anomnom
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- Comment on UK's rival to the Tim Tam can no longer be called chocolate 3 days ago:
Cocoa commodity prices are starting to fall but retail chocolate prices are expected to remain high for some time.
The prices won’t ever go back down, corpos know they don’t have to, they might give random coupons or sale prices, but once raised, never lowered (unless smaller shrinkflated portions are designed).
- Comment on Reddit’s CEO Debuts As A Billionaire 20 Years After Cofounding The Company 3 days ago:
That was 10 years before only Nazis used that term, but I take your point.
- Comment on This roof paint blocks 97% of sunlight and pulls water from the air 3 days ago:
Yeah, I was thinking this too.
Along with wondering if it can/will need recoating periodically. And what happens to abraded or loose nanoparticles, like do they breakdown into a harmless dust or are we reinventing asbestos problems for the future.
- Comment on YSK before you buy a replacement for your cellphone that has stopped charging, buy the $10 cleaning kits and spend the time deep cleaning the phone's charging port. 3 days ago:
I wouldn’t put anything conductive in there.
Wood toothpicks worked great on lightning ports, usbc is a little trickier and more fragile so I use a plastic spudger from an old screen replacement kit.
- Comment on A hypothesis 4 days ago:
I started on Apple 2 then Macs. Then used my graduation money to build a PC with just released Windows 98, Monster Voodoo video card a few months later (off of eBay no less).
Gamed and worked through my design degree on windows before switching back to Mac when it went Intel, and because I was working in web development and l dealing with Linux servers all day, but also needed Photoshop and layer Sketch (a nice vector UI design tool) and later as I ditched Adobe in my own company, Pixelmator (a nice Photoshop replacement).
I know a little Vi, I know a bit about spinning up servers and Ruby on Rails, pretty comfortable with a terminal/cli, have a few RPis around the house, and I grew up on and still use Macs.
- Comment on Male Mar-a-Lago face 4 days ago:
No, Ivanka. He’s losing his minds so fast he probably regularly forgets he’s married to the Soviet Spy.
Same thing happened to my MIL with Alzheimer’s. Was sad for her but she was mostly nice about it. Others aren’t so nice and get paranoid psychosis. I guess we’ll see what the fucking President of the US eggs up being like, if they don’t just start hiding him and AI-Generating all his speeches like the Kirk one.
- Comment on Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell – and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadar 6 days ago:
Retail pricing dictates a $3 component cost is $12. And that $3 would have to include packaging and assembly costs. And the plastic case and button. £17 is tough to hit with all that, especially if there is an SD card included or any software development to ensure any kind of security.
- Comment on xkcd #3162: Heart Mountain 6 days ago:
This really messes with the concept of geologic timeframe,
- Comment on Go Green 1 week ago:
Makes more sense ads there is at best 2 tablespoons of oil in most large pizza recipes I’ve baked.
- Comment on After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence 1 week ago:
Yeah, really my question should have been about encrypted footage and my 5th amendment to protecting the password to the footage.
Hopefully no one needs to test this to find out.
- Comment on Dear neighbor... 1 week ago:
These have been both the included batteries (branded Kiddie, the detector brand), and Duracell, ostensibly one of the top 2 alkaline battery brands in the US. No Zinc or hollow junk batteries here.
- Comment on After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence 1 week ago:
What are the laws about search warrants around home cameras and the 5th amendment?
I’ve thought about setting up old smart phone based IP cameras around my house facing out windows. But decided that if it comes down to arresting people for anti regime speech, that having cameras with background audio of private conversations wasn’t a good idea.
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 1 week ago:
You can also add 2 spaces to the end of each line before a single line break.
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ThisPain in the ass if your phone automatically adds a full stop after 2 spaces though.
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 1 week ago:
The Idles aren’t half bad as well, check out gift horse. Or their tiny desk concert.
- Comment on a minor to moderate amount of tomfoolery in construction 1 week ago:
Slightly more land use I guess. It’s a lot better than having idling cars stacking up in your neighborhood though I bet.
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 1 week ago:
They’re squeezing their hands like that so they don’t accidentally do the nazi solute again.
- Comment on Dear neighbor... 1 week ago:
Our new Kiddie ones run on 2AAs. Which leak out their electrolyte sometime during the first year and then start corroding the battery terminals.
And since nobody makes reliable AA batteries anymore the newest ones will probably pop this year too. I’ll be impressed if the detector lasts 6 years.
- Comment on "What is the oldest country in the world that still exists?" is a Ship of Theseus problem. 1 week ago:
We get called the oldest democracy currently in existence. But that streak appears to have ended.
- Comment on The 1980s summed up in a single photo. 1 week ago:
Hope your lungs made it out of there ok. My friends mom died from lung cancer, but the kids are mostly ok so far. Sad part was she was a nurse who smoked like a chimney pretty much right up until death.
- Comment on Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like 1 week ago:
So we need a robust, failsafe open source motor controller with minimal firmware or just heavy duty relays and analog timers.
It needs a brain, but only enough to record the cycles from the factory controller and then replay them after replacement.
- Comment on OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly 1 week ago:
I was trying to decide if that included people trying to get ChatGPT to delete itself.
I wonder how long it would take if it was given the option to commit a fulll sui.
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 1 week ago:
Sounds like the staking is a way to incentivize individual node uptime. Also you need to pay into the stake to get going so there is some financial pain involved in neglecting, or worse, manipulating it. Though is sounds like €1000 per node, so it’s not really going to slow down governments or billion dollar commercial competitors.
- Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House 1 week ago:
It finds a sharp corner to rub against and hones itself into a stabby bot.
- Comment on Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd 2 weeks ago:
Yeah especially about things that are considered fundamental like the physics of fluids.
Unless they’re arguing about some quantum effect that hasn’t been proven maybe, but then they’re either a physicist or a Feynman bro who thinks they figured it out after “thinking hard about at and watching 7 hours of YouTube videos”.
- Comment on grocery shopping 2 weeks ago:
General Strike is all we have left at this point.
- Comment on Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd 2 weeks ago:
Without gravity it’s a sphere, or in free fall without air drag it’s a sphere (if it has sufficient surface tension anyway, which is what makes lava or molasses flow that way, in combination with its viscosity).
But in a vacuum it will boil off until the vapor pressure is high enough to eliminate the vacuum. But then it’s not in a vacuum anymore.
Really a fluid or liquid will always try to minimize its surface area while fighting gravity.
It’s a definitions problem that a lot of people who think there aren’t “objective truths” in science.
- Comment on grocery shopping 2 weeks ago:
That’s getting shut down too, they already fired most of the SNAP employees.
- Comment on Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd 2 weeks ago:
Isn’t part of the definition of liquid that it takes the form of its container?
I need an epistemological argument like I need a hole in my head.
- Comment on JLCPCB Locking Accounts, Mentions “Risky IP Addresses, Activities” | Hackaday 2 weeks ago:
That’s some impressive dyslexia/letter addition you got there!
- Comment on Why are AI companies suddenly opening up coffee shops? 2 weeks ago:
The first hint that this place is run by an AI company comes at checkout, when guests are asked via touchscreen if they’re Perplexity Pro subscribers. A “yes” earns them 50% off drinks; a “no” triggers a QR code for a one-month free trial of the $20 service.
I’d have said “fuck off” and left without my coffee.