Buddahriffic

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support.⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  So yeah, they built a new product and tried to force everyone to use it, when it had no improvements for the users whatsoever. And surprise, no one is excited to use it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support.⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, for a while I was looking for any benefits to moving from win 10 to 11. 7 to 10 had kernel and scheduler improvements, for example.

  Only ones I could find were the virtual desktop support (though I had an alternative desktop back in the XP or Vista days that supported that, so not really groundbreaking), and WSL, which I didn’t have any use cases for.

  Other than that, it was just shit I didn’t want. Copilot, recall, more UI changes that don’t really add anything (on my work laptop where I didn’t have a choice, first thing I did was go into the UI options and undo as much as I could). One of the things I used to like about windows was that it wasn’t a mac, but the UI changes look like that’s their inspiration. The inspired folks porbably all left already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support.⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I like that Linux isn’t designed for the lowest common denominator. Windows frustrated me as much with the stuff that was designed for the stupid as the stuff that was designed to make them money, just the second one ended up dominating in the end. But I remember the earlier frustrations often having the thought “I bet they just changed this to reduce support calls from people who don’t know wtf they are doing”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I had an upgrade plan for my PC that involved a step up to a 4k monitor, but when the time came, it was hard enough just finding a 4k monitor with decent specs that I stopped to really think about whether I would really benefit from it. I already knew I didn’t need it, but I realized that I wouldn’t even really gain anything from it. I already used the UI scaling with the one 4k monitor I had at work, so that was a wash. And for games, I didn’t really have any times when I wished the resolution was higher than the 1440p I was already using, but I did have times when I wished it would generate the frames faster or more consistently.

  Part of the change was a new GPU to handle 4k better (they were supposed to justify each other), but I ended up just getting an ultrawide 1440p monitor instead.

  I don’t think I’ll ever bother with higher than 4k for TV or 1440p for PC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia CEO pushes back against report that his company's $100B OpenAI investment has stalled⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the closest I’ve been able to think about for why people turn to puritanical values in the first place: jealousy that others can do fun things they think they can’t, plus maybe a second layer of being upset that some aren’t also upset about it.

  Oh wait, I almost forgot about the control angle, where if you can convince enough people that some normal and ok aspect about humanity is actually wrong, then you can catch people “slipping” and manipulate them via guilt or blackmail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia CEO pushes back against report that his company's $100B OpenAI investment has stalled⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Puritanical bs has nothing to do with morals, as much as some like to pretend it does. What harm are you trying to call out or prevent?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  They make me think of kids who hide food they don’t want to eat in stupid places and get all surprised when they realize it makes wherever they were hiding it into a biohazard.

  Or anyone who thinks they are getting a free benefit from using something a certain way and completely ignoring that each use ruins it a bit more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How accurate is this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I bet that the question depends more on management than the customers or type of work.

  Like a good manager that doesn’t take shit from customers will be way better than the ones that bend over backwards for any complaint.

  Same thing for the ones who are chill as long as things are getting done vs the one that is more interested in seeing the illusion of work being done even if things are neglected (because all their attention is making sure people look busy rather than really understanding the work to evaluate results).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia CEO pushes back against report that his company's $100B OpenAI investment has stalled⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the tech industry got used to people not giving a fuck as they shoveled more and more anti-features with weak “feature” reasoning to back it up (like convenience of having all your files in one place to justify continual data transfer between the device and their servers, processing audio remotely to justify sending an audio feed, “you can access your history” to justify saving the history, etc) that they are surprised that there’s pushback as it enters this new level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia CEO pushes back against report that his company's $100B OpenAI investment has stalled⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  This feels like similar energy to getting outraged about a tan suit.

  Were all involved parties consenting? That’s the only thing that matters.

  Plus on the optics side, we’ve yet to see if being in the Epstein files is bad enough optics for CEOs, so I think “signed something on an adult woman’s boobs when she most likely specifically requested/offered it” is entirely a non-issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft lost $357 billion in market cap as stock plunged most since 2020⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Everything AI boom is likely a lie, and Nvidia bribing Trump to sell H200s to China, at 25% export tariff, is proof of incapacity or unwillingness of US industry to deploy them.

  I’d love for you to be right (I’d like to see nvidia compete as an underdog since they are fairly anticompetitive in their dominant position) but think this reasoning is flawed.

  Wanting to sell to China just means that demand isn’t exceeding supply, or maybe even that they have access to more supply that they’d use if they could sell to China, which is a massive market. Or even if they don’t have any excess supply, higher demand means they can set higher prices and still expect to sell all inventory.

  Like the US car companies wanting to sell cars in China doesn’t imply that they are unable to sell cars in the US, it just means they want to sell cars to China and the US.

  I agree with the rest of your comment and think it was well said, sorry about this nitpick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Noooooo⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  On the flip side, it takes longer to type the text than it does to say it, plus verbal communication can be two ways even when the talking is mostly on one side because you can add acknowledgements when you understand without interrupting or you can interrupt when something is said that you don’t follow.

  I do better with text myself, but communication is something where you need to meet in the middle, assuming you’re open to communication in the first place. If you just don’t want to communicate, then the easiest to blow off is the preferred method. Which actually is another reason I personally like text communication, because I can ignore it in the moment and get back to it later, but you can do this with calls by asking to schedule a call instead of taking it right then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨...is this retro?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Battery tech has improved a lot since they came out and (at least for the other two systems mentioned, plus any other device I’ve replaced the battery for) you can often find batteries with better specs than the original for longer lasting (before recharge is required, can’t say yet about total lifetime).

  It’s also not a bad idea to check if your batteries have become danger pillows, though the controller ones tend to be housed in hard plastic that makes it less obvious, but my wii u battery did feel like it had a bit of a bulge to it, leading to a nervous period where I had gotten rid of the old battery but was still waiting for the new one to be shipped lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨...is this retro?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Congrats, that’s some great progress!

  Yeah, the bit about working out was intended to be an exception to what I was saying, but I didn’t communicate it very well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨...is this retro?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Though on the flip side, remember that however old you are right now, it’s also the youngest you’ll ever be going forward.

  Feeling old in your 20s? Many people are active into their 60s, some keep going strong into their 90s.

  Unless you’re recovering from illness or injury, the current version of your body might be the best version you’ll ever see again.

  Though one suggestion that left my own body far more capable, if you’re the skinny and weak type, do some proper workouts. Proper as in spend the time to learn proper form and also ensure you’re getting enough energy and protein in your diet. You’ll gain strength that will stay with you until you do get really old (assuming your body doesn’t atrophy due to starvation or being bedridden before then).

  Eg, when I first started working out, I couldn’t curl 20 lbs, had to go down to 15. But I was curling 20 a week or two later and was pushing 40 lbs about a year or two later, then my workout habit dropped off and 8 years have passed and I can still curl over 30 lbs when I get curious in the dumbbell section of stores that carry them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨...is this retro?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  On the other hand, most of the games I’ve gotten for my PS5 are PS4 games, though tbf they are mostly from the used game bargain bin at EB Games, so I guess it says more about the cheap ps4 library vs ps5.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨...is this retro?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You can also find replacement batteries online, though hard to say how easy the replacement will be. Wasn’t bad for ps3 or wii u controllers, but no idea how ms approached it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HUNTDOWN: OVERTIME looks like a glorious follow-up to HUNTDOWN from 2021⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, that must be from the same devs (publisher?) as Satisfactory. They’ve got a Huntdown tape for the boombox, just like Sanctum. That one was cool, getting the two games randomly and then recognizing the music from Satisfactory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's 'unsupervised' Robotaxis vanish a week after pre-earnings announcement⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing that makes it more suspect IMO is that shareholders voted for it, not just the board. Courts specifically said they didn’t need to but shareholders (dominated by large account holders) still voted for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's 'unsupervised' Robotaxis vanish a week after pre-earnings announcement⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone else feel like Tesla is actually how Elon is being paid for being the one to make twitter fascist and the DOGE bs? Like the majority of shareholders don’t actually gaf how the company does and the billion dollar compensation package had nothing to do with Tesla other than it being the vehicle through which the payment was made?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Correlation equals causation⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Logic classes should be one of the mandatory ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do people eat this?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For a while, I was toasting sandwhiches by stacking the top bread piece under the bottom one with topings on top of it. You end up with a sandwich (with actual sandwich toppings) just toasted on the inside and soft on the outside.

  I love the texture just like I loved putting plain potato chips between two pieces of bread. Soft then crunch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d argue that SEO was one of the biggests causes of search result degradation and consider any complaints coming from them as highly suspect due to conflicting interests. Eg, a change that makes it harder to game the search engine algorithms is good for searchers but bad for SEOs.

  I hope the whole industry dies (or already is? I don’t hear much about it these days lol). They are just marketers whose whole job is to get you to look at their shit instead of the most relevant results.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bioindicator PSA⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe there’s some lead in those bricks. I hear lead is delicious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do you think the encryption capabilities on your PC are there for your sake? They might have sold them to you on that, but they are really there to protect copyright data because TPM allows encryption/decryption that is completely hidden from the rest of your system. Like an encrypted handshake that then transfers an encrypted key to decrypt the video stream. But it doesn’t save the decrypted data, it immediately re-encrypts it using your display’s private key (or whatever device is next in the chain, maybe your GPU). They can make it so that the unencrypted stream never touches your RAM or travels on any wire, which means you can’t pirate shows as you watch them unless you point a camera at your screen.

  Obviously if they just said that was one of the main points, no one would want it and media companies couldn’t benefit from it because they’d have to compromise to sell content.

  The other point was so that they could build a system where they hold the encryption keys and get to choose whose data is actually private. Obviously that’s an even harder sell.

  So they did what marketers always do and lied by omission about what it was for and just outright lied if they ever said they’d never give the keys to law enforcement (did they ever even say that?).

  Let go of the idea that someone selling something to you implies any kind of loyalty, especially when either party is a large corporation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK Tips for a Winter Storm⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Other driving tips:

  • If there’s no one behind you, do an occasional hard brake test to see where your traction fails.
  • Pump your brakes if your tires lose traction. This can help even if you have ABS (eg mine seems more tuned for wet or dry pavement, as it cycles too quickly and pumping noticeably reduces stopping distance any time they do kick in). Test it on your vehicle to determine whether pumping or not pumping works better for you because you’ll want to already know if you do find yourself in an emergency braking scenario with low traction (though increase your following diatance to make emergency braking less likely).
  • If you lose traction with steering, don’t just try to compensate on auto-pilot, or your wheels will end up pointing in a direction that either won’t ever get traction, or if it does, will overcompensate and might make your situation even worse. Your best chance of getting control back is to steer into the slide (so your tires can spin with the movement again) followed by gently steering out of it. Realistically, you won’t have enough space to do this before you end up in a ditch or hitting someone, and it’s hard to override the automatic “steer away from the place you don’t want to go”, but I’ve pulled it off before when I was sure I was about to end up in the ditch.
  • If you do end up in the ditch, understand that the snow suddenly surrounding your car and going up into wherever it can under your hood can affect how it runs and how it ventilates. If you are waiting for someone to come help you with your car running, if it’s safe to get out, it might be a good idea to dig out a path for your exhaust pipe. If you turn off your car while it’s deep in snow, be aware that it can melt snow that will freeze into ice around parts that need to move, so it might be a good idea to let it sit in a heated garage for a few hours before starting it again.

  Tip for heat when the power goes out:

  • Candles generate a decent amount of heat. You need to ventilate them, but I keep a stock of tea light candles in case power dies in the middle of winter. I keep them in the car in case I end up stranded and don’t have enough gas to keep the motor running for heat.
  • I also bought a sleeping bag rated for -20°C that will just use my own body heat to keep me warm. And I have a full ski set of warm clothes that could be used in other extreme situations.

  My full snow suit:

  • Long underwear
  • Loose pants (idea is loose pants trap an extra layer of air that slows heat transfer)
  • Snow pants (these are more for keeping the pants dry, but they do retain some heat as well… You can get insulated or non-insulated snow pants)
  • Warm socks
  • Insulated and water-resistant boots. I sometimes see boots that are only one or the other and don’t know why they exist. You want your feet to be warm and dry. If you have to choose only one, pick dry, but seriously just keep looking until you find one with both.
  • Shirt (can add extras)
  • Sweater
  • Coat (again, this one should keep you warm and dry)
  • Hat that covers ears and as much scalp as possible (I go for toques, but there are other options). Balaclava takes that to the extreme by leaving only your eyes uncovered.
  • Gloves (I have a mix for different occasions, layering thin cloth gloves under thicker gloves or mittens works well, too. Thin gloves are good for when you need finger dexterity, and can come with finger pads that work with touchscreens, mittens are the best for when you don’t need much hand dexterity, since your fingers share warmth with each other, and thick gloves are a decent compromise between the two cases)
  • Ski goggles or sunglasses. The snow reflects so much light that a cloudy snowy day can be brighter overall than a sunny summer day. Goggles are great for keeping the wind out of your eyes, sunglasses can suffice if that isn’t an issue.

  For temperatures:

  • 20°C (68°F) +: shorts and t-shirt weather
  • 10°C (50°F): Sweater weather, maybe a jacket depending on the wind/rain
  • 5°C (41°F): This is where it starts feeling cold instead of just chilly. Water isn’t freezing yet, but I’m using my winter coat, but not going out of my way to get my boots out. If there’s snow on my car, I might wear gloves as I easily brush the melting snow off.
  • 0°C (32°F): Freezing temperature. Gloves and hat go on, along with boots if there’s snow. Coat isn’t zipped up yet, gloves come off right away in the car.
  • -5°C (23°F): Here I’ll zip up either sweater or coat and would consider layering gloves if I need to be outside for a while.
  • -10°C (14°F): It’s cold enough that I’ll keep my gloves on in the car, at least until it warms up.
  • -20°C (-4°F): I bought the balaclava in anticipation of being outside in this weather, not wanting to feel like my cheeks and nose are freezing while out skiing. If you don’t take this temperature seriously, your life or limbs could be in danger. If visibility is low, don’t take knowing which direction things are in for granted, or you could get lost and stuck out in the cold.
  • -30°C (-22°F): I avoid going out at all if possible. I believe the amount of time exposed skin gets frostbite at this temp is around several minutes (and be aware that it’s super uncomfortable long before frostbite).
  • -40°C (-40°F): Stay near heat sources. Frostbite can kick in in under a minute, so just don’t go out unless you know what you’re doing. Like running out your front door 3m to grab something from your car without bundling up might be dangerous. This might be too cold for your phone battery to operate properly, so have a backup plan if you’re relying on communication.

  Your physical activity level can play a big role in how warm you feel. Be careful about peeling off layers when you start to sweat. Finding the right balance is important because sweating is dangerous (once the activity stops, it will continue cooling you, plus the layering traps it, so you’ll have way more sweat than is needed), but opening it up too much will let too much heat escape. Open up vents for the sweat/heat but reasses often and close them up a bit when you start feeling cold instead of too warm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are they different shapes?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For some soups, a great way to serve them is to toast a thick slice of one of the uncut loaves (so you can cut it thick), then place it in the middle of a wide bowl and serve the soup on top of that. Sometimes, you put another sauce that harmonizes well with the souo on the bread, first.

  Then you eat it as the soup absorbs into the bread, experiencing a combination of soggy and dry bread textures along with the flavour of the broth (and sauce, if present).

  It wouldn’t work with a standard loaf of bread, as both the slices and the bread itself aren’t thick enough to keep it from quickly going fully soggy. Breaking crackers or dipping toast into soup are pale imitations (ok, dipping toast isn’t that far off, but I still prefer a good thick piece of toast).

  Also, if you take a baguette and cut it into thinner slices then toast/bake those slices, you end up with a much cheaper version of those artisan crackers that are just dried pieces of baguette.

  Also, look up beef wellington for one of the more extreme uses of non-standard bread.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Though, on the other hand, having the video saved offsite is useful because then anyone with physical access to your home can’t get rid of the video showing they’re there.

  This is not an argument in favour of using cloud services, because that gives access to your video to anyone the company deems should have access (or sometimes individual workers who either have access as part of their job or gain access because businesses suck at security). It’s in response to you saying isolate the cameras from the internet entirely; there is a good reason to have them connected (though you could have a PC handle that with a connection to two networks and no physical or software bridge between the two, just take video from one, upload (encrypted) to server on other).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You could have it write unit tests as black box tests, where you only give it access to the function signature. Though even then, it still needs to understand what the test results should be, which will vary from case to case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny thing about “AI skills” that I’ve noticed so far is that they are actually just skills in the thing you’re trying to get AI to help with. If you’re good at that, you can often (though not always) get an effective result. Mostly because you can talk about it at a deeper level and catch mistakes the AI makes.

  If you have no idea about the thing, it might look competent to you, but you just won’t be catching the mistakes.

  In that context, I would call them thought amplifiers and pretty effective at the whole “talking about something can help debug the problem, even if the other person doesn’t contribute anything of value because you have to look at the problem differently to explain it and that different perspective might make the solution more visible”, while also being able to contribute some valueable pieces.