bss03
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- Comment on YSK: YouTube views went down since mid-August because they no longer count views of not logged in users 3 days ago:
I pay for it, because I’ve always watched a lot of it and I got used to “YouTube Premium” when it was called “YouTube Red” and came free with “Google Music” (now called “YouTube Music”).
- Comment on Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened 4 days ago:
I used to prefer personalized ads over the insanity that was 90-00s “random” ads experience. But, since ads became a risk vector, I agree the a block by default approach, and I’ll find alternate ways to support sites I visit frequently rather than allowlist ads.
- Comment on Trapeze artists 4 days ago:
Where is /r/boottoobig on the Fediverse?
- Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds 4 days ago:
The tether / power transmission line does pass through potential flight paths, tho.
Still, I imagine the impact to be even less than ground-based turbines.
- Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds 4 days ago:
While it is rather complex and hard to predict, the most likely global outcomes are fewer extreme weather events and extremely mild cooling. The hairy ball theorem tells us there’s already somewhere on the globe with no wind, so it’s not that big of a deal to convert some wind into electricity. This particular approach couldn’t convert “all” wind into electricity.
sciencenewstoday.org/spinning-skies-how-earths-ro… – We won’t run out of wind until after we start slowing down the rotation of the earth, and we watch that pretty closely to know when to add leap seconds, and I imagine it’s an just absolutely huge store of energy in the form of angular momentum (et. al.).
- Comment on How often do guys have a haircut? 1 week ago:
I go with a ponytail, and haven’t had even a trim in 2 years.
If I had my preference I’d go in about once every few months to have more vivid hair dye applied, and get a trim then.
- Comment on DIY restaurant 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, there are certainly ways of preparing eggs that aren’t allowed in 24-hour diners (no line cook is doing “Scotched” egg next to your bacon), but poached or boiled are both allowed most places, on top of the normal fried options (sunny-side, over-easy, over-medium, over-hard) and scrambled.
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 3 weeks ago:
The increased mass increases the force of gravity on the outer particles which ends up reducing the radius more than the increase due to the layer of new hydrogen, IIRC.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Will Release for Only $20, Release Times Revealed 4 weeks ago:
Wow! Between BG3, CO:E33, and Slik Song, all the AAA lies are falling away. They don’t have to cost the user an arm and a leg, they can be beautiful works of art and love from small(ish) teams, and they can be an experience that is so rich in player choice it’s practically unique and highly replayable.
- Comment on Stardew Valley will be getting another update after all 4 weeks ago:
~40M copies, ~8B ppl, so ownership rates are about 2.5%.
You might meet one of the lucky 10k that learn about Stardew Valley today, and you can enable them with a gift purchase.
- Comment on Stardew Valley will be getting another update after all 4 weeks ago:
My solution for this feeling is to gift copies to others. I figure that worst case I support ConcenedApe and best case I help spark more Stardew joy.
(Right now, I’m between jobs, so I can’t buy for you, other readers.)
- Comment on It is. Just accept it 4 weeks ago:
Often people wait too long before starting to defrost their holiday turkey, which can take many days. (I’ve heard something like 2 days/kg [24hours/lb], but never done it myself) Inexperienced cooks will then try to “save time” in the oven by increasing the ambient heat, ruining the food.
Either that or it’s some confusing analogy with climate change that I don’t “get”.
- Comment on 4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene 5 weeks ago:
The hacker known as 4 Chan is BACK, baby!
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 month ago:
Global warming is independent of population, emissions can be controlled without population controls.
Yes, they do need more people, and immigration is a possible “solve”, but right now they aren’t getting the immigration necessary – tho largely due to their own policies.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 month ago:
We need less people
No we don’t. And, S. Korea in particular will need more people than they have available, soon.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 month ago:
Smaller economy is fine, I guess – tho deflation has certainly caused problems in the past. Better distributed wealth is a shared goal. Depopulation, and other forms of Degrowth, are largely driven by eugenicist ideas and are neither necessary nor desirable: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW8vkUY93i8
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 month ago:
The future for S. Korea looks bleak, not better.
I agree that infinite growth was always impossible, but in some countries birth rate is well below replacement rate (if they matched, population would be stable, not growing), and in many birth rate + immigration rate is also below replacement rate – we are failing not at growth, but “mere” stability.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 month ago:
I agree with your premise, but I don’t think it implies your conclusion, which I disagree with.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 month ago:
I don’t think it is shrinking globally, yet. But, some countries (e.g. South Korea) are in dire situations due to shrinking and aging population already.
- Comment on Just a reminder that our planet is currently the coolest it will ever be in our, and our children's lifetimes. 1 month ago:
Sorry, maybe I was ambiguous. The violent/revolutionary approaches would be to achieve some sort of climate recovery, which might obviate needing an “exit plan”.
- Comment on Just a reminder that our planet is currently the coolest it will ever be in our, and our children's lifetimes. 1 month ago:
Yeah, we not only have to reach net-0, which is a pipe dream with the current leadership / collective will, but we’ll need to figure out some method of carbon capture that can actually be net-negative AND deploy it on scales far beyond any sort of “carbon capture” that has been planned, whether their number were sane or just hype to get some of the “pork barrel spending”.
I suggest making sure you have an “exit plan” for when it get worse than you’d like, which I expect to be in my lifetime. There are more violent, revolutionary, or both approaches, but I won’t mention them explicitly.
Even if we replaced all energy production “magically” with solar/wind/tidal, we’ll still have to keep extracting oil to make plastic!
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 1 month ago:
I’ve seen auto-calculated tip of all combinations of with/without tax, with/without percent discount, and with/without individual item discounts.
I wish tipping would end, by mandating a living wage for all workers from the chef to the diskwasher and including all the waitstaff and everyone else in both the front and the back. But, until it does, I try to be generous with my tips, but also kind to people that can’t or are simply tired of “tipflation”.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 1 month ago:
Maybe a comp’d desert (or app) that’s ~$8 ?
- Comment on People were mad because they lost their AI boyfriend after GPT-4o deprecation 1 month ago:
I know it’s crazy, but I can absolutely understand this feeling. I had recently married Abby in Stardew Valley and was starting to make friends with the other villagers. I did something the game wasn’t expecting, and gave Seby a loved gift on his birthday, and then quickly triggered an event where we kissed! (FWIW, I think this behavior has been fixed and you can’t do this on the current patch.)
I still feel bad thinking about that Abigail that I accidentally cheated on, and I haven’t loaded that save again. It’s been years; SV 1.4 wasn’t even out yet.
So, despite how much I dislike all this “AI” hype, I really do sympathize for the users that feel like they’ve lost a relationship.
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 1 month ago:
I’m a soulslike vegan.
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 1 month ago:
Chicken’s not vegan?
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 1 month ago:
I can’t say I’m a (normal) vegan, but I’m definitely an AI vegan. I was turned off by the ethical considerations, and the few “bites” I have tried leave a bad taste in my mouth. I avoid using it because much of the training data was (and is) stolen, the power costs are far too high compared to the utility, and it’s basically worthless to me, having a screwed up response to nearly every prompt I tried.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 1 month ago:
They are so insane they inspired art: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU8H-Ts_rfA
- Comment on stupid sexy apples 1 month ago:
The way I had it described to me was that veganism is against the exploitation of all animals, including “stealing” honey from a hive.
But, “vegan” is a label at least as malleable as “Christian”.
To some people, this Foie Gras might be vegan, if they can’t find the exploitation. To others, large-scale U.S. produce might be non-vegan since it depends on exploitative labor (humans are animals) practices. To a few, mussels are vegan because there’s no mind to suffer or be exploited. To a very few, plants that show a “pain” response are non-vegan, even if that response happens over time, as long as it has a clear trigger in human interference (which is expliotation due to the “pain”), despite the complete lack of a nervous system, which humans (and other animals) use to feel pain.
Anyway, I’m NOT a vegan, but I do try to limit my meat consumption. It just feels like the amount I used to eat isn’t really globally sustainable, and I take up too many resources in to many other ways, too.
- Comment on This is WAR. 1 month ago:
Everyone is a Forklift Operator until the real Forklift Operator shows up. Drawfee: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjgdyhIuEhw