MystikIncarnate
@MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
Some IT guy, IDK.
- Comment on It is what it is 2 hours ago:
I need to check into this, but maybe someone knows.
I assumed that if you’re using incognito and you don’t sign into your Google account, the activity wouldn’t be tied to your Google account. It might be recorded and sent to Google, but anonymously, unless you signed into Google/Gmail/YouTube/whatever, while incognito.
The obvious is that your activity wouldn’t end up on your Internet history in your non-incognito Chrome.
- Comment on Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket 5 days ago:
None of these answers are wrong.
Pretty sure we had CRTs in highschool, back when I was a teen many years ago that were Kia brand… IIRC.
- Comment on Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket 5 days ago:
Crazy, right?
- Comment on Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket 5 days ago:
Oh damn.
- Comment on Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket 5 days ago:
Manufacturing of any kind always causes an environmental impact. This is the way of things.
The one thing we can’t get that would mitigate the environmental costs of making stuff, is if stuff was built to last…
- Comment on Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket 5 days ago:
Honda built a rocket
Me: of course they did.
They launched the rocket
Me: naturally.
They landed the rocket.
Me: on the first try?
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 1 week ago:
Hilariously, light is an electromagnetic wave.
So, yes, we can see electromagnetic waves… Just, only a very small segment of them.
How wrong he was. Now we use EM daily for everything… Communicating via Wi-Fi, listening to music in the car (FM broadcast), or via Bluetooth and using LTE… Even heating our food. Not to mention medical applications like X-rays…
There’s a shitload of stuff we use EM for without even thinking. It’s all around us, all the time, like the matrix. I love EM science.
This goes to show you that, just because someone discovered a thing, doesn’t mean that they have any idea what to do with that discovery, or that the discoveries end there…
Before, reality was just what humans could touch, smell, see, and hear, but after the publication of the charged electromagnetic spectrum, we now know that what we can touch, smell, see, and hear, is less than one-millionth.
- Comment on We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink 2 weeks ago:
I disagree.
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You already have a government space agency. Maybe give them more funding so they don’t have to rely on space-x to get their stuff into orbit?
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There’s a national telecom network already in place. It at least has the potential to be faster and more reliable, if it isn’t already… At least compared to low earth orbit satellite coverage.
There’s no good reason to continue providing Elon or his companies with any government handouts. Pull that funding and give it to… I dunno, students who have more debt than homeowners with a mortgage… NASA… Literally anything that helps people?
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- Comment on Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift? 2 weeks ago:
Mushroom mushroom
- Comment on Why do I drag my feet when it's time to start a new task even if I know I'll enjoy it once I get started? 2 weeks ago:
Oh, I didn’t think you were disagreeing.
My entire point is that since task paralysis can be a symptom of an executive dysfunction, it is worth the time for OP to talk to their doctor about it.
I don’t think that the previous poster said, nor implied that OP definitely has an executive dysfunction because of this one symptom.
Neither of which I think you have refuted at any point, in any capacity. :)
- Comment on Why do I drag my feet when it's time to start a new task even if I know I'll enjoy it once I get started? 2 weeks ago:
I’m still not a doctor, but as a first-aid certified person, signs and symptoms can be extremely useful in helping someone. It gives you a starting point to try to figure out what’s happening.
Further investigation is always required.
Medical diagnosis is a science. Things need to be proven. You can’t just go on vibes or feelings or whatever.
Since OP describes some symptoms that can be associated with executive function disorders, doesn’t mean that they definitely have those conditions. Only a qualified doctor should be making that kind of conclusion.
- Comment on Why do I drag my feet when it's time to start a new task even if I know I'll enjoy it once I get started? 2 weeks ago:
Oh… Uhhh… Hyperactivity in the name, isn’t behavioral hyperactivity. That can certainly be a symptom but the naming comes from hyperactivity in specific brain functions, as in, your brain works too much on things inappropriately.
While that can manifest as hyperactive behaviors, it doesn’t always.
- Comment on Why do I drag my feet when it's time to start a new task even if I know I'll enjoy it once I get started? 2 weeks ago:
… Which is probably why they qualified their statement with “might”.
OP might have an executive dysfunction.
I am not a doctor, but I agree that the possibility that OP has an executive dysfunction is nontrivial. Depending on where you live, finding out might be free. Just saying.
- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 2 weeks ago:
Neither of those keys exist.
Probably because I keep uninstalling the software.
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 2 weeks ago:
Same. Question sucks. Teacher is a tool. Kid needs bonus points for a creative solution.
This always pissed me off about all formal school. They don’t want a good answer, they don’t even want the correct answer. They want you to give them the answer they previously told you to give them, regardless of all other factors.
Real life doesn’t work like that. In reality, the “correct” answer is anything that completes the objective. In this scenario, the answer provided was reasonable, logical and most importantly, it was not incorrect.
- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 2 weeks ago:
Heh, it’s a small business and bossman isn’t exactly anti-AI.
- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 2 weeks ago:
I think GDPR and related laws, really tempered what Microsoft did to the whole of the European region. They didn’t want to deal with it, so they made as much as they could, opt-in. As opposed to the north american policies of either opt-out, or forced-on.
IDK. I don’t work at Microsoft, I’m just guessing. 🙃
- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 2 weeks ago:
For those curious, if you can get a European Windows product key, you can install the “N” version of Windows. Be warned, it only works with certain product keys…
The standard Windows installer should give the option of “Windows 10” or “Windows 10 N” (or similar). The N version is basically bloatware free out of the box…
The regular version has a bunch of promos pre-installed, like candy crush, and other things that most people couldn’t give a shit about…
Recently I’ve been playing a “fun” game with my work laptop where I’ll remove copilot, and a few days later it will appear again. Weeee. In that case, it wouldn’t surprise me if there’s a policy in place to enable copilot on my works systems… I’m sure someone who works here, probably higher up the food chain than me, wants it enabled, and the ham fisted policy maker can’t create a policy just for those who want it, so everyone gets it because the bosses son Shane decided that he wants to see how much of his work can get done by AI so he can do even less while on the clock.
- Comment on The solution to many problems 3 weeks ago:
That’s the joke.
- Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it. 3 weeks ago:
Not sure why the perpetrator being trans was important enough to put in the title, considering it didn’t seem to have anything to do with the crime…
- Comment on Avocado 3 weeks ago:
This is gold. Thank you.
- Comment on Avocado 3 weeks ago:
Fair enough. This one is debunked.
Let’s move along people, nothing to see here.
- Comment on The solution to many problems 3 weeks ago:
Yes, smoking takes years off your life.
But they’re the years at the end…
- Comment on The solution to many problems 3 weeks ago:
This reads like a Pharma advert.
- Comment on Kinda fucked up tbh 3 weeks ago:
As a fellow old person, former millennial, I agree.
- Comment on Kinda fucked up tbh 3 weeks ago:
Long term occupancy of the ISS started in November 2nd, 2000. Since then there has always been at least one person Manning the ISS.
So at least one human has not been on earth for every day since then, thus, all of humanity was last on earth on November 1st 2000. The statement is factually correct.
- Comment on Kinda fucked up tbh 3 weeks ago:
Well, someone needs to keep the lights on in the ISS…
- Comment on AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid 3 weeks ago:
I get it, you’re an optimist about it.
Nothing wrong with that. I try to take a note practical/grounded view.
In my experience, most people actively avoid thinking. If it involves any measure of mental effort, they would just rather not.
I see it every day.
- Comment on AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid 3 weeks ago:
I’ll say this: a lot of people using AI, are not thinking or making decisions.
- Comment on AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid 3 weeks ago:
Kek