Trainguyrom
@Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
- Comment on this post is just 42kib 2 days ago:
Oooh now we’re getting into drive formatting choices and filesystem quirks!
- Comment on this post is just 42kib 2 days ago:
I was grabbing some files originally made for some old DOS software a few years ago and the site had a warning for the 20MB text file download. Like, my good friend that’s just the front page of CNN these days! Thank you for your concern but now it just seems quaint rather than thoughtful
- Comment on Youtuber Geekerwan has find the motherboard of Switch 2 and after reverse-engineer it have simulate the performance on a similar PC 3 days ago:
The big benefit is that much horsepower allows the phone to very very rapidly “race to sleep” in that the faster it can crunch the numbers then return to a much slower clock the less power it’ll consume overall
- Comment on Tesla bait-and-switch: Cybertruck owners won't get Autosteer feature they paid for 3 days ago:
Oh absolutely, and at PayPal he had multiple cofounders to do all of the hard work for him
- Comment on Tesla bait-and-switch: Cybertruck owners won't get Autosteer feature they paid for 4 days ago:
Elon Musk clearly has enourmous skillset at managing startups from their early stages though their explosive growth stages. He’s successfully done so both with Tesla and SpaceX. Unfortunately his management skills are clearly incompatible with running a large company that makes up a notable portion of a market. He should have stepped away from Tesla about a decade ago. He should have stepped away from SpaceX about 5 years ago. He should be known for growing a promising disruptive startup into a true market player then immediately handing the reigns away and moving onto the next startup, but his ego is simply too big for that, and he doesn’t seem to have the introspection to see the damage he’s doing to the companies he built up
- Comment on Tesla bait-and-switch: Cybertruck owners won't get Autosteer feature they paid for 4 days ago:
Honestly, while not a scientifically rigerous test, it does demonstrate through absurdity the real risks of computer vision only for driver assist features.
Real world examples including of course the Tesla that plowed into a white truck on a foggy day because it mistook the truck for absolutely nothing among too many others
- Comment on Tesla bait-and-switch: Cybertruck owners won't get Autosteer feature they paid for 5 days ago:
Seriously what is it with the Archer writers having far more subject matter expertise (and creating jokes by depicting accurate reactions to action movie tropes) than almost any other show?
- Comment on Tesla bait-and-switch: Cybertruck owners won't get Autosteer feature they paid for 5 days ago:
My base model 2019 Sonata has pretty decent blind spot monitoring too. A couple of days after I got the car it’s blind spot monitoring saw a speeding vehicle going too fast for me to see it coming (they turned off of another street a handful of houses up then must’ve floored the gas) as I was backing out and went flying past. It literally saw the speeding car through another vehicle and gave me enough warning to stop safely.
Sometimes it does yell at me that a fence is present at the edge of the lane I’m merging into, but it’s just alerting beeping that can be disabled with 1 physical button press so it’s very useful for rush hour beltline driving, even if I have yet to have it spot a vehicle I haven’t in any other situations
- Comment on glugluglug 5 days ago:
Thanks I hate it
- Comment on i truly believe that there's an open war between Humanity vs. Advertisers and their allies. 5 days ago:
The wildest part is that advertising has become so poisonous that now over 50% of a Americans use as blockers and over 1/3 of people world wide. It’s not just techies installing adblockers for their grandmas, it’s become mass market!
- Comment on Better have done his homework 5 days ago:
I was expecting Canadian Bacon!
- Comment on Better have done his homework 5 days ago:
I happened upon a Mexican place in Belvedere Illinois. I knew it was a good sign when they brought 3 bottles of salsa with basic homemade labels and chips that did not appear to have come from a bag. Then I spotted that the menu differentiated between Mexican style and American style tacos. Then to take our orders a man who appeared to be at least 80 and a teenager came up with the teenager translating for him.
Naturally the food was to die for. I have a feeling I’ll be eating there every time I drive through Belvedere
- Comment on Prices are out of control 6 days ago:
Diet and sugar-free sodas are all marketing BS. It’s all meant to get one to think it’s “healthy” rather than “less terrible”
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 1 week ago:
I think setting up a reverse proxy for accessing Jellyfin would be fine, just make sure you’ve got your firewall setup accordingly to limit exposure should someone gain access to the container/VM running Jellyfin
- Comment on Banker At US Firm Hospitalised With Pancreatic Failure After 110-Hour Workweek 1 week ago:
I pulled an 11 hour workday recently between my main job and my side-gig. With my current insane commute I spent waking to going to sleep either working or commuting. The next day I crashed hard after work and went to bed with a massive migraine immediately after returning home from my full time job. My limit is clearly ~10 hours in a day even with a breaks peppered in
- Comment on List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs 1 week ago:
Building off of this, the PDF standard supports all sorts of craziness. It can have embedded math and logic similar to excel files, to the point there’s templates available for banks which will automatically calculate entire loans (including weird ones like balloon mortgages and variable interest rate stuff) without leaving Adobe Reader, and the recent Doom PDF and Linux PDF projects exploit the fact that pdfs support embedded javascript.
There’s also an actual market for enterprise PDF templates like the banking ones I described with automatic calculations and whatnot. So some people literally make their living selling PDFs to businesses that businesses actually use
- Comment on List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs 1 week ago:
I used it briefly in a class around 2015ish. It worked about as well as any Adobe software does, but honestly it was really difficult to use and quite frankly it probably would take just as long to learn the HTML and CSS skills necessary to make a decent website as it would to learn how to make one in Dreamweaver
- Comment on Future apocalypse movies won't have survivors scavaging abandoned cars. 2 weeks ago:
10 miles is about 1 hour’s bike ride or 2-3 hours of walking. There’s a reason rural America has a town every 20 miles or so, that’s about half a day’s travel by foot, or one can feasibly go to the next town, do something that takes a while and return back by horse or bike within a day
- Comment on Philosophy moment 2 weeks ago:
Wait they’re talking on the phone in the classroom during a lecture? That’s messed up. I can’t say I’ve encountered that either of the times I’ve gone to college.
Maybe you could pull the individual aside after a class that they’ve disrupted and ask them nicely to step out of they get an important call? Then of course if that doesn’t help you could escalate by speaking with the instructor about your concern
- Comment on Philosophy moment 2 weeks ago:
At least you didn’t accidentally quote Hammerhead
“So you can all hide behind your desks now And you can cry teacher come help me Through you all, my aim is true”
Brilliant song and it’s cool hearing Dexter perform unclean vocals but also it can be too easily interpreted as aggrandizing school shootings
- Comment on Philosophy moment 2 weeks ago:
I mean in a situation where you truly can do nothing, giving the masses something to do at least makes them feel slightly less powerless
Also duck and cover would have been effective for some of the earliest nuclear bombs, just not the ones developed a few years later
- Comment on Philosophy moment 2 weeks ago:
In college you’re all adults who are there by choice to learn. But also many students are fresh out of highschool so it’s a fine line colleges have to walk between respecting ones rights and keeping the student body in order (and not letting the bad decisions of individuals become the reputation of the institution)
Adults can make a decision about if a phone call is important or not, if they need to dip out early or not, etc.
But yeah it’s kinda wild the hard shift in responsibility from being a minor to being an adult and ideally there’d be better transition for kids as they cross that bridge
- Comment on Philosophy moment 2 weeks ago:
When I was in school smartphones were kinda a thing but it was still early iPhone/Android days. The general practice was a powered off phone on one’s person is fine, but phones that are in use/ringing could be confiscated for the remainder of the period. I think that was because the school didn’t have a good method to handle too many confiscated phones in a day
- Comment on xkcd #3081: PhD Timeline 2 weeks ago:
Randall’s done several about climate change, more back when climate change denial was more widespread
xkcd.com/1321/ Cold xkcd.com/1379/ 4.5 Degrees xkcd.com/1732/ Earth Temperature Timeline xkcd.com/2500/ Global Temperature Over My Lifetime
Or just check the tag for “politics” on explainXKCD. Randall’s endorsed political candidates before as well as generally shown a general libertarian and later left-leaning bent
Oh also this one relatively recently was pretty fun
xkcd.com/2515/ Vaccine Research
- Comment on Things are about to finally change! 2 weeks ago:
We all know what comes after that supreme court ruling…
ARRRRROOOOOOO! Image
- Comment on What do office workers actually do? 2 weeks ago:
Oh I saw something where they demonstrated there’s zero security to BIMI, so it’s just a B2B scam to invent a new thing to charge their business customers for. I’ll see if I can find it
- Comment on The pipeline 2 weeks ago:
Needs some photocopier burns to complete the process!
- Comment on The pipeline 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Yep 2 weeks ago:
Honestly I just want some ideas for mixing up my style. I’m jealous of my wife and daughter for all of the fun dresses and jewelry and whatnot they can do but masculine outfits don’t really allow for many options
- Comment on Hardware recommendations 2 weeks ago:
That’s fair, and if you’re buying and have the choice, getting 7th gen or newer would be absolutely ideal
I think suggesting a system with a GPU before there’s a need for a GPU (especially when one could be added later) is a bit over the top though. Especially since local AI is kinda niche within homelabbers and media en/decoding can be done on the iGPU (and realistically for Jellyfin everything should ideally be direct-play since so much quality is lost with the real-time transcoding, so it shouldn’t be hit too hard for what transcoding does occur
Of course I say this all with my home server running off a 4th gen i5 and Jellyfin configured for GPU accelerated transcode on the iGPU. I’m sure it would be better on a better CPU and GPU but meh
