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- Comment on A swing and a miss 6 days ago:
Miss normer can i
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 week ago:
The term snake oil is actually especially fitting for this, due to its origins.
In Britain in the 1700s there was a somewhat common recommendation for using rattlesnake oil from the fat of the snake for skin diseases/rheumatism. The efficacy is debated but it’s got some amount of potential for change (if not help).
This turned into people in the US selling mineral oil as “snake oil” as a total panacea. So a product that actually could do stuff being used as the poster child for a completely useless product that can solve every issue ever, buy as much as you can today.
Snake oil indeed.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 week ago:
Marketing
- Comment on If your username were a Scrabble word with no bonuses, what would it score? 2 weeks ago:
:(
- Comment on Who started this shitposting?! 2 weeks ago:
Well Jimmy Carter won’t be exactly aligned with me on a Foreign affairs issue so I think we might as well just support Putin
^Average pre US election .ml poster
- Comment on Change my Mind 2 weeks ago:
I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or not. I mean, Trump is just the marketing of a president. All sizzle, no steak. He has appeared in debates but it’s a huge stretch to say he’s shown up well in them.
In fact, a lot of politics are purely a popularity contest these days, aren’t they?
- Comment on This song, it's infectious 2 weeks ago:
Or kpop? Maybe against demon hunting?
Sounds a little demon-esque to be anti demon hunting
- Comment on We are all mosaics: vast genetic diversity found between cells in a single person 4 weeks ago:
Okay, I’m super far from a biological/genealogical scientist. What’s promising about that?
- Comment on Best vertical games on Android? 4 weeks ago:
The original Shapez is vertical. I don’t love how it plays on mobile in terms of controls but it works
- Comment on Insulin 4 weeks ago:
Exit tax is only if you give up your US citizenship, which you definitely can’t do if you don’t have another citizenship and even then it’s very often not required
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 5 weeks ago:
Tunic is so damn good.
- Comment on Me when Valve releases a phone 1 month ago:
I hope for Steamie Boi
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 1 month ago:
So that’s a great picture I think for the difference between the loan durations.
I of course think the real problem is that average people might need a 50 year loan to barely pay for a house these days. But it isn’t “nothing” between the terms, it does help in the super short term
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 1 month ago:
Fair, but it also shouldn’t affect the relative prices from 30 and 50 year
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 1 month ago:
The calc I used for that number put $3k property tax annually amortized, good call
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 1 month ago:
What?
Some random numbers that are of course VERY variable, but I just ran the calcs with 400k, 5% down, 6% APR for 30 and 50 years
$2648 for 30 years $2369 for 50
Now that is of course not a great deal, presumably you’d also get a little better rate for the longer loan (more points) but it’s not a dollar.
- Comment on Learning to drive 1 month ago:
Yup, exactly this.
Coached race cars (and bikes) at tracks for years, and amateur raced for more than a decade.
Try just pushing (not pulling). You have a LOT more range and more comfortable control from 9/3 than 10/2
- Comment on xkcd #3164: Metric Tip 1 month ago:
If you look up cooking or baking recipes and get American ones you’ll see oz a lot, I have found
- Comment on Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships 1 month ago:
Not sure where you’re located, but if you’re in the EU you can consider Fairphone for an extremely repairable phone instead. The 6 doesn’t have the specs of proper flagships, but it’s quite a step in the ethical direction in my opinion.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says the company doesn't have enough electricity to install all the AI GPUs in its inventory - 'you may actually have a bunch of chips sitting in inventory that I can’t plug in' 1 month ago:
As an engineer, I definitely could think of a lot of cool ideas that’d fix problems if I just had unlimited energy or infinite resources.
However, since I’m not a CEO I don’t get paid for said “what ifs”
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 2 months ago:
Surely this comes from the American, not European point of view, yeah?
- Comment on My AYN Thor 2 months ago:
Super super cool. I don’t have a need for this since I have a nice modded 3ds lite, but the youtube on one screen and gaming on the other is absolutely sick. The screen size and color depth looks great too.
Does it have an SD card slot? I didn’t see it on their site but I assume so.
- Comment on Virginia Giuffre thought she might 'die a sex slave' at hands of Epstein and his circle, memoir reveals 2 months ago:
Man I’ve seen you pop up a lot today with a lot of negative comments.
Account created today too.
Be better, please.
- Comment on New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds 2 months ago:
Yeah, I actually frequented a sim center when I lived in the US. They ran Rfactor2 but it got me doing some iRacing too. It was great fun! I can’t believe how real a lot of it felt. Honestly except for elevation not translating well it was an insane practice tool
Yeah, only IRL for a bike. If they made a really legit sim rig I’d probably have to seriously consider it!
- Comment on New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds 2 months ago:
Ah cool! After i raced irl for like a decade I sim raced for a while. It was super fun! I’d like to get back into it someday. It’s a lot better on the wallet and body than IRL stuff (especially motorcycles).
I think it helps, but it probably is more of a selling point and aesthetic than an actual help on the (agreed) biggest selling point number.
It’s one of those decisions that someone up top probably made and has these kinds of stupid consequences of moving fast and breaking shit. I wouldn’t be upset if it had to go to a normal one
- Comment on New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds 2 months ago:
Source on that? Hobbiest aerodynamics nerd and big into F1 (and did a lot of liquid system design engineering in a previous job). Genuinely curious!
My gut feel is that a half kilo of unsprung weight (those ridiculous wheels), tighter fenders, or a bit of tail teardropping would go so much further than anything door-handle-wise. It’s certainly helping promote flow attachment, but you’ve got poor flow rates there because of the wing mirrors anywa
- Comment on Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Terraria 2 months ago:
I’ve had a lot of trouble getting started with this. I have 4 figures of hours into Factorio, I LOVE 2D side scrollers. Any advice? Maybe it’s like starting build problems or something
- Comment on Trivago 2 months ago:
Can anyone explain for someone really out of the loop? I don’t know this person or what trivago is
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Wow this looks cool. Wish listing it now!
- Comment on Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies 2 months ago:
I was working in pure software engineering and we had to attend a meeting/presentation about some use cases for it.
It’s one of things that any useful tech would never need. Do you think the airplane, the cell phone, the internet, any other useful tech you can think of needed brainstorming sessions for use cases? Hell no, they couldn’t implement their ideas as fast as they wanted because the uses are so obvious