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- Comment on This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast! 2 days ago:
How else are you going to bring up Monero in discussions about computer hardware?
- Comment on So close! 2 days ago:
It’s not new and also nobody calls it “water based cooking” because that’s stupid.
- Comment on Don't Look Up 4 days ago:
Gotcha. I was just somewhere and didn’t realize those things existed until I heard one. It’s like the inventor of gas powered leaf blowers just wanted to ruin some more people’s days.
- Comment on Don't Look Up 4 days ago:
Did any of them have those dumb little, loud ass engines attached? Because, if so, I understand a little more.
- Comment on For the second time in my life, I'm going to eat soap.😋 5 days ago:
Everyone thinks of nothing but fame and $$$$ at any cost and then they wonder why everything is such shit.
- Comment on For the second time in my life, I'm going to eat soap.😋 5 days ago:
So dignity and self-respect are so debased to you that they’re considered “nothing” at this point?
- Comment on The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink 6 days ago:
They were never building that, let’s be honest.
- Comment on The world is falling apart! Send us your money! 6 days ago:
I donate quite a bit and I’ve only found AOC and Bernie (big surprise) to be ones that are looking for something other than “send me another check” as a follow-up to your donation.
- Comment on The world is falling apart! Send us your money! 6 days ago:
It pisses me off when they run some “get a free x” with donation that they alert me about just after i already donated for fucking bubkiss.
They do it very often too.
I can’t donate to them anymore after 2024. Like they had a billion dollars in donor money and they lost badly. I don’t even know WTF they used the money for.
- Comment on I am not a builder… but that does not seem right 6 days ago:
This type of wife hatred is commonly mined for nuggets of supposed comedic gold. “I hate my wife” is a similar type of comedy for guys that’s not very dissimilar from “I hate my kids and love wine” for moms.
This type of comedy was becoming pretty outmoded during the Obama years, but the MAGA zoomers are trying to bring it back.
My personal opinion is that it sucks, and that if you really hate your wife so much you should consider divorce.
- Comment on AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid 1 week ago:
An assistant at my job used AI to summarize a meeting she couldn’t attend, and then she posted the results with the AI-produced disclaimer that the summary might be inaccurate and should be checked for errors.
If I read a summary of a meeting I didn’t attend and I have to check it for errors, I’d have to rewatch the meeting to know if it was accurate or not. Literally what the fuck is the point of the summary in that case?
- Comment on Where Have All My Deep Male Friendships Gone? 1 week ago:
I had those pre-pandemic. Nowadays, with working from home, I basically only hang out with my wife.
- Comment on Penn Engineers Discover a New Class of Materials That Passively Harvest Water from Air 1 week ago:
They do have a point about groundwater though.
- Comment on The technology to end traffic deaths exists. Why aren’t we using it? 1 week ago:
The technologies to end a lot of problems exist. We aren’t using them because the oligarchs think it’s better this way.
- Comment on The AI-powered collapse of the American tech workfoce 1 week ago:
When engineer headcount was the important thing to looking futuristic, they grew headcount. Now, it looks like growing your headcount means you’re not in on the future because if so you’d be using AI good enough to get by with less engineers. So, they reduce headcount and say it’s because of all of the awesome AI things they have.
- Comment on Is America headed for an age of dumb phones? 1 week ago:
🤞
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I disagree: leash your kids (especially at restaurants).
- Comment on Duolingo deletes all its TikTok videos after AI backlash—and then returns with a strange message 1 week ago:
💯
When you have so much capital, the only place to get any more from is the capitalists underneath you whose business you haven’t turned into a dried out husk yet.
- Comment on Duolingo deletes all its TikTok videos after AI backlash—and then returns with a strange message 1 week ago:
Capitalists want us to spend spend spend, but they don’t want to give us any money to spend.
The capitalists want you to spend spend spend, but they’re a dying breed. The neofeudalists don’t really care what you do because they’re too busy extracting the wealth of the capitalists.
- Comment on The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people? 1 week ago:
It encourages then to develop that grindset early.
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 1 week ago:
Everything good to halfway decent must die on the alter of cost cuts, but nevermind everyone investing all of the savings on dubious junk like AI.
- Comment on Stack overflow is almost dead 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I mean that all sounds reasonable. I’m rooting for stack overflow to continue because it’s frequently helpful. I’ve basically never found chatgpt to be helpful.
- Comment on Stack overflow is almost dead 2 weeks ago:
I very rarely ask questions on stack overflow but I appreciate much more as a sanity check on what I’m attempting to do.
In my experience, the majority of people have a flawed initial approach to what they’re trying to do, and if they all follow it they’ll produce a lot of really shitty software and learn very little in the process.
But they’re likely gonna anyway and didn’t even appreciate the sanity checks, so I fully expect software quality will continue to go down.
- Comment on Stack overflow is almost dead 2 weeks ago:
My experience with SO is somewhat the same, but sometimes (actually maybe most times) you’re trying to use a hammer instead of a screwdriver. If you read the suggestions and take them into account you can often find the actual question, and then the actual answer.
- Comment on YSK You don't need Teflon pans for nonstick 2 weeks ago:
I just use butter to cook my eggs. I also pay attention to the bonds that the bottom of the egg form with the pan. By using a stainless turner on a stainless pan you can get between the egg and the bonds it’s forming with the pan. The more often you manipulate it and make sure those bonds don’t form, the more “non-stick” the egg is.
I usually pan flip single eggs cooked with this method because the egg slides around the pan easily.
My wife has a problem doing the same though, so I buy a couple of the disposable Teflon junk pans on a recurring basis.
I’ve been looking at the pirotech pans which are supposed to be nonstick and fully recyclable, but I’ve been unable to find a lot of reviews on them.
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 2 weeks ago:
I played it for just a couple of hours and I understood why you were saying that. It was either dance around like an idiot or make no progress. I similarly didn’t like it and stopped playing it.
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 2 weeks ago:
Reminds me of when some dumbass i worked with was ranting about owing the government too much money. Turns out he was borrowing from his 401k to do a home renovation. Which of the 1000 things you have to check as read that didn’t clue you into the fact that you will be penalized for doing so?
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 2 weeks ago:
This is almost how the taxes work in California.
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 2 weeks ago:
This is fucking hilariously evil and short-sighted.
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 2 weeks ago:
I seem to be the rare person that notices that something has changed slowly and completely (ship of theseus or frog boil style) over time.
I’ve cancelled and renewed Netflix a couple of times but it’s a shadow of what it was at the start like you’re describing. Occasionally, they have a single show worth pirating or binging over the course of like a year.