AnIdiotOnTheNet

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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
They probably do, but I haven't used Facebook at all aside from a brief period in the 2010s. If they organize on Facebook, and I don't have any other way of finding out about them or otherwise contacting them, I just don't bo
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
They had to change the term, because "User Interface" sounded like something that was primarily designed to help the user interface with the computer, where as "User Experience" is clearly something intended to help the
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
A few weeks ago I made an effort to connect more with local reality and less with the internet and its mountain of suck. To that end I removed all social media apps from my phone (I only had one), and disabled the news feed, search, and bro
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
My sister is a (non-profit) hospice nurse, and according to her the record at her employer for how long someone remained on hospice without dying was 15 years.
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
Won't happen. Your inconvenience is worth far far less to those in power than helping their "business" friends make more money. The difference between "business" and "scam" at this point being nigh indisti
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
Cloud gaming will always be hampered by the simple reality of really of poor internet connections being very common.
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
> Anecdotally, another danger is people confusing less eating with a healthy diet. I know someone on Ozempic...eats less but what is eaten is the same old junk... There is anecdotal evidence that eating less is, in itself, so much more h
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
Could be worse. Omeprazole not only stops working after you get off it, your issues actually become much more severe. Once you're on it, you are unlikely to ever be able to get off of it.
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
People like you are the absolute worst to deal with when struggling to lose weight. I managed to lose 150lbs, and it had very little to do with will power, at least the way people like you mean it. I had to reconfigure my entire life around
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
> Yeah the American system absurd. The hilarious thing is that if we remove the context from this statement it applies so broadly that you could mean just about of our systems. Having absurd systems is pretty much our defining characteri
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
Well, the space lizards are still fascists.
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
> if money is the only reason, you can get money elsewhere. And they are all asking the same question. Will they accept an answer like "because you're only a 7 minute commute from my house", "I think the work will be
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
You know, if someone would constantly burst into rooms shouting at the top of their lungs for you to give them money, we'd beat them with a wrench. Yet this same behavior is not only tolerated and excused, but encouraged , when done i
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
> The whole internet is bloated with ads right now Internet? I think you mean everything . The whole everything is bloated with ads right now. Look around you, I bet you can see at least a dozen brand names without even leaving your c
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
My experience is the same, and yet I am not surprised that it still scores better than the average physician.
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
You're right that what I'm saying about our level of expertise says nothing about the validity of Mayer's assertion, but what you can't seem to grasp is that even if I did watch the video, and even if I did understand ev
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
Hindsight is 20/20. It is easy to see now all the reasons IPv6 is not widely adopted, but back then they probably figured that adding more features would make it more attractive or something. If I had a time machine and had to take a r
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
> Thank you for taking the time. My search fu is admittedly weak. That you've consumed this is also impressive. It was years ago, and I only gleaned the high concept really, but it has been around for nearly two decades now (though
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
> I can find no evidence or even remote hints of his connection to anything you have listed It took a while, but I think I found the PDF of the book I was talking about [0]. > fundamentally you are making an ad hominem argument, effec
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
Hey I recognize that name. He's the guy who wrote a book about some new cosmology he came up with from making a small modification to relativity that he claimed, among other things and IIRC, explained the Ganymede Mass Anomaly, that bl
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
Our civilization is a joke, really. We can't seemingly get anything done if someone is making money off of it not being done, and anything actually getting done is in severe danger of being dismantled so someone can make money off of i
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
Windows does have netstat, PowerShell has Test-NetConnection for testing port connectivity, and while I use puTTY I believe you can install telnet as an optional feature.
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
This is just false. As sibling comment mentioned Valve doesn't do third party exclusivity, but also the Steam DRM is completely optional and there are many games for which Steam just acts as a downloader and automatic update system. Yo
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
There's also the whole skins thing, but yeah generally speaking Valve has a very good record and I'm always a bit sus about people claiming it is an awful thing for gaming. Apparently they don't remember what PC gaming was li
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
One could say the same about things like push polling and humans. There's plenty of data from psychological studies showing that we can prompt humans into making false statements and/or doing/saying things against what their
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
Abstractions are useful, this is true, but the exceptions are a reminder that they are not reality, they are just a categorization we overlay on top of reality to help us understand it. Their utility is contextual. Your abstraction ignores
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
Is accusing others of having mental health problems less so, I wonder?
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
Someone forgot that the platypus exists.
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
> Software Engineering make me only realize that people are never happy. I'm not convinced this is an innate property of humanity, rather I think it is a conditioned behavior to keep us buying things. Pay attention to what marketing
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
> Consider this website, the outdated interface is held up as some kind of filter against an “eternal September” of an influx of “normies” who can’t see past the terrible UI for the apparently sheer brilliance and sophistication of the c

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