bluGill
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- Comment on YSK: The Lethal Danger Of Combining Welding And Brake Cleaner 4 days ago:
Wire and rust embedded in your skin is not good. In the eye is worse - I know of people who were wearing both a face shield and full safety glasses who got grinding dust in their eyes.
I don't have a good answer to the problem, nobody else likes any of their answers either from what I can tell.
- Comment on at what point in life it's too late to go back to school? 5 days ago:
i assume you mean as in your increased earnings will no longer pay the expense. The never too late crowd is thinking of school as a pure 'fun' activity which is a valid way to look at things but if you don't like school isn't for you and that is how I'm choosing to interprut your question.
the question is never answerable unil after the fact: I can calculate after you are dead. However I went to school with someone who went right to college, a mistake because he died in an accident at 21. Other people get mental decline in older years and so it is too late when they are no longer able to learn.
you can retire at any age when you have enough savings, but some people find it boring and will continue to work anyway - if this is you it can be worth it even if ecconomics don't work out if you get a job you like (or perhaps one that by not wearing on the body you can do longer)
many jobs pay for your schooling. if this applies the only quesntion is will you have to remain at the job longer than you want to afterwards.
if paying for your own schooling you can calculate the expected earnings after and compare to the cost to make a decision.
- Comment on Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith 1 week ago:
He also set precedence. A few more cases like this can the cost of going to court becomes cheaper for everyone.
- Comment on Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith 1 week ago:
That is part of what a phd can argue about....
I would argue that the registration cost is just a tax and you own it. But remember I'm arguing as a philosopher and not someone who can't see both sides or even thinks there needs to be one correct side.
- Comment on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux 1 week ago:
You can/should write your congressman (or equivalent in your country). Just the threat that if OSS can't use HDMI congress will open up the laws will get action. In a democracy voters have more power than big money when they care and vote like it.
- Comment on Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith 1 week ago:
The city of LA should not get a .com name. They might have a case that la.com should not have a .com either (they look like a tourist .org though if they are not acting like a .org they are scammers) - but this would be a very hard sell in court. The city of LA should have a .gov (which won't allow them) or .us (which is not organized well - something they should be mad about and pressure to get fixed) name.
- Comment on Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith 1 week ago:
Why not? You can't hold it, but why should that be a limit?
Note, phd's can easially be written on this subject defending either side. Some of those will say things like domains are not generally property, but for some situations we should treat them like property and in other situations not. I'm not expecting a response. I'm expecting everyone to think about the question.
- Comment on Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith 1 week ago:
He only adopted the moniker after failing to get Lamborghini to pay the very high price he wanted for the domain. If he wanted the domain to adopt the moniker he wouldn't have tried to sell the domain in the first place.
- Comment on Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith 1 week ago:
I will defend anyone when they are in the right, even if I otherwise hate them. I require proper due process for murders and other criminals who have done worse things that large corporations (most large corporations have committed murder - or at least not done it in a way that I can prove beyond any shadow of doubt)
- Comment on Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith 1 week ago:
if we are going to capitalism
Nobody is for capitalism, except as a derivative of classical liberalism. Capitalism might be useful as a tool in economics, but so is the "spherical cow" useful in physics - you can learn a lot but need to be careful as it doesn't apply to the real world.
Since nobody is going full capitalist we can ask what liberalism things - and that is a branch of philosophy much more complex than just pure economics. In this case Lamborghini is entitled to their property, which we know is their property because the Lambo guy was acting like it was - in many other domain cases there is at least some doubt.
- Comment on Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith 1 week ago:
Details matter. In this case the guy shouldn't have kept the name. On the one you mention the guy should have.
Of course in both cases I am lacking full information. It may be biased sources are giving me incomplete information and if I had all the information I'd change my position.
- Comment on Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith 1 week ago:
I don't care how much I hate someone, or otherwise how evil they are: when they are right I will support and cheer them. I can still oppose them in other ways, here they are in the right.
- Comment on Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith 1 week ago:
They are owned by the trademark when the person owning/using the name is acting like the trademark. Trademark law is generally based around would someone be confused if they say the other one. I could start a house construction business can call it Lamborghini without a problem so long as I was very clear in all advertising that I'm only building houses and not in any way related to the cars - but if I start putting Lamborghini cars in my advertising I could get into trouble for creating confusion even though my competitor Joe's houses has cars in his ads. (this is obviously a made up situation)
From the article "didn’t develop the site, had attacked the company on more than one occasion, and tried to profit from its established reputation."
If he had developed that site in what looked like good faith he would have kept it. However all indications were he didn't care about Lambo as anything other than a get rich quick scheme and that will fail to trademark since the name is only valuable if it is confused with the trademark. A parody site (obvious parody) would have been fine. Obvious star wars fan sites as welll (though this could infringe on other trademarks so care is needed). Even adopting Lambo as his nickname could have worked - but if that was his intent he wouldn't have tried to sell.
- Comment on New Community Rule: "No low-effort posts. This is subjective and will largely be determined by the community member reports." 2 weeks ago:
The problem is "Evil" people who see rules now know what abuse they can get by with and they have incentive to find all the weird loopholes the the rest of us wouldn't think of. I don't know a good answer to this.
- Comment on Who shops at small businesses? 2 weeks ago:
True, but be careful, many of those you list appear to be small business because the big corporate owners have decided to have different name out front which makes it look like small business but they are not. You can tell because they are trying to sell you "services" that you don't need.
- Comment on Which SBC for TV streaming? 2 weeks ago:
minis like the N100 when you are using it to do things has a lot more ability and uses a similar amount of watts (or can do a lot more for more for just a bit more watts). However when the box is just sitting there with the power on but otherwise doing nothing it uses more power than ARM based single board computers. So the real question is how much will they want to do when they are using it, and how often will that be. If they are watching movies/playing games for 16 hours a day the mini PC is the better answer and won't really cost more energy to run. If they are leaving this on, but only using it for a couple hours per month than a device that uses less watts will save money.
- Comment on Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone 2 weeks ago:
What I want isn't even physically possible. I still want it though. I settle for various compromises because I can't get what I want. This phone might or might not be a step in a better direction.
- Comment on Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone 2 weeks ago:
I want a keyboard, but not one with little keys with small travel. Give me a real keyboard, with real (preferably buckling spring) switches, and good travel. It still needs to fit in my pocket though - which is why I suffer with a touch screen so often. Sure I have a nice 60% Bluetooth keyboard (Cherry switches are not ideal but a large step up from most keyboards) , but it doesn't fit in my pocket and so I schelp it only when I expect to type a lot.
- Comment on Is there an optimal home/apartment size that most people would be happy with? 3 weeks ago:
It is my obwervatoin that as houses approach 325m2 people start looking for more luxury in the space vs more. Beyond that more space isn't needed unless you are rich enough to win the cities largest mansion competition and so people who are rich but not rich enough to compete don't go bigger even though they could.
Live in a pup tent and you want a bigger one, but in a bigger tent you start thinking lights or a cot before bigger.
there is of course a lot of variation. you can be happy in anything - but you will want more anyway until you get to about 325
- Comment on Why are love potions always romantic in nature? Why hasn't anyone made a non-romantic variant? 3 weeks ago:
Anti love potions exist and have been regularly used since before recorded history. We call the poison.
- Comment on what do you use to add weight? 4 weeks ago:
Used it as a pattern to cast it in metal
- Comment on Microsoft says Copilot will 'finish your code before you finish your coffee' adding fuel to the Windows 11 AI controversy that's still raging 4 weeks ago:
The AI is doing it though. I type "in [tab]" and I get the whole line. Sometimes I don't even have to type anything.
I've never been able to get an AI promt to write useful code though.
- Comment on Microsoft says Copilot will 'finish your code before you finish your coffee' adding fuel to the Windows 11 AI controversy that's still raging 4 weeks ago:
I like auto complete because I'm a terrible speller I'd write "int countOfCommplixThang", but auto complete guesses "int countComplexThing" Sometimes it even comes up with a better name than I would
- Comment on Do I need a NAS ? 4 weeks ago:
NAS can be two different things.
NAS is just "network attached storage": a computer that has a bunch of disks attached to your network. IF you put a single disk on your network and nfs/samba to share it you have created a simple NAS - I strongly recommend you put in more drives for redundancy, but that is all NAS is.
Often NAS is taken to mean not just the above, but a custom machine that does the above. The downside is these custom machines are often slow, and put weird hardware/software on them such that if the whole box breaks (as opposed to just a single disk failing which they are good at handling) you may not be able to recover anything. One variation of this you want more space and discover you can't upgrade it at all. They are an easy way into NAS, but the downsides are such that I can't recommend them anyway.
- Comment on Do I need a NAS ? 4 weeks ago:
Many NAS work like that though. Hardware RAID always seems to work like that so if you get a fancy card that supports RAID you been make sure you have a good long term support contract that will be there for you when there are problems (if you are not paying hundreds of thousands per year you don't have a good support contract)
Not all are that way. Many run ZFS which is great for this and you can replace broken hardware and recover. BTFS is commonly used as well, probably not as good as zfs but likely good enough.
- Comment on Family Email w/ Custom Domain 4 weeks ago:
I've been using fastmail for a long time for this now. I've been happy, not to expensive. I'm surprised they haven't been recommended, normally when the question is asked there are a million fastmail recommendations
- Comment on Why do languages sometimes have letters which don't have consistent pronunciations? 4 weeks ago:
There are 26 letters in the latin alphabet. There are between 38 and 49 sounds in English depending on dialect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_phonology (I've seen reports as high at 56 but I can't find sources so I'll stick to Wikipedia which is often accurate) There is no way to have nice spelling in English. Some languages using the latin alphabet have various accent marks which help. At this point the dialects of English are different enough that reformed spelling would need to start with reforming how we pronounce words. (there are other alphabets in the world, I have no comment on if any would be better)
- Comment on Why do languages sometimes have letters which don't have consistent pronunciations? 4 weeks ago:
English was written long before the printing press. However it always (at least to my knowledge) used the latin alphabet which predates any written English I can find by more than 1000 years. Note that I'm not an expert on English linguistics, so if is someone claims something before 1200 I'm not aware of it but that doesn't mean they are wrong.
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters? 4 weeks ago:
Changed my family dashboard from magic mirror to a home assistant dashboard. I'm missing some cute things, but the major functions work better, and I get some options that I didn't before.
- Comment on YSK that in 1994, Ukraine voluntarily gave up nuclear weapons. Europe and the United States promised they would defend Ukraine if it was ever threatened. 5 weeks ago:
The US promised to bring this to the UN security console and did. However Russia has veto rights on the UN security console and so this went nowhere.