JasonDJ
@JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
- Comment on ugh i wish 2 days ago:
Agreed. I’m not to fond of him (or my wife’s step-sister, for that matter)…but I feel real bad for his kids (my step-niblings). They’re already at a tough age (middle school), their dad is dying, and they’ve all drunk the Kool aid. The whole side of the family has, save for maybe one or two of my half-BILs.
Last week, the mom (who runs an upscale clothing store) was saying she only wants to hire old white ladies and won’t hire kids anymore. The daughter pipes up saying “yeah kids these days are lazy, they don’t want to work”, parroting the parents talking points. But literally 30 seconds later, the mom is saying that it’s the slow season and she’s spending most of her day watching Netflix. The self-awareness is just completely missing.
- Comment on ugh i wish 3 days ago:
Ugh my wife’s step-sisters husband is a pharmacist. His body is riddled with tumors but he swears the ivermectin and supplements are what’s fighting the cancer. Not the chemo. Nope. That’s promoting the cancer.
- Comment on wooly bears 1 week ago:
I leave the leaves and pine needles in my backyard because it beats having a giant dirt patch.
I don’t really want grass back there, but what else is comfortable to walk barefoot on and can hold up to large dogs, growing kids, and a small flock of miniature dinosaurs running allover it every day?
And I’ve spent an obscene amount of money on grass seed the past couple of years only to be told that I can’t water it, between droughts and water bans from the city trying to balance water between the high-PFAS reservoir and the low-PFAS resevoir. Ugh. Can’t win even if I try.
- Comment on flouride 1 week ago:
Don’t forget the gravitational pull of Betelgeuse. In a very, very small way, that also effects calcification of the pineal gland.
- Comment on Just a little guy 1 week ago:
Oh man I would love to live in a town called Effing. If only it wasn’t in South Carolina.
- Comment on Guerrilla Women 2 weeks ago:
Which one was she? Psychological?
- Comment on Microsoft builds first datacenters with wood to slash carbon emissions 2 weeks ago:
Fire suppression systems, and fire prevention mechanisms, are no joke in a data center.
Plenty of systems that displace oxygen in the room to prevent combustion.
Many places won’t let you even bring combustable materials into the data center spaces. Receiving department unboxes and puts cardboard right into the baler. Wanna store stuff in your cage? Better be in a tote.
Also, humidity is strictly controlled to prevent static buildup.
The most likely place for a fire to break out in a data center would be from battery backup systems. But at the scale that most large facilities have, there is a dedicated battery room, or they use something else for instantaneous load transfer, like flywheels.
- Comment on The Onion buys conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 2 weeks ago:
Man if I came there to bid on a domain auction like that and I saw The Onion place a bid I’d be like nah man that’s too good you can just have it I’m done here.
- Comment on Mushrooms 3 weeks ago:
They’re just very exited, give them a break b
- Comment on Magic Beneath The Forests 4 weeks ago:
Plugging a book i liked…The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben.
Made me look at trees and forests a whole new way.
- Comment on Elon Musk Fans Are Losing So Much Money to Crypto Scams 4 weeks ago:
Just want to share that NASA has one of the highest ROIs of any government agency.
- Comment on We are at the Wolfenstein stage of capital. 5 weeks ago:
There should be a program to retire trained service animals that are too old to keep to go to like…veterans with a high-activity lifestyle or something idk.
- Comment on Nvidia blocks access to video card driver updates for users from Russia and Belarus. 5 weeks ago:
I blame Trump every day, but sure.
- Comment on Can I not be an adorable junkie 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Can I not be an adorable junkie 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Eat lead 5 weeks ago:
Should we start building a big wooden boat for them?
- Comment on REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets 5 weeks ago:
Yes. I don’t know what you are arguing. I don’t think you do either.
Contract violation is a civil issue, not criminal. I think you agree with that.
You cannot get imprisoned for violating a contract. I think this is what you’re missing.
However if you are sued for a contract violation, you will receive a civil summons.
A civil summons is a court order. That is word of law, and wilful disregare or disobedience of a court order is contempt of court.
You can get arrested for that. But that’s not getting arrested for a contract violation, that’s getting arrested for contempt.
- Comment on Character.ai Faces Lawsuit After Teen’s Suicide 5 weeks ago:
I really want like, a Frieda McFadden-style novel about an AI chatbot serial manipulator now. Basically Michelle Carter…the girl who bullied her boyfriend into killing himself. Except the AI can delete or modify all the evidence.
- Comment on Character.ai Faces Lawsuit After Teen’s Suicide 5 weeks ago:
Dude…an AI chatbot could totally Girl from Plainville some poor confused awkward kid and delete all the evidence.
- Comment on REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets 5 weeks ago:
I hope this isn’t a cartoony scheme driven by Apple honeydicking Arm with the M-series processors.
- Comment on REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets 5 weeks ago:
But that’s not criminal. That’s civil. That’s no different than a contract dispute. It’s not government enforced, but it may be government mediated.
- Comment on Few truly shocked that NFL player used illegal stream to watch his own team 5 weeks ago:
Bone apple toe.
- Comment on San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks 5 weeks ago:
Yeah…kinda left a lot of the layer 1 stuff out of it when I segued into modern ethernet. I could’ve really wanted.
That was still really close to modern Ethernet when 10BaseT and 10Base2 were out.
Although if I remember correctly, and I could be off because most of this was before my time and I learned from a greybeard who came up on Token Ring…the same physical media for both 10Base2 (the coax with bnc ends, T’s at each station, and a terminator on each end) and later 10BaseT (UTP CAT 3, if we are being contemporary) Ethernet did end up getting used for Token Ring as well, just different hardware. And I think IBM was actually able to squeeze more bandwidth out of the same wires for a while, too.
Honestly if not for switched Ethernet and Spanning Tree, Token Ring would’ve had several more years of life left in it, at least.
Modern 802.11ax (Wifi6) borrows a little bit from the methods of token ring by having the AP essentially schedule timeslots for each of the clients…but it won’t make much improvement till most (if not all) of the segment (that is, devices connected to any one radio) is ax or higher.
- Comment on San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks 5 weeks ago:
If it’s stupid and it works, it ain’t stupid.
It comes from a time when wired infra was a shared medium and only one party could talk at a time. To control who talked, they passed around a token. The token would essentially take a lap around the ring before you could speak again.
Because it’s a shared medium, it’s one big collision domain.
Now, collisions are bad, mmmkay.
Modern wired infrastructure is switched. There’s some brains in the operation. The switch learns the hardware ID (unique MAC address) of every device that’s talked to it, because every frame that goes through it has the source and destination hardware ID as part of it.
As such, the switch will only forward out the port where it knows the destination is. It can only know it from one (logical) port (if there’s more than one, that’s a paddlin’). If it doesn’t know it, it’ll forward the frame out all interfaces except the one it rode in on.
Compare this with modern wireless where, aside from 802.11ax, clients just… (essentially) wait for a random amount of time, listen for a break in the signal, and take a leap of faith. It’s amazing anything works on wifi with how much modern homes stress them.
- Comment on Sympathy for their PTSD 5 weeks ago:
Oh man I totally forgot about Hitler youth.
Iirc they were taught to (and did) narc on their parents.
Honestly wouldn’t be surprised, if Trump were to become president, if they co-opted BSA for a similar purpose.
- Comment on Sympathy for their PTSD 5 weeks ago:
The only way I could rationalize the OG Nazis…trying to get into their head and how they managed to do the things they did…was that they were straight up brainwashed.
It sounded crazy when I was younger. Like, something out of a comic book instead of a history book.
But as I watch and try to critically understand how the modern propaganda machine works, I can’t help but wonder if maybe I was right.
- Comment on All-optical switch device paves way for faster fiber-optic communication 5 weeks ago:
Ah, yes, high-speed stock trading. One of the big drivers of network innovation.
- Comment on All-optical switch device paves way for faster fiber-optic communication 5 weeks ago:
Ironically, page won’t load for me.
How is it a switch if there’s no data processing? There needs to be a MAC table and the switch needs to send non-broadcast frames only to the right port. I don’t see how it can have that intelligence without converting light to electricity and processing it.
And I’d take it that would mean no SFPs, which means not a very flexible device if all the ports are LC with a fixed wavelength and signal.
- Comment on Five flavors 🤤 1 month ago:
Do you like Huey Lewis and the News?
- Comment on Honey 1 month ago:
Technically, yes.
Assuming the canabee is consenting freely, and likely has to be done in a way not violating other laws. Like some variety of a pain kink where people slice of small portions of each others meaty bits and eatting them. That’s probably a thing, though likely not so among vegans.
