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hvs commented on Funerary figurines found in royal tomb identifies Pharoah sciencealert.com/trove-of... · Posted by u/Gaishan

oldestofsports · 2 days ago

I find it amazing that we are still digging up new tombs after all these years.

But ”we set up lights to wotk the night” - why the sudden hurry, if the figurines laid there for thousands of years surely they could wait one more weekend to be dug up.

hvs · 2 days ago

The figurines can wait but often the graduate student or postdoc cannot.

hvs commented on After 40 years of adventure games, Ron Gilbert pivots to outrunning Death arstechnica.com/gaming/20... · Posted by u/mikhael

s_dev · 10 days ago

Disco Elysium seems to have revived the point and click genre. People are getting nostalgic for the GameCube with the new 'GabeCube' and with Dawn of War IV and Medieval III being announced there seems to be a renaissance of RTS games happening.

For all the bad news percolating in the world at the moment these are some of the good notes I choose to dwell on.

I wish Ron Gilbert well in contributing to this epsilon in the gaming world.

hvs · 10 days ago

Disco Elysium is truly a wonderful game for adventure/rpg fans. I have a small fraction of the time I had as a younger man to play games so I have to be very selective with my choices and Disco Elysium has taken up a large portion of that time for the past few months.

hvs commented on Brain has five 'eras' with adult mode not starting until early 30s theguardian.com/science/2... · Posted by u/hackernj

evrimsel · 20 days ago

I would describe the age of 40 as the time when my brain truly started to function but unfortunately, I feel ashamed of that.

hvs · 20 days ago

If it makes you feel any better, that's about the age I started functioning mostly like an adult. It started around 30 but took a good decade to take hold.

hvs commented on Brain has five 'eras' with adult mode not starting until early 30s theguardian.com/science/2... · Posted by u/hackernj

zwnow · 20 days ago

> Realizing that going it alone is futile is definitely part of what I consider becoming an adult

Weird, for me its the complete opposite. I accepted to live alone for the rest of my life because a) I am undesired and I wont make a move. b) I barely met people I would even consider it being worth talking to, I need to feel equal on a cognitive level and not a lot of people match that requirement. I either feel lesser or above.

hvs · 20 days ago

You certainly don't need to have someone in your life -- as someone who married late and has two kids now I sometimes look back on my long period of begin single with fondness -- but I would also recommend being very honest with yourself. Very few people are totally undesirable and expecting others to meet some predetermined standard is very common among people that don't interact socially very often (I speak from experience). While I'm lucky that my wife is very bright (and in many ways much smarter than me) the most important thing that she has given me is new perspectives on life and seeing that it's more important to be kind and helpful than smart.

It's very hard to see outside of our early conditioning without outside perspectives. We may have a vague sense that we might not have been given the best tools for social development (we may even be brutally aware of it), but having someone that has the skills that we are missing is often more important than that they have equal skills in areas we are strong in. Having a good partner can make you realize things about yourself and open you up to things that you never even realized were there.

hvs commented on Time to start de-Appling heatherburns.tech/2025/11... · Posted by u/msangi

tantalor · a month ago

> Hi, I'm Heather Burns — yes, that one.

Ok, I was going to ask, but taking "yes, that one" seriously I suppose confirms the author is the actress Heather Burns best known for playing the best friend role in a string of successful romantic comedies.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0122688/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Burns

Kind of weird to be reading some blog post about tech privacy from such a well known actress.

Am I missing something?

hvs · a month ago

It's not that one.

hvs commented on A.I. and Social Media Contribute to 'Brain Rot' nytimes.com/2025/11/06/te... · Posted by u/pretext

hvs · a month ago

Anything that contributes to you not needing to actually "think" and instead just "react" is going to be bad for you because it is simply engaging your reward system. The only way LLMs can be a net good is if they free you from drudgery and allow you to work harder on the things that actually matter. (Think dishwashers and laundry machines). If you are using them as an "easy button" so you can finish your work (poorly) to have more time to scroll your timeline then yes, you are turning your brain into mush.

I'm purposefully not engaging with whether LLMs are actually even good at what they do, which is another discussion.

hvs commented on Some people can't see mental images newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/petalmind

the_af · a month ago

So it's like an analytical description of the event?

You don't remember sensations about an experience, like touch, smells, etc?

hvs · a month ago

Basically? It's a "sense" or "vibe". "There was a guy begging on the street" is what I remember. Not the actual words or a picture, just the "vibe" of that sentence. Definitely no touches, sounds, smells, or pictures.

My wife, who has a very visual and auditory memory, to the point that she can basically re-watch movies in her head, is still dumbfounded by this fact.

hvs commented on Some people can't see mental images newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/petalmind

ivape · a month ago

So, if you watch a poor person begging for food on the street, how do you process that in the future? Do you rely on the remembered feeling and literal observation in words? How do you not remember what you saw?

hvs · a month ago

I "know" that I saw someone begging on the street. I might remember other "facts" as they seemed appropriate. But that's it. If you asked me what color their hair was or what they were wearing I would have no idea unless I had chosen to make a note of that fact.

hvs commented on Some people can't see mental images newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/petalmind

bena · a month ago

This is the fundamental question about experience.

You may be "right". What you consider to be "seeing" things in one's head may be not what's happening in that person's mind. What they call "seeing" may be something else.

The best way I can describe it is essentially generating a memory. If I were instructed to picture an apple in my mind, I could imagine a hand holding up an bog standard Red Delicious. I can imagine it free-floating. And it would be much like when I remember what happened yesterday for instance. Of course, we get into whether or not we "see" the memory or not.

So, if you are saying you do not consider yourself to have mental images, what, to your best ability to describe it, do you do when you remember an event?

hvs · a month ago

Personally, I remember "facts" about the event. Like, who was there, when it was, what was said. I don't have mental images of an event.

hvs commented on Some people can't see mental images newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/petalmind

andy99 · a month ago

I’ve read tons of these and still have no idea if I have aphantasia or not. I can’t understand whether people just have different ways of describing what’s in their minds eye or if there’s really a fundamental difference.

hvs · a month ago

If you have something to describe "in your mind's eye" then you don't have aphantasia. We can't "see" anything in our mind.