aubeynarf

@aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some companies like a utility put out ads?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  if you think they care about you, are doing a great job, and are spending your money well - you won’t seek to make them perform better as a regulated monopoly by contacting your public service commission or your legislative representative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: If you set up a Lemmy instance, and follow the Docker setup instructions to the letter, it will send lemmy.ml your admin password during the setup process⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  this is how those Marxist Leninst nation state actors work

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Communities not existing on all instances is a big problem.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy.ml seems to have a clone of most of the “top reddits”, somehow the most subscribed communities out there, and all dominated by one or two posters who post pro-China/pro-DPRK/anti-Western content all day long.

  It definitely is going to confuse newcomers and make a bad first impression. I wonder if they auto subscribe people to those so their propaganda ends up at the top of the communities list.

  Part of the solution is to better inform new users the part of the community name is the host, just like Main St in one city is different from Main St in another city. You choose the city you want to live in first.

  But, it may also be interesting to have the ability for admins to selectively merge like-named communities with other agreeable instance admins, and count subscribers to both as one group.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there something like a spreadsheet for hierarchical data structures?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Visual Studio Code with a jq plugin maybe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are living beings not being cooked alive constantly at the tekpersatures we are?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Evaporative cooling.

  When it gets hot and humid enough for that to stop working (which we’re ratcheting toward), animals and people will die.

  There’s a reason Death Valley is named that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  if you have that, there’s probably location data and signin/unlock events that would tell a more compelling story. Especially if you use biometric unlock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The balance of security and privacy sounds weird when privacy IS security.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  punishing everyone for the crimes of a few is intolerable in many free societies

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've massively improved my home organization with this free and open-source [Self-Hosted] tool [HomeBox]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The thought of going through all of my storage boxes to catalog Hundreds of thousands of items so that I might search for them one day via a web UI seems a lot less productive than simply knowing that old USB suppliesare in the old USB supplies box and Christmas decorations are in the Christmas decorations box

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Because CRTs (and maybe other displays) are slaved to the input and insensitive to exact timing, and console chipset designers used convenient line counts/clock frequencies, consoles often have frame rates slightly different from standard NTSC (which is 60000/1001 or ~59.94 fields per second).

  The 262 AND A HALF lines per field NTSC uses to get the dumb oscillator in a CRT to produce interlacing, is not convenient. “240p” moves the VSYNC pulse, shortening the frame duration.

  So NES’s run at -60.1 FPS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve mistaken facts for opinions.

  Facts come from correlation of independent observations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You built a spambot?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it so hard to buy the same toothbrush twice?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  buy 3 or 4 more pairs as soon as you realize the fit perfectly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't these code-writing AIs just output straight up machine code?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  not necessarily, just as interpreting assembly to understand intent is harder than interpreting “resultRows.map(r -> r.firstName)”, additional structure/grammar/semantics are footholds that allow the model to form patterns at a higher level of abstraction

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if pure water is not conductive why would condensation be an issue for electronics?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not pure once it starts dissolving or corroding the metal or other materials.

  And, if you can sufficiently dry the item (including inside of things), pure water is not a threat to electronics; it’s often used to clean solder flux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone uses 4d chess as the example of more intense gambits when 3d chess should suffice because chess is a 2d game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  it seems like they usually use it as a farcical example of “someone who thinks they’re smart”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have to hand it to this guy. I'm seriously confused about the format of this..?? Russian propaganda, I'd say?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  1. illegal immigrants were never permitted to enter the country. Asylum seekers are here legally.

  2. Asylum-seekers were subject to a process which vetted them.

  3. The right to trial is absolutely a core foundation of the constitution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should visitors to a country (tourist / visa-holders / people staying temporarily) have the right to criticize the government? When should an immigrant have the right to criticize the government?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless a Democrat is in office, in which case everything the government does is the most disastrous, evil, horrible thing to ever exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do people really think setting up domestic manufacturing in the USA is easy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t “think” in general. Abstract concepts and long-term consequences do not trouble their minds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Clearly, meeting in the middle at $500,000,000.50 is the right price

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can I reject MAGAs version of america more then I already am?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Connect people back to value systems instead of aggressively debating specific issues.

  For example, when we think about Jesus Christ’s teachings, why are we erasing the nation’s historical decision to help the poor, sick, and hungry - an action executed by the most greedy, vain, and boastful people on earth?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I withdraw/stop putting into my 401k?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  if you do that, the risk is that you miss out on buying at low share prices during the slump, which will be the lots that show the highest return when the market heads back toward normal.

  The periods of fastest gains are usually immediately following a downturn, so selling your holdings when you hear bad news about the stock market going down, is exactly the wrong thing to do.

  If you believe that The Trump administration policies represent a foundational destabilization of the American economy, which is a reasonable take, you might make the choice to diversify into more international funds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is dns a good application for the blockchain?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you briefly describe how you’d fit the two together?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can’t HVAC be made smarter?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just set my ecobee to “auto”; the only possible inconvenience is the required gap between heating setpoint and cooling setpoint so it doesn’t constantly flap back and forth as a result over overshooting the setpoint. I have the gap set to 3 degrees and tend to shift it up and down seasonally (e.g. heating setpoint at 72 and cooling setpoint at 75 in the winter, heating 69 and cooling 72 in the summer)

  Insolation and air infiltration based on wind conditions likely affect loss as much as outside temp, and the thermostat doesn’t know that (it could presumably learn to relate time of day, cloud cover, day of year (solar angle), wind conditions with that - but it would take 2 years to learn and its response would be opaque - most homeowners want bang-bang control since they understand it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Democratic 'frontrunner' for 2028 goes after his own party for not clapping during Trump's speech⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  OK, how many do you post, across all your sock puppet accounts?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Democratic 'frontrunner' for 2028 goes after his own party for not clapping during Trump's speech⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if they do, you’ll flood them out with your 20-30 garbage posts per day. Like its your job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What host names do you use?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I gave up on cute or clever names a while ago; now I go with “storage0”, “router0”, “wap00”, “vmhost0”. Always with a numeric suffix because there will be a -1, -2 some day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the Standard Operating Procedure for if someone steals your phone while you were using it and its unlocked?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  maybe get a lanyard to reduce the snatch risk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RFK Jr. confirmed as health chief :)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think we found UniversalMonk!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alarmists Bemoan Climate Research Funding Freeze⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was 20 degrees above average here in Georgia last week, yesterday we had 6 inches of rain in a few hours. Human-caused climate change is real.

  Did you know we’ve increased the CO2 concentration by nearly 50% since 1930?

  CO2 was known as a heat-trapping gas over 110 years ago. Have you seen this 1912 newspaper excerpt?

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOGE Discovers $1.9 Billion HUD Money ‘Misplaced’ By Biden Administration⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s 0.4% of of Musk’s gluttonous fortune, and 0.02% of the total federal budget.

  With transparency measures being dismantled by the hour, and “mission aligned” talking-point-driven outlets repeating government statements without question, how will you know if this turns out to be an erroneous conclusion ?