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  • @thevoidzerotoMicroblog MemesRaw dawing
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    013 days ago

    I don’t know if you read it, the second paragraph goes with something like: if you’re having problems, then yes, if you’ve found ways to deal with things and be happy/productive then no need to labels things to be “normal”


  • @thevoidzerotoMicroblog MemesRaw dawing
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    1114 days ago

    I don’t know the popular opinion on this, but I personally think you did a great job learning how to be your best self without having a label. Everyone is unique and everyone will have to learn how to do things their way, having children labeled as something when they already do well might just make them feel more alienated, or be like “I’m X that’s why I’m like this” instead of finding their way to be productive/have fun.

    Of course it’ll help people struggling but not knowing what’s wrong. But if you’re a type of person who can feel/see what works for you and what doesn’t and find solutions for yourself, you might even make your quirks your strength. One frequent thought I have is, how many of the scientists or philosophers in the past were actually autistic? Or had quirks that made them who they are, but would definitely be “problematic” when they were young by today’s standards.

    TLDR: My opinion is everyone is unique, using your quirks to do things others can’t is what makes some people great. Making everyone fit a “normal”, and medicating/… everyone else doesn’t seem like a good idea.




  • @thevoidzerotoxkcdxkcd #3026: Linear Sort
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    117 days ago

    Can you do it without loading a bunch of heavy scripts? Making a html responsive is always something challenging I face since I’m not a web developer. I just make htmls when I have to share some data visualization. And I couldn’t find how to make it responsive without using bootstrap, sth-ui, etc and using their classes and scripts.

    I’d love if vanilla CSS just had if statement like thing for “portrait/landscape” or “>threshold/not” for contents width and fonts.






  • We need more information to reach people. So far I’ve only seen people be into Linux when they have less social life growing up so they spend time online (not in tiktoks or such like now).

    Since most people hearing about Linux from class or other people only hear about the bad aspects or how hard it is if they even hear about it. When I came to US university, I was so surprised noone knew about linux or cared enough except handful of people. And most people did it for work (super computer people, grad students) that didn’t like it and express their opinions openly.


  • @thevoidzerotoScience Memes@mander.xyzdon't be a coward
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    31 month ago

    I’m not an author, I’m a scientist. So I don’t know what the through process of authors are. But I it probably would take long time to actually find alternative ways to do the things same as us but underwater. The civilization won’t be like us, they would not have same technology, they wouldn’t have same values. Authors are probably trying to capture general population’s interests by making things they understand.

    And do you think “hey I haven’t heard anyone say something to me about earth rotating sun” would have been a good counter argument in the past.

    Water is incredible, we don’t know all the ways we can use it. Sometimes it takes hours to simulate what water does in seconds. Unlike other materials like metals, which are lot easier to predict. And if we’re talking about aliens, don’t even have to think water, it could be something else as flexible as water, while having properties that makes it easier to use.


  • @thevoidzerotoScience Memes@mander.xyzdon't be a coward
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    21 month ago

    Does your glasses need electricity to function? Before electronics came and we started making everything need electricity do you think we were not advanced civilization because we only used mechanical power? If you had come that far and suppose had limitations like “can’t use electricity coz I said so”, the development would have stopped? They would have found other ways.


  • @thevoidzerotoScience Memes@mander.xyzdon't be a coward
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    31 month ago

    Again, that’s because you are human, and you think your way is the only way.

    To make hydraulics you need metal

    How does your arm work? How does octopus move? You think you can’t make an structure like human arm, or octopus tentacles without metal, and then have a tube going through it in a way the water in it can move them. Look up soft robots. There isn’t just one way to tap into mechanical energy and move things. We did what we found first, improved on it. But thinking that’s the only way just shows narrow mindedness.

    You need to heat metal

    You don’t. You know aluminum used to be so expensive because you couldn’t really extract it from the ores like iron. Wasn’t found in pure form like gold. Then someone found you can use electrolysis to get aluminum from its ore. Then it became so cheap.

    You don’t just heat metal and put it in mold for every type of metal work. In micro scale there are 3d printing methods similar to electroplating, it’s very precise.

    And even if there is a need of heat, how can you say ocean doesn’t have it. A species could find out a way to tap into volcanic vents. Similarly how we use groundwater and rivers. They could use volcanos and geothermal energy. We do many many manufacturing processes under water in a tank containing water. They could make air tank and do things there too.


  • @thevoidzerotoScience Memes@mander.xyzdon't be a coward
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    101 month ago

    Tech needs electricity and fire is not universal. That is what we use.

    Our brain is lot more complicated and efficient than the computers we make and it uses ions, in liquid media. So something that lives in water could definitely be able to make something that would be able to use similar things to do processing. Water is also really good with doing things, it’s flexible but doesn’t compress/expand like air does. Think about hydraulic systems. You can make them smaller and smaller as your tech progresses. Mechanical things using metals and such would work in water as well. Think about gold and such that can be used for electricity as well, we don’t use it because it’s valuable, but an alien world could have abundance of gold for them to use.


  • Yeah, this is the reason even if ‘researchers don’t respect so and so because he’s a joke in the field’ is said about a person, I think they are connecting the ordinary people with science so it’s fine. Their job is not to innovate new frontiers of science, let them be the middleman so the ordinary folks aren’t left out. Just look at now, we have a lot of “researchers” high on their horse, while ordinary people are taken in by pseudoscience and even harmful theories.


  • Yeah, and also even if there’s smart people doing it, it doesn’t matter. Supposed 10% of people don’t use Amazon, as long as 90% are fine, it won’t affect them. Most people won’t look beyond “it costs me less”, the whole reason thing like temu is widespread is exactly that. People don’t care about other people, ethics of things, or even the long term effects of their actions. They just see low price vs high price on everyday setting.

    If a chain restaurant gave half price food for a year in a loss to take out all local businesses people would gladly buy it. And then when everything is gone and that chain raises price because there’s no competition they’ll just blame other people, economy, whatever they can find.

    In many cases it also comes from the side that people can’t afford to spend more money for the right reasons. Many people are living paycheck to paycheck, and those that aren’t, are still not well off and want to save as much money as they can for retirement/emergencies. You can’t count on anyone except yourself for your future, so they’ll take whatever costs them less now.



  • @thevoidzerotolinuxmemesWindows VS Linux (part 2)
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    1 month ago

    A simple analogy is, would you rather have keyboard with a-z and symbols you can use to build words/sentences, or would you want a wordlist you can scroll and click, while expanding words in groups, and having to find non-frequent words with a lot of difficulty to make up sentences.

    Command line use is harder if you come from gui. But the main use case of command line are:

    • automation: anything you can do in a command line, can be copied in a script,
    • uniformity: every software now has almost the same format of use,
    • flexibility: gui almost always has less options than command line, and many times options are hidden within a lot of tabs and options.
    • Auto complete: whenever someone complains about terminal being hard to use and spelling mistakes I think about this. I think many people that come from GUI don’t know about auto-completion on terminal. It’s easy to see which options are available, easy to choose files, wildcards for multiple files, and all that
    • piping: command line allows you to chain one command with another. You have a command to list all your music files, chain that with a search command to search files within them. Now if you need to search in a python code, you use the same search command, just different command to read the file. You basically have lego blocks (old ones) that can be used to make anything.

    I can understand people being afraid of command line when they start, but I think many people come with biases and don’t use good terminal and other tools to make things easier.