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- Comment on is "oh boy" considered a gendered term? 1 week ago:
I’ve never had problems using terms like “look man,” “oh boy,” or “dude” In “normal” conversion with anyone until recently. I was talking to a trans-woman I know and definitely stopped myself from dropping “hey man” in our conversation because I thought she would not appreciate it. That’s caused some self reflection and while I’ll probably continue to use genderbent language when talking with my wife I’ll probably seek to minimize it elsewhere. I don’t really know how in tune a given woman I’m talking to is with their muliebrity and it seems not my place as a cis man to make that determination for them.
I would say for a lot of people it probably doesn’t matter, but for those that it does it does a lot and it’s no skin off my back to try to be courteous in my speech with whomever.
- Comment on What's the first step to starting a third party? 1 week ago:
Probably with a running a bunch of independents at the local level. You can’t do what the Greens tried and drag out an asset for the top position every four years with nothing else to show. Start small and get people used to the idea that it’s okay for someone outside of the main parties to hold office. Build results then form a party from the independents once you’ve had some successful incumbents.
- Comment on Sony say their PSN account requirement on PC is so you can enjoy their games 'safely' 1 week ago:
“Safety” because they are incapable of uploading a clean game to steam?
1000005417 Also, this used to be on their website before they realised just how much data they could hoover from PC sales.
- Comment on But count is in the name 2 weeks ago:
When you have A joint party with a 2 and a 20 something year old you can break out the regex:
27?
- Comment on What kind of special knowledge or equipment does piracy groups have? 4 weeks ago:
At some point the electrical signal has to be clear at a hardware level. Companies can make it harder, but if they’re streaming any info to a device in your possession someone will be able to extract that clean electrical signal and reproduce an acceptable feed.
- Comment on What kind of special knowledge or equipment does piracy groups have? 4 weeks ago:
What I mean by “on your computer” is not that it originates on your computer, but that some form of it exists there–namely this is going to be images, text, links, etc that the ad company hosts and a website will normally download temporarily along with the rest of the site’s content. Once your computer has that site’s information you can do anything you want with it. Importantly what exists on your computer is a local copy of what the ad servers host. If you decide to color ads blue on your computer that only affects your copy. The original ad, and everyone else’s copies remain intact.
- Comment on What kind of special knowledge or equipment does piracy groups have? 4 weeks ago:
To put it another way:
- If you want to see something it has to be clear (unencrypted)
- If you want to see something on your computer it has to be on your computer
- You can control your own computer
Therefore, any media that is viewed on your computer is clear, on your computer, in a realm that you control.
This is also why ad blockers work. You can send me ads, or requests to fetch ads and my computer just ignores them.
Companies will never be able to stop this, cause at some point you can always just intercept the data feed at a hardware level and reconstruct the stream.
- Comment on Why did it take so damn long for humanity to "learn" how to draw/paint realistic images? 4 weeks ago:
Realism wasn’t necessarily the end goal of a lot of painting. When you look at old Christian art one thing to notice is that different people can have vastly different sizes. The virgin mother may be most prominent, some patron saint smaller, and the artist themselves or the commissioner may be included as smaller figures. This play of scale was a device to show what was important and being sure to capture and portray that hierarchy was a more important goal than realism.
- Comment on Can anyone help me identify this Xbox controller? 4 weeks ago:
Probably just used the design labs. It is a previous generation controller though.
- Comment on Anon is a collector 1 month ago:
Love the one on the top left.
- Comment on Anon is a collector 1 month ago:
He keeps 'em safe! There’s 2 others, but they’re hidden in this picture.
- Comment on Anon is a collector 1 month ago:
- Comment on In Silicon Valley, a Rogue Plan to Alter the Climate | Some restless entrepreneurs are releasing pollutants in the sky to try to cool the planet. 1 month ago:
This is 100% going to work with 0 consequences.
- Comment on Do rotating plates in microwaves help when heating food? 1 month ago:
Tray-less microwaves have a spinning metal “stirring fan” below a plastic floor you set your food upon to mix the bounce path the microwaves take. Since they expose fewer moving parts to the end user they are easier to clean and more resilient making them a good option for commercial / high volume settings.
- Comment on Do rotating plates in microwaves help when heating food? 1 month ago:
A microwave works by bouncing microwaves around the interior. Since the shape of the container doesn’t change neither will the path that the bounced waves take. This can lead to hotspots in what you’re reheating.
To mitigate this you have a few options:
- move the food around in the container so that different parts pass through different hotspots over time (this is what a tray does)
- interrupt the microwave path via a “stirrer fan” that sits below the microwave floor (this is what tray-less units use)
Both approaches redistribute the hotspots to maximize even heating. The efficacy of either approach will come down to the specific design of either unit, but a tray-less unit can be easier to clean, and with fewer moving parts exposed to end users can be a good option for commercial/high user count settings. Each design accomplishes the same task.
- Comment on Kennedy Says Trump Will ‘Make Americans Healthy.’ His Record Suggests Otherwise. | As president, Donald J. Trump slashed protections for clean air and water and weakened school nutrition standards. 2 months ago:
Ah yes, the guy that led to almost half a million excess deaths in his last year will make us healthy with his plan that’s been 2 weeks away for the last 9 years.
- Comment on Out of curiosity if a woman is in control of her own body. If the SCOTUS did not reverse Roe than why can't a woman in control become a prostitue? 2 months ago:
Any consenting adult should be able to. Sex work is work and it’s far past time we stop stigmatizing and criminalizing that.
- Comment on Bug squash: An underrated interview question 2 months ago:
My work provides that as a take home code test. You have as much time as you’d like to finish it, but it really only takes an afternoon to do. We extend the option to customize the resulting app as you desire and it’s reviewed by the team you’re ultimately interviewing for. It works pretty well at finding an effective fit.
- Comment on What’s a game you can 100% without hating by the end? 2 months ago:
- Snake Pass
- Röki
- VVVVVV
- The Turing Test
- Smushi Come Home
- Alba
- A Short Hike
- Firewatch
- Sanctum 2
- Comment on Aftermath: Valve’s Baffling Deadlock Decisions Don’t Need Defending 3 months ago:
So is this game basically Battleborn with toned down graphics?
- Comment on Google Is Ending Production of Chromecast 3 months ago:
Iirc, the Google TV has installable apps to include games. I have a Chromecast ultra that is streaming only, no remote, 4k, and Ethernet. In my opinion it’s where they peaked. But subsequent versions had the built in interface for remote control and apps.
- Comment on Google Is Ending Production of Chromecast 3 months ago:
I was being serious. The 4k Chromecast is $49.99, so I guess the new one is a penny more than 2x, but close enough. The differences are not worth that upgrade though:
- Dolby Atmos vs Non-Atmos Dolby encoded
- Customizable button and find feature on the remote
- 32 GB vs 8 GB of storage
- An ethernet port (which is surprising that the current gen doesn’t have one given that the previous gen does)
- Thread border router
That’s it.
If you use a chromecast to just cast from your phone this upgrade isn’t worth a damn. If you use a settop box to like play android games or something then an Nvidia Shield is a better option for you. For everyone else this is just an excuse to raise prices for new customers that aren’t aware of existing offerings.
- Comment on Google Is Ending Production of Chromecast 3 months ago:
And they’re replacing it with a new device that does the same thing for twice as much money.
- Comment on No, You Can’t Beat an Olympic Table Tennis Player 3 months ago:
The bottom 20% of men in this survey.
- Comment on Trumps of the Tropics: Brazil’s Far Right Plots Its Return | Bolsonaristas are (still) taking their cues from America’s MAGA movement. 3 months ago:
Almost like the 2 parties shared advisors.
- Comment on Newsom Will Order California Officials to Remove Homeless Encampments 3 months ago:
:(
- Comment on What is a stupid question? 3 months ago:
What about “Lemons?”
- Comment on It's not just you, Next.js is getting harder to use 4 months ago:
I kept hearing good things about Next.js so I decided to give it a shot for my project. I got a couple of pages setup then I ran into a case where I needed something done on the client. I looked through the documentation and checked several examples for the current version, trying everything they said to do to get client side running and it just didn’t work. I wasted about a day and half on that before just going back to create react app and zooming past where I got blocked the same day I started anew.
- Comment on Locals love this [Balwyn] cafe parklet. Businesses want the three car spaces back 5 months ago:
In an effort to increase parking by 1.6% we should dissolve this local meeting hub beloved by over 600 people and directly benefiting 11 (other) local business.
- Comment on Best Buy Membership "discount" 5 months ago:
They gave him a protection plan. The price of the item didn’t change.
