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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I drink more water?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I had this exact conversation with an (online) coworker. I will just drink feel compelled to cups of water, sometimes multiple in a row, and feel refreshed. They don’t exactly taste good but we’re wired to find it pleasant.

  My coworker said he had to basically remember to drink water. When he’s exercising it’s more instinctual.

  Well I was shocked the first time I actually met this coworker, at the Dubai office where he works from. The water there felt wrong! Apparently I was having good tasting water my whole life. I was kind of dehydrated the entire trip. Literally all the water there didn’t feel refreshing, honestly. It comes out of desalination factories, I get it, it’s still water, but it’s something to think about. I’ve appreciated my delicious Lebanese mineral water a lot more since then.

  I hope this doesn’t sound out of touch, I understand most people in many countries can just drink tap water safely, and bottled is seen as a luxury and not a cheap necessity like it is here. But maybe try changing the water? All the answers here feel blasphemous to me. Cucumbers? Flavors?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT’s latest stylistic quirk is sinister, infuriating – and absolutely everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve found myself reading much older text and still being annoyed by it. I think I paused a YouTube video from like 2015 after hearing it spoken and having to pace a little before continuing. I’ve completely cut that out of my own writing style.

  Text extrusion software will obviously favor some writing elements over others, and it is just a supercharged version of bland-yet-saccharine corporate writing style. So all of it, seen sparingly, wouldn’t make you feel like the society is falling apart. But when you see it 10000x more often you really question if anyone is even trying to communicate a novel idea anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Control theory⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I’ve implemented stuff on that level by pulling in a library in a university project. But there were higher level research projects going on where they were going into real nitty gritty fine control, I think they had a control model with an obscene number of degrees (as in xth order physical model implemented as a PPIIIIDDD system or whatever). That was a little intuitive since there was a physical process that you can observe.

  But the theory is definitely something I’d like to at least understand a little

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Control theory⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This was my weakest subject, I found it fascinating but my math was just not good enough for it.

  Hopefully someone here has some interesting resources for this stuff, I would honestly love to integrate things like PIDs where they absolutely don’t belong in my bullshit hobby procrastination projects.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK flying reaper drones above Lebanon from Cyprus base⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Baalbak is a city with a lot of targets during any period of bombing. Mercifully the temple complex site has never been hit and it hopefully stays that way.

  They’re not above it though. They hit the archeological site in Sour/Tyre in the 2024 airstrikes though, and even though dozens of people and medics were murdered by then, my blood boiled white hot after that, I was angrier about it than the mass murder. I think the precision strikes on ambulances came after and those pissed me off even more though.

  It’s never a good sign when you have an internal conflict about whether you’re a good person or not because you’re more mad about a bunch of old rocks getting pulverized than people like you being murdered.

  They’ll fucking do it, they don’t care. They don’t think we’re people, they obviously don’t think our heritage matters, especially not in a poor city they routinely terrorize.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The unAbomber. Otherwise, I agree.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh. I picked that up from a used book stand on a whim just based on the tile and skimming it, like ten years ago. I should probably read it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is amperage more "obscure" than voltage (or watts)?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would be shocked if it was over even 1000W at peak, but I suppose it’s over provisioned to deal with the very very brief peak when the compressor kicks on.

  We have large fridges here. It’s not the volume that matters when we’re looking at peak draw, it’s the compressor’s power rating. The same compressor can cool both, just at different duty cycles.

  FWIW there’s probably a lot more auxiliary power being pulled for things like water dispensers and that kind of thing for your fridges. And of course the Palantir-enabled AI Smart Fridge Miner features. In case any of these pretentious commies eats any food correlated with support for the wrong ethnic cleansing victims.

  It’s likely the fridges we buy here are simpler older designs with less fragile components, and stuff that runs on lower power. Most people here are not going for the smart fridges. There are a few inverter fridges on the market, but I prefer going with simpler older designs for what should be obvious reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is amperage more "obscure" than voltage (or watts)?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  USian here. My refrigerator expects (and is legally required to have) a dedicated branch circuit of fifteen or twenty amps with nothing else on it.

  Does any fridge use 1,800W? Even at peak? A small freeze-dryer? I’m holding off on making cheap jokes at the expense of American cuisine, your fridge might be legally over provisioned for some reason, but it’s not drawing this much power. My entire house idles at about 1.1~1.5A, or about 250~350W, if nothing is running but the absolute essentials. And that’s a relevant number for me, I do solar! I do batteries! Every little bit counts. Fridge is the most important thing to power, and literally everything else comes after.

  During the financial meltdown/pandemic people ran their fridges for eight or less hours a day because there was just not enough diesel. That’s the time we decided to splurge on solar. If you want more fun anecdotes, during that time I was waiting in line for 3-4 hours for fuel, and then bribing the attendant more than the value of the fuel to let me fill over 20 liters. Not fun times. And I’m someone who was lucky enough to be able to pay his way through the worst of it.

  I’m in Lebanon. I too count my blessings. It’s not culturally mandatory to strand your kids at 18 here, nor culturally accepted to have them dodge bullets at school. So you know. Even at the peak of people being harassed by Hafez’s secret police, people were not getting snatched on the street en masse. I don’t have the mental scaffolding to even begin to grapple with your reality my dear. Using the gas because the microwave is unavailable until tomorrow, temporarily stealing my neighbor’s water, angling for favor with feudal lords’ bureaucrats… Problems yes, but problems I understand.

  I hope I’m not being too mean here, the US still fascinates me in a way no other potential new home does, even with everything happening right now. How’s that for perspective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is amperage more "obscure" than voltage (or watts)?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Where I live most people actually do think of household electricity in terms of instantaneous current draw. The power grid is insufficient, so you get rationed grid power throughout the day depending on what area you live in, with the rest filled in by mob-run local power generators.

  You pay a subscription based on the maximum amperage and you have to manage your power use accordingly.

  🤓☝️ Um that’s functionally the same as a power limit

  Yes, but it’s ampere based because it’s managed by a breaker out on the street, and the ampere limit is colloquially understood. “I’m paying for 5A, the bastard won’t give me more” is a perfectly understandable statement. When I was 7 years old I already understood that “we only have 5 amperes during most of the day” and that it meant the microwave wasn’t available during that time. And since the breaker is out on the street, you learn your limit very quickly, since you have to get dressed and go down a few flights of stairs in the freezing cold to turn it back on. If you have an elevator in your building, it sure as shit isn’t running when the generator power is active.

  Annoying when you’re using solar to escape this hell electrical system and everyone has to re-learn to think in terms of Watts/VA. I have a table printed out stuck to the wall to “convert” between amps and Watts at 230V. Do you want to explain to grandma which devices are intuitively at 1kW≈1kVA and which are not? No? Then let her keep using amperes, it’s fine.

  Yes, the power generators run off diesel, yes, the diesel fumes and generator noise is a problem, yes, we get price gouged by both the generator mobs and the government grid, yes, I hate dieselpunk and think diesel is the most disgusting fuel. The generators give you a much closer wave to 230@50Hz though, so it has that over the grid. Was solar the most expensive thing we’ve ever paid for? Yes. Does it make me feel like a king with a 24 hour battery-backed microwave? Also yes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ESL homework⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can sound out horrific guttural Cyrillic text thanks to Geoguessr, but this just looks indecipherable to me. The urge to leap at typical Latin script pronunciation is much harder to stave off for some reason, and half of the glyphs just look completely alien to me.

  Language really is a fucking miracle

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The companies that market machine learning tools to investors and the masses have not been set up by people who believe art has value. Everything is content, and content exists to be aggregated alongside advertisements or displayed for a fee.

  I genuinely hate that actual artists can’t use a lot of pretty neat novel digital levers to make stuff. Because it’s synonymous with garbage. The ability to leap across the uncanny valley has lost all novelty and is downright banal now.

  But the answer to your question is the same as every desperate attempt at getting a “good” use case for slop generators. It’s for cranking out low effort trash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a dedicated fan of walking simulators I can already see the amount of shovelware we need to dig through to find the good stuff multiplying by orders of magnitude.

  It’s been a year since I played INFRA and I’ve thought about it without fail at least once a week and it damn well isn’t because they haphazardly made boring environments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord's IPO could happen in March⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  CalcKey? FireFish? Developers of Discord alternatives are just a special kind of person. Their efforts are commendable of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-Induced RAM Crunch Could Push Next PlayStation and Xbox Past 2028⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to refuse change at the bakery when I was a kid and would instead pick something out of the stack of pirated PS2 games. Something like two US dollars? Three? Not an egregious sum for my child self to waste every so often. The death of the on the ground piracy culture of the third world really sucks, although those beautifully dodgy TV boxes give me hope for humanity.

  Those were the fucking days eh? You either catch a movie on TV or in the cinema, or you get lucky with whatever they’ve got on random counters in random shops. Remember watching schlock? Was that bad for culture? Was it really that bad?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anything from the lemmy universe ever went viral before Reddit or Tictac or Insta?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that they pass a referral link by default even to Lemmy is really funny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy [ ١ رجب ]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Arabic is pretty broken and was clearly pasted into a left-to-right text field.

  I think you’ve hit the cultural irrelevance relatively well. I wouldn’t worry too much about it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do we have No Man's Sky fans here?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I’ve heard somewhere an opinion that someone preferred the original atmosphere of the game even if it was flawed. I do wonder if they have a mode for that.

  I haven’t played the game so I don’t know, but that’s the first thing I think of for some reason

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Outer Wilds drawing I made⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I did have reduced frights on and it didn’t work for me. I’ve even read some anecdotes about it being worse than having it off. It doesn’t remove the creatures I think it just makes them walk slower and makes the sounds less jumpy, I think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Outer Wilds drawing I made⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Put off the DLC for so long (4 years now? 5?) that I’d have to relearn a fair bit to get back into it.

  I remember being chased by a creature and noping out. I’m not built for horror games and that was a huge shift in tone from the idyllic feeling of the base game. I get that the thug I’m avoiding is basically a sprite with eyes and some music cues designed to feel a little stressful but I don’t know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does no one in the bible have a last name?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure you get these if you move. These names are common in my part of the world and they’re never common in the place the name refers to. At some point an ancestor moved and it stuck to their kids.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The British Empire⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I only ever saw it as controlling the spread of the horrific and anti-human terrorist philosophy of “believing the mass internment and murder of Palestinians is not a good thing actually”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bring bathroom doors back to hotels⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I never heard of this phenomenon. What on earth? Do you just shit next to your bed like a prisoner (I don’t even want this for prisoners?)? I don’t see any photos on the site. Surely this isn’t that common?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unlike most people, I get my information from a vetted, trusted source.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m one hypnotic frenzied writing session away from a giant winding post about how magazines gave us curated, focused cross-sections of the world around us, and how we interacted with them before the dopamine reptile brain event horizon era. I really have a lot of thoughts on this.

  I don’t know if this is real and I almost don’t want to

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(Pseudo) Science⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He’d have a guy with a bunker full of 1952 Tylenol, which “still had mercury and opium so you know it worked”.

  It’s like you people don’t grapple with conspiracy culture and its tireless army of very well adjusted people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 486 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This might have been the last AAA game I was hyped for, bought at full price, and enjoyed within its buzz cycle.

  I should play it again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They Wylin'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe not word for word then, you got me there

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They Wylin'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I heard this word for word but in Arabic back in like 2006 about Yasser Arafat. What’s old is new again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally a month that's relevant to me⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You ought to really bite down on that filter, give it a good satisfying crunch, just give it a real manly squeeze using your masculine man face working man muscles, just to make sure no particles go anywhere. You’ll be fine, trust

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally a month that's relevant to me⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The asbestos is probably the healthiest ingredient in that cigarette.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not clicking on the link, but this is right up my alley. Would love to host something like that locally, some sort of convenient museum of emulated stuff.