howrar
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- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 2 hours ago:
I agree. But if I give you table sugar and you tell me it’s spicy, then that’s not a question of spice tolerance. You just don’t know what the word spicy means.
Although, come to think of it, if you think ketchup is spicy, you may want to check if you’re allergic to one of the ingredients. Regular ketchup is absolutely not spicy.
- Comment on YSK that Stanford scientists examined what happens when people stop using social media. They found deactivating Facebook and Instagram significantly improved users' emotional well-being and happiness 13 hours ago:
It could’ve been worse
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 21 hours ago:
A little bit of rubbing alcohol and it comes right off
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 22 hours ago:
Implying that ketchup is spicy at all?
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 22 hours ago:
I rely pretty heavily on meal replacement shakes (not Soylent; they taste like ass, and not the good kind). It’s part of what allows me to actually enjoy solid food. I’m sure you can imagine that force feeding yourself something that you normally enjoy would quickly make you form negative associations with that food.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
What that random idiot said
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
And also ask: do they gain anything from lying about it?
- Comment on When the AI bubble bursts.. 1 week ago:
Probably not someone that a consumer would want to do unless they’re interested in the challenge.
I forgot about the absence of PCIe connectors until jj4211 mentioned it in another comment. That would also be problematic for consumer use. I know it’s possible to do the conversion as I’ve looked into it in the past, but it doesn’t come cheap.
- Comment on Karl Bushby: Made a bet in 1998 that he could walk from Chile to England. 27 Years later, Still walking. Survived Darién Gap, 57 days in a Russian prison, Traversing the Bering Strait on shifting ice 1 week ago:
Existing in this world
- Comment on Karl Bushby: Made a bet in 1998 that he could walk from Chile to England. 27 Years later, Still walking. Survived Darién Gap, 57 days in a Russian prison, Traversing the Bering Strait on shifting ice 1 week ago:
He punished a book about the first segment of his journey, and there are people just throwing money at him because they want to see someone do this.
- Comment on When the AI bubble bursts.. 1 week ago:
The datacentre GPUs are also useless for consumers. They don’t have video output.
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 1 week ago:
They’ve been in the AI game for about as long as everyone else. I would consider their lab to be one of the best in CV tech.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 2 weeks ago:
Oh, so much. I’m still trying to figure out how to actually complete things.
- Comment on I dunno 2 weeks ago:
You flipped the sign on the 3 and 1.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 2 weeks ago:
but once I’m done, I close them all
Same. But I also have a continuous stream of new projects that never get finished.
- Comment on **How** should I properly document my homelab? 2 weeks ago:
Do you use this for physical machines too?
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 2 weeks ago:
Depends on how reliable you need this system to be. For example, do you need to handle the scenario where an adult verifies their age to access a website, then lets a minor use that website in their place? That would be a much harder problem to solve than if you just need to verify that an adult was present on the other end at one point in time. For the latter, device-based age verification seems to be trivial to set up from a technical standpoint.
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 3 weeks ago:
There are people who are fully owners and don’t do any labour, and those who subsist entirely on their labour and don’t own anything. Would it be fair to say that the middle class is anyone who works but still owns a non-zero amount of appreciating or revenue-generating assets?
- Comment on Google’s Sundar Pichai says the job of CEO is one of the ‘easier things’ AI could soon replace 3 weeks ago:
Easy for computers doesn’t mean it’s easy for humans, and vice versa.
- Comment on iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots." 4 weeks ago:
Calories are expensive, and I’m not made of money.
- Comment on How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mom told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering? 4 weeks ago:
I was under the impression that hearing loss is usually a gradual thing.
- Comment on How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mom told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering? 4 weeks ago:
if something really is as bad as someone says then why does everyone do it?
Remember when everyone smoked and we were taught that it was good for our health?
- Comment on When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No? 4 weeks ago:
Right, that’s a fair criticism with regards to microtransactions. I don’t know much about those kinds of games though, so I can’t really say much about it.
My partner bought Skyrim twice (Steam and Switch) and 100%'d both, and now is going through the same process with BG3. I’m just thinking about how the achievement system is acting like a multiplier to the game’s value in this instance.
- Comment on Dyslexia 4 weeks ago:
Interesting how everyone misread it the same way.
Meanwhile, me: “Cloth only grown? Huh?”
- Comment on When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No? 4 weeks ago:
In a system where you pay once for the game, isn’t that a good thing? It lets you enjoy the game for longer instead of making you constantly buy new games, thus spending less money for the same amount of enjoyment.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 4 weeks ago:
Plot twist: he was actually the serial killer hiding in plain sight
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t place my bets on any individual stock/asset. You need to do a lot of research and have a lot of money to invest before that can be a safe decision. Instead, put your money in broad market ETFs, which is effectively just a bet on capitalism. Then either capitalism wins and you also win, or capitalism loses and you still win. But make sure you have an emergency fund first because not having that is one of the few ways that you can lose while capitalism wins.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 5 weeks ago:
I have a lot of stuff going on in my head that needs my full attention. Dinner planning, a work problem that I’ve been slowly chipping away at, toying with some random ideas, etc.
I understand that for some people, especially if you have ADHD, it can be easier to attend to those thoughts with music and other stimuli present. That is not the case for me.
- Comment on 2³² will get interesting... 5 weeks ago:
No need to trust infinite people. You just need to get past 33 forks before you run out of people to operate the switch or to be tied to the tracks.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
For me, it’s a matter of restoring the convenience and UX that you’ve given up by leaving the big providers.