Wolf314159
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- Comment on Venezuelan Migrant Sent to Guantánamo Bay Is ‘Not a Criminal,’ Family Pleads 1 week ago:
This is just one of the many reasons that the argument the right keeps repeating about all manner of privacy invasions and infringements of rights and due process that “the good ones have nothing to fear” is complete and utter bullshit.
- Comment on Parents sue TikTok over child deaths allegedly caused by ‘blackout challenge’ 2 weeks ago:
Thanks, although I was able to infer some of the significance from the name, I was confused about how kids were actually dying because something like this has been around for a long time. At least 30 years ago kids this age were making themselves blackout by holding their hands tightly against their necks. Even then, before the age of always on internet, most of the other kids rightly called those kids out as idiots. Adding mechanical devices is just next level evil? Next Level Stupid? I don’t know. I guess that’s what the lawsuit is trying to determine. I can guarantee that it will be used to further erode our privacy rights online as more and more kinds sites are forced to verify their users with government issued identification.
- Comment on No rules!! 2 weeks ago:
It seems like a pretty good space filling method for a worm. Probably also has something to do with not eating away the leaf your worm body trailing behind you is clutching.
- Comment on F.C.C. Chair Orders Investigation Into NPR and PBS Sponsorships 3 weeks ago:
Step one: decrease funding. Step two: wait for them to seek funding elsewhere. Step three: use step two as an excuse to decrease funding even more. Repeat.
This is how they are dismantling democracy.
- Comment on How the Plane and Helicopter Crash in Washington, D.C., Happened: Maps and Graphics 3 weeks ago:
Individual human failures are often a symptom of broader and larger systemic problems. Pointing out these systemic problems is not over reach.
- Comment on Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked 3 weeks ago:
Beginner tutorials exist. Have you even tried looking? Linux has better documentation than anything I’ve seen in any other OS. Man pages, help files, and commented configuration files galore in just about every single Linux distro without any Internet needed, but it sounds like you never even bothered to look for them.
Sure, assholes online exist in Linux communities, but they are EVERYWHERE. We’ve got a couple right right here. That doesn’t exactly distinguish FOSS communities from any other.
Generalizations about all of FOSS based on your limited experience with a few distros is just asinine. FOSS is way more than an operating system.
Expecting a machine to hold your hand through your learning is such a weird form of entitlement and an especially weird distinction to make since no other operating system does that to the level you expect either.
Corporations pay for support services. The code is free (as in speech). No one ever claimed that the support was also (or even should be) free. Microsoft support is a joke. Apple support is mostly just a sales scheme. Linux support forums might be hostile to entitled noobs looking for a handout and a quick fix, but they are fucking heros when given a chance to help those who put in the effort to help themselves.
- Comment on Dad's Coming, 🇧🇷 indie 2d couch co-op action mess simulator 4 weeks ago:
No, the title is a homophone for a slang term for ejaculation.
- Comment on Dad's Coming, 🇧🇷 indie 2d couch co-op action mess simulator 4 weeks ago:
They knew what they were doing. Obviously this is (I assume) just more of the same step-family kink fad nobody asked for.
- Comment on Discussion: Cybertruck involved in attempted bombing in Las Vegas auto-locked after explosion 1 month ago:
They shouldn’t be separate in the first place. It’s just bad design that’s prone to failure. And in this case that failure mode is VERY far from failsafe, it’s potentially deadly.
- Comment on Discussion: Cybertruck involved in attempted bombing in Las Vegas auto-locked after explosion 1 month ago:
Too bad those “easily accessible manual releases” aren’t the actual door handle and are hidden so well you’d never find them if you were unfamiliar with the vehicle.
- Comment on Why is daisychaining multiple extension cords considered unsafe, even if only done to the length of a standard cable? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Why is daisychaining multiple extension cords considered unsafe, even if only done to the length of a standard cable? 1 month ago:
Sorry, that’s not what I see.
- Comment on Why is daisychaining multiple extension cords considered unsafe, even if only done to the length of a standard cable? 1 month ago:
Both are measurements of cross-sectional AREA and are defined in terms of square millimeters (mm^2), not mm.
- Comment on Remember the iconic paintings of The Last Supper? This is what it would look like if it happened today 1 month ago:
“Ok Boomer.”
But seriously though. After the proliferation of the printing press, I’m willing to bet, someone made the exact same joke about printed books. And I know that the Boomers’ parents made the same joke about television, and their grandparents made the same joke about radio. And this isn’t even really a Boomer joke, it’s a Gen-X joke. I know because my boomer parents actually made this joke about Gameboys and walk-mans before the Internet (or at least convenient portable Internet) was even really a ubiquitous thing. It’s just that Boomers are living longer and are so damn vocal and numerous that they are STILL making this joke, updated for the modern generation.
What technology will gen-Y and gen-alpha lament about in stale memes?
- Comment on Jared Leto to Play Skeletor in 'Masters of the Universe' Movie 1 month ago:
Calling anything bad weird seems a little judgemental for my taste. I like bad weird. Good weird is boring.
- Comment on Jared Leto to Play Skeletor in 'Masters of the Universe' Movie 1 month ago:
Getting weirder and weirder is the only viable direction a Master of the Universe movie can go for success. Don’t you remember the last movie?
- Comment on Just because you're a slob at home do you have to be an inconsiderate slob in public 2 months ago:
I’m always amazed how some people have no self awareness. They have no concerns for others. And yet if you acted like they did and it affected them they would be so pissed.
Like the person sneaking photos of people in public to ridicule them anonymously on the Internet?
What’s wrong with taking your shoes off before putting them up on the furniture? Seems the polite thing to do so you don’t get snow or mud or whatever other shit is on your shoes on the seat. It’s not like there is someone else using either of those seats opposite at the moment. Maybe you’re just feeling shame about your foot fetish? It’s okay to have a kink about feet, but non-consenting voyeurism is not okay.
- Comment on I don't know where I'm going to keep them all 2 months ago:
I’m very pro real books and as a result was hesitant to jump on the ebook bandwagon. That all changed after finishing a particularly large book early during a long trip, lugging those damn dead trees around the country for a while and unable to find anything worthwile to read in along the way. Now with my ebook any book and every book on my “to read” list taking up the same space, same weight, and I don’t worry about damaging them because the ebook is waterproof with a rugged cover.
I still buy hard to find and out of print books at used book stores, but those stay home and get gifted to special people when I’m done.
- Comment on and we thought our thing with beans was bad 2 months ago:
So we’re not getting hand milked by 40 cows while getting figged by 3 cherubs.
- Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British? 2 months ago:
YYYY-MM-DD is the only non-mentel way to write either.
I was only answering your question about why programming a way to parse those common date formats is problematic.
- Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British? 2 months ago:
The date is 12/11/2024. Am I talking about yesterday or a day about a month ago?
- Comment on Percentages 2 months ago:
Another lesson I the importance of significant digits, a concept I’ve had to remind many a young (and sometimes an old) engineer about. An interesting idea along similar lines is that 2 + 2 can equal 5 for significantly large values of 2.
- Comment on New oven and they lock the air fryer functionality behind wifi. 2 months ago:
Yeah, the touch screen is awful, but just try finding a decent induction range without one and without spending twice as much for the privilege. (It seems that induction ranges are the most popular for this unfortunate design trend.)There’s not really any choices out there. You can lock the screen, which is great for cleaning. Just don’t do that while you’re using the oven or range because it turns everything off and cancels the bake.
I do love everything else about my induction range though. Cold searing stuff is faster and easier to get right. I can bring a pot of water to a rolling boil in about 4 minutes.
- Comment on Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry 2 months ago:
No longer profitable FOR THE ARTIST. Profit is absolutely being made from touring musicians, it’s just not going to the people actually making the music.
- Comment on So this is how my neighbor fixes his fence. 2 months ago:
That’s the joke.
- Comment on Cleanliness is more important 3 months ago:
Chopsticks. Use them. It takes a little practice, but they are perfect for snacking, especially popcorn. Cheetos are easiest of the chips, but others are possible. No more residue on your finger tips, or the backs of your hands from reaching into the bag. I also switched to chopsticks for things like salads (fruit or vege variety), noodles, and getting olives and such out of jars. Even a good stew or chili can be eaten with chopsticks and a spoon. Now I just need to get better at using chopsticks with my nondominant hand.
- Comment on Anon watches a scary movie with his gf 3 months ago:
Also, isn’t that the whole point of scary movies? I love scary movies and I show that by reacting to the good jump scares, gore, and creepiness. If it bored me so much I didn’t react, I probably would find something else to watch. My partner gets a real kick out of watching me jump too.
- Comment on Harm 3 months ago:
Yeah, dividing a circle into 360 parts, then subdividing those by 60, and further subdividing those by 60 makes so much more sense than just using ratio of a number fundamental to circles themselves.
- Comment on Harm 3 months ago:
Because it’s a unit circle.
- Comment on Harm 3 months ago:
Sine of theta is the ratio of the lengths of the Opposite side over the Hypotenuse (SOH). Cosine of theta is Adjacent over Hypotenuse (CAH). Tangent of theta is Opposite over Adjacent (TOA).
