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- Comment on [Tech Connections] Alkaline batteries are obsolete — but not for the reason you'd think [30:18] 1 week ago:
Most products that use a lot of power have built in rechargeable batteries, so if you buy something that still uses AA batteries it’s probably very low power draw, so don’t waste money on expensive batteries.
Or do, I’m not your dad.
- Comment on True love 1 week ago:
USUALLY the same thing happens when women date much younger men.
It’s about power, not about gender. People with a lot of experience and resources prey on people who have very little.
If someone is 60 and dating someone who is 30, that’s usually ok (a little weird in my opinion tho) cause someone who is 30 is fairly mature and can understand what’s going on, and usually has friends, a career, and a lot of stability in their lives.
If someone is 40 and dating someone that’s 20… it doesn’t matter what the gender mix is… the 20 year old is going to have a lot of trouble pushing back when things are wrong. The 20 year old isn’t emotionally, or FINANCIALLY able to break away as easily. It’s not misogynistic to say that a very young person (female or male) might end up in a situation they feel like they can’t leave.
- Comment on If a database is edited before daylight savings time ends (time rolls back), would that corrupt the database? 1 week ago:
Until they decide to reverse it, or until they make a different change.
Just use Epoch time for backend and calculations, and use local time for displaying to the user (or UTC for debugging systems that span time zones)
- Comment on If a database is edited before daylight savings time ends (time rolls back), would that corrupt the database? 1 week ago:
Or just Unix (epoch) time.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time
There can be problems with leap seconds using UTC (or leap hours eventually)
- Comment on Why does the microwave button have a "popcorn" button when every microwave popcorn brand says "DO NOT USE THE POPCORN BUTTON"? 2 weeks ago:
Some microwaves have a humidity sensor that determines if the popcorn is done and it works well.
Some microwaves have a preset cooking schedule for microwave popcorn and it doesn’t work for all types.
Personally if I’m making microwave popcorn, I just set it to 99:99 and wait for the popping to stop.
- Comment on Tell me what to do today, and I will report back. 3 weeks ago:
Is everyone confusing JFK with RFK, or am I missing something?
- Comment on Why dont we say "WWW" in front of website URLs anymore? 3 weeks ago:
You also have more reverse proxys and routers handing traffic now, so someone attempting to access ftp services would be routed to the ftp server, and someone trying to access http resources would be routed to that server.
Routing can be handled at the protocol/port level instead of the subdomain level to make connections a little more user friendly.
- Comment on Mood 4 weeks ago:
He prefers Flynn, Walt.
- Comment on We work 40+ hours a week and they tell us we can’t afford insulin for our neighbors, but we can always afford another war 4 weeks ago:
To be fair, it’s VERY exaggerated. Yes, many of the situations are realistic, and a lot of the actual medicine is very accurate, but the overall situation is pretty far outside the normal for any real hospital.
It’s like an entire year’s worth of worst case scenarios jammed into a “one shift” season.
- Comment on im on day 11 of waiting for my up to 10 day delivery package and its maybe getting delivered today 1 month ago:
To be fair, back then.
- Cut out a coupon
- Mail a handwritten form with a check
- Post office takes a week to deliver.
- A person has to sort the received order
- A person has to hand process the order
- They wait for the check to clear
- A person has to package the order
- Post office takes a week or so to deliver
It really wasn’t 6-8 weeks for a package to travel to its destination. The bulk of that was inefficient human order processing.
- Comment on when doing laundry... while switching it over from washer to dryer...you find a sock on the floor that didn't get washed. If you put it in the dryer with the wet laundry will it come out clean? 1 month ago:
It’s not a binary clean/not-clean thing. The sock will be tumbled around in water with the other clothes as it’s being dried.
The sock will be clean-ER than it was when it was on the floor. The sock won’t be AS clean as the rest of the clothes in the drier.
Depending on how dirty the sock started out, this may be all that matters. We don’t know how sweaty or stained the sock started out. We don’t know how clean this person requires their sock to be.
Would I do it? No, I prefer my socks to be cleaner than that, and my socks get kinda stinky after I wear them. But someone that mostly wore them around the house and never actually put those socks into shoes? It’s probably fine.
- Comment on Joe Rogan thinks AI running the government would ‘stop all wars on the planet’ 1 month ago:
You know, this isn’t the greatest argument. Horse Dewormer is an antiparasitic. It’s legitimately used by people as an anti-parasitic (also, dogs, and other animals, not just horses).
www.drugs.com/ivermectin.htmlYou can definitely say “joe rogan thinks an anti-parasitic drug works on viruses.” but calling it a “horse dewormer” is ignoring the fact that it’s actually also a “people dewormer.”
- Comment on Joe Rogan thinks AI running the government would ‘stop all wars on the planet’ 1 month ago:
I get what he’s saying - like a lot of things he talks about, it only makes sense on a surface level.
A computer is programmed by people, and has assumptions and conditions programmed into it. The people who create the LLM/AI/AGI/Whatever are going to decide what’s important and what isn’t.
That’s literally creating laws and treaties in an overly complicated way, that you probably couldn’t predict the outcome of. It’s never going to be better than having intelligent, educated, and well supported representatives.
Additionally, government doesn’t mean anything unless there’s an enforcement arm. It’s a terrible idea to concentrate the decision making to one thing, then give it the power to enforce its decisions. That’s literally Judgement Day.
- Comment on How can we see other galaxies, and how do we know how many galaxies there are? 1 month ago:
Just so you know, you don’t need special equipment to see another galaxy. If you have good eyes, you can just go to a very dark place and look up. A pair of binoculars definitely helps though.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_Galaxy
There’s actually a bunch of local galaxies that you can see with just a pair of binoculars, a small telescope, or a good camera and some time.
The Messier Objects are one catalog of things that are pretty bright in the sky that you can see with your eyeballs through any basic telescope or binoculars. The numbers don’t really mean anything, they’re just the order they were cataloged in.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_objectIf you check out the list, you can see that a lot of them are galaxies. If you spend a little time learning how to find them, you can see them yourself. – Andromeda is M32.
Those are all part of the Local Group. Which are a bunch of galaxies that are all nearby and pretty easy to find with telescopes.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Group - Comment on How can we see other galaxies, and how do we know how many galaxies there are? 1 month ago:
This is a great comment, but just for completeness, the Type Ia Supernovae is only one part of the Cosmic Distance Ladder.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_distance_ladder
We can start with small, easier to measure things, and work our way outwards to more and more complicated measurement techniques. Most of these techniques overlap each other and can be used to confirm our measurements.
One of the big unsolved questions in cosmology is that many of our measurements disagree, this isn’t a “problem” just an unsolved question, and as a result, we don’t know how far away things are to the accuracy we would like. That being said, we still know how far away they are to a pretty damn close approximation.
The interesting thing is, the better we get at measuring how far away things are, the more our measurements differ from each other. There’s a lot of reasons why this might be, but one of them is that a Type Ia Supernovae might not be as standard as we think it is.
- Comment on Why, Zeus? Why! 1 month ago:
If you’re immortal, wouldn’t you want your side piece to be mortal so they wouldn’t hang around forever?
Imagine getting a clingy ex that was also immortal. “Remember that time we hooked up 8,000 years ago? We should get back together.”
- Comment on Be prepared 1 month ago:
Debt is a hell of a drug
- Comment on Why does most of the world use WhatsApp as their messaging app rather than RCS/SMS? 1 month ago:
One thing you missed… WhatsApp took off BEFORE facebook (now meta) bought it. So it had a huge network effect while it was independent.
- Comment on Voyager crew incompetence. Has Trek always been like this? 2 months ago:
In TOS, when they find Kahn, the first thing they do is give him access to all the technical specs of the ship, which he promptly uses to take over.
- Comment on Labor plans crackdown on social media algorithms as Taylor says he’s ‘deeply sceptical’ 2 months ago:
I can decide who I want to follow. I hate it when the “algorithm” decides when something wouldn’t be interesting and hides it from me when I specifically followed someone.
Also, contacts of contacts can be reshared by my contacts if it would be interesting, so I don’t want an algorithm deciding that I need to see it.
Basically, show me a timeline of my followed contacts sorted by new and stop trying to decide what I should see for me.
- Comment on Labor plans crackdown on social media algorithms as Taylor says he’s ‘deeply sceptical’ 2 months ago:
Dunno, I guess - new first, only your contacts - is KIND of an algorithm, but I don’t know that anyone would call that an algorithm.
- Comment on Love 2 months ago:
No, cause this is sunset, which happens when the sun sets in the west.
West is left, which means this picture was not flipped, just taken from an unintended angle.
- Comment on Waiting and getting treated is better than waiting and going bankrupt 2 months ago:
Unfortunately, you also have to advocate for yourself as a patient. Ideally you have someone trusted along that can help with that, but if you’ve been sitting there for hours, you need to find out exactly what’s going on. Especially if it is serious.
- Comment on Waiting and getting treated is better than waiting and going bankrupt 2 months ago:
If you’re waiting 12 hours in the triage area of the emergency department, then you probably should have either gone to your primary doc, or an urgent clinic.
12 hours means either the waiting area is unusually full of extremely unstable patients, or you are especially stable yourself.
I get that not everyone has access to different levels of care, but urgent clinics exist to take the load off the emergency departments.
- Comment on This homeless character, who doesn't go to the gym and survives on junk food, somehow weights 300lbs of pure muscle 2 months ago:
Sorry to burst your bubble, but those don’t work without a lot of gym time.
If you’re on the juice, but don’t put in the work, your body just gets weird.
- Comment on Buying new electrical outlet, and the grounding are just a decoration 2 months ago:
You don’t need to take them apart, you can just plug in an outlet tester.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_outlet_tester
Also, depending on what you plug into it, the device itself might complain about a missing ground connection.
Of course, if you’re looking for other issues, you might have to take it apart, but just checking if everything is connected the way it’s supposed to can be done non-invasively.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I don’t understand how people use the term WiFi when they mean Broadband Internet or Always connected Internet.
WiFi is just one way to deliver the network connection to your device, but it’s not the only way.
- Comment on [Technology Connections] My water heater is cooler than yours 2 months ago:
Geothermal systems can do that for water heaters, AC, and heat, so… They kinda already do that.
- Comment on It's about logic and not "feelings" 2 months ago:
My best friend? Gets the cash no questions asked.
If I needed additional follow ups, then he’s not really my best friend.
- Comment on People who get "happy ending" massages, is there like a common keyword or process? 2 months ago:
I think using this exact language may be your problem. 🤣