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renzev

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  • Drop your most "wtf that's not how the world works" from movies/tv shows.

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  • If the skin is punctured then yes of course it would hurt a lot. But with sweat/saltwater? I'm no expert, but I highly doubt it. I remember helping a friend out with his boat (also 12v) during a hot summer, and I was holding onto the battery terminals with really sweaty hands. It was just a tingle.

  • Drop your most "wtf that's not how the world works" from movies/tv shows.

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  • I don't have a particular scene, but a here's a funny conversation I had with an acquaintance:

    Huh, this thing takes just 12 volts. Could run it in a car.

    Wait, a car's electricals are just 12 volts?

    Yeah. The battery and most wiring around a car is 12 volts.

    Wait.. then what about those scenes in movies where they torture people with car batteries?

    Yeah, those are fake.

    looking into the distance as the realization dawns on him Those movie directors deserve jail time.

  • M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location

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  • It’s going to confuse everyday users

    Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I believe this is the intention. I think big companies deliberately put in confusing and bad design to "test the waters" and see if people will still buy their products. It's the same with the apple mouse charging on the bottom, or why companies keep making their logos uglier with each iteration. It's a psy-op to condition the masses into accepting worse products without complaining.

  • M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location

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  • This is correct, but still, fuck apple. What if I just prefer to turn my computer off instead of putting it into sleep mode? And how exactly am I supposed to wake up my computer from sleep if the power button is inaccessible? I know macs can be configured to wake up on keyboard/mouse activity, but that makes them too easy to wake up on accident.

  • Have you heard about Blue Screen syndrome?

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  • If you browse linux communities long enough, you eventually start seeing openbsd users who condescendingly speak about linux the same way some linux users speak about windows lol. It's turtles all the way down!

  • Have you heard about Blue Screen syndrome?

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  • One time an update broke audio, and I spent like 15 minutes digging around in pipewire logs and weird config parameters before I realized that I was literally just muted lol. Pulseaudio has irrevocably conditioned me to assume that whenever there is no audio, it must be some obscure bizzare weird issue instead of something simple

  • Have you heard about Blue Screen syndrome?

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  • btrfs subvolume snapshot / /snapshots/backup1 lol

    Won't save you from a bricked bootloader tho haha

  • Have you heard about Blue Screen syndrome?

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  • I'm a Linux user, and I have "X11 decides to lock up the entire system irrecoverably for no reason" syndrome. Should probably look into wayland...

  • Federated social media from before it was cool

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  • What on earth are you talking about?? Of course they don't have to compete. It's a meme. It's meant to be funny, not accurate. What does my ego have to do with anything?

  • Federated social media from before it was cool

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  • I really wish email had a built-in aliases feature. Like, so you can create unlimited new addresses that just point to your normal inbox. That would help so much with spam, since you could just block individual aliases. I know some email providers have this feature, but usually it's paid. Plus Addressing is also nice, but it does nothing to hide your "real" address. Also I'm disappointed that end-to-end encrypted email is basically never used by normal people.

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  • Fake, they're government surveillance robots /j

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  • When I hear "AI", I think of that thing that proofreads my emails and writes boilerplate code. Just a useful tool among a long list of others. Why would I spend emotional effort hating it? I think people who "hate" AI are just as annoying as the people pushing it as the solution to all our problems.

  • This is a thought experiment "Ball on a Table" for detecting whether someone has Aphantasia. What do you see when you perform this experiment?

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    • What happens to the ball? It rolls of the side of the table.
    • Color: I didn't imagine a specific color
    • Gender: I didn't imagine a specific gender. Most of the person was "out of the frame"
    • What did they look like: Again, most of the person was out of the frame, they were just kind of a gray silhouette
    • What size was the ball? Like a dodgeball I guess?
    • What about the table? Very minimalist square table made up of five rectangular prisms (the surface and four legs). No specific material, uniform texture. I imagined everything in isometric perspective.

    This is what I recall from my first time imagining the scenario, I'd have to imagine some more if I wanted to give specific answers.

    With all due respect, I don't believe aphantasia is a real thing. The way people imagine things is so varied, weird, strange, and unique that I don't think it makes sense assigning labels. Different people will give varying levels of detail to different parts of their imagination based on their past experiences and knowledge.If you ask someone to imagine a chessboard, someone who plays chess might imagine a specific opening or valid board state, while someone who doesn't might just have a vague blob of chess pieces on a board.

    Even with your ball on a table experiment, the experiences people have had throughout the day may give more or less detail to the imagined scenario. I'm fairly certain that the reason I imagined everything so abstractly is because recently I found an artwork with a similar minimalist isometric style that I liked a lot, so it's kind of floating around in my subconsciousness and affecting how I imagine things.

  • Tantacrul mentions onboarding problems with average people learning to switch to the fediverse as an alternative to Facebook

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  • Fediverse will never EVER hit critical mass unless the users and mods stop calling everyone they don’t agree with a Nazi.

    TBH this is to be expected from a demographic made up largely of ex-reddit users

  • Tantacrul mentions onboarding problems with average people learning to switch to the fediverse as an alternative to Facebook

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  • I've watched the whole video through, and honestly that felt like an underbaked take. People will have difficulty understanding federation? Seriously!? Surprise surprise, but if you know what email is, you already understand federation.

  • 50% survival rate

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  • 50% survival rate

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  • Yay!

  • The Disappearance of an Internet Domain

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  • Tangentially related, but I love how http://ai is an actual website that you can visit. We're so used to thinking of websites as <something>.<tld> that it's really weird to see a website hosted directly on a top level domain with no subdomain.

  • 50% survival rate

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  • So...

    • normal people are scared because they fall for the gambler's fallacy,
    • mathematician is feeling fine because a 50% chance is a 50% chance,
    • and the scientist is feeling extra fine because the experimental data shows that the surgery is actually safer than 50%

    Did I get it right?