DahGangalang

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why we need billionaires⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This reads like an LLM trying to impersonate a human who is trying to impersonate an early generation LLM.

  And I am here for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone has a LOT of dusty computers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Lmao, love those descriptions.

  It was more the second one (tho I think the dose was small enough to miss the full jerked off effect).

  But it also wasn’t a full “being put under” (they said they were aiming for a full under situation, but that they really just needed to “turn off” my sensitivity in some sensitive spots), and so I have at least a fuzzy memory of everything that happened along the way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone has a LOT of dusty computers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure.

  I want to say they gave me two stages of anesthetic, but I also think fentanyl was the first of the two stages (counter to what you’re saying should have happened). But also, I’m at best an amateur at chemistry; even less when it comes to medicine. That said, reasonably certain what they gave me was not milky nor did it burn going in (you’ll have to excuse me if I misremember any deets, it was my first time going under and I was irrationally nervous about it)

  I could have some things mixed up, but it did stand out in my mind that they used fentanyl (and I remember how fuckin’ nice it felt when they threw it in my veins). But that’s how I remember it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone has a LOT of dusty computers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Had a minor surgery earlier this year. They have me fentanyl as the drug to put me under. Was hella surprised about it. Also I see why people love that shit so much.

  But also for fentanyl’s danger, I think it comes down to how small a dose you need to hit the LD50/50 point is so low that you can hit it by accident without even trying. Street drugs are also being laced with Fentanyl and not in safe / well regulated doses. If you had a lab grade supplier, it’d probably be safer / easier to do safely…but I don’t think that’s what people are doing…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nuclear and Fossil Fuels Join Forces to Undermine Renewables⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ugh, yeah that is a frustrating part of any discussion I have with a lot of people I know IRL: they seem to think of it in an “exclusive or” (one or the other but not both) mindset.

  In my most humble of opinions, we need to be doing classic nuclear, renewables, and SMRs (and as pipe-dream-ish as it might be, research into nuclear fusion) all at once. Oh, and let’s not forget the mass-scale grid storage.

  Would that be a hella expensive investments? Yes, but worth it in the long run.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nuclear and Fossil Fuels Join Forces to Undermine Renewables⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Look, I hate fossil fuels as much as the next guy, but am missing why this article is pitching nuclear as a bad idea.

  As I understand it, the coal and natural gas plants that have been decommissions still have millions of dollars per site of mostly workable infrastructure (in the form of steam pipes, valves, turbines, etc) and Small Modular Reactors really seem a promising tech to make use of that infrastructure. They might be “unproven” (as the article claims), but its my understanding is that its mostly regulations and finding investors that have kept them from being built (since they need to be sully certified as a full nuclear reactor would be, which takes the better part of a decade to do, thus investment has been slow rolling).

  The prospect of a small nuclear plant replacing Indian River as a base load provider seems a lot more promising than wind without properly built mass grid storage. I’m sad to see fossil fuels reemerging, but this lumping of nuclear with fossil fuels feels disingenuous.

  Am I really missing something in all this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are people with High functioning autism allowed to become police officers?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As much as I abhor Reddit, they have a lot more active communities for military related questions. I expect they’ll same is true for police.

  If you really want to go military, “there’s a waiver for everything” is a common saying (source: I did a stint in the Navy), so you can probably find a doctor who’s willing to write a memo telling them your fit for service. I expect the police will will have similar policies.

  If this has rekindled your hope for military, feel free to DM me. Lol, I’ve got lots of thoughts and can point you in directions on that end (not so much the police stuff) and don’t want to wall of text too hard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton launches privacy-first alternative to Excel and Google Sheets⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, he took it also to mean payment in the philosophical sense. He was also fond of saying “you can pay with your wallet or you can pay with your clock”. He had some extension of that to the effect of its worse when you have to pay with both, but I forget the wording (it didn’t flow well).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton launches privacy-first alternative to Excel and Google Sheets⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I had a boss once who’s favorite saying was:

  “You don’t always get what you pay for But you never get what you don’t pay for”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton launches privacy-first alternative to Excel and Google Sheets⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not any authoritative recommendations. I’m at most a casual user of VPNs, and so long as I see the traffic getting encrypted, don’t think about it much more.

  I always hear Mullvad is great for maximizing privacy. Never tried them myself though.

  Personally, I use Proton. I was prepping to jump ship earlier this year, but ultimately decided it wasn’t worth it. I’ve had a pretty decent experience with them. The only issue was on on a Linux machine…Uh…and it was minor enough and long ago enough that I don’t even remember what it was?

  See above for my dissatisfying experience with Surf shark.

  I did try to sign up with ExpressVPN many years ago. They’re payment portal was busted (tried every day for a week, emailed support with no response).

  That about sums up my experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton launches privacy-first alternative to Excel and Google Sheets⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not the exact development route I wanted them to take, but def pleased they’re doing something to improve existing services.

  Definitely better than the whole (ongoing?) Proton Wallet ordeal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton launches privacy-first alternative to Excel and Google Sheets⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t let me ruin your good time, but my experience with Surf shark:

  Used surf shark for about 3 years around pandemic timeframe. Had no complaints (other than it drained my phone battery super fast - didn’t test empirically, but seemed somewhat worse than other VPN providers). I was unemployed for a while, so took the opportunity to cut expenses; tried to drop my surf shark subscription. It was a HUGE pain in the butt. I forget the process, but iirc, you had to use their help chat to get the number for cancellations, they kept me on hold for ~10 min, then had a long winded questionnaire (“were required to ask you these questions before proceeding”) asking why I was quitting, then made an offer for discounted months before letting me unsubscribe.

  Its my understanding regulations have changed such that that’s not allowed anymore and also that most VPN can elations are about that bad anyway, but still, wanted to share my experience. Lol, suppose so long as you never quit, you won’t have to deal with all that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have just released a grand DLC, War Sails, for our game, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, gonna have to soft disagree.

  Its got a lot of those same elements, but you have a character that is only at one spot at a time, and so that limits how elective you can be at the expansion part.

  That said, it is also not a typical RPG where you have just a character adventuring across the land. Really unique game in that its a bridge between those two broad genres.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have just released a grand DLC, War Sails, for our game, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its honestly a very small facet of the game, and more so used to bootstrap your company/Army’s finances until you gain lordship of towns and cities (and thus collect rents).

  But to try to explain how it comes together anyway:
  So towns specialize in producing a single type of raw resource (grain, ore, grapes, sheep, etc) and they sell those goods mainly to a single city. A city will have 2-4 towns “feeding” it resources, and so if a city has 3 towns that bring it grain, then you’d expect the grain price to be cheaper than in a city who’s towns produce ore.

  Next level, if you have two neighboring towns one producing ore and one with grain, chances are there will be a stable (and relatively low) grain price in both with reasonably high population (pop growth is primarily boosted by excess food). Imagine now an enemy army rolls up and burns all the grain towns and seiges the grain city (traders can’t enter a sieged city). After a week, this would lead to MUCH less grain in the ore city, thus prices spike.

  So you, an enterprising new player with a dozen men and some spare horses, load up with cheap grain from somewhere else on the map and make a run to the ore city, selling grain at an inflated price.

  Again, this general strat is good for bootstrapping the money to build a medium warband, but generally falls away as a viable source of income once you leave there early game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3172: Fifteen Years⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was wondering what happened with this the other day (haven’t kept up with XKCD since highschool).

  It makes me happy that they’re both still here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is something that has always bothered me about roadkill animals (esp deer which are particularly prevalent as roadkill in my area).

  Its my understanding that the hide can remain in good and usable condition for days to weeks after the animal’s death. It seems that this could be a decent source of blankets and other light-medium cold weather gear.

  I’d imagine it largely comes down to the skinning process. The internal organs of dead animals are supposed to get real gross real fast (and that’s in the best case scenario - if anything ruptured when they were hit, then the grossness increasing exponentially) and removing those is the first step towards skinning. Additionally, everything in harvesting the hide would need to be done by hand.

  But boy, if we could build one of those Boston dynamics bots to do it…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who was your first childhood videogame crush?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It appears to be a widely circulated fan art, appearing on her page of the Fandom Wiki (though Tetsuya Nomura may be an official artist for FFX).

  Point is that its accredited to an artist, so it would seem the missing teeth was intentional?

• Probably n00b Question - Mead Brewing
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m out of practice with my physics so apologies if this is a n00b question, but:

  I’m unclear what (rho V) is and how you converted to that from mass (m). Further unclear what (rho A d) refers to.

  Can you explain / link to an explainer on this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨South Park removes episode mocking Charlie Kirk from Cable in respect⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Was it South Park (as in Matt Stone and Trey Parker + studio) proper or was it Paramount and/or Comedy Central?

  Seems like a very likely move that the studios pulled it. It seems unlike Matt and Trey to pull an episode, even as drastic as the situation is (don’t know that anything comparable that could be attributed to them has happened in the shows history - open to being corrected if I’m wrong on that).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it would be a better look⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Prolly just a water drop.

  I’m also on board with this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chrome VPN Extension With 100k Installs Screenshots All Sites Users Visit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Malicious VPN is FreeVPN.One

  Maybe shouldn’t be trying to save people clicks, but I would have appreciated this in a top comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it (in my case, ChatGPT) has been great for helping me along with functions I’m only passingly familiar with / trying to use in new ways.

  One that I was really surprised with was that it gave me a surprisingly robust, sensible, and (seemingly) well tuned-to-my-case check list of things to inspect for a used car I intend to buy. I’m already mostly familiar with what I’m doing there, but it pointed to some things I might’ve overlooked / didn’t know were points of concern for the specific vehicle I’m looking at.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man, I hate it when this happens!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Was not expecting an actually educational response to my meme of a comment, but boy is it delightful to receive.

  Really appreciate the information!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man, I hate it when this happens!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  that they used to consist of only the leg bits

  Now I’m more confused. Are you saying they used to be, like, leg sleeves? Oh, and that’s what you would need to tie them to your shirt…man that’s weird…but I guess it’d be easier to weave 2 cylinders without the crotch bits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man, I hate it when this happens!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s so much “wut” with this picture.

  Why would you carry an Axe over the should opposite the hand you’re holding it with?

  What is up with his pants. Dude looks like the has two dicks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Having the ability to lie and manipulate with no remorse will get you much further in this world than having morals and being correct⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe I’m just a newb, but it still looks like PNG is the goto to ensure lossless image storage.

  Everything else on that list that is “better” does/can do lossy compression. I’m not sure how to force apps to use lossless compression, so to me, all those lossy-capable formats are a drawback.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the heads up.

  Saw it wasn’t on F-Droid and was going to ask for source page (to get through Obtanium), but looks like they’re allergic to android and derivates. Appreciate you pointing to references.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let people enjoy things 🙄⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy no paragraph breaks batman!