aelwero
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- Comment on Whenever Donald Trump is accused of something, he responds by accusing his opponent of that exact thing. The idea is less to argue that Mr. Trump is clean than to suggest that everyone else is dirty. 10 months ago:
Nuh uh…
- Comment on Whenever Donald Trump is accused of something, he responds by accusing his opponent of that exact thing. The idea is less to argue that Mr. Trump is clean than to suggest that everyone else is dirty. 10 months ago:
You know who else does this? Toddlers…
- Comment on People who order "a decaff coffee with an extra shot" - why? 10 months ago:
Does it cost the same? Could just be the “no ice” concept… No ice, more actual drink. Maybe they feel like they’re getting more of what they’re paying for with an extra shot added.
- Comment on This more than mild 10 months ago:
Browser gets a vote when it comes to HTML. Loading the site on your browser might not look the same as it does on someone else’s.
Hell… The author could have an adblock plugin themselves… :)
- Comment on Creating a torrent that includes all of humanity's knowledge/art/entertainment? 11 months ago:
Ok… well now we’re getting crazy :)
A much better approach to what you’re talking about with that one is probably to approach the problem from the other end of the snake.
Torrents work at keeping files intact communally specifically because they’re popular files, and the more popular, the more “healthy” a torrent is, because it’s transitting more often and being stored in chunks in a bunch of places.
If you’re trying to keep an archive of everything (and frankly, what I’m about to suggest could literally store the whole ass internet), you need to focus on the obscure crap nobody is likely to ever look for… The stuff that can’t survive over torrent because it’s obscure.
You can do that by share, similar to a torrent, but you wouldn’t want a setup that encouraged users to share files, you’d want a setup that encourages users to share storage.
Like you provide a hypothetical tnerrot network (made up just now, torrent backwards) and as a condition of using this tnerrot network you allow say 20GB (or more, as internet gets bigger, drives get bigger, games get bigger, this allocation can get bigger as that happens…) on your hard drive that it uses to store the actual files, and in exchange you can pull any file stored in the tnerrot network. Instead of marvel movies (or whatever legal file has that kind of oomph) having a billion seeds and obscure science report having one, everything would have 2 or 3 dedicated seeds because every file would be seeded by whatever computers (2 or 3 separate ones, for redundancy) tnerrot stores it at.
You’d need a few commercial servers, because hosting a file that gets thousands of download requests a day wouldn’t be friendly for random guy in Ohio or wherever, but for the vast vast majority of the files, you shouldn’t have major issues.
Space sharing, not file sharing, is what you’d need to do what you’re thinking. You’d need to invent the tnerrot…
- Comment on Creating a torrent that includes all of humanity's knowledge/art/entertainment? 11 months ago:
That makes a great focal point for what I was saying actually ;)
It’s 220TB, so youll have incredibly few people who download the whole torrent. Most will open the torrent list and select a small number of items from it to download. The files selected the most will get seeded frequently, the ones that never get selected by anyone will have only the originator seeding it (if they continue to do so).
It’s functionally no different than if each individual file is a torrent… Except that the seeding info is going to be wonky on the single 220TB torrent because nobody is downloading it intact, only in pieces.
It’s also much easier to find a specific file if it is it’s own torrent vs. one of a billion files in a single mega torrent.
Just because you put it on an index in a torrent doesn’t mean the file still exists somewhere. That media can still vanish…
What would do what you’re suggesting this torrent would do (which a torrent cannot actually do) is a Yottabyte capable computer somewhere storing all those files… You’d need that to keep the seeding intact for the whole torrent…
- Comment on Creating a torrent that includes all of humanity's knowledge/art/entertainment? 11 months ago:
I mean… That pretty much describes torrents period… What is the functional difference between hosting a single torrent with everything, and hosting a torrent per item?
If the expectation is that you only include files you want when downloading the torrent, you’re only going to be seeding that portion.
Seems like it would just make the search function harder, and make it harder to determine the “health” of individual items…
I don’t understand the benefit…
- Comment on Is Sh!tposting still anything goes? Had a Classic Art meme joke deleted as the moderator thought it was anti-abortion? It was much more about a joke and a shitty one at that. 11 months ago:
Was it worth the effort?
I mean, in with you on pure principle, but why bother in such a “low rent” forum? Kinda feels like trying to rescue a carrot that fell into the garbage disposal? Am I making any sense? Lol
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Oh come on… Isn’t there a rule against depictions of violence?
- Comment on Is the saying, "The internet's written in ink, not pencil" accurate? 11 months ago:
We have far more capacity to archive than we have to recall, and this holds true even as an individual.
Which is to say that everything posted is indelible (“written in ink”), but the vast majority of it is rendered transient (“written in pencil”) by way of a huge amount of obscurity.
Or, in simpler terms, it’s both :)
- Comment on One of my back teeth is aching at the moment 11 months ago:
It’s been my experience that beer works better ;)
The issue you’ll have is that building code is hella difficult to just read. It’s not written as a guide per se, it’s written reactively. Inspectors agree hired to be nitpicks, and the code is their list of nits to pick. They kinda get paid by the nit, and over time, as they find new nits, it all gets shoehorned into a big nit list, and trying to read it is hard because you’re just kinda reading a giant laundry list of that shit.
The first couple pages are also rather likely to tell you that you don’t actually need to follow it. That’s not the actual reality, but it seems common for code to say that…
- Comment on One of my back teeth is aching at the moment 11 months ago:
Building code is close to rocket science. Or maybe voodoo… Building a house is pretty simple, but a code inspector will come up with 2,000 odd little things you didn’t do. A clip here, a gap there…
- Comment on The Las Vegas Strip Could Be the Site of the Largest Hospitality Strike in U.S. History, 35,000 Workers Ready to Strike Days Before Las Vegas’s Big Formula 1 Kick-Off Weekend 1 year ago:
Their point has validity on any scale though… I’m generally not a fan of “zero tolerance” in any context, but the context here is ostensibly an intentionally equalized playing field, meaning that a zero tolerance policy on any aspect is inherently fair… So there’s really no excuse for accepting environmental hazards…
The assertion that allowance of additives (any additives that pose environmental/spectator hazards) has no benefit other than “car go fast”, is a solid point.
- Comment on Why is real estate "real?" 1 year ago:
If you go to an “estate sale”, you’ll generally find that everything not nailed down is being sold.
What will remain, that can’t be carted off or removed, is the “real” estate. The land itself, the permanent structures.
It’s why a house sale includes a bunch of information about things like appliances, mineral rights, the things that are being included that arent “real” components of the property, because they could conceivably be removed prior to closing, because purchasing “real estate” doesn’t automatically include those things inherently, and you want all the estate that isn’t “real property” to be codified.
Estate sale vs “real estate” sale, is the basic difference.
- Comment on What is a worker's union? How does it internally work? How can a union make the affiliated company do stuff to benefit the union(why can"t a company just say: f*ck off to their demands)? 1 year ago:
You didn’t know unions pay employees during a strike because they almost never do…
Unions are funded by members. The money you’d get while striking would have to be money you yourself paid into union dues. In order for you to be paid while striking, you’d either have had to have been paying very steep dues, or had to have been paying in for a very long time into a very old and established union.
Further, said ancient union would have had to have been collecting dues for a considerable length of time and not been spending anything. Let’s say I make 50k/year and I pay 2%, or $1k/yr. In order to go on strike for a month, I need 6 years of dues stored up. If there’s 100 members, your talking about $100k/yr that goes completely untouched the entire time. What agency have you ever heard of that would sit on that amount of money? They would spend a large portion on something. Invariably.
It’s not the reality of unions. Its a fairy tale. Ask Google if a union pays workers wages when they strike… Don’t take people’s word on shit like that (including mine) when you can Google.
- Comment on What is a worker's union? How does it internally work? How can a union make the affiliated company do stuff to benefit the union(why can"t a company just say: f*ck off to their demands)? 1 year ago:
A union works almost the same way an HOA works. A group of people get together and sign a contract agreeing to abide by certain rules.
Internally, there’s generally a governing board, usually an elected one, but occasionally you get a dictatorship type deal. They may or may not implement rules, they might issue IDs of some sort, they almost invariably hold meetings, and almost always charge dues, which is a fee members pay to be a member, in principle to fund union activities.
The leverage a union holds it’s in its membership. Generally the rules of a union are that as a member you agree to certain actions, and the obvious is to strike. The most common union rule is that if the union body calls a strike, you aren’t allowed to come to work. That gives the union body the ability to force a company to meet certain demands or face the prospect of not having anyone show up.
The basic overall concept is that the union leadership negotiates with company leadership on behalf of the union members.
The downsides are also similar to an HOA, especially when a union gets very large. You can find yourself subject to rules governing your behavior, your appearance, your hours, etc. You might find yourself being more an employee of the union than the company.
Small unions are almost always beneficial, but can lack negotiating power. Large ones can and often do become self serving and overly political, but have a lot of power to affect pay, benefits, hours, etc. for their members
- Comment on No one is safe from these psychos. Please stay safe 1 year ago:
No… what we got has toys, it’s just in a split clamshell kinda deal, with a toy in one half, and a Nutella like paste in the other half with a little malt ball in it. It’s crap and I hate it :)
The split pack “freedom” version is called kinder joy, as opposed to kinder surprise.
- Comment on No one is safe from these psychos. Please stay safe 1 year ago:
Triggered…
That chocolate is awesome, it’s stupid AF for it to be illegal in the US.
I may or may not have been busted by customs carrying several dozen of these, and may or may not have not been caught a few other times…
- Comment on PEACHES COME FROM A CAN 1 year ago:
Little blind spider took the wheel
- Comment on Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax land value 1 year ago:
(from another article that isn’t paywalled) "A land value tax reduces (or eliminates) the value a structure adds to a property’s tax bill. Instead, it primarily taxes the value of the land. "
Explains in detail that a homeowner who lives in, and maintains or improves their house, won’t be increasing their property taxes in doing so, and someone who owns a dilapidated/condemned building or vacant lot will be paying a more equal share of the overall tax burden.
It’s not a terrible idea tbh… runs a fair chance of increasing the number of tax defaulted properties the city has to contend with, but should definitely reduce the number of properties that people are just sitting on waiting for an economic recovery.
- Comment on Ministers set to ban single-use vapes in UK over child addiction fears 1 year ago:
I’m still rocking a $15 kato hammer clone I bought in 2014… “Box mod” made me laugh a little, I remember the MVP being the new hotness because it wasn’t round :)
My first vape ever was a joye e-roll. I would absolutely not have switched over as easily as I did if the two options were convenient little cigarettes or a big honking 18650 mod. E-roll wasn’t exactly a disposable, but that tiny little form factor was a big deal… a really big deal… it’s what allowed me to switch.
Which is all to say that I have zero interest in disposables, same way I have zero interest in training wheels on a bicycle, but they aren’t entirely without value.
- Comment on Ministers set to ban single-use vapes in UK over child addiction fears 1 year ago:
We obviously know there are adverse long term effects, because you know, we’re making the shit illegal all over the place…
Long term effects are a lack of yellow shit all over all your stuff and losses in tobacco tax and settlement revenue…
- Comment on Ministers set to ban single-use vapes in UK over child addiction fears 1 year ago:
Went from “vaping is 95% less harmful than smoking” to “ban it, think of the children” in only 5 years…
How much did the reversal cost Phillip Morris and RJR, do you suppose?
- Comment on Why is the ocean salty? (2022) 1 year ago:
They’re minerals marie… :)
- Comment on Can I replace my shower controls? 1 year ago:
Go on google or Amazon and search for shower valves, you’ll find pictures of what’s inside the wall behind the chrome plate you got there… seeing images will give you a better idea of what to expect than anything anyone can describe.
After that, go take the knob off your shower valve (probably the center cap pries out, you take out a screw, and it pulls off), then take off that chrome ring (Allen screw on bottom, or it might just get pried off carefully or unscrew the whole thing, they vary). Have a look… that’ll tell you what your specific type of valve is and if you can do this without making a big ass hole in a wall…
Then figure out what’s on the other side of the wall the valve is on… if it’s a closet, maybe a big ass hole in the wall is ok? A big ass hole in the wall of the shower will involve tile. I’m thinking based on your description that you should 100% not fuck with tile. You’ll get into all manner of special tools, special skills, etc. real quick with tile :) a hole in drywall in someone’s closet might be a homeowner kinda deal though tbh.
Those three things are hopefully enough to answer your own questions, because the real “no bullshit” answer is that it depends… pex, copper, iron, delta, thermo, yadda yadda yadda… The shit inside the wall is as varied as the shit on the outside…
I could do this myself, but I wouldn’t… sink, toilet, ice maker, leak in the crawlspace, move the hose bib outside to the complete other side of the house, replace the water heater, add an expandion tank, all that shit is an immediate “fuck no im not paying soneone to do that, ill do it”, but a shower valve is a hard no :)
Have a look by all means, no harm in checking it out, but I wouldn’t be too optimistic in your shoes.
- Comment on What movie had a trailer that was totally misleading about the premise of the film? 1 year ago:
Blade runner (the OG one), kangaroo jack (and a very similar trailer I don’t remember with talking dogs?), Toys (maybe not exactly misleading per se, just chaotic as shit? Lots of hype but you had no clue what you were about to watch?), the village…
Definitely more, but most of it goes back far enough that I don’t really remember enough specifics to place the shit.
- Comment on What the electric car transition really means for autoworkers 1 year ago:
I’m of the opinion that the computer/electronics nerd community is probably more suited to adding seats, doors, and climate control than the car building community is to adding battery arrays, BMS, and all the other gizmos and gadgets…
I understand what you mean, but I’m speaking more to the infrastructure. The infrastructure of the phone repair kiosk guy is closer to EVs than Detroit is. It’s mindset, ya know? It’s sending an email every 3 months offering oil changes vs knowing that the “gas station” of the future should include tables, chairs, snacks, and overpriced coffee ;)
The livewire is a great example of what I mean… its like it was built to support the service department more than the rider. It’s got a transmission full of fluid that needs serviced that only has one gear. It’s got a service required coolant system that other electrics don’t have. It has requirements to visit the shop baked into the design, and it’s silly. As soon as they parted from HD, the bike radically changed, because gearheads aren’t calling the shots anymore. The bike has 10% of the service requirements at half the cost, because nerds (and I mean that endearingly… Im a nerd that turned gearhead, ironically) are designing them now :)
- Comment on What the electric car transition really means for autoworkers 1 year ago:
There’s a huge amount of shit between the lines here…
For one, that labor isn’t going to be the purview of the union friendly grease monkeys. It’s going to be the purview of nerdy science club motherfuckers that likely won’t be the union type.
Much of the tooling is useless. Much of the skillset is useless. The writing is on the wall for those unions, an electric car is nothing like an ice car.
I early adopted on a zero motorcycle, and ended up with enough prototype/first year glitches that I only got 8k miles out of the bike before the company bought back all the 2012 bikes, but that was long enough to understand how entirely unlike a traditional vehicle the thing was. I’d get routine emails from the dealer offering oil changes on a bike with no oil, I’d look around the bike to figure out if there actually was any sort of routine maintenance (and came up with zero, to strike a pun). And when I did need help with registering a new sensor to the motor, that I’d replaced myself because I couldn’t find any sort of shop that would do it, the dealer spent two hours trying to sort out how to get the bike online, failed, and declared that they were no longer a zero dealer and wouldn’t support the bike they’d sold me.
The current gas vehicle infrastructure is completely unprepared, unsuited, unwilling, and incapable of supporting an EV. You’d probably have better luck with the dude at the little kiosk that offers cell phone repair, literally…
The article describes a gaggle of dinosaurs looking up to the sky at a meteor that’s about to wreck their shit completely. They’re going extinct and all this nonsense is bullshit about how they’ll be fine.
There might be an alligator or a horseshoe crab out there that’ll make the transition, but I bet it ain’t gonna be anyone referenced here :)