Hacker News: dEnigma

New comment by dEnigma in "Aliens and the Enlightenment"

dEnigma — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 13:49:36 +0000

Seems like the article is making fun of these claims more than anything.

> The plurality of worlds debates provided wonderful opportunities to make definitive pronouncements without the inconvenience of providing solid evidence: after all, it was impossible to be proved wrong.

New comment by dEnigma in "They don't make readers like they used to"

dEnigma — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 15:51:35 +0000

I think Fifty Shades of Grey has had more commercial success than The Martian. It was originally published as an episodic piece of Twilight fan fiction (Master of the Universe)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifty_Shades_of_Grey

New comment by dEnigma in "The Engineering of Landfills"

dEnigma — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 18:20:23 +0000

To be fair you can store a lot of stuff inside a bag with only minimal use of bag material, so in many cases this can make sense.

New comment by dEnigma in "Cleaning up after WWII (2017)"

dEnigma — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 11:05:13 +0000

Regular occurrence here in Austria as well. Funnily enough back in school when we watched "Der Untergang" (Downfall), we were escorted out of the movie theatre by policemen right after the movie ended because they'd just found a big WWII bomb nearby at a construction site.

New comment by dEnigma in "The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs"

dEnigma — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 07:50:08 +0000

I'm pretty sure the majority of people on the internet who claim to be "neurodivergent" and/or have a diagnosis for some sort of ASD or ADHD do not show "actual, neurological differences in connectivity" though. For my little brothers it seemed like half the school suddenly had ADHD, mostly the kids who would in the past have been described as lazy, which I find hard to believe to be based on actual neurological differences.

New comment by dEnigma in "Brain overgrowth dictates autism severity, new research suggests"

dEnigma — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 11:31:46 +0000

The key part here is "related to general intelligence" (not sure how they measured that as I haven't read the whole study). They obviously don't have 6.5 times more gray matter as a whole.

New comment by dEnigma in "Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line?"

dEnigma — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 11:21:40 +0000

That's why they called it a "shitty" life hack.

New comment by dEnigma in "Helen Keller on her life before self-consciousness (1908)"

dEnigma — Sun, 26 May 2024 07:34:50 +0000

Doesn't your last point support OP's point? If you call it the "language of maths" instead of "skill", it would appear that they were indeed limited by their language. At least basic mathematical ability is ingrained in the language one experiences and uses everyday. Just think of a shopping receipt, or discussion of wages among colleagues, personal expenditures and budgets, poker games, recipes, etc.

New comment by dEnigma in "Shutting down the letsblock.it project and its official instance"

dEnigma — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 22:36:39 +0000

The point of FOSS licenses is keeping code free and open-source, not compensating anyone.

New comment by dEnigma in "Claude 3 beats GPT-4 on Aider's code editing benchmark"

dEnigma — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 13:32:56 +0000

It is what it is.

New comment by dEnigma in "Brain waves appear to wash out waste during sleep in mice"

dEnigma — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 15:18:35 +0000

> so newly discovered likely you didn’t learn about it in school.

So with the slow pace knowledge makes it into the school curriculum, you likely wouldn't have heard about it in school unless you just left the system a year or two ago (if even then).

New comment by dEnigma in "The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input"

dEnigma — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 01:18:50 +0000

> It looks like the safety filter may have taken offense to the word “Cocktail”!

I'm definitely not a fan of these severely hamstrung by default models. Especially as it seems to be based on an extremely puritan ethical system.

New comment by dEnigma in "How I got scammed on Facebook Marketplace (2023)"

dEnigma — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 19:29:56 +0000

Seems like you missed the mark then

New comment by dEnigma in "Gnome Receives €1M from German Government"

dEnigma — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 11:24:39 +0000

I wouldn't attach too much weight to negative comments. People love to complain, and on the other hand those who are perfectly content often don't feel the need to advertise that. That is not to say that Linux DEs are perfect, mind you, but maybe not as bad as comments on HN would suggest.

New comment by dEnigma in "Autism and responding to authority (2019)"

dEnigma — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 19:25:29 +0000

I don't like this trend of using the label "neurotypical" to describe one's idea of the most boring, unimaginative person one can think of, and then applying it to pretty much everyone that isn't on the spectrum. "Neurotypical" people range from absolute rebels who reject any kind of authority to people happily working for and supporting a fascist regime, and then everything in-between. There is no less of a variety of opinion and thought in them than in "neurodivergent" people.

New comment by dEnigma in "Nakatomi Space"

dEnigma — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 18:16:21 +0000

I don't think GTA is the best example for "alternate navigation" through "destructibility". Apart from a couple of fences and lampposts, what can you really destroy that gives you new navigation possibilities? There are games that took this way further (e.g. Red Faction)

New comment by dEnigma in "New pill helps Covid smell and taste loss fade quickly"

dEnigma — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 18:27:32 +0000

After completely losing my sense of smell and taste during COVID it took around two months for it to return to a level that was bearable, but more than a year (maybe even two in total) until I really felt like my sense of smell had mostly recovered. So don't give up hope yet, even without new medication.

New comment by dEnigma in "X begins charging new users $1 a year in New Zealand, Philippines"

dEnigma — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 13:04:39 +0000

Interesting. It could be that I never noticed before because I wasn't as active (and have gained a couple followers in the meantime, thus becoming a slightly more attractive target). In any case it's now bad enough to make me reconsider using the platform at all (that and the promoted replies and tweets by blue checkmarks). Related to your remark about reports: my last few spam reports got the reply that the tweets didn't violate the "sensitive content policy", even though I reported them as spam, not sensitive content. So something seems to be broken about the report system now too.

New comment by dEnigma in "X begins charging new users $1 a year in New Zealand, Philippines"

dEnigma — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 12:39:41 +0000

I paradoxically only really started heavily using Twitter when it seemed to decay under Musk (because I wanted be along for the fun ride). But I can hardly imagine that there could have been more bots before than there are now. Almost all my tweets are immediately liked by some catfishing bot and there are crypto spam bots under every slightly popular tweet.

New comment by dEnigma in "Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]"

dEnigma — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 18:38:18 +0000

I don't think we are necessarily in disagreement here, so I'm not sure how to respond. I never said that Stallman was exerting power over me to get me to live by his standards, just that I would have to change and restrict the way I use software and which software I use if I (voluntarily) followed all his recommendations. As I've said in my original post I even respect his commitment and perseverance in this regard and think they lead to a better outcome for everyone, but I'm unwilling to follow his example out of laziness and convenience.