SpaceCadet
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- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 4 days ago:
I have no idea, and I don’t particularly care either, it’s not like it was some wildly expensive cable (though I don’t remember the price) … I just know that I saved myself a whole lot of inconvenience.
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 4 days ago:
So regardless of the fact that it’s about an optical connector here, and hence completely nonsensical, gold is actually a worse conductor of electricity than copper or silver. The point of gold plated connectors is not so much to improve the immediate audio quality, but to prevent oxidation of the connector over time, which can degrade quality and lead to bad contact. Gold is a noble metal, so doesn’t oxidize. I would think most audiophiles know this?
I used to have to replace the cable of my electric guitar every few years because the sound would get crackly or drop out intermittently, I eventually got one with gold plated 6.35mm plug and I’m still using that same cable 15 years later.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
To be fair half the world seems to forget Belgium is not all french sometimes
It’s annoying as fuck.
Microsoft/Xbox store used to be almost entirely French when visiting from a Belgian IP, even if you set your profile language to Dutch or English. Not sure how it is nowadays, I don’t come there anymore.
Amazon Prime and Netflix still have many movies and series in dubbed French only for Belgian customers, and not the original version with Dutch or even just English subtitles.
Many sites serve you a French language page by default if you visit from a Belgian IP, and then you have to hunt in the header or footer of the page for the language toggle. You usually can’t even read the cookie permission popup in a language you understand.
- Comment on I dunno 5 weeks ago:
something has to be the rule for processing it
Well the rule is: any order goes. Summation is commutative.
- Comment on I dunno 5 weeks ago:
If you have a bunch of unparenthesized addition and subtraction, left to right is correct
If you have a bunch of unparenthesized addition and subtraction, left to right doesn’t matter.
1 + 2 - 3 = 1 - 3 + 2 = -3 + 2 + 1
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 1 month ago:
Preventing conception would be a genetic trait that evolution selects against.
A woman with your theoretical anti-conception genetic mutation would not reproduce, so this mutation dies out immediately.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 1 month ago:
Doing your part in a relationship’s reproductive planning is good partner behavior. This shouldn’t be a game where just one person is on the hook and the other is just along for the ride. Male and Female birth control do not exist as a one or the other dichotomy.
Except what the meme is saying is not that both partners should work together on birth control. It suggests that it should be on the man instead.
Meme also suggests that no work is being done on a male contraception pill, when in reality this is being worked on and has been worked on for decades, but there are good biological reasons why this is anything but trivial and certainly much harder than a female contraception pill.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 1 month ago:
Counterpoint: a woman taking birthcontrol is empowering her because she is taking charge of her own reproduction. She doesn’t have to rely on or trust the man to take his pill. After all, she would be the one bearing most of the burden in case of an unwanted pregnancy.
Additionally, purely biologically it is much easier to reliably stop conception on the female side than on the male side. A woman only produces one egg cell per month, whereas a man produces millions of sperm cells per day.
- Comment on Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive” 2 months ago:
I liked working from home at first, but after so long it becomes harder and harder to leave your work at “work” when your workplace is also your home
That sounds like a “you” problem. I just hit the shutdown button on my laptop at 17:00 and close the lid, and boom I’ve left work and magically instantaneously transported to my home.
the flexibility to work from home on weekends
Work … on … weekends?
I think your problem is that you’re a workaholic.
- Comment on Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive” 2 months ago:
Our brains are not wired to do such a dramatic difference in mental activity in the same location.
Sounds made up bro.
- Comment on Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive” 2 months ago:
It’s bad enough having to hear my colleagues in teams meetings, I don’t see why I have to smell them too.
- Comment on It's your amigo, Ralph! 2 months ago:
Don’t worry Ralph, I got you.
- Comment on I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it. 5 months ago:
A solution presumes there is a problem in the first place.
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 7 months ago:
Oh look we got a live one!
Mods: if you’re going to remove comments, at least have the guts to say you want to maintain your echo chamber instead of hiding behind rule 5, which this comment does not violate.
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 7 months ago:
We got a live one!
- Comment on Do it 8 months ago:
Satan is in my ass in my ass
- Comment on AI will replace us all... trust me 9 months ago:
I mean, they’re not entirely wrong … but that also highlights the limitations of LLM based AI, and why it’s probably a technological dead end that will not lead to general purpose AI. It will just become another tool that has its uses if you know how to handle it properly.
- Comment on Anyone remember this? 10 months ago:
You’re thinking of Netscape Navigator Gold 3.0
- Comment on Anyone remember this? 10 months ago:
Yes, we had social media back then, just not with Nazis, bots, and ads.
We did have plenty of usenet trolls and usenet wars.
- Comment on Resume help 11 months ago:
Do you have one for being terminally lazy and the world’s wost procrastinator?
- Comment on Choosing pink is chaotic evil? 11 months ago:
- Comment on Meatspin 1 year ago:
A core memory of mine is getting flung off of one of these things because of the centrifugal force, falling on my back, and being unable to breathe for like 20-30 seconds … until I screamed at the top of my lungs, while the teacher just went: oh you’re fine, don’t be a baby. I was 6.
- Comment on Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread 1 year ago:
The past year or two I’ve found several stores where they are abandoning it. I presume because people carrying cash, especially coins, is becoming rarer and they don’t want to inconvenience their customers?
Strangely enough, carts still get returned even at these stores.
- Comment on Redirect to prevent back button 1 year ago:
Or ctrl+w to close the fucking site and never come back.
- Comment on What Ticketmaster Doesn't Want You To Know: Concerts Were Cheap For Decades 1 year ago:
Depending upon their genre and your city’s size, they may never come nearby you
The joy of living in a central, densely populated area of Europe … I’ve been able to see almost all niche bands that I’m into live.
- Comment on What if? 1 year ago:
Female Dating Strategy
- Comment on What if? 1 year ago:
I think being interested in your own weird little niches is wonderful.
- Comment on What if? 1 year ago:
I think the question is rather forward for a girl you just met at a party, but at the same time I think someone’s youtube recommendations would be a good indicator of some obvious red flags that someone may want to consciously hide from a prospective partner. For example, if someone’s feed is full of alt right/joe rogan/incel crap, or for women, full of FDS crap, you’re damn right I’m gonna judge.
- Comment on Dutch toilets 1 year ago:
Surely you mean poop lights?
- Comment on Dutch toilets 1 year ago:
Still better than a light sensor in a communal bathroom… outside of the stalls. That’s how it is at my workplace. If I spend a bit too long pooping, and nobody else comes in to poop at the same time, I end up in the dark. Then when I have to wipe, I have to either risk opening the stall door and wave into the room, with my dirty ass hanging out, hoping nobody happens to enter the bathroom at that time, or wait patiently for someone to come in and reactivate the light. Makes me wonder how blind people check their wiping: do they go on flavor or smell?
