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- Comment on I'm saying that when you're ready you won't need to dodge Bond James Bond's bullets 14 hours ago:
There’s still good movies coming out these days, just far fewer of them. Steer clear of the blockbusters and the really low effort slop and there’s still a few mid-budget original movies made every year generally.
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 1 day ago:
Only with the correct iOS version though.
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 1 day ago:
Back when people made a big deal about iPhone planned obsolescence, they were actually easier to repair than most competitors. Nowadays it’s about the same.
- Comment on It's so annoying when you just can't spell 1 day ago:
Birch. Coniferous trees are north-south, deciduous trees east-west.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved 1 day ago:
You could eliminate a bunch of systemic issues with a trillion dollars that would amount to essentially ending many of the effects of poverty for most people in poverty I would think.
Things like food insecurity, shelter, etc.
You’re right that just spending a trillion dollars as a one off grant to everyone in poverty wouldn’t do much, though. It’d need to be used strategically.
- Comment on Does anyone know what's inside this building? 1 day ago:
Likely still occurs. Nowadays the equipment is different but most of the communications on the east coast go through thar building I believe?
- Comment on Does anyone know what's inside this building? 1 day ago:
Oh ffs is nobody normal? Why does every actor have to be a sex pest?
- Comment on Never ride in a car with a guy who just got dumped 1 day ago:
It’s the sudden stop that gets ya
- Comment on Dead 2 days ago:
- Comment on She's out of town and I'm cleaning her entire collection as a surprise 2 days ago:
Isn’t canola or rapeseed essentially the same oil? I mean not all rapeseed oil is canola, but most food-grade rapeseed oil is canola I think? As canola refers to a particular cultivar of rape that is better for human consumption.
Just nitpicking/wondering.
Anyway, do you have suggestions on how to clean it after use and also when do I need to re-season it?^1^
I got my first ever cast iron pan as a birthday present and I’ve been scared of it so far, haven’t seasoned it yet, because the instructions vary quite a bit in different places and honestly I haven’t had a lot of time either. But I hear cast iron pans are the best for making a good steak or burger indoors^2^. And apparently great for frying other things too, just not great for simmering sauces for several hours because sometimes sauces are acidic because tomato?
^1^ I know, I know, I can just google or chatgpt or local-deepseek it. But I like talking to strangers online, and I like getting people to share their advice, particularly on the fediverse so that maybe it’ll show up on someone’s search results a decade from now on a non-commercial search-engine that favors non-commercial websites. One can only hope.
^2^ I’m a grill guy, but in Estonia the weather between the beautiful -20C and snow and the beautiful 20C and sunshine, is disgustingly wet, smoggy^3^ overcast where you not only don’t want to be outside, you don’t even want to live in the country anymore. And there’s max 6 hours of daylight. If you can see the light behind the clouds. It’s fine grilling in the spring, summer and proper winter when it’s frozen over and snowy. But much of autumn and winter, I don’t want to even step out of the house when I have to, let alone voluntarily.
^3^ Outside of soviet-built commie blocks districts or new developments, a lot of houses are older and have wood furnaces. It’s being reduced slowly through grants for people who convert their heating systems to less smoky ones (newer furnace, chimney reconstruction, heat pumps, or joining a remote central heating network), but that takes time, many many more millions of euros than are currently being pumped into it by the government, and it doesn’t stop my neighbour from burning construction leftovers in his sauna furnace that’s entirely separate from his house. He owns a construction company and us Estonians love our wood-burning saunas over the newer electric ones.
- Comment on Microsoft Can't Keep EU Data Safe From US Authorities 3 days ago:
Okay so AFAIK this concerns when US companied have foreign subsidiaries. What if foreign companies have US subsidiaries? Can the parent company’s data stored outside the US be required from the US subsidiary?
- Comment on Microsoft Can't Keep EU Data Safe From US Authorities 3 days ago:
No I’m pretty sure money was the original reason. AWS was the first big cloud player and it quickly became the most profitable part of Amazon.
Now Microsoft already had more money than they know how to use, they may indeed have been looking for control first and foremost. But the idea of cloud in general was about exploiting economies of scale to make more money
- Comment on Never ride in a car with a guy who just got dumped 3 days ago:
Done 200 in an Audi 80 from 1992 and only stopped there because it got scary in that light old car lol
The Germans also specifically make cars to cruise at high speeds so 240 is safe as far as the car itself is concerned.
- Comment on The Guy Claiming That You Have TDS 4 days ago:
Yeah I’m not sure I can source any C11H26…yaknow.
I’m also not sure I’d want to. That stuff is naaaasty
- Comment on RIP Dick 4 days ago:
Waterboarding at Guantanamo bay sounds fun if you have no idea what either of those things are
- Comment on Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco 4 days ago:
Waymo/Google has aligned itself with Trump and there are a lot of cameras on those cars. I suspect that was a reason back then. Now there’s more.
- Comment on grindr dump (in post body) 4 days ago:
Almost makes me wish I was gay. Getting some strange would be easier at least lol
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 4 days ago:
Sounds like we have the same ex kinda.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 4 days ago:
I mean salesperson is gender neutral and stupid cunt is pretty gender neutral too, even if it originally referred to female genitalia. Somehow genitalia based insults have become gender neutral, or some of them at least.
- Comment on Bewildered enthusiasts decry memory price increases of 100% or more — the AI RAM squeeze is finally starting to hit PC builders where it hurts 4 days ago:
Assuming that you don’t need the absolute tightest timings and highest speed, you can get 192 GB from Corsair for “just” 660 euros where I live, pretty far still from 2000 euros. The speed and timings are the same as the 1300 euro kit, also from Corsair, it’s just that the cheaper kit has no RGB.
- Comment on Bewildered enthusiasts decry memory price increases of 100% or more — the AI RAM squeeze is finally starting to hit PC builders where it hurts 4 days ago:
They’ll also have a flood or electrical outage the millisecond demand starts to go down, so they’ll have to sell the old stock at inflated prices first before restarting production, oopsie-woopsie
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 4 days ago:
Wayland, formerly known as Twitter
- Comment on The Palantir Stare aka The Thiel Razzle 4 days ago:
I thought AI regulations were the anti-christ
- Comment on For those who have all the right answers for the rest of us 5 days ago:
I thought it was because John Cleese is moderately racist and he’s talking about racist humour lol
- Comment on What does Oracle actually do? | Good Work [11:47] 5 days ago:
He also vets republican presidential candidates for Israel. That’s the country where his loyalties lie, not the US.
- Comment on 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower 5 days ago:
Well, the peak output is a useless number, that’s just record chasing. I think the continuous output is the number we should be looking at. That is a bit more believable and also started in the article that that number is an estimate for now.
So IMO they’re not making any wild claims. There’s “we measured this huge output for a short burst” and “we think that over a long period, it can do this slightly smaller, but still impressive number, but it needs to be verified”
Will be cool to find out if the continuous output is close to their estimate of course, but even if it’s lower, it’s still impressive by virtue of the super low weight.
- Comment on 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower 5 days ago:
I’ll give them some credence based on the cars their motors are already used in and the fact that their parent company is Mercedes-Benz. Doesn’t look like they’re a bunch of grifters seeking investment.
- Comment on Is Kagy web browser worth it? 6 days ago:
To put you back on the fence, it had the best algorithm when I tested it some time ago. It showed me things I wanted by default. Google always needs some massaging and ddg needs a !g
- Comment on 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower 6 days ago:
They might work in the rear if used instead of rear brakes. Rears do far less work anyway and brakes are heavy. Powerful electric motors can do a lot of regen, similarly assisting the front brakes.
- Comment on 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower 6 days ago:
Steel wheels haven’t been common on anything but really cheap cars for a few decades now, but in general your point holds true. There’s heavier and lighter alloy wheels out there.
Still, these could be just tiny motors connected to the wheels via a short shaft on the rear especially. Instead of the huge monstrosities most EVs currently seem to use which are huge, as they also include gearing and such. Still leaves more space for battery without having to go unsprung with hub motors.