adespoton
@adespoton@lemmy.ca
- Comment on why do they force you to take the 3 national subjects in egypt? 1 day ago:
I get the feeling you’re planning to leave Egypt as soon as possible after school?
When immigrating to another country, you’re expected to learn the same details for that country, on your own time. Knowing the Egyptian version will provide a baseline making it easier to learn the material for the place you’re moving to.
- Comment on do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last? 3 days ago:
It lasted most of history. It seems like every time society shifts to the left, it only lasts for a few generations before it dies under autocratic control.
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 4 days ago:
Are people with no moral compass, no imagination, a demonstrated lack of intelligence and a demonstrated lack of care for anyone but themselves bad people?
Do we even need to consider labeling them as such? The other descriptions of their behavior should be damning enough on their own, surely?
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 5 days ago:
You heathen! Compression wreaks havoc on the mid-tones, even if it’s the Virgin cold press with no steaming!
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 6 days ago:
Do you only use Monster steamers? Gold plated to transfer the steam without losing the lower frequencies?
- Comment on How do I stop sleeping through everything? 1 week ago:
A few things:
- Prepare for sleep sooner, with dim light and a quiet place, and no screens.
- drink a bunch of water
- don’t set an alarm, but tell yourself when you want to wake up.
It might not work the first time, but after a few attempts it will. Oh, and no food or stimulants within 3 hours of your bedtime.
- Comment on should I apologize to this friendly manager I had an argument with? 1 week ago:
if they fire me, no manager is going to ask me how I’m holding up or what my plans for the future are.
One of my coworkers fell victim to downsizing. My manager made sure to stay in touch with them to see how they were holding up, and shared with the rest of us (with permission) when they figured out what they were doing next.
The company also provides a year of psychiatric support (third party) for any employee who falls victim to downsizing.
It’s one of those reasons that that’s where I work (still).
- Comment on Is there or has there ever been information illegal to possess or have? 3 weeks ago:
I believe the encryption restrictions were relaxed in 1998.
However, certification for import/export of nuclear weapons and other dangerous goods was still needed for strong encryption (such as phone SIM cards) as recently as 2006. To get on that list of people who could legally transport SIM cards not for personal use over the US border, you needed the same background check and government clearance as someone transporting enriched uranium.
- Comment on Why are eugenics bad seen? 1 month ago:
As a neurodivergent person, let me just say that I have a great life. Why should you, or anyone else, get to make uninformed decisions about who gets to live based on inaccurate information?
Also, just look at bananas to see where eugenics ends up. Crops devastatingly vulnerable to disease, ans companies like Chiquita creating slaves of entire nations that manage them. It’s not hard to extend this wrt humans.
But really, the main reason is how tightly linked eugenics programs through history have been linked to fascism.
- Comment on I Hacked Monster Energy and You Won't Believe What They Think You Look Like: The Energy Drink Giant That Forgot to Lock Its Doors 1 month ago:
Or the energy drink of choice.
Kool-aid is great because you get to choose the ingredient proportions yourself, unlike the knockoff grape drink with the poison in it.
- Comment on How would one exit a black hole? 1 month ago:
You’d have to build them first.
Anything more complex than an atom is going to be disintegrated before it even enters a black hole due to the intense energies at play at the interface.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
These days, experience. I know it will pass, just like it always has before. And I don’t want to rob future me of all the potential opportunities just because current me feels like nothing is worth it.
- Comment on Your CV is not fit for the 21st century 1 month ago:
Unfortunately, companies are being bombarded with AI- generated CVs at a massive scale, and so have turned to AI filters to filter out all the slop. This has resulted in filtering out a lot of qualified people as well. But in an employer’s market, that doesn’t really matter to them.
Once you get past the filter, everything is mostly business as usual; many hiring managers are probably even unaware that their HR department uses AI filters.
- Comment on The Math Hack You Didn’t Know Was in Your Credit Card 1 month ago:
I’m insulted they thought I didn’t know what a LUHN check is.
Of course, my current credit cards don’t even have a magnetic stripe, so the original purpose for the check digits is history. Still useful for ither situations where the number might get garbled though.
The other thing useful about credit cards is that the first set of digits refer to the issuer, not your account. Once you strip off the issuer code and the check digit, there’s much less that’s unique to your card.
- Comment on I have some very old CDs, mostly retro video games. Is there a way to pull the games and data off the CDs for preservation? 1 month ago:
The format (mixed mode, red book, multitrack, hybrid, etc.) is usually stamped on the CD.
- Comment on I have some very old CDs, mostly retro video games. Is there a way to pull the games and data off the CDs for preservation? 1 month ago:
Yes, because it records “all” the data.
Other image formats also store the extended data at the start of the disc and the gap data between the tracks, but unless it’s an odd format or has some really nasty copy protection, that information isn’t usually useful.
- Comment on I have some very old CDs, mostly retro video games. Is there a way to pull the games and data off the CDs for preservation? 1 month ago:
Depends on the CD. If it’s just a data CD, iso is the way to go. If it’s a mixed mode CD with data plus audio, bin/cue will preserve the audio tracks but iso may not. Also, mixed Joliet/HFS CDs can lose one of the formats if imaged with an iso imager.
The big thing is that you want to image the entire CD and not just the most recent track on the CD.
- Comment on Flipper Zero 'DarkWeb' Firmware Bypasses Rolling Code Security on Major Vehicle Brands 1 month ago:
Why do you use your key toget into the car?
- Comment on What are the easiest types of internet videos to make that are not slop? 1 month ago:
Whatever it is you can talk engagingly about, unscripted. Following that, whatever you can talk engagingly about, scripted.
Doesn’t matter if you’re actually doing the voiceover; just having the ability means less time setting up shots and editing.
- Comment on How to trick id verification 1 month ago:
Yeah; that’s passkeys in action. It’s your Android phone setting up the passkeys vault that’s doing the face capturing, not LinkedIn. LinkedIn is showing you the QR code as a means of using passkeys for verification.
- Comment on How to trick id verification 1 month ago:
You’re not using the app are you?
Avoid the app at all costs. Use the web site. I can log in there with nothing but a username and password.
- Comment on How to trick id verification 1 month ago:
What is LinkedIn requiring of you exactly?
Years ago I uploaded an extremely low-res image of my face to LinkedIn and it’s never asked me for more.
- Comment on [Inverse Thinking] How do I make sure my place gets messy again after I thoroughly cleaned and organized it? 1 month ago:
Don’t schedule and organize your life, so you’re constantly having to drop what you’re doing to respond to an event you could have planned for.
Have children.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
No. Please no. Learn another instrument and some music theory before playing a shaker. People can totally murder a piece of music with a badly played shaker, throwing off all the other musicians.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
As someone who’s been a drummer for over 30 years, let me say that drummers very much cover other drummers. Most of my drum practice has been practicing other drummers’ patterns and techniques.
But percussion is generally more rewarding than limiting yourself to an 8-piece drum kit or a cahone. Piano is a percussion instrument after all. But my favourite percussion instrument is the djembe — really versatile drum once you learn how to use it. Second favourite is kettle drums — but they’re rather niche.
Things I recommend a beginner percussionist avoid are tambourines and shakers. They’re easy to play badly, and you really need to master rhythm before you can make them sound good.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Why not harmonica? They’re likewise keyed instruments and can be taken anywhere.
I’d argue though that the easiest instrument to pick up is a stick.
The easiest to learn music theory from? Any keyboard based instrument (piano, concertina, accordion, harmonica (virtual keys), autoharp, etc.). Bells, glockenspiels, vibraphones and xylophones are pretty easy too, but you need the aforementioned sticks as well.
- Comment on If you had 1 dollar and 24 hours what would you do? 2 months ago:
We used to start with random objects; usually something nobody would want.
- Comment on What do you think is the largest number a human can actually grasp / truly comprehend? 2 months ago:
As an average, I usually see the number 7 bandied around. After that we start “chunking” where each group becomes its own conceptual object.
This is why phone numbers without the area code have 7 digits in North America.
- Comment on Is it possible to make wireless charging broadcast electricity throught an entire house similar to how wifi can broadcast to the entire house? 2 months ago:
Not for a full house, but there are per-room solutions on the market today.
The problem is the rule of squares… for the field to be strong enough to charge devices at the edge of its range in a house, it would have to be strong enough to scramble all electronics and possibly cook your food at the emitter.
But one per moderately sized room? Yeah; very energy inefficient, but you can get it installed today.
- Comment on I'm an Israeli-American thinking of moving to Canada, is it a friendly place to move to? 2 months ago:
Really, it depends where you live; Canada has all the same types of people as the US. The difference is that so far, we have stuck with neo-liberals in power instead of neo-conservatives.
Outside the cities is more conservative, but only in some ways. We like our social services for the most part, even if healthcare is a shadow of what it was 50 years ago — but again, healthcare is now administered at a provincial level, so different provinces will have emphasis on different levels of care.
On the education side, expect the college of teachers to be without a contract 2 years out of every 10 — which results in strikes. Also, a lot of “extra” programs like the arts are massively underfunded at the elementary level. Teachers often go above and beyond to provide equipment and programs out of their own pockets because the government no longer provides the funding.
All that said, I feel a lot safer living north of 49, and feel like even if there still are things like systemic racism, at least it gets called out and doesn’t usually lead to violence.
Oh yeah, and school shootings are VERY rare.