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- Comment on How do I know if a medical issue should be addressed by a Clinic Visit, Urgent Care, or the Emergency Room? 2 hours ago:
It comes down to what’s open, how dangerous the condition is, and who was outfitted to do what.
If you’re having legitimate trouble breathing like you are filling your lungs and it’s not enough, or you can’t get enough air in your lungs for any reason, straight to the ER.
Unknown irregular heartbeat or chest pain that doesn’t go away with antacid, go to the ER.
Urgent cares near me generally have x-ray equipment. They’re capable of a few stitches, they can handle prescriptions for emergent illness. If you walk in there with a f’dup heart rhythm or breathing problems they’re going to call you an ambulance.
Scheduling something with your primary care is for all your other long-term needs. Preventative maintenance, blood tests, they can probably do an EKG and they should be the ones managing your long-term medications.
If you have something that feels urgent and the urgent care isn’t open the ER is always an option.
- Comment on Paralyzed Jockey Loses Ability to Walk After Manufacturer Refuses to Fix Battery For His $100,000 Exoskeleton 1 day ago:
I don’t think there’s any solid argument that precludes people from doing maintenance on their own car. There’s always some form of inspection or monitoring that can be done. Brakes in particular are perfectly reasonable. I particularly miss ease of maintaining drum brakes. They were literally designed to be maintained by the end user, you pull the wheel, The drum slides right off and the parts are readily available. If you want to get fancy you could buy a tool to help you remove the spring.
Things should be designed to be maintained by the end user and the end user could choose to go to a mechanic if they wanted to.
Honestly what we’re running up against at this point with car maintenance is design to cost. Every part that is maintainable on a car could be designed to be easily maintainable for a cost. Rather than the manufacturer paying that cost, there making us pay the cost at the mechanic. You can literally buy repair parts that are easy and convenient to work with that are improvements over OEM.
In the case we’re talking about for this article it’s literally a wire on a lithium ion battery pack in a wrist mounted device that failed that they’re refusing to replace.
And it’s not like he’s going to fall out of the sky and land in somebody’s backyard.
- Comment on Paralyzed Jockey Loses Ability to Walk After Manufacturer Refuses to Fix Battery For His $100,000 Exoskeleton 1 day ago:
The argument that because some people can’t, or won’t do a good job, no one should isn’t a very good one. Under that same logic you could exclude wiper blades.
You end up like New Jersey where you can’t pump your own gas. There are already guidelines and fixes for this wrapped around repairing your home power. You’re not allowed to architect major changes without the sign off of somebody who is a registered professional but you’re absolutely allowed to fix things that are already there.
For more people die from not fixing their brakes, because it’s difficult and expensive than ones who fix their brakes incorrectly.
- Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 1 day ago:
We own a few TVs but nobody actually watches them. If we’re all out in the living room there’s four phones out with four people watching four different things.
- Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 1 day ago:
And Amazon sidewalk.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 2 days ago:
Comskip has a pretty wide array of detection. They also look at percent scene change,volume , closed captioning, aspect ratios and duration patterns. The sweet part about the duration patterns is we know the contents supposed length. You could analyze the piece of media figure out how long it would be without it and look around for other options that are less obvious but make the right time code.
I’ve been using comskip for years, I suspect if it ends up being the tool we need will have an arsenal of people working on it to tune it for whatever YouTube’s doing.
They’re just looking to knock out the easy methods, they’re not going to try to wage a full-on ground war. Their primary goals are probably to stop ublock and brave, and keep YT-DLP from downloading without ads. secondary goals being to stop or slow down revanced, though I think Google’s going to try to do that for them in security.
I think the next logical step if they can’t block us with reasonable means would be to do some custom encryption in the app. Again not insurmountable but hard to crack out right.
I think using a server to download the whole steam with ads then remove the ads, compress and store the files is really the hardest thing for them to stop.
- Comment on How do I avoid enshitification of my keyboard and mouse 2 days ago:
I procure for my company I am not touching Logitech anymore.
- Comment on Keep Tier-One Applications Out of Virtual Environments 3 days ago:
Heh, whatever you do don’t do what everybody in the world has been doing successfully for the past 20 years.
- Comment on GitHub - WinampDesktop/winamp: Iconic media player 3 days ago:
27 years of tech debt will do that to you ;)
- Comment on YouTube Premium is getting a huge price hike in over a dozen countries, sparking user backlash. Some countries are experiencing hikes between 30% and 50% 3 days ago:
You got a scrap Roku and move into a platform that supports one of the ad-free clients but I wouldn’t do that just yet. YouTube’s about to shove in-stream ads down which is going to break every bit of that blocking for quite a bit It might turn out something else is the way to go by the time the dust settles.
- Comment on YouTube Premium is getting a huge price hike in over a dozen countries, sparking user backlash. Some countries are experiencing hikes between 30% and 50% 3 days ago:
This is just the pregame for unblockable ads.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 3 days ago:
There is software for commercial detection and removal from static MP4. That’s not a hard problem to solve.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 3 days ago:
I just hope they don’t start running commercials during the streams like quarter and half screen commercials over top the existing content. A lot of TV channels started doing that when DVRs first popped up.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 3 days ago:
Comskip, it’s not AI, and it works fine.
- Comment on Marques Brownlee says ‘I hear you’ after fans criticize his new wallpaper app 4 days ago:
Also the nature of a wallpaper app, maybe you just want to plop in get a wallpaper and scamper off into the sunset.
Matter of fact for the $50 a year price I could sign back up for a month twice a year and still come out on top.
- Comment on A courts reporter wrote about a few trials. Then an AI decided he was actually the culprit. 4 days ago:
So does GPT 3 and 4, it’s still in use and it’s cheaper.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 4 days ago:
There will probably be a hundred different tits for tats that we can only both dream of.
In the end, they have some form of knowledge of how many minutes of data they’ve sent you. You have the entirety of the MPEG stream and a cell phone powerful enough to do things to it.
There are different levels of crazy that can be waged If they were to do something like custom stream encryption to their client. We’d be playing cat and mouse with keys much like satellite dish hacking back in the day.
- Comment on A courts reporter wrote about a few trials. Then an AI decided he was actually the culprit. 4 days ago:
Alpaca is successfully doing this no?
- Comment on A courts reporter wrote about a few trials. Then an AI decided he was actually the culprit. 4 days ago:
You know what, don’t bother responding back to me I’m just blocking you now, before you decide to drag some more of that tired right wing bullshit that you used to fight with everyone else with, none of your arguments on here are worth anyone even reading so I’m not going to waste my time and responding to anything or reading anything from you ever again.
- Comment on A courts reporter wrote about a few trials. Then an AI decided he was actually the culprit. 4 days ago:
How helpful of you to tell me what I’m saying, especially when you reframe my argument to support yourself.
That’s not what I said. Why would you even think that’s what I said.
Before you start telling me what I sound like, you should probably try to stop sounding like an impetuous child.
Every other post from you is dude or LMAO. How do you expect anyone to take anything you post seriously?
- Comment on Is martial arts really that useful? 4 days ago:
The board breaking is just a small grift to increase your confidence. When you start out the person holding the board does most of the work to break the board. It’s several belts before the board start getting thick enough to put up a fight. All those boards are cut across the grain leaving short fibers that are able to snap.
You are training to dodge and block, Even redirect your opponent and use their actions against them. That’s not nothing. A lot of places will tack on a little disarmament and self-defense or run a class with that is the primary goal, But honestly you don’t want to use martial arts to try to take on someone with a gun or a knife unless it is absolutely necessary because there’s a high chance you’re going to get got.
Combat training is extremely useful, even play combat training, It puts you in a situation and has you react a certain way taking out some of the uncertainty and worry out of the situation. You start planning instead of reacting. But for the most part if somebody is threatening you with a gun or a knife you’re better off not trying to take it off of them and beat them up.
- Comment on A courts reporter wrote about a few trials. Then an AI decided he was actually the culprit. 4 days ago:
Good luck being pro AI here. Regardless of the fact that they could just put a post on the prompt that says The writer of this document was not responsible for the act they are just writing about it and it would not frame them as the perpetrator.
- Comment on A courts reporter wrote about a few trials. Then an AI decided he was actually the culprit. 4 days ago:
This is incorrect or perhaps updated. Generating new data, using a different AI method to tag that data, and then training on that data is definitely a thing.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 4 days ago:
No you don’t have to be able to detect it if you can’t skip. Since they’re injecting the stream directly every time you hit skip they move the counter and when you come back in it just continues to stream you the ad. Just let the time code go negative at the end of the video if you skipped.
All they have to do is not really care about minutes and seconds displaying correctly exactly if you’re working around with fast forward. Alternately they could also just disable fast forward and rewind if they detect you’re using it to abuse commercials.
I think Sooner or later, pretty much all blocking becomes a store the entire video with commercials and strip the commercials out with comskip end. If you’re just storing the buffer off, and stripping it out privately there’s not really a lot they can do about that.
- Comment on The Extreme Cost of Training AI Models. 4 days ago:
Kind of. Microsoft is offering to buy the electricity and put jobs and data centers nearby, the state is reactivating the site.
If more AI companies dedicate to buying vast amounts of electricity, there’s money and jobs in it
But if they eye companies start making concentrated demand, It won’t people with deep pockets long to figure out how to turn up some small scale high output plants.
- Comment on Telegram To Disclose Phones, IP Addresses At Authorities' Requests. 4 days ago:
Oh hell yeah it’s money. It’s called economic citizenship and there are plenty of countries out there that are willing to let you buy in with ownership of properties and business.
There are only a handful of countries out there that don’t allow dual citizenship.
- Comment on The Extreme Cost of Training AI Models. 4 days ago:
Maybe this is the push we need to switch to nuclear. The attack is good it just needs somebody with deeper pockets than coal/gas to lobby it.
- Comment on The Extreme Cost of Training AI Models. 4 days ago:
They’ll fire more than that when the AI bubble busts and they stop pushing so hard into that development as it stagnates.
- Comment on The Extreme Cost of Training AI Models. 4 days ago:
How in the hell is Gemini both two and a half times more expensive and vastly inferior to GPT?
- Comment on TV has failed us by not making a show about catching foriegn state actors and other online trolls in the act. 1 week ago:
No pun intended, catfishing had had a hook. You had someone that had wrapped up their lives and or a serious amount of money into someone there was an emotional angle. Most of the trolls don’t really have any belief in what they’re saying and it most their drawing people out to fight with them. Definitely a shower thought.