CandleTiger
@CandleTiger@programming.dev
- Comment on When kids come trick-or-treating, what happens if I choose trick? 2 days ago:
Mark Twain talks about tipping over outhouse and other pranks as the main activity on Halloween. So I guess if we assume he’s an honest narrator of his time (definitely in doubt…) then trick or treating is a mass extortion
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 week ago:
I’m probably the only Fediverse user who sees your thorns and thinks, “No actually do that more,”
No, ðere are two of us.
- Comment on Elon Musk says he needs $1 trillion to control Tesla's robot army. Yes, really. 1 week ago:
If they were hoarding cats, or rusty cars, or old refrigerators, or piles of scrap metal, etc., the authorities would intervene, and get them help for their mental illness.
This is a common misconception.
“The authorities” (USA viewpoint) are really extremely unlikely to intervene in any way at all with hoarding, and even more extremely unlikely to provide any kind of useful mental health intervention.
If the hoarding is causing a public safety hazard then the authorities may eventually start fining the hoarder until they do whatever is minimally required to clear the hazard.
Much much more likely, if the hoarder is renting, the landlord may evict them which is one of the many paths to homelessness.
But by far the most common outcome is that the authorities do nothing whatsoever to stop or help with harmful hoarding behavior.
In this way, crazy aunt Florence and Elon Musk are similar.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
From the article:
we do not claim it is true
That’s some hard-hitting journalism right there
- Comment on For crying in the sink, stop posting imgur links 2 weeks ago:
I suppose I’m not sure but I doubt it. Usually when they block something it comes with a big red warning that you’re violating corporate blah-blah by even thinking about this page and you should reconsider your questionable decision-making or some words to that effect.
For Imgur the site loads and the all-important ads load, but the images just time out.
- Comment on For crying in the sink, stop posting imgur links 2 weeks ago:
Imgur blocks VPNs, or at least it tries to. The images won’t load when connected to my work VPN. Seems to work fine from Mullvad though so I guess they’re not doing that great on their blocking.
- Comment on A miss communication 3 weeks ago:
It is a 1982 Lincoln or close enough. Damn, I’m good! But it’s a photoshop they stretched out a short segment through the corner lights to be unnaturally long.
- Comment on A miss communication 3 weeks ago:
Somebody ID this car for me? Make, model, and approximate year? I really want to know.
I’m thinking maybe 1982 Lincoln??
- Comment on How long can someone physically walk for? 4 weeks ago:
I guess different people have different special talents.
- Comment on How long can someone physically walk for? 5 weeks ago:
You really do. Have you tried it?
- Comment on How do I keep a 9 year old from constantly licking erasers and putting them in his mouth 5 weeks ago:
Is eating erasers going to get you more ostracized than constant nagging from the teacher to not eat erasers?
- Comment on Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator 1 month ago:
unless they force people to stop and wait to get their money
Do you really feel like inconveniencing us is unlikely?
A few years ago before I moved away, PNC bank had a few branches with new ATMs that made me tap through ads for loans and special checking accounts.
- Comment on Do you think he'll respond? 2 months ago:
On direct vs indirect object, I’ve heard that before but it doesn’t make sense. None of the other pronouns in English work that way.
Best supporting authority I could find in 15 seconds of looking was Merriam Webster.
- Comment on Do you think he'll respond? 2 months ago:
Pronouns! Whom is correct here.
Who / whom works like He / him —
“The Trump administration attempted to label him a terrorist.”
“The Trump administration attempted to label whom a terrorist?”
“He is the person whom the Trump administration attempted to label a terrorist.”
- Comment on I'm setting up a Windows 11 laptop for my uncle. Is there a sneaky way to make it block right-wing bullshit websites? 3 months ago:
If you’re really going to do this (questionable imo) then you’d need to find some kind of list that gets updated automatically. Because if you just make fox and OAN suck he’s more likely to find some other, worse thing you never heard of.
But if you do do this behind his back and he notices, you can pretty much forget about him ever trusting you for anything again. Those are the stakes.
- Comment on Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy 3 months ago:
Cut off for sharing, or cut off for running illegal/unsafe/unlicensed wiring and plumbing connections?
- Comment on News outlets in crisis mode as Google-led AI search push crushes website traffic 4 months ago:
- Comment on The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss 4 months ago:
Do your guys benefit from all that team building? Or do they just get the same minimum wage no matter what while all the benefits of team efficiency go to the owner?
- Comment on Duolingo deletes all its TikTok videos after AI backlash—and then returns with a strange message 5 months ago:
Babbel is working ok for me for learning French.
Just lessons without all the hearts and ads and crap
- Comment on The World's First Mass-Produced Flying Car Is Here and It Costs $1 Million 5 months ago:
The tail boom is massive compared to a sports car but I think the folded-up package looks not bigger than a giant American SUV.
Speaking as one who routinely has trouble parking a motor home and driving over curbs with it — this big awkward-looking car does not compete with motor homes for the awkwardness prize.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Learning to drive a stick is really easy if you have somebody to teach you well, but waaay too many people are like, “here, keep fucking up until the car doesn’t go anymore or you figure it out, whichever comes first”.
Hardest part is getting the car to start moving from stopped. Changing gears once moving, you can fuck it up a bunch and nothing much happens except funny engine noises and the owner starts making constipated-looking facial expressions. But if you fuck up starting from stopped, then you lurch around a bunch, stall the engine, and don’t go anywhere.
To get started from stopped, without horrible lurches or stalls, do like this FROM A FLAT PLACE – don’t try anything with hills until you can make the car go on the flat first:
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IMPORTANT: adjust your seat so you can easily push the clutch (left pedal) in – all the way to the floor – without uncomfortable stretching
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In your driveway when there’s nobody going to honk at you, start the car, put it in neutral, and practice pushing the gas pedal just enough to hold the engine at 3000 RPM or so. Not making crazy racing noises, just a nice steady “the engine is running normal-fast-ish” and hold it that way. Practice a couple times until your foot and your ear know what it feels like
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Put it in gear without moving – gas off, clutch in and put the car in first gear.
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Gas on, steady at 3000 RPM, slooooooowly let the clutch out until you can just barely feel the clutch is engaged. Engine revs down a little bit, car starts crawling forward. Practice that a couple times, just let the clutch out until it barely starts doing anything, then put it back in, until your foot knows what it feels like.
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Now do it again, engine held at steady revs, clutch out until just barely engaged, then let the clutch out just a little bit more, so the car wants to crawl, and hold the clutch there. Car starts crawling. Keep the engine steady like you’ve been, let the car start crawling, don’t even change anything, just let the car crawl. It will slowly accelerate until you’re moving at some steady 1st-gear speed. Once it’s come up to (slow) speed you can let the clutch out the rest of the way.
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Congratulations you moved a car
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- Comment on Not difficult to understand 5 months ago:
<chef’s kiss>
- Comment on Not difficult to understand 5 months ago:
Maybe they wanted to be ver very sure you weren’t covering a not-working period /s
- Comment on Report: Apple CEO “cares about nothing else” Than Building Breakout AR Glasses Before Meta 5 months ago:
How does the construction app know what needs to be constructed and how?
How does the waiter app know which table ordered what, needs attention, etc?
How does the IT app know on which port every device is connected?
These things are all real hard to know. Having glasses that display the knowledge could be really nice but for all these magic future apps, having a display is only part of the need.
- Comment on 3D Print Anything Without Supports - Non-Planar Slicing & Core R-Theta Printer 6 months ago:
This is cooool
- Comment on As a US citizen who was born in the UK, how risky is it to leave and reenter the US right now? 6 months ago:
only going after overt political dissidents and brown immigrants
They seem to have detained some white tourists lately as well.
- Comment on China launches HDMI and DisplayPort alternative — GPMI boasts up to 192 Gbps bandwidth, 480W power delivery 6 months ago:
The way it works for power over Ethernet — and I assume USB power delivery must work the same way — is that it does not reduce bandwidth because they run the power and the signal over the same wires at the same time.
There is a a power injector at one end and a filter at the other end that separate out the high-frequency signal and the DC (no-frequency) power into different wires.
This is essentially the same thing as they’re already doing for multi-frequency stacking on those same wires (and on fiber) to get the crazy bandwidth in the first place. DC power is just one more low (very very low) frequency running on the same stack.
- Comment on Bernstein Posits That A 10 Percent Baseline US Tariff On Raw Semiconductors Is "Not Going To Do All That Much," But PCs, Servers, And Smartphones Are About To Get Pricier By ~40 Percent 6 months ago:
In your scenario that’s inflation caused by price fixing. You seem to be saying these things are mutually exclusive but I don’t understand why you would say that.
Presumably price fixing in one industry would have trouble causing general systemic inflation. But simultaneous greed and price fixing through many industries all at once? Sure, that would do it.
- Comment on Bernstein Posits That A 10 Percent Baseline US Tariff On Raw Semiconductors Is "Not Going To Do All That Much," But PCs, Servers, And Smartphones Are About To Get Pricier By ~40 Percent 6 months ago:
Companies deciding to raise prices (for any reason — justified or not) is what inflation is made of.
Inflation just means “prices went up.”
- Comment on You should know there's a font designed to make reading easier, especially for people with low vision. It's called Atkinson Hyperlegible Next. It's free for personal and commercial use. 7 months ago:
No, can’t blame the app dev at all but we can blame Apple for making open source and other free software so difficult on their phones
