howrar

@howrar@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do drug dogs ever get addicted when working or during training?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah? Then explain how my dog exploded after sniffing out a land mine.

  Check. Mate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there anything of any interests for the tech bros in Greenland?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t they already have control of it through NATO?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles.⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The only thing in this list that I relate to is the masking, so I’ll address that

  Yes, we all conform and hide parts of ourselves in public, doesn’t mean you can’t “be yourself”.

  As I understand it, when a neurotypical person is hiding parts of themselves, it’s something like “I don’t want anyone to know I’m into Taylor Swift”. So just don’t talk about it. It’s that simple. For me, I have to think about every word I say because no one interprets things literally. If someone asks me whether or not I like Taylor Swift and I want to answer in the affirmative, can I just say yes? Or do I need to take note of the day of the week and say no while gesturing wildly with my left hand when it’s a Monday or look 15º to the left from Wednesday to Friday? When we talk about masking, it’s that, applied to every single sentence coming out of your mouth. Comparatively, never talking about Taylor Swift is a trivial task.

• ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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.