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- Comment on Zuckerberg says people without AI glasses will be at a disadvantage in the future 20 hours ago:
Putting his name behind something makes it less trustworthy.
- Comment on Stunning new data reveals 140% layoff spike in July, with almost half connected to AI and 'technological updates' 1 day ago:
Mass layoff, hire starving replacements cheaply
- Comment on "ok, imagine a gun." 2 days ago:
That’s like an amazing American showerthought, I never even considered it
- Comment on Water Snek 3 days ago:
Apparently trying to swim the straight line would mean you have to swim against the added friction of the water.
Snake line has far less friction. The energy being used to move you north and south is simply impartedto you by the environment, and while it doesn’t actually make you go any faster from your source to your target trying to fight it would be a significant amount of work.
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 4 days ago:
Naw, you gotta lean in.
Which bitch asked that before me?
the cutest one
- Comment on Water Snek 4 days ago:
So, given that the line is the tides? currents? If they adjusted their swimming angle to make the GPS line straight, I wonder if it would affect their time or energy expended. I think it wouldn’t but whatcha think?
- Comment on hehe 👉👈 4 days ago:
We used to bake mud pies on the transformer just like that in the summer heat at the apartments where I lived decades ago. We had no toys, so we were making due. Parents game out to yell at us to get away from it. But we never would stop. Eventually one of the fathers came out to make sure it was locked and safe and just let us carry on.
- Comment on Charging to tour rental properties... 4 days ago:
for appreciating it, you certainly have downvoted every comment I made here.
- Comment on Charging to tour rental properties... 4 days ago:
The problem I have with it is, if they’re trying to make money from it, the price is way too low. It’s not like a single unit is going to roll in the rent for a month in perspective visits. Letting a practically unvetted person remotely into an apartment that could steal things or hide out in a closet and rape someone… just the insurance to cover that alone would eat up a tremoundous amount of the fee. Cellular lockboxes are hundreds of dollars a piece.
If it was about money, it would need to be $20 for a single tour on a grand scale to make fiscal sense.
That’s why I think they’re just using it to harvest your data, that’s worth WAY more than $20 to them.
- Comment on Charging to tour rental properties... 4 days ago:
I agree completely. I’m not saying that it’s a good system I’m just trying to figure out how they were doing anything useful with a 50-cent charge for a tour.
- Comment on Charging to tour rental properties... 4 days ago:
Yeah, gone forbid they ask you for a way that ends up giving them your legal name and your home address and a likelihood of your credit rating No one would ever want that for a rental system. /s
FOOH Right back at you.
- Comment on Charging to tour rental properties... 4 days ago:
They’re self tours. They’re forcing you to pay a pittance with a identifiable credit card (not a gift card) which gives them your billing address The name associated with your bank account and with a quick joint through Nexus you’re approximate credit score and amount of money you make.
At 50 cents a tour nobody’s making any money off of it they’re not even making enough money to pay for the internet connected lock they put on the door
- Comment on Charging to tour rental properties... 4 days ago:
We’re missing some critical data here.
The price is really low. Not in a value proposition way but looking at minimum wage…
If you have an agent that drives to the rental property, talks to you let you in walks around with you for 15 minutes maybe
That’s $5 for 10 tours. That’s $0.50 per tour.
These have to be virtual tours, or VR tours. Or maybe the real first tired of getting stood up, or tired of people trying to see every property that exists without ever buying anything.
There’s something strange with that.
- Comment on When one earbud decides to not charge and I need to remove it from the case and put it back. And I even sometimes don't realize that... 6 days ago:
If your buds have exposed metal contacts get some deox-it
Or at least use a magic eraser on the contacts that you can get to.
- Comment on No blowjobs please 6 days ago:
as long as it’s unrelated.
- Comment on Why doesn't the US build a bridge here to connect Alaska to the mainland? Are they stupid? 6 days ago:
It appears to my eye that the red line goes from around Arena NM to ~Ciudad Cuauhtemoc Mexico.
That’s about 235 miles.
The current longest bridge is Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge in China which is 102 miles, but the majority of that is over land.
However, since the map put Alaska in the middle of Mexico…
We TOTALLY could.
- Comment on Yeasty 6 days ago:
why not just make yeast expand for as long as possible
The expanding part isn’t making more dough, it’s just eating starch and making carbon dioxide it’s more or less a spongy balloon.
if you walk over there with a shovel and whack it a few times it’ll deflate back into the original volume.
if you take a ball of pizza dough and let it rise and cook it, you’ll get a loaf of bread.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 1 week ago:
MasterCard is so big they don’t even know what all their departments are doing. The PR department probably asked a couple of the top level execs if they were pushing for this and they said no so they claimed it didn’t happen.
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 1 week ago:
Publicly, they’re saying we don’t want to get sued for allowing the purchase of illegal content, We have no problem with legal content.
That’s not to say that’s how they are phrasing it too the publishers.
- Comment on Be nice 1 week ago:
It now costs $1 to own more than a billion dollars in assets for one millisecond. We’re talking total value here assets, property.
Bezos would be down to a billion in just over 2 days.
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 1 week ago:
That’s kind of the problem though. They’re not everywhere now. There’s a whole lot of places that are nowhere near a train line.
- Comment on Slurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp 1 week ago:
They’re probably paying a dollar or two for a esp32 at volume. When one fails a tech probably just throws the old one away.
tween this and the e-ink pricetags on merchandise…
- Comment on Slurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp 1 week ago:
yeah, that is the most f’d up thing, I saw it at a travel plaza, it looks like the fever dream of some tech mogul’s kid that they just sink money into because they’re infatuated with it.
- Comment on Slurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp 1 week ago:
Man it’s so crazy how many small computers are around us. Just a few years ago that would have been a plastic label they swapped out when needed.
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 1 week ago:
I know enough that it wasn’t so much lobbying as it was advertising to the to the US citizens that made cars more popular. Ford figured out how to make it affordable then a bunch of companies that stood to make money on cars bought up streetcars and shut them down in favor of busses, but that doesn’t actually answer the demise of long distance rail.
- Comment on "We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal 1 week ago:
There are lots of people poking at them with sticks. Every time someone does it they post who’s doing it and show it as proof that they’re being oppressed.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Absolutely nothing stopping you buddy.
I don’t think there’d be any outcry. Go give it a shot.
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 1 week ago:
I wonder if the early proliferation of rural cars / mega expressways kinda fucked us. When your transportation network grows around trains, upgrading the trains/rails makes good economic sense. We just kind of spread out everywhere quickly and made the train locations somewhat irrelevant.
- Comment on nobody in webdev knows what graceful degradation is anymore 1 week ago:
Not OP, But welcome to my TED talk.
Supporting disabled JavaScript is a pretty significant need for accessibility features. None of the text browsers supported JavaScript until 2017, and there’s still a lot of old tech out there that doesn’t deal well with it.
It wasn’t until the rise of react and angular that this became a big deal. But, It’s extremely common now to send most of the website as code. And even scrapers now support JavaScript.
There’s no “minor point” clause on the term graceful degredation. At the same time, there’s no minimum requirement. Would it be good to be thorough and provide a static page? I’d say yes but it’s not like anyone is going to do that anymore.
The tables have turned, You can no longer live without JavaScript and now you need browsers that lie about your screen resolution, agent and your plugins because mega corps can sniff who you are by the slightest whiff of your configs.
And that’s NOT pretty cool
- Comment on PSA on privuhcy 2 weeks ago:
Check out this cool video