Nollij

@Nollij@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm looking for a no frills, physical key EV. Am I looking for something that no longer exists?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As others have mentioned, it refers to the gear shift. But it actually has a meaningful origin - many years ago, the gear order was not agreed upon. Many cars had a gear shift that was PNDLR (which I’ve heard pronounced “pendler”), where reverse was at the end. At the time, it was useful to tell the difference between a PRNDL and a PNDLR shift.

  Of course that was all before 1971, when PRNDL was mandated by the US government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I fit a network card with a physical x4 slot into an x1 slot?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  USB the protocol, or just uses a USB cable? If it’s not using the protocol, the cables are a cheap way of getting cables of a certain spec.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, after using Lemmy for 1.5 Years. You are telling I am not even allowed to use Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This can get a bit complicated with federation. This community is hosted on LW. I am accessing it via sopuli.xyz, and you via feddit.uk. All (presumably) have full bidirectional federation with each other.

  When I hit send, this message will go to Sopuli’s outbox, which will then sync to LW for this community. At that point, this post will live on LW’s servers. Anyone accessing LW directly can see it, even if Sopuli were to go down. Later (probably less than a minute), LW will sync to Feddit.uk, at which point you will be able to see it.

  Note that this is for text posts only. There have been some changes around images and video, both for bandwidth and liability reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X (Twitter) is down in worldwide outage.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We don’t have 5 9s, but we do have 9 5s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, they exist, as I acknowledged. How old is it? Is it representative of what you’d find at a standard big box retailer?

  For it to work, it means the controls must all be manual and mechanical. This is in contrast to the “smart” features that are very common.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, and FWIW - if you live somewhere with an unstable power grid, a natural gas or LP stove will continue to function when the power is out, albeit you’ll need to light it manually.

  This is only true on the simplest (or older) gas stoves. Most models these days have all sorts of electronics, including features to prevent gas leaks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to escape from surveillance when watching television?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the meantime, you can turn off a lot of Google’s tracking, or at least their record keeping. Make sure you’ve disabled all of the tracking you can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electronic devices or 'signal jammers' used in car thefts to be banned⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I won’t speak to how the UK does things, but in the US this would make for an easier criminal charge.

  It can be difficult to prove that someone stole (or is about to steal) a car, or broke in to steal the contents. This is especially true if they weren’t apprehended in or with the vehicle itself. But if they are arrested on suspicion, and one of these devices is found on them, they can very easily be prosecuted for possession of criminal tools. It’s similar to how we normies can’t legally own a lockpicking kit unless we’re locksmiths.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electronic devices or 'signal jammers' used in car thefts to be banned⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not removed - never added to the US designs. They were added afterwards to models being sold in places that require them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you find this compelling evidence to doubt the result of the election?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the very few cases where the trump campaign showed any evidence whatsoever, they actually did very well with the court rulings. Keep in mind that these were absolutely not cases of widespread fraud, but of localized errors that are common in every election.

  The fact that most suits were filed with literally no evidence whatsoever was very telling, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’m planning to teach middle school Spanish, would casually mentioning having a girlfriend cause an uproar?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does Spanish have a super generic term like “significant other” or “partner” that doesn’t convey anything useful?

  Side note, the types of parents you would be concerned about are probably also the type that get super racist about teaching Spanish in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chart⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the chart accurate? Do we have a source?

  I ask because I don’t see where social security would fit at all, and I suspect that Medicare/Medicaid would be a larger portion than the 5% listed for health.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you- this is exactly the sort of critique I had been expecting/hoping to find

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with you, and would go further.

  A while back, there was a study (IIRC) from the UK that recommended against gender transitioning for children. No surprise, it created quite an uproar before it was retracted.

  At no point in any of the media coverage or comments on Lemmy, etc, did I see any discussion of the study itself. To this day, I have no idea if there was an issue with the methodology. It seems that no one, neither supporters nor opponents, bothered to read past the headline. Many of them were very fervent in their beliefs, but that wasn’t enough to get them to look at the details.

  This is also very bad for science - there are countless headline-grabbing “studies” that fail basic requirements. I’m sure you’ve seen things like “Is coffee/chocolate/etc good for you? A new 10-day study of 23 people suggests that…”. Which of course should get picked apart.

  If we aren’t following the science, then what are we even trying to do?

  (As an aside, I suspect that study was flawed, but I can’t confirm. It goes against the conclusions widely agreed upon, and would require significant rigor and evidence to support the claim)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In order to do business in Mexico, they must agree to Mexican laws.

  In order to do business in Canada, they must follow Canadian laws.

  In order to do business in the US, they must follow US laws kiss the ring.

  This isn’t the first time big tech has had to tackle something like this. Usually it’s with disputed territory. In that case, each region gets to see what it demands to see, while presenting something different to the rest of the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m inferring that you are not in the US, so your local laws may differ. But in the US, your attorney is required to act in your best interests to the best of their ability. Working against their client is a quick way to be disbarred and paying a massive amount to their (now former) client.

  That said, this whole thing seems like an exercise in creative writing. Your life savings would be too tempting to any attorney, and they would try to steal it? You need to make friends with someone powerful to find a good lawyer? You’ll need all of this in a few months, but not now? None of it makes any sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It'll happen to you!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What did those poor cables do to you to get the Liam Neeson treatment?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It'll happen to you!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But can it spy on users for marketing purposes? That’s the real question.

  /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says US prices ‘could go up’ as he threatens new tariffs on trade partners⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If he’s saying they might go up, it means they will go up dramatically. It means he can’t even rationalize it in his own, incredibly stupid, head.

  Which means reality is going to be so, so much worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I would do this for just 1.99⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Counter point: Lemmy has always been more toxic.

  I’ve never seen a group (as a whole) that’s less capable of accepting that there are things they don’t know, or other viewpoints.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Copilot Trial, Government Staff Rated Microsoft's AI Less Useful Than Expected⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s the universal link:

  lemmy.ca/post/39050251

  2 upvotes (including mine), 8 downvotes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Attempt to motivate people to take the stairs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Unsurprisingly, fitness is always more complicated than it seems.

  You are certainly correct that runners don’t burn (much) more calories than a couch potato. But weightlifters do, vs a couch potato of the same weight.

  The thing about cardio is that the calories go directly into effort. The calories burned are roughly proportional to the effort (distance). But the moment you stop, the calories stop getting burned.

  If you are doing weightlifting, the calories spent at the time to lift a heavy object are minimal. But it instructs your body to add muscle to better handle all the heavy lifting you do. Once you have that muscle, you burn a ton of calories 24 hours per day just keeping it alive. It becomes part of your base metabolic rate. It burns nearly the same calories whether you’re at the gym, or sitting on the couch. And it will continue to burn those calories until your body decides you no longer need that extra muscle mass and it atrophies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Copilot Trial, Government Staff Rated Microsoft's AI Less Useful Than Expected⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve found it to have extremely limited value, but not zero. It’s been useful as a shortcut for things I can already do myself. For instance, I can easily get syntax for a param block, or build a window form. Could I do it myself? Absolutely, and pretty easily. And I can recognize when it’s right vs wrong. But it’s marginally faster to have copilot do it instead of digging up the documentation.

  It’s more like a party trick than a trillion dollar revolution. The $20/month for a full time dev is probably around the break even point for the labor savings. It’s not going to save THAT much time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Copilot Trial, Government Staff Rated Microsoft's AI Less Useful Than Expected⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems that some people don’t get the joke. At least, I assume it’s a joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨people who drink, how long do your hangovers last?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The potassium levels are very low, to the point where it doesn’t make a difference. While there are different varieties, most only have 45mg. For comparison, a banana has 400+, and a cup of apple juice has 250. The human body requires 3400 per day for men, meaning 8oz of Gatorade only provides 1.3% of what you would need in a normal day, even less if you’re deficient.

  Sodium is a bit higher, from 160-310mg of the daily recommended 2300. Even if we ignore the fact that most people have more than enough sodium, particularly the type that are drinking enough for a hangover, a cup of chicken broth has 950mg. In fact, some varieties also have more potassium than Gatorade.

  IOW, you’d be far better off drinking some chicken broth and eating a banana than drinking Gatorade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looks legit, but can it actually be a real thing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The text explicitly says the program is for the lieutenant governor’s office.

  The question is, would the lieutenant governor of Texas’ office be involved in something like this? I’m certain they want to, but would they have the authority? It’s my understanding that international airports are exclusively under federal control, not state.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Will Save Dating Apps. Or Maybe Finally Kill Them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, the summary did list Grindr…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨people who drink, how long do your hangovers last?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I know people will argue with me, but it really depends on what I drank, and not just how much. Even within the same type of alcohol, different brands or varieties give me very different results. For instance, Tullamore Dew (although it is delicious) gives me very nasty hangovers, far more than other Irish whiskeys.

  But of course, there are other factors that are far more important. Obviously drink water, but you also need electrolytes (and no, Gatorade does not do this). Drinking on a full stomach and drinking slowly/steadily will also reduce your hangover the next day. And it probably doesn’t need to be said, but when it stops feeling enjoyable, stop drinking. Whether it’s because the party is winding down or because the smell makes you gag, you don’t always need to have the next drink.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy Sorting Hat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately, that seems to be about local communities, which aren’t really important. In fact, due to federation, that’s the least important aspect of an instance.

  By default, Lemmy is wide open to anything and everything. You need to see what they have turned off/blocked/removed, to see if it’s what you want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy Sorting Hat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Many (most?) instances do block porn. Aside from liability concerns, porn tends to be high bandwidth, meaning high costs to operate. As such, there are a handful of VERY NSFW instances that aren’t well-federated.

  Of course, it depends on how you define porn. I see a ton of suggestive (but not outright pornographic) anime when I browse All/New, but very little of actual naked humans.