greedytacothief
@greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 11 hours ago:
That’s what I was thinking, it’s not even a glass fiber-optic. Works fine for audio though and lasers are cool, so it all balances out
- Comment on 4 days ago:
What are they called is Basque?
- Comment on Typical monopoly people 1 week ago:
We got some fun ones by me too, like Ausable river, that comes from French. But we pronounce it Ah-sable(but sable like a sable hair brush)
- Comment on until next year 1 week ago:
Reading one piece is like planting a tree, the best time to start is 20 years ago.
- Comment on 700+ self-hosted Git instances battered in 0-day attacks 2 weeks ago:
Dunno, I just don’t believe my NixOS config files are particularly valuable. What is the benefit of sharing garbage code from a novice? I’d rather share things worth sharing, that could be useful to someone else.
- Comment on 700+ self-hosted Git instances battered in 0-day attacks 2 weeks ago:
I do the same thing. Anything I put on there isn’t something that I would share with the Internet anyway. If it was a serious project, sure. It’s just nice to have a personal git you can access over a VPN sometimes.
- Comment on Scheduling is hard 3 weeks ago:
My disagreement with the show came primary from the premise that we rely more on technology than we do on people(not sure he was trying to make that point but the whole thing about loss of electricity leading to bad anarchy leads me to interpret it that way). However I also believe that with our technology we could be very close to a post scarcity world.
We could feed everyone, house everyone, etc. at our current level of technology. Should we decide we want to increase contentment by giving people more free time we could. It’s because some people value other things that we do it the way we do.
- Comment on Scheduling is hard 3 weeks ago:
My disagreement with the show came primary from the premise that we rely more on technology than we do on people(not sure he was trying to make that point but the whole thing about loss of electricity leading to bad anarchy leads me to interpret it that way). However I also believe that with our technology we could be very close to a post scarcity world.
We could feed everyone, house everyone, etc. at our current level of technology. Should we decide we want to increase contentment by giving people more free time we could. It’s because some people value other things that we do it the way we do.
- Comment on Scheduling is hard 3 weeks ago:
How much work do we actually need to do to maintain our lifestyle? I’d say a lot less than we’re currently doing. Just think about all the waste that goes into Bitcoin. What about insurance, or any number of jobs. Humans create systems (or that’s what I got out of that episode of connections) but those systems are not necessarily efficient at benefiting equally.
- Comment on Scheduling is hard 3 weeks ago:
How much work do we actually need to do to maintain our lifestyle? I’d say a lot less than we’re currently doing. Just think about all the waste that goes into Bitcoin. What about insurance, or any number of jobs. Humans create systems (or that’s what I got out of that episode of connections) but those systems are not necessarily efficient at benefiting equally.
- Comment on Bread mold 3 weeks ago:
So I can’t actually find anything from a quick search that tells me what “bread poisoning” is. Searches show results for both moldy bread as well as ergotism. Just about every source on the Internet tells me that eating a bunch of moldy bread should just give you a bad case of shits or vomits. But if someone is immunocompromised or has gut issues it could be worse.
But if this was ergot poisoning that’s different and doesn’t have much to do with ordinary bread mold.
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 3 weeks ago:
One of the best things in games that aren’t super polished or balanced is figuring out how to exploit the game. It gives you the same kind of feeling you get from getting to the end game in Gothic (or something like that). Getting powerful through your own skill and commitment to the game. Steady progression is good sometimes, but so is feeling progress.
Also yeah sometimes I cheat in single player games
- Comment on Insulin 4 weeks ago:
If I’m remembering the original sysntesis for insulin used dogs, and it was harvest from them after being killed. It’s unjust that insulin is so expensive, but also modern production methods are not the problem here. It’s greed.
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 4 weeks ago:
I have to practice pretty hard to do that, it’s much easier in a journal than in my head to dialogue. Do you find it helps being mindful?
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 4 weeks ago:
Mine don’t stop either, but it’s just constant words. Are your thoughts mostly images?
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 4 weeks ago:
Some people also don’t have an internal monologue. I’m probably a 3 or 4, it takes significant effort to see something in my head. But my thoughts a words and they definitely have a voice.
I assume there is a scale for how well we can imagine every sense.
- Comment on spongebob big guy pants okay 4 weeks ago:
I think there’s nematodes that we’ve blended up before, but instead you get a bunch of nematodes instead of just one.
- Comment on Calling all Dickheads! 5 weeks ago:
I’m about 200 pages in, it’s really good. But I wish there was a primer I could read about the themes, symbols, and historical context of the book. Just so I know what I’m looking out for. Searching for things on the Internet has gotten frustrating though. I did find the website that has notes about what all the words mean though.
- Comment on How do you beat post-work floppiness? 1 month ago:
Probably not helpful but when I was roofing and at work for 11-12 hours a day, getting home and going for a short run really helped out (~4 miles). Something about that cardio gave me more energy and would guarantee I’d at least take a shower after. I think I was only running 3-4 days a week then.
It’s also a great time to decompress, just being alone with your thoughts a little. Then for a while after your heart rate is elevated and you’ve got some extra energy.
- Comment on xkcd #3167: Car Size 1 month ago:
It would probably be quieter than any of the diesel pickup trucks on the road too!
- Comment on Perfection 1 month ago:
I think the period that this book was illuminated in was from later when really fancy books was more of a business for the church. Usually the very early illuminated books were made by a single monk doing most steps of the process (prepping parchment, calligraphy, painting, binding, etc.) but the later books like this may have had different artists for the illuminated letters vs the borders. So there could have been one monk that just likes sea stuff and he was too good for the other brothers to tell him to stop.
Source: mostly vibes, but I’ve dipped my toes into illumination and guilding
- Comment on Plant Protection 1 month ago:
I just remembered that shaggy mane, another dung loving species, tends to grow on leech fields or wherever septic tanks live. So I think they will just grow anywhere there’s poop, no need to be eaten.
- Comment on Plant Protection 1 month ago:
I believe Psilocybin cubensis evolved with this in mind, where the spores get on grass, then they do their funky thing in the cow guts. Cow poops them out and the mushrooms come out of the cow pies.
- Comment on Over the past ~20 years, Google became the de facto entry point for learning new skills and information. Google also sucks now. This is a really big problem. 1 month ago:
Hmm, I would assume most candles are vegan being made of either paraffin or soy wax. Bees wax tends to be more expensive since it takes a long time for bees to make wax. The flame from bees wax is also smaller and less bright. Am I wrong about this assumption?
- Comment on PC Master Race 1 month ago:
Is liquid cooling even worth it these days? I’ve always used air cooling and just vacuumed my pc every once and a while.
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 1 month ago:
There’s quite a few good ones in the “Breakcore” genre like “machine girl” and “femtanyl”. I’m not sure they would consider themselves punk, but I have a pretty liberal definition of punk.
I also came across “blednost.” A little while ago, they’re pretty small. I just click on music that YouTube recommends a lot and find lots of small artists
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 1 month ago:
I listen to lots of punk music, especially in the electronic space. But I think people want to see another hardcore movement.
Really I see most people who actually try to make their own art as punk. The techno-fascists just want you to be complacent and consume content.
- Comment on card game shop 1 month ago:
Idk, humans have lots of different smells and some are more tolerable than others. Like if you don’t sweat much (not me unfortunately) you can definitely go a day without showering. The worst human smell might be a rotting tooth though, that’s really difficult to be around.
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 1 month ago:
I… I would not be brave enough to drive around in a “truck” like that. Like mad props for never out growing your edge lord phase.
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 2 months ago:
Oh no! Wait I don’t watch shows anyway.