Phen

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[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 9 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

Wife has been binging Law and Order SVU recently and I noticed there's a lot of episodes where they have abused children turn into abusive adults, with the explanation that it's a natural response of the brain trying to get in a position where it will never be vulnerable again.

No idea if that theory has any merit, but if true I wonder if that can also happen in a larger scale, to an entire society instead of just to an individual.

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

To get rid of lice

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 14 points 1 day ago

Back in school, one of my first sex ed classes, teacher says: "boys have a factory of sperm in their bodies".

Me, trying to be funny: "oh so that's why sometimes there's smoke coming out of my mouth?"

Thankfully it landed well with the classmates, but the teacher was really worried I took it literally.

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 12 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Not like there's much else worth watching on Netflix these days.

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 1 day ago

Worked on a personal game for 7 years nearly every day. Signed with a publisher and gave up on the project the following year.

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"what are you saying? That I can quit vim?"

"no Neo, what I'm saying is - when you're ready, you won't have to."

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It'll be over one day and I don't know how high the DPI will have to be, but I'm currently at 160 and I still see room for cramming in more pixels.

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 9 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I started using computers at 640x480, sometimes 800x600. 1024x768 was a blessing. Since then I've always cherished every extra pixel I could get. I would never dare use anything above 1x scale.

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 4 days ago

But they also keep you in your toes. Nobody ever worries about what their fish is doing while they aren't looking.

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 5 days ago

$ 200 billion for ICE?

That's pretty good, webrtc deserves that money.

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Audio communication is too slow. If Humans can't evolve to communicate telepathically, language itself should evolve to account for this. Here's what I propose:

  • we develop a mathematical formula to generate a fingerprint/signature for sentences we intent to say;
  • before saying anything, we calculate this fingerprint in our head, then say this fingerprint result, followed by the actual thing we want to say
  • the listener then gets this fingerprint result and keeps in mind; whenever it tries to predict what the full sentence from the speaker is going to be, it calculates the fingerprint for the predicted sentence and compares it to the fingerprint received at the start.
  • if the fingerprints match, then the listener reports: "I got it" and the speaker can then skip saying the rest of their sentence.

Surely this is bound to improve communication for everyone and would have no downsides whatsoever.

(Sorry, the amphetamines must be kicking in right about now).

 

Just because the best thing might have been easy to answer, I want you all to think a little more to recall what was the second best thing that happened to you this year.

 

Anything exciting going on in your field of work this year? Or breakthroughs in science, new technologies developed, things like that.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Phen@lemmy.eco.br to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
 

Some news that would be completely mundane today but scary or shocking in the past.

 

Tava querendo comprar uma pra não precisar mais ficar correndo em gráfica sempre que preciso assinar algum documento, mas pqp é tudo apenas 110v. E a informação ainda fica bem escondida pra maioria delas.

Eu tava comparando uns 4 modelos pensando em qual comprar quando por acaso vi um comentário em um deles falando sobre ser 110v, aí fui conferir e todas eram. To tão acostumado com tudo ser bivolt hoje em dia que se não fosse o comentário eu nem teria conferido.

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