stoly
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- Comment on iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots." 1 day ago:
Thanks for that input. I might look into something.
- Comment on Baby boomers want to axe property taxes. Millennials and Gen Z would pay for it. 1 day ago:
It’s entitlement. They believe that they deserve to coast off into the sunset. They aren’t willing to contribute to society.
- Comment on Baby boomers want to axe property taxes. Millennials and Gen Z would pay for it. 1 day ago:
TLDR; people who benefited from the world order and are now sad that they have to pay their share.
- Comment on iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots." 2 days ago:
How difficult was this to do?
- Comment on iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots." 2 days ago:
Do people genuinely rely on these or are they really just a novelty?
- Comment on In reversal, Trump supports House vote to release Epstein files 2 days ago:
Not “in reversal”, it’s “in denial”.
- Comment on Foot long 3 days ago:
Thank you.
- Comment on Foot long 4 days ago:
I keep seeing this reference but missed the news. What’s going on?
- Comment on While we eagerly await the second coming of Steam Machines, it's worth remembering what a gloriously awful mess Valve got itself in over a decade ago 5 days ago:
Why is it necessary to go on the attack over a past attempt that didn’t work? That’s how innovation functions. Sometimes you hit the mark and sometimes you don’t, but everyone learns from the process.
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 1 week ago:
This is the most accurate take I have yet seen.
- Comment on Breakthrough gel can regenerate tooth enamel within weeks 1 week ago:
There’s a big difference between doing something in a lab and mass producing it for millions of people.
- Comment on People who rely on their phones/computers to tell time probably forgot or didn't realize that a Daylight Saving Time-Change even happened, some might've forgotten that DST existed at all. 2 weeks ago:
You notice when you wake up and the sun either is brighter or it is dark outside.
- Comment on People who live in southern hemisphere countries: do your mall Santas dress for freezing cold weather? 2 weeks ago:
People in South America still play Santa but it’s a much different experience in the hottest part of summer.
- Comment on After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence 2 weeks ago:
Because police actions are a matter of public record. It’s why small town newspapers will print all the mugshots for the week.
- Comment on Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales isn’t worried about Elon Musk’s Grokipedia: ‘Not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now’ 2 weeks ago:
No do infer versus imply.
- Comment on Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales isn’t worried about Elon Musk’s Grokipedia: ‘Not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now’ 2 weeks ago:
They don’t mean the same thing. Effect means to actively change something. Affect means to have passively receive a change.
- Comment on Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales isn’t worried about Elon Musk’s Grokipedia: ‘Not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now’ 3 weeks ago:
Affect
- Comment on Did Border Control exist in previous eras? (Say, like 500+ years ago or more) Can people go to other places? If so, what does the procedure look like? Just walk across a border? 5 weeks ago:
These things have existed for as long as cities did but worried mostly about import duties than immigrants. In most of history, having more people to do useful things was a good thing and they tended not to block immigration except when there might be ethnic or racial tensions and such.
- Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions 5 weeks ago:
I hadn’t known that this was a method. My entire workflow has been changed.
- Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions 5 weeks ago:
I was never able to figure a way to do this. I could link to the executable but not modify the shortcut to allow for flags.
- Comment on Microsoft just changed where your Word documents live — here’s why it matters 5 weeks ago:
Didn’t this already happen? I feel like it’s been the default for a long time now.
- Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions 5 weeks ago:
On Windows, I had two shortcuts–one each for a profile. It became my workflow and annoyed me when I couldn’t do that on a Mac. I didn’t always want my work profile to open by mistake, check into systems, etc. when I only wanted the home one, for instance.
- Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions 5 weeks ago:
I might try this next time I launch. Just launch one, go into profiles, and launch the second one.
- Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions 5 weeks ago:
ITT: People who only use Windows and don’t realize that FF works differently on other systems.
- Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions 5 weeks ago:
This only works on Windows. For Macs and maybe Linux, you have to run this command to bring up a different profile:
/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox -p
As best I can tell, there’s no way to make this into a shortcut that you could just click on. This change will be good!
- Comment on How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this? 1 month ago:
I had a friend who was a computer science student and did an additional major in Japanese just so he could read manga in original language. It can be done but requires a lot of dedication.
If you are a native English speaker, then learning Germanic and Romance languages will be easy because they have much in common. With Japanese, there’s no real evolutionary commonality so you really have to just learn a whole new system that doesn’t match your expectations–and from scratch. Example:
1,352
English: one-thousand three-hundred fifty-two Japanese: one thousands place, three hundreds place, five tens place, two
Just the conception of how numbers work is different. This isn’t to say you shouldn’t try to do this, it would be fantastic. Just know that you have to develop a lot of new intuitions.
- Comment on Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg 1 month ago:
lol my first question was whether that was from wales
- Comment on What is up with Gen Alphas love for Austin Powers? 1 month ago:
When Austin Powers came out I thought it was the funniest thing ever. 25 years later I watched a few scenes and turned it off. It aged really poorly.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating. 1 month ago:
Isn’t that what happened with Win 7?
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 1 month ago:
This is an aspect of driving that people don’t get. It doesn’t necessarily matter WHAT the laws are–there are so many ways to drive all around the world. What matters is that everyone follows the same ones so that they know what to expect from others. If people routinely ignore one law in a region and that’s part of the expectation, then everyone is just fine. It’s that one person who doesn’t follow the norms that is dangerous.