NaibofTabr
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- Comment on RealVNC is dropping its “Home” plan and barely noting its free “Lite” option 1 day ago:
Just use TightVNC.
- Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services 3 days ago:
You will own nothing and
like ithave no recourse. - Comment on The only way things can get better is by acknowledging that things aren't as good as they could be 1 week ago:
The first step to solving a problem is recognizing that you have a problem.
But that’s only the first step. If you aren’t identifying that problem in specific terms (not vague generalities) and also proposing a solution (again not vague, and preferably SMART) then you are just complaining.
- Comment on 54% of young Americans say food costs are the biggest strain on their finances 1 week ago:
I’ve heard though of some people spending upwards of like $150. For food?
I certainly have never spent more than $35 ~ $50
Are you talking about one meal, one grocery store trip, or one month of food expenses, or what?
and it’s just me.
OK, so you’re not trying to provide food for a family, so your perspective and experience is limited.
I don’t know why these other people just struggle.
Perhaps their situation is different from your own? Perhaps they have other concerns in their life that are different from your own? Perhaps the cost of living where they are is different from where you are?
I think still that it comes down to bad budgeting and maybe some poor lifestyle choices.
So you’re ignorant of what problems other people might be facing, and to fill in that gap in your understanding you’ve decided to blame the people who are having problems. Great.
- Comment on iFixit hails replaceable LPCAMM2 laptop memory as a 'big deal' 1 week ago:
Plus the smaller chips (like the CPU) are designed for lower voltage and current. They can’t handle dialing up the power, they’ll melt.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 week ago:
I need to start paywalling my comments.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 week ago:
Stackoverflow has a thoughtcrimes department now?
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 week ago:
This is already at the point where we can replace an intern or one of the less good junior engineers.
This is a bad thing.
Not just because it will put the people you’re talking about out of work in the shirt term, but because it will prevent the next generation of developers from getting that low-level experience. They’re not “idiots”, they’re inexperienced. They need to get experience. They won’t if they’re replaced by automation.
- Comment on The reason prosthetics are so good in Star Wars is because the Jedi use live lightsabers to train. 1 week ago:
“The future has already arrived. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.”
- Comment on Autonomous excavator constructs dry stone wall 1 week ago:
Twitch plays wall building.
- Comment on Autonomous excavator constructs dry stone wall 1 week ago:
No kidding, I hadn’t seen that one. If I understand correctly, the rocks were stable but the angle was putting too much pressure on the concrete wall which made it crack.
- Comment on Autonomous excavator constructs dry stone wall 1 week ago:
`I am Builder.
Insert boulder.`
- Comment on Autonomous excavator constructs dry stone wall 1 week ago:
This video gives a good look at what’s involved in building a stone retaining wall like this:
Essential Craftsman: How to stack a boulder wall
There’s a fair amount of practical expertise, like picking specific sizes/shapes for specific areas and arranging the rocks so they won’t move later (he talks about the long-term safety implications around 12:30). It’s a very involved moment-to-moment decision making process.
Just because the robot can fit the rocks together in a way that stands up now doesn’t mean it’s done so in a way that will be safe and stable five years from now, especially with the pressure of tons of dirt behind it, probably with a building on top of that.
- Comment on The discourse 1 week ago:
- Comment on partytime 1 week ago:
An identification card usually issued by a government office.
- Comment on Tractor-trailers with no one aboard? The future is near for self-driving trucks on US roads 2 weeks ago:
Hmm, they do have a union. It wouldn’t surprise me if they push to put some rules in place about requiring a driver in the cab for safety.
- Comment on Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer 2 weeks ago:
New Lemmy server?
- Comment on trapped! 2 weeks ago:
“Hard” science fiction usually means that the futuristic concepts and fancy technology are based on (and limited) by our current understanding of the physical universe - if you had enough engineering ability, you could actually do the things presented in the story. This is in contrast to things like Star Wars and Star Trek, where the things they’re able to do are basically fantasy dressed up with a technological skin.
- Comment on Belarusian authorities are preparing children for war with the EU 2 weeks ago:
Ah, child soldiers, the hallmark of good government.
- Comment on The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco 2 weeks ago:
There have been fascist psychopaths arround as long as humans exist.
Well yeah, that’s kind of my point. Why does anyone hear this shit and respond like it’s something new?
- Comment on The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco 2 weeks ago:
Oh look, it’s just fascism again.
Why is it that when these whackos start describing their fascist plans for society, there are people who respond like it’s a groundbreaking concept, some bold new vision of the future? None of this is new, it’s the same old tired goosestepping shit.
- Comment on A photography depicting the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza - 2565 BCE. 2 weeks ago:
No they were built by human slave labor to be landing pads for alien space ships.
- Comment on Maryland Governor Signs “Freedom to Read Act” Into Law 2 weeks ago:
the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to William Smith in 1787
This phrase has been used by right wing groups to justify violence against the left, who they see as trying to control society.
I find violent rhetoric concerning… I’m still hoping we can find progress without fighting. We don’t have to fight. I believe that the only reason anything stable came out of the American revolution is that a lot of people (well, primarily men, but that was the style at the time), who didn’t actually agree with each other on a lot of things, spent a lot of time sitting around and talking about what they could do better than the monarchies they had grown up in. They planned for how to make things better, and they compromised with each other for it, and when the first plan didn’t work they rewrote it (governments need prototypes like any other complex system). Most importantly they spent time listening to each other (seriously, years and years of discussion, sending letters back and forth, meeting in person, writing new proposals and revising drafts).
If you want to change your community, maybe spend a little more time listening to the people in it. Don’t go looking for a fight, go looking to prevent one.
- Comment on Forget billions of years: Researchers have grown diamonds in just 150 minutes 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Maryland Governor Signs “Freedom to Read Act” Into Law 2 weeks ago:
It’s depressing that we need laws like this in “the land of the free”.
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 3 weeks ago:
I feel like reaching into individual people’s phones and uninstalling software without their permission would be lawsuit bait.
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 3 weeks ago:
I’m curious about the practicality. IP addresses only roughly correlate to geographic location. Are they going to geofence their app?
Obviously the app can be removed from the US app stores, but I doubt they can prevent sideloading or just using a VPN to get access to a different country’s app store. And what about all the devices that already have it installed? It’s not like it will auto-delete.
- Comment on What do companies get out of rewards programs 3 weeks ago:
Substitute your local area code as needed: ###-8675309.
- Comment on Study that asked people to count squashed bugs reveals worrying results 3 weeks ago:
Did no one ever teach you about food chains. and food webs?
Everything is connected.
- Comment on Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal - The Verge 3 weeks ago:
the system shouldn’t be designed that way in the first place
Designed what way? Having parts from several manufacturers? Everything is designed that way. No manufacturer is an island, and having every manufacturer reinvent their own wheels is a terrible idea.
Tesla isn’t going to write their own firmware for every component that they buy from another company and no one sane would expect them to.
when the vendor fucks it up due to releasing the product in a half-baked state
There are so many assumptions about what’s going on in this statement that it’s hard to even begin addressing them. It is not possible to test any device that will be used in the real world in every possible set of circumstances that it might encounter. This doesn’t mean it’s “half-baked”, and it’s not an “excuse”, it’s just the nature of reality. Best you can do is test the most common circumstances.