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- Comment on Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network 4 days ago:
This is pretty much what I said to my wife while scritching my dogs. First it’ll just be expanded to missing kids and olds, because of course everyone wants to reunite families, but eventually it’ll be something that “law enforcement” can request for whatever the hell they want, because after all they’re the good guys keeping us safe!
- Comment on Rechargeable electric arc lighters kinda suck for the average person, and will typically end up as e-waste. 4 days ago:
But, and here me out, it’s also wicked cool.
Ours is more stick-shaped though, and really only good for candle wicks. If we smoked, you might be able to get a cigarette into the arc. It’d probably also work well if your grill’s or gas stove’s spark iginter was broken.
- Comment on Would the tart blueberries taste as good if you didn't have to randomly power through 3 to 5 bland ones between each good one? 4 days ago:
Interesting. These say they’re from Mexico. It would be pretty underwhelming if there’s a blander variety.
- Comment on Would the tart blueberries taste as good if you didn't have to randomly power through 3 to 5 bland ones between each good one? 4 days ago:
But the tart ones are the good ones.
- Comment on Would the tart blueberries taste as good if you didn't have to randomly power through 3 to 5 bland ones between each good one? 4 days ago:
Raspberry for me, though I’m not sure if it’s fully artificial or “just” ultra-processed. It’s also partly because I like that flavor but I’m mildly allergic and about 25% of the time I eat it, my lip swells a bit, so I try to minimize how often I have it.
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- Comment on The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap. 6 days ago:
I was using a 2012 “vintage” minitower PC that originally came with Win7 as a crappy little plex/local FTP/Minecraft server, and I had been wanting to try MacOS after not seeing it for a while, so I got a Mac Mini with an M2 in it, and while I’ve hardly stressed it, it seems really nice. It’s small and completely silent, and if I did want to use it more, Apple has certainly tried to keep their walled garden pretty and well-organized.
- Comment on The boiled peanut is superior to the baked bean. 1 week ago:
…boiled peanuts are best purchased from the elderly or a fat kid at a minivan in a parking lot.
and if any word is spelled correctly on the sign, that’s a sign that they won’t be quite as good.
- Comment on Interesting 1 week ago:
I always liked them better when they were Corvettes.
- Comment on Smuggler's Blues 1 week ago:
Naaah, fill it up with weird saber-tooth deer meat. We already know that shit’s irresistible to Wookiees.
- Comment on Noooooo 2 weeks ago:
For it’s not so much that it’s going to be an unnecessary call than that the person just doesn’t want to collect their thoughts or (worse) doesn’t want to say what they want in writing. It’s usually going to be some ask that’s completely apart from anything I’ve been thinking about in the past 5-10 days, might be sketchy, and they apparently seem to think it’s urgent and/or nuanced, yet they’re just going to completely hold out on providing context and time that would let me be prepared for whatever pile of shit they’re about to dump on me.
If you can’t communicate it to me in a slack message or two, there’s a very real possibility that either you don’t know what you want, or that I can’t help you with it on a cold call.
- Comment on Noooooo 2 weeks ago:
I can literally feel myself deflating when I get these, like it’s a huge involuntary sigh accompanied by the classic heart-sinking…
…followed by a deep breath and a “Sure! 👍”
- Comment on Amazon to Shut Down All Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh Stores 2 weeks ago:
Both things could be true.
- Comment on Amazon to Shut Down All Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh Stores 2 weeks ago:
7-11 theoretically already has it for their app; you scan with your phone and pay with Apple or Google Pay. The only thing is that you’re supposed to sort of wave the completed transaction at the cashier as you go, but the only reason you’d really need to use portable self-checkout is if the cashier is busy, and when they’re busy they don’t want you breaking in line or to stop what they’re doing to see that you’re showing them a plausibly legitimate checkout screen.
In a completely, utterly, definitely unrelated story, I got accused of shoplifting by a 7-11 cashier the other day.
- Comment on R.B. Hoadley 2 weeks ago:
It drives me nuts that I can’t quite tell if that piece of tongue-in-groove (LOL) flooring is white oak, possibly varnished, or some sort of tight-grained pine.
Also, apparently Professor Hoadley was a really nice guy and very well respected.
- Comment on RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously! 2 weeks ago:
I hadn’t actually looked up any numbers on the RAM shortage. Less than a year ago I got 2 8GB sticks of no-name PC3200 DDR4 for less than $25. I didn’t even really need it for my use-case, but it was so cheap that “why not” felt like a perfectly viable reason to upgrade to 32GB total. Six years ago I got the original two-pack of 8GB sticks for $75. Now that same amount of old-ass DDR4 would be $90-$100. Jeezus. No upgrades for me for a while.
- Comment on This hotel has a map for roof access in case of a fire. Most men have issues figuring it out 3 weeks ago:
“Hotel,” nothin’. That’s clearly the Selina Meyer Presidential Library.
- Comment on Linux Slicer 1 month ago:
This is my experience. I do CAD in Windows, but Orcaslicer only works properly in Linux. On Windows, it tends to crash when I tell it to generate gcode for anything but the smallest prints.
Just as well, really. It reminds me to reboot, so I haven’t tried to fix it.
- Comment on If you have ANY Canadian ancestor, you are likely a Canadian citizen as a result of recent changes in Canadian law 1 month ago:
Very little has been tested yet, but the general thinking is that there’s probably no longer any generation cap, except for babies born since the new change went into effect a couple of weeks ago. The real trick is in proving it. From what I have read, the Canadian bureaucracy that processes these has usually asked for primary documentation, so actual birth certificates or centrally maintained religious records, and only once those have been exhaustively searched and the relevant local offices throw up their hands (via an official “we tried” letter) will they consider things like census forms and border-crossing logs.
- Comment on No contest 1 month ago:
This feels like a bit of a straw-man. In my youthful nonsensical cross-franchise pissing-match days, we pitted the Enterprise versus a Star Destroyer, or at least some other capital ship.
Unless you were asking which one was cooler, in which case the Falcon wins every day and twice on Sunday.
- Comment on AI Overview 1 month ago:
“I’m telling you Molotov cocktails work. Any time I had a problem I threw a Molotov cocktail and Boom! Right away, I had a different problem.”
- Comment on when fiber isn't enough 1 month ago:
Ain’t no torque on a Dremel. Gotta find the hammer drill.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
“Language models don’t apply to us because this is not a language problem,” Nesterenko explained. “If you ask it to actually create a blueprint, it has no training data for that. It has no context for that…” Instead, Quilter built what Nesterenko describes as a “game” where the AI agent makes sequential decisions — place this component here, route this trace there — and receives feedback based on whether the resulting design satisfies electromagnetic, thermal, and manufacturing constraints… The approach mirrors DeepMind’s progression with its Go-playing systems.
This is kind of interesting and cool, and it’s not a hallucinating LLM. I’ve designed a couple of simple circuit boards, and running traces can be sort of zen, but it is tedious and would be maddening as a job. Definitely some hype levels coming from the company that give me pause, but it seems like an actual useful task for a machine learning algorithm.
- Comment on Refried beans is just Latino hummus 2 months ago:
And both are delicious.
- Comment on About 10 years ago i remember seeing this picture with a title something like "This is a meme from the future" The prophecy is true apparently. 2 months ago:
Thank you. That looks plausible and should keep the mental wolves at bay, LOL.
- Comment on About 10 years ago i remember seeing this picture with a title something like "This is a meme from the future" The prophecy is true apparently. 2 months ago:
Okay, somebody here has to know of have better image searching skills than I do. What is the Visor prop? It’s clearly not a spray-painted hair clip like (the inspiration for) Geordi’s, but it doesn’t look bespoke, more like some sort of removable support rib from… something. Grrr.
- Comment on Alright you fucking degenerates. It's time to get your edumacation on about corn smut. 2 months ago:
I think there’s something about the parasitic nature of it, taking over an otherwise healthy ear of corn. We tend to think of our edible fungi as growing out of the dirt like a plant, or a fallen tree, or at worst sort of calmy sitting on top of whatever it is using for its own food. THe fact that this has invaded kernels makes them very bad corn kernels and triggers something instinctive. Corn smut is one of those “the first person to try this was in a bad spot” kind of foods.
- Comment on A secret cord 2 months ago:
Legitimate? Basically none. Illegitimate? First, lazily fixing a fuckup on putting up strings of Christmas lights where you can’t daisy chain them properly, with bonus points for the likeliehood of needing to break off the grounding pin. Second, injecting power from a generator into a single circuit of your house if the power is out.
In one sense, you could argue conductors are conductors and if you think through every eventuality you can mitigate risk, but on the other, if you find you’re in a situation where one of these seems useful, you are not the type of person thinks through every eventuality.
- Comment on Too bad we can't all write notes and letters with such class 2 months ago:
Cue the James Joyce letters in 3… 2… 1… 0.
- Comment on Have you noticed the new way of promoting horrible food by telling you it has lots of protein 2 months ago:
I have it on good authority that the Starbucks protein coffee gives you the double-shits.