tastysandwich

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by tastysandwich 3y ago
This is scary. While I find it on-topic, I feel compelled to downvote your comment so that less people see the link. Sorry!
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by tastysandwich 3y ago
I think people are interpreting my comment as being against protests. Of course protests are an important part of a healthy democracy. Rather I'm pointing that out in the age of social media, a lot of these disruptive climate protests
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by tastysandwich 3y ago
And what of the ordinary folk whose lives you're seriously disrupting? The parolee for whom being late means going back to prison? The single mum who isn't a knowledge worker, and who Walmart will fire for being late? The people o
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by tastysandwich 3y ago
Unfortunately with social media we live in an age of unparalleled narcissism. Gluing yourself to a major motorway has become a quick way to gain attention and feel morally superior so you can keep feeling like the main character. Now, I&#x2
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by tastysandwich 3y ago
I can't say how the website I'm scraping would respond if I just went full throttle. But it's also just a matter of courtesy anyway not to make ten thousands requests per second. Funny story - at work we once had a huge spike
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by tastysandwich 3y ago
I have a side project that scrapes thousands and thousands of pages of a single website. So as not to piss them off (and so they don't try to block me), my script will take about 6 hours. Between each page fetch it sleeps for a small,
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by tastysandwich 3y ago
I'd just like to say that I've spent a good portion of day telling everyone who I think will be interested about this. Thanks for sharing!
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by tastysandwich 3y ago
Sure! Sorry for my delayed response. To block ads when web browsing, I find adblockers more than adequate. Eg Brave Browser on Android, or the Ublock Origin addon on desktop. The main reason I wanted Pihole was to block ads in other situati
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by tastysandwich 3y ago
Worst timing! Just had an incident and had to deploy a hotfix. Pushes weren't working and I thought I was going crazy. Who would have thought software could be such an adrenaline rush. Move over Alex Honnold!
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by tastysandwich 3y ago
Oh wow, going through my past comments. That's pretty interesting behaviour ... Just curious, do you do that for all comments you read? That's quite a time investment. Not sure how an adult paying for ad-free YouTube is inconsiste
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by tastysandwich 3y ago
- Media center - Transmission seedbox - Zoneminder (security camera monitoring) Ones I no longer use: - Pihole - Grafana dashboard of temperatures of other Pis I also built an exhaust fan into a drawer so I could keep t
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by tastysandwich 3y ago
A lot of wired headphones are built well, sound phenomenal, and have easily serviceable parts. Eg Sennheiser HD650/HD6XX, HD660, HD58X. The 650s are nearly 20 years old and can blow all your modern bluetooth headphones out of the water
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by tastysandwich 3y ago
I actually subscribe to YT Premium. More than happy to for an ad-free experience. But that's tied to my personal account. Sometimes I want to watch a video on my work laptop, or just in incognito mode. I would find it incredibly irrita
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by tastysandwich 3y ago
My alarm kept getting disabled. I realised it was my baby daughter's flailing arms when I held her, opening the alarms on my smartwatch and clicking randomly. Also, unless you really enjoy waking up, never make a great song your alarm
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
I'm talkative, outgoing and pretty funny in real life. I think I can say that people generally enjoy my company. But I only have about three friends, and I see them maybe four times a year. I really get along with my coworkers and enjo
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
> and she worked out that cooking salmon in a dishwasher does not bring it up to a food safe temperature. That video was great! Although I notice she cooks it in a large jar of water. I suspect that it would take a long time to heat up a
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
I'm getting really annoyed by this one-sided trust with companies. We're just expected to hand over all our sensitive documents, with no idea how it's stored or who can access. I was sent a shipment recently and the sender di
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
Oh man I thought I was the only one who still had a carefully curated digital library... I threw out my CDs a long time ago, but my digital library is my baby. I've been curating this since I was 10. It's who I am! Most of the tim
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
I must admit, for a very long time I thought he was Vietnamese, as Dang is a Vietnamese name. Interestingly, I'm finding it hard to shake that initial visual image, even though I know it's wrong. Brains are weird.
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
If you're interested in the topic, Jonathan Haidt has written a fair bit on this. He's got a number of articles if you Google his name, and he's also appeared in a few podcasts (eg Lex Fridman's).
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
I'm not a specialist and I'm not in academia. I just sometimes listen to Andrew Huberman's podcast. Dopaminergic literally means "related to dopamine". It's the first Google result. And how is the word "di
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
It's incredibly hard for parents to intervene. Even if you ban your child from using it, since every other kid is using it, the harmful effects are still there. The best you can do is try to explain and contextualise everything your ki
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
Totally, that's why I figured it's easier to just ban it for under 18s, then leave it alone for over 18s. I'm an adult - I don't want to be told what I can and can't see. (Obviously, "banning it" is not so
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
That's a really good point. And a case in point - I remember when I was 12, joining forums, there was always a prompt asking me if I was over the age of 13. Obviously I clicked yes and registered anyway! But part of the danger is the u
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
I just don't see any alternatives to banning social media, perhaps even up to the age of 18. The dopaminergic effects are not dissimilar to drugs and social media is just as addictive. It's not clear how you could effectively regu
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
He's clearly a musical genius and his ability to harmonise is beyond words. However when I first listened to him, my reaction was "this is very impressive, but I don't know why, I just don't feel it". What struck me
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
Every time I think that I'm not good enough at guitar to write songs, I leaf through one of my songbooks and find all the fantastic, catchy songs with three basic chords. I just can't get into guitarists like Steve Vai, Yngwie Mal
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
What is "nice", anyway? We're all characters. At the end of the day, some people do need to be treated a little bit differently. It's not "unfair"/"unjust", it's just called being human. If
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
Other than just "playing", two super important things to practice are ear training and transcribing. They both reinforce each other and improve every aspect of your musical abilities, including understanding of theory. For ear tra
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
I'd rather it just not autoconnect. That's all. At the moment it autoconnects (even if you're already connected to another device), AND autoplays. Doubly annoying.

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