Tlaloc_Temporal @ Tlaloc_Temporal @lemmy.ca

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Unalive and disappear don't change the meaning of the thought, and they circumvent ideological restrictions that intent to restrict thought. This is opposite the effect of newspeak.

Even knowing about the sentence structure "Do x by today", this post is phrased weirdly.

The top text uses the pattern "effect by amount", which leads people to see today as an amount in the bottom text. The bottom text is also a different kind of sentence entirely; "Shortening the lives of the rich by today" is a sentence fragment and needs to be modified, perhaps like "Me when I'm shortening the lives of the rich" to fit the format, or "Shorten the lives of the rich today" to fit the conclusion of the top text.

In any case, the format of the meme, the top text, and the bottom text do not rhyme, which makes them difficult to understand in relation to each other.

I somewhat agree. Given enough time we can make a machine that does anything a human can do, but some things will take longer than others.

It really depends on what you call human intelligence. Lots of animals have various behaviors that might be called intelligent, like insane target tracking, adaptive pattern recognition, kinematic pathing, and value judgments. These are all things that AI aren't close to doing yet, but that could change quickly.

There are perhaps other things that we take for granted than might end up being quite difficult and necessary, like having two working brains at once, coherent recursive thoughts, massively parallel processing, or something else we don't even know about yet.

I'd give it a 50-50 chance for singularity this century, if development isn't stopped for some reason.

No, fish have digestive tracts that go all the way through. Changing that would be way harder than keeping it mostly empty or full of water to make it clear.

Man... we've been doing this for decades. Where did that get us?

Better than voting for the greater of two bad options. What needs to be done is change the system to allow good options more easily, but in the mean time letting the worst options run amok isn't going to help anything.

This problem can't be solved by voting alone, but not voting will make it worse.

Burning plastic has similar issues to fossil fuels, with all the waste ending up in our lungs.

Nuclear waste can be rendered inert in glassified casks, while having a much higher power density and reliability.

Just click on it? Really? For the life of me I couldn't figure that out, probably because single clicking does basically nothing in normal videos.

I don't want to use other apps, I want to read comments and descriptions. If I can't get context there's no reason for me to be there, and I may as well never open a short to begin with.

Everything about shorts are designed to shove more noise down your eyes, but I want to learn something. Even the community posts are better for that.

I am viewing it on a phone. Instead of having a usable UI and a viewable video, it takes every square mm of screen and shoves everything into a mess that can't be paused or minimised. It's hostile to any action that isn't consuming more.

Exactly this! Videos under 6 seconds are often pretty cool, but they player covers the video with buttons, shortcuts are all different, everything is so inaccessible, you get shouted at to consume the next video, and it either takes all the screen space or a tiny sliver.

It's like talking to a caffeine soaked squirrel.

Yeah, the powers are cool, but completely obsolete 60% of the game. Why would I get a Car and trick it out if walking is always faster? Why get a tank if I can punch things to death easier?

If the hacked powers extended to more things and weren't quite so ridiculously powerful, there would be a lot more to enjoy.

Nah, 42,000$ is more natural and consistent with other units.

I think the active component in a Microwave Oven is called the Magnetron, not the element. Both are usually turned on and off for partial power though.

Some XX people live their entire lives as men without ever knowing otherwise, and the same happens with XY individuals living as women. Even having children won't reveal the apparent discrepancy, unless they need certain tests done.

Has a LVT ever been implemented?

After looking up Worm Gobys, I can confidently say they do have eyes (small ones). This is a picture of the underside, and the eyes sit on top.

Some pictures of a Bearded Worm Goby in captivity

Uptime counter failover, indistinguishable from a clock.

I'm partial to Australia's name for their own rotten Scott: Scummo.

If facebook is what makes people learn how to circumvent technological restrictions, it will be the first good thing they've done in many years.

I already do, it strengthens the structure of the code in my mind.

I wish I could do this with every IDE. Get rid of all the semicolons and most curly braces and replace them with structural whitespace. You could even save the files with the punctuation and compile that to whitespace when editing.