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- Comment on Why is it so hard to buy the same toothbrush twice? 6 hours ago:
Electric are worse. You should still replace the heads regularly, but now you’re dependent on the specific company continuing to support your toothbrush
- Comment on Why is it so hard to buy the same toothbrush twice? 6 hours ago:
This is way too true of way too many things.
How about sneakers? I need orthodontic sneakers so it’s not even a fashion thing. I finally found a pair that doesn’t make my feet hurt … you have a customer for life. Oops, those are no longer made
too many spoons disappeared, I want to buy more. Nope, that pattern was discontinued right after you bought the set.
Or even just packaging? I pve always bought this product and you have a customer op for life but I don’t see the product I npdont see it. There’s something of the same brand: Is it the same, or do I need to search for a new thing
- Comment on I'll go first 1 day ago:
Plus if you let us know where your hide-a-key is, we’ll bring the pizza in for you
- Comment on Apple TV+ is painful as fuck 2 days ago:
As someone in the ecosystem and who has no interest in watching on Windows, works for me.
- smart tv app just works
- iOS/iPadOS devices just work
- subscription is trivial to manage on iOS
My objections were
- do not like using smart tv apps
- FireStick does not have an AppleTV app
- I was set to try an Apple TV device but the current version was released 3 years ago so I have been hoping for an updated one
- shows were outstanding but it had less content than other streaming services
- Comment on Hollywood doesn't want you to know this secret. 3 days ago:
My teen wanted to go to a movie until he found out it was $17.50
- Comment on Voted today. Let's go, Romania! 🇷🇴🇪🇺 4 days ago:
Have they seen how far right our left is?
I would vote for communism or most socialism either, but our left really has to move back to the left
- Comment on Voted today. Let's go, Romania! 🇷🇴🇪🇺 4 days ago:
We can though. Yes it was a minority of a minority and not likely to have made a difference. I blame everyone who voted for the end of democracy, human rights, rule of law, but especially those who voted most against their own interest
Latinos and people from West Virginia. wtf did you do that for. You’re the people hurt the most, but you’re taking the rest of us down with you
- Comment on Dammit dad 4 days ago:
It was that hoity toity deer family walking by, with their white tails in the air like they’re better than us. We had to go out and “mingle”, show them we belong, help them understand the real hierarchy in the woods - but we got tired of chasing that vanity and took a while to get back
- Comment on Why don't these code-writing AIs just output straight up machine code? 4 days ago:
You’re assuming ai writes useable code. I haven’t seen it.
Think of the ai more as a writing assistant, like autocomplete or stack overflow but more so. The IDE I use can autocomplete variables or function calls, but the ai can autocomplete entire lines of code or entire unit tests. AI might try to fit an online answer and related doc to solve a problem I’m seeing. AI might even create a class around a public api that is a great starting point for my code. AI can be a useful tool but it can’t write useable code
- Comment on My password is not accepted because it is too long 4 days ago:
I would have thought the opposite. I remember having a familiar conversation: “we need a sanity check in the password: what would no sane person do?” I believe we cut it off at 64 characters, but I can see someone thinking 24 is kore than enough, if they’ve never used a password generator.
- Comment on My password is not accepted because it is too long 4 days ago:
Even worse, when you can’t figure out why, or how to configure the generator, then end up having to type your own anyway
- Comment on My password is not accepted because it is too long 4 days ago:
Wasn’t it one of the first us govt encryption algorithms, operated on 8 byte blocks?
- Comment on My password is not accepted because it is too long 4 days ago:
I’ve seen this behavior too, I forget where. For me it was a bit easier since the fields displayed a different number of stars. I did spend too long trying to figure out how my password manager could be failing that way
- Comment on My password is not accepted because it is too long 4 days ago:
- Don’t hold back - everything gets a unique email address, a generated password, unique username and profile info.
It’s only the damn phone number that can be used to connect my data. Can’t do anything about that.
- Comment on Is it weird to sometimes wonder wether everything you know is wrong? 5 days ago:
To me the anti-vax thing is the worst “flat earther “ theory.
- if you do the math, you see vaccinations are an overwhelming benefit, second only to public health efforts as the most benefit to health at the least cost and danger
- if you have a basic understanding of contagion, it’s clear that avoiding vaccinations is antisocial, anti society. Personally I think should be criminalized. Where else are we allowing personal choices where someone gets injured or killed and the perpetrator faces no consequences.
- we all know how ridiculous the autism claim is. Even if you fell for it at the time, it’s been shown ridiculous for half a century now. Why would you cling to this?
- conspiracy theory? Really? Consider how many people would need to be involved in that conspiracy. Ask yourself: for what purpose?
I suppose I’d by not being first in line for a new one. There are manufacturing and logistical issues with any new product that might affect what you get
- Comment on Is it weird to sometimes wonder wether everything you know is wrong? 5 days ago:
Oh, you’re one of THOSE people. You should not be allowed in shared restrooms. What if someone sees you? What if a child sees you? For the sake of the children, banned from public restrooms. And yes this needs to be debated at the highest levels. I want to see days of congressional debate over your personal habits and how unconscionable they are.
- Comment on Is it weird to sometimes wonder wether everything you know is wrong? 5 days ago:
Ok, let’s run that thought experiment, what if we’re wrong?
All too often, even if my premise is wrong, I’d get to the same results. Even if I agree with their premise, they are monsters. However you want to marginalize people for different preferences or presentation or not matching their body or skin color or gender, that’s no excuse for the abuse, taking away human rights, taking away normal accommodations for everyday life. Treat people like people.
Equally the thought experiment just proves the original point. Let’s assume there are people who believe the government is full of waste, fraud and abuse, and we need to fix that. They haven’t presented anything to convince us that’s true, their actions cutting people and agencies without investigation, due process, contractual requirements, or regard for constitutional checks and balances is quickly a much bigger problem. Then you have those same people acting above the law, a very suspicious correlation between cuts and personal enrichment of those involved, and you’re firmly in bizarro world territory where the asylum is run by the real lunatics. Even assuming the worst of people employed by the federal government, I can’t conceive of a way this isn’t far worse, proving my original belief
- Comment on If my county passes a new tax for um lets say a new jail. They staff it and build it and everything with the tax money. How come it seems the tax is there forever? Why not get rid of it when built? 6 days ago:
It probably didn’t pay for a jail: it paid a loan for the jail, and it will take many decades to pay off
- Comment on Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected for 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet 6 days ago:
The widest thing I did was save a lot of money on my 20s and 30s. Arguably the stupidest thing I ever did was spend it all on the wedding my ex wanted
- Comment on Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected for 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet 6 days ago:
I don’t know, it just goes out faster than it comes in, no matter what you earn. I think it’s usually an accumulation of decisions, not a single poor choice.
However there’s also high cost of living areas. I’m sure $150k seems like a lot to most people, but around here it would be a struggle to buy even a starter home if that’s all you earned. And renting can easily be more per month than a mortgage so you’re never getting ahead
- Comment on Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected for 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet 6 days ago:
It’s really not ai, but the general economy. My company has been tightening down for longer than we have ai - only hiring in India. We’re in one of those phases again.
People want it to be ai but it just isn’t. Actually I’m a bit worried about my job because I don’t drink the coolaid. Ai is a nice additional tool to help me be more efficient and I use it when it can help. However I will not participate in these overblown claims within my company that we’re saving like 40% of our time because of ai. We all know you’re just making numbers up to ingratiate with the new boss
- Comment on What's the point of constitutional monarchies? Why even keep the monarchy in place if they aren't even doing anything? 6 days ago:
To a small extent they’re in charge of the third biggest population of any country
- Comment on The road they drove to dump this trash literally takes to the landfill 1 week ago:
I’ve thought of that, and there already are versions of that - I’m pretty sure Scouts organizes one. However the result is me accumulating dead fluorescent tubes, oil based paint and insecticide. Then I forget about it and it may be years of accumulated hazards. I need to change that result
- Comment on The road they drove to dump this trash literally takes to the landfill 1 week ago:
We use a regional landfill and they charge your hometown. It’s only for hazardous waste so the town get pissed if you waste their money with insufficient items or something that can go in trash or recycling
But I still have old style fluorescent tubes in my basement. What do I do as they burn out and are replaced by LED? Because of mercury, trash won’t take them. However I’ll never have enough to make up for the $50 my town is charged. Plus the last thing I want to do is accumulate old tubes that will eventually get broken and contaminate my house
- Comment on Existential crisis 1 week ago:
Is that a word anyone uses? While I had no idea it was considered a slur, I also don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone use it.
- Comment on Is it weird to juggle in the park? 1 week ago:
As long as the glitter is biodegradable ….
- Comment on Is it weird to juggle in the park? 1 week ago:
Plus, don’t read into that unnecessarily. It could be someone seeing you and thinking “that’s unusual. How cool!”
- Comment on Is it weird to juggle in the park? 1 week ago:
Yeah but that’s kind of arguable. Bagpipes make a lot of noise so it’s just understandable there may be some objections. I love it when a piper is down the street so you can hear the music echoing through the buildings, but it is loud and may not be for everyone
Juggling is no different than the yoga or tai chi class in the next open area. There’s no impact on anyone sharing the space, except possibly some social conventions. Just do it (be careful not to put a coffee mug out or you may get donations)
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 1 week ago:
Bank currency exchange is not available if you don’t know to plan ahead, and may not be convenient ever
There’s usually a $5 or more minimum, so less than that might as well be trash. Not convenient for tolls
The only option at the border was an ATM, where you can withdraw currency, converted from your bank, but in $20 increments.
Toll booths did not take credit cards or bank cards for an exact payment. This was before electronic tolling but that still might not be a thing at borders
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 1 week ago:
You definitely need to distinguish “electrical” devices from “electronic” devices but a safer approach is to read the plug.
- A power supply (ex. Phone charger) will be stamped with a voltage range and power draw, which probably includes everywhere but you can match it against the electrical service where you are. You may need a plug adapter but a simple mechanical adapter is sufficient.
- an electrical appliance (ex. Hair dryer) plug is probably not stamped with electrical requirements so the safe approach is to only use it in the intended country