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- Comment on Refractometers 2 days ago:
This is a classic mistake people make to try and measure final gravity with a Refractometer.
As everyone else has said, the alcohol in the solution throws it off.
You need to use a correction calculator or just use it for initial gravity and get a test tube and float your hydrometer in it for final gravity
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 1 week ago:
It just wasn’t well written. Pretty pictures can only take a mediocre story so far
- Comment on ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can’t correct it 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t need to know the real answer to produce a confident sounding answer
- Comment on 30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok 2 weeks ago:
He’s right you know.
Of course the best way to avoid parenting is to not have kids to begin with.
Failing that, the infinite video device certainly keeps them quiet for long periods
- Comment on Updating California’s grid for EVs may cost up to $20 billion 3 weeks ago:
To be fair they are on a third world 110v electrical system which means they need twice the cable size to carry the same current as the UK
- Comment on I'm not bored or anything, it just feels like forever. 60 more years left of my shift on earth... 5 weeks ago:
You’re like the guys who spent up large because they thought the world would end in 2012 when the Mayan calendar ran out.
It didn’t, and now they’re saddled with debt
- Comment on Microsoft is confident Windows on Arm could finally beat Apple 5 weeks ago:
A million psycodelic colours man!
- Comment on Germans: what genocide? 5 weeks ago:
Everyone seems to be forgetting who started this in the first place.
Israel is sure as hell gonna finish it
- Comment on Steam is a ticking time bomb 1 month ago:
Every company enshittifies eventually, it’s a fact of life.
It might take a while but it will happen. Eventually Gabe will step down or die, new leadership will come in and the enshittification will commence.
Or they sell to a competitor who will do big cuts to remove now redundant positions and you guessed it - the enshittification will commence.
- Comment on They lied to us 2 months ago:
It’s a great example of the English appropriating another cultures cuisine because theirs is, well, a bit shit.
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram are currently down. 2 months ago:
Lots of places have SRE now, thanks to Google. Like I said, google thing leaked to mainstream
- Comment on Microsoft now permits uninstalling Edge, Bing, and OneDrive to adhere to the EU's Digital Markets Act. 2 months ago:
Oh, I don’t care about Windows that much to bother googling things like that.
It lives in a VM so I can run CAD software like LayOut which I use very infrequently.
I’ve also got a windows partition lying around that gets booted into once per year incase I go to a LAN party, but Steam / Proton has really come a long way so I can probably drop that soon
- Comment on Microsoft now permits uninstalling Edge, Bing, and OneDrive to adhere to the EU's Digital Markets Act. 2 months ago:
Being able to uninstall OneDrive is a game changer. That thing annoys me so much
- Comment on I've noticed my boomer parents using Instagram and tik tok. I can't tell you how excited I am for them to kill those platforms like they did facebook. 2 months ago:
I don’t know if YouTube died per se, but it certainly became enshittified.
Heaps of content creators sold out to advertising interests and degraded their own platform. Not that I blame them really, money always talks
- Comment on Previously paid Nintendo DS emulator app on Android goes free (DraStic DS) 2 months ago:
Hey, I bought this back in the day.
It’s a great piece of software, cool to see it open sourced so it can live on despite Nintendo’s lawyers
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram are currently down. 2 months ago:
Google terminology leaking its way into mainstream
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram are currently down. 2 months ago:
The classic txt bomb. I use to do this if I had unused txts at the end of the month
- Comment on The job applicants shut out by AI: ‘The interviewer sounded like Siri’ 2 months ago:
You didn’t want to work there anyways
- Comment on Desperate TikTok lobbying effort backfires on Capitol Hill 2 months ago:
I mean, the US government isn’t unfairly singling it out for one…
- Comment on Just thinking about what to cook 2 months ago:
Beef?
In think you’re mistaking them for beef-like products. I don’t think they’ve used actual beef since they declared independence from Britain
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 2 months ago:
I see why they do it.
Have you ever started a new job and inherited a codebase that was a steaming pile of s**t?
Part of improving things and moving forward is not dragging all of that baggage around
- Comment on Public trust in AI is sinking across the board 2 months ago:
The NFT concept might work well for things in the real world except it has to usurp the established existing system which is never gonna happen.
I, for one, would love to be able to encode things like property ownership in a NFT to be able to transfer it myself instead of throwing money at agents, lawyers and the local authorities to do it on my behalf.
What NFT’s ended up as was of course yet another tool for financial speculation. And since nothing of real world utility gets captured in the NFT, its worth is determined by trust me bro
- Comment on 2 months ago:
There might be lots of lurkers, like myself
- Comment on Typescript 2 months ago:
Purescript is like a modern Haskell. Completely different programming paradigm, much less accessible to your average JS developer just wanting to tighten up their code without having to learn category theory
- Comment on Why software 'security debt' is becoming a serious problem for developers 2 months ago:
Why is it that security guys always think their issues are more important than any other issues?
Like well done you, you ran an automated tool over the codebase and it picked up some outdated dependencies.
We cant just update these dependencies because the newer versions have breaking changes and we already have a backlog of 32767 issues to deal with.
It’s not security debt, it’s just general technical debt.
Why is the issue that is only exploitable in a contorted scenario where the user has broken out of a VM and gained root on the hypervisor more important than the issue preventing our largest customer from tripling their volume on our platform?
Not to mention the joke that’s been made of the CVE system due to resume padding by the security industry…
- Comment on AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt 2 months ago:
It’s up there with Do-Not-Track.
Completely pointless because it’s not enforced
- Comment on No more monopolies!! 4 months ago:
I’m glad I’m not the only one
- Comment on How old are you? 4 months ago:
My first PC was a 286. Learned to program on it
- Comment on Broadcom ends VMware perpetual license sales, testing customers and partners 5 months ago:
The enshittifications will continue until morale improves
- Comment on Reddit now blocks signed out VPN connections. 5 months ago:
If I was going to r/FortNiteBR, I’d be using private browsing mode on mobile firefox too