davidgro

joined 2 years ago
[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Serious question: How can you tell?

I recognize a certain type of Hollywood hot, like Chris Hemsworth is full of muscles and to me seems likely to be seen as attractive. Same with Henry Cavill, etc. But I know that stereotype from being exposed to it, nothing innate like when I see a beautiful woman and immediately feel how attractive she is.

And besides that one stereotype, I can't tell a hot guy from average. For example, when Ryan Reynolds was named People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive in 2010 it caught me completely by surprise, I had no idea. Similarly when people talk about George Clooney as a paragon of male attraction, I wouldn't have guessed that before hearing about it. (I don't at all doubt that it's true, I simply don't experience it myself.)

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 32 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

Character from the movie Ghostbusters (1984)

Note that the game was released the next year, so they totally could have included this reference IRL if they had wanted.

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah I thought the headline was about polling methodology issues.

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

You're thinking of Hedy Lamarr. That's Madeline Kahn.

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I definitely can't prove that it isn't gnomes. You have me there. (I prefer KDE though)

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

My theory is that I still hit all that stuff and make a bunch of noise when not trying to be quiet, but it isn't notable then so I just forget about it immediately.

Also the usual time I'm trying to be quiet is sneaking into bed in the dark after staying up too late, so I'm hitting stuff because I can't see it.

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

It also happens to be patching a financial vulnerability.

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

When was this originally published?

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago

I'm a little surprised it gave the right answer. Although those are relatively common numbers, so it does make sense that it would.

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

That's a reason why I much prefer the term "machine learning" (and cringe a bit at even that) to AI for anything short of AGI.

I do certainly think it's a great achievement to have computers able to 'hear' and 'see' for example, but I don't think that was ever properly "intelligence" on its own.

And don't get me started on pathfinding/combat algorithms for NPCs in games.

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

Eventually dead, from multiple potential causes. Especially with no lid.

 

Ever since abandoning ship I've maintained a negative (1 star) review every time there is an update for the app. My review contained no swearing or anything else that I think would break a rule.

This morning I went to update and found my review gone, and trying to submit a new one fails with a "Server error". I was able to review other apps.

 

The app in the screenshot is URLCheck, it is my "default browser" and allows me to see where a link is going and edit it or choose what to open it in.

It's showing that the ! link I tapped on the bottom of the screen got an "https:/" (one slash) put in front of it instead of being treated as a proper link to a community.

The same thing happens with @ links:

A screenshot showing that a user-link from a post summary ended up with part of a protocol prepended to it

 

Note: this is a true story, it happened a couple hours ago.

We were at the skating rink. "Low" by Flo Rida was playing. Suddenly a little kid spun out in front of us. Fortunately she wasn't hurt when she hit the floor (she hit the floor), next thing we knew Shawty got low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low.

She was fine and got up on her own. Kids are rubber.

 

Here's a mild introduction to their style. (Also just one of my favorites)

 

The links inside the linked post are relative links, such as xkcd which is a link to /c/xkcd@lemmy.world

Boost does not open them when tapped, flashing an error instead.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by davidgro@lemmy.world to c/support@lemmy.world
 

There are unfortunately some subreddits which are still the best place to find timely info about certain topics - for example video game subs run by the developers of the game. Lemmit is a way to subscribe to those while not giving Reddit any more "engagement" or ad views.

The bot that runs Lemmit only posts on its own instance, so users like me only see it when we subscribe explicitly (or the All view I guess, but that's a mixed bag already. Edit: and each user could choose to ban it if they want)

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