Bassman1805
@Bassman1805@lemmy.world
- Comment on You'll know Lemmy has really caught on when searching for "Lemmy" returns more results for the forum than for the Motorhead guy. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know if you mean turn Lemmy fans into lemmy fans, or lemmy fans into Lemmy fans. But either way, I’m for it.
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 2 weeks ago:
Bill Nye kind of is a dick though.
Some people are really warm in acute person-to-person interactions, but lack the chronic empathy to spread long-term kindness. See “southern hospitality” clashing with who those areas vote for.
Others have a well-oriented moral compass but are just really abrasive in person. That’s Bill Nye. I’ve met him and he’s not like, super mean but he’s got a bit of a holier-than-thou (or rather, smarter-than-you) complex.
- Comment on Based on a true story 2 weeks ago:
Cool how you used the quote markdown for a bunch of stuff I didn’t say.
My argument is “The banks have a ton of capital. They are willing to grant lower classes access to that capital, as long as the bank is able to make some profit from it. If the bank cannot profit, they will just sit on that wealth and lower classes will lose the only access to such capital that they currently have.”
Like I said, the fact that many borderline necessities in the US require access to capital beyond one’s individual means, is a real problem but separate from this argument.
- Comment on Based on a true story 3 weeks ago:
Nobody with financial sense is taking out a 16.9% loan on a car. 5% is pretty typical right now for people with a decent credit history.
Whether or not that’s reasonable, is certainly up for discussion.
- Comment on Based on a true story 3 weeks ago:
Definitely shop around, but sometimes the dealership does have an actual competitive offer. Especially if you threaten to use external financing (and have the pre approval in hand), they might knock down their interest rate to save the deal, as the loan is where the money actually is.
- Comment on Based on a true story 3 weeks ago:
You pay for the ability to access capital you do not currently have. Nobody owes you thousands of dollars with which to but a car. If you want to buy a car with money you don’t have, then you have to give the bank something in return. That something almost always is “more money than we initially lent you, over the course of the loan period” and if you shut that down, banks just won’t give loans anymore. Suddenly poor and middle class people have lost their biggest tool for accessing capital.
Lack of public transport is a separate problem. The US has dropped the ball across the board there. Only a handful of cities have any reasonable public transport and even those systems are old and often shitty.
Education being so expensive that it needs to be financed, is a separate problem. Education is too important to leave to the free market, letting our system metastacize to this extent is the result of decades of compounding failures.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I’ve only met two Finns in my life, but they both assured me that licorice and sauna were on the citizenship application so I don’t think the /s is necessary.
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 1 month ago:
TempleOS is legit super impressive, it’s a shame the dude was pretty much insane but also that’s probably what it takes to code an entire OS from scratch entirely by yourself.
- Comment on 🪨 Rock on 🪨 1 month ago:
You make some pots for the neighbors, think your work is done, then suddenly it’s “Oh no Arkadios we dropped one of our urns and also we want to store extra grain for the cold season” and here I am making MORE FUCKING URNS.
What I wouldn’t give to live in the old days before people had to learn a trade to get by!
- Comment on Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos 1 month ago:
The short answer is: Apple collects much of the same data as any other modern tech composite, but their “walled garden” strategy means that for the most part only THEY have access to that info.
It’s technically lower risk since fewer parties have access to the data, but philosophically just about equally as bad because they aren’t doing this out of any real love for privacy (despite what their marketing department might claim)
- Comment on I wonder how things are going in America today... 2 months ago:
At least 3
- Comment on They did the math 3 months ago:
I get it, “2 penalties canceling out” basically requires a master’s degree. That’s why you never see high school dropouts watching American football while halfway through a case of beer.
- Comment on FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by Federal Appeals Court 3 months ago:
Comment section tries not to blame Biden for actions taken by the judicial branch, with judges appointed by Bush and Trump. Difficulty: Impossible.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
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Yes, portainer will see every container you make, regardless of how it was created.
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No, creating a docker container doesn’t make a compose file. It’s like cooking a meal doesn’t output a recipe.
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You can save the compose file(s) wherever you want, you just need to run “docker compose up” from that directory. If you make the container within portainer, I believe it stores the compose files in its own volume. Not sure about that, I keep my compose file separate from docker for most services.
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- Comment on If you are a young person you have no idea how bad everyone and everything smelled until at least the 1990s. 3 months ago:
Non smoking section with like an 18 inch wall separating it from the smoking section. My mom almost got into a fistfight at a couple of restaurants for seating us directly next to the smoking section instead of in the opposite corner.
- Comment on Fan Sonic Adventure 2 Remake Teases City Escape in UE5 | Retro Gaming News 24/7 4 months ago:
Was gonna say, I didn’t see any of the three chao boxes on that level, though they didn’t go out of their way to get them since that wasn’t the point of the demo.
But the Chao garden is the reason I occasionally revisit this game.
- Comment on Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content 5 months ago:
Can they disable their steam forums if they don’t want to moderate them?
- Comment on Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content 5 months ago:
I really like that there was a whole thing about building a super-weapon where players had to complete quests or whatever to contribute to its development. Then enough players compete the quest and the weapon was completed, and it turned out to be an orbital bombardment that killed enemies and players indiscriminately.
A lot of players were pissed but it’s so aggressively in-character I can’t imagine how they didn’t see it coming.
- Comment on In general, people on Lemmy don't want high effort or high quality posts that take longer than 30 seconds to digest. 5 months ago:
There’s a big difference between someone who is/thinks they’re funny, and someone who does comedy as a hobby.
- Comment on What should I bring to far-north Scandinavia? 5 months ago:
Layers are the way to go.
- Long Underwear, a long sleeve breathable undershirt, good WOOL socks
- A sweater or other medium-thickness top garment.
- Waterproof snow pants and coat.
Good boots, preferably waterproof if you’ll be in the snow a fair amount. Definitely good so you have better grip on snowy/icy ground. Thin “liner” gloves and thick waterproof gloves to go over those. A warm hat that covers your ears (I really appreciated my trapper hat when I went to Tromsø).
- Comment on The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 5 months ago:
Best news I’ve seen in weeks
- Comment on The dead end of chips: Manufacturing semiconductors consumes as much energy as entire countries 5 months ago:
Even a non-IoT electronic device still runs on many different chips.
- Comment on The dead end of chips: Manufacturing semiconductors consumes as much energy as entire countries 5 months ago:
The vast, vast majority of chips produced are “old generation” chips used for relatively mundane purposes. The high-tech stuff you see in the news is a minority (though it’s pricey enough that it doesn’t look that way in company earnings reports).
Think power supplies, middle-of-the-road CPUs, ASICs for common I/O like USB and ethernet, timing devices, and wireless communication modules.
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 5 months ago:
The reason it doesn’t work is that 1 is a scalar while i is a vector (with magnitude 1). The Pythagoras theorem works with scalars, not vectors, so you’d get 1^2 +1^2 = 2.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 5 months ago:
He’s 54, I think he looks pretty average for that age. He looks like an old dad, because he is.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 5 months ago:
He got old.
- Comment on Eat lead 5 months ago:
It’s literally a poem in the original language.
- Comment on Ouch my texicles 5 months ago:
Don’t underestimate Colorado. Though it’s largely the recent Denver transplants keeping up that stereotype, whereas it’s the long-term Texans.
- Comment on I'm going insane 6 months ago:
Nope, three geometry actually works out such that it doesn’t matter your distance from the mirror, only how tall the mirror is and how high it’s mounted.
A mirror that is as half as tall as your, mounted at head height, will show your white body regardless of how far away you are from it. TECHNICALLY, the bottom edge must be halfway between your eyes and feet, and the top edge must be halfway between your eyes and top of head.