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Probably an IR receiver module or photodiode.

This may seem kind of stupid but I am kind of stupid, is there a list somewhere of phrases that are stupid or insensitive racially or gender biased?

I just got up from conversation with a couple of older black men, that I said “well I got to go back to work and start cracking the whip.” And it occurred to me then that it was probably a really insensitive stupid thing to say....

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Unfortunately, this keeps changing. Old slurs get recycled or forgotten, and new words become offensive. Corporate guidelines are often hugely overbroad to avoid offending anyone. The best way to avoid things like what just happened, by checking slang in a dictionary before using it.

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Of course there is an xkcd (or rather what if on it)

https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/da841c09-37e0-493b-b24d-4a28137bfc7e.png

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IRC, assorted mailing lists and forums, Matrix, Mastodon and occasionally Reddit (blasphemy, I know)

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Let them cook, the result is almost guaranteed to be amusing.

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Most power generation methods like coal have similar requirements, and it doesn’t have to be clean water. In costal areas, seawater can be used just fine.

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Excel does this, so that German guy you forwarded a sheet to has to manually replace all the Polish function names before it works

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You don’t even have to learn English, you just memorize a few flags/keywords, no complex grammar or anything.

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Centaur barbarian.

If LED bulbs are supposed to last for 10 years, why do I still need to replace them every 9 months? (hexbear.net)

I’m in a nasty frame of mind right now, and this is what my 'tism brain decided to laser focus on for several hours. I’m mad that my light bulbs cost 10x more than they used to, and don’t last any longer, and my power bill is higher than ever....

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Bad design. These bulbs often run supper hot, resulting in premature failure from electromigration and similar. Some manufacturers are better about this then others, so try another one. Filament style bulbs also tend to run colder, and last a lot longer. (But they flicker and play badly with dimmers)

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As long as Redreader still works, other applications could just borrow the oauth key.

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You mean we are not supposed to trick after getting candy? That ruins the fun!

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And in the end you turned it back to an image.

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Wikipedia says that the heating from the focused light is minimal because the retina is surrounded with fluid, similarly to how a balloon filled, even partially, with water won’t pop over a candle flame. However, the light itself is damaging, as far UV is ionizing radiation and can rip apart the molecules making up your cells.

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Ignore it. Anything you say will be used to build their case. I would just set up another server.

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Not yet, but their could be in the future. Best to ignore it and move on. Even if it is extremely unlikely to be prosecuted for this stuff, it has happened, so why risk it.

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based.cooking

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Noooo, stop backing up my garbage!

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They are programmed to do that to cover the companies ass. They are also set up to not trust anything you tell them. I once tried to get chatGPT to accept that Russia might have invaded Ukraine in 2022, and it refused to believe anything not in the training data. (Might be different now, they seem to be updating it, just find a new recent event)

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In the case of science, the claims made are disprovable, but have not been despite many attempts. For example, if you want to see if light is a wave, you can do the double slit experiment with a laser pointer, a piece of wire, and some black tape: Tape the wire over the output in the center of the beam, and then use more tape strips parallel to the wire to create 2 narrow slits. Then shine the laser with the tape and wire on a wall a few meters away. Assuming light is composed of waves, you will an interference pattern consisting of a line dots instead a single dot or line. (Try it!) The same will happen for all forms of electromagnetic radiation, including radio waves, infrared, UV, and even X-rays. Even if you personally have not done many experiments, millions of other people have, verifying that the theories hold over almost any conceivable situation.

The claims made by religion are, if anything more believable, but impossible to disprove and therefor, no one has been been able to try. There is no experiment or observation for the existence of a god, or a soul.

There is a big difference between believing in empirically demonstrated facts and something that no one is able to check.

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UTF-8 for plain text, trying to figure out the encoding, especially with older files/equipment/software is super annoying.

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Oh but we don’t play it, we put lighting into rocks and trick them into doing it.

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Might a a good idea to buy it, I’m sure it will sell for 10$ with some haggling.

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Electron only. 🤢

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Except worse, because it’s an electron app interpreting the app you actually want to run, so double slowness.

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Just add -a for auto compression.

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Hell runs on Linux so it never freezes.

Languages in the EU

I’m about to sound like the ignorant American I am, so I apologize in advance! We’re looking at a trip to Germany, and possibly Prague, and we’ve noticed that a lot of the hotel names are French and a couple hotels that aren’t named in French have replied to comments with things like “Bonjour! etc etc” What’s up...

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Interestingly, English has been the target of this quite a few times: youtube.com/watch?v=V347dTGZVl0

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They do it to sound cool. Interestingly, in Japan (often nonsensical) English often gets used as a decoration in a similar way: youtube.com/watch?v=V347dTGZVl0

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The expression 0.1 + (0.2 + 0.3) and (0.1 + 0.2) + 0.3 evaluate to different results.

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As quietly as possible, you don’t notice hearing damage until it’s too late to do anything about it.

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That’s what the subscribed feed is for.

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Put #define true (rand()%1000 != 0) in some obscure C or C++ header file on their system/project. This makes true evaluate to false one in a thousand times, and will make them spend hours trying to figure out why things like infinite loops, aren’t quite infinite.

Other languages should also allow you to do things like this, if not messing with constants, messing with standard library functions.

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I can hear the RFI from here.

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In terms of performance, the best option is multiple wired together access points. You can get flat Ethernet cable that can easily fit under doors, carpets and through windows if you don’t want to/can’t drill any holes in your walls. Mesh networks are an option, because the mesh nodes generally have higher power transmitters then your device, but this will be slower then a proper setup, and get slower the further you are from a node with a wired connection.

If you are on 5 GHz, try moving to 2.4 GHz, the top speed is slower, but it much better at passing through walls.

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This is me except the bins are just different corners of a closet.

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Ok, as a compromise between a generic word and a specific name, I vote we call them Xcrement. (Verb: Xcrete) (Would nicely describe the average quality too)

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One, people can make their own guns, it’s not that hard, and secondly, criminals can and do steal stuff. They don’t care about commiting extra crimes, they are already going to jail if caugh. All this will do is to make it harder for non-criminals to obtain guns for hunting or self defense.

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Nearly all of these are illegal, but sadly there is little enforcement when it comes to this. (Tracking must be opt-in, not opt-out. Ignoring a banner must be interpreted as declining. Opting out must be a simple option, not navigating a complex and misleading menus. The users choice applies to any form of tracking, not just cookies…)

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The GDPR is not “cookie law”, it only prohibits tracking users in a way not essential to the operation of the site using locally stored identifiers (cookies, local storage, indexed DB…)

Storing a cookie to track login sessions, or color scheme preference does not require asking the user or allowing them to decline.

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Just disconnect all the radios/antennas, including trace antennas as PCBs. The car can collect all it wants as long as that stays on the car.

Also make sure to get hidden transmitters, like TPMS sensors (they have been used to track people before).

You can’t really do anything about ALPR without committing crimes in most countries.

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I just got a huge CNC, will that work?

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They did, with core you could be paying for many dollars per bit of memory. They also often used teletypes, where you would pay in ink and time for every character.

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A early models of PDP-11, the computer Unix was developed on, did use core.

Why is everyone so giddy about the flooding thay happened at burning man?

Social media seems to be laughing its ass off about this tragedy, is it because the folks at burning man are perceived as frivolous hippies or something? Everyone I’ve ever met who was a regular burning man attendee has been a solid human being with strong morals, personally and financially responsible, a career. Upstanding...

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These people could have checked a weather forecast and had a lot of advance warning to GTFO. If you go out to the desert without doing anything to ensure your safety, it is mostly your fault if you get screwed. Same reason it’s funny when antivaxxers get measles and when COVID deniers get COVID. Of course it is still sad and the people responsible for spreading those theories should be punished, but it is sort of funny.

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Why are there loads of unnamed bluetooth devices around me? (feddit.de)

I live in a big city in the center. When i activate “Show bluetooth devices without names” in the developer settings of my android 13 phone, there appear loads of this devices. I have no clue what they are. Does anyone know? Are that the bluetooth nanobots of the vaxxinated people? (/s to last question!)

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Bluetooth devices only broadcast their name when in pairing mode, at other times only the mac address is available. In other words, these are just people’s Bluetooth devices like headphones, cellphones, airtags, etc.

Why are YouTube comments so much different than any other comments made online

YouTube comment sections are weirdly positive always. It could be a video of some horrible crime and the comments will be about how great the channel is and encouraging the channel to keep making more videos. When j visit actual fan pages anywhere else online there are always a mix of opinions. But youtube is constantly full of...

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Not only can the creator delete comments, but YouTube itself seems to algorithmicly delete comments, especially longer comments.

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