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- Comment on tetrapods 1 week ago:
Caaaaaaaarbs
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 1 week ago:
My stove apparently has wifi. But why I would put that thing on my network is beyond me.
- Comment on Henry Symeonis 1 week ago:
Well, it might not have happened with chimpanzees, but it happens all the time with humans. So I see it more as a good allegory than a true story.
- Comment on Henry Symeonis 1 week ago:
Take five chimpanzees. Put them in a big cage. Suspend some bananas from the roof of the cage. Provide the chimpanzees with a stepladder. BUT also add a proximity detector to the bananas, so that when a chimp goes near the banana, water hoses are triggered and the whole cage is thoroughly soaked.
Soon, the chimps learn that the bananas and the stepladder are best ignored.
Now, remove one chimp, and replace it with a fresh one. That chimp knows nothing of the hoses. He sees the banana, notices the stepladder, and because he is a smart primate, he envisions himself stepping on the stepladder to reach the bananas. He then deftly grabs the stepladder… and the four other chimps spring on him and beat him squarely. He soon learns to ignore the stepladder.
Then, remove another chimp and replace it with a fresh one. The scenario occurs again; when he grabs the stepladder, he gets mauled by the four other chimps – yes, including the previous “fresh” chimp. He has integrated the notion of “thou shallt not touch the stepladder”.
Iterate. After some operations, you have five chimps who are ready to punch any chimp who would dare touch the stepladder (or curse Henry Symeonis) – and none of them knows why.
- Comment on Tides of Annihilation - Announce Trailer 3 weeks ago:
Looks very bland.
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 4 weeks ago:
Please stop these idiotic arguments. I don’t think you’re actually so dumb, that you don’t understand what my point was. So you’re being willfully obtuse just to annoy other people. Also, Chinese isn’t a thing. You probably mean Mandarin Chinese, which does have the highest number of native speakers. But English is still the common language (or lingua franca) across the world, even though it is number 3 in terms of native speakers.
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 5 weeks ago:
Please stop being an obnoxious ass. English is the de-facto lingua franca of the world, acting like German is in any way comparable is just disingenuous.
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 5 weeks ago:
Because more people speak it?
- Comment on Mexico asks Google to reject U.S. renaming of the Gulf of Mexico. 5 weeks ago:
Do you still think there will be an election in four years?
- Comment on DisplayPort 2.1b Arriving This Spring With DP80LL Cables 1 month ago:
Are there any TVs with DP?
- Comment on I believe him on a factual level, but not on an emotional level. 2 months ago:
Germany hasn’t visited for quite a while.
- Comment on Beautiful stories like this just make you smile 2 months ago:
Glorious.
- Comment on 25 Years Ago, A One-of-a-Kind Movie Captured the Hearts of Star Trek Fans Everywhere 2 months ago:
It still is a good movie.
- Comment on derReparierer: Repairing electronic devices 3 months ago:
Nice idea, but I would greatly appreciate information on how to find the broken parts. I mean, I can spot an exploded capacitor. But how do you find and identify other broken parts? If I have a multimeter, how do I know what to I should measure where to understand where something might be broken?
- Comment on Domain instead of ip in Wireguard 3 months ago:
I am using Let’s Encrypt. Cloudflare is used for DNS validation.
- Comment on Petrichor 3 months ago:
Life is life.
- Comment on Domain instead of ip in Wireguard 3 months ago:
It is that easy, like you said. And with Cloudflare and Caddy you can get TLS for your internal VPN hosts. I love that.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 released in December 2020. Almost 4 years later, what is your opinion on it? 3 months ago:
It’s very cyberpunk that police work would be outsourced to random mercs.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 released in December 2020. Almost 4 years later, what is your opinion on it? 3 months ago:
I have it on the PS5 and did four playthroughs already. No other game since the last two Deus Ex games has captured the spirit of cyberpunk so damn well. And with CP77 being open world, it is so easy and nice to immerse yourself in the world. One of my favorite games of all time.
- Comment on Bears Cave 3 months ago:
Not so much north of the Rhine, which still leaves a lot of Europe Roman-free.
- Comment on Police investigating historical sex offence allegations against Russell Brand hand file to CPS 3 months ago:
But I heard he loves Jesus now, so I guess it’s alright.
- Comment on I feel you, green guy. 4 months ago:
It’s not cynical. I have three of them and that’s just the truth. Sometimes they enjoy being annoying. It’s all normal and good… but it’s still annoying.
- Comment on I feel you, green guy. 4 months ago:
And sometimes kids aren’t interested in the answers, they just want to annoy you.
- Comment on Meta is secretly building its own search engine. 4 months ago:
Have you tried wanting to be monetized?
- Comment on I can't figure out if this is a baby, or a cat 4 months ago:
I think she is either talking about her son or a pet.
- Comment on Modern men should learn from him smh 4 months ago:
- Comment on I'll share a troubling fact with you if you share one with me 4 months ago:
True, but we do have the vaccine and the means to mass-produce and administer. That’s why I’m not worried about smallpox.
- Comment on New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer 4 months ago:
I used to be all on board with that, but seeing what a colossal waste of resources AI is, I’ve come to question other efforts like this one or calculating pi to a trillion digits. The trigger here for me was the use of GPUs, which I’ve come to associate with AI waste. Sure, I know they’re just a tool. But I still don’t see what value will come from knowing ever bigger prime numbers.
- Comment on New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer 4 months ago:
I didn’t use to do this, but with the world being on fire I feel like I should ask whether the amount of energy put into finding huge primes is really worth it.
- Comment on xcoffee 4 months ago:
I thought the golden rule is “it’s OK if it’s in a threeway”.
