Hamartiogonic
@Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on the self-hosting rabbit hole is a bottomless pit, isn't it? 1 week ago:
Turns out, asklemmy just banned that account for being a bot.
- Comment on YSK: How to perfectly seal a bag of chips (or anything similar) without any clips or ties. 1 week ago:
The real tip is in the comments.
- Comment on the self-hosting rabbit hole is a bottomless pit, isn't it? 1 week ago:
Posting this much isn’t normal. Looks very fishy to me.
- Comment on xkcd #3164: Metric Tip 2 weeks ago:
There bananas and four kiwis.
- Comment on xkcd #3164: Metric Tip 2 weeks ago:
😂 That was wild!
- Comment on xkcd #3163: Repair Video 2 weeks ago:
It’s a whole rabbit hole of tutorial videos. Try all the different methods to see what you like. I think the “restaurant style” might be your thing though. It involves doing the whole thing in a bowl of water.
- Comment on xkcd #3163: Repair Video 2 weeks ago:
Also applies to peeling/cutting exotic fruits. Like, how do you even open a pomegranate without making your kitchen look like it came straight out of a horror movie? Turns out, there are several ways.
- Comment on how do you explain selfhosting to the non-techies in your life? 3 weeks ago:
Like a cab, but it’s your car and you take care of everything.
If you need a car only once a year when going to the airport, a cab will be cheaper. If you need to go somewhere at least once a week week, driving your own car will be cheaper. Likewise, if you need only a little bit of cloud storage for your photos, free iCould or Google Drive might be fine. If you need a whole lot of storage, self hosting becomes cheaper.
When you take a cab, do you need to worry about maintenance, gasoline, insurance or other things? No. Same goes for cloud storage. When you throw your photos on Google Drive, you don’t need to worry about electricity bills, security updates or hardware maintenance.
When you drive your own car, you need to be a responsible driver and a car owner. Maintenance is your responsibility. Likewise, self hosting means you need to be a responsible server admin.
- Comment on Bill Gates Says China Is Outspending the World on Nuclear Power 3 weeks ago:
Political decision making is the only real bottleneck here. It’s not a technical issue.
- Comment on Bill Gates Says China Is Outspending the World on Nuclear Power 3 weeks ago:
If we invest in grid energy storage, we might be able to skip nuclear entirely. In the meanwhile though, we’re kinda stuck. The way I see it, nuclear power is an intermediary step that is hard to avoid.
- Comment on xkcd #3150: Ping 1 month ago:
You wo_ld nly ge a f_w pa_ts h_re _nd the_e.
- Comment on xkcd #3150: Ping 1 month ago:
Would love to see them try this with the Message In a Bottle protocol. Would probably take a few centuries, but still…
“Hi, I’d like to hear a TCP joke.”
“Hello, would you like to hear a TCP joke?”
“Yes, I’d like to hear a TCP joke.”
“OK, I’ll tell you a TCP joke.”
“Ok, I will hear a TCP joke.”
“Are you ready to hear a TCP joke?”
“Yes, I am ready to hear a TCP joke.”
“Ok, I am about to send the TCP joke. It will last 10 seconds, it has two characters, it does not have a setting, it ends with a punchline.”
“Ok, I am ready to get your TCP joke that will last 10 seconds, has two characters, does not have an explicit setting, and ends with a punchline.”
“I’m sorry, your connection has timed out. Hello, would you like to hear a TCP joke?”
- Comment on The 0% discount 1 month ago:
If you’re really good at customer service, you’ll say the price just went up 10% this morning, but since you’ll get a discount of the same amount. Basically just the normal price, but it feels nicer.
- Comment on xkcd #3148: 100% All Achievements 1 month ago:
Here’s another exploit. You and your academic buddies could each have their own Journal and use them for publishing without any suspicious traces leading back to you. Let’s say Sally starts SPLAT, the Studies in Pointless but Laughable Academic Topics. Nelly starts NOPE, the Journal of Nonsensical Observations an Preposterous Experiments. Meanwhile Pete starts POOP, the Proceedings of Outlandish and Outrageous Postulations.
Nelly can be an editor of SPLAT, while Pete can publish all his papers there. Likewise, Pete would be an editor of NOPE and Sally can publish her papers there. Finally, Sally would be an editor of POOP and Nelly would publish her papers that way. It’s a happy love triangle where everyone wins.
- Comment on xkcd #3148: 100% All Achievements 1 month ago:
That’s how you play the game!
- Comment on xkcd #3148: 100% All Achievements 1 month ago:
Can confirm. For example, Egypt made university education free (or very cheap) for all Egyptians. Nowadays, they are pumping out countless medical doctors who get employed all across the Middle East. Probably not the highest quality medical care, but it’s still better than nothing.
Now that I think of it, many countries offer free or very affordable university education for their citizens. What’s wrong with America? Even poor African countries make education accessible.
- Comment on xkcd #3148: 100% All Achievements 1 month ago:
That’s like using a mining bot in Minecraft. You just go AFK, and when you come back you have a hundred diamonds.
- Comment on xkcd #3148: 100% All Achievements 1 month ago:
But wouldn’t that mean you end up with as much debt as a small country?
- Comment on xkcd #3148: 100% All Achievements 1 month ago:
Paul Erdős found an exploit in the end game. All you have to do, is collaborate with everyone you come across. It doesn’t even matter how small your role is in each paper as long as your name appears somewhere in it.
- Comment on xkcd #3148: 100% All Achievements 1 month ago:
How do you choose when every major’s terrible? That’s the thing — you don’t. Gotta catch them all, amarite?
- Comment on Double harvest: Vertical solar panels and crops thrive side by side 1 month ago:
On top of that, vertical panels stay cooler, which enhances efficiency. Such a counterintuitive thing.
- Comment on World’s first AI-designed viruses a step towards AI-generated life 1 month ago:
What could go right.
- Comment on Have you tried self-hosting your own email recently? 2 months ago:
I really like the idea of having my own server, where I could have a bunch of cool stuff like email, VPN, Nextcloud, and so much more. The primary reason why I don’t have a server like that, is because I can’t trust myself to follow the best practices. For a while now, I’ve been thinking that I should hire a proper professional to take care of all that.
- Comment on Researchers revive the pinhole camera for next-gen infrared imaging 2 months ago:
Yeah well, passive components are nice, but occasionally you just need to spend some energy to keep the components doing its thing.
- Comment on Researchers revive the pinhole camera for next-gen infrared imaging 2 months ago:
Is that a problem though? As long as the new camera is better than the old one, it should be fine.
- Comment on xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure 2 months ago:
That 8” mark though 😂
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I get my American slang through Hollywood and Internet, so the curriculum may not be entirely comprehensive at times.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Oh. That’s a new one for me.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Had to look at my keyboard to translate that.
- Comment on How fast could a human accellerate (while staying alive)? 2 months ago:
If you’re only live threateningly injured doing analysis, but die 5 minutes later, it counts as a win.