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- Comment on Hazardous substances found in all headphones tested by ToxFREE project 4 hours ago:
Sheepskin earpads it is!
- Comment on Unreal Tournament 2004 is now grabbable for free and optimised for modern PCs, thanks to dedicated fans 22 hours ago:
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 2 days ago:
I remember when we’d say, no highs no lows, must be Bose. They must have over-corrected.
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 2 days ago:
Maybe because other games are more fun?
- Comment on Fighting games have a product design problem 3 days ago:
And that’s fine, not every game has to be for everyone.
- Comment on Games you fell out of love with. 4 days ago:
World of Warcraft. Was addicted for the first hundred hours but then was disillusioned really quickly.
- Comment on Most food animals are smarter than a baby. 1 week ago:
Semantics? Trying saying that in a court of law.
- Comment on Most food animals are smarter than a baby. 1 week ago:
I understand that this is a shower thought, but you can only jail and murder human beings.
- Comment on Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun 1 week ago:
Since LLMs are a statistical model unless enough people use thorns, it’s very unlikely that the model will use one. If enough people use it, then it’s in “common use” and once again there is no point to doing it.
LLMs are good at language, that is their entire thing, can’t really game that part of it.
- Comment on Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun 1 week ago:
As long as they provide the payment network, the banks and merchants are free to make the rest of the customer facing functionality.
- Comment on The AI boom is so huge it’s causing shortages everywhere else The $700 billion AI spending spree has few precedents. Good luck finding an electrician or a reasonably priced smartphone. 1 week ago:
They only want to socialize the costs and negative externalities.
- Comment on What's your opinion on Ubiquiti/Unifi gear? 1 week ago:
Came here to say same thing. Mikrotik is great, although RouterOS doesn’t support Ipv6 Neighbour Discovery in a highly useable manner yet. Fantastic otherwise.
- Comment on TSMC to make advanced 3nm chips in Japan 1 week ago:
Is there anything that’s good against earthquakes?
- Comment on Game companies see share prices plummet following the launch of Google's very limited virtual world generator, Project Genie 2 weeks ago:
Fair enough! Although I did not enjoy either, personally.
- Comment on Game companies see share prices plummet following the launch of Google's very limited virtual world generator, Project Genie 2 weeks ago:
Wow! Look at all the fun I’m going to have walking around!
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 2 weeks ago:
Make a TV that can accurately reproduce really high contrast ratios and don’t put any pointless software on it. Display the image from the source with as much fidelity as possible, supporting all modern display technology like VRR.
That’s all I want from a display.
- Comment on Why did I feel so hungry today for no reason? 4 weeks ago:
There are various tests for pre-diabetes, such as the homa-ir or hba1c assays. You could ask your physician to see if they can help you with that.
- Comment on Indonesia first country to block Grok over sexualised images of adults and children 5 weeks ago:
Well done Indonesia.
- Comment on Let's end Anti-Circumvention. We should own the things we buy! 5 weeks ago:
That’s conversion therapy. This is about the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea.
- Comment on Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards - X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it? 5 weeks ago:
More proof that rules and guidelines only apply to those without money or privilege.
- Comment on Regardless of where you are in the world, the clock above the driver on buses is never accurate. 5 weeks ago:
Computerised system here, clocks appear synced up to NTP
- Comment on Do drug dogs ever get addicted when working or during training? 1 month ago:
Do drugs work the same way on dogs?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I was curious about what it’s in, so I looked up Wikipedia:
Diethanolamine is widely used in the preparation of diethanolamides and diethanolamine salts of long-chain fatty acids that are formulated into soaps and surfactants used in liquid laundry and dishwashing detergents, cosmetics, shampoos and hair conditioners.[5] In oil refineries, a DEA in water solution is commonly used to remove hydrogen sulfide from sour gas. It has an advantage over a similar amine, ethanolamine, in that a higher concentration may be used for the same corrosion potential. This allows refiners to scrub hydrogen sulfide at a lower circulating amine rate with less overall energy usage.
In things found at home it appears to be mainly soaps and cosmetics. These substances in particular:
Some of the most commonly used diethanolamides include:
- Cocamide DEA - DEA-Cetyl Phosphate - DEA Oleth-3 Phosphate - Lauramide DEA - Myristamide DEA - Oleamide DEA
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
In all seriousness, alcohol tends to kills bacteria so I would expect that it would make them sad. But we know so little about our gut microflora, either way.
- Comment on The phrase "my world is brighter with you" is literally true 1 month ago:
You’re not so bad yourself!
- Comment on France targets Australia-style social media ban for children next year 1 month ago:
Ban it for everyone imho.
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 1 month ago:
The situation has changed. Overtime pay is now mandatory, and so is the reporting of the number of hours worked. Whether the hours are accurately reported or not is another matter. 25 years is a long time to assume that nothing has changed, I must say.
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 1 month ago:
I’ve been considering using my phone only for tethering, and doing anything on the go on a ultraportable Linux laptop. If anyone is doing this already, I’d love to hear about your experience.
- Comment on Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Continuous Glucose Monitors 1 month ago:
The Dexcom is far more uncomfortable also, in my experience. The filament causes a red spot and aching in my arm, but the Libre 2’s does not.
- Comment on Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Continuous Glucose Monitors 1 month ago:
Is this behaviour for a particular sensor, like the Libre 2, or do they affect all of them?