adespoton

@adespoton@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are eugenics bad seen?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  As a neurodivergent person, let me just say that I have a great life. Why should you, or anyone else, get to make uninformed decisions about who gets to live based on inaccurate information?

  Also, just look at bananas to see where eugenics ends up. Crops devastatingly vulnerable to disease, ans companies like Chiquita creating slaves of entire nations that manage them. It’s not hard to extend this wrt humans.

  But really, the main reason is how tightly linked eugenics programs through history have been linked to fascism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. Entry level wages have stagnated while food and housing prices have skyrocketed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Exact same thing here.

  If you ignore any company related to “cloud” or “AI”, especially if you focus on tech jobs at companies outside the software industry, there’s still plenty of hiring fresh coders going on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  $165,000 tech jobs are still out there. Usually they require at least 10 years experience, or a masters in mathematics or data science.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why It's OK to Block Ads (2015)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Still true a decade later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would one exit a black hole?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d have to build them first.

  Anything more complex than an atom is going to be disintegrated before it even enters a black hole due to the intense energies at play at the interface.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Acquired a sliding mitre saw⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Because otherwise you can have it kick up a piece of something that flies out and embeds itself in the nearest barrier (likely you), or you might do something stupid and let a finger cross paths with the still spinning blade before the guard gets in the way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  These days, experience. I know it will pass, just like it always has before. And I don’t want to rob future me of all the potential opportunities just because current me feels like nothing is worth it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube turns to AI to spot children posing as adults⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So… my entire family has used the same YouTube account to watch videos for the past 15 years. Is this AI going to suddenly decide that the kids activity means the account belongs to a child? Or is that automatically offset by the adult comics shorts and the reality TV views?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Acquired a sliding mitre saw⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the Ryobi, right? Be very careful to wait until the blade has spun down after every cut before letting the blade up.

  I’ve used the low profile Bosch for years; it’s got an extra safety that takes some of the prayer out of making safe cuts. I still let the blade spin down with each cut though. And always use a proper clamp to hold the pieces down, including a sacrificial piece when needed to prevent chip out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Techrights — Internet Relay Chat and Gemini Protocol Help Us Relive the Net of the Dial-Up Era⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I tended to use moos, muds and mushes more than IRC. The servers crashed, but you never had to worry about netsplits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israel rejects UN allegations that its forces have sexually abused detained Palestinians⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I notice it rejects them instead of denying them….

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Senior Hamas Official to Trump: We Are Ready to Make a Fair Deal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s genocides back thousands of years.

  Meanwhile, the regular people living in the region just want to be left to live their lives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Antarctic researcher remains, working for Falklands’ Dependency, 66 years ago, found in receding glacier⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That took me a few parsings. At first I thought they meant a researcher had continued working around the glacier for 66 years, unaware that the world had moved on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit will block the Internet Archive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  OK, I stopped posting on Reddit but left my account and comments in place because I considered them part of the public record. If Reddit is taking that record private, it’s time for me to start removing my content from the platform.

  Does anyone know if historical Reddit content will remain in IA? If not, I’m going to have to back up years of content somewhere else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have some very old CDs, mostly retro video games. Is there a way to pull the games and data off the CDs for preservation?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The format (mixed mode, red book, multitrack, hybrid, etc.) is usually stamped on the CD.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have some very old CDs, mostly retro video games. Is there a way to pull the games and data off the CDs for preservation?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, because it records “all” the data.

  Other image formats also store the extended data at the start of the disc and the gap data between the tracks, but unless it’s an odd format or has some really nasty copy protection, that information isn’t usually useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have some very old CDs, mostly retro video games. Is there a way to pull the games and data off the CDs for preservation?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the CD. If it’s just a data CD, iso is the way to go. If it’s a mixed mode CD with data plus audio, bin/cue will preserve the audio tracks but iso may not. Also, mixed Joliet/HFS CDs can lose one of the formats if imaged with an iso imager.

  The big thing is that you want to image the entire CD and not just the most recent track on the CD.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the easiest types of internet videos to make that are not slop?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whatever it is you can talk engagingly about, unscripted. Following that, whatever you can talk engagingly about, scripted.

  Doesn’t matter if you’re actually doing the voiceover; just having the ability means less time setting up shots and editing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump announces peace deal between Azerbaijan and Armenia at White House⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Azerbaijan and Armenia have agreed to no longer fight in the Oval Office.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨String Theorists Accidentally Find a New Formula for Pi⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So in other words, they discovered a more complex starting point from which to observe pi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Inverse Thinking] How do I make sure my place gets messy again after I thoroughly cleaned and organized it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t schedule and organize your life, so you’re constantly having to drop what you’re doing to respond to an event you could have planned for.

  Have children.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An Unexpected Path to Hold War Criminals Accountable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Spain and Belgium, it appears.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice that watches ranging from £16 to £200 already support USB-C. My two Garmin watches both have (incompatible) unique charging/data ports.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kratsios: NIST needs ‘to go back to basics’ on standards for AI, not safety evaluation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To me, it’s too late for NIST there. China is driving the agenda in AI now, because the US took too long to get organized.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No. Please no. Learn another instrument and some music theory before playing a shaker. People can totally murder a piece of music with a badly played shaker, throwing off all the other musicians.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who’s been a drummer for over 30 years, let me say that drummers very much cover other drummers. Most of my drum practice has been practicing other drummers’ patterns and techniques.

  But percussion is generally more rewarding than limiting yourself to an 8-piece drum kit or a cahone. Piano is a percussion instrument after all. But my favourite percussion instrument is the djembe — really versatile drum once you learn how to use it. Second favourite is kettle drums — but they’re rather niche.

  Things I recommend a beginner percussionist avoid are tambourines and shakers. They’re easy to play badly, and you really need to master rhythm before you can make them sound good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why not harmonica? They’re likewise keyed instruments and can be taken anywhere.

  I’d argue though that the easiest instrument to pick up is a stick.

  The easiest to learn music theory from? Any keyboard based instrument (piano, concertina, accordion, harmonica (virtual keys), autoharp, etc.). Bells, glockenspiels, vibraphones and xylophones are pretty easy too, but you need the aforementioned sticks as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wi-Fi 8 won't be faster, but will be better - more details emerge just hours after Wi-Fi 7 protocols are officially ratified⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Second is the rise of AI-powered systems that depend on fast, reliable access to edge or cloud-based intelligence.

  I’m sorry… what?

  Is that just word salad? I’m not seeing “AI” as being anything but an excuse there. On the cloud side, AI involves server farms with physical interconnects. Same for endpoint AI, and edge server AI.

  Are they saying that accessing these systems depends on fast, reliable access? Like, faster and more reliable than using Google from your web browser over the past 20 years?

  The whole point of ML systems is that all the heavy compute and speed dependent stuff happens somewhere with dedicated bandwidth to handle it, and the interface can be slower and lossier because the service can take more steps without guidance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know how Duckstation does it, but Retroarch cores (Beetle/Mednafen and PCSX) support widescreen?