Random832

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@joquji5n324il @hyperdiscogirl @Mankosmash it would also exclude people who choose to scroll past, which makes choosing to click on red totally morally indefensible because it is not necessary to maximize the chance of saving your own life.

@hyperdiscogirl @Mankosmash That's Twitter, not Reddit. He said it came from Reddit so let's see it. Anyway in the formulation you posted, it says "everyone responding to this poll", so I guess it would exclude illiterate people and anyone without internet. Very different from Urban's experiment.

Accurate cartoon. In my polling, almost 6% of people said they picked the wrong button when they were prompted about it. Assume the global error rate is higher and kids' responses are random, and easily 1-in-6 to 1-in-5 hit blue by mistake. So, if red wins, society is ruined.

@manfromdelaware @IsaacKing314 @BrettKnoss it was also the subject of a slander campaign to convince people that it had been invented by white people

@IsaacKing314 @BrettKnoss It did have the unfortunate optics of socially progressive white people trying to use it and centrist to conservative Hispanic people being against it. Obviously that’s not an argument against the terms legitimacy (we don’t have to defer to Candace Owens on BLM) but it looks bad.

"Folx" was arguably where wokeness jumped the shark. The other terminology changes had plausible reasoning: Yeah, "guys" actually is exclusionary. Yeah, "Indian" is just factually inaccurate. This was the first one that was purely and openly nothing more than ingroup signaling.

@TrueSlazac @Quizzmo2 @Sofia_Phobia do the 4 billion die if you press the green button? like, does the choice of button implicitly decide how many people's lives are at risk in the first place

@Quizzmo2 @Sofia_Phobia You’re the only one to press the button and you only do it once

I'm having an argument with @Sofia_Phobia You have a green and a purple button Green button prevents the death of Four Billion random people with a probability of 0.0000001% (1 in a Billion) Purple Button is guaranteed to prevent the death 1 random person on Earth

@TheoG @VictorTaelin the problem is things that just don't allow it at all, intentionally.

@VictorTaelin The web has always been hostile to cut and paste. It's not universally simple to copy something that might have a thousand different parts, much of it not standardized to some easily referenced template. Maybe you are just noticing because you are cutting and pasting more now?

When the web became so copy-paste hostile? Why can't I ctrl+c an entire WhatsApp chat, thread on X, channel on Discord? Even ChatGPT doesn't allow you to ctrl+c a chat. I don't get it, why people don't demand this? Specially now that we can ctrl+c stuff to AI and ask questions

@ctjlewis @vincit_amore eh, I'd say it's data. once it's been converted to a protein it's no longer being "executed" in any meaningful sense (the instructions for a 3D printer or CNC machine don't get credit for the things the machine built with the parts you make do) and that part isn't turing complete

I am saying it’s “literally a computational process,” and that DNA is “literally code.” That’s about it. I mean, I’d easily go further and say the cell is a computer that runs the instructions, and I think they can smell that. The problem is, I’m right, and they’re retarded, trying to argue “genetic code” is a “metaphor.” No, none of these things are transistors or MacBooks, but they’re still computing.

Guys, these people literally believe that the term “genetic code,” is a metaphor. Yes, it’s called “code,” but it’s not REALLY code, you see. It’s a metaphor.

@Sharfpang @OpeDid @endless_sine mostly you see DSPs where the smallest addressable unit is 16 or 32 bits and the C implementation doesn't bother to implement smaller units in software

@OpeDid @endless_sine Are there *NOWADAYS*, still produced, any architectures with non 8 bit bytes? Even the 3-cent chinese microcraptollers use 8-bit bytes in their imitation of RAM.

learning lots about computing lately

@OpeDid @endless_sine 6 bits is not legal for characters/"bytes" in C. I do know of a (36 bit) architecture where there are helper functions for dealing with 6 bit units but they're not normal pointers you can do pointer arithmetic on.

@endless_sine A byte depending on the cpu architecture does not need to be 8 bits. Theres 9 bit bytes arctectures where a word is 36 bits. Theres also 6 bit bytes with 60 bit words.

@777Nikitf @dnaanddnaand @s_s_1_9 @endless_sine the C standard uses the word "byte" in many places to refer to a unit of whatever size the char type is

@dnaanddnaand @s_s_1_9 @endless_sine Aren't we talking about the size of a byte, not char?

@JamesRLandrum @msnofficial_on why can't it have a thermal sensor that detects if the closed laptop has been put in an insulated space and shut off then?

@msnofficial_on You do not want that option because that’s how you kill them. You close it, forget its on, throw it in a bag and cook it. It’s the exact scenario Apple plans against.

Do Macs not have an option to keep the device on even when the lid is closed? It's been an option on windows for over 2 decades now

@tautologer @kawaipure @Lon it should be given access to an API that returns the characters associated with a sequence of tokens

@kawaipure @Lon they can't because they literally can't see letters. we can look at the individual letters, but the letters are not passed to the model, it literally only gets tokens

asking an llm how many letters are in a word is like asking a person what wavelength of light a color is

@chrisjlocke @NearestCommit what specific changes in specifically the run dialog do you believe were made? I already acknowledged that it has a new icon but I don't think that's performance relevant

@Random832 @NearestCommit Thats not what I said. But equally, they didn't just take the existing codebase, press [Ctrl]+[H] and replace 2000 with XP.

The "i made task manager" guy also apparently worked on the run dialog Istg this mf according to him worked on everything in the OS

@immacooljoe @soncharm the kid doesn't deserve to get a failing grade because he couldn't find anyone who could help

@soncharm so, what’s the issue? the kid is being taught in a different (more modern and logical) way and the parent didn’t know about it. no one’s claiming he doesn’t know math or arithmetics, he just didn’t know of this particular method. It’s a non issue nothing burger

Math Understanders are dunking on this saying ‘guess you just don’t have Number-Sense bro’ but the issue is that it’s just phrased weirdly for someone who wasn’t in the class when this ‘a way to make a ten’ thing was introduced. I and presumably everyone who criticizes this Understands Numbers just fine, but I also don’t know what ‘using a way to make a ten to calculate 8+9’ means. I could try to infer it from context? Do you ‘make a ten’ with the 8 by grabbing 2 from the 9 leaving 7, hence 17? Do you ‘make a ten’ with the 9 and 1 from the 8, again leaving 7? Do you round both up to 10 getting 20, then take away the 2+1? I’m sure it’s something like that. Or rather, I don’t know what the heck else it could be. Either way, rest assured, I ‘have number-sense’! But ‘make a ten’ is a weirdly specific phrase and (again) since I wasn’t in class when the teacher talked about it, and it wasn’t a phrase ever used when I was learning arithmetic, I can’t have confidence I ‘know what it means’ and ‘know what the teacher is asking for’ per se, so if I’m the parent trying to help my kid who doesn’t know what to do, this leaves me frustrated. Math is not supposed to do that! The great thing about math is there are objective answers ascertainable by multiple methods, and all methods are right as long as the logic is correct. You’re not supposed to *have to* ‘do it the way the teacher was going for’. But this thing says the student *has to* ‘make a ten’. Simply must replicate the specific arcane phrase and method the teacher went through in class, other ways are deemed ‘incorrect’. This is essentially wordcel-thinking intruding into math. Wordcels probably like that because it aligns with what they like about education (=secret learning & phrasing dispensed by special experts using specific phrases you must learn and internalize) and not what they dislike (=math).

@etubruton @soncharm what bothers me like this is, just like the one where the teacher insists that 3×4 isn't 4+4+4, it will almost certainly get marked wrong if the student picks the wrong number to make ten with. Which means they are teaching, wrongly, that these operations are not commutative.

@soncharm ..what? this is teaching a strategy. the next week they may learn a different strategy. later the student may choose which one they prefer.

@chrisjlocke @NearestCommit you think there is no code in common between the windows NT4 shell and the windows 95 one?

@chrisjlocke @NearestCommit you think Windows XP was written from scratch rather than starting with Windows 2000 and modifying it?

@chrisjlocke @NearestCommit ok but there wasn't any work to be done on the run dialog component specifically for XP. if he did it for an earlier version then say that

@Random832 @NearestCommit He worked on the shell32 dev team. The run dialog is part of the shell. Dork.

@Distant_Warrior @BattleByrd it's bronze, not marble now i'm curious, did the greeks paint bronze statues?

@BattleByrd "The Americans rarely painted their municipal statues."

Weird so called "art" at the Orlando airport. Thought this dude was real until I realized he was in a glass case...

@Funaoe24Bro @MRBaconz7 Because the browser has to pick which layout to use for groups of characters that are in different writing directions. the one on the right it thinks it's an arabic sentence with a couple of english phrases in it.

@MRBaconz7 I get that in Arabic, you read right to left, but why does the whole structure of the sentence move around when viewing this on the timeline versus in comment mode?

how is ص a meme its literally just an arabic letter?

@BrodieOnLinux @TheOtherSeru it changed because you didn't switch to mate back when gnome started to suck

@TheOtherSeru I don't hate them, I'm just confused and explaining to others who are also confused about the reason this change occured

GNOME Logout Button Situation Is Crazy #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/HcJJ7UldMc8

@AllForBianqa @EdwardDarson @DidYouSayPlague @Vernon89188 @LaundryGuy1945 all bread is unhealthy and the specific claims people make about american bread either aren't true, aren't unique to american bread, and/or aren't what makes it unhealthy, how about that

@EdwardDarson @DidYouSayPlague @Vernon89188 @Random832 @LaundryGuy1945 yeah he should waste his time yapping to a bunch of randoms arguing that their American food is healthy 🤣