whotookkarl

joined 1 year ago
[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

Hume had something like the wise apportion their confidence to the evidence, and Carl Sagan's extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence can apply. So if those are true the quality and type of data is going to depend on the claim of fact (friend says they bought a dog vs a dragon), and the amount of evidence depends on the claim and your general standard of evidence. If you're lowering or raising your standards for a specific claim that's usually going to mean there's a bias for or against it.

tl;dr 42 pieces of data

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Tricorders, cellphones are already partway there they just need more durable, small sensors like a handheld light spectrometer to tell what things are made of and a handheld interferometer to detect gravity

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

A couple trip highlights I have are drinking with friends watching the sun set on the Arabian Sea in Goa, and hiking around the Grand Canyon with my grandparents after driving across the US with a sibling to get there

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

sl is a classic command line program for something harmlessly pointless

calibre for digital library software (cataloging books/docs/articles)

Comic book reader, it's a cbz/CBR comic book archive reader that tries to do the panel/smart auto zoom that used to be a part of comixology until Amazon bought it to kill it as competition to their shitty books app

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I suspect this is going to be true of pretty much any publicly accessible social media in general, parental controls built into the app or browser user access controls for censoring, time limits, or keeping them on a family friendly instance seems to be the right move

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

It would have been around the time of the EverQuest release I got cable Internet, before that it was dial up shared with a frequently used house phone (11 people in the house). Mostly used dial up for web sites like geocities and forums and instant messenger chats (Yahoo, MSN, icq, etc).

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Greasybox Software

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 101 points 2 days ago

Connecting ads masquerading as posts to bot posts shilling the same crap, got it

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

It's a sub problem within the field to try to predict good enough values to default to, search terms like optimizing hyperparameter values minimizing a loss function

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Redshift, it changes the brightness/color on the display bluer closer to midday and redder at night. Twilight is a similar app on android.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I'm a lumberjack in Antarctica, the pay is mostly commission based

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

Swamp Thing was pretty far from what I had hoped for and I think they can do more with those stories

 

The question was raised in a recent .world news article comment https://lemmy.world/post/25766196

 

Been listening to a few lately, a few John Carpenter's, Mayhem was pretty out there, looking for more that are interesting or wildly off topic or entertaining.

 

"In these times of darkness and hopelessness, we wish to share a strong message of solidarity and recognition to those Palestinian journalists who are covering this crisis in such dramatic circumstances. As humanity, we have a huge debt to their courage and commitment to freedom of expression," said Mauricio Weibel, Chair of the International Jury of Media Professionals.

 

Just trying to live with as little advertising as possible and curious what tips or tricks the community has aside from moving out to a cabin in the woods.

I can't really get away from road side advertising for now. Public sporting events are completely infected, and for the ads I am forced to see I try to make a conscious effort not to buy their goods or services. I won't subscribe to a streaming service if they have a sub+ad tier, if they're separate free with ads or sub no ads I'll support it.

Not really for any moral stance, but ad blockers are good at avoiding malware and some services are basically broken if you have to wait for an ad network, and I just feel mentally healthier in general without the extra propaganda.

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