Clent
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- Comment on Why can computers, like even very old laptops can seemingly get OS updates forever, while mobile devices hardly get a few years of updates before getting stuck out of date? 1 day ago:
Part of this is because the device has to connect to cellphone towers where the radio equipment is on its own lifecycle path and eventually replaced.
Eventually the feature set of a device is too outdated for the carrier’s network to syooort it.
Developer time is limited and so there is little to no value using that time to support very old hardware that would be WiFi only.
- Comment on Protip: 1 day ago:
Humans suck as remembering history?
Hookworms isn’t why stores require shoes. It’s because of hippies. Laws typically require employees to wear shoes and even then it depends on the workplace.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Despite what everyone around you is saying it’s not absolutely necessary to drive. People manage this in all areas across America.
Don’t drive again until you’re ready. That may be a few weeks, it could be a decade, possibly never again.
- Comment on It's not supposed to make sense... 5 days ago:
Pilot wave isn’t another dimension. It exists in configuration space which is a concept of quantum mechanics in general. What pilot wave provides is a deterministic narrative for quantum mechanics.
- Comment on The future of warfare is now 1 week ago:
If you were to apply this same logic during various points during the world wars, you’d have been calling for the allies to surrender.
- Comment on My mom tells me I should cut dad off for cheating on her, am I a bad person for not wanting to do so? 1 week ago:
When someone gives an ultimatum of “me or them” (a or b), the best choice is almost always never a. It is the least restrictive choice.
If there were an actual reason to not choose b, the best choice is likely neither.
I understand the argument that “she is struggling” but the moment they make their struggle your struggle they are choosing to spread the pain rather than deal with it. This is never acceptable in a parent child relationship, more so if the child is a minor.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The relationship is the problem.
Calculating the levenshtein distance is the first thing that comes to mind, then creating a regular expression that covers any leaked passwords tied to the same account.
This is all easily scriptable and two leaked passwords might be all a script needs to discover the pattern. Once the pattern is known, all of their passwords become knowable.
- Comment on How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? 3 weeks ago:
Three but only if they want to and leave their friends behind.
- Comment on Anon isn't fooled by planes 3 weeks ago:
Future economists are going to make so much fun of us for thinking $1000 was created here.
- Comment on The joy of going through pregnancy along with your sister 4 weeks ago:
Why separate bedroom action?
- Comment on Einstein-Landauer culinary units 4 weeks ago:
Sounds like the culinary world would benefit from having a measurement system that accounts for these factors.
- Comment on The only way to be 5 weeks ago:
At least there would be no copyright or trademarks.
Also I am meta corp, please paid the overdue invoice.
Also, we have annexed mega corp local shoppe and confiscated all inventory. All inventory is 90% off, this a fire sale; we’re burning this mother fucker to the ground at midnight.
- Comment on Amazon CEO Andy Jassy plays up his retail rivals’ worst nightmare: Trump’s tariffs may actually strengthen Amazon 1 month ago:
So buy directly from China using AliExpress (fuck temu) and cut out the Amazon tax?
When America companies do this, it’s white labeling and they sometimes adds a warranty, better package etc.
With Amazon you just pay the Amazon tax. The products they are describing aren’t coming next day. It’s literally the same speed as AliExpress with a worse return policy. AliExpress will refund and let you keep the item.
- Comment on I am sick of seeing the rich and powerful on my screen. Where are all the TV shows about normal people? 1 month ago:
Such content already exists.
There’s a Streisand Effect that occurs when writing about what you don’t want instead of lifting up what you do want.
- Comment on Anon always gets his man 1 month ago:
Now that 4chan is gone
It’s back up.
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 1 month ago:
In the Nutcracker, at least, they’re pretending to fence, in a choreographed dance.
And no one writes stories about who won the fencing match.
Wrestling takes things to a ridiculous level compared to all other performances.
- Comment on Anon is a statistic 2 months ago:
doesn’t really even involve every day normal people
You used those additional qualifiers. You’re just back peddling. You’re clearly indicating it’s not a big deal because it’s not people like you who are affected.
- Comment on Anon is a statistic 2 months ago:
specific group of people
Nice dog whistle.
The virctims in gang violence include innocent bystanders.
We all know exactly what you’re really saying here and you’ll deny and make excuses about it.
- Comment on Am I entitled to compensation? 2 months ago:
Someone has calculated the first 100 Trillion digits of pi, so if I understand the equation you’re suggesting they means it is possible to know if pi contains all permutations of all phone numbers.
To keep the nerd going, I believe you’re over counting because not all 10 digits numbers are a valid phone number but I doubt that matters but it does reduce total number of numbers to find.
And if we want to include international numbers the longest possible phone number is 15 digits which falls just outside the range of calculated digits 100 trillion (10e14)
- Comment on Am I entitled to compensation? 2 months ago:
Didn’t say anything about compression.
Indexing and compression are not the same concept.
If there was an index for all 5 digit sequences and their locations, it wood reduce the search space for finding a 6 digit number.
This is about look up speed not saving space. Indexes always increase storage requirements. Always.
The question being asked here is does pi contain my phone number? Not does pi contain my phone number with an index location whose numeric value is shorter than my phone number?
- Comment on Am I entitled to compensation? 2 months ago:
Apparently it’s been calculated to trillions of digits so a bit lacking.
The search on that length would need an optimized index.
- Comment on Am I entitled to compensation? 2 months ago:
I checked a couple but none were found if I included the area code.
Based on my sample size of half a dozen phone numbers, it doesnt seem to have numbers once they are more than 8 digits.
Seems like there should some formula to determine how long the normal number needs to be to have all digits go to a certain length.
Reminds me of the formula for calculating the shortest path to watch all episodes in a tv series in all possible orders.
- Comment on Fake job seekers are flooding U.S. companies that are hiring for remote positions, tech CEOs say 2 months ago:
Ideally, you should be joining a cooperative, guild, and unionize. Let companies consult to you.
Feels like this is where it needs to head. This isn’t material different than going through a recruiting agency except those agency charges +20% of the starting salary.
The idea is the same though. People form relationships with the third party group and the third party group puts their reputation on the line when suggesting candidates.
- Comment on At this point I think I would 2 months ago:
Need to rework that to use clay and then many areas could print the house from what’s available under the land.
- Comment on At this point I think I would 2 months ago:
The ransomware turned by house into an Escher painting.
Jokes on them, I’m into it.
- Comment on I don't have any kids or anything but want some one day. I grew up under the fog of 9/11. How do you go about explaining terrorism and evil to young kids without storybooking it? 2 months ago:
Long before they’ll ask on their own, they’ll learn about it in school every and ask you questions prepared by their teacher about how it affected you.
- Comment on What TV shows have aged the best, and what TV shows have aged the worst? 2 months ago:
Have you not been paying attention to the intelligence of average Americans?
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 2 months ago:
Look at this red neck hick over here drinking cheap beer who things he’s a god because people tolerate him enough to use him for his tiny island of knowledge around cnc machines.
The only line of work he can maintain because the machine doesn’t judge him for his horrendous stench and ogre like appearance.
- Comment on If you think that you are always right remember you could actually be stupid and not know it 2 months ago:
Most painful comment so far
- Comment on Forgot a number in my address... 2 months ago:
There are ways to verify addresses exist and while an unknown address is possible, it should be extra work for the user to enter such an address such that it isn’t the browser autofilling to blame.
These databases are used for calculating taxes since someone on one side of the street can have a different tax rate than their neighbor on the other side of the street.