howrar
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- Comment on Whats the best use for 75 dollars? 1 week ago:
Can you use that gift card anywhere? If yes, then first convert it to cash. Your parents may be covering all your expenses, but they still need to buy groceries. The next time they do, ask them to use your gift card and give you the equivalent amount in cash. Now you have more flexibility to do whatever you want with that cash. Buy something nice, save/invest, etc. You have plenty of advice from others on this already.
- Comment on Increasing the surface area of a substance increases its reaction rate. Proof by garlic. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think this infographic makes sense then. If it’s cooked, then it should go the other way around. For the same cooking time, finely minced would give you milder flavours while larger pieces maintain more of the pungency.
- Comment on How do you "feel" gender? 2 weeks ago:
all of your beliefs, passions, interests, social expectations, public perception, and many, many other things are impacted by gender
That’s all through societal expectations though, isn’t it? You can take any of these things and find that they’re associated with different genders in different places around the world and different time periods. I don’t think it would make sense to say that a trans person is only trans in a specific place and time.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 2 weeks ago:
I agree. But if I give you table sugar and you tell me it’s spicy, then that’s not a question of spice tolerance. You just don’t know what the word spicy means.
Although, come to think of it, if you think ketchup is spicy, you may want to check if you’re allergic to one of the ingredients. Regular ketchup is absolutely not spicy.
- Comment on Lol, lmao even. 2 weeks ago:
It’s paid, but (at least in my case) doesn’t pay that much. It’s barely enough to live off of if you’re really careful with your money. I wouldn’t have been able to do it without accumulating significant savings beforehand.
- Comment on Lol, lmao even. 2 weeks ago:
Anything else it’s comparable with a random person on the street.
I’d say we’re actually worse than the average person at everything else. Too much of our brain is allocated to our research.
- Comment on Lol, lmao even. 2 weeks ago:
PhD level of sufficiently regular but transient discipline and hyperfocus.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 2 weeks ago:
Implying that ketchup is spicy at all?
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 2 weeks ago:
I rely pretty heavily on meal replacement shakes (not Soylent; they taste like ass, and not the good kind). It’s part of what allows me to actually enjoy solid food. I’m sure you can imagine that force feeding yourself something that you normally enjoy would quickly make you form negative associations with that food.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
And also ask: do they gain anything from lying about it?
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Optimus Robot shuts down after reproducing the gesture of its human operator removing their headset 3 weeks ago:
This is something that can happen with an autonomous robot if it was trained via imitation learning, which is one of the common ways of doing things when using transformers, and transformers are in vogue right now.
But knowing how tech demonstrations usually work, it’s much more likely that this is actually just a robot being remote controlled by another human.
- Comment on When the AI bubble bursts.. 4 weeks ago:
Probably not someone that a consumer would want to do unless they’re interested in the challenge.
I forgot about the absence of PCIe connectors until jj4211 mentioned it in another comment. That would also be problematic for consumer use. I know it’s possible to do the conversion as I’ve looked into it in the past, but it doesn’t come cheap.
- Comment on Karl Bushby: Made a bet in 1998 that he could walk from Chile to England. 27 Years later, Still walking. Survived Darién Gap, 57 days in a Russian prison, Traversing the Bering Strait on shifting ice 4 weeks ago:
Existing in this world
- Comment on Karl Bushby: Made a bet in 1998 that he could walk from Chile to England. 27 Years later, Still walking. Survived Darién Gap, 57 days in a Russian prison, Traversing the Bering Strait on shifting ice 4 weeks ago:
He punished a book about the first segment of his journey, and there are people just throwing money at him because they want to see someone do this.
- Comment on When the AI bubble bursts.. 4 weeks ago:
The datacentre GPUs are also useless for consumers. They don’t have video output.
- Comment on well I take the gremlin 4 weeks ago:
If every friend group has all 9, then logically, I must be all of them.
- Comment on I dunno 4 weeks ago:
If that’s your idea of reversing the order, then you’re not talking about the same thing as SpaceCadet@feddit.nl. They’re talking about the order of operations and the associativity property. You’re talking about the order of the symbols.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 5 weeks ago:
Oh, so much. I’m still trying to figure out how to actually complete things.
- Comment on I dunno 5 weeks ago:
You flipped the sign on the 3 and 1.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 5 weeks ago:
but once I’m done, I close them all
Same. But I also have a continuous stream of new projects that never get finished.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 5 weeks ago:
Depends on how reliable you need this system to be. For example, do you need to handle the scenario where an adult verifies their age to access a website, then lets a minor use that website in their place? That would be a much harder problem to solve than if you just need to verify that an adult was present on the other end at one point in time. For the latter, device-based age verification seems to be trivial to set up from a technical standpoint.
- Comment on How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mother told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering? 1 month ago:
I was under the impression that hearing loss is usually a gradual thing.
- Comment on How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mother told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering? 1 month ago:
if something really is as bad as someone says then why does everyone do it?
Remember when everyone smoked and we were taught that it was good for our health?
- Comment on Dyslexia 1 month ago:
Interesting how everyone misread it the same way.
Meanwhile, me: “Cloth only grown? Huh?”
- Comment on This one goes out to Dennis Prager 1 month ago:
Keyword: infant
- Comment on you're untapped value 1 month ago:
My local grocery store recently renovated and reorganized the whole store. They placed the rotisserie chickens right by the checkout, next to the impulse purchases rack.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 1 month ago:
Plot twist: he was actually the serial killer hiding in plain sight
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t place my bets on any individual stock/asset. You need to do a lot of research and have a lot of money to invest before that can be a safe decision. Instead, put your money in broad market ETFs, which is effectively just a bet on capitalism. Then either capitalism wins and you also win, or capitalism loses and you still win. But make sure you have an emergency fund first because not having that is one of the few ways that you can lose while capitalism wins.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 1 month ago:
I have a lot of stuff going on in my head that needs my full attention. Dinner planning, a work problem that I’ve been slowly chipping away at, toying with some random ideas, etc.
I understand that for some people, especially if you have ADHD, it can be easier to attend to those thoughts with music and other stimuli present. That is not the case for me.
- Comment on 2³² will get interesting... 1 month ago:
No need to trust infinite people. You just need to get past 33 forks before you run out of people to operate the switch or to be tied to the tracks.