated with respect and have their rights respected.
- Comment on Why can I listen to radio for hours but when I listen to music I actually like I feel exhausted after 1 or 2 albums? 1 year ago:
There’s lots of reasons including psychology.
When you listen to Radio you generally don’t know what songs will be played unless the DJ teases what’s coming. When they tease it’s always something that the vast majority will like.
So with radio you have the anticipation factor which helps bridge the advert gap (if the station plays adverts in between tracks)
When you listen to radio you are often distracted or doing something else.
If you put in an album then you now exactly what order the tracks will be and unless you skip tracks will inevitably have some that are fillers. Also, you are more likely to concentrate on the music which involves more thinking. All of this leads to boredom or fatigue.
- Comment on Where are you? Can you move? 1 year ago:
The bit that thinks is in my head feels to be at the front. But it knows that my heart is equally important. So I feel that I am my head and my body.
People who have lost a limb say they feel like they’ve lost a part of themselves not just physically but in their sense of wholeness.
- Comment on Is there a more politically conservative part of the fediverse? 1 year ago:
I get what you’re saying. There’s a mindset in the fediverse that everyone on an instance is responsible for it. Even if the bad actors join later. The instance gets defederated but as a user it can be really hard to know if your instance is defederated.
It’s a deeply unpopular opinion and anyone who suggests that federation is simultaneously a huge advance and a big problem seems to get downvoted.
You’re right, ultimately instead of being exposed to a range of views some of which are challenging we’ll end up in little echo chambers.
We need more moderation and less defederation.
- Comment on Can iOS apps leak private data without being used? 1 year ago:
An app can only do anything with the data you give it access to. It can’t collect new data while it’s closed.
If it’s running in the background it can collect data but only if you’ve given it permission. For example you might give an execrable app permission to record your heart rate, number of steps etc.