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- Comment on Choose wisely lemmings 22 hours ago:
Chip
- Comment on Language model 1 day ago:
And for every single one of them, the ‘gh’ at one point described a phlegmy hissing sound. Modern English spelling is sometimes closer to Chinese than we might think.
- Comment on Space jazz music plays in background 4 days ago:
- Comment on I made a custom arcade stick 5 days ago:
I’ve used adhesive steel wheel-balancing weights on a couple of my modded keyboards. They’re cheap, low-profile, and have to be lead-free. If you have room on your bottom plate, just slap a bunch on there. You can put down masking tape first if you want to avoid damaging the plate if you decide to remove them.
- Comment on An abiding mystery of the French Revolution is solved — by epidemiology 5 days ago:
Also, an interesting idea, that provocateurs intentionally started rumors and pushed them hardest to areas where destroying a land register would cause the most issues for the local nobility.
- Comment on Uhm 1 week ago:
If you haven’t spent as much time refining the prompt as you would have to take an art class and do the medical research, have you really used the AI properly at all?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Law school can be eye-opening. Con law in particular was an interesting one. If you can make it through Marbury v Madison in your first semester of your first year and not realize that the entire American system is held together with chewing gum and baling wire and it’s a miracle it ever enabled a functional government at all, or get through Dred Scott v Sandford or Plessy v. Ferguson later on and not realize that the law should always seek justice in as far as said chewing gum and baling wire even halfway plausibly permit, then you’re either an idiot or an asshole, and probably both.
Slavish devotion to your generation’s “plain reading” of increasingly distant legalese written by – to put it euphemistically – deeply conflicted men who were indeed clever and motivated, but were also the half-educated elites of a cultural backwater, is how you end up with our current mess.
- Comment on Anyone else have computers by Digiview? 1 week ago:
It certainly doesn’t help that they shared a name with the Amiga digital camera/scanner perhipheral. I found a listing in the July 2000 issue of Computer Shopper where “Bay Micro Computers” out of Torrance California was selling the aforementioned “beige box” AMD PCs with Digiview keyboards. One of the keyboards was on eBay, and it seems like a bog standard rebadged OEM membrane keyboard of the era.
- Comment on Anyone know why this weird CD won't fit in my CD drive? 1 week ago:
Yup. Really nice bearings. I also have a few HDD magnets that work well as hold-downs for laser cutting.
- Comment on Any advice on how to deal with "get a gun" comments about daughter? 2 weeks ago:
Yes, lots of emotional brinkmanship in this one. Grandparents can absolutely be toxic enough to warrant no- or low-contact, but I don’t see where OP has indicated they’re close to that point. This is a retrograde joke from the grandpas, but in the US it’s also utterly cliche and doesn’t necessarily imply much. Something along the lines of your suggestion could absolutely be a better option in the early going. You could even make it more casual at first: “Nah, this one’s going to be able to take care of herself. We’re making sure of it.”
- Comment on Jonathan Frakes Surprised ‘Strange New Worlds’ Star Trek Spoof Was Controversial; Talks Directing ‘Academy’ And More 2 weeks ago:
The biggest biggest technology change has been the AR wall… You can’t use the camera the same way, but when you see the see the opportunity, it literally captures what the a camera is watching.
When you do it right, you get “how did they do that on a TV budget!?” When you do it wrong, you get whatever the hell THIS was.
- Comment on A secret is something you keep, whilst a surprise is something you give. 2 weeks ago:
Yup! We called the good ones “happy secrets,” and they’re perfectly okay.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Please select from the following:
[ ] Sir, this is a Wendy's... [ ] i ain't reading all that. i'm happy for u tho. or sorry that happened. [ ] TL; DR [ ] <Homer returning to bushes>
Thank you for your consideration.
- Comment on DissolvPCB enables fully recyclable 3D-printed circuit boards with liquid metal conductors 3 weeks ago:
Very cool, though JFC there’s no way MY printer will be fine tuned enough to generate the channels. The whole process reminds me of the rednecks who pour molten aluminum down fire ant hills, in a good way. The sealing with glorified Elmer’s glue is also clever.
Now all that said, you wouldn’t want to make anything that’s going to have much contact with water, so a lot of typical applications are risky: “My PCB is leaking!” I do wonder if you could do the same thing, but less immediately recyclable, with PLA and a 3D pen.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 4 weeks ago:
Good point but for presidential elections, electrical districts don’t make any sense.
In 48 out of fifty states, they don’t matter for presidential elections. I think only Maine and Nebraska split their electoral college votes at all.
Also, if the districts are being manipulated to provide a skewed election result then are the districts really groups of people with similar needs?
The original purpose has indeed been corrupted in many places, and those where it hasn’t are tempted into a “race to the bottom” as states with modest but persistent majorities are gerrymandering their states to the hilt. Still, the original idea of electoral districts makes a lot of sense, and even moreso when communications and travel were much slower.
- Comment on Hong Kong beef balls and boiled hotdog with chilli sauce 4 weeks ago:
Maybe it tastes better than it looks. I certainly hope so.
- Comment on Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people 5 weeks ago:
Dennis Miller
- Comment on Sad but true 5 weeks ago:
I kinda like this as a way to market based on the potential for affirmative defenses.
- Comment on Is there gospel music minus the gospel? 5 weeks ago:
Choirs accompanying soul artists is not unheard of, but yeah, it does seem to be more of a tool that’s leveraged when the sound feels right for a track, rather than being a core part of the act. The linked song is verging pretty close to “regular” gospel, but the lyrics are a bit too modern and on the nose for church, I’d think.
- Comment on Is there gospel music minus the gospel? 5 weeks ago:
Try Ray Charles’s Self-Titled album from 1957. Some of feels literally like Gospel songs with Jesus subbed out for a girlfriend.
- Comment on The worst day to get Groundhog Day'd would be when you have an early flight in the morning 5 weeks ago:
Why do you need to bother with making the flight?
- Comment on New Executive Order:AI must agree on the Administration views on Sex,Race, cant mention what they deem to be Critical Race Theory,Unconscious Bias,Intersectionality,Systemic Racism or "Transgenderism 5 weeks ago:
LLMs shall prioritize historical accuracy, scientific inquiry, and objectivity, and shall acknowledge uncertainty where reliable information is incomplete or contradictory.
This may not go how they think it will. As an aside, for the moment at least, this is only for AI used/procured by the federal government.
- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 1 month ago:
One of the recurring themes I keep coming back to in all this is that the US has a uniquely bad situation with regard to its Constitution. We worship it as an infallible and complete guide to running a democratic republic, but really it’s extremely old, extremely vague, and depends on goodwill and sensible interpretation to function. We have neither the explicit understanding that everything is old AF and cobbled together and dependent upon custom and moderating tyrannical sensibilities like the British, nor the unwieldy but straightforward comprehensiveness of EU treaties and certain other lengthy modern written constitutions.
To me, him just telling Pamela Bondi what to do in such a delicate matter feels just wrong, as in lacking the due seriousness on the matter, utterly sloppy and populist in a bad manner.
This feeling you have is exactly how presidents of either party would have felt for the last 80-100 years. The idea of a largely independent Department of Justice was considered eminently sensible and moral and even to the realpolitik set it provided outer bounds of what was politically possible and so they would nudge and tug at the edges, but never blow right past it, lest they suffer Nixon’s fate. I think we make a mistake to say that Trump is stupid in a binary yes/no sense, but he is deeply uncurious about things that donm’t interest him, so when people tell him “The Constitution doesn’t actually say that,” his eyes gleam and he just does whatever he might get away with. And because we have a Supreme Court dominated by the idea that the US Constitution is more akin to a piece of computer code than a framework for sensible governance, they simply throw up their hands and say, “whelp, it didn’t SAY that the administration of justice should be handled with integrity, so guess we makin’ a fascism now.” Better vote them out, except oh wait the Constitution also doesn’t say you can’t fuck with the elections either.
One of my anxious worries lately is that at the end of this term, Trump will look at our term limits amendment and parse the verbiage with a simple literalism and Clarence Thomas et al will back him up. It says you can’t be elected president more than twice, so why not simply run for VP and then have your patsy resign five minutes after swearing in? After all, we’re mindless textualists now. We didn’t want an FDR type getting overly entrenched in the machinery of power, but we clearly meant to allow loopholes that are significantly less democratic!
- Comment on Hot take: 3D printing toys kinda sucks 1 month ago:
My kiddo is 11 now, but I beleive the old bag of Brio in the toy box has at least one Duplo Adapter I printed on my old Monoprice Mini.
- Comment on I designed and printed 81 custom keycaps for the GameCube Keyboard Controller, then hacked it to work with Animal Crossing 1 month ago:
Very cool. Gotta post this one to the mechanical keyboard communities too. Yes, yes, it looks like it’s a membrane under there, but this is one of the nicer sets of 3D printed keycaps that I’ve seen.
- Comment on I was laughing too hard to think of a title. 1 month ago:
She just needed a massage!
- Comment on Spectrum Holobyte’s 1988 DOS Tetris: the first official release—the start of a global obsession 1 month ago:
IMHO no version of Tetris will ever top the OG green-n-gray Game Boy version, which was also over the top Russian kitschy. The music still loves rent free in my head, and the patterns in lieu of colors define the blocks for me.
- Comment on If you turn the Chicago Bulls logo upside down, it looks like a robot is doing a crab. 1 month ago:
The robot looks… determined.
- Comment on Symbian: The forgotten FOSS phone OS 1 month ago:
My N810 was my single favorite piece of industrial design in a mobile device. Not perfect, and use cases moved on (to say nothing of the internals), but it was so unique and thoughtful and intricate without feeling overly fragile.
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 1 month ago:
I preferred Mepis. 😊