DrBob
@DrBob@lemmy.ca
Recovering academic now in public safety. You’ll find me kibitzing on brains (my academic expertise) to critical infrastructure and resilience (current worklife). Also hockey, games, music just because.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
- Comment on Cultural impact 1 week ago:
Number 1 was a retelling of Ferngully the Last Rainforest. spotlightonfilm.com/…/avatar-vs-ferngully-the-las…
- Comment on Does changing your last name make sense when you’re not that name? 1 week ago:
Why does anyone care? The only issue I could see is if you want to change your name to “Tom Cruise” or “Elon Musk” for the purpose of perpetrating fraud. Otherwise who cares? That’s the whole point of being able to change your name.
- Comment on Language barrier 2 weeks ago:
A version of this happened to me when I was young. I was lucky enough to be invited to dinner with a famous scientist. I spent a good chunk of time pitching my work (looking for a faculty position). At the end of the night he apologized and said he was sure I was very interesting but he couldn’t hear over the music.
- Comment on Gold 2 weeks ago:
It’s not shit, it’s top 3 behind silver and copper. But those oxidize and gold doesn’t. So a gold coated silver core is what you want.
- Comment on References: [1] out of his ass 2 weeks ago:
It’s not like Penrose doesn’t get out of his depth pretty rapidly. I read The Empires New Mind and my first reaction was has the guy never heard of a heuristic? Brains aren’t perfect Turing machines but sloppy approximaters that make “eh, good enough” decisions.
- Comment on I didn't realize it was so bad 2 weeks ago:
I recently dropped a lot of weight and went from almost 5000 pounds to one year. I can highly recommend it.
- Comment on There is the face of a cat in this picture. Can you find it? 2 weeks ago:
I’m going to plead temporary insanity - I swear I saw a big face when I put it across the room. Now I don’t. 😄
- Comment on There is the face of a cat in this picture. Can you find it? 3 weeks ago:
Here’s another example. Look at this grating from several feet away.
- Comment on There is the face of a cat in this picture. Can you find it? 3 weeks ago:
For those struggling get rid of the high frequency information. Easiest way is to increase the viewing distance.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
In a 60 year old male professor and I find your shit hilarious. I get too involved in politics and science stuff. I find the horny posting a refreshing break.
- Comment on Anon listens to British music 3 weeks ago:
Bunny ears are the index and middle finger. The horns are the index finger and pinky.
- Comment on load bearing worm 5 weeks ago:
I knew drug company scientists who didn’t trust anything in academia for this reason. The incentives were aligned on the wrong side of dishonesty. If stuff didn’t work out in pharma you just moved on to the next idea.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I too am old friend. I also read The Selfish Gene before the world glommed onto it.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Yes. Ballsacks are ok too during a DP, but I’m not going to kiss the guy. That’s just weird.
- Comment on load bearing worm 5 weeks ago:
I had a labmate who insisted on ph testing distilled water. Not because he was concerned about contamination, but because it was part of the ritual.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I’m 60. They are useful for recreational purposes. Going one round is not a problem, but the second round? I used to measure refractory periods in minutes, then hours. Now I could use a calendar.
- Comment on Has there ever been a country who did not have an enemy or pick a fight? And was pretty much like all of you do you we will do us. kind of like isalationism but charitable when it counted? 5 weeks ago:
I don’t have an answer for Afghanistan. We suck. Iraq? My understanding is that we wouldn’t go without a UN resolution which was not forthcoming. We have officers posted in other countries for various exchanges and they fought with their host countries. So we had a few hundred people there in various roles. I don’t know about the clandestine participant but.
- Comment on Has there ever been a country who did not have an enemy or pick a fight? And was pretty much like all of you do you we will do us. kind of like isalationism but charitable when it counted? 5 weeks ago:
We have. Notably during the World Wars. But we didn’t instigate those conflicts. We managed to avoid Viet Nam. We were involved in Korea but that was following a UN resolution.
- Comment on Has there ever been a country who did not have an enemy or pick a fight? And was pretty much like all of you do you we will do us. kind of like isalationism but charitable when it counted? 5 weeks ago:
Canada? We’ve been in a bunch of fights but haven’t picked them ourselves. Consider the bloody battle for Han Island as an example. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky_War
- Comment on The Future is Now! 1 month ago:
I’m suggesting that any company that has a robot that does this is in deep fucking trouble. They should pull an Allbirds and do an AI pump and dump because they are far behind the market.
- Comment on The Future is Now! 1 month ago:
What am I missing here?
- Comment on The Future is Now! 1 month ago:
The video I linked I shows the Intree robot running at 10 m/s…that’s a sub 3 minute mile. Anything so janky that there is a stretcher sitting by the starting line is either staged or generated. No company that is serious about the field is going to show themselves as being slthat far behind their competitors.
- Comment on The Future is Now! 1 month ago:
It has to be AI. This is the current state.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Hotwife is a legitimate kink. It can be useful as well as satisfying.
- Comment on The future is bright... 1 month ago:
Each line is in white is an independent phrase. They follow a theme but aren’t meant to make a sentence.
- Comment on Interesting park sculpture 1 month ago:
I can’t quite put my finger on it.
- Comment on Interesting park sculpture 1 month ago:
Not really. I feel like the artist stopped short when there is so much more to explore.
- Comment on How do first time movie writers ensure someone along the way won't get ripped off? Like say Jay in the mail room sees your scripts and develops it himself, what recourse is there against mail clerk? 1 month ago:
Adding to this that anyone worth pitching does everything they can to avoid contact with unsolicited scripts. When they want one they grab one they’ve already optioned or go with established pros. So if the mailroom guy is your worry, then you’re already out of the running. And the mailroom guy won’t have any better luck with it anyways.
- Comment on LEARN THE TRUTH 1 month ago:
The rabbit doesn’t lay eggs. They are both Celtic fertility symbols. Ostara is a spring festival tied to the spring equinox focused on awakening and rebirth. The church of Rome repurposed it into Easter.
