HubertManne
@HubertManne@piefed.social
- Comment on My possibly degenerating brain and typing comments: Does font make a difference? Can I change this site's font? 2 days ago:
I changed to the dyslexic font on a whim and I do kinda feel I read things better with it.
- Comment on Would you want to live forever in an infinite game? 3 days ago:
i would like a pause to. Like I might want to go into torpor for a few thousand years.
- Comment on Anthropic logged net loss of over $80 billion in first half of 2026 3 days ago:
so ah. not based on any financials other than having to pay for loans.
- Comment on How does one figure out what to do, after getting out and done with high school? 4 days ago:
This is kinda hard to answer without knowing your situation. I mean if you could get into harvard could you cover the cost? So basically everyon has a limited set of options to follow. Even given that I can say I knew I wanted to be a science major based on my high school grades and fascination with how viruses replicate from the whirling blender experiment. I intended to do research and teach. I graduated but did not get through a PhD so that was out. I then worked in industry and found it really did not pay the bills well enough. Im lucky to have tech be this thing which almost anyone could do at the time if you were good with that stuff and make decent cash (you could say that its this way now but its really not the same). I worked in the field but with some serial unemployment but the only significant amount was in relation to the housing market crash. Now however im older and unemployed for over 2 years. So. Anyway. I guess im saying is you make choices from your options and even then things can go all over the place. Im glad I got a good liberal arts and sciences education because I kinda like learning. Im glad I did tech because you have to learn all the time. If I lived in a better society I think I would be generally happy. I sometimes think of things I could do different but I also see it pretty much going the same way really or not as its all kinda a roll of a die.
- Comment on To those who think the economy will never get good enough to afford basic necessities (and you're probably right), what will you do to not only survive, but enjoy life with the only life you have? 5 days ago:
Try to survive as long as possible and enjoy simple things.
- Comment on Can we estimate the size of the Internet ? If so, what size would it be (in GB, TB or whatever) ? 1 week ago:
this feels like a perfect llm question. It may have it wrong. It quite likely will be wrong or at least not exact. But it will give you a feel good answer that is going to be correct with enough proximity tolerance.
- Comment on Have any of you experienced that "snake detection" instinct? Do you think it's real? 1 week ago:
I find it hard to believe we specialized in one predator like that. I think we have a lot of danger signals hardwired in and maybe snakes behavior happen to trigger a few. A lot of stories I see below remind me when I was walking with a friend on the train tracks and train was coming up behind us. The reaction, the mental time distortion. We jumped and hauled ass to the side and the train was super far away but the danger sense was triggered so it had the feel.
- Comment on Do you fear for children's future with social media growing even more? 1 week ago:
I fear for everyones future for many different reason. I would say pollution and global warming are at the top.
- Comment on Why can't normal bank or multi-currency cards alone bypass BIN on these digital storefronts? 1 week ago:
I mean. also. people are homeless. not everyone has an address.
- Comment on Does anyone actually believe this "rogue AI" nonsense? 1 week ago:
its no different to me than a bad command being sent as root and screwing up a system.
- Comment on With all this talk about Ai not being profitable why aren't we using it in video games? I dont mean replacing developers I mean in NPCs in the game. I make them more realistic. 1 week ago:
I think that would cause the game to use much more energy and video games already are one of the bigger power draws you can do with your machine. adding power draw at data centers is kinda crazy. even an mmo is doing very low power things in what it does with data and your machine is doing most of the power heavy lifting.
- Comment on Is my laundry machine broken? 1 week ago:
Mine could be broken as I wash in cold mostly. I will use temp in winter more because the water going through the pipes get real cold to the point where if you pause and push clothes down or such its uncomfortable for the hands. like putting them in ice water. you ever pause and just see what the water temp is. my pauses by lifting the lid. oh mine is upright though. I mean the hot water comes from your hot water tank. the laundry does not heat it. none I know of anyway. so if it was broken it would be like its not drawing from the hot water line which seems kinda unlikely.
- Comment on Why do we need legal genders at all? 1 week ago:
yeah until like sometime in the last 10 years I never thought of gender and sex as being different from each other. Every time I see gender assigned at birth im like thats kinda redic. Yeah in people who have some sort of issue that makes it indeterminate a call is made but otherwise it goes by xy xx. I mean we are talking a very small percentage of births that have one assigned.
- Comment on I have to give a presentation in 15 minutes 1 week ago:
Yup. Work to get it perfect the day before. Then you make it a point to get a good nights sleep and be really ready. I have been here.
- Comment on Advice for moving to NY? 1 week ago:
20 years ago was 2006. even in my more affordable metro 500 a month for a one bedroom was not doable in 1993 in the cheap college town I was looking in way down state. I mean likely you could if you really went rural.
- Comment on If college is a scam, where do you go to get better education? 1 week ago:
in the us community college is probably still worth it. The idea about basic education. Reading, writing, and math is to give a foundation to learn more. Once you learn to read you unlock the ability to get information and learn from books. Math is just because it would be very difficult to learn most of the basic concepts with zero background. Writing allows you to correspond and communicate at a distance like we are doing now. Your post is a type of activity seeking to get better. know more.
- Comment on I wanted to remember exactly when it happened 1 week ago:
I often say that the 70’s were pea. People like to point out all sorts of things that got better from then but its really about we were generally looking to progress then for the last few decades and that kinda stopped. It was a slow decline though so we made some progress but it went from like generally steps forward to 2 steps forward one back to one forward one back and then 1 forward and 2 back and now we are just generally moving backward.
- Comment on If the legalization of drugs reduces crime, why can't the same be said about the legalization of guns? 1 week ago:
weapons are in a different class than other things. that being said lots of things are weapons and its really hard to limit them all. that being said some weapons are more destructive than others. would legalization of nuclear warheads reduce crime?
- Comment on Console market craters as Xbox sales crash 33% to the lowest since launch 25 years ago, PS5 sales drop 25% 1 week ago:
its not even a choice for me. i have been unemployed for over 2 years now. since just before he got elected.
- Comment on How come the bacteria that make people obese don't seem to be affecting countries where there's widespread famine? 2 weeks ago:
im someone who seems to not put on weight super easy and my wife is the opposite. 100% she seems to digest food more thoroughly than I. A lot of veg, especially like corn but I have had tomatoe, shows up in my stool. never in hers.
- Comment on I despise laundry. How can I make my life contain less of it? 2 weeks ago:
honestly I find hangers the best option. shoe caddies are nice for things that just can’t go on hangers like socks.
- Comment on I’m watching something on tv and a dude strangled another dude with rattle snake. Is that possible? What’s the tensile strength of a snake? 2 weeks ago:
honestly this was just a joke reply.
- Comment on I’m watching something on tv and a dude strangled another dude with rattle snake. Is that possible? What’s the tensile strength of a snake? 2 weeks ago:
ok. just to be clear. this is not a sex thing. dude choked a guy with his snake and all.
- Comment on I’m watching something on tv and a dude strangled another dude with rattle snake. Is that possible? What’s the tensile strength of a snake? 2 weeks ago:
nah if you use the arm like a rod and pull it so it presses on the throat it should be just as good. Just make sure not to point the elbow forward.
- Comment on Are fluctuations in Earth's magnetic field during geomagnetic storms actually enough to cause stress on our cells and bodies, or am I encountering junk science? 2 weeks ago:
you can’t really prove a negative. you can’t prove god does not exist and you can’t prove anything that interacts with our cells and bodies have no noticable effect. Like anything else its up to studies to prove that they do with a decent statistical likely hood that the study is accurate. I mean things that are well studied and considered modern miracle medicine still gets skepticism.
- Comment on How did Google win the search engine war? 2 weeks ago:
oh yeah. I forgot how it came out april first.
- Comment on Did they rename "hipster" to "millennial optimist"? 2 weeks ago:
not really. it would be hard for me to sing it with a straight face.
- Comment on Did they rename "hipster" to "millennial optimist"? 2 weeks ago:
Ive been called a hipster and im an Xer. I have also been called a boomer, nerd, geek, dork, and a whole bunch of things that kinda mean the same thing. Also facist capitalist and communist. Its funny how these things are.
- Comment on How did Google win the search engine war? 2 weeks ago:
Oh I can totally do this one. So yahoo and excite were search engines but a they brought in having an account and a customized home page. Others did as well but I would say excite was bests followed by yahoo but yahoo introduced tabs to its interface which, I think, is the reason they won out at the time. Here is the thing. The engines where kinda simple. They crawled the web and searched through them. Now in 2000 I was at a conference and someone is like. oh man you have to use google its results are better. And it was very true. Later I learned it was because of an algorithm that the founders had that did this page ranking based on the number of links to it. It made a lot of sense as this is actually what you see in academia with papers. So they just applied it to the web in a much more automated way. Then adding synopsises of pages to the search results was a big thing but they were already dominating by then. oh and gmail got a lot of people to make accounts. they offered a gig of storage when 5meg was common and 100meg was massive. that really is what hit yahoo sa their thing was kinda the logged in experience. Adding free general office sotware and general sotware was a cherry on top to keep people on.
Ok. so now you got to understand that algorithms were generally viewed as positive back then. Google certainly went into customized ads but they were pretty decent at anonymizing it. So ads could be directed in general terms to the audience. Facebook is what brought it into the hyper engagement and very specific tracking of every aspect of you.
- Comment on How are wireless mice these days? 2 weeks ago:
these excite me but even when i had disposable income they were to pricey.