CompactFlax
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- Comment on Is it even feasebal to find 12 people who have not been screwed over by insurance for the Luigi trial? 18 hours ago:
That’s also an outlook that needs to change. The billionaires want to keep you just happy enough and just nihilistic enough that you don’t revolt.
- Comment on Is it even feasebal to find 12 people who have not been screwed over by insurance for the Luigi trial? 18 hours ago:
Very good point. That’s the “it couldn’t happen to me” attitude which is just ignorant.
- Comment on Is it even feasebal to find 12 people who have not been screwed over by insurance for the Luigi trial? 1 day ago:
Feasible
The number of people who think that healthcare in the USA is just about perfect is evidently quite high - or the situation would change. So, it probably is easier than you think. There’s a lot of healthy people out there.
- Comment on Is laying on your stomach every once in a while good for you? 1 day ago:
Sure.
- Comment on Is laying on your stomach every once in a while good for you? 1 day ago:
If it feels good you’re fine. It felt freaking awesome when I was recovering from a herniated disc as prescribed by a physiotherapist. Lying that way is at least as effective as “decompression” from a chiroquacker. I can’t imagine why it would be harmful.
If you’re scrolling and your neck isn’t supported your neck muscles will not thank you.
- Comment on ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users 2 days ago:
Ok, yaml is fair game for a LLM. Whitespace sensitive language should die in a fire, markup or otherwise.
- Comment on EU agrees deal to ban Russian gas by autumn 2027 2 days ago:
Next year bro, I promise. Just one more winter, bro.
Just checking, Germans still are building coal plants instead of nukes, right?
- Comment on ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users 2 days ago:
And nothing of value was lost.
- Comment on Have you noticed the new way of promoting horrible food by telling you it has lots of protein 3 days ago:
“Zero carb!” - a ton of artificial sweetener and fats. Makes up for the carbs twice over with fat, leading to pretty high caloric density
“Source of protein! - has some protein in it, perhaps more than another product in the category, but protein still is probably less than 50% of the carb content by mass, and also has fat. Never mind the quality or bioavailability of the protein.
Protein is starting to enter the zeitgeist as something that is helpful for muscle maintenance during weight loss and for helping with satiety. But like anything, if you don’t pay attention, reading the ad copy not going to help reach your goals.
- Comment on The President of the United States of America 4 days ago:
They don’t put the name tags on everything in the retirement home because the residents are so important. It’s because they forget.
Living in Florida might make you think it’s normal though what with all the retirees.
- Comment on Trump says he'll release MRI results but doesn't know what part of his body was scanned 4 days ago:
Words have meanings: non-invasive test
Follow-up tests may be invasive. That’s not relevant to the definition of “non-invasive test”.
Being scared of the possibility of finding something also is not relevant to the definition.
- Comment on Trump says he'll release MRI results but doesn't know what part of his body was scanned 4 days ago:
Doctor orders a noninvasive test, I take it. From that perspective, I understand it. But the man just doesn’t care to know … anything. His brain is just a steady stream of fake tits and tumbleweeds.
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 4 days ago:
That’s pretty good though! I kept reading about it how much power video cards draw. I need to get some measurements in under various load with mine. The big part is obviously drives.
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 5 days ago:
Those are good. I got tired of dealing with the unique trouble that comes of having drives attached with a USB JBOD
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 5 days ago:
Idle. Under load a bit more. It’s a mobile chipset, so it is efficient. Not as powerful as a desktop for sure but totally handles my basic workloads.
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 5 days ago:
My NAS draws about 25w (without drives). Show me an old PC with 6 3.5” drive bays that draws 25w.
- Comment on Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking 1 week ago:
“Why aren’t the proles making babies? I specifically requested it!”
- Comment on Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking 1 week ago:
It’s utter madness that healthcare professionals are allowed to work (in many countries) longer than truck drivers. It’s even more ridiculous that many countries have a medical doctor internship program that is designed by an absolute cocaine fiend assigning 30 hour days - and see nothing wrong with it.
- Comment on Inside Amazon: Who pays the price? 1 week ago:
Bezos’ mantra is cut, cut, cut and squeeze. Everything and everyone. Then ask for more. He’s the kind of guy who searches the backpacks of office workers on the way out, even when they’re being paid $200k a year. There’s middle managers all around the world who look at him as an idol. They’re awful people.
- Comment on Are they still underpants if you aren't wearing pants? 1 week ago:
Are pants underpants if you don’t wear something under them?
- Comment on Is there an optimal home/apartment size that most people would be happy with? 1 week ago:
I think there’s reasonable high and low bounds as you say, but i think there’s a lot of factors as others have said. Income, culture, and cost of living are big factors. If you live in the USA and basically need to do a weekly shop at Costco for a family of 4 you need a lot more space than a single person who is able to eat out for nearly every meal in a dense urban area with affordable and moderately healthy street food (so a tiny hot plate suffices as a kitchen). But a family of 4 living in an urban area with lots of shops might do the groceries on the way home from work several times a week and then the refrigerator doesn’t need to be enormous.
Lifestyle plays into it as well. If you have a serious hobby you need space for it - whether it’s sewing, machining, fitness, or gaming. If you live on a rural property, you need space to keep chickens and a lawn tractor and a lot more necessities than someone in a flat in London.
- Comment on No one else in the world matters but me 1 week ago:
Found the American.
Don’t tell him that in some countries it’s illegal to undertake!
- Comment on Libraries are cool 1 week ago:
Op provides the other reason that libraries may not want you to read a book and return it (other than putting it in the wrong place, which occurs). Libraries may be collecting data on usage.
- Comment on 'Hot knives and brute force': King Tut's mummy was decapitated and dismembered after its historic discovery. Then, the researchers covered it up. 1 week ago:
Mummy craze was wild. People were eating them as medicine, and they were viewed as a collector item
- Comment on Yes, I definitely do see the irony of this being posted to X 1 week ago:
Twitter peaked around 2012 I think.
- Comment on How do you handle junk email? 1 week ago:
Hard SPF and DKIM enforcement helps.
- Comment on Regulations restricting pay disclosure? 2 weeks ago:
It’s not laws that prevent disclosure. It’s laws that require it
states that do not currently mandate salary disclosure in job postings
other states with active pay transparency laws will not be considered at this time
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang complains about stock price slide during all-hands meeting — says market did not appreciate company’s ‘incredible’ quarter 2 weeks ago:
IOUs backed in turn by IOUs
- Comment on There should be a "last used combination" faucet handle for sinks so you don't have to balance hot and cold everytime during winter 2 weeks ago:
On demand recirculating works reasonably well but only for people who tolerate it. Push button, wait 3 min, water hot. It works for me but I know it’s way too much trouble for other people. It saves water and energy.
- Comment on Bracing for impact 2 weeks ago:
I’ve pushed the limits of the SAF a few times.
Noting that I could buy a new NAS every year with what we save on not Netflix is helpful occasionally.