Omgpwnies
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- Comment on What can you tell from this photo alone? 1 hour ago:
That made me think of Jethro Tull - Aqualung
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 4 hours ago:
I built a new PC early October, literally 2 weeks later RAM prices went nuts… so glad I pulled the trigger when I did
- Comment on New tech pulls lithium from dead batteries cheaper than you can buy it 6 days ago:
How else would you recharge after a long day?
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 1 week ago:
You might get some use from Jira or a similar tool…
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 1 week ago:
I have ADHD. Open tabs lose context, I forget why they’re open, so they are useless. Bookmarks are categorized and that organization keeps the context apparent. I currently have 5 tabs open, and after submitting this reply, it will be four.
- Comment on The Supreme Court Is About to Hear a Case That Could Rewrite Internet Access 1 week ago:
TOR is easy enough to set up that if you know how to install a program on your computer and run it, you’re good to go. It’s not the ideal way to run TOR, and is still somewhat insecure, but can be done in a few clicks.
Back in the early 00’s, the amount of people learning how to download pirated music safely, arrange and burn a CD with it skyrocketed. Fast forward a few years and people with no real computer skills were learning how to rip and burn DVDs.
I wouldn’t underestimate the potential of people with motivation to circumvent an oppressive system.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 1 week ago:
You know every modern browser has bookmarks, and I think all of them have a bookmark toolbar, and the ability to organize bookmarks into folders…
right?
- Comment on No one else in the world matters but me 1 week ago:
Three times the price? Where you get train tickets that cheap? cries in VIA Rail
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 1 week ago:
having that for years now
since abaout the late 90’s to early 00’s. KDE 1 released with virtual desktops, and from what I can tell, Klipper either released with it, or a few years later
- Comment on Zero Chull 1 week ago:
My previous router (ASUS) crapped out at about 30 clients on 2.4GHz. New one (TP-Link Archer) is doing fine with somewhere between 30 and 40 depending on whether some clients connect to 2.4/5/6GHz, and about 50 clients total once I count wired and docker containers.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 2 weeks ago:
I’m using KRdp for the first time in several years today and am BLOWN AWAY by the quality of the connection. It is in virtually every regard as good as Windows’ RDP.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 2 weeks ago:
For ~97% of the computer using population it is a hot new tech.
Compared to the state of consumer-grade Linux 5 years ago to today, it’s absolutely a hot new tech.
One cannot understate the impact that the Steam Deck and Proton had on driving consumer-friendly features to Linux simply from the demand of an exploding user base.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 2 weeks ago:
There was an experiment a couple years ago I remember reading about concluding that of all the jobs that ““AI”” could replace, C-suites were the one category where the computer outperformed humans in a statistically-significant amount
- Comment on Me when Valve releases a phone 3 weeks ago:
Banking/financial apps are the biggest sticking point that I keep hearing about. They won’t run on a non-Google Android, let alone an AOSP container in Linux.
- Comment on The C programming language is like debating a philosopher and Python is like debating someone who ate an edible 1 month ago:
What you’re describing is type hints, it’s syntactic sugar and not used at all by the interpreter.
For example, this is a “legal” statement:
foo: int = “bar”Your IDE and linter will complain, but the interpreter just chops the hints off when compiling, and it’s left with
foo = “bar” - Comment on Here's a fun game. 2 months ago:
For Marvel: Dick-Man
- Comment on Here's a fun game. 2 months ago:
It’s A Wonderful Dick
And the remake in 2025: It’s a Dick Life
And the porn remake: Dick’s a Wonderful Life
- Comment on Good news. :) 2 months ago:
I’m sure Canada could find a use for a few more provinces…
- Comment on '3d-printing a screw' is a way to describe how AI integration is stupid most of the time 2 months ago:
yeah, it’s the copilot plugin for intellij, basically right click and choose generate tests, it’ll read the file and … well…
Downside to that approach is that it doesn’t know what some function calls do if they’re not part of that file, so it tends to miss places that need to be mocked out.
Occasionally it writes a test that’s “wrong”, and I have to fix the test… very rarely, the “wrong” test is actually “right” based on say a method signature or decision tree, and the method itself needs changing.
- Comment on '3d-printing a screw' is a way to describe how AI integration is stupid most of the time 2 months ago:
One thing it’s good for is that if you have the screw/nut on the bed with the part, you can scale both equally and the screw/nut will work with the part still, even if the threading is no longer a standard pitch/size. For a one-off or prototype that’s fine, but if you’re going to mass produce, it’s better to fix it in CAD to a standard size and use manufactured fasteners.
- Comment on '3d-printing a screw' is a way to describe how AI integration is stupid most of the time 2 months ago:
There are a lot of things that FDM printing will likely never be better than say injection moulding, and the main thing is speed, as in quantity over time. A single 3d printer might be able to make a plate full of maybe a dozen widgets in a few hours, and in that time, the injection moulding machine will have tens of thousands produced at a higher quality.
On top, 3d printing would require more staff to troubleshoot, clean, re-start prints, remove scaffolding from finished items, sand/polish to remove the layer lines, etc.
What it’s great for in an industrial setting, is prototyping. For example, a case for something can be printed, and the plate can be filled with several variants. If a flaw is found or changes needed, then a new batch can get whipped up on the same printer. Once a design is found that is acceptable, the CAD drawings get sent to have moulds created.
- Comment on '3d-printing a screw' is a way to describe how AI integration is stupid most of the time 2 months ago:
I use it to generate unit tests, it’ll get the bulk of the code writing done and does a pretty good job at coverage, usually hitting 100%. All I have to do for the most part is review the tests to make sure they’re doing the right thing, and mock out some stuff that it missed.
- Comment on Make it make sense 3 months ago:
It’s not “locked” to a specific distance, it’s fairly elastic and the exact follow distance varies based on speed. So, if traffic slows down, it will gradually close the gap while also slowing down. The end result then is far less drastic speed changes.
- Comment on Make it make sense 3 months ago:
I don’t always hang out behind a semi when just doing daily driving, but I will 100% camp out behind one when pulling my trailer - massive fuel savings from reduced wind resistance.
- Comment on Make it make sense 3 months ago:
Adaptive cruise control FTW. Matches speed with the person ahead of me (up to the max that I set) and maintains a gap that I can specify. It starts slowing down long before I’d notice the gap closing if I were doing it myself, so the +/- acceleration is a lot smoother as a result.
- Comment on Should I get a second opinion 5 months ago:
… I don’t think there’s any combination of those that are good. Best option still has you shitting blue.
- Comment on Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting 5 months ago:
PS/Xbox controllers have more internal space, so their joystick modules are much, much larger than what goes in the joycon. That means they can have more material in the potentiometers, meaning less susceptible to wear and dust/dirt intrusions.
- Comment on xkcd #3101: Good Science 5 months ago:
That can be such an annoying one to get to depending on where the nearest oil patch is.
- Comment on Too bad we can't all act like this 5 months ago:
properly zipper merging sometimes requires concessions of the driver in the lane being merged to
- Comment on Amazing. 6 months ago:
We have that in Ontario, and as a kid my cub/scout troop would go around town and ask people to give us their empties as a fundraiser. We’d return them and use the money to buy camping supplies and stuff.