adespoton
@adespoton@lemmy.ca
- Comment on VS Code for Linux may be secretly hoarding trashed files 15 hours ago:
VSCodium would have the same Electron caching issues though, wouldn’t it?
- Comment on Philippine lawmakers weigh impeachment for President Marcos 1 day ago:
Like father, like son.
- Comment on Finland to introduce 'green wave' automated system for emergency vehicles 1 day ago:
We have a system like that locally. Emergency vehicles have transponders that go on when the siren turns on; all the lights in the two block radius around them turn red and a white light flashes at the intersections.
Works quite well.
- Comment on How on earth do I fix my trackpad? 1 day ago:
Do you know which trackpad you have?
I’ve had that experience before on some laptops where the battery that sat right under the trackpad started to inflate.
- Comment on Firefox's AI Kill Switch Lands in Firefox Nightly, Slated for Firefox 148 1 day ago:
There should never need to be a “kill switch” for a feature the developers have full control over.
Just make it opt-in. An AI kill switch makes me think that they’ve got a setting that will block all known AI interfaces and generated content, which is not what this does.
- Comment on What are some good places online to earn certificates or degrees that you can who you a prolific in said subject? Hopefully something free maybe medical coding? 2 days ago:
Ah; so you want a collection of “yes, I can do this” items.
It’s not free, but I highly recommend night school courses in trade skills (welding, basic electrical wiring, basic plumbing and pipe fitting, etc).
- Comment on Committing serious crimes can now lead to loss of Belgian nationality 2 days ago:
Anyone who has acquired Belgian nationality in the last 15 years and is found guilty of a serious crime – including homicide, sexual assault and organized crime – can be stripped of their nationality
- Comment on What are some good places online to earn certificates or degrees that you can who you a prolific in said subject? Hopefully something free maybe medical coding? 2 days ago:
That can show you are prolific?
Wouldn’t you want to excel in the subject instead of just being prolific?
- Comment on Finland's Ministry of Justice is considering halting its plans to start using US-hosted cloud services 3 days ago:
Ericsson was doing great until it got swallowed up by globalization.
The one-two punch of the US and China shuttered a lot of viable global infotech companies.
- Comment on Are there any reputable cybersecurity experts that I could just email them to ask for free advice? 3 days ago:
A lot of cybersecurity experts have already put a lot of free information online.
- Comment on Can workers compete with machines and stay relevant in the AI era? 3 days ago:
The main threat is straight out of The Matrix: energy consumption.
In a time where more and more parts of the world are having water and energy supply issues, we have AI server farms springing up that consume as much power as a small city… leaving humans with higher costs and less power available.
As for the rest, AI sucks at trades currently, and will only be replacing information worker functions in the near term. Of course, since suppliers compete for work, AI will be mostly an add-on, where the losers in the short term will be those who don’t add it on.
In the long term, those who are very focused in how it is leveraged will win, because you still need to train new humans, and that’s difficult to do if all the junior work is being handled by AI.
So in 50 years or so (if not sooner), we’ll see the full effects of this push to integrate AI at all costs, both on expertise and on the environment.
- Comment on What is the best way to drop 50lbs in two months without spending alot and no fad diets? 3 days ago:
Ignoring metabolism and focusing solely on food calories consumed and exercise calories burned.
While calories are basic physics/chemistry/biology, they say nothing about the health of the individual. Not eating anything for a month to burn through your fat reserves isn’t going to leave you thin and trim.
- Comment on What is the best way to drop 50lbs in two months without spending alot and no fad diets? 3 days ago:
I do breakfast at 7, small snack of nuts at 10, lunch at 12:30, small snack at 2, dinner at 6, and absolutely nothing after dinner.
Meal volumes get adjusted depending on what I’m trying to do with my weight.
That 7-7 fast gives my body time to properly digest food and means my cholesterol spikes properly when I do eat food. This means fewer cravings, so the entire process becomes easier.
- Comment on What is the best way to drop 50lbs in two months without spending alot and no fad diets? 3 days ago:
Daily exercise only counts if it’s cardio and not muscle building. Otherwise the fat gets converted to muscle, which weighs more than fat.
Of course, weight loss shouldn’t ever be considered the end goal, and building muscle and having your weight go up/stay the same is perfectly fine to become healthier.
- Comment on If the government raided your house and found a bunch of .mkv files but you insist its all legally obtained, how do they ascertain if they are actually pirated or not? 3 days ago:
I knew a guy who had a pirated copy of Office, and was doing a presentation for a law enforcement branch of government where the crack screen popped up when he launched his PowerPoint presentation.
After the presentation he was told to go and buy a legitimate license and show them proof he’d done so.
- Comment on what do I need to look for when buying running and pull up gloves? 3 days ago:
I loved my Bontager riding gloves; used them for 30 years before they fell apart. They were the fingerless kind; worked great for cycling and pullups/weights; not so good for running/pilates/yoga.
For running, I have some merino wool cutoffs with a leather pad and flip top mittens. Used them for 20 or so years. I usually start wearing them when the temperature gets close to freezing; being able to flip the mitten tops on and off helps a lot with temperature control.
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 3 days ago:
I run a Jellyfin server for anyone who has VPN access to my internal network.
However, there’s “plex server” posters with QR codes on them on telephone poles in my area, that seem to have a subscription portal you have to go through to get an account.
So there are definitely people attempting to make some money off of pirate plex servers.
- Comment on What do you do when you're lacking direction in life? 4 days ago:
Start small; don’t commit to always being there; just do drop-ins. Or contribute to a github project. There’s lots of ways to volunteer that don’t involve running the program.
- Comment on Is it true that in the US we are a low context culture and In France, they are high context culture? The video I'm going to attach explains the differences. 5 days ago:
So… the theory itself is low context?
- Comment on What do you do when you're lacking direction in life? 5 days ago:
Find somewhere you can volunteer. Doesn’t have to be with something you’re interested in, but it helps.
- Comment on How do I keep a brand new one of these mats from wanting to keep curling up on the ends? 5 days ago:
I’ve seen people use low profile corner weights on those before. They’re little triangular weights that slip over the corners. May not be legal in some areas due to being a tripping hazard.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Rebuild trust… by integrating more mandatory and default-on server-based features?
- Comment on Designer DNA could revolutionise cures for diseases 6 days ago:
There’s only one way to permanently cure all diseases.
- Comment on Question for the Americans. If Canada, Venezuela, Mexico, or Greenland dropped a nuke on Washington DC, would you be angry at the bomb dropper, or would you think we had that coming? 6 days ago:
Why would they target DC instead of Mar-a-Lago?
- Comment on Before social media/internet/cell phones/landlines/payphones; how would 2 friends living across the same city arrange in person meetings and stay in touch? 6 days ago:
Depends on where you lived.
In some places, you’d leave a note with someone you knew the recipient was going to see that day. In some places, note passing was quite an artform, including special paper folding to protect the contents from prying eyes.
In Paris, they had the tubes — the entire city was plumbed with vacuum tubes, and you could write a note or even pack a small object into a capsule with an address, drop it in your local receptacle, and it would zip across town in minutes to the recipient address.
In other places, markings on trees, mirrors, flags, smoke signals and various musical instruments and bells have been used.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Tesla ending Models S and X production, converting Fremont factory lines to make Optimus robots 6 days ago:
Optimus robots? Do they have a crossover truck model called Prime? Is it actually a decepticon?
- Comment on Why do people pronounce ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) like it's a word? 1 week ago:
Welcome to the English language, where there are two sets of rules to follow (Germanic and Latin) and social linguistic development often eschews both.
- Comment on Why do people pronounce ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) like it's a word? 1 week ago:
Did you know that acronyms are types of words?
And many modern words are elisions and concatenations of words we no longer use.
Where do you stand on OK, where it’s actually a word, or laser and modem which are nouns with specific meanings even though they were derived originally?
What about cole instead od coca cola, cocaine and compressed coal?
- Comment on Why do people pronounce ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) like it's a word? 1 week ago:
SQL, back in 2015, officially transitioned from being pronounced Sequel to being pronounced EssQueueEll.
I still call it Sequel.
Then again, I say U R L, but also pronounce URI as Yuri. I also say L O L instead of Loll and I R L instead of Earl.
And then there’s mixed acronyms like Jaypeg and Empeg.
- Comment on Why do people pronounce ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) like it's a word? 1 week ago:
Er, aren’t you disproving your own point there?
There’s two ways GIF can be pronounced, so we use both.
Beats having to say “Graphical Interchange Format” or spelling it out every time we want to communicate with someone.
The goal is to condense meaning as much as possible without losing the original context.
Although with some acronyms, it actually takes longer to pronounce the acronym than spell it out, and we still pronounce it because of vocal flow (easier for the mouth to string those shapes together).