saigot
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- Comment on Seedless Catholics Against Watermelons? 1 day ago:
Modern farmers generally generally don’t replant their seeds for a variety of non-gmo reasons.
- Comment on My favorite photo from my vacation! 3 days ago:
E.T is on Vacation
- Comment on As a leftist when I saw this post in twitter I had to be rushed to the hospital. My blood pressure read 2567 over 1547 4 days ago:
Well the purpose of the hate list like this isn’t “what symbols not to use” so much has, if a guy uses this and there’s context to suggest it’s a dogwhistle, this is what it means.
As a concrete example, If someone turns to a camera makes the ok gesture then punches a black guy that can be used as evidence to add a hate crime charge onto the assault charge.
- Comment on As a leftist when I saw this post in twitter I had to be rushed to the hospital. My blood pressure read 2567 over 1547 4 days ago:
A bunch of nazi’s used it as a dog whistle and it got added to a database of hate symbols.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 12th 5 days ago:
Helldivers with friends have been fun, don’t think I’ll ever play with randos tho.
I picked “the swindle” back up with the intent of 100%, just got to win in 1 life, which is challenging but easier than I expected since you start making huge amounts of cash as your win streak increases. Highly recommend this game it’s got a lot of replability for what is a fairly simple game.
I also started “chronoark” it’s a deck builder roguelike. Story seems a little too verbose at times and I think I may have to ramp the difficulty a bit (I got a fun meta cut scene for winning my first run and breaking the story) which might be why I feel like I’m spending more time in story than playing. Still having fun so far.
- Comment on A conversation with my wife 1 week ago:
It is a trope that this how a partner responds to seeing self harm scars. But this isn’t a self harm scar it’s a circumcision scar.
- Comment on Dpad vs analog stick 1 week ago:
I prefer Dpad for platforming and top down as being able to move precisely diagonal is more important than speed control, plus the analogue stick wears out quicker. Analogue for driving and therpy gamess
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 3 weeks ago:
It will be interesting to see if tiktoks newest big selling point (relatively free from US influence) will be able to offset it’s loss in users.
- Comment on AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO' 3 weeks ago:
The Obama AMA was in 2012, That to me is the turning point for reddit, it’s when it’s population exploded overnight (which meant old users could no longer enforce cultural norms for the platform), it’s when news media really started taking the platform seriously and I think when a lot of the political influence of reddit was realized.
- Comment on So sweet 4 weeks ago:
A face to face would be fine, I just find that the shitty quality of a phone call and the fact I can’t see their face or body language completely destroys my ability to both understand and be understood.l and especially my ability to judge their emotional state.
I still make them from time to time, but I will jump at any option to not have a phone call even at extreme inconvenience.
- Comment on Getting old sucks 4 weeks ago:
Rizz = charisma = good flirting. A rizzler is a person who flirts well.
Gyat = Girl Your Ass is Thick. And is also used as an exclamation upon seeing a thick ass and a term for a thick ass in general.
So rizzler gyat is a flirtatious girl with a thick ass.
Also of note “sticking out your gyat for the rizzler” is the song that blew up those words would mean “sticking out your butt for the charismatic guy”
- Comment on People think onlyfans is weird 4 weeks ago:
Just saying friend your comments come off much more hostile than theirs.
- Comment on The return of Gamergate is smaller and sadder 1 month ago:
who is playing
This is either wrong or misleading. Women make up 48% of gamers. That isn’t a majority quite, but mem certainly aren’t dominating either. When you throw race as a demographic into this maybe it changes or maybe they just relied on how they feel about it, but I think it’s misleading either way.
- Comment on Gumroad no longer allows most NSFW art, leaving its adult creators panicked 1 month ago:
If I commission a piece of art, and they refuse to deliver what is my recourse?
If an honest artist is issuing a refund, and adds an extra 0 what is their recourse?
- Comment on Short games with lots of replay value? 1 month ago:
Binding of Isaac would fit the bill. A single game takes between 30min-1hr, but there are dozens of endings, about 30 characters and about 900 unlocks (every ending with every character unlocks a new item, and then there are many unlocks that aren’t tied to that). It took me about 1500hrs to 100% the game and I still boot it up fairly often.
- Comment on Just thinking about what to cook 2 months ago:
Some beans would go hard with that.
- Comment on Please Stop 2 months ago:
Oh a 3rd definition, that definitely hurts the case that blockchain is vague ill defined term. If it were a well-defined term, there would be whitepapers defining it like merkle trees or bitcoin. Blockchain is just a marketing term defined by businesses, not scientists and thus is vague and variable.
I also don’t think your definition is a very good definition. Do you think git fundamentally changed when it moves from sha1 to sha256? Or are you referring to the fact that the payloads of cryptocurrency’s blockchain is required to be signed (just like you can optionally require git commits to be signed)? I don’t think that’s fundamental to blockchain either.
Only cryptographicly valid changes are allowed to blockchain state. All data can be modified in git.
No. You can’t modify the chain in git. Each commit is an immutable snapshot of the repository. To change history you have to create a new hash and then broadcast that to everyone that they should stop using the old one. Depending in how your network is setup you may onky have to convince a centralized server, or you might have to convince 51% of the actors on your network or you may just choose to only form a network that agrees with you. You could alter bitcoin’s blockchain too, but you’d need 51% of the network to agree with you.
- Comment on Please Stop 2 months ago:
I don’t know what you are talking about.
- Comment on Please Stop 2 months ago:
Please share a source! I can’t find anything as robust as a whitepaper (the bitcoin whitepaper doesn’t use the term).
NIST informally defines it as:
A distributed digital ledger of cryptographically-signed transactions that are grouped into blocks. Each block is cryptographically linked to the previous one (making it tamper evident) after validation and undergoing a consensus decision. As new blocks are added, older blocks become more difficult to modify (creating tamper resistance). New blocks are replicated across copies of the ledger within the network, and any conflicts are resolved automatically using established rules.
Which git certainly meets this.
IBM defines it as:
Blockchain is a shared, immutable ledger that facilitates the process of recording transactions and tracking assets in a business network. An asset can be tangible (a house, car, cash, land) or intangible (intellectual property, patents, copyrights, branding).
Which git meets.
- Comment on Please Stop 2 months ago:
Which means elections. Which means a dude/committee in charge of a server. See the problem?
No you don’t need a server or a committee.
- Comment on Please Stop 2 months ago:
Who decides to commit changes though? A human. A human who can be corrupt
I’m not entirely sure what your getting at here, but git can be run as democratically as a crypto currency where the canonical version of the project is the one with the longest chain. Seems like a bad idea to me though. I think you may be assuming the way most people rely on github/gitlab etc as an inherent part of the system, when it’s really just the most convenient way of doing things.
The best use case for blockchains in my opinion is elections.
I’ll believe it when I see a real implementation. I think the problem is anonymity, I don’t see how we can set a system up such that the results are auditable but also impossible for anyone to tie a specific vote to a specific person.
- Comment on Please Stop 2 months ago:
Blockchain is a nebulous buzzword with a vague meaning. But I have yet to see a sensible definition of a blockchain that doesn’t include git.
Git is pretty useful imo.
- Comment on What games do you think are unfairly snubbed when talking about the best games of all time? 3 months ago:
I can tell dozens of stories of buggy hilarious moments in oblivion stories that are memorable and unique. All I remember from vanilla skyrim are the official plots everyone went through. It was just as buggy just charmless.
- Comment on Cant play monster hunter 3 months ago:
Joycons don’t lie flat, ds’s do.
- Comment on I don't get it 4 months ago:
Weird choice to use purple as the butt of the joke and not a more sour one like yellow.
- Comment on Today on "Unsolved Mysteries"... 4 months ago:
Powerline has much better latency (and much more consistent latency) than wifi, so it’ll give you a better experience for stuff like gaming. Depending on how exactly your house is wired and what else you have on the circuit it can have reliability problems (although if you live in a dense area wifi isn’t exactly reliable), but if your house is suitable it works very well, I used it about 5 years with no problems.
- Comment on Today on "Unsolved Mysteries"... 4 months ago:
Look into powerline, it uses your electrical lines to transfer ethernet. it doesn’t work in every house but when it does its pretty great if it does!
- Comment on Not noice 4 months ago:
If you need around with the qol settings in your router you can mitigate that.
- Comment on Very powerful flashlight 4 months ago:
I think the op just didn’t want to piss off everyone in those buildings
- Comment on Very powerful flashlight 4 months ago:
So according to this review it lasts about 40min at the brightest setting. It does get dimmer over time and also has very noisy active cooling though.