howrar
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- Comment on Do people actually believe those "gurus" on the internet that supposedly "give advice"? These seems very sussy and feel scam-adjacent, isn't it? 21 hours ago:
Pretty much everyone uses these clickbait titles regardless of whether they give good advice or not. I briefly followed a “finance guru” who does similar stuff with his thumbnails/titles and he just repeats variations of the same advice in every video: 1. Time in the market beats timing the market, and 2. diversify your investments. So far, this has worked out very well for me for the past ten years, but who knows if it’s going to continue trending upwards.
- Comment on Whats the best use for 75 dollars? 1 week ago:
Can you use that gift card anywhere? If yes, then first convert it to cash. Your parents may be covering all your expenses, but they still need to buy groceries. The next time they do, ask them to use your gift card and give you the equivalent amount in cash. Now you have more flexibility to do whatever you want with that cash. Buy something nice, save/invest, etc. You have plenty of advice from others on this already.
- Comment on RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders 2 weeks ago:
There’s high demand for both RAM and GPUs coming from datacenters. Us regular consumers are just a tiny blip on their radar.
- Comment on How do you "feel" gender? 2 weeks ago:
all of your beliefs, passions, interests, social expectations, public perception, and many, many other things are impacted by gender
That’s all through societal expectations though, isn’t it? You can take any of these things and find that they’re associated with different genders in different places around the world and different time periods. I don’t think it would make sense to say that a trans person is only trans in a specific place and time.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago:
It could’ve been worse
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 3 weeks ago:
A little bit of rubbing alcohol and it comes right off
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 3 weeks ago:
Implying that ketchup is spicy at all?
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 3 weeks 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 weeks ago:
What that random idiot said
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
And also ask: do they gain anything from lying about it?
- Comment on When the AI bubble bursts.. 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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.. 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 5 weeks ago:
Oh, so much. I’m still trying to figure out how to actually complete things.
- Comment on I dunno 5 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? 5 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? 5 weeks ago:
Do you use this for physical machines too?
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 5 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. 1 month 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 1 month 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." 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month 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? 1 month 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! 1 month ago:
Plot twist: he was actually the serial killer hiding in plain sight