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- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Unrelated question, but do you have access to mental health care where you live? No reason, just wondering.
- Comment on Statistically, probably with the beetles. 🪲 1 week ago:
Adrian Tchaikovsky also has the Children of Time series in which spiders are the main characters. A very fun read!
- Comment on fawlty towers? 1 week ago:
On second thought, let’s not, for it is a silly place.
- Comment on Day 503 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
Not only playing a game every day, but also writing about it, isn’t low effort by any means. I’m lucky if I get to gaming once every two weeks, let alone write about it.
- Comment on Day 503 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
Why are people downvoting this daily post? I like it, it’s fun to share with others and it gives life to a community and discussions. Thanks OP for keeping it up!
- Comment on Busted box inside of a pristine Amazon box 1 week ago:
Probably boxed up by a clanker, as long as the weight matches, it’s good to go.
- Comment on Anon thinks we're being bamboo-zled 2 weeks ago:
One of the issues of the simulation idea is that it is inherently impossible to prove or disprove. Because all the information we could have is a part of the simulation itself.
Even if there was some kind of glitch which got exposed and caused everyone to know we are in fact living in a simulation, the ones running the simulation could fix the glitch and then modify all our brains to not know it anymore, or roll back to an earlier restore point or something like that. It could even be that they have many simulations running, to study different forms of life for example. Inevitably some of the life in the simulation figures out their world isn’t real, which then invalidates further data from that simulation, so it’s turned off. Then by definition, if you are still alive you don’t know you are in a simulation.
Whilst a cool idea to base a book or movie on, it isn’t something to take seriously. It’s a self-reinforcing idea with zero evidence and no way to test, prove or disprove.
- Comment on Why do I always have "dreams" that give me anxiety (aka: nightmares)? Why do I never just get to re-live my happy memories in my dreams? Wtf brain?!? This is outrageous! It's unfair! 2 weeks ago:
This is mostly correct. It’s also the case that “dreams” are formed after you wake up. You aren’t dreaming while you are asleep, your brain is firing random shit that makes no sense. As soon as you start to wake it tries to piece together what the fuck was going on into something resembling a narrative. This piecing together is part of the waking up and not a part of the sleeping. This is why you can have a dream about an alarm going of for seemingly tens of minutes or even hours, while you are being woken up by your alarm going off. Your alarm probably hasn’t been going for more than a few seconds, but your brain incorporates it into the narrative. Now this isn’t to say you can’t have a bad dream or nightmare and be woken up by them. The random firing can definitely cause enough stress to wake you up. Especially if you are ill (fever dreams) or under a lot of stress in general, your brain can misbehave during sleep and wake you up. It’s just that the “story” part of the dream only happens when you wake up, while you are sleeping it is random.
- Comment on If dark matter doesn't emit, absorb, or reflect light, what happens when light hits it? 3 weeks ago:
Interesting little detail: Even though the light doesn’t interact directly with the dark matter, so in a sense it just passes through, the light can still be affected by the dark matter indirectly. Because the dark matter does have mass, or at least interacts gravitationally like it has mass, it actually deforms space-time. This deformation can cause light to travel through a longer path than one might expect.
This has been used to create dark matter “maps”, to show where there is more and where there is less dark matter. It also shows up in gravitational lensing.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s father on the prospect of the U.S. becoming less white: “This will be very very bad. You want to see the U.S. go dark? You want to go back to the jungle?” 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Dyslexia 4 weeks ago:
The brain sees what the brain wants
- Comment on Interesting looking ring. Wonder what it means? 4 weeks ago:
Jaffa! Kree!
- Comment on Interesting looking ring. Wonder what it means? 4 weeks ago:
A Serpent Guard, a Horus Guard and a Setesh Guard meet on a neutral planet. It is a tense moment. The Serpent Guard’s eyes glow, the Horus Guard’s beak glistens, the Setesh Guard’s… nose drips.
- Comment on NOW! 1 month ago:
YSK that this is indeed illegal in many places such as the EU for example.
However those tricky manufacturers have a few tricks to get around this. One of the things they do is to create special “discount” SKUs. Despite their name, these SKUs are often not discounted at all and kept artificially high. Their specs usually aren’t great, so the value for money is poor most of the time. However when something like a holiday sale comes around, these SKUs get discounted massively. That way the shops can still claim the discount is huge and would technically be legal, even though there are plenty of other very similar SKUs in the same series that were available for less.
This isn’t a new thing, so called “retail” SKUs have also been around for a long time. Ever since webshops started out-competing retail stores manufacturers have been creating retail SKUs. These are often very similar or the same as another SKU in the series, but given a unique number and sometimes name. These SKUs are then only sold by distributors to retail outlets. Then when a shopper is in the store and looks up the price of the SKU on the internet, they don’t see a dozen webshops with a lower price, but instead only other retail chains with a very similar price. This is to stop people from going to stores, get advice and look at all the models, only to then buy the selected model online. Of course smarter people can easily figure out which SKU is the corresponding non retail SKU. But if you are smart enough to do that you can probably figure out what model to buy without going to a store.
Still it’s good for the law to exist and it does help a lot. The whole SKU shenanigans are only for some things, such as TVs, notebooks, appliances such as washing machines and vacuum cleaners, and some other stuff people usually go to stores to buy. For a lot of smaller stuff, such as PC components for example, this usually doesn’t happen.
- Comment on monumentale 1 month ago:
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// Note added by employee 871 - S. Sandler - 10-31-2003
// Chapter 1
// Dear reader, let me tell you all about this here function.
// You see it was a dark and rainy night, like the nights often were in the place I once called my home.
// My grandma used to tell stories about those nights, the nights where the cold creeps in and the fog rises up from all around.
// She used to tell us those nights were haunted, evil things happened which could not stand the light of day.
// I never put much stock into those stories, but when the rain beat against the window and the wind would rustle the trees, I figure she might have been onto something.
// So you see it was one of these typical nights where I learned evil does indeed come out. But not from outside as one might expect, no… The evil comes from within
// Chapter 2
// Just like every other Friday, I got stuck with night duty. I wanted to go drinking with friends, but my manager told me I needed the extra shift since quarterly reviews were coming up.
// I was in a faul mood and cursed my manager, but like my grandma used to say curses can be a dangerous thing. They have a tendency to backfire when not used in moderation.
// Frankly I’m not sure my grandma knew what moderation meant, otherwise she would have cut down on the amount of beans she ate.
// Let me tell you; old folk and beans aren’t a great combination. But I digress.
// Getting stuck with night duty wasn’t bad, it didn’t pay much, but you could work from home and usually nothing much happened, especially on a Friday.
// So I sat around watching some old X-Files episodes, keeping half an eye on my mailbox to see if any tickets came in. I do say that Scully chick is one hot mamajama, I kinda forgot about the story.
// It was at this moment I heard loud thunder rolling by and the familiar wee-woo sound of my email client getting a new mail.
// As I read the ticket number: EI-WA-98215-6-66 the hair on the back of my neck stood up.
// Chapter 3
// I wondered who could be submitting tickets at this hour, but it must be important so with one eye on Scully I checked out the ticket.
// For some reason the user name wasn’t in the ticket, just the user number. I had complained about this to IT and they said they would “get to it” whatever that means.
// I swear to the gods if you think developers have their own code to make fun of users, IT guys are way worse. They probably just sit around crimping their cables or whatever they do.
// Anyway this ticket was really weird, the user said when they opened up the admin portal the menu would freak out.
// They said, I kid you not: “The menu is haunted and we need an exorcism”
// Must be some kind of joker who also got stuck with the night shift and doesn’t have anything to do, so let’s mess with the poor devs right?
// Chapter 4
// When I opened up the admin portal I didn’t see anything weird at first, this dude was messing with me for sure.
// I got hungry so I wanted to make myself a quick snack, I found a buldak ramen packet in the kitchen.
// Perhaps I shouldn’t have judged my grandma for eating beans, as I know these spicy ramen will be much worse.
// While waiting for the water to boil, I saw movement from the corner of my eyes, it was like there was someone in the room with me.
// When I walked over to investigate it was suddenly gone, but I saw on my screen the menu was freaking out, opening and closing like crazy.
// I turned to walk back to the kitchen and get my ramen going, but as I did suddenly I hear a loud bang in the apartment.
// Chapter 5
// As I investigated the noise I found a door had slammed shut due to the wind, I was pretty sure I had closed that door earlier…
// With my snack in hand I went in to investigate the code running the menu.
// After thorough investigation, I found no fault in the menu. The code hadn’t been touched in months and nobody had ever complained before.
// But I had seen the menu misbehave myself, surely something must be wrong with it.
// Suddenly it was like my hands had a mind of their own, they started writing code like I had never seen before.
// With horror I saw what they were doing and I gasped. The only brief pause I got was when my hands turned to my ramen.
// I felt sick by the code they had written, but they forced the spicy buldak into my mouth and when I refused to swallow, poured the lukewarm Mt. Dew in my mouth.
// Chapter 6
// Even though I have no explanation for the code that now lays before you, in order to clear my conscience I will briefly try to explain what it does.
// My understanding isn’t complete, but what I’ve been able to glean from beyond the veil is the following:
// Lines 8 - 26 deal with getting the user details, they appear to use the regular API for this but also some calls I’m not familiar with.
// Lines 43 - 78 seem to get the users actual GPS coordinates, I have no idea how?
// Around line 156 the weather.com API is used to get a current report at the users location.
// The rest of the code seems to deal with various time and weather related checks. As far as I can tell it checks if it’s dark and stormy out.
// In the last part of the function there is some simple logic that cancels the menu animation if it triggers too often.
// Chapter 7
// It was with a heavy heart I pushed commit 54D3AD into production with the simple message “Fixes ticket EI-WA-98215-6-66”
// I went to close the ticket, but somehow I couldn’t find it in the ticket system anymore. Probably those IT guys messing up again.
// The mail was gone as well, but with Microsoft Outlook that was pretty much par for the course, so I didn’t think anything of it.
// Wanting to put this horrible experience behind me, I resumed watching X-Files, such a classic show.
// A few minutes later my VLC crashed and kept looping on Mulder saying “Thank you”, but it was slowed down a bunch and distorted.
// In the few seconds I needed to get my hand free from my sweatpants, all my power went out. We really should invest more into infrastructure…
// - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
// Note added by employee 2548 - Martin (intern) - 07-02-2009
// New Weather.com API premium key added, no idea why we need this, but without it the menu breaks.
// Could not find contact info for employee 871 - presumably left the company.
- Comment on PC Master Race 1 month ago:
That’s a lot of words to say you are jealous
- Comment on philosophical tetus 1 month ago:
- Comment on When the webpage doesn't want you opening new tabs 1 month ago:
Oh but it can be so much worse. I’ve had to work with a task management system of a company I was doing some jobs for. This system was the absolute worst. It’s one of those SPA this isn’t a website but an app kind of thing.
First thing I hated, as soon as you did anything, it was immediately done. Edit a title? It saves all the time, so other people see you editing. Click on a toggle, oops it’s toggled now, hope that didn’t just send an email to 30 people. Clicked somewhere in the page and it did something, but you aren’t sure what exactly? Sucks to be you. Just want to see what options pop up when changing some setting, nah it’s already set and screwed up everything.
Another system I work with doesn’t do anything unless you explicitly click the save button. And for anything that does something right away, there is always a confirm prompt. I love that for business applications, when you do something you know what it was you did. And you can mess around with stuff, without worrying you’ve messed something up.
But that cursed task management system was designed so you could just leave it open and the view would automatically update with any and all changes. That way you didn’t need to refresh and new stuff would always be seen immediately. Sounds like a pretty nice feature and something I would actually want (even though I do like the old refresh to make sure it’s up to date and not stalled in the background). However the way they implemented this was to have a view state. That view state was what you wanted to see and would be kept updated. Navigating wasn’t really navigating, it was just updating your view state to look at something else. This meant if you open two tabs and navigated in the first tab, the second tab would also change!
Alright not the biggest of issues, just open up another browser profile or incognito or something and log in to for example compare two sets of data. NO! They connected the view state to the account, not the session! I simply couldn’t believe it when I first ran into this. And the app had no way of opening two tasks side by side, it was infuriating. For a second I even contemplated getting a second account, but of course it was one of those SaaS things that you’d have to pay for per account.
- Comment on Rise of the Tomb Raider -SteamDeck 1 month ago:
I got a message Necesse got it’s 1.0 release. I played it about a year ago and it was rough around the edges. So I’m giving it another go this weekend.
- Comment on Eventually I'll have enough to just keep finding random ones 1 month ago:
That’s easy, I keep my Ethernet cable tester next to my Ethernet cable crimper! Where is that? Well it’s where I keep my Ethernet headers! Where are they stored? Easy, next to the Ethernet cable tester!
- Comment on One more LLM 1 month ago:
One of the things I’ve really had AI fanboys going crazy over is by asking them to feed their AI generated code back into the AI and ask for potential issues or mistakes. Without fail it points out very obvious issues and sometimes some less obvious ones as well. If your AI coder is so good, why does it know it fucked up?
This is basically what these new “agent” modes do. Just keep feeding the same thing in on itself till it finds some balance. Often using an external tool, like building the project for example, to determine if it’s done. However I’ve seen this end up in loops a lot. If all of the training data contained the same mistake (or the resulting network always produces that mistake), it can’t fix it. It will just say oh I’ve made a mistake let me fix that over and over again as the same obvious error pops out.
- Comment on Fight me 1 month ago:
Sure, but like the other commenter said, everything turns into heat eventually
- Comment on Fight me 1 month ago:
Well that’s just objectively wrong. Light is EM radiation, where heat is movement of atoms and molecules. Via incandescence objects can radiate away their heat (following black body radiation), however they are not the same thing.
- Comment on Fight me 1 month ago:
In the end we are all infinitely falling into the pit of entropy
- Comment on Fight me 1 month ago:
Nah this thing puts out light and probably vibrates as well, so not even 100%.
- Comment on I'm in danger 1 month ago:
Presenting to the emergency room
- Comment on Grab your pitchforks 1 month ago:
I’m a huge fan of sweet and savoury in the same dish. Pineapple on pizza is great, but there are a lot of dishes from South-Asia that combine unique flavours. One of my favourites is rice with a yellow curry sauce with raisins and peach slices on the side. There can even be nuts in the rice to mix it up some.
People need to step outside of their food comfort zone and try out different things.
- Comment on It's a miracle! 2 months ago:
Is that a tail or a penis?
- Comment on It's a miracle! 2 months ago:
Or, you know, FUCKING DEAD
- Comment on AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel - Kurzgesagt 2 months ago:
The ways they say they are going to use AI is exactly what they said was causing harm. If that isn’t hypocrisy, what is?
They call out the issues, only to completely ignore those issues in their own use.
