catch22

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[–] catch22@programming.dev 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Cool! Interesting, I thought True North meant that they somehow pointed north given another reference. Thanks for the info.

 

Any ideas?

[–] catch22@programming.dev 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

By far one of the most interesting articles I've seen on Lemmy so far, thanks for the link

[–] catch22@programming.dev -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I lived in peace and humanity first Berkeley, Ca for 10 years a bastion of liberalism taken to the extreme. For 10 years I voted repeatedly in local elections for more affordable housing and zoning changes to make it easier to develop taller buildings and rezone areas for housing development. In the time I was there I think I can count on 1 hand the number of apartment and housing developments I saw being erected. Every damn election people voted against zoning changes and shot them down. We eventually had kids and guess what, there was no place for us to raise a family. So we moved out of state. Californians have nobody but themselves to blame for the homelessness problem the NIMBYism there is to the stratosphere. They shit talk about places like Texas, but guess what? At least there people have a place to live, which is more than I can say for the majority of cities in California.

[–] catch22@programming.dev -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They provide services to ALL people. So tired of reading that only the poor use the library. My kids are always begging to be taken there to get books and do activities. We just used the color printer/copier at ours the other day and the first 3 copies were free. Libraries are an amazing community resource for EVERYONE.

[–] catch22@programming.dev 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I wonder how many trillions of lost dollars and lives being lost it will take before critical software like this is held to a higher standard. Between airliners crashing and financial and public infrastructure being taken down by security flaws and easily found bugs even though it's just as important as the development team that writes the code, QA and a software dev process is still treated as unimportant and something you do only if you have the time to do it.

[–] catch22@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Any "Gaming" headphones they are all such trash. Buy a nice pair of headphones with a quality metal headband and get an audio cable with a built in mic.

[–] catch22@programming.dev 0 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Interesting how ARPA net (the internet) was build to with stand these issues, but companies like Microsoft and Amazon (and no regulation) have completely reversed it's original intent. I actually didn't even notice this since I use Lemmy, and have my own internal network running home assistant, synology, emby, ect...

[–] catch22@programming.dev 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Interesting, thanks for sharing. I didn't know these even existed. My old roommate's routine was to roast a single cup of coffee beans in a small steel pan on our stove every time he made a cup each day. It seemed like a lot of work, but he always said it was totally worth it.

[–] catch22@programming.dev 0 points 3 months ago

Michaels uttered perhaps the most famous six words in the history of sports broadcasting at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics after the U.S. hockey team triumphed over the Soviet Union in a stunning upset: "Do you believe in miracles? Yes!"

It's tragic that the humanity of these types of things that are understood by humans will be lost in AI.

[–] catch22@programming.dev 0 points 3 months ago (4 children)

People will find a way to get around it, I could see buffering a video for 5 mins or even downloading the entire video ala locally playing podcasts, then using AI or some type of frame analyzation technique t to skip ads. Or just skip them like good old fashion Tivo from your player.

 

I grab a cup coffee from a shop and it's ruined because the barista is wearing cologne or perfume that inevitably has gotten on the cup and it's all I can smell when I take a sip. I guess 2 things, this means 1 they haven't thoroughly washed their hands, and 2 I can't drink the coffee because it smells so bad and I have to throw it out. Not sure why, but I haven't had this happen with any other type of food/drink, just coffee.

 

Wow it finally happened. So glad I switched to steam running on linux mint last week. I refused to install helldivers because it wanted to install some no holds barred god level permissions anti-cheat software. Windows 11 was the last straw for me. Good times..

The volunteers at the Anti-Cheat Police Department have since issued a PSA announcing, "There is currently an RCE exploit being abused in [Apex Legends]" and that it could be delivered via from the game itself, or its anti-cheat protection. "I would advise against playing any games protected by EAC or any EA titles", they went on to say.

As for players of the tournament, they strongly recommended taking protective measures. "It is advisable that you change your Discord passwords and ensure that your emails are secure. also enable MFA for all your accounts if you have not done it yet", they said, "perform a clean OS reinstall as soon as possible. Do not take any chances with your personal information, your PC may have been exposed to a rootkit or other malicious software that could cause further damage."

 

Microsoft, doing it's part to make the world a better place.

 

After repeated data breaches that no company really seems to give a s--- about my phone is blowing up with literally hundreds of spam calls and texts month. I get and make MAAAAYBE 2 or 3 important calls per month, 180-200 of the rest are literally all spam. Anyone have any suggestions, apps ect that they have found refuge with? I really don't use SMS that much either, mostly it's via signal, discord whats app, ect...

Just to put it out there I run CalyxOS on a Pixel 5a.

 

I love my new Rocket Milano, but it buzzes like craaaAAzy when making a shot. I understand the pump buzzes, but it also sounds like there is bare metal hitting metal inside, like a metal tube is rattling against the metal case. Is this normal?

 

It used to be that you would do a search on a relevant subject and get blog posts, forums posts, and maybe a couple of relevant companies offering the product or service. (And if you wanted more information on said company you could give them a call and actually talk to a real person about said service) You could even trust amazon and yelp reviews. Now searches have been completely taken over by Forbes top 10 lists, random affiliate link click through aggregators that copy and paste each others work, review factories that will kill your competitors and boost your product stars, ect.... It seems like the internet has gotten soooo much harder to use, just because you have to wade through all the bullshit. It's no wonder people switch to reddit and lemmy style sites, in a way it mirrors a little what kind of information you used to be able to garner from the internet in it's early days. What do people do these days to find genuine information about products or services?

 

I bought a refillable spray bottle designed for cooking oils. Unfortunately the oils I have tried don't compare to the ones in the cans (PAM cooking spray with lecithin) Can anyone suggest a good refillable substitute for PAM? Anyone tried mixing up their own lecithin laced cooking oils?

 

Anyone tried this new grind by weight grinder from Eureka? Thoughts?

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