BCsven
@BCsven@lemmy.ca
- Comment on I saw your face in a crowded place 14 hours ago:
I had an obscure/rare name tattooed on my arm. I was at a place and this girl called out to her friend, and it was the rare name.
So I moved over to them slowly so as not to make it obvious and mid convo I said hey are you (name), she was like yeah? And I raised my sleeve. Her seing her rare name as a tattoo…the shock and stuff , her face was priceless.
- Comment on ESL homework 22 hours ago:
I don’t think bad marks were justified. This is how I see every interaction go with polyglot colleagues, its like a modem handshake and they settle into the most comfortable common language
- Comment on ESL homework 22 hours ago:
What was interesting about my son with down syndrome: as he learned to read he became a master at reading cursive…somehow.
We’d hand him Christmas cards that we struggled to read from old European relatives(that wrote in older script) and somehow he’d read it off no problem.
My guess is words always needed decoding for him and context played a role in guessing the word, so it became a skill somehow
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 22 hours ago:
Could be they were both shit lol
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 22 hours ago:
A good interview with Bob Carver if you like audio history podcast.asknoahshow.com/25
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 22 hours ago:
I’m a person with sensitive hearing and mp3 always sounds muddy to me compared with a flac or wav rip. My coworker poo-pooed this notion, but I proved it to him. Mp3 does alter the sounds, most people won’t notice, but for somebody that does hear the differences its annoying. I would not spend 10k or anything. I paid $15 for an old 5.1 system, and max $80 for a pi2 with a DAC hat. LOL
For me its like if you stood outside a persons house and heard them talking vs their words coming over their TV. There is a noticable signature that let’s you hear its the TV or real people, and that’s what mp3 vs wav is like for me.
I can also hear my neighbours ceiling fan running in the connected town home. That almost inaudible drone of the motor running, drives me nuts
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 23 hours ago:
Exactly, silver is a better conductor I believe, but tarnishes like copper does
- Comment on An open source repairable printer. 1 day ago:
Ah, cool
- Comment on An open source repairable printer. 1 day ago:
I think the original query was are these illegal to sell in USA due to not having FBI traceability?
- Comment on An open source repairable printer. 1 day ago:
It was a question. And wasn’t pen plotters since they can’t reproduce money, and are more rare for consumers
- Comment on An open source repairable printer. 1 day ago:
My non laser colour had it. Left yellow dots on photos, drovee crazy
- Comment on An open source repairable printer. 2 days ago:
Illegal due to US govt wanting discrete traceable patterns printed so they can track money duplication on colour printer or track Ransom letters?
- Comment on But but... steel is heavier than feathers... 2 days ago:
I was thinking weigh scale, but yes
- Comment on But but... steel is heavier than feathers... 2 days ago:
Besides the 1000g vs 100kg non equation: Technically 100kg of steel would feel slightly heavier than 100kg of feathers. The feathers center of mass and would be further from the earth.
- Comment on Canada Judge Openly Sentences Based on Race in Statutory Rape Case 2 days ago:
Title is misleading, article doesnt mention race. It is based on her cultural identity and the overwhelming stats that indigenous people have grown up with terrible learned abuse from residential schools, and other factors
- Comment on Considering that LLMs are trained on the whole of the internet, it's kind of amazing that they don't talk back to you like a condescending, smug asshole 4 days ago:
Chatgpt is normal, maybe a bit too casual lately. Responses now are "IKR classic (software brand) doing that crazy thing they are known for”.
But my last Copilot interaction was copilot being a passive aggressive dick in responses.
- Comment on A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions— Backlash against ICE is fueling a broader movement against AI companies’ ties to President Trump. 4 days ago:
They are a tool, but some people use it as a replacement for actual knowledge, and take it as gospel. Its going to create a generation of idiots
- Comment on A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions— Backlash against ICE is fueling a broader movement against AI companies’ ties to President Trump. 4 days ago:
I do know a few people who do. They get access to the better model, and the history is retained so it let’s them build on previous stuff. Still stupid to me, because it still give you wrong info.
- Comment on A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions— Backlash against ICE is fueling a broader movement against AI companies’ ties to President Trump. 4 days ago:
I don’t understand the down votes on this comment. What you have said seems reasonable
- Comment on Website 4 days ago:
It’s already happening.
We get support tickets from professional engineers.
Sometimes it is “my software isn’t working send me how to get it working.” No details on what is not working or what they were doing, so we have to dig the information from them. Like “is your computer on, do you have a network connection, are you connected to your work server, oh you thought google search access is same as VPN to work? …”
Its rare to get somebody on the call that says “when I open this file and do this, this other thing happens, and here is the sample file and steps I did”
Other things are like: “This software is supposed to output this in this way, but it’s not.”
So we open the dialog and watch their steps, software says select objects to export, they are clicking Ok with no result, so we have to point out the message they are supposed to read…see where it says select an object to export, and it is highlighted in yellow to draw your attention and has a red asterisk? Yes? Well they are talking to you, you have to do the action required.I can understand grandma not understanding software, but an engineer is supposed to be a problem solver.
- Comment on Website 4 days ago:
That’s the joke. Guys says his job is done for, by buddy building a website via chatgpt, except the guy knows nothing about how the internet works.
- Comment on Save as PDF 6 days ago:
Heh, we were doing some cosigner banking and I asks my one adult kid to send me the bank documents needed (they were pdf files on their computer). They sent me low res screen shots. Lol
- Comment on Save as PDF 6 days ago:
Why do you need to flatten it?
- Comment on Save as PDF 6 days ago:
Gmail reads the images with OCR and adds it to search terms. Your steps are a noble effort to increase reverse engineering effort, however there are image to text desktop apps now so that effort on the receivers side is almost nothing these days.
- Comment on Is it really dangerous to fall sleep in the bath? 6 days ago:
Yes. Your body would panic immediately.
- Comment on Is it really dangerous to fall sleep in the bath? 6 days ago:
I’m sure the sleeping in the bath problem would be a sudden awakening when you take your first gulp of water…but a person who’s had a lot to drink may not wake up
- Comment on Syncthing Backup w Raspberry Pi 1 week ago:
For more money and wasted power. People overbuild quite often.
- Comment on Syncthing Backup w Raspberry Pi 1 week ago:
Oui, Oui.
My pi gets 81MB/s non cache HDD read speed over USB.
With an msata SSD into a USB adapter if gets non cache read speed of 437MB/s
I totally get that doesn’t compete with a pcie slot msata or nvme.
But it significantly improves access time and transfer.
- Comment on Syncthing Backup w Raspberry Pi 1 week ago:
OPs request was could they do it with pis. Yes you could. HDD is max 120mbs, with SSD over USB interface you get a lot more even thought its not running on the pcie bus. It is totally functional as long as you aren’t streaming 4k to your TV. And it is more than enough for most people. As a reliable backup solution it works, but best if you use a drive enclosure that is powered, rather than relying on the USB power of the drive adapter.
You seem irrationally irked about a viable suggestion, to OPs orignal question. Sorry if I triggered your inner nerd 😀
- Comment on Syncthing Backup w Raspberry Pi 1 week ago:
I think you missed the part about me saying older Pi, being cheap. Like you can pickup a pi3b for $35 where as I’d have to pay $150-180 for a pi5. People get focused on hardware that is overkill for their needs (especially if you track access and system load). You can probably get a deal on an old thinclient or nuc also. Its good to show people options.
For example I have a 15 year old arm board with 256mb non expandable RAM. (Dedtined for the garbage dump) with debian It handles music streaming and samba shares perfectly fine with an SSD. And doesn’t even use 50% of the RAM.