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New comment by StavrosK in "MPs: Octopuses feel pain and need legal protection"

StavrosK — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 15:23:46 +0000

I agree.

New comment by StavrosK in "MPs: Octopuses feel pain and need legal protection"

StavrosK — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 14:28:33 +0000

Are you arguing against deciding?

New comment by StavrosK in "MPs: Octopuses feel pain and need legal protection"

StavrosK — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 14:14:59 +0000

Indeed, how do we decide anything that's on a gradient?

New comment by StavrosK in "Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infection"

StavrosK — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 12:21:18 +0000

Borsalino?

New comment by StavrosK in "Rest In Peace, John. I was lucky to know you so deeply"

StavrosK — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 21:59:24 +0000

Also most people don't want to put in the work to maintain relationships for this long.

New comment by StavrosK in "An unwanted update to your Google Account"

StavrosK — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 17:20:52 +0000

I disagree, even EU companies don't have to adhere to the GDPR if they don't target EU countries. Google doesn't have to adhere to the GDPR for people in the US, whether they're EU citizens or not.

New comment by StavrosK in "An unwanted update to your Google Account"

StavrosK — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 15:25:13 +0000

No, because the GDPR doesn't apply to citizens, but to companies. It only applies to companies that target the EU for their services:

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...

New comment by StavrosK in "CatMeows: A Publicly-Available Dataset of Cat Vocalizations (2020)"

StavrosK — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 10:30:18 +0000

Maybe my cat is just weird, she has brain damage:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/blind-cat-eyes/

New comment by StavrosK in "CatMeows: A Publicly-Available Dataset of Cat Vocalizations (2020)"

StavrosK — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 08:30:33 +0000

Ah yeah, true, we don't let out cat outside, or if we're going to, we don't trim her nails for a few weeks beforehand.

New comment by StavrosK in "CatMeows: A Publicly-Available Dataset of Cat Vocalizations (2020)"

StavrosK — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 07:39:53 +0000

Maybe there's more in videos I didn't watch, but I watched 5-6 videos and the cat seems to be pressing buttons randomly. It doesn't seem to correspond to anything it does.

New comment by StavrosK in "CatMeows: A Publicly-Available Dataset of Cat Vocalizations (2020)"

StavrosK — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 07:35:05 +0000

I have a cat, but am a dog person. The difference in intelligence is stinking. The cat can't communicate anything past meowing generically, whereas the dog can understand what I'm saying and bark on the one it wants.

When my cat wants something, she'll meow uselessly until we chance on what it is. When my dog wants something, she'll come to me and touch me with her paw, and I'll say "Food. Water. Walk." and she'll bark at the one she wants. It's amazing.

New comment by StavrosK in "CatMeows: A Publicly-Available Dataset of Cat Vocalizations (2020)"

StavrosK — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 07:32:59 +0000

Do you guys not trim their nails? No scratching when they aren't sharp.

New comment by StavrosK in "I know the secret to the quiet mind but wish I’d never learned it"

StavrosK — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 07:15:51 +0000

Yep, that's it!

New comment by StavrosK in "I know the secret to the quiet mind but wish I’d never learned it"

StavrosK — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 22:29:58 +0000

You have no idea how much technical debt there is in the average body. There's much more technical debt in the body than there is technology in the world.

The two systems aren't remotely comparable in complexity.

New comment by StavrosK in "I know the secret to the quiet mind but wish I’d never learned it"

StavrosK — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 22:28:41 +0000

Did you also hear a sound like a bass guitar string snapping when this happened?

New comment by StavrosK in "In Argentina, cheap government-issued netbooks sparked a musical Renaissance"

StavrosK — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 14:01:19 +0000

Ahh, so water isn't inherently blue, our eyes and brains interpret it as blue because it's blue.

Looking for misconceptions is a great strategy, thanks!

New comment by StavrosK in "In Argentina, cheap government-issued netbooks sparked a musical Renaissance"

StavrosK — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 12:42:29 +0000

You'd definitely think so!

New comment by StavrosK in "How many flies are in my apartment?"

StavrosK — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 10:59:36 +0000

Yes, the path each one takes can very accurately be called a "random fly".

New comment by StavrosK in "Spatial Audio"

StavrosK — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 10:55:07 +0000

Yes, but I have a suspicion the rights holder in this case is the label and not the composer/performer.

New comment by StavrosK in "What's Happened to the National Trust"

StavrosK — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 10:39:23 +0000

> The quoted example is from the article, and it gives the meaning as 'to stay awake', i.e. verb.

Yes, but it uses it in "stay woke" not "I woke this morning".

> I just disagree that the 'older than you might think' argument that follows is correct, or that if so it has any value (since even the article seems to acknowledge its a different usage to the modern slang).

I agree, it's not the modern usage as it doesn't have the same meaning, but I think the article means that its usage as an adjective is old, not that the usage with its current meaning is old. Which I guess makes it very debatable if "the word" has been around for that long.