remotelove
@remotelove@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Americans be like: 3 days ago:
I personally watch he hell out of PBS shows and have since I was a kid. (Space Time on YouTube is probably at the top of my list now.) My first thought about PBS was, “PBS has a web site?”.
- Comment on Stretch marks 4 days ago:
Well, that was poetic.
- Comment on How to test if the internet is working as expected.. 6 days ago:
The bit rate sucks ass, but there does appear to be a connection.
- Comment on Corn 1 week ago:
What about CornHub?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It’s just like the beer that is just labeled “Beer”. If it still gets the job done, the packaging doesn’t mean shit.
- Comment on Fun Fact I bet you don't know 1 week ago:
It’s so much more complicated than that, it seems. Wool was a major business, even back then: cambridge.org/…/A173396BD9F8E10E74634263506620BE
While I don’t think that article proves or disproves a woman being financially independent through spinning, it does hint that wool was extremely expensive, big business and it took quite a bit of cash to buy the raw materials.
- Comment on TrekMovie.com - Rick Berman And Brannon Braga Defend The Controversial ‘Star Trek: Enterprise’ Series Finale 3 weeks ago:
Punctuation can change context and/or grammar, but I’ll meet you on the middle on that one. I’ll also just keep telling myself that it was an intentional mistake by the editors to trigger real grammar nazis.
- Comment on TrekMovie.com - Rick Berman And Brannon Braga Defend The Controversial ‘Star Trek: Enterprise’ Series Finale 3 weeks ago:
which is it’s
And bad grammar too. Tsk, tsk.
- Comment on Anon escapes from work 4 weeks ago:
Construction was probably contracted out to the same company that built the thousands of T-14 tanks we see operating in Ukraine.
- Comment on Anon escapes from work 4 weeks ago:
I believe they are required for worker dorms in China or news communities on ML.
- Comment on Is it really worth the BS for a couple more years? 5 weeks ago:
I’ll never drink again, but there are some days still that I wish my mind could be as numb as it was while I was a raging alcoholic. That thought is usually replaced with remembering how shitty I always felt and how I didn’t give a fuck about anything. Life was a blur.
A mostly clear mind and recovering body is a very good thing. Daily stress is easily managed with regular exercise and chronic anxiety and depression is only a tiny fraction of what it once was. It’s a good life now.
I believe the lifestyle changes not only lengthened my life, but it also stretched out my perceived time as well.
- Comment on thats all 5 weeks ago:
Are you forgetting about jorts?
- Comment on Carrot 5 weeks ago:
For some, it’s exactly that.
- Comment on Angry fattie German politician sends Gestapo to arrest person who called her fattie 1 month ago:
I don’t give a shit about this post or any argument happening, but I am curious about why you think defamation of public figures specifically, has to have consequences?
I am not a fan of defamation against anyone, but I give the least amount of fucks for any politician. (Maybe one or maybe half of a fuck is given in their case.)
- Comment on Nowhere more appropriate to ask this as I'm apparently banned in c/guns, c/liberalgunowners and c/asklemmy. WTF is wrong with this revolver?! 1 month ago:
I agree with the comments on this forum (www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/mushrooming…) that the cylinder could have a machining defect. (Basically a headspace issue, also but kinda not. The cartridges are sitting too deep in the cylinder itself.)
If there is room for the brass to get pushed back far enough for it to mushroom out, something is seriously wrong.
My first thought was excessive chamber pressure, but the bulging would be much worse around the rim itself if that were the case.
The bullet and the brass get pushed in opposite directions and if the brass can move, it will move before it deforms. If it deforms, it’ll deform at the weakest spot first.
- Comment on Every time! 1 month ago:
Mixed theories on that, and most are older.
On earlier computers, I had several ICs walk themselves out of sockets due to repeated thermal expansion cycles. Keeping the computer turned on eliminates most of that.
Mechanical wear was another problem. Booting a computer was extremely taxing on old HDDs and floppy drives.
Most power supplies are really well designed now but they had a tendency to spike power briefly in the last when turned on. This was especially bad for older capacitors but also not healthy for the ICs.
Now that boot times are reasonably fast and most everything is solid state and power managed really well, turning a off computer is fine.
However, I just assume most electronics now just go into some type of deep sleep mode unless fully disconnected from any power source. That likely isn’t true in many cases, but I consider it healthy level of paranoia.
- Comment on No words 2 months ago:
The personality of the actor always outweighs the role they play in movies for me. I love the original Mission Impossible as a kid, but that was destroyed when the story was appropriated by scientology.
No matter how “good” a character is in the movies, it’s ruined by knowing the person playing that character is a complete douche.
The problem for me is not what it seems though. I love good movies and part of that experience is complete and total immersion in the quality of the filming, acting, visual effects, sound and storyline. It’s almost a hypnotic state and it doesn’t take much for me to get distracted and a complete jackass of an actor is a distraction.
- Comment on Poor pugs 2 months ago:
You mean WALL-E wasn’t real?
- Comment on found an anti-vax book at my library 2 months ago:
Of course they read. Do you think those ticked tock subtitles are going to read themselves when they “do their own research”?
- Comment on Dance 2 months ago:
It’s a camera and stickers like this one of many odd DEFCON traditions. (Security professionals in large numbers is an interesting sight to behold.)
- Comment on Dance 2 months ago:
(One of my favs from DEFCON a few years back.)
- Comment on Warning: C-word 2 months ago:
Shit captions are what ticking tocks is all about, right?
- Comment on Entrapment 4 months ago:
I seem to have missed the question.
- Comment on Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule 4 months ago:
You were in a correlated plastic pipe factory and the cigarettes were an issue? Damn. You would think the VOC off-gassing from hot plastic would break you first…
- Comment on yep that's me 4 months ago:
Very fast, right at the base of the skull.
- Comment on Shamone 4 months ago:
The weird part is that it still looks like The Rock.
- Comment on Every damn time! 4 months ago:
The root cause is usually a weak lower esophageal sphincter. Water creates additional pressure in the stomach which causes acid reflux. For me anyway, this is only an issue if I haven’t eaten, drink water and then lay down. (It’s the laying down bit that is probably key.)
Eating non-junk, low acid foods actually helps relieve some heartburn for me in some cases.
- Comment on Every damn time! 4 months ago:
If your stomach really is empty and you have chronic heartburn, this may not be the best solution. (It’s a gamble for me, anyway.)
In normal circumstances, water does temporary suppress hunger for a bit, for me.
- Comment on Wall Street’s AI Bubble Is Worse Than the 1999 Dot-com Bubble, Warns a Top Economist 4 months ago:
Well, yeah. If I was a betting man, and I sometimes am, I would speculate that Democrats are going to hold the presidency next and it’ll be just in time for the stock market to crash.
All it will take is oneinvestigation, one major implosion (hopefully NVIDIA, OpenAI, or both) or something else for the underpinning to come loose.
Since Republicans are unlikely to launch any kind of criminal probe (or other kind of interfering action), they can most likely keep the bubble propped up for quite a while.
TBH, what I am more scared of is if the bubble doesn’t pop soon. With OpenAI dumping money into consulting services and investors openly declaring that the end goal is to achieve vendor lock-in, it sets a ton of companies up for failure if they were dumb enough to make all of their core services dependent on OpenAI.
Either companies keep paying OpenAI to keep their core offerings alive or they can’t, and go bankrupt if they can’t convert their infrastructure and services.
The sooner that all of these shit OpenAI sub-service vendors die, the better. Venture capital will start drying up and OpenAI will lose their “path to profitability”. (It’s almost sounding like how meme coins support BTC… I digress.)
Hell, I haven’t even touched on inflated company valuations and how AI LLM market growth is being fabricated, in part, by shoving AI integrations into every product imaginable.
I’ll shut up now, but my point is that I am just applying the same shit I saw back in 2008 where the magic product was sub-prime mortgages coupled with hyper-risky market bets. Obviously, there are differences, but the core failure modes at the same.
- Comment on Roblox will require a facial scan or government ID to have unfiltered chats 4 months ago:
The popularity of Roblox among parents is going to skyrocket along with the players average age.
