tyler
@tyler@programming.dev
- Comment on Someone said I post an average of 6 posts a day. Where did they get that type of information? Not upset curious cause it's another way I can compliment others with facts about them. 11 minutes ago:
Your profile is a year and a half old, you have 1.1k posts. Year is 365 days. 12/3=4. Maybe they did a little bit more but you don’t need much information to get a decent guess.
- Comment on Is this a rope hanging under a helicopter? 1 week ago:
Yeah usually it’s a question of does this pass the smell test, “every expert and sanitation workers who actually see it firsthand are saying one thing, but we tested it and they’re all wrong!” is like hmmm…
Exactly
I would be wary of things that purport to be plastics recycling, as the two main issues are 1. It’s still cheaper to make new things rather than recycle 2. The recycled plastic is generally less versatile, which is why you’ll see it in things like Frisbees and knick-knacks.
It completely depends on the product. For example aluminum is vastly easier to recycle than to make new. For plastics it depends on the plastic, but there is always a way. For example, trash panda managed to recycle Crocs, which are an expanded foam plastic. It was not recyclable on its own, it wouldn’t melt down into an injection moldeable plastic, but they managed to use it as an aggregate, kinda like concrete. I don’t agree that it’s less versatile. It’s just more work that companies don’t want to do so they say it’s not possible.
Not to say it isn’t something we should be doing when it’s feasible, but it’s sort of like going from ICE cars to electric cars, where we’re putting a band-aid on the problem instead of switching to something that isn’t as destructive.
The thing is, plastic isn’t going anywhere. It’s embedded into every part of our lives, both bad uses and good uses. We need to find a way to stop making more of it. It’s wild that we bury so much trash instead of trying to recover it.
- Comment on Why are so many new programming languages being developed? 1 week ago:
Languages have always been popping up. I’m guessing since you didn’t spend that much time in the community the first time you were learning programming you just hadn’t noticed. In any case it’s like any product on the market. People refine them and make and sell new ones.
- Comment on Is this a rope hanging under a helicopter? 1 week ago:
Thanks lol. People being wrong on the internet sucks, but people deliberately spreading misinformation that all experts agree is misinformation is infuriating to me. Just cause some fucking YouTuber said something doesn’t make it true. I’ve stopped watching so many YouTubers because of the bullshit like they make up.
On a topic similar to this though, is plastics recycling, which experts agree that plastics manufacturing hid how difficult it was to recycle for years. But experts say it’s infeasible, while there are companies like Trash Panda disc golf recycling things into disc golf discs hundreds of times. So really the moral is, think critically.
- Comment on Kitty looking thicc 1 week ago:
And no one is that tiny except a literal baby.
- Comment on Microsoft Teams status 1 week ago:
A USB stick reports itself as a USB stick. A device you set up to report itself as what you want reports itself as what you want. The only thing a computer can talk about a device is what the device reports itself. That’s how computers and peripherals work. The computer provides power and the peripheral tells the computer about itself.
So if you make a device that reports the exact same information as your other mice then yeah the computer thinks it’s the same mouse. But it’s not usable as a USB then. It can’t do other stuff.
Yes your friend plugging in a USB will get them in trouble, cause they can exfiltrate data.
- Comment on Is this a rope hanging under a helicopter? 1 week ago:
I’m not trying to spin anything. He literally made a video where he states he is a liberal arts or business major. I’m not going to go find it cause I’m not going to support him. You can either support the liar or not, I don’t give a fuck. You can also either believe Wikipedia or his own mouth.
- Comment on My Local Public Tennis Court Requires Online Registration 1 week ago:
Email your city. That’s unacceptable use of taxpayer dollars
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Nah this one is great because if you’re unaffiliated you get to choose which primary to vote in. The majority of Colorado voters are unaffiliated, literally over 50%, so if you hate all the candidates on one side you can vote in the primary to choose the absolute worst of one of them and then the other side’s winner is all but guaranteed to win.
I couldn’t find my ballot this year so I completely failed to vote in the primary, but it was exactly who I was going to vote for. No better way to make sure no Republican wins than choosing the batshit craziest one who confessed to murdering numerous people and cutting off a cats head. If there’s one thing Coloradans care about it’s animals.
- Comment on Is this a rope hanging under a helicopter? 1 week ago:
He himself claimed he’s not a scientist so /shrug
- Comment on Is this a rope hanging under a helicopter? 1 week ago:
So I just watched that video and I’m sorry, but that dude is just as bad as Veritasium.
Let’s cover some of the bad science:
- What is this 24 hour time limit for these wipes sitting in water? Clogs happen in sewage systems immediately, not 24 hours later. And it doesn’t even take that long for sewage to move through a proper system anyway, so any clogs would happen at the processing facility where they are worst, not in “twists and turns” like this guy says
- He literally hides what happens to the toilet paper when he flushes it, but he didn’t hide it very well. You can see in later shots (like at 8:26 in the top right) that the toilet paper literally broke up by the time it made it to the concrete. That is how it’s supposed to work. The rest failed by the time they hit the concrete.
- He shakes the mason jars before opening them, then claims it is to “simulate the twists and turns”. This dude is just lying out his ass. Do you know the number of turns before you get from a toilet to the street? It’s like 3. I think every toilet in my house actually only has 1 or 2, depending on which floor. Shaking these up is so badly messing with the experiment. And guess what! They’re still completely intact! But the toilet paper one he barely shakes and yet it’s completely dissolved.
And here’s where we find out what he’s looking for: 12:20. He’s seeing whether these will make it through a house plumbing system. NOT a city sewer system.
Guess what. That same guy has this video from 4 months ago: youtu.be/6CQ5rMRvn8I. The title: “The Lie of Flushable Wipes”. He proceeds to say no flushable wipe is safe…wait for it…except the brand he’s selling. And he directly refutes all the bits of the exact tests he ran two years ago. He even says “your sewer system doesn’t agitate the wipes, it’s like a lazy river, slowly turning”.
Think of it this way. The wipes are wet in the package they’re sold to you in. If they haven’t disintegrated in the packaging, they’re not disintegrating in the sewage system. Else they would just sell you wet toilet paper.
- Comment on Is this a rope hanging under a helicopter? 1 week ago:
No that’s literally the experiment that Derek did. He “showed” that the wet wipes “disintegrated”. What they actually did was break apart under a large weight he put on top of them. That’s not what happens in a sewage system. Along with that, unless they completely dissolve they will still cause issues as the broken up strands.
Unless you are a civil engineer you should not be deciding what goes in a sewer. And no one making wet wipes are civil engineers.
- Comment on Is this a rope hanging under a helicopter? 1 week ago:
I didn’t know he did that. He was shit long before that. Here’s my comment:
He created fake science experiments to sell products and slipped them into normal videos, like the video where he claimed wet wipes are flushable, then created a fake experiment “proving” they were flushable. He’s incredibly untrustworthy and also, not a scientist! He’s an art major or business, can’t remember which.
- Comment on Is this a rope hanging under a helicopter? 1 week ago:
He created fake science experiments to sell products and slipped them into normal videos, like the video where he claimed wet wipes are flushable, then created a fake experiment “proving” they were flushable. He’s incredibly untrustworthy and also, not a scientist! He’s an art major or business, can’t remember which.
- Comment on Is this a rope hanging under a helicopter? 1 week ago:
He created fake science experiments to sell products and slipped them into normal videos, like the video where he claimed wet wipes are flushable, then created a fake experiment “proving” they were flushable. He’s incredibly untrustworthy and also, not a scientist! He’s an art major or business, can’t remember which.
- Comment on Is this a rope hanging under a helicopter? 1 week ago:
Don’t support Veritasium
- Comment on How accurate can your position be calculated from a photo of the sun you post online? 1 week ago:
…research.google.com/…/ShadowFinderColab.ipynb
So pretty accurately, if somebody wants they can find your house.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Incorrect. Neutering them will still result in massive loss of life or extinction of species on the reef. Anyone who cares about animals and the reef will kill them, not neuter and rerelease.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
No but if you’re going to capture these it’s just a waste to neuter them. The problem is how many other fish have no defenses against them so in effect you’ve done nothing, the lionfish is going to continue killing for the rest of its life. The proper way is to just spearfish them and take them to a restaurant for them to cook for customers. You’ve then both “neutered” them and removed the destruction
- Comment on Microsoft Teams status 2 weeks ago:
Most IT is full of idiots. There’s no “outsmarting” here. There’s nothing to detect, nothing to notice. And if you think that a mouse wiggler isn’t going to be noticed while a device that reports itself as an actual mouse will then you’re a moron.
- Comment on Microsoft Teams status 2 weeks ago:
Can’t tell if this is a joke or not. If IT is walking around doing checks then having your mouse sitting on a fucking mouse wiggler is going to raise a billion more eyebrows than an esp32 plugged in.
You’re not using either of these if you work in a fucking office dingus.
Places with good IT departments might even flag your machine for having a weird device config with two of the same mouse to go do a visual inspection
Fucking unplug the mouse! Like holy hell this isn’t a hard thing to understand. You’re just making excuses cause you can’t reasonably handle that maybe a $5 computer is a better solution than a shitty mouse wiggler.
- Comment on Why are the SMS limits orders of magnitude smaller than data limits bandwidth-wise? 2 weeks ago:
Huh? It’s not reusing bits. It’s using unused bits from the connection protocol. That’s why Asian countries have a smaller character limit. There’s zero reason whatever cell provider OP is talking (probably European) about couldn’t make it unlimited.
- Comment on Microsoft Teams status 2 weeks ago:
You can have the esp report itself as whatever device you want. If you already have a mouse that is allowed to be plugged in then you just have the esp report itself as that. It is a mouse at that point, the system will not know the difference.
- Comment on Microsoft Teams status 2 weeks ago:
Same with my wife. Which is why I gave her an esp32 with a program on it that makes it pretend to be a mouse. It will randomly move just like a regular mouse and the computer cannot tell it’s not actually a mouse. Just plug it in whenever you want to walk away.
- Comment on Microsoft Teams status 2 weeks ago:
Complete waste of money. Use an esp32 and write a program to pretend to be a mouse. Benefit of the esp32 is you can reuse it for whatever you want in the future, whether that’s a smart sensor for a door, or a tracking chip for luggage.
- Comment on Microsoft Teams status 2 weeks ago:
Much less resource intensive on your dev machine to just use an esp32 and write a program to pretend to be a mouse and wiggle itself. Benefit is it is completely undetectable on every platform as well.
- Comment on In a rough estimaten for how much money it would cost for Wikipedia to quit asking for donation for like the next 10 or 20 years....or forever? 2 weeks ago:
They have enough. It’s why I stopped donating years ago.
- Comment on values 3 weeks ago:
I’ve worked with Thomson Reuters and they actually show up to meetings and give you the help you need to use their products. And they sued an llm company for stealing data and won (most lawsuits have not won).
- Comment on Is using an ssd as a cache to speed up a harddrive still a thing? 3 weeks ago:
It’s how any unraid system works. Your cache drive for uploads and then they get moved with the mover later. Not the same situation as OP though.
- Comment on Good for him. 3 weeks ago:
I wanna know too