nimpnin @ nimpnin @sopuli.xyz

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The orginal version was ”grass is free”

Either way, there is a lot of things where a book, with illustrations or not, is an inefficient way to convey information.

let them fight

Somebody did already find it worth a downvote lol.

This is one of my all-time least favorite takes.

For a lot of stuff, text is a good way to present information. For a lot of other things, information is best processed visually, often in the form of a video. Think repair, building stuff, 3D software, complicated GUI software in general, sports and gym technique, physiotherapy, anything that involves spatial motor skills really.

Imagine if IKEA instructions were text-only?

fuck science and evidence

Most science about human behavior deals with averages. It's completely possible that a subpopulation might show an inverse trend. This is especially the case when it's a subpopulation with known differences in similar behavior. I'm not saying ADHD people benefit from multitasking, but we just can't say anything based on the general population.

And for another anecdote, literally nobody I know who has ADHD is loved at their job for having it. They all struggle to hold jobs.

A friend of mine is excelling at sales and that is due to his personality, including ADHD. In most jobs, of course, it's not beneficial and can pose problems. But that doesn't mean you can't find jobs that are well-suited for ADHD people – maybe even better suited than for neurotypicals.

What interests you and what do you value? There are no universal answers to a question like this.

cars, computers, phones, electricity

Interesting that you bring up these examples. Giving up some of these is easier than others, yet there was once a world where none of these was necessary.

I think it’s indeed not a good argument that we used to live in a world without these. The question is more, how much do we lose if we want to give up, say, plastic packaging. Can we lose a little convenience and gain _a lot _of sustainability?

If you pick 4 random words, the attacker would still need to brute force through (hundreds of?) billions of word combinations. That’s the point.

but iirc the bottom half has been sort-of half debunked

Any source for this? It's literally just random words. Just pick from a large enough list and you're good.

The new BMI, which is more accurate for very tall and very short people, gives you 28 instead of 30.6. Which is overweight and not obese. https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/trefethen/bmi_calc.html

It’s never been so easy to download music. Soulseek, yt-dlp, torrents for older stuff, spotify downloader websites etc. I still have spotify but I started growing my local music collection a few years ago. Considering canceling my spotify subscription.

Depends on the circumstances. After one year of wfh in a 18m2 apartment, I happily go to the office 4-5 days a week, even though I am not required to.

People haven’t ”thought for themselves” since the printing press was invented. You gotta be more specific than that.

Some of the more complex proofs might be wrong just because so few understand them, and the ones who do might have made mistakes.

Hell, I’ll trust a math result much more if it’s backed up by empirical evidence from eg. engineering or physics.

Don’t know if that counts as being ”in math” by OPs definition.

There are very few cons, all the negative effects of cannabis can be better handled when it’s legal.

For small-scale stuff like that it will surely work. It’s unclear if it scales to youtube volumes. Maybe it doesn’t have to though, small scale stuff is valuable too.

Hosting video requires a lot more resources than hosting text, hyperlinks, or even pictures. It might be too much for individuals to self host video on a scale that could even distantly resemble how we use youtube today.

Then again, maybe there are ways to make that burden smaller. IIRC Peertube does do some p2p stuff to try and share the burden a bit but I’ve also heard that it’s not really feasible to rely on that to scale.

I truly do not understand this... it's a niche QA forum