piranhaconda
@piranhaconda@mander.xyz
- Comment on Lemmings, please give us your info dump. 14 hours ago:
As scummy as it is, it’s still how they make their living. Not at all taking their side, but I get pissed when someone wastes my time at work too. No idea how their pay structure is, but if it’s commission based, yea, more anger for having time wasted make sense
- Comment on Yes this year is going to be really good and productive 4 days ago:
I handed in my two weeks notice less than a week after finally getting an overdue promotion. Was laughing my ass off internally while saying thanks for the raise, I had to wait a few more days for my 401k to fully vest, then bailed
- Comment on Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead 1 week ago:
OnlyPhones is the future they want. Walled gardens and apps. Freedom and real compute power will be locked away in their servers. And the top of the line phones are already expensive enough that pretty much everyone that has one is on a payment plan for it
- Comment on Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead 1 week ago:
It’s the grift that keeps on grifting. How long can it keep going
- Comment on the news are so bad at reporting epstein files i wonder why 1 week ago:
Dude was well studied in his psychological manipulation. I was browsing the files and found a research paper on memory suppression/manipulation of children aged 4-13 or so. Supremely fucked up
- Comment on Rechargeable electric arc lighters kinda suck for the average person, and will typically end up as e-waste. 1 week ago:
Yes, really. Pretty much any time you can visibly see an arc through the air it’s in the thousands of volts range. A shock from your fingertips can be up to 15+ kV, but very low current
- Comment on New Objective: Convince an astronaut to use the Fediverse from space 2 weeks ago:
There’s that one astronaut that posts awesome pics from ISS on reddit, Don Pettit or u/astro_pettit. Might be the best shot.
- Comment on Did Scientists Just Achieve "Inception"? Experiments Show “Dream Engineering” May Be a Reality 2 weeks ago:
The aim of both was to plant imagery of a refreshing Coors beer as well as alpine landscapes in the minds of sleepers, to encourage them to buy Coors to drink while watching the Superbowl that was taking place the next day.
While the scientists cited this example as worrying and unethical (especially for those with alcohol addiction,) the open letter focuses more on the potential of this technology as it advances, saying “it is easy to envision a world in which smart speakers—40 million Americans currently have them in their bedrooms— become instruments of passive, unconscious overnight advertising, with or without our permission.”>
Oh. Fuck that shit
- Comment on Did Scientists Just Achieve "Inception"? Experiments Show “Dream Engineering” May Be a Reality 2 weeks ago:
So to attempt applying their experiment to something other than puzzle solving, I guess maybe meditate on whatever life problem you’re going through while listening to a specific song, then sleep with that song on?
- Comment on This is my 6,000th post on Lemmy. It's been great eating beans and learning how not to poop for 3 days with you guys! Brb, gotta send my weekly nudes to the admins 2 weeks ago:
Which instance should I join if I just lost half a toenail? Surely someone’s into that…
- Comment on Annual merit increase 5 weeks ago:
The only way I’ve ever gotten significant raises is job hopping. My last job, I finally got an overdue promotion with a solid ~10-15% raise. But it was too late, I already had a job offer in hand, and put in my 2 weeks a few days later for ~30% more
- Comment on Mafs 1 month ago:
Not that I’ve seen. And stopdrinking has the daily check in post, but not a ton of activity outside of that.
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 1 month ago:
Or immich!
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 1 month ago:
I haven’t committed to doing it full time, but I’ve had a GPD Win Max 2 for a few months now. A little 10 inch laptop that actually has solid new AMD internals. Love it so far
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 1 month ago:
I bet it’ll be more like a subscription for an LLM upgrade, since they’re shoving “AI” into the OS, it’ll need a bit of local processing power but then you pay to connect it to a beefier server
- Comment on Flights disrupted after Airbus discovers intense sun radiation could impact flight control data 2 months ago:
Sounds like SEE (single event effect) if it’s something fixable by software.
TID (total ionizing dose) is a other flavor of radiation effect on components, but that’s a total lifetime effect where it slowly degrades. Using rad hard parts or adding extra shielding is the main fix.
SEEs are transient effects from high energy charged particles that can cause bit flips and latch ups in circuitry depending on where the particle hits and deposits it’s charge in the circuitry. Extra shielding can help prevent these as well, but they can also be mitigated in software, sometimes the fix is just error detection and having the errored signal resent, or power cycling a specific section of circuitry to clear a latchup
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Username checks out
- Comment on Ahead of her time 2 months ago:
No no, it’s an in cock, not an out cock. Like the difference between innie and outie belly buttons.
- Comment on Become unrecognizable 3 months ago:
I only see pH 1 in the cupboard, guess I’ll just have to chug 14 L of it today
- Comment on To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub 3 months ago:
Fond memories of trying out every single glitch I could find for Pokemon Gens I and II. A lot were a load of crap, but there were a few good ones
My favorite was the Pokemon cloning glitch in Gen 2. If you did it right, you could get all 3 starters and force your rival to have the starter of your choosing. It took a couple hours to do though, because it requires not saving until you’re allowed to catch your first Pokemon. And then repeating the process.
- Comment on eel butts 3 months ago:
The water also reduces the electrical resistivity of skin so less power is needed to be harmful (at least for humans, some fish and reptiles are a different story)
- Comment on eel butts 3 months ago:
Head positive, tail negative (seriously)
- Comment on Zombies!! 3 months ago:
I did not find a book with this image, but your research inspired me to do a bit of my own. This image was posted on the medinaz Facebook group 6 days ago. Seems to rule out the idea of a separate party posting this to affront them.
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 3 months ago:
No thanks. I’ve lived in 6 different US states in the past 6 years. I understand I’m an extreme edge case, but I’m a huge fan of renting apartments at this stage in my life.
Now maybe in this hypothetical society with better housing and whatnot, I wouldn’t have felt the need to hustle and grind and work my way up the corporate ladder and move around as much as I did… But for my situation, yea I like renting
- Comment on Lasagnaius 4 months ago:
Greekus Yogurtius… Yes… Very roman
- Comment on Arizona ‘VPN’ searches surge amid Pornhub ban in state 4 months ago:
But they gotta save us from eternal damnation, it’s for our own good, we don’t know any better (/s if it’s really needed)
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 4 months ago:
Thought you meant Eating Disorders til the Viagra comment. Had to reread the whole thing
- Comment on When your brain is below your waist the ONE Pro is good enough 5 months ago:
Delete “big rack” and “hits me”, move “yells at me” to the top and modify to “yells at me to go fucking kill myself” and now it’s my ex.
- Comment on In the wild, chimps likely ingest the equivalent of several alcoholic drinks every day 5 months ago:
Just a bit of weed, edibles or a vape usually. No more alcohol for me any more.
- Comment on In the wild, chimps likely ingest the equivalent of several alcoholic drinks every day 5 months ago:
I read your comment while doing that