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human lifeform | cat person | programmer | player of games | gamedev

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you know, a working clock can be wrong for the WHOLE day

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why would you even have a dog if you're gonna keep it in a cage not even 2x the length of its body for 90% of its life. and then it just barks and barks and they yell at it to stop. I dunno, just seems cruel and pointless to me

[inthetags]

Reblog and put in the tags if you can remember where you got the shirt you're currently wearing.

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I'm a bit tired of being the minecraft modpack troubleshooter for my brother who doesn't know what he's doing, and also I don't know what he's doing either because I didn't watch him assemble the modpack

[koipondx86]

they can take my dignitybut they cant take my bones

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sticks and stones can break my dignity but it can't take my bones

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I love every piece of project hail mary fanart I see, but also I don't get why people draw eridians (namely Adrian) the way they do - they're supposed to be pentagonally symmetric spiderlike creatures with rocky carapace, not chunky asymmetric boulders with legs

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I should add, yes, it's kinda how the rocky puppet in the movie looks. I guess that's a nitpick of mine with the movie as well. also please don't take this as me hating on phm fanart because it makes me so happy to see!!

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I love every piece of project hail mary fanart I see, but also I don't get why people draw eridians (namely Adrian) the way they do - they're supposed to be pentagonally symmetric spiderlike creatures with rocky carapace, not chunky asymmetric boulders with legs

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I saw an instagram reel the other day that framed the red/blue button problem as a trolley problem, and I haven't stopped thinking about it.

It showed a bunch of people standing next to a track that a trolley was barreling down, with the caption: "if 50% of humanity ties themselves to the track, the trolley will stop without hitting anyone. If it is less than 50%, the people who tied themselves will get run over by the trolley and die. Do you tie yourself to the track?"

So I think the intention was for it to be the same problem in a different context. But this change makes it a very different problem. Basically everyone has already pressed the red button by default - framing the red button as inaction. This means there's no reason to take action. Everyone is already safe, and tying yourself to the track is essentially killing yourself unless a ton of other people decide to do it too. If the red button is inaction, then inaction is the obvious choice.

But I think red button pushers view it as the same problem because of how obvious it seems to them that the red button is the correct choice, even the "default" one.

So I came up with another version of it that frames the blue button as inaction. "All of humanity is standing on the track, but luckily there is no trolley heading toward them so everybody is safe. However, if at least 50% of humanity steps off the track, a trolley will drive toward the people remaining on the track, killing the remainder. Do you step off the track?"

And yeah. Now the obvious choice is to stay on the track. Sure, stepping off the track guarantees your personal safety, but everybody is already safe. Stepping off is directly contributing to murdering people with a trolley.

If you really wanted to represent the same problem as a trolley problem, you might do it like this: "You must either tie yourself to the track or get in the trolley. If you're in the trolley you are safe, but if at least 50% of people get into the trolley, then it will drive toward whoever is on the track and kill them."

Anyway. I just thought it was interesting that if you represent either button as inaction, then inaction seems to become the obvious choice.

[koipondx86]

if you had an infinite grout gun do you think you could build a house with it

if you had an infinite grout gun do you think you could build a house with it

yeah

what the fuck

Voting ended onMay 28

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is the question whether *i* could build a house with it or whether a house could be built with it?

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why do people pronounce it "processees?" it's not messees or excessees or sicknessees.

also I've probably posted about this before but I think that actually all words should be pluralized normally. gooses. sheeps. cactuses. vertexes. childs. persons. I don't see any issue with doing it this way

[atomikats]

curiouser and curiouser

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there are two kinds of people: those who would murder up to 50% of the population in order to save themselves, and those who would sacrifice themselves in the hopes of saving 100% of the population

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you would not believe your tongue

if ten thousand pounds of dung

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tiny phm headcanon: rocky is basically yelling (in eridian terms) at grace the entire time because of his weak little human ears.

rocky (in the dormitory): HOW TAUMOEBA BREEDER TANKS DOING, QUESTION?

grace (in the lab): sorry what was that? you're gonna have to speak up.

rocky: HUMAN EARS USELESS.

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how did I only just now realize that the != symbol in programming languages is the exact same as xor

[all-and-sundries]

Okay so in the PHM book Grace mentions that, since his last name also happens to be an English word, Rocky just calls him the Eridian word for “Grace”. But considering “grace” is a relatively niche word that would probably take a while for them even to develop the vocabulary to translate, I can’t help but wonder if there’s a little more going on here, and have ended up with two conflicting headcanons to explain it:

When they first meet, Rocky is just as worried about whether the alien will be hostile, and is so relieved by their first interactions being so positive that he names the alien the first thing he has discovered about him: “Kindness”. (It isn’t until Grace is explaining the possible interpretations of his name much later that they realize the coincidence. It feels strangely fated.)

Rocky has been calling him “Idiot [affectionate]” this entire time and lied about the whole “grace” thing when asked because who’s gonna know the difference. (when they make it back to Erid, Rocky has to make some very hasty, awkward explanations to the leaders planning to welcome the second savior of their world, culminating in a heated debate over whether to change the human hero’s Eridian “name” and in doing so expose Rocky’s crimes, or go with a planet-wide “commit to the bit” and keep the “Welcome to Erid, Idiot” decorations as is—all while Adrian loses their mind laughing in the background)

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also speaking of duolingo, it keeps having me speak the translation of "and" in the little flash cards, but it secretly wants me to translate it to "e" instead of "y". how was I supposed to know that? idk. but I've caught on now because it keeps on showing up. thing is, if I pronounce "e", it doesn't recognize it. if I say "y" instead, it usually takes it. just bad design