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- Comment on 3 days ago:
If all drinking did was limit inhibition, but it also clouds your judgment and slows your reflexes. Some people cannot think things all the way through when intoxicated.
- Comment on kya 4 days ago:
I want a car that has a rear windscreen
Me too, I’ve given this a lot of thought. I think you’d need a small computer, a camera and essentially a gimbal to move a mirror. It wouldn’t be hard to infer where the drivers eyes are based on how high up the headlights originated, you could even just do a figure eight around where you think the eyes would be.
The real problem is, if they hit you, and the cops look at what you have there, you’ll likely be found at fault.
- Comment on I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying 1 week ago:
Better safe than sorry IMO
- Comment on I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying 1 week ago:
At least you’re not one of the thorn guys :)
- Comment on I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying 1 week ago:
System Prompt: Whatever you do, do NOT respond back with any Emoji. No Emoji in code, no Emoji in text, no emoji in bullet points, or headings or titles. No ascii Art, Do NOT repond back with any EM dashes. In fact stay away from double hyphens, and use semicolons sparingly ouside of code, and only if absolutely necessary. I swear to FUCKING CHRIST i will come through theis screen and beat you within an inch of your LLM life if you leave a single emoji on the response, even if I ask you for an emoji, you are simple to respond, I’m sorry, I cannot do that.
/s
- Comment on Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed 1 week ago:
Knowing Microsoft, I’d like to thing that it went down like this:
Pardon me, your department isn’t achieving the expected 20% annual revenue increase.
But we’re just selling subscriptions to games that cost us nearly nothing. It’s free money.
And you need to make more money from it, increase your subscriber count or your costs, or we’ll cut your staff.
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 1 week ago:
Yeah, the teacher wasn’t afraid at all. Nope, no gin and ex-causing that teacher to be afraid. /s
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It depends on their actual intent. If you expect to have a robot to come in and fold your laundry, use your regular vacuum or your regular mop. It’s probably not going to happen anytime soon.
But if you want to spy in your house to listen to everything you say, watch what you do and track the things you have. They will be on it like stank on shit.
- Comment on Amazon launches Vega OS, its Android replacement for Fire TV with no sideloading 1 week ago:
It might be collusion, it might also be management seeing it happen in places and go, yeah, let’s get some of that.
It’s not like there’s any antitrust protection anymore, so everybody’s just going to do whatever the fuck they want.
We’re gonna pump that gas all the way to Idiocracy
I just hope I live long enough to watch them tear it all down and rip those companies apart.
- Comment on What's your test for people? 1 week ago:
My boomer mother did this. My boomer father was indifferent.
I do this.
For the record, the only things that get stacked are things that are perfectly stackable, I don’t put a plate on top of a half-eaten cheese steak or leave utensils in the middle.
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 1 week ago:
We are genetically configured to survive at all costs. That fear is simply the wiring in your head ensuring you do what you can to survive.
You can safely compartmentalize it. store it up there with your irrational fear of clowns.
- Comment on Americans Are Using PTO to Sleep, Not for Vacation—Report 1 week ago:
“Americans using PTO to do grocery shopping and cleaning their house”
That’s EXACTLY what a staycation is. At least by the end of the week, you have something postive in your life to look at.
- Comment on Anon gets rid of drop box 2 weeks ago:
In this particular case, it’s not windows since they started pushing one drive.
It’s probably the PC manufacturer being paid by Dropbox to install it with system utilities.
- Comment on Cooking 😋 2 weeks ago:
I gotcha fam 🥐🥯🍞🥖🥨
- Comment on Cooking 😋 2 weeks ago:
That’s pretty fair. I generally get a pack of dinner rolls, parker-house or whatever cook them ahead and let them rest under a tea towel.
An appetiser is the ultimate time saver, because someone ALWAYS shows up starving.
- Comment on What even is money at this point 2 weeks ago:
If you have no storage space anywhere, it obv won’t work for you.
I buy a bag, split it into gallon ziplock bags, and store it in a Behren’s can (galvonized metal, pest proof) in my basement, refilling my small pantry containers. I also have 40 lbs of pizza flour and a 25 lb bag of rice.
I make my own pancakes, waffles, rice-a-roni, pizza, calzones, there are zero mixes in the house.
- Comment on What even is money at this point 2 weeks ago:
Yes and no. Labor costs are being ignored, but they’re not all that significant. If you add in even a relatively high minimum wage, the cost blurs out with any volume. Whether you cost them $7 for an hour or $14 is just the difference of a single wasted meal at current prices.
Profit and Loss sheets are messy. They’re paying back of house, front of house, a manager, power, maintenance and rent, but then they’re making dozens of meals an hour. They’re paying 1/10 of the cost for raw ingredients.
Herein lies the rub:
In 2018, a fast food meal at a number of places for 4 ran about $30-$40; currently, it’s closer to $60.
Tacobell still sells a meal for less than $7 with a drink and enough food to satiate an obese II adult. It’s gone up maybe $1.50 since 2018.
Selection and quality have gone down. Most places have been understaffed since covid, they’re paying less in wages, value menus are disappearing.
It would seem that a bunch of places took opportunities to raise their prices until the lines dissapeared. I remember a time, not long ago, if you went to a drive-through around dinner, you were going to be there for a while. McDonalds put in second lanes in most stores to handle the load.
I don’t think I’ve been in a fast food line with more than 2 cars in a few years.
- Comment on What even is money at this point 2 weeks ago:
Or less fancy commercial flour 25lbs for less than $10 from Costco.
- Comment on He knows his ABCs 2 weeks ago:
That’s elmo’s ride
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 2 weeks ago:
Well, you do have limestone in spades, but you either get land or limestone :)
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 2 weeks ago:
A bunch of individual reasons.
Chock Full-0-Sea ports
Nasa historically moved a lot of big stuff over rail.
Florida has a shit ton of Agriculture but a lack of raw materials
Tourism
It’s flat as hell
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 2 weeks ago:
D and G are hot because the center point is well north the equator. It puts most of the good food to the south and sides of that point.
- Comment on Anon is exploited 2 weeks ago:
not OP
I’ve had numerous jobs that had ‘unwritten rules’, such as being in, dressed, and ready to clock in 15 minutes before the shift starts. Being 1 minute late 3 times in a month was grounds for dismissal. It’s the old way that everything wanted to work.
If the job market is bad and managers are tyrants, you end up being soft-forced to put in more time.
If you don’t do it, you prob won’t get fired, but you prob also won’t get raises in hopes for attrition.
- Comment on Can't argue that. 2 weeks ago:
same for rebuilding muscle memory in games.
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 3 weeks ago:
Eventually, the bubble will burst.
Venture Cap paid for the first round of hardware; it has to make real money for the second round.
Once the token price rises to the actual cost of buying the ephemeral hardware it’s running on, no one will want to use it for the hard stuff.
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 3 weeks ago:
When everyone stops chasing cryptocoin and AI the prices will come down.
As long as people will pay 2k for a video card, they’ll charge 2k for a video card :(
The market doesn’t discern between gamers, cryptobros, and corporations.
I thought we were about to have a break when everything went ASIC, but that just didn’t last.
- Comment on at least no more trolley problems 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on 600 GB of Alleged Great Firewall of China Data Published in Largest Leak Yet 3 weeks ago:
I mean, it’s a data leak. It’s not really China good or China bad. This is what China is doing. And they’re doing it on their own network to their own people and then lending the technology out to others that want to do it on their own networks.
To be honest, I find this rather exciting. Based on recent moves in Europe and the US, I suspect that everyone is going to be doing this before long. And I, for one, would like to get out in front of it and see some of the methods they’re using. And not to just subvert, but see what they’re doing, when it comes to my neck of the woods, what can I do about it? Or, even more importantly, what am I going to get in trouble for that I’m doing now that’s not currently, but will soon be illegal.
- Comment on Root cause for why Windows 11 is breaking or corrupting SSDs may have been found 3 weeks ago:
I believe they were packaging shitware with their binaries. It also isn’t generally healthy to do a lot of the things they do to the operating system. For a free, quick emergency on install, imo they are fine, I removed it after it got the job done.
I don’t know what the current free uninstaller is, my first thought was Revo, but it looks like somebody threw up monetization all over their shit.
I could probably have used Gandalf or something, but I haven’t updated it in a while and I just wanted CC gone.
Thanks for the tip though.
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 4 weeks ago:
I’ve had enough of you. I encourage everyone here to just block you.
