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- Comment on How do you document your Homelab? 1 day ago:
I operate on the philosophy that it is better for me to relearn things that lean on old documentation that may no longer be accurate/relevant.
The best way to implement a safe connection to my home lab today might not be the safest way tomorrow.
Old dog, new tricks, etc.
Also! Your documentation is an attackers wet dream.
- Comment on Partner has ADD, do I have misophonia? 1 day ago:
Videogames and YouTube reaction bid can both go to the same singular pair of Bluetooth headphones.
Your partner is not being fair to you. They don’t need to be listening at full volume, either. That’s obnoxious.
Shit, if I wanna plug my guitar in my huge amp and shred guitar all day, do I just tell my gf to deal with it because I’m depressed and have ADD? No, I use amp simulators and headphones.
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 1 day ago:
Okay I’m free now.
Im so glad you gave me this gem.
Your response itself relies on several fallacies… false equivalence, hasty generalization, equivocation, a strawman, and non sequitur reasoning, probably more?
You’re incorrectly conflating logical fallacies (which are clear mistakes in reasoning) with inductive uncertainty or experimental limitations in science. Logical fallacies invalidate reasoning structures. Scientific reasoning explicitly includes uncertainty and error correction as fundamental principles; it’s not fallacious; it’s cautious and probabilistic.
Additionally, your example of Socrates is actually demonstrating deductive validity, a different kind of reasoning entirely. Thus, your argument misrepresents logic and science simultaneously. Please correct these fallacies if you want this conversation to proceed productively
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 2 days ago:
You’re conflating two separate ideas.
A valid arguent needn’t any logical fallacy.
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 2 days ago:
Why do we not have some brilliant mind just fully memorize all of the ins and outs of how these arise and just crush bad faith arguments by simply labeling them in real time rather than engaging with them?
Like, if framed correctly “I don’t engage in logical fallacy. I will immediately call it out, move on, and go back to the relevant topic.”
“Oh you don’t care about starving children?”
“That’s an appeal to emotion. I won’t engage with this obvious logical fallacy. I will address the causes of children suffering to alleviate their suffering.”
“But the cause is illegal immigrants!!!”
“That’s a strawman. I won’t engage with logical fallacies. If you’d like to have a discussion about solving problems, Im all ears, but until we’re done pointing fingers, this conversation is over.”
- Comment on If doubting the existence of other minds is Solipcism, then believing in the Dead Internet Theory would be Digital Solipcism. 3 days ago:
Or, perhaps it’s my new advanced attempt at fooling you.
🧐
- Comment on If doubting the existence of other minds is Solipcism, then believing in the Dead Internet Theory would be Digital Solipcism. 3 days ago:
✨ Why we know it’s true
💻 Computers can fake being people
🧍♀️people don’t have interesting lives, it the internet is full of interesting stories!
🤑 Theres money to be made
- Comment on I’m very good at math and would like health insurance. What is the easiest option? 6 days ago:
It’s game theory, so a little math and a little of this and that.
Are you young and healthy? Easy bet.
Are you middle aged and struggling? Difficult bet.
Are you old and in poor health? Easy bet.
Etc.
- Comment on Is it weird to juggle in the park? 1 week ago:
I’m approaching 40 And it was hard enough with cable internet being all the rage.
Now that kind of connectivity is 24/7 and on personal pocket sized devices.
I don’t envy today’s youth.
- Comment on Is it weird to juggle in the park? 1 week ago:
When you’re 20, you care what everyone thinks about you
When you’re 40, you don’t give a shit what anyone thinks about you.
When you’re 60, you’ll realize no one was thinking about you the whole time. It will be more empowering than depressing.
Skip the worry. Do you. It’s public space and hurts no one.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Tinkle down economics
- Comment on Pico de gallo is fruit salad 2 weeks ago:
I e said it once and I’ll say it every time I get the chance:
Vegetables don’t exist.
It’s a culinary word which does not exist in botany. It describes an enormous umbrella of fruits, roots, leaves, stems, flowers, and seeds.
- Comment on What OS should I use for self-hosting that doesn't require extensive terminal knowledge? 2 weeks ago:
It is ok to admit you are wrong.
Jesus Christ, your obnoxious.
Blocked.
- Comment on What OS should I use for self-hosting that doesn't require extensive terminal knowledge? 2 weeks ago:
I’m done arguing. Not gonna respond to whatever fedora fanboy nonsense to follow.
Ubuntu holds around 30 percent of the Linux desktop market. Fedora sits around 1 to 2 percent. Ubuntu focuses on Long Term Support stability, massive community documentation, seamless hardware driver support, and minimizing breakage for new users. Fedora deliberately pushes bleeding-edge kernels, experimental libraries, and rapid changes that regularly introduce breakage. Beginners do not need the newest kernel version or experimental features. They need stability, predictability, easy troubleshooting, and access to a massive community when things go wrong. Fedora is excellent for intermediate users who know how to fix their own problems. It is irresponsible to recommend a testing ground distro to someone who is still learning how to use the terminal.
If Fedora were actually a good beginner distro, it would dominate beginner spaces like r/linux4noobs, It does not. Fedora is respected, but it is not designed for beginners. Even Fedora’s own documentation assumes technical competence that a first-time Linux user will not have.
It is objectively not a good distro for beginners. Not even Fedora thinks it’s a good distro for beginners. Your arguments make no sense. I certainly don’t care to hear anymore of them.
Good day.
- Comment on What OS should I use for self-hosting that doesn't require extensive terminal knowledge? 2 weeks ago:
It is a testing ground for new features. It is literally one of the worst beginner distros.
We’re not talking about what distros are good. We are talking about what is good for beginners.
- Comment on What OS should I use for self-hosting that doesn't require extensive terminal knowledge? 3 weeks ago:
Would absolutely not recommend fedora as a first distro.
- Comment on What OS should I use for self-hosting that doesn't require extensive terminal knowledge? 3 weeks ago:
Ubuntu. Many will disagree but, Debian flavors are a way smoother experience from the start and Ubuntu has a ton of community support. You’ll rarely find an issue no one found and solved before you.
- Comment on Traveling Salesman is NP-Hard, yet Uber Eats delivery route optimization algorithms exist 3 weeks ago:
That’s not really how Uber eats or similar apps work. Drivers are very rarely on more than 1 delivery at a time.
And again, until our problem size grows to a point where we cannot solve it in polynomial time, it is in P by definition.
Traveling salesman starts to evade computational time at around 20 to 30 nodes.
So because of this, as I said before, it employs a greedy heuristic to make light work on decent guesses for the problem, knowing the problem size will never get out of scope, so doing so is relatively safe.
You’re right that in theory multiple deliveries look like a tiny version of TSP, but in practice it’s nowhere near the scale that makes TSP an NP problem.
- Comment on Traveling Salesman is NP-Hard, yet Uber Eats delivery route optimization algorithms exist 3 weeks ago:
Traveling salesman doesn’t apply to Uber eats.
Just because it’s routing doent mean it’s traveling salesman.
Traveling salesman, and P vs NP is about the difficulty rapidly growing out of scope as the problem size increases.
For delivery, there are exactly 2 nodes. Pickup delivery. This problem is beyond solved, it’s childs play.
Uber eats would fail to give you the best route to hit every taco bell in America the fastest. That’s traveling salesman. It’s traveling salesman because it’s be already out of scope to simply say “find me the best route to hit 1 McDonald’s in every Continental us state.”
- Comment on How do man made hiking trails keep the grass from overgrowing? 3 weeks ago:
I buy it. Yeah different techniques for different terrain, I suppose.
Take for example, this. Here, we’d say to step on that rock, and then leap to that root on the left, then the root on the right, then the fallen tree, etc.
If you don’t, you end up with this. And something that bad will end up closed, or rerouted. Hopefully, it’ll get something like this before it’s bad, and might stand a chance at not needing much more restoration, but again this isn’t nearly as sustainable.
My assumption is, as I was saying about the ruggedness of the terrain out this way, the wider, less ankle-breaking, smooth switchbacks (as opposed to New England and ADK’s tendency to just go more or less straight up huge chutes) of the west coast demand the literal opposite methods to care for the trails.
- Comment on How do man made hiking trails keep the grass from overgrowing? 3 weeks ago:
ADK = Adirondacks.
Green (Mountains), White (Mountains).
It teaches kids to preserve trails by not walking on them, if at all possible. While walking on trails in New York and New England, you should aim for a rock first. If there is no rock to step on, aim for a root. If there is no root, then dirt is ok to step on. But avoid mud at all costs.
This highlights the ruggedness of the terrain out there. Where many hikes elsewhere provide such an ample amount of dirt with so little rock and root to aim for first, it is not a well known trail maintenance practice outside of the region. However, in the region, it is essential. When ignored, large patches of mud that will last all season long start to form. When this happens, trail maintainers either:
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Close the trail until it’s restored
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Reroute the trail permanently
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Lay down wooden planks to minimize further damage (least sustainable option).
This maintenance is tax dollars, and they don’t have a lot of them, so education is the most effective use of that dollar. And that’s why we teach the kids:
Rock before root and root before dirt, and never step in mud if you can avoid it! 🤠
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- Comment on How do man made hiking trails keep the grass from overgrowing? 3 weeks ago:
laughs in New England accent
Absolutely not.
“Rock before root and root before dirt - and never touch the mud if you can help it.”
Literally hiking 101 out here. What we teach the children.
Is also why ~5 miles in ADK, the greens, or the whites, is like ~10 miles anywhere else.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Drown it own by blaring porn.
- Comment on People in the office who don't take used K-Cups out of the machine are the new equivalent "you kill it, you fill it" 3 weeks ago:
Also, the k cup is slightly hot immediately after use.
It won’t burn you but it can be unpleasant.
- Comment on If we have Black Friday after Thanksgiving where everything goes on sale. Does that mean April 5 is Orange Saturday where everything gets more expensive. 4 weeks ago:
No.
- Comment on Could I render the computer-generated graphics from Toy Story (1995) in real time using a single modern home computer? 4 weeks ago:
Yes and no.
You could get away with it with lots of tricks to down sample and compress at times where even an rtx 5090 with 32GB VRAM is like 1/64th of what you’d need to do in high fidelity.
So you could “do it” but it wouldn’t be “it”.
- Comment on "he" stands for "high efficiency" for detergent and washers, and in the future there could be "she" for "super high efficiency" 4 weeks ago:
Waiting on
The Highest Efficiency, Y’all.
- Comment on If we are in a simulation, maybe yawning is an animation glitch. 4 weeks ago:
He once saw a painting that told his whole life story…
- Comment on Synology could bring “certified drive” requirements to more NAS devices 4 weeks ago:
You literally just move the goalposts.
- Comment on Synology could bring “certified drive” requirements to more NAS devices 4 weeks ago:
Synology is made for the tech literate tech idiot.
They solve one problem and create a dozen more. That problem not only doesn’t need a physical solution, it doesn’t need to be a standalone device. It doesn’t need its own shitty proprietary operating system.
Anyways. Fuck them.
