YurkshireLad
@YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca
- Comment on OpenAI announces AI-powered hiring platform to take on LinkedIn 3 weeks ago:
Another platform to avoid.
- Comment on Tesla said it didn’t have key data in a fatal crash. Then a hacker found it. 4 weeks ago:
It’s sad. You can avoid dying in a Tesla by not buying one. But you can’t do much about someone else’s Tesla hitting you.
- Comment on advertising and headers take up 50% of screen space 4 weeks ago:
Can you use uBlock Origin to remove the DIV for the ad? Or is it using randomly generate IDs?
- Comment on How does HTML actually run on a computer? 3 months ago:
HTML is the content and CSS is how to display it, or the formatting and styling required to display it.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start Menu Revealed as Resource-Heavy React Native App, Sparks Performance Concerns 3 months ago:
Wtf??? That’s insanity…
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 3 months ago:
How many dollar stores are required for it to be classified as a town?
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted the seemingly made-up article 4 months ago:
This is real? Holy crap….
- Comment on When will all the folks complaining about loss of Snap and health insurance realize the GOP wants us to die and has ZERO empathy for fellow Americans? 4 months ago:
I find it very strange that so many American women vote to reduce their own rights.
- Comment on Gaming Website Polgyon Sold To Valnet And Hit With Layoffs 4 months ago:
Layoffs is the precursor to adopting LLM generated content?
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 6 months ago:
“Mental landscape”?
- Comment on Technology isn't fun anymore 6 months ago:
Yes! And Windows is anything but.
- Comment on Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website 7 months ago:
Why are we not surprised?
- Comment on How do I realistically get out of the US? 8 months ago:
University fees for foreign students can be very high. For example, I think the fees at Edinburgh university for a foreign student are 3 times the cost for English students, and almost 9 times compared to Scottish students. I’m going from memory here so I could be off a bit.
- Comment on Meta to End Fact-Checking Program on Facebook Ahead of Trump Term: Live Updates 8 months ago:
Meta knows they don’t have enough CPUs and memory to run fact checkers on all the Trump supporters.
- Comment on It's 54 degrees Fahrenheit (12 Celsius), raining moderately hard, the rain is cold, and there's a guy blowing around wet leaves with a leaf blower. What the hell is the obsession with leaf blowers? 9 months ago:
This was during the summer. The only thing might be bird poop?
- Comment on It's 54 degrees Fahrenheit (12 Celsius), raining moderately hard, the rain is cold, and there's a guy blowing around wet leaves with a leaf blower. What the hell is the obsession with leaf blowers? 9 months ago:
One of my neighbours sometimes hoses down her driveway in the pouring rain. Who knows why neighbours do the things they do.
- Comment on Pringhouls 11 months ago:
Geez where’s your sense of humour today? 😁
- Comment on Pringhouls 11 months ago:
Our universe is but one Pringle in a can.
- Comment on Pringhouls 11 months ago:
Wouldn’t it be bizarre and ironic if the universe is shaped exactly like a Pringle?
- Comment on Suddenly firefox on ios shows ads on homescreen 11 months ago:
The android version has had this for a while.
- Comment on Downfall at 20: A Sobering Take on the Final Stages of World War II 1 year ago:
Is it available on a streaming service?
- Comment on Walmart's use of digital price tags signal the future of retail shopping, but consumers are worried 1 year ago:
That’s exactly what this is. All stores will eventually do this and prices will fluctuate throughout the day.
- Comment on Is this just how it’s gonna be till Election Day? 1 year ago:
I keep getting emails from some republican Colorado group and I don’t even live in the US!
- Comment on X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm 1 year ago:
Can’t have a woke water pistol on Musk’s manly website!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Why? Because the platform is owned by Elon Twitler, and he’s opened the floodgates to anyone who wants to help destroy the world.
- Comment on Dyson job cuts: One third of vacuum company's UK workforce to go 1 year ago:
Well that sucks.
- Comment on A live ranking of airlines by how much luggage they are losing 1 year ago:
Historically for me, the Canadian table is reversed to - Air Canada 1, WestJet 0.
- Comment on What's the worst hacking scene from any movie or show? 1 year ago:
Independence Day.
- Comment on What would happen to your body if you only ate 750g of 2% cottage cheese every day for a month? 1 year ago:
I lost 40lbs on keto and after the first week of keto flu, I felt great. No sugar crashes, no energy level drops and overall, more energy than usual. I stopped after six weeks as I couldn’t deal with the lack of flavour and texture in the food I was eating. I reached a good weight that I’ve maintained, 7 years later.
One thing it taught me, was to reduce the amount I eat and to balance things out if I eat more carbs than usual.
- Comment on Why don't electric car manufacurers put solar panels on the car roofs? 1 year ago:
I have a very vague memory of watching a video where someone calculated the amount of energy produced, which was minimal. The benefit vs the cost is very poor.