shane
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- Comment on optimal amount of syrup 5 days ago:
If you look at the image on the left you’ll see that 5 of the smaller squares won’t fit in the big one.
- Comment on You're cured! 5 days ago:
A highly trained phrenologist still cannot diagnose personality problems by feeling bumps on your head.
- Comment on The FCC decided that all foreign-made consumer-grade Internet routers are prohibited from receiving FCC authorization and are therefore prohibited from being imported for use or sale in the US. 5 days ago:
Yeah, Reagan was always talking about small government, and then he blew up the deficit with unchecked spending. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on The FCC decided that all foreign-made consumer-grade Internet routers are prohibited from receiving FCC authorization and are therefore prohibited from being imported for use or sale in the US. 5 days ago:
All countries spy on each other.
I definitely agree about being more worried about the US spying than China though.
- Comment on 3D Print some math. 1 week ago:
It’s not AI is it though?
- Comment on Human experimentation, one way or the other. 1 week ago:
That was just the first hit I got from DuckDuckGo. Look it up yourself and find whatever resource you trust, other than your gut feelings.
- Comment on Human experimentation, one way or the other. 1 week ago:
Except statistically wealthier people have more kids.
- Comment on 13,492% sudden interest increase in local Alabama news station 2 weeks ago:
Apparently lots of people are obsessed with this too:
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
One alert daily reporting that there are no alerts is probably good for a home lab…
- Comment on Why is the USA attacking Iran? 3 weeks ago:
Germany was worried about a two front war, with Russia slowly getting ready to help Serbians on the east. They decided to try for a knock-out attack against France by going through Belgium. They made it shockingly close to Paris, before their efforts stalled.
- Comment on It would be so interesting if humans didn't have a gender assigned at birth and could choose who they want to be. 4 weeks ago:
It can be done:
- Comment on Botanic nomenclature 4 weeks ago:
Gorilla gorilla gorilla
- Comment on A modest proposal 4 weeks ago:
Definitely. Generational divide is another tool of capital to reduce solidarity of the working class.
- Comment on President Donald Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems 4 weeks ago:
This is amazing. Thank you!
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 4 weeks ago:
I guess so that the police can know whether to say “stop resisting ma’am” or “stop resisting sir” when they pull the driver from the vehicle and start beating them?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s we started to be able to use WiFi on laptops and connect to the Internet with some mobility.
Almost everyone had the fantasy of working from the beach or their garden in the sun.
It turns out that sitting down trying to read a screen in direct sunlight for hours sucks ass, which everyone who tried it discovered before moving back indoors.
- Comment on "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade 4 weeks ago:
For me it’s the opposite.
My preference is itch.io, then GOG, then Steam.
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 5 weeks ago:
Well that’s disappointing to hear. Although it makes me glad that I am too cheap to buy one. 😅
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 5 weeks ago:
I mean, there are Purism phones. Super expensive, but they keep selling out so I guess they are reasonable.
- Comment on Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State 5 weeks ago:
Keep in mind that the book is very old, published in 1931. DNA hadn’t been mapped, information technology was limited, and so on.
In the book, people are born in factories. Working class people are born in from split cells, as quintuples if I remember correctly. Your role in life is largely determined by your genes - workers don’t have the psychology for anything but labor.
In spite of that, it’s not an especially oppressive society. There is a “perfect” drug, soma, which is sort of like a non-addictive, non-physically harmful heroin that can be delivered by gas. When there is unrest, security forces come in and get everyone high until they chill the fuck out.
Sex is open and easy, but always completely voluntary by everyone involved. When people are turned down they are sometimes surprised but never upset or aggressive.
Entertainment is presented as vacuous, but the people seem to enjoy it. There are movies, TV, and so on. Sports are engineered to require people take trains out of town to stadiums, and require deliberately-complicated equipment to play, in order to create demand for production.
So… is that a dystopia? There is no discussion of environmental damage, but overall it seems sustainable, not predicated on infinite growth. People are stuck in the role they were born to, but it seems like there are no artificial barriers to advancement… just that not everyone can be good at everything.
- Comment on Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State 1 month ago:
Definitely. A world where people are happy and healthy and live basically fulfilling lives. There are a few fanatics who opt out, and they’re unhappy. Go figure.
- Comment on Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State 1 month ago:
I don’t find Brave New World to be especially dystopian. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on Based on this graph, and this graph alone, guess at what time I completely blocked OpenAI crawlers 1 month ago:
If you’re relying on Cloudflare are you even self-hosting?
- Comment on aspirations 2 months ago:
The kids are alright.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 2 months ago:
Kind of like elderly people in eastern Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union?
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 2 months ago:
Kind of like elderly people in eastern Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union?
- Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs 4 months ago:
Helium came first!
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 4 months ago:
I always find the same study referenced, which was good science but also almost 30 years old. I wonder if this is still true for modern batteries?
- Comment on Pow-- 4 months ago:
All people are people. Dehumanizing someone is a great technique for authoritarian regimes, but should be resisted by everyone else.
- Comment on necessary read 5 months ago:
It’s a short, easy read…