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- Comment on What is the big deal that the new WH Press Secretary does have a law license? Isn't this a good thing and shows any Joe Blo can get the job? No offense to Joe Blo's. 5 days ago:
IIRC, she claimed to be a lawyer, but she’s never passed the bar exam. If she didn’t claim to be a lawyer, it wouldn’t be a thing.
- Comment on Why dont we say "WWW" in front of website URLs anymore? 1 week ago:
That’s a question that probably requires more digging than I want to do.
On the DNS side, it depends on CNAME record types. Sources in the Wikipedia article suggest that was defined in 1987 and updated in 1997.
On the server side, it depends on how easily the server software can be configured to use multiple domains for the same site (or how easy it is to set up a redirect). This sounds like a deep home to research, and I’m not going to bother. But cPanel and Webmin are both about 30 years old now.
- Comment on Is there anyway to bypass cloud flare while using a vpn without have to turn it off and on again? 2 weeks ago:
No. CDNs are implemented on the server-side of the equation. They aren’t something the client can choose to use (or not to use).
- Comment on With all the bad stuff said about AI can it actually better humanity in some ways or another? Or is it just doom and gloom? 2 weeks ago:
Historically, AI is an umbrella term for anything and everything around using machines to make decisions. Spam detection, video game adversaries, explosive detection, and the old Xbox Kinect are all different things that have used artificial intelligence for 10+ years before GenAI became practical.
If you’re interested in learning more, all this stuff falls under the umbrella of “machine learning”.
- Comment on America’s Decline in 1 graph 1 month ago:
In a factory setting, it’s the amount of product produced. In an office job, it’s a partially made-up metric based on whatever is important to the business.
- Comment on How does a game server differentiate between multiple clients on the same network? Do they even? 1 month ago:
You went a layer too low. You can stay at the TCP/IP layer to explain this one. Jumping to MAC addresses is a little like saying “it all depends on how different machines interpret electrical signals.” It’s true, but not particularly helpful.
- Comment on Cruel and unusual 1 month ago:
My dude, I have news for you…
- Comment on 1 month ago:
What is autistici.org?
- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 1 month ago:
Helldivers 2. I’m in trouble. But at least it won’t last long.
- Comment on Why are expressions like "women artists" or "women writers" used? 2 months ago:
Saying “male nurse” is a thing. And for the same reason (misogyny).
- Comment on It'll be ok. Nobody's going to judge you. 2 months ago:
Is that just an EE thing?
- Comment on It'll be ok. Nobody's going to judge you. 2 months ago:
Infinity is too far away. We’ll deal with it when it gets closer.
- Comment on It'll be ok. Nobody's going to judge you. 2 months ago:
That’s probably accurate, but I’m no mathematician. Specifically if you confine yourself to the set of real numbers, it’s undefined.
If you confine yourself to the set of rational numbers, integers, or natural numbers, you could get a bunch more undefined equations. For example, if you’re only working with the set of natural numbers, sqrt(4) is defined, but sqrt(5) through sqrt(8) are undefined because there are no whole numbers between 2 and 3 (2^2 and 3^2). Similarly, sqrt(-1) is undefined in this case because -1 isn’t part of the set of natural numbers, so any expression you used a negative number in would be undefined.
A more intuitive example might be to try using a non-number in an expression. Sqrt(🐱) is undefined. And 🦆-🦢 is also undefined. The operators aren’t defined to include cats or birds.
- Comment on It'll be ok. Nobody's going to judge you. 2 months ago:
I’ve always thought “imaginary” vs “real” was an unfortunate naming convention.
I don’t know about other fields, but electrical engineering uses imaginary numbers with AC circuits and changing electrical fields. Since electricity moves as waves, imaginary numbers let you represent what’s coming 90 degrees later in a compact way.
- Comment on It'll be ok. Nobody's going to judge you. 2 months ago:
-1/0 = Boom
But more literally, the answer is undefined.
Instead of thinking of division as a “proper” operator, think of it as shorthand for “x0 = -1". Since the multiplication operator already defines "x0 => 0” and “-1 != 0”, there literally is no answer by definition. So “undefined”.
For “0/0”, it’s a little different. Since “x*0 => 0”, literally every number satisfies “0/0”. Since we’re expecting a single number as the answer, we call the answer to this “undefined” too.
- Comment on How come in the trucking industry they are very against carrying a gun? Some area's my sister went into in new york I would have carried an AK-47. No offense NY. 2 months ago:
It’s wild how people treat “no offense” like a magical incantation. “You can’t be mad, bro; I said ‘no offense’!”
- Comment on Guess the game (#008) 3 months ago:
Same. I saw the picture before reading the title and immediately thought, “Cool! Someone’s playing SimTower! I haven’t seen that game in ages!”
- Comment on Why the water to make the medication work? 3 months ago:
As others have said, ask your doctor.
But to add another potential reason, some medications have dehydration as a side effect (maybe it messes with thirst cues, increases urination frequency, increases sweating, etc).
- Comment on 1 big tiddy goth gf pls 3 months ago:
I feel like I’m missing one piece of context here. What plant is this?
- Comment on Is coding possible on smart phones ? 4 months ago:
Possible? Yes. But if you don’t have a keyboard, it’s a huge pain to type code. And, depending what you’re building, it might be hard or impossible to treat your code locally.
- Comment on Extended internet outage... (currently using mobile data) 8 months ago:
Internet access is increasingly becoming as crucial as any other utility. For some people, losing Internet might interfere with work, school, or medical devices.
It’s not “the end of the world” if my electricity is out for 5 hours, but it might cost me hundreds of dollars in spoiled food. It’s not “the end of the world” of my Internet is out for 5 hours, but it might “cost” me PTO.
- Comment on Good night sweet prince 9 months ago:
Amen!
Waves clean cast iron in the air.
- Comment on Accuweather handling rain and snow differently 9 months ago:
I don’t think they actually do any weather forecasting. Last I heard, all the weather apps are getting forecasts from the National Weather Service (part of the NOAA). Which makes the bait-and-switch that much more infuriating.
- Comment on We can play that game too 10 months ago:
Sounds like you need to raise your rate. And also not break out your wage from the other costs in the invoice.
- Comment on JD, is that you!? 10 months ago:
🤷♂️
- Comment on JD, is that you!? 10 months ago:
Not-so-fun fact, ritual circumcision was practiced by many groups in the ancient world. The oldest written account of Egyptian circumcision is from the 23rd century BCE (which predates its use in Abrhamic religions by well over 1000 years).
- Comment on Avocado 10 months ago:
This is a very ADHD response to stimulants.
- Comment on 10 months ago:
You can do this now. But it’ll probably be more effort than using something like Bazzite. The image is available publicly. It just assumes a certain set of hardware (AMD GPU, for example). It might be enough to install the GPU drivers you need. Worst case, you might have to recompile the kernel. But all the user space configuration should be fine.
- Comment on apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people 10 months ago:
I learned that symbol makes the “th” sound. If I had easy access to it, I might use it too.
- Comment on Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife? 11 months ago:
Sounds like he just doesn’t want to have sex with his wife. That’s pretty gay.