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- Comment on Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles. 7 hours ago:
I was in denial about being autistic for around a decade after I first had suspicion because of exactly the reasoning you provide.
To provide some insight to my experience is that I had to manually decode all the non-verbal communication with logic while keeping track of the verbal stuff and monitoring my own expression back when I was masking. That shit is exhausting. Masking isn’t just picking a personality to wear based on the occasion, it’s doing that while it doesn’t come naturally and consciously tweaking behavior. Jokes on us, we give of the uncanny valley vibes when do that because it “feels off”.
If there’s something loud around me I will intensely try to hear what people say to me but I just can’t because the surrounding is louder.
I was so bad at throwing and kicking balls that I was made fun of despite actually practicing both football and handball.
I went to sleep scared for a long time because I imagined people breaking in because of slightest squeek in the house.
It’s also hard to explain how easy it is to have conversations with other autistic people vs normies.
- Comment on Games then vs now 3 days ago:
This is such an immersion breaking aspect of modern games and an absolute garbage approach. They’re idea is to not break the “flow” for the action players but for players that like puzzles it’s absolute horror. They just need to add during new game a “Puzzle hints” menu with Normal, Low and None.
“That rock looks fragile”, “Have you seen the rock next to the windmill? It has cracks in it”, “What if we shoot the rock with the ballista?” at those points I just want a “Shut up” option.
If I can’t figure out the puzzle myself it removes all satisfaction from solving it. I want to be confused, open up a journal that I need to skim through to get relevant information and then put the pieces together.
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 1 week ago:
No, I wait 3 years usually. All bugs fixed, everything works, mods in great shape and price down 50%. Plenty of games older than 3 years also and much lower hardware requirements.
I made an exception for Elden Ring last time but that’s about it.
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 2 weeks ago:
Onions and mushrooms are the two things I can have with pretty much every meal.
- Comment on Happy [ ١ رجب ] 2 weeks ago:
Subhan allah 3ndna eshahar addura.
- Comment on Does each country have a book/library of the laws of the land that a commoner can consult to check if they're about to do something illegal? 2 weeks ago:
In Iceland it’s althingi.is
- Comment on I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐 3 weeks ago:
That’s a question that is very hard to answer. Dogs have a similar-ish brain structure but there’s a good chance you need a massive prefrontal cortex to have a chance of getting autism.
- Comment on Seeing so many corn posts today 4 weeks ago:
It’s a sin doing that to an elote.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Gonna leave this here for those who need it. It’s surprisingly fun to grind arithmetic skill.
- Comment on Introverts Rock 4 weeks ago:
I’m introverted and I got invited everywhere all the time. People liked inviting me because I always showed up and was dependable. Those people who invited me are still my friends today.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 4 weeks ago:
It’s a commodity that’s widely used as a way to keep the value of a portfolio in case of inflation. Gold has a lot of utility but recently because of uncertainty about the US dollar central banks have been stocking up on gold.
Complete societal collapse is very unlikely and we have studied economics enough to the point where hyperinflation is avoidable.
For investors keeping some gold (10-20% of portfolio) can be very nice since it allows you to buy the dip and is inflation proof. On the other hand, gold can become a speculative asset so it’s value can be inflated just like any other commodity. So in a way currently it’s either a nice tool or a bubble (or scam as you call it).
Silver, used in solar panels, is also pretty good for same reasons.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Optimus Robot shuts down after reproducing the gesture of its human operator removing their headset 4 weeks ago:
The Indian operator just finished his shift
- Comment on Simple test to see if you are normal or have a flithy mind 4 weeks ago:
I don’t get it, how do you see something that’s not a duck?
- Comment on ELI5 why I logically understand McDonald's food is low quality and bad for me but I crave it like crack? 4 weeks ago:
I know about a funky thing where if you have equal amounts of sweet, salty, bitter, umami and sour you feel less full after eating it. It might be completely unrelated though.
- Comment on Why isint lemmy more popular? 4 weeks ago:
I’d say because it’s still new and the content is very nerd heavy as you have probably seen from all the Linux posts. Also, most user’s here come from the reddit exodus after the removal of third party apps.
One other thing is that when you link content from Lemmy you can just link the image directly instead of sending a link to Lemmy with a login screen. The adoption rate from people linking will be a lot lower since Lemmy is not sacrificing quality to increase numbers.
Either way, I like the size and it suits me, I can “finish” my Lemmy for the day in a reasonable amount of time and I get my fix of Linux news, memes and shitposts so it’s just a win for me.
- Comment on ELI5 why I logically understand McDonald's food is low quality and bad for me but I crave it like crack? 4 weeks ago:
Pretty sure you’d have to label nicotine content and age restrict it no matter how it’s consumed.
- Comment on ELI5 why I logically understand McDonald's food is low quality and bad for me but I crave it like crack? 4 weeks ago:
It’s science, I don’t know the specifics of craving but I know they spent a lot of money to figure out how give you that feeling.
- Comment on Have LLMs killed all future programming languages? 4 weeks ago:
That’s a shit take, it’s assuming that the LLM has the same thought process for learning a programming language instead of being autocorrect no steroids.
I’m pretty sure LLMs will be shit at Lisp for the foreseeable future just because the language is sort of created by the programmer.
- Comment on Influencers 4 weeks ago:
Venus has CO2 air at 50km at same pressure as earth and has good protection from radiation. You could make tons of blimps, heat them up with solar energy to float make a small science colony.
Downside is that it’s very weight limited because landing on a surface full of sulfuric acid is hard. The challenges are still there and Venus has it’s challenges but you could have people running around with oxygen tanks instead of space suits.
- Comment on Which countries combine high quality of life and strong equality? 5 weeks ago:
Nordic countries are the best example. A lot of Europe might fit depending on how low “low social and economic equality” is defined.
- Comment on How could you do this to me? 5 weeks ago:
I have 1065 Ti without any issues. The nvidia not compatible is outdated and they started playing ball recently by working on open source drivers. Nvidia is huge in the AI space and AI computing is pretty much 100% Linux.
There are gaming issues though on Linux in the form of anti-cheat systems, but other than that running things with Steam Proton just works although specific games that use obscure windows APIs might not be as performant.
Dirt 3 used the NTsynch for the NTFS filesystem and once it got fixed the frame rate saw a massive jump for example.
Long term people are supporting Linux gaming a lot more since it’s already 3% of the playerbase and requires pretty minimal effort for added 3% audience to make Steam Proton play work. Also with the release of the Steam Machine 2026 is going to be the Year of the Linux Desktop™
- Comment on Another angle of this modern art installation 1 month ago:
It’s a deadlock situation and can arise without any screw ups. Imagine the buses being 5x as long and all reach the intersection at the same time as an example. All have space to enter the roundabout but they’ll reach the same situation as in the picture.
To fix this people uses signals and can be done by having the buses follow “Only 1 or 2 articulated (double) buses are allowed into the roundabout at a time”. A rule like that might be required if you have a lot of articulated buses. The risk of this happening depends on how many ways you can enter a roundabout no a bus like that, how long the buses are, how frequently they run and how big the roundabout is.
- Comment on 🐑🥁🐍 1 month ago:
They’re used differently, which trumps historical meanings.
- Comment on 🐑🥁🐍 1 month ago:
It’s based on usage. R word is tainted now, this might change in the future or not. Language doesn’t care about etymology, only about usage. If the usage is generally negative and implies inferiority of a minority it’s a slur.
Calling someone an idiot doesn’t imply that disabled people are inferior, which makes it ok to use.
- Comment on This comic is missing a chunk of asbestos. 1 month ago:
Wikipedia agrees with you. Commonly viewed as a psuodoscience. The equipment is very good at amplifying subtle hand movements.
- Comment on Feeling that groove 1 month ago:
It’s true that the ears receive stereo input, but brain postprocesses it to make surround sound. It uses the time difference from sound hitting your right and left ear to do some black magic and figure out at which angle the sound is coming from.
- Comment on Feeling that groove 1 month ago:
That’s the neat part, the brain does that using some black magic. You just have to add all the sounds individual waves together and the brain deciphers it.
- Comment on Why civilians don't crowdfund bribe money for politicians? 1 month ago:
One potential organisation type to do this would be a labor union. If multiple unions pool their resources they could make a super PAC and lobby hard.
- Comment on Well that showed them 1 month ago:
Ah, the power bottom.
- Comment on Me when Valve releases a phone 1 month ago:
Fuck it, just make them work like Flatpaks or snaps and run a minimal android session on top of virtual hardware and install like normal.