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Trainguyrom

@ Trainguyrom @reddthat.com

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  • AI in reality

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  • oof that site is pretty bad even with ublock origin. It also hijacks copy/paste so you can't copy/paste the article to spare others, and any attempt to bypass that gets passed along to extracting the paid article below it rather than giving you the actual text of the article. Oh and it pops up to sign in with google, pops up with a discounted subscription offer, and pops up other animated elements on every edge of the screen (which actually link to real site content!) further making it difficult to just read the damn article

    Good news is it literally doesn't provide any information other than quoting his tweet about laying off his entire dev team and then his linked post from a few weeks later he was looking for devs (and the article quotes random people on reddit to fill it out of course)

  • Eating Healthy

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  • A couple of years ago I started looking at the sugar contents listed on labels. Ho-ly crap. How does a pint of strawberry milk contain over 100% DV of sugar? Why does my PB&J consume 2/3 of my daily sugar budget? Its honestly sickening once you start keeping track of these things and I'm not even doing more than just trying to reduce my sugar intake and loosely monitor how much I take in

  • Eating Healthy

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  • Also im pretty sure that most fat people are fat from drinking shitty sugar filled crap instead of water. Also the zero sugar artificially sweetened shit fucks with ur insulin making u fatter. Just drink water.

    There's a multitude of (often chronic) health conditions that create sticky weight gain, or weight that simply does not go away through diet and exercise. Add in the challenge for women and minorities of healthcare discrimination and you've got a recipe for overweight people who simply aren't able to lose the weight no matter what they try, and doctors blaming the weight before testing for endocrine disorders (oh and of course financial challenges in accessing healthcare in the first place)

  • What successful or popular movie that many loved you just HATE?

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  • When I first watched it, I had the benefit of a nerd who'd read the book explaining certain scenes that weren't super clear on what was happening in the film, and I feel like that is what made the experience for me

  • What successful or popular movie that many loved you just HATE?

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  • For me its mostly that with a bit of "this is a foreign film/show so some cultural references and formulas are entirely new to me!" excitement sprinkled in

  • Copyright Industry Wants To Apply Automated Blocking To The Internet’s Core Routers

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  • That's relying on them having the political will to do more than half-ass it. Let's be real, everyone loyal to trump is loyal for one (or more) of three reasons:

    1. They directly profit from the loyalty
    2. They believe it will help them realize their career ambitions
    3. They believe they can use him to ultimately achieve their own private ideological ambitions

    These are the same reasons people joined the first Trump administration and literally none of them are attempting to join his second administration meaning they were not able to realize any of their goals through Trump (or they were shown exactly how far they could go before they found the line they could not cross)

    Simply put, it's not an environment conducive to actually realizing policy goals in any incredibly complex interconnected web. The last trump administration tried to block China from international logistics and instead made logistics more robust (and helped the Mexican economy by accidentally encouraging significant investment in manufacturing and logistics there) and got completely deadlocked by infighting when they attempted to realize their wet dream of "repealing and replacing" Obamacare/The Affordable Care Act. I'll be extremely impressed if a trump Administration manages to actually achieve a meaningful disruption of the Internet, especially with how the rest of the world largely refuses to support his policy goals

  • Copyright Industry Wants To Apply Automated Blocking To The Internet’s Core Routers

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  • Heck a tiny regional bank I worked at with less than 2 dozen locations was constantly flinging data between its Primary and DR datacenters, and they were too small for any dedicated fiber so that was just over standard ISPs (with some locations technically on residential plans because the ISPs didn't offer any better options than that in the small towns the bank supported)

  • Nom nom

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  • Crocodile needs eat cactus to see window

  • Nom nom

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  • Big side big number, little side little number

  • Prankster arrested for spraying pesticide on Walmart produce

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  • I misread the police car on the thumbnail as "Meesa police" and thought it was going to be a jarjar binks meme before I read the title

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    Anyone else here that stopped watching TV almost completely?

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  • I haven't watched broadcast television or paid for service since about 2010. It was quite jarring watching cable news when in a hotel and just how little detail they give about anything while padding every story out with fluff so heavily. It was kind of insulting how they'd tease an upcoming story before every commercial break, except every time it would be the story right before the next break and somehow feel not even worth teasing once they gave you more than the teaser. Is this realy how people get their news? I can get a much better handle on local and world events in 30 minutes of reading a few news sources in the web than the fluff cable news gave me

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    Anyone else here that stopped watching TV almost completely?

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  • It's hilarious comparing the viewership of prime time TV programming to a random YouTube video or live stream made by a couple of people in their bedroom. Broadcast television is dead. It's just a shambling zombie at this point, acting like it's still relevant this far into the 21st Century

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    Anyone else here that stopped watching TV almost completely?

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  • On the subject of Lost you could spend the same amount of time watching the entire Lost TV series watching Billiam's retrospectives about the series!

    ...in case you want to spend 20 hours of your life watching a make a wish kid talk about Lost

    Apparently YouTube has been supressing him from my recommendations lately so I guess I have some videos to catch up on

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    Anyone else here that stopped watching TV almost completely?

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  • Good luck, bro

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  • How did I end up on NCD again?

  • Fellow Americans, how do you deal with the day to day knowing this capitalist hellhole system is absolutely rigged against us?

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  • Quite frankly, a big part of managing the stress when looking at the macro-political situation and how that intertwines with the macro-econonics and fucks up the microeconomics of households, is to not dwell on it. Too much doomer content bringing you down? know when to stop consuming and do something else. There's a point where you cannot change it and making yourself depressed thinking about it too much is just going to make your own life shittier.

    I also work hard to find the best path to survive, thrive and live my best life. Sometimes that means taking some time to learn the rules of the game that's set up so you don't dive head first into the pitfalls that are setup for those who don't pay attention to the rules. Learn more about the big scary words at play as you sign up for an insurance plan, and what they mean. Learn about interest (both on your debts and your funds) and how interest plays into your finances, how to budget and figure out what you can afford, and how to financially improve upon your previous choices that occurred either due to lack of knowledge or due to making the least bad decision available to you at a given point in time.

    But also make sure to find joy and happiness in a bunch of different timescales to both be happier and improving yourself so that no matter how mundane your life is, you have sparks of joy to keep you always looking forwards to something:

    • Small affordable indulgences, be that a yummy food like a small block of aged cheese, or maybe a small lego set or a small game. Whatever makes you happy that you wouldn't normally spend on
    • Take a moment to appreciate something in your environment. I like to take a minute to look at the stars every time I'm outside at night, but also actively take in the trees and patches of woodland and how they're currently reacting to the weather. If you can keep a small plant, just checking in on your little potted plant every day can bring its own joy in caring for your little buddy
    • Find a creative outlet, no matter how much you suck at it, just find something you can make that you enjoy making
    • Pick something fun you can look forwards to at all times that's just around the corner. A club that meets monthly to do a hobby you enjoy does well. I then try to also make sure to find some excuse to get together with friends and spend a little more money than I otherwise would every few months so its extra special and I can really look forward to those get togethers.
    • Start exercising regularly. Your body was made to move, and making sure you're actually using your body and pushing your muscles a bit 3-5 times a week is amazing for both your general health but also your mental health too. Take a walk, ride a bike, make a fool of yourself on a dance floor, struggle to do a pushup/pullup. It doesn't have to be structured, just something to actually move your whole body throughout the week and actually use your muscles

    TL;DR STOP DOOMSCROLLING AND GO POKE SOMETHING WITH A STICK...it might even be a little fun

  • There's a hierarchy

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  • I'm a be real, I didn't know I needed to know about the models of water fountains I see in public spaces but now its tickled my autism and I just need to know more. Big water fountain got their money's worth I think...

  • Seagate launches 30/32TB capacity Exos M mechanical HDD (30/32TB capacity)

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  • Ah I thought I had remembered their hard drive division being aquired but I was wrong! Per Wikipedia:

    At least 218 companies have manufactured hard disk drives (HDDs) since 1956. Most of that industry has vanished through bankruptcy or mergers and acquisitions. None of the first several entrants (including IBM, who invented the HDD) continue in the industry today. Only three manufacturers have survived—Seagate, Toshiba and Western Digital

  • Seagate launches 30/32TB capacity Exos M mechanical HDD (30/32TB capacity)

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  • I doubt the high pitched whine that you're hearing is the SSD failing. The sheer amount of writes to fully wear out an SSD is...honestly difficult to achieve in the real world. I've got decade old budget SSDs in some of my computers that are still going strong!