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- Comment on Giga-Vaxxed Fauci Somehow Contracts Ultra-Rare West Nile Virus On Heels Of COVID-19 Infection 2 months ago:
Weird that all the vaccines that we have for other diseases doesn’t seem to help against West Nile, which we don’t have a vaccine against. It’s almost like vaccines are extremely targeted against particular viruses and not a wide-spectrum disinfectant. If only he had been injecting bleach, he certainly wouldn’t be in the hospital for West Nile today.
- Comment on Peter Molyneux is back with new god sim Masters Of Albion, which looks like a stripped-down Black & White 2 months ago:
Why stop there? I might be misremembering, but I think my war panda could throw lightning bolts at our foes
- Comment on Peter Molyneux is back with new god sim Masters Of Albion, which looks like a stripped-down Black & White 2 months ago:
I just want to hear that intro song with the sailors again. I also think it would be kind of fun to play on iPad.
- Comment on Pulp vs. No Pulp 3 months ago:
I took it to be “100% of whatever gets removed in making it pulp free”
- Comment on Fortnite Players Band Together to Pick on In-Game Tesla Cybertrucks: 'Destroy on Sight' - IGN 3 months ago:
Yeah, that’s I mean though, it’s optional and not a fundamental design of the truck.
- Comment on Fortnite Players Band Together to Pick on In-Game Tesla Cybertrucks: 'Destroy on Sight' - IGN 3 months ago:
Trucks with covers are a thing, it’s called a tonneau. What’s not normal is for them to be permanent.
- Comment on Google to purge low-quality apps from the Play Store with new policy starting next month 3 months ago:
That would be great. Just a bit that sends an email from a different innocuous sounding Gmail every month with a generic problem like “app crashes on <random device>” to see if there is a response. If you miss 3 in a row, you’re out
- Comment on Is there any actual standalone AI software? 3 months ago:
If you are into development, the setup I use is ollama running codegemma:7b along with the Continue.dev plugin for vscode.
- Comment on If I live in a red state, would it be better to vote for rfk to take votes away from trump? 3 months ago:
I feel like in most states, non-voters overwhelm the difference between the two candidates. Vote s d find a friend to vote with.
- Comment on First overseas trip with my girlfriend – Any tips to make It our best trip? 3 months ago:
Think about ways to enjoy doing things with her, either things she specifically enjoys that you can share in her joys or things that you two do together apart from crowds, like meals and spending time together.
- Comment on First overseas trip with my girlfriend – Any tips to make It our best trip? 3 months ago:
I think my wife and I have this down pretty well, so here’s our guidelines:
- Figure out some structure. We usually plan one “thing” per day. Whether that’s catching a train between cities, a particular museum, or a guided tour. This helps with pacing when you are there because you don’t have to think too much day to day, but you won’t feel like you wasted a whole day.
- Figure out food options. I usually make a Google Maps saved list of different kinds of restaurants in every city. The goal here isn’t a plan, but simply to have good options no matter where in the city you end up. You will less than one dinner per day of travel after you consider travel time, don’t waste it on some tourist trap that you happen to be nearby when the time comes. I’ll usually make a dinner reservation for every other night to make sure we get some incredible meals.
- Naps. It’s vacation, just plan on taking a nap everyday. Our first trip was together was to southern Spain and we’ve just decided that siestas are for us.
- Self-Guided tours on the first day. If you are Americans traveling to Europe, I’d recommend the Rick Steve’s app and then splitting a pair of AirPods together as you walk around. He does the whole look here, walk here, turn left tour thing, but it’s self paced. We try to do this the first day we’re in a city so we get an idea what the major areas are. Self paced is nice because he’ll say something like “this is a great coffee shop” and we can just pause it and grab coffee if we want. Split the AirPods so you can really hear your surroundings and the tour is something you share.
- Any plans you make are just so you know your options. If you plan on taking a train between cities, look at when the next train in case you have to miss it. Same with dinner reservations or museums. If it doesn’t feel fun or convenient, you’ll want to know what your alternatives are so it’s never “something or we read in the hotel all day”. Think about “it’s raining, so we’ll go to a museum instead”. Rick Steve also does museum tours.
- Comment on Why is Intel failing to Nvidia and AMD? 4 months ago:
There used to be a saying that Intel had a vault where they paid out the next ten years of CPU tech, so when they invented something new they put it there so they could make profits and control the advancement.
Now, I’m not sure which thing they got wrong, but if it was true, I think Intel was probably caught off guard by all the speculative execution security issues and the GPU revolution (blockchain and AI).
- Comment on Netris is an open-source cloud gaming platform with Stadia-like features using Proton 5 months ago:
But blockchains get “bad” records added all the times. Database entries and blockchain blocks are both equally as susceptible to bad business logic making incorrect entries. No business is going to adopt a sales recording system that doesn’t allow them to control the entries and to reverse the entries they don’t agree with.
- Comment on Starbuck milkshake is like tobacco 5 months ago:
Haha, yeah. I guess that’s ironic that I’m taking a stance against Starbucks with a username like this.
- Comment on Starbuck milkshake is like tobacco 5 months ago:
It’s funny comparing tobacco to an actual addictive stimulant, coffee, and decided sugar is the problem. I say as I drink my black coffee in the morning.
Whatever it takes to get you away from Starbucks seems like a win though.
- Comment on The Patriarchy 5 months ago:
Why? What’s in Texas? This says Maryland
- Comment on oWo 7 months ago:
Amen to that
- Comment on oWo 7 months ago:
You’re at the top of my comment chain, so I’m replying to agree with you and take this further.
Whoever photoshopped this and the other one with the park bench that’s floating around is trying to pit liberals against each other by making it seem like fighting for trans rights and fighting to house the unhoused are opposed to each other.
For anyone reading this, don’t fall for it.
- Comment on oWo 7 months ago:
I think you and the others trying to pass off the same idea don’t seem to understand the problem here. It’s not that you can’t have satire, or fiction that acts as a social commentary. It’s that all of the examples you are mentioning aren’t trying to pass themselves off as reality . Nobody reads A Tale of Two Cities and thinks that it is literal. Or A Modest Proposal. This here is trying to pass itself off as real and as soon as it gets called out for it, the choir shows up to say “Oh, so we can’t have satire anymore”.
- Comment on oWo 7 months ago:
If there were so many examples of this in the real world, then you wouldn’t need to photoshop one.
- Comment on Which one are you? 8 months ago:
I’m curious if anyone here has tried out the Flex tools at Lowes? I keep seeing them there and it feels like someone must be buying them.
- Comment on English may be a hot mess but at least we don't have to worry about this nonsense 8 months ago:
This sounds right. I think it’s just a hint for listeners for what the noun might be, and it happens to align to the male/female genders.
- Comment on brutal 8 months ago:
In case you aren’t joking, brutalist is an architectural style, commonly seen in Washington DC and associated with government buildings. It’s not masochistic, despite brutal being in the name of
- Comment on The White House wants to 'cryptographically verify' videos of Joe Biden so viewers don't mistake them for AI deepfakes 8 months ago:
Adobe is actually one of the leading actors in this field, take a look at the Content Authenticity Initiative (contentauthenticity.org)
Like the other person said, it’s based on cryptographic hashing and signing. Basically the standard would embed metadata into the image.
- Comment on how to access nextcloud outside LAN? 9 months ago:
Realistically, yes. But it’s a phrase and it’s important that they start doing that first. Maybe it’s their intention to do it publicly.
Also, sure, but a Wireguard installation is going to be much more secure than a Nextcloud that you aren’t sure if it’s configured correctly. And Tailscale doubly so.
- Comment on how to access nextcloud outside LAN? 9 months ago:
Please set up Tailscale or a Wireguard VPN before you start forwarding ports on your router.
Your configuration as you have described it so far is setting yourself up for a world of hurt, in that you are going to be a target for hackers from literally the entire world.
- Comment on ELI5: What is OpenStack? How to get started? 9 months ago:
I used to be a certified OpenStack Administrator and I’ll say that K8s has eaten its lunch in many companies and in mindshare.
But if you do it, look at triple-o instead of installing from docs.
- Comment on Miro/Figjam alternative? 10 months ago:
I wish I could fully endorse Escalidraw, but it only partially works in self-hosted mode. For a single user it’s fine, but not much works beyond that.
- Comment on 2017 Medium Article: "Why The Hyperloop Will Fail" 10 months ago:
This article was contemporaneously posted with the actual announcement, but I agree that I don’t know why it was posted here 6 years later.
- Comment on GM’s CarPlay replacement software is off to a disastrous start - 9to5Mac 10 months ago:
I think it’s worth saying that the head unit failing in this scenario is very disruptive for two reasons:
First and foremost, the purpose of this journey in this car is to review the car. So if the head unit craps out, and he doesn’t make every effort to reboot it, and he mentions it in the review, he loses a lot of credibility from the users and industry folks. Could you imagine a review for a computer where it crashes or turns off, and the reviewer just says “welp, that’s all folks”?
My second point is that he is navigating in an unfamiliar place to a charger for the car. If you’re coming from Tesla or AA/CarPlay, this is something you expect to work flawlessly. And it’s part of the review that’s worth discussing whether or not it works.
In my opinion, even if he 100% knew where he was going, his behaviors are justified for a review.