LastYearsPumpkin

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LastYearsPumpkin,

I wonder if a 6.5mm would be within tolerance to be compatible with 1/4" plugs.

Does Less Consumer Tracking Lead to Less Fraud? (www.eff.org)

The highlight of the research is that Apple users were less likely to be victims of financial fraud after Apple implemented the App Tracking Transparency policy. The results showed a 10% increase in the share of Apple users in a particular ZIP code leads to roughly 3% reduction in financial fraud complaints....

LastYearsPumpkin, (edited )

Tracking lost humans

Taught my dog to smell a clothing item, and she can distinguish the right person and follow the footfalls that person walked. She is pretty reliable up to about 18-36 hours old depending on weather conditions.

LastYearsPumpkin,

Just about any dog can do it, as long as you can find a good reward system for the dog. Mine loves playing fetch, so once we find the person we’re looking for, that person gives her lots of attention and fetch play.

It took a lot of work, and a lot of help from other people, but she’s really good at it now.

LastYearsPumpkin,

Ehhh… I wouldn’t go so far as to call him apolitical. I used to watch his stuff, but he’s drifted pretty right over the years. His stuff used to be pretty neutral, but since he started his book publishing, and the WWSD rifle project, he’s just been slipping right wing stuff into his content.

It doesn’t show up in the mainline informational videos too much, but his ad pushes and his side projects, which also show up on his main youtube channel, definitely have slid downhill.

LastYearsPumpkin,

Damn, I was going to post this list, you beat me to it though.

I love that whole maths group, Brady Haran, Matt Parker, Hannah Fry, James Grimes, Ben Sparks, Ayliean MacDonald… (and so many more.)

As soon as I get a notification that a new Numberphile video drops, I’m watching it ASAP.

LastYearsPumpkin,

Go ask highschool teachers in 1990 what they thought. It’s the same shit every generation.

LastYearsPumpkin,

Maybe add “that can be understood by most experts in the relevant field of study living today” to those questions, cause you might get something incomprehensible in the response.

LastYearsPumpkin,

If you use birdshot, or any target shot, the individual pellets don’t have enough mass to really do anything, even at terminal velocity. Heck, Dick Cheney shot someone in the face at point blank range with it, and they we able to get on a podium and apologize to Cheney shortly afterwards.

Slugs are a different story. Not sure about larger buck shot, some of those can be as heavy as a pistol round, but not really aerodynamic.

LastYearsPumpkin,

It’s perfectly fine as long as centaurs are sentient.

It’s not wrong as long as everyone can properly consent, have a full understanding of the situation, and there’s no coercion.

LastYearsPumpkin,

No, because in the end, something needs to keep moving the magnet forward to keep the truck moving forward.

This thought processes is exactly how scammers on YouTube make perpetual motion seem possible, but by definition, the forces always have to cancel out.

LastYearsPumpkin,

Looks perfect! Love these little one off projects.

LastYearsPumpkin,

Our local garbage goes to a local landfill that’s properly maintained.

There’s a lot of problems with consumption, and plastics especially need to be phased out, but some areas do handle waste responsibly.

If you had a one-way ticket to Jan 1, 1999 that departs on Jan 1, 2024, and you are allowed to bring whatever fits into a backpack with you, what would you bring to use to take over the world, and how would you use it? (kbin.social)

Assume that the future can change based on your actions, so any historical information that you bring along with you from the intervening 25 years may quickly drift out of the new realities history....

LastYearsPumpkin,

Any current smartphone would be the best digital camera that exists by a mile, even if they didn’t have Internet access.

LastYearsPumpkin,

He used his power and position to take advantage of an intern. Maybe you should care.

Most people that make it to the level of a president have done really shitty things, while this one wasn’t at the top of the list, it’s still pretty bad. Sucks that most of the hate and jokes were pushed towards the victim instead of the perpetrator.

LastYearsPumpkin,

You seem to have added a comma, that changes the whole meaning.

LastYearsPumpkin,

Please, please release a finished game. Don’t release a beta for full price and hope to fix later.

LastYearsPumpkin,

oof, I guess unless it works on a steamdeck (with keyboard and mouse) I won’t be playing this for a while.

LastYearsPumpkin,

The original article mentioned “softcore” porn, like old school cinemax movies where it’s porn, but thinly veiled into an actual movie.

Not like hardcore 10 minute porn movies, just semi-skeevy smut that you’d rather not have other people know you’re watching. (50 shades?)

LastYearsPumpkin,

It’s much easier to roll back a fraudulent electronic transaction, than a fraudulent cash transaction.

LastYearsPumpkin,

How many users are there?

Is there a chance that the computer will boot without access to the NAS (aside from failure conditions).

Are you doing anything with ownership to prevent reading, or changing, sensitive files?

LastYearsPumpkin,

Well, with multiple users you’d need to decide what the use case is for the whole NAS and then work down from there.

Are you sharing everything in the NAS with everyone? In that case your NAS setup is fine, just a little permissive, because with RW to everything, the end users can break everything.

If it were me setting this up, I’d have different mount points for different users. 1 mount for each user that only they can read/write (not even you should be able to see it), and 1 mount that everyone can read/write, maybe if you want to go a little bonkers, 1 mount that everyone can read, but only you can write to.

Then you’d mount those three to separate mounts in your /media, and you can link them from your home directory for specific use cases.

Obviously this is completely overkill, but you can take the parts that sound appealing to you and ignore the rest.

LastYearsPumpkin,

A backup is an emergency protection, not a primary plan. This attitude is dangerously close to making the backup a critical part of their uptime.

LastYearsPumpkin,

Star Trek was pretty inconsistent with money. Riker often gambled for money, and they certainly treated specific items as “valuable” (historical items, weapons, and especially liquor.)

I think some of the writers just didn’t know how to picture a post-money world. But by DS9 they mostly treated things like latinum an inter-species trading valuable (especially to/from the Ferengi) or just something that’s needed in the outskirts of the Federation.

LastYearsPumpkin,

That’s my point though. They don’t really address how McCoy got the glasses he gave to Kirk in Star Trek II. Did he buy them? Did he just ask someone for them? Did he barter for them for services?

Same thing with alcohol, some people pull out alcohol they obtained through some back alley, black market deal. But what was traded for this black market alcohol?

LastYearsPumpkin,

Their self driving is not the best in the world, they’re not really rated all that well in self driving, they just market it that way.

www.cnn.com/2023/01/25/business/…/index.html

Their infotainment system isn’t great, their dashboard for the model 3 is in the middle of the car, and there’s no speedometer where every other manufacturer puts it. The infotainment system also controls the wipers, climate, and everything else with a touch screen, making it less useful and more dangerous for an average driver.

Their manufacturing isn’t outstanding, they had a target goal of full automatic factories, but instead have to rely on underpaid, nonunion workers, and it shows in the build quality.

They don’t supply parts, info, and equipment to 3rd party manufacturers, making it more expensive to maintain and fix their cars.

Their batteries are average, but they intentionally lie on the range estimate to make them look better.

www.reuters.com/…/tesla-batteries-range/

Basically, aside from the advantage of being the first major EV manufacturer, everything else commonly associated with Tesla is just marketing lies.

LastYearsPumpkin,

Digging through the back catalog for this one.

LastYearsPumpkin,

The US is a very diverse country, some people deep fry their turkey, most people don’t. Many families don’t make turkey at all.

LastYearsPumpkin,

It’s one of the last of the laugh track comedies. Wondering what kids of the future are going to think about shows like that.

LastYearsPumpkin,

Possums don’t live exclusively on ticks, they don’t even particularly have a penchant for eating ticks. There was just one study that showed they could eat ticks and potentially have a resistance to some diseases.

Edit: sauce - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34298355/

LastYearsPumpkin,

This study was done entirely for the title.

LastYearsPumpkin,

There was a time when space was not mostly empty though. That’s what the cosmic background radiation shows us.

LastYearsPumpkin,

True, but you are mixing up a little bit of the timeline of the universe.

The CMB is from a time about 300,000 years after the “big bang” where the entire universe was basically a giant red star. It was the first time that any light could shine, because before that, the entire universe was so dense that literally no light could move. There were no comets or asteroids because there was literally no way for anything solid to form. esa.int/…/Cosmic_Microwave_Background_CMB_radiati…

The time of the comets and asteroids were billions of years later. Much later, after the galaxies, and then our solar system developed. This was about 10 billion years after the time that the CMB was being emitted. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Heavy_Bombardment

LastYearsPumpkin,

Ever is a very long time. We have the technology today to build a colony on the Moon and on Mars.

When something is a science problem (i.e. - warp drive) we might never achieve it, because it might not even be possible.

When something is an engineering problem (i.e. - just bigger rockets) we ALWAYS eventually get there. It just takes a small group of people with the right motivation to get it done.

LastYearsPumpkin,

What do you use it for? I use a Garmin watch that shows me notifications, does sleep tracking, tracks workouts, and lasts two weeks on a charge.

LastYearsPumpkin,

You are getting some dangerous advice in this thread that can make things worse.

You already have a bite, that’s a huge sign that you have escalated past the normal behavior stuff. Talk to a professional, talk to a local organization, like the local humane society, respected training center, or your vet, and get some real advice.

Pushing back and acting violent towards a violent dog can get you hurt and the dog put down.

LastYearsPumpkin,

Ok, I feel like I was transported to an alternate dimension where these words mean something.

I read the article, and it was full of references to other things I have no idea about.

What the hell is a live service game?

LastYearsPumpkin,

Left. Widescreen monitors make a task bar at top or bottom take up too much real estate.

LastYearsPumpkin,

raptured eat drum

Jesus getting awfully picky lately.

LastYearsPumpkin,

Ramanujan reborn - the main protagonist from the Wheel of Maths books.

LastYearsPumpkin,

If AI can write, direct, act, and stage the movie then what is the production company for?

If everything can be done by computer, then one small shop can type the idea into some cloud service and spit out a movie just as easily as Disney.

Sure, for a couple years things might be proprietary, but just like every other software innovation, it’ll quickly trickle down to everyone else and then the only thing left for a studio to do is marketing.

LastYearsPumpkin,

Y’all in here making some serious assumptions. There’s nothing in the title that implies which of the people in the picture is talking.

LastYearsPumpkin,

That’s actually not true, and framework has similar issues. There was vampire power drains from certain mix and match options with HDMI and USB-C ports.

community.frame.work/t/…/3736

On the AMD framework, the upper right and left USB-C ports are slightly different from the lower ports

community.frame.work/t/…/30771

I love my framework laptop, but we shouldn’t pretend that they are free from quirks that plague other brands.

LastYearsPumpkin,

Yay! Another megacorp to water down anything unique about these megaproperties!

LastYearsPumpkin,

Most beaches with significant tides have a sign that posts high and low tide times.

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