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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do most people really like the taste and smell of eggs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Growing up, I didn’t like the taste of the yoke, and had a texture issue with the way most eggs were cooked. Supposedly I was also allergic but I think that was just a convenience. Now I love them. Every style

  A big part of it was growing out of the texture issue. By the time I did that, I found had long dance grown out of any taste issues. But it’s also important that I was exposed to more ways to cook more eggs by more people. For whatever reason I was open to trying new eggs until I eventually went back and liked old eggs

  Except egg salad. There’s just something about slimy egg bits drowned in a tub of mayo that seems too unpleasant to even look at

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You create a great story but violates K.i.S.S.

  • not saying they got in means they can’t use it as evidence. Sometimes there’s still due process
  • even if they can get into lockdown mode, it’s clearly harder than not lockdown. Why conspire to make it harder?
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Realistically, not only do I not want an 8k tv, but I might not get a tv at all, if I had to do it today. We rarely watch tv anymore. The brainrot is the same but we’re much more likely to use individual screens

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I want a dumb tv with the price and and specs of a smart tv. Less is more

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should longer hair be handled by salons or male barbers?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you want from it? How long?

  • I always went with a barber for anything that looked like a traditional men’s cut, and that includes a variety of lengths.
  • any special requests, non-traditional or significantly longer, a stylist
  • I’ve had bad cuts from both barbers and stylists, all you can do is vote with your feet
  • realistically all the old barbers are gone and new barbers feature very short modern styles that I’m not interested in, so I go with one of the cheap chains
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's 'unsupervised' Robotaxis vanish a week after pre-earnings announcement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you have a concern different from the thread, please start another post.

  Yes the biggest pilot customer used it to haul lightweight snack items but als yes the claimed fully loaded to the legal limit tests

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's 'unsupervised' Robotaxis vanish a week after pre-earnings announcement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And an ai company with no ai product

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's 'unsupervised' Robotaxis vanish a week after pre-earnings announcement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see how. This is just a continuation of what he was already doing, facilitated by a board of his friends and relatives.

  Even worse I have to say I’m not totally against it. All too often ceos get excessive pay regardless of their results. While I haven’t looked in detail not at the history, the claim is these are only for Tesla meeting some extremely ambitious milestones and the payment is stock. Certainly his previous ridiculous allay was in stock and Tesla had some extraordinary growth. If the stock doesn’t go up, then he should never receive that wealth

  If it’s truly contingent on the company growth and the board doesn’t throw him a life preserver, that’s not entirely bad. Excessive yes. Extremely excessive. Excessively excessive. But more execs need to have their wealth gated on actual results

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Los Angeles aims to ban single-use printer cartridges — new ordinance will target ink and toner that can't be properly recycled⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably, but we also need to take every chance to reduce unnecessary plastic in the environment

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Los Angeles aims to ban single-use printer cartridges — new ordinance will target ink and toner that can't be properly recycled⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like the headline and article itself are missing the main point

  printer cartridges that can’t be refilled or that don’t have a take-back program offered by the vendor.

  It may be barely mentioned but I read this are requiring a program to take back cartridges

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do people eat this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, that’s like “milk toast “. My dad used to make that but looking back it’s likely from lean times on the farm when he was a kid…… put some milk on the stove, briefly dip slices of bread, then serve with a giant pat of butter. Also clearly influenced by the farm he grew up on being a dairy farm

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How/why does Microsoft teams exist?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe the real issue is the idea of a “collaboration tool”. You could argue the only such ambitious tools I’ve tried are lotus notes and Microsoft Teams, and both were horrible: lots of services but in an ugly ui with poor usability. Teams and unreliable phone and notes didn’t have it at all.

  It’s much better dealing with a set of tools containing better implementations of the feature you want. Maybe it’s just not useful trying to cram that much functionality into one tool.

  And yes I’ll name names, I currently get much better results from

  • zoom for calls (especially with their generated summaries!)
  • slack for texting
  • files in a variety of tools specific to the need
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How/why does Microsoft teams exist?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Keep up the pressure. We went through the same thing, but after a year of Teams misadventure, except finally realized the savings wasn’t worth it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How/why does Microsoft teams exist?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you actually tried Teams? It stands above all the rest for number of issues

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pixlpal is more than just a screen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To take myself as an example ….

  • all smart home stuff is arguably a gimmick. None of it is necessary, but for some of us it can add value or interest.
  • the resolution is plenty for many applications — I always liked the idea of a moving ticker for status or info, like the stock ticker. I assume this could — I always wanted a clock large enough to read without my glasses, without all the crap on the cheap ones, or maybe configurable to my choice of crap — I’m gradually putting together a house status alert system, and this is so much more expressive than the colored LEDs I’m looking at so far
  • this is so much more interesting, more of a statement than a simple screen
  • it’s local. We’re not locked into some god awful vendor portal
  • someone was creative, had an idea, packaged it nicely, and offered it to the world. I want to support that, encourage more of it

  I’m not sure if I’ll get one but it’s definitely tempting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually like this example. All too often we hear a kernel of truth, “the moon rang like a bell”, without context or explanation and can just apply logic that that seems reasonable with things we understand without questioning the result

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Im stupid but have money⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you want out of it? Owning adds responsibilities and costs. If you don’t have a reason to own other than you can, why take on those responsibilities and costs?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Student Parking⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not realistic. Taxis barely exist in small towns and rural areas. You might try to claim that ride shares could respond to actual usage and they do in urban areas, but the one time my kid tried that it was a 2 hour wait. Also not realistic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Student Parking⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Adequate transportation is a need for anyone living independently, and yes we share expenses for common resources including needs that don’t serve us personally. If my contribution can go toward a physics lab that only serves a subset group of students it can also go toward taking that serves a subset of students

  My taxes and tuition are paying for literally billions of dollars for stuff at my states public university system that I never use. It’s a great investment giving us one of the best education systems in the country.

  No one said parking is the only solution. Buses work decently even at everyone else’s expense, but if you’ll read my responses you should see I advocate for going further, even at everyone else’s expense: many universities are even better served by trains. There’s a difference between advocating only one solution vs advocating for one solution that works now vs one you hope eventually works. And both are far better than just depriving a subset of people of basic transportation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Student Parking⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That may be fair in an urban environment where there is little space and there is transit or walkability, but you can’t just wish it into existence by making a few lives harder.

  In particular, many universities in the US are in small town or urban areas. They’re great at not requiring cars to get around campus. But students should also have a way to leave campus or even travel, or have a choice to commute from cheaper or better housing. It’s not a prison and they don’t control their surroundings

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Student Parking⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re assuming that’s a realistic option. I’d also prefer it, but in the meantime we have to deal with reality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Student Parking⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My taxes and tuition are paying for literally billions of dollars for stuff at my states public university system that I never use. It’s a great investment giving us one of the best education systems in the country.

  The picture doesn’t say where they are but my youngest is at university in a rural area about two hours drive away. They have plenty of land for parking and it’s tough to get anywhere off campus without a car. More importantly I need to take a full day off work to drive him back after break, when he could get himself there if there was a spot to park

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With all this talk about Ai not being profitable why aren't we using it in video games? I dont mean replacing developers I mean in NPCs in the game. I make them more realistic.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are models that can run on raspberry pi

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With all this talk about Ai not being profitable why aren't we using it in video games? I dont mean replacing developers I mean in NPCs in the game. I make them more realistic.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure no one is going to think an in-game now c is real

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  1. Not getting off the sofa. Video doorbell pops up on my watch, no matter where I happen to be, so I can immediately decide whether it can interrupt what I’m doing.

  2. Shut the hell up. Sometimes I turn off the chimes so I’m not bothered by yet another door to door sales drone. But I still have my watch in case whoever is at the door is legitimate

  3. Intercom. My kid sometimes want to tell me something without coming inside

  4. History. Yes, sometimes I want to scroll back through all motion trigger s in front of my door

  5. Wildlife. Minor feature but it is occasionally fascinating to see what animals amble in front of my door. I’m urban so it’s limited but we have turkeys and coyotes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dammit, I fell for rings assurances of “only in response to a warrant”. Mostly out of laziness, but still …… I really am going to have to figure out self hosting a video doorbell, aren’t i

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How far do you wear your daily shoes out before bothering to replace them?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even crazier when you started working from home at least part time since pandemic, so the shoes you’d normally wear to work get little use.

  I got divorced about five years ago and still have a closet full of shoes I apparently needed but they’re all unworn so I might have a lifetime supply

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK the four rules of firearm safety⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  …… And don’t go out in the woods during deer season because there’s always someone treating a deadly weapon all too casually

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here in the US, the reasons people generally cheer for ICE vehicles boil down to how expensive EVs are here. Legacy manufacturers sell them only in premium trims and dealers tack on excessive profit to help discourage them - they truly are not affordable here.

  They don’t seem to understand this is a choice by legacy manufacturers, combined with protectionism bought by those same manufacturers.

  I suppose there’s a range concern but I don’t see how that has any validity. As people have more direct experience, that should mostly disappear. While there are never enough chargers, most of the population has high speed charging convenient to them and most homeowners can charge at home.

  I eventually sold my brother on an EV but the only one he was willing to buy was a Silverado extended range - it’s fine if he wants that I guess but his concern about range was way overboard, especially since he lives in the DC area where there are high speed chargers everywhere and in a private house where he can charge nightly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is one of the concerns I have watched with interest ……

  • with the first mass market push to wind “grid won’t be stable with any significant amount”
  • as wind and solar became more popular “renewables can only be 30% without destabilizing the grid
  • this past summer “with today’s renewables and storage technology, the cheapest most stable option is 95% of the grid”

  Your concern may be technically and historically valid but is rapidly disappearing