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- Comment on Sunday update from the Prime Radiant 3 days ago:
It’s a writing thing they did so they didn’t have to swap actors all the time. The first book spans several generations after all.
- Comment on Over the past ~20 years, Google became the de facto entry point for learning new skills and information. Google also sucks now. This is a really big problem. 3 days ago:
That’s fair, but looking at papers is not really a good entry point for people getting into skills like the title of the post is talking about.
Getting into car repairs, plumbing, woodworking and more can be done with YouTube and is frequently recommended by people in the trades.
Getting into running is and weightlifting is also pretty good with YouTube since you have “Göran Winblad” physio and a running coach which does some quality content and “House of hypertrophy” is just weightlifting research news and he makes sure to mention caveats, holes in the research etc.
Notably bad examples are programming and guitar playing which offer close to no value in my opinion but I’ve heard some people have had success with it. However when you get into music theory YouTube becomes good again.
So in general LLM for basic info on what exists, YouTube for some examples on how to do it but the other >90% should always be practice.
- Comment on Over the past ~20 years, Google became the de facto entry point for learning new skills and information. Google also sucks now. This is a really big problem. 4 days ago:
Google is bad now but we have more powerful tools than Google ever was. LLMs are good for an overview of whatever skill or research you’re doing as long as it’s a common skill.
Then you have YouTube which takes some navigating but there are a lot of YouTubers that cover recent papers and studies in a field they have a degree in.
Those two together can pretty much give you a road map towards learning a skill. I’d personally avoid all short form videos since explanations will either be oversimplified and they “give you the fish” instead of teaching you how to fish.
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 4 days ago:
Anything Warhammer 40k. The universe and the lore are amazing because they absorbed a lot of SciFi elements from literature. The games have often been underwhelming but when they’re good they’re really good.
- Comment on Got Banned for Fixing Roku — The Paul Blart Mod Chronicles 6 days ago:
Yepowertrippingbastards I think
- Comment on You're so predictable 1 week ago:
Yeah, my first thought was it’s a, um, yeah, 4.8T. Then I realised my autism ruined the joke.
- Comment on #environmentalist 2 weeks ago:
Don’t you need to use the metal straws some ridiculous amount of times before it saves more carbon than the plastic single use?
Also, plastic multi use is probably better.
- Comment on true love is rare 2 weeks ago:
Screw the size, tell me the girth
- Comment on YouTube will help you quit watching Shorts 2 weeks ago:
Also possible to hide them from the feed.
- Comment on Vert is the best self-hosted file converter out there, and it's not even close 2 weeks ago:
ffmpeg is the best file converter
- Comment on Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again? 2 weeks ago:
I heard subnautica 2 has some drama
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Americans are not any better. Poll from 2022 …yougov.com/…/41556-americans-misestimate-small-s…
- Comment on If a girl asks you if you're big, are you supposed to lie or not? 2 weeks ago:
“Big enough to fill most” then after say “we’re talking about shoes right?”
- Comment on Why do so many hand dryers not dry hands? Am I doing something wrong? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, you should shake off the water first (12 times is a good number), then rub your hands to spread the water over your hands so your evaporating water on all parts of your hands.
Takes less than a minute and gives you completely dry hands. This works with type 1 and 3 mentioned by you. Type 2 like the Dyson Airblade work if you pull your hands through slowly but then they will take a couple of minutes to dry on their own. With type 2 shaking the water off is not important since the machine does it for you.
- Comment on Why do so many hand dryers not dry hands? Am I doing something wrong? 2 weeks ago:
I’d like to dispute that. My current routine is:
- Shake hands around 12 times
- Rub hands under the dryer.
Step 1 removes majority of the water and Step 2 spreads it evenly over your hands so you use all the surface area to dry. I get my hands completely dry within a minute.
- Comment on GOG Has Had To Hire Private Investigators To Track Down IP Rights Holders 3 weeks ago:
Now do Black and White
- Comment on GOG Has Had To Hire Private Investigators To Track Down IP Rights Holders 3 weeks ago:
It’s a fair point but it’s not as egregious as most other headlines. I personally give this one a pass since clickbaits are meta in the article space. It shows that GOG has this in their toolbox.
- Comment on Employers Who Steal Wages Should Be Made Criminally Liable 3 weeks ago:
This “slap on the wrist” handling of it is way too lenient and can only apply to people who accidentally underpay workers. If you can somehow prove that an employer does it on purpose or rejects a person’s claim for their salary they should be held accountable and be put in the same category as stealing a car with up to 4 years imprisonment.
If you only make employers pay a fine and backpay to whoever requests it might be less than the amount they stole. This way optimal business strategy become “get insured for it and continue”.
- Comment on Mary E. Brunkow, one of this year's Nobel Prize winners in Medicine, has only 34 published papers and an H-index of 21. 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for posting the comment I was looking for
- Comment on I am attempting to get into self hosting after a shockingly frightening experience. I am very lost though. 4 weeks ago:
I’d recommend starting by hosting a nextcloud instance.
- Get a desktop computer, pretty much anything will do but having room to add more HDD is important.
- Install Linux distro like Ubuntu or something
- Get a static IP so your IP doesn’t change
- Setup a router port forwarding rule so that an outside address points to your nextcloud instance.
Then do some optional steps:
- Automatically turn on PC when power comes back on (BIOS setting)
- Startup script that runs nextcloud on startup
- Install docker to manage services like nextcloud
- Add some remote desktop thingy to manage your server from your laptop (ssh is also good but a steeper learning curve)
- Get a NAS for storing data with redundancy.
- Have some other form of backup like your current Google account, cloud provider or one of your mates with a similar setup.
That’s pretty much what you need to start hosting your own files, then later on you can setup a email server, media server like Jellyfin, homepage and everything.
Just go one step at a time and when you hit an issue you can and should ask Google or ChatGPT. Remember, everything exposed to the Internet is vulnerable so take security seriously. Always have everything protected by a decently long password, pairing requirement with your server confirming adding a device or an API key.
- Comment on What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific. 4 weeks ago:
Not sure which one I would pick. Pokemon Blue, Oblivion, Star Wars KOTOR, Warcraft 3 or Super Mario 64 maybe. All of them were amazing and had a lasting impact on me.
More recently I played Enter the Gungeon, Slay the Spire and Return to the Obra Dinn
- Comment on What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific. 4 weeks ago:
You’re out there collecting info maaaan. Information is the thing that unlocks new areas.
- Comment on Poll indicates over 60% of Jews in the US believe Israel has committed war crimes 4 weeks ago:
I retract my statement, didn’t see it referenced two polls
- Comment on Poll indicates over 60% of Jews in the US believe Israel has committed war crimes 4 weeks ago:
I feel the title is a bit disingenuous. The questionnaire didn’t have a “Is Israel committing warcrimes/conducting genocide/starving people” or anything like that. It does contain “Has Israel gone too far?” and “Are you concerned about military killing civilians” for example.
It’s a nice read with graphics.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 4 weeks ago:
Not all companies need to grow. Some do perfectly fine by just maintaining their current output like a owner operated single person plumbing company.
Another example can be Walmart, they don’t need to grow but investors prefer growth so it becomes a focus.
There are some companies that need absolutely to grow to survive. This is seen a lot in tech where in order for the business model to make sense they would need some big quantity of users.
Let’s say you got seeded 10M and managed to get to a minimal product with 10k users that get you $2 in revenue monthly but your cost are around 50k monthly. It means you’re making a loss but with 100k users you’d make a profit. To get to 100k you need more investment but to justify that investment being sound you need show growth.
So in general if being bigger gets you economies of scale then making a loss early can get you the investor money you need to survive. So to survive as a business you need to grow.
Those are two ends of a spectrum and everything in between exists as well. So quick answer would be “Companies don’t always need to grow but some really do because their business model only works at a different scale”.
- Comment on Anyone had any luck running Fusion 360 on Linux? 4 weeks ago:
Well yeah, but some companies allow employees to choose their OS. Of course FreeCAD is good enough just like Gimp and Blender are good enough to replace Adobe stuff but sometimes people have workflows built around them or even custom scripts that only run on a specific platform.
You make a fair point but the tone might be off-putting for people thinking about switching to Linux. 100% mention FreeCAD as a fully featured CAD software that just works on Linux but we shouldn’t heckle him for wanting Fusion360.
- Comment on Anyone had any luck running Fusion 360 on Linux? 4 weeks ago:
Fusion360 has been rated Silver on WINE (windows compatability tool) so you have a decent shot of running it. Silver means “couple of minor bugs, might need tweaks to run but runs well”.
In Linux we have FreeCAD but if you’re heavily dependent on Fusion360 I’d recommend trying a Virtual Windows Machine, Bottles, Lutris, Steam Proton, the installation script posted here and so on.
If you have space for two drives on your computer then worst case you could bypass the windows whatever and have two different OSs.
- Comment on Anyone had any luck running Fusion 360 on Linux? 4 weeks ago:
That’s unhelpful. The person might be a professional in a work that mandates using Fusion360. “FreeCAD is the best Linux supported CAD program but you should try running a VM inside of Linux and see if fusion 360 works a” is way more helpful.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating. 4 weeks ago:
I would personally use Linux mint but yeah, good idea.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating. 4 weeks ago:
That Uni is just one exploited vulnerability away from a botnet. Getting hands on a PC physically could get you could use Spectre/Meltdown, get the admin pass and mine bitcoin.
