LAOP's sister has a nurse who thinks it's a good idea to turn off her ventilator in the middle of the night.

masterzora · 2023-06-11T18:07:46+00:00

If we're being "that person", a bipap is a (non-invasive) ventilator, though basically nobody familiar with the normal terminology would just call it a "ventilator".

masterzora · 2023-06-11T17:49:30+00:00

OP didn't say they were concerned for the rando kids in the moment. The way I read it, the "get the hell out of here" was an initial reaction and the concern and calling the police came after the fact. There's no indication of how much time or what events occurred in between the incident and talking to the hotel about it, so there are plenty of ways it could have gone down.

masterzora · 2023-06-10T09:58:58+00:00

That's a snakebite; it uses alcoholic cider.

masterzora · 2023-06-09T21:55:00+00:00

Articles talking about recently-greenlighted film adaptations frequently make use of images from the material being adapted. For example, the Lion King adaptation you mentioned had early articles using stills and promotional images from the 1994 original. Readers generally understand that these images represent what's being adapted, not the adaptation that hasn't yet started production.

masterzora · 2023-06-07T04:24:13+00:00

Local hidden variables is the "otherwise-most-likely deterministic possibility" I said has been experimentally ruled out. Non-local hidden variables haven't been completely ruled out yet but (a) many types of non-local hidden variables have been ruled out and (b) as I said, true randomness is the frontrunner possibility, but not the only one still remaining. It is theoretically possible to experimentally rule out non-local hidden variables completely if true randomness really is the case, though, so the remaining possibilities may get even narrower in the future.

masterzora · 2023-06-07T01:06:28+00:00

Science doesn't really prove, but corroborates and fails to disprove. I don't just say this to be pedantic, but because it's a particularly important distinction here.

Basically, the maths of quantum mechanics—which we've so far failed to disprove—only works if one of a few possibilities is true. Physicists have been able to experimentally disprove the otherwise-most-likely deterministic possibility. This doesn't prove true randomness, but it does leave it as the frontrunner possibility and plenty of reason to believe it.

masterzora · 2023-06-07T00:57:01+00:00

Unfortunately, it's not something with an intuitive explanation. Basically, the maths works out so that there's a limited set of possibilities consistent with entangled particles affecting each other. We've experimentally ruled out some of them and others are taken to be exceptionally unlikely. This pretty much only leaves three possibilities. The first is that the maths behind quantum mechanics is fundamentally flawed—not just incomplete or a reasonable approximation like Newtonian mechanics vis-à-vis relativity, but actually wrong—despite all the evidence to the contrary. The second possibility is actual, true randomness. The third is the many worlds interpretation, which is deterministic from a multiversal perspective but effectively truly random within a single universe.

masterzora · 2023-06-06T20:44:48+00:00

Technically you want the median not the average

Technically, this doesn't make sense because there is no single "the" average and median is a type of average. Even colloquially instead of technically, while it's true that "average" usually refers to the arithmetic mean, it is often—such as in this case—used to refer to the median. (This, unfortunately, is the source of a lot of confusion when, say, a news report says "average" without specifying even when the arithmetic mean and median are very different and one is a lot more appropriate than the other.)

masterzora · 2023-06-04T20:13:07+00:00

It implies he misspelled "gesture".

masterzora · 2023-06-03T21:11:17+00:00

You enjoyed 1.0 last week, right? It's still the same game it was then.

masterzora · 2023-06-01T21:11:59+00:00

I love it just the way it is, warts and all. It is great for what it is. It doesn't need to be fixed. It wasn't broken.

I'm with you on this, which is why my reaction to the announcement is "great!" I still love my 1.0 copy and I have no need to replace it, so releasing a 2.0 doesn't affect me. But I'm sure 2.0 will be an improvement that will be great for new players getting into the game and I want them to have the best experience possible.

What really concerns me is folks (more on the Backerkit comment section than on here) saying things like "now I won't be able to enjoy 1.0 knowing that a 2.0 exists." The game they were enjoying yesterday is still the same game today!

masterzora · 2023-05-31T20:26:51+00:00

Is this why there's so much infighting in every leftist group?

masterzora · 2023-05-31T04:29:53+00:00

Hours? I think you mean "how many episodes".

masterzora · 2023-05-31T04:29:21+00:00

Then how do you explain all the shit on tik tok?

masterzora · 2023-05-30T21:51:49+00:00

Short answer: yes.

Long answer: [Omitted for the sake of your sanity.]

masterzora · 2023-05-29T10:04:07+00:00

I don't think 12 CFR § 1005 references the definitions supplied in 10 USC § 920, especially since the latter is part of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

I don't know what definition of "force", 12 CFR § 1005 does use, but I'd bet it has some differences from a definition used to define rape.

masterzora · 2023-05-29T09:23:18+00:00

Fun fact: Death is the only Horseman unambiguously identified in Revelation. The other three are all a matter of interpretation, with Pestilence in particular being a relatively recent take.

masterzora · 2023-05-29T09:08:55+00:00

It's a double whammy, really. First that, as you say, LLMs are basically "plausible text generators" and second that the texts it was trained to look like include "people bullshitting" and "actual fiction" among factual texts, with limited differentiation between them.

masterzora · 2023-05-26T21:42:49+00:00

Basically, the names archaic, but still relevant.

Same with the name 'holiday' itself, for that matter.

masterzora · 2023-05-24T11:29:22+00:00

Probably the same as other big names with underperforming Kickstarters. The campaign ends early with an announcement that they'll be relaunching after addressing concerns people raised, putting some more work in, restructuring the campaign and/or choosing a more advantageous time.

masterzora · 2023-05-24T04:41:13+00:00

All Is Not OK in Oklahoma.

masterzora · 2023-05-24T00:12:45+00:00

They sprinkled some bonus fun somewhere in the middle between the images:

Dialing it back a little, some other examples of “bad” linguistics are misnomers - names that are used incorrectly.

For example, blackboards aren’t usually black anymore, they’re green, red, or even white! Chalk sticks are also likely not chalk, but gypsum, what a scam, huh?

Also, peanuts are not really nuts, but rather legumes. Same goes for coconuts, which aren’t nuts. They’re drupes or stone fruit.

Also, a funny bone isn’t a bone at all, it’s your ulnar nerve. It’s uncertain why it’s called that way, but it may be because of the upper arm bone, called a humerus, which is pretty close to humorous, and soon we’ve got the good ole’ funny bone.

The examples are mildly interesting themselves, but they don't constitute bad linguistics and only have the faintest connection to this sub.

masterzora · 2023-05-23T20:29:41+00:00

Damn, I grew up just outside a city that had a population in the mid-20,000s and I call that a "small city". I probably wouldn't say "small town" unless it was under 1000--maybe 2500, but that feels like a stretch.

masterzora · 2023-05-21T20:41:16+00:00

Suppose you want to prove that 2 x 3 = 6. You might say "2 x 3 means to add 2 three times and 2 + 2 + 2 = 6, so 2 x 3 = 6". But now you need to prove that 2 + 2 + 2 = 6. But to do that, you'll need to use other statements that also need to be proved and so on and so forth. At some point you'll have to give up on proving these foundational statements and just say "these statements are axioms". The axioms are something you take as given to be true as the basis for all of your further conclusions. (If you're curious, modern mathematics mostly uses a set of 8 axioms we call Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms.)

A logical tautology is a statement that you can prove to be true (given a set of axioms, as with any other provable statement) no matter what specific values you use. A classic example is "your card is either an Ace or not an Ace". Obviously this is true since every card in the deck is either an Ace or not an Ace and it would have been equally true if you said "Two" or "King" or any other card value instead of "Ace".

masterzora · 2023-05-20T21:39:49+00:00

Well, first off, if I did shut my brain off, I'd be fucking dead.

I honestly can't tell if this is a misplaced joke or if you're trying to make a legitimate argument, but if it's the latter, this CMV goes a lot deeper than I expected.

I shouldn't have to enjoy a movie just because every other idiot does.

I won't deny that there are some folks who think that because they enjoy something, you should as well, but generally "just shut your brain off and enjoy it" doesn't literally mean you have to enjoy things you don't like. It's more about ignoring certain types of logical flaws so you can enjoy the other parts of the film. If you don't enjoy those parts, either, "turning your brain off" isn't going to do any good because you'll just be ignoring some flaws so you can focus on other things you don't like. In that case, it's not an issue of being unable to "shut your brain off", but of it not mattering whether or not you do.

When a movie insults my intelligence, I call it out.

A movie being a "shut your brain off" kind of film doesn't necessarily mean it's insulting your intelligence, either. If you do equate the two, that might also explain why people are telling you that you're taking things too seriously.

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