IrateAnteater

@IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shut up science!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  What does the validity of the circadian rhythm concept have to do with creationism? Being wrong about one thing doesn’t suddenly mean you believe in ghost stories.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You can try, but I don’t see how they’ve done anything that makes them liable to a lawsuit. I’m just adding them to my list of companies I won’t do business with when they inevitably come back to consumers after the bubble pops.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shout out to my engineering homies.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What I meant is that wielding new science and technology against people is in no way unique to capitalism. Every system we’ve ever tried has done that at one point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shout out to my engineering homies.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No. That evil has nothing to do with whichever socio-economic system is your particular choice of boogie man.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ya yeet!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “Assuming a spherical child and no air resistance, how far will the child travel?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Existential cowposting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point, I’d even be willing to forgo the punishment, if they’d just stop fucking doing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I understood some of those words.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One man's trash is another man's garbage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there any other universal icon that is at all related to throwing things away? The recycling icon might just be a win by default.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It improves the morale of the future worker.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How it possibly be “bog standard” when it’s the only developed nation on the planet where it’s true?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It improves the morale of the future worker.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  assuming she has one

  Aaaand there’s the rub. Poor and pregnant? You can just go fuck yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Might not be efficient, but at least it... Uhhh, wait, what good does it provide again?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Every once in a while I try to use it at work. It has yet to actually provide me with anything useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe they should double down and blame trans pedophiles.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a new one. Don’t think I’ve ever heard of a narrative where Democrats blamed anything on trans people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m lucky that the type of competitive shooters that all seem to be using kernel level anti-cheat, have never appealed to me. I ditched windows on my home stuff last year and there’s definitely no going back. Now if only industrial software writers would make Linux variants. Not going to hold my breath on that one though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scandal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t have to actually be on the island to acquire the pictures.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They didn’t say “find a job”, they said “learn a profession” it’s a different thing. It’s learning a skilled trade. You have to learn a trade first, then you can find the high paying job. Your early 20s will be relatively low paying, but by the time you are 30, you should have multiple years of being a journeyman under your belt and should be making good money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's OK to just like lemon water.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Slightly better for the teeth maybe? And maybe a slight benefit if heartburn is an issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's OK to just like lemon water.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but with lemon flavour. I think the idea is if you started with plain water, then added lemon, you’d now have lemon flavoured acidic water. If you start with alkaline water, you’d end up with lemon flavoured neutral water.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3-bean soup⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What about tomato soup?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#environmentalist⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, because nobody ever took their drink to go after finishing their meal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Depression: Part Deux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It could still be very much middle class. Parents make it out of nostalgia from when they were kids, instead of making it out of necessity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#environmentalist⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The odd time I end up eating fast food and getting a paper straw, it’s the fact that it goes mushy before I finish my drink. I think that’s the texture issue people are talking about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm too stupid for this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem I had is that taking one assortment of numbers that had no meaning, doing a bunch of operations on them (never actually finishing the operations though, because the last steps were “obvious”) leading to a different arrangement of numbers that also meant nothing, was not a good method of teaching. The pass/fail rate of that course relative to all the others reflected that. Every other teacher/professor I had before or since would include context when introducing an entirely new concept.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm too stupid for this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a linear algebra professor who did that all the time. Never did figure out what an eigenvector is not why I would want 14 ways of finding one. Brilliant man, terrible teacher.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨one bright second⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The chances of me living long enough to actually be effected by it are so slim that I’m completely unconcerned about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨one bright second⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The last stars will burn out in 120 trillion years

  We think. We still haven’t solved things like the dark matter/energy problem. The answer to that alone could drastically change what we estimate will happen in the distant future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 10 support has ended, but here's how to get an extra year for free⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There is for now. Microsoft is working on closing the various loopholes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some are too young to understand ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  True, but most consumers aren’t doing bulk storage. Most people just have cell phone and laptop

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some are too young to understand ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotta keep them on their toes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some are too young to understand ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hard drives are going to be one of those in between things that Gen x/millennials will understand, but were already obsolete by the time Gen z rolled around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JP Morgan boss Jamie Dimon sounds warning on US stock market fall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Guessing intent is too difficult to do in a two sentence comment. I always try to just go with what what is explicitly written.

  In this case I was just responding to the original commenter saying saying he’d take JP Morgan advice with a grain of salt due to the Saudi-EA deal. The morality of JP Morgan being involved in that deal doesn’t really factor into evaluating whether or not Jamie Dimon may be right in his public remarks about the future of stock prices.

  An evaluation of the morality of that deal would be relevant if I were deciding whether or not to do business with JP Morgan, or to buy anything from EA.