CannedYeet
@CannedYeet@lemmy.world
- Comment on If I shut off the internet how many days do you think it would take before people lose their minds? 3 days ago:
We’ll just have to go out Californey-way to find some internet
- Comment on It's indecent 1 week ago:
That’s an AASS. Unlike the Game Boy Pocket, which had a flat AAASS.
- Comment on Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses 2 weeks ago:
My camera can record videos of ICE abuse. Are they gonna ban that?
- Comment on 💩. 2 weeks ago:
If you’re trying to solve your poop problem with Brain Octane, your head is up your ass.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
The world is full of assholes and it’s not my job to pick a fight with every one of them.
Also, they’re giving away free software. Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.
- Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 2 weeks ago:
Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects on insulin. Recorded on 05/26/2009.
- Comment on What flavor are marshmallows? 2 weeks ago:
Gelatin
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know the ideology of 99.9% of the developers of the software I use. I don’t want to know it. The license is all I care about.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
If you want rsync but shiny, check out rshiny
- Comment on How does the Chinese government even work 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on If sexuality is a spectrum, does that mean one person is the gayest? 4 weeks ago:
Whenever someone breaks a barrier as “The first gay…” remember that they’re technically “the gayest…”.
- Comment on How does the Chinese government even work 5 weeks ago:
I wish I had a source on this, but I heard that bribery of government officials is the norm. They don’t get paid much so it’s expected they take bribes. But their bosses keep them in line. And the weird thing is that it actually works kind of well to make sure things get done, compared to the gridlock faced when trying to build houses or public transit in most cities in the US.
- Comment on Make it make sense 1 month ago:
Except the person next to you or behind you gets frustrated and cuts you off and you have to hit the brakes and create a traffic pulse.
- Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 2 months ago:
Actually we have “right to try” laws for the scenario I described.
But the FDA could use some serious reform. Under the system we have, an FDA approval lumps together the determinations of whether a drugs is safe, effective and worth paying for. A more libertarian system would let people spend their own money on drugs that are safe even if the FDA’s particular research didn’t find them effective. And it wouldn’t waste tax payer money on drugs that are effective but exorbitantly expensive relative to their minimal effectiveness. But if a wealthy person wants to spend their own money, thereby subsidizing pharmaceuticals for the rest of us, that’s great in my opinion.
- Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 2 months ago:
It’s not that simple. Imagine you’re dieing of a rare terminal disease. A pharma company is developing a new drug for it. Obviously you want it. But they tell you you can’t have it because “we’re not releasing it until we know it’s good”.
- Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 2 months ago:
As an exercise to remove the bias from this, replace self driving cars with airbags. In some rare cases they might go off accidentally and do harm that wouldn’t have occurred in their absence. But all cars have airbags. More and more with every generation. If you are so cautious about accidental detonations that you choose not to install them in your car, then you’re being too cautious.
I can’t agree that they’re not being cautious enough. I didn’t even read the article. I’m just arguing about the principle. And I don’t have a clue what the right penalty would be. I would need to be an actuary with access to lots of data I don’t have to figure out the right number to provide the right deterrent.
- Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 2 months ago:
There’s actually a backfire effect here. It could make companies too cautious in rolling out self driving. The status quo is people driving poorly. If you delay the roll out of self driving beyond the point when it’s better than people, then more people will die.
- Comment on pegged 2 months ago:
This would be a good use for Pepsi nitro
- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 2 months ago:
Reminder, when you don’t do things by the book, the perp wins in court on technicalities or wins on appeal. For example, see Harvey Weinstein.
- Comment on It’s the little things 3 months ago:
You can add a wetting agent to water to decrease the surface tension
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 3 months ago:
Perspective matters. There’s a couple things you can do to majorly reduce your carbon footprint. Beyond those it gets increasing difficult to have smaller and smaller effects. At some point the next most effective things to do with your time and effort become
- do activism
- earn more money
- to buy offsets
- to donate to activist charities
The time and effort you spend living like a weirdo has an opportunity cost that you could be doing those things. Furthermore it looks bad. There was a study that found that when you tell people that tackling climate change requires major sacrifice, they became more likely to deny climate change is even real.
- Comment on Oatmeal 3 months ago:
A bag of dicks
- Comment on The Legends is among us 4 months ago:
I worked with chatgpt to since I’m not a python dev, and this is what I came up with
from time import time class PlaySession: def __init__(self, data: dict): self.guild_id = int(data['guild_id']) self.user_id = int(data['user_id']) self.timestamp = data['time'] def is_longer_than_half_hour(self) -> bool: return self.timestamp + 1800 < time() async def resolve_member(self, bot) -> "discord.Member | None": guild = bot.get_guild(self.guild_id) return guild.get_member(self.user_id) if guild else None @staticmethod def is_playing_league(member) -> bool: activity = getattr(member, 'activity', None) name = getattr(activity, 'name', None) return name and name.lower() == "league of legends" async def ban_for_league(member): await member.send("The 30 minutes has elapsed and you are still playing league, get banned.") await member.ban(delete_message_days=0, reason="playing league") async def process_entries(bot, entry_dicts): sessions = [PlaySession(d) for d in entry_dicts if PlaySession(d).is_longer_than_half_hour()] for session in sessions: member = await session.resolve_member(bot) if member and PlaySession.is_playing_league(member): await ban_for_league(member)
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 4 months ago:
Marty ate some of someone else’s pizza
- Comment on Bachelor Chow slabs, anyone? 4 months ago:
Gotta be Mac and Cheese inside. What the Canadians call Kraft Dinner.
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 5 months ago:
It’s a service. It doesn’t just run in the browser.
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 5 months ago:
Noo! I loved Pocket. It’s integrated into my Kobo eReader. It was the only good way to get articles easily synced on to an eReader. I hope Kobo buys Pocket. Or Rakuten, since that’s a tech company and they own Kobo.
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 5 months ago:
Land Value Tax would solve this.
- Comment on When New Jersey Switches Prison Tablet Companies, I’ll Lose 10 Years of Family Memories 5 months ago:
He was sentenced to prison for that crime. It wasn’t part of his sentence for everyone to impose their own abuses and disrespects on top of that.
- Comment on Resistance is futile 5 months ago:
I use Linux. Can someone explain this meme to me?