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  1. Comment on Meet the first new cat species discovered in 100 years in ~enviro

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    Per the article the cat is over a year old, so I'm not sure it would still be all that concerned with its mother (barring developmental differences of course). FWIW I did have a similar thought at...

    Per the article the cat is over a year old, so I'm not sure it would still be all that concerned with its mother (barring developmental differences of course). FWIW I did have a similar thought at first (that it looked a little uncomfy), but I think I agree with @whbboyd on the body-language read as far as the relaxed eyes go. I haven't been around shelter cats much though, so I guess it's possible that can take on different meaning in that context.

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  2. Comment on Study shows that the human brain is two separate organs in ~science

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    Yeah, I Am Not A Neuroscientist, etc, etc, but I had a similarly skeptical reaction - I literally sent it to a friend and said "This feels like possibly one of the least-accurate headlines I've...

    Yeah, I Am Not A Neuroscientist, etc, etc, but I had a similarly skeptical reaction - I literally sent it to a friend and said "This feels like possibly one of the least-accurate headlines I've ever seen on a science article and I haven't even read the body yet". Then I read it, and... yeah it sounds pretty legit?

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  3. Comment on Meet the first new cat species discovered in 100 years in ~enviro

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    Idk. I definitely get where you're coming from with the Columbus-like vibes, but I didn't read it quite the same way. I felt like it was used more to mean "recorded" than literally discovered,...

    Idk. I definitely get where you're coming from with the Columbus-like vibes, but I didn't read it quite the same way. I felt like it was used more to mean "recorded" than literally discovered, especially since they explicitly write "new to science" at one point, and go out of their way to discuss the name's local origins (which necessarily includes mention of how people have been seeing the animal for generations). I could be wrong, but I don't think it's uncommon to use "discovered" this way in the scientific community? Its usage in popular press articles does muddy the waters a bit though.

    8 votes

  4. Comment on Joey Valance & Brae - Punk Tactics (2022) in ~music

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    I stumbled upon this a few years ago and I love it so much haha. I get a pretty strong "yeah, we're two kinda nerdy white guys rapping in a dorm room and that's a bit silly" vibe. "I am the king...

    I stumbled upon this a few years ago and I love it so much haha. I get a pretty strong "yeah, we're two kinda nerdy white guys rapping in a dorm room and that's a bit silly" vibe. "I am the king and you're just a pawn / Who's got the high ground now, Obi-Wan?" killed me the first time I heard it. Plus, Jurassic Park and Finding Nemo references? So goofy.

    2 votes

  5. Comment on Musk | Official teaser trailer in ~movies

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    /meta Can you add some tags to this for the people who rely on that feature to avoid things that stress them out? I don't use that functionality, but I know many people do, and honestly it would...

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    Can you add some tags to this for the people who rely on that feature to avoid things that stress them out? I don't use that functionality, but I know many people do, and honestly it would have been nice to be able to check the tags to confirm that this is exactly what I suspected it was so I knew not to engage.

    Edit: Thanks!

    14 votes

  6. Comment on [Poem] Things Artificial Intelligence Can’t Do - Aaron Belz in ~books

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    This is interesting. It's certainly evocative, but I'm unsure what to make of the stated connection to AI's capabilities. Is it sarcastic? Longing to be unfeeling like an AI? It's certainly not at...

    This is interesting. It's certainly evocative, but I'm unsure what to make of the stated connection to AI's capabilities. Is it sarcastic? Longing to be unfeeling like an AI? It's certainly not at all what I expected when clicking on the title.

    3 votes

  7. Comment on Small talk, ice breakers, lines in ~talk

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    Ah that's right, I remember the "source available" thing. It didn't bother me so I forgot about it, apologies!

    Ah that's right, I remember the "source available" thing. It didn't bother me so I forgot about it, apologies!

    1 vote

  8. Comment on Small talk, ice breakers, lines in ~talk

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    FUTO keyboard checks all the boxes for me. Lots of nice settings, has good swipe typing, and you can even tune the text prediction/autocorrect strength.

    FUTO keyboard checks all the boxes for me. Lots of nice settings, has good swipe typing, and you can even tune the text prediction/autocorrect strength.

    2 votes

  9. Comment on What are your "how on earth did I not learn this sooner" tech moments? in ~tech

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    Oh awesome, thank you! I know there's a lot of commands for interacting with man pages but I have yet to dig into them. These are ones that are immediately useful and I see myself using all the time!

    Oh awesome, thank you! I know there's a lot of commands for interacting with man pages but I have yet to dig into them. These are ones that are immediately useful and I see myself using all the time!

    1 vote

  10. Comment on What are your "how on earth did I not learn this sooner" tech moments? in ~tech

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    Incredible, amazing, I love it, thank you so much for sharing!

    tldr

    Incredible, amazing, I love it, thank you so much for sharing!

    2 votes

  11. Comment on What are your "how on earth did I not learn this sooner" tech moments? in ~tech

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    Good to know! I've only really used Mint and test driven a couple other Debian-based distros, so this is news to me.

    Good to know! I've only really used Mint and test driven a couple other Debian-based distros, so this is news to me.

  12. Comment on What are your "how on earth did I not learn this sooner" tech moments? in ~tech

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    Oh wow! I knew about double- or triple-clicking to select whole units, but I didn't know you can drag out of that. Thanks!

    Oh wow! I knew about double- or triple-clicking to select whole units, but I didn't know you can drag out of that. Thanks!

    2 votes

  13. Comment on What are your "how on earth did I not learn this sooner" tech moments? in ~tech

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    I really do appreciate that this is one of the few(?) things that seems to be largely consistent across all three major operating systems. It's so fundamental to how I navigate a computer that it...

    I really do appreciate that this is one of the few(?) things that seems to be largely consistent across all three major operating systems. It's so fundamental to how I navigate a computer that it throws me off if I can't use it for whatever reason.

    10 votes

  14. What are your "how on earth did I not learn this sooner" tech moments?

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    I'm thinking of this in a "pitfalls of being self-taught" context, but I'm sure there's plenty of other places these moments happen. Feel free to also interpret the title as "How did I not know...

    I'm thinking of this in a "pitfalls of being self-taught" context, but I'm sure there's plenty of other places these moments happen. Feel free to also interpret the title as "How did I not know that?", "How did I miss that?", "Why did no one tell me that?" and the like!

    The inspiration for this post is that I am over a year and a half into my Linux journey, which has involved a solid amount of tinkering and eagerly getting familiar with the command line, and I just now realized that you can do man <literally any command> to quickly get to the manual for it. And also that whatis exists. For the last 18+ months, I've been just doing <command> --help or <command> <subcommand> --help and searching the internet to supplement that. I knew that man pages exist, but I guess for some reason it didn't occur to me that there would be a way to access them that easily.

    I love learning things on my own and building understanding by doing, just picking a direction and running with it, but... man. I often wonder how many little things that "everyone knows" I've missed through sheer random chance. And then there's things like my man pages revelation that I can't believe I didn't piece together on my own, considering all the other crazy stuff I've figured out. Oh well lol. I suppose it's good when the humbling reminders of my own capacity for ignorance arrive via something low-stakes like this than via something that could wreck my system!

    Anyone else have similar stories to share?

    64 votes

  15. Comment on Meta agrees to heavy restrictions on teen users in major lawsuit settlement in ~tech

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    So, assuming they comply, this means age verification for everyone on Facebook and Instagram, right?

    So, assuming they comply, this means age verification for everyone on Facebook and Instagram, right?

    Meta agreed to come up with an age assurance standard that is subject to independent testing, and must have a false positive rate no higher than 10 percent for users aged 16 to 17, and 3 percent for users aged 13 to 15.

    Users who say they’re over 18 but don’t complete the age assurance test within two weeks will have restrictions on their accounts

    7 votes

  16. Comment on An AI researcher writes about his crisis of faith in ~tech

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    I find the author's other post on "complimentary intelligence", linked toward the end, fascinating:

    I find the author's other post on "complimentary intelligence", linked toward the end, fascinating:

    In the following, I will try sketch a way of thinking about human intelligence and human nature through emphasizing its difference from the various methods and systems we call artificial intelligence. This is rooted in my strong belief that talking about a single-dimensional “intelligence” that one can have more or less of, and the obvious extension to asking whether humans or machines are “more intelligent”, is actively harmful for understanding both human and machine intelligence. What matters is the qualitative difference. Between humans and machines, but also between different approaches to AI. We can even think of the different approaches in a geometric framework, with the implication that any type of intelligence must have a direction as well as a magnitude. This perspective, which I call Complementary Intelligence, also suggests a positive research program, that seeks to find the types of intelligence that we do not currently have but that could be interesting to humans, rather than simply imitating human intelligence.

    8 votes

  17. Comment on CYCLE - Soundscapes, Impressionism, and Process Art in ~creative

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    Thank you for sharing! I hope to have energy to engage with this more fully in the future, sorry that I don't have more to contribute at the moment. Interested to read what comes next.

    Thank you for sharing! I hope to have energy to engage with this more fully in the future, sorry that I don't have more to contribute at the moment. Interested to read what comes next.

    2 votes

  18. Comment on Spotify is to label AI artists and exclude them from algorithm recommendations as part of a crackdown on fake performers in ~music

  19. Comment on Spotify is to label AI artists and exclude them from algorithm recommendations as part of a crackdown on fake performers in ~music

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    /offtopic /meta Any idea why this topic, when appearing in the feed, just displays OP's username instead of the link source? I've seen this behavior before but never been able to figure out what's...

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    Any idea why this topic, when appearing in the feed, just displays OP's username instead of the link source? I've seen this behavior before but never been able to figure out what's causing it.

    5 votes

  20. Comment on Is it time to include pronouns? in ~tildes

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    I'm totally open to it since I know it's very important to some, as long as there's an option to leave it blank or disabled. I personally don't usually explicitly identify here for the sake of...

    I'm totally open to it since I know it's very important to some, as long as there's an option to leave it blank or disabled. I personally don't usually explicitly identify here for the sake of privacy, but I also don't mind if people gain an impression of me as a certain gender over time. Whichever conclusion they come to is fine and even interesting to me, so I wouldn't want to be forced to declare it to be a specific one. And using "they/them" as a placeholder doesn't feel appropriate since that can be much more complex than simply "undefined".

    3 votes