YetAnotherNerd

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Admiral Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People (1982)⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  As a ln adult it pisses me off that I heard about her as a kid because of the whole “computer bug” thing, but only learned about the whole “invented the first compiler” as an adult. The minimization of women (Karen Sparck Jones, Katherine Goble, Margaret Hamilton… hell, even Ada Lovelace!) is a stain on the profession.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Admiral Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People (1982)⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  For those unaware, she was a driving force in technology. The one most people know her for was the creation of the term “computer bug”, but she helped create COBOL and helped develop the earliest compilers. She was smart as hell and one of the major innovators. You don’t know about her in part because she was military (this was only released a year ago) and because she was a woman.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The Russians admitted it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Faith IV⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah. Had no idea where that came from , so okay. Thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What to do with an old iPhone that I no longer use?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you stick it on its side, charging, it will run what’s called Standby mode. You can have widgets, clocks, etc. it’s cool overall, and I create a couple widgets so during the day I get some nice information while my phone is charging on my desk.

  There was/is a shortcuts client/server app where it would run things periodically for you

  But as others have said - women’s shelter, sell it, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Museums too. There are a decent number that have “adults night” now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evidence seems to indicate that research causes cancer in mice.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Mice aren’t meant for too much of ANYTHING. A friend in ChemE said the mice that got cancer from saccharin (Sweet N Low) were the size of plates, they had gained so many calories from such a large dose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Faith IV⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You forgot to blur out a fairly distinctive name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's frankly stupid of me to get annoyed when people at work ask me tech questions, I'm getting paid to give 0-effort answers.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wiki an FAQ with the simple ones. I’m not talking everything, since that’s its own wiki. But top 5 questions? Sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's literally science⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I personally love the cloud9, but the dygma looks fantastic. But I don’t mess with anything like ortholinear or Ergodox because the stagger is weird. Feker Alice looks cool too - it’s not mechanically split but does give the split curve feel like the MS Ergo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Delta Green⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Horror Tabletop RPG where the players are members of the government who’ve been conscripted into solving Lovecraftian mysteries and dealing with beasties and cultists. The developers are pretty busy overall, every couple years there’s a new trove of material.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Turns out Generative AI was a scam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, is that actually wonderful news? If it’s doing nothing for the GDP, and the GDP went up, something is still causing that, right? So does that mean the economy is in less of a bubble than we’d thought, that we’re actually growing despite AI?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Earbugld question: Does anyone actually like to silicone tipped earbuds over the solid plastic ones?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Silicone, 100%.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Privacy researcher debunks Microsoft Edge’s free VPN marketing, says it's "NOT a VPN"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That it doesn’t handle DNS requests is DUM. It’s a VPN-lite, but just for your browser, okay, that could be useful. But without DNS it’s giving a false sense of security.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's New Sales Data Is Absolutely Brutal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad he was so dumb as to show us. He could’ve been behind the scenes, throwing money at things but without anybody knowing. Thankfully, we now know what kind of person he is, and by extension which people are fine with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quidk! I need a chili recipe. What would you add to a pound of hamburger, diced jalapenos, chili powder and bloody mary mix?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Allow me to share a culinary secret that instantly upped my chili and other Mexican food: Either buy cumin seeds and toast them in a pan on stovetop then grind it, or buy mcCormick brand “organic roasted ground cumin”.

  And yeah, definitely the flavor of chili.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quidk! I need a chili recipe. What would you add to a pound of hamburger, diced jalapenos, chili powder and bloody mary mix?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cumin

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Enjoy some Weird Art with us!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It may be a federation/caching thing. I know that if you’re the first on your instance, that posts don’t show up until the first person subscribes or something like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta’s new deal with Nvidia buys up millions of AI chips⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the cirrrrrrrrrrrrcle of scaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Was t that the dot-com bubble, too, though? “Get bought by Google” was the plan for so many companies, they had no plans for profitability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You Can't Trust the Internet Anymore⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Off topic - on Voyager on iOS, and the thumbnail is upside-down? Anybody else?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Misanthropic And Evil’: Musk Rails Against Anthropic After Its $30 Billion Fundraise⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude, they didn’t care that their orange God killed an extra 600,000 ‘muricans. Why should they care about half a million brown people, kids or not?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no doubt Google mesh is for the exact same reason

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you describe that post sneeze smell?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Boogers. It’s when you realize you can smell boogers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exclusive: Microsoft’s 2027 Xbox could be a huge shift for the platform⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I find it far more likely it’ll be the dumbest terminal possible, connecting to GPUs in windows cloud and therefore mandating a subscription for it to do anything whatsoever. It also incidentally gives them a fallback when the AI bubble pops and they’re sitting on acres of unused PCs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can anyone help me decipher the words in Those Who Ride With Giants' track The Knocking Lord?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you tried emailing them? There’s a contact link on their site, thosewhoridewithgiants.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recreating uncensored Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some email programs did that, especially when there was special formatting involved. I seem to recall Thunderbird doing it in the past, as well as outlook.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It still hallucinates MSSQL functions, so I wouldn’t assume it will be great at .Net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to cool my body enough to not sweat while exercising?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wicking everything. 32 cool makes wicking underwear, there’s a wicking sweatband with a silicone band to keep it out of your eyes (and something called a gutter that is JUST the silicone band that routes it down the side.

  Form fitting wicking undershirts - The more body contact, the better, since you wanted to grab every bit of moisture and wicked away from your skin. But in my case, the sweat drips from my head to the sweat band, goes from the sweat band down to the back of the sweat band, which winds up touching the back of my wicking shirt, which winds up soaking it up, and then the wicking shirt absorbs a bunch of moisture off of me, and then the underwear also soaks up a bunch of the moisture

  Now, the problem you’re going to run into is everything is going to try and drip down that clothing to your shoes, and that I don’t have an answer for - but I know the stationary bikes have a fan and I wonder how much air that moves. But maybe you tuck a towel in near the shorts level and that soaks it up, and immediately afterwards it gets washed?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you spell the sound Transformers make when they transform?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wonder if there’s a book/novelization, since that would be canon.