CanadaPlus

@CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org

Formerly u/CanadaPlus101 on Reddit.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

CanadaPlus,

Hanlon’s razor is basically my religion at this point. It’s just a huge part of how I see and engage with the world.

I'm being harassed by mosquitoes, how do i kill them all?

To my knowledge there’s no stagnant water on my property, I’ve run water through all my ptraps, and I’m careful to not leave doors open. Yet at any given time there’s at least 3 in my house. I can’t sleep, i can’t sit on the couch, i can’t exist in the fear of being sucked dry....

CanadaPlus,

So it sounds like you think your home is sealed already. I assume they’re just coming in when you do? You could spray near the doors maybe. Insecticide probably isn’t good for you but it’s worth considering living in a cloud of DEET if you’re that desperate.

Which learning path makes the most amount of sense?

I just found out about The Odin Project, a self-paced online course to learn full stack web development. There are two paths: one is Ruby on Rails and the other is full JavaScript and nodejs. I am leaning more towards Ruby but I wanted to get some more opinions from folks in the field.

CanadaPlus,

To add on to the other top comment right now, it’s not like learning a spoken language. Once you know one, you can pick up another similar language without too much bother. Or should be able to, if you’re not crap.

As for what employers want to see, that’s something I’m less qualified to tell you.

CanadaPlus,

Probably like 3 TB. I archive stuff sometimes to protect against service disruptions of all severity, but I don’t game much or have an extensive movie collection.

CanadaPlus,

I appreciate that there’s a word for it.

CanadaPlus, (edited )

Hottest: +40C

Coldest: -40C

I think that’s exactly it, which is nice and round. The 40 above was in the US, the 40 below was the coldest it’s ever been at night here. Without windchill, mind you. Windchill is cheating. With windchill it can get close to -100C on those same days.

CanadaPlus,

That has to be a windchill.

CanadaPlus, (edited )

Yeah, okay, in hindsight that wasn’t as elegant as I was hoping. More to come.

Edit:

This was about news in specific. Reddit’s great if you want help with your electronics project, but for political analysis it’s not so great. There’s way, waaay too many people pushing something or other for reasons other than empirical correctness.

AskHistorians is moderated extremely tightly by PhDs and requires a source for everything, so it’s about as good as it gets. I understand that’s not what you asked for, but it’s the closest thing I could think of. I’m honestly wondering what subreddit you were using for news - I feel like I’ve seen questionable discussion on all of them that I’ve encountered.

I also use things like r/UkrainianConflict for the latest news from that event - with the GIANT caveat that you have to understand the subject matter well enough to tell when OP is full of shit, or passing along shit. That one in particular is infested with people that think a nuclear first strike is a sane and justifiable tactic for NATO with no negative repercussions, which hopefully you can see is insane.

As for what you should study, pretty much all the social sciences help. If you can afford travel that’s great, but that’s not everyone and it’s possible to fuck that up too. Occasionally knowing other sciences will help; like when someone tells you the sun is causing climate change.

News reading is just figuring out your real situation in a world full of liars both deliberate and accidental. You either dissect the lies yourself or you have to find someone you trust. Random Redditors aren’t the right answer even if they can be part of the puzzle.

CanadaPlus,

That would be lit, but my point was more like “news varies from deliberate lies to true but necessarily skewed content”. Reddit is a great way to get a mix of the whole spectrum with no context.

CanadaPlus, (edited )

Oh, I ask plenty, too. Check my post history. I count 4 full posts in just the last month.

I’m sorry if I’m coming across as a know-it-all.

CanadaPlus, (edited )

Where did you go on Reddit? The only place back there I really trusted was AskHistorians and 20 years ago is not really breaking news. Everywhere else I had to sort through crap for myself.

If you really want to understand the world, you’ll actually have to study it.

Edit: It’s interesting I still got upvotes, since OP correctly points out that wasn’t well worded.

What I’m trying to say is that news with no bias is pretty much a unicorn, and one you can’t identify at a glance. And I don’t even mean just political bias, a lot of important stuff is boring or otherwise unsuitable for the news cycle. Adding a layer of social media people on top doesn’t automatically make it better.

What would you do if you had access to a superintelligent AGI? (libreddit.pussthecat.org)

Imagine an AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) that could perform any task a human can do on a computer, but at a much faster pace. This AGI could create an operating system, produce a movie better than anything you’ve ever seen, and much more, all while being limited to SFW (Safe For Work) content. What are the first things...

CanadaPlus,

You’re assuming a human could do that on a computer, though. It’s kind of hard to improve on that basic and very mature technology.

CanadaPlus,

I put more weight on the description text, but yes that was in the title.

Even if we assume it’s a god, though, I’m not sure there’s a way to improve on most kinds of generators more than incrementally. I don’t expect it would improve on “the wheel” either.

CanadaPlus,

How would that work. Electrons are very well understood, as are the ways of getting them to move.

CanadaPlus,

Based on what? Sure, I’m guessing we’re just starting with planetary science and cosmology, but power generation has been explored to death and we’re still using the same basic alternator design as Tesla was.

Do you think there will be a future where your phone can automatically detect if you are trying to record police activity and disables your camera? What do you think the odds of this happening is?

I remember a while back Apple filed a patent that allows concerts to disable iPhones cameras if a certain signal is emitted from the stage. Apple never implemented this, but my pessemistic ass always try to think of worse case scenarios, like being used by government. Do you think this could occur in the future?...

CanadaPlus,

Sure, 90% of people don’t know how to do these things

I think you dropped a 9 or two.

CanadaPlus,

Science hermits unite!

I’m less successfully mercenary, though, so I know what I assume is a representative sample of tech muggles. Having thought about it, 1% of people could figure this out, and maybe 0.1% wouldn’t have to use other people’s tools to do it.

CanadaPlus,

Haha, that’s even weirder sounding.

CanadaPlus,

We are under no obligation to pretend that’s not a tissue-paper thin disguise for getting the moderators to act how Reddit wants here.

CanadaPlus,

Crop production might actually go up globally, however unevenly. War is the more likely outcome as the losers get desperate and the winners don’t care.

CanadaPlus,

The good old euphemism treadmill.

CanadaPlus,

Self-detonation.

CanadaPlus,

On the other hand, maybe you could fly somehow.

CanadaPlus,

I like the big metal clamps holding it there.

Is it actually fossilised, if it's only a millennium old?

CanadaPlus,

Lemmy isn't a company, it's just the software. The devs develop it as a hobby, basically.

Your server is lemmy.world. It's unclear how it will be funded as it gets big. If it goes under someone will start another one, though.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • localhost
  • All magazines
    •
    Loading…
    Loading the web debug toolbar…
    Attempt #