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sobchak

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  • People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads

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  • I have one of those echo ball looking things with a clock on it. I mostly just use it to play atmospheric noise and set alarms and as a clock. I do get ads sometimes. Sometimes I ask it to play something and it will ask me to subscribe to something. Sometimes it will notify me of a price drop on Amazon. I'll probably get rid of it soon. My life has just been hectic lately, and I haven't had the time to set something else up to replace it yet. Going to completely de-big-tech soon (I'm mostly there already); I don't trust them, with them being so close to this fascist admin. I think it's likely these will be used for state surveillance; some of big tech's products and services already are.

  • i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too

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  • Tbf, many are kinda disgusting to modern palettes. Lamb's quarter sucks compared to stuff like spinach, kale, or collards. Pokeweed needs extensive preparation to make it safe. Wood sorrel, horseherb, and prickly pear grows where I currently live, but I haven't tried them yet. My dog likes horseherb despite the little spines for some reason. My grandmother used to fry dandelions and plaintain which was pretty good.

  • Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble

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  • I don't know the answer, but during 2008 onwards (seems like the economy didn't fully recover until the end of Obama's presidency), every industry slowed down. Was hard for me to get a fast food job or consistent minimum wage assembly line work through temp agencies. Things can go into vicious positive feedback loops during downturns (investors afraid to invest due to bad economic outlook -> factories and such don't get built or expanded -> unemployment rises -> people spend less -> companies start laying off -> economic outlook worsens -> investors selling and moving to "safer' assets -> ...). The entire banking system pretty much imploded during 2008; I don't know how much exposure banks have to AI (commercial real estate is another thing to worry about though). With any luck the AI crash would be more like the dot-com crash, which mostly just hurt one industry (but I remember my father talking about factory layoffs during that too).

  • Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal

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  • The capitalist class loves the idea and rewards companies with investment money. They think it could be the ultimate tool to snuff out any power the working class still has; making many employees optional, total surveillance of the population, etc. I think it will be a long time until it can do many jobs, but the surveillance tech seems to be coming along pretty well (with "AI" cameras recording license plates and biometric identifiers being put up everywhere).

  • This isn't a bubble

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  • That's how I got a R9 290 for "cheap," and continued to use it for something like 10 years (replaced it just a couple years ago).

    The AI cards don't have video-out though :(

  • This isn't a bubble

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  • Do they actually use KW as a measure in these circumstances? Might as well add the equivalent to resistance heating strips in their chips.

  • wax on

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  • TIL beeswax is pretty cheap. I typically use shellac on stuff that is indoor and low wear, Looks like beeswax is cheaper and about as easy to apply.

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    What does it feel like to be a horny man?

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  • Yeah, I've felt my high libido or whatever to be somewhat of a curse sometimes. It's sometimes very distracting and hard to stop thinking about. It's also caused me to make a lot of poor decisions in my life. Thankfully, my libido has chilled out a bit as I've got older; used to be hard for no reason for about half the day when I was younger and had to masturbate before leaving my home for class/work just so I could focus better, lol.

  • Reddit is currently very mad at Hasan Piker because he seems to be abusing his dog

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  • I find it strange this story seems to be getting so much traction in the media. I first saw it on a Forbes article, and now PETA has made a statement.

    Idk if it was a shock collar, vibration collar, or if the dog got a claw stuck or whatever. In the clip, he does seem over-agitated in the moment, and possibly too strict/controlling/micromanaging of his dog (unless he just recently gave the dog a command to stay there before the clip started). But, that's not really strong evidence of a pattern of animal abuse. Neither is having a collar too tight one time.

    Some people think shock collars/e-collars are valid training tools. I don't, but it seems strange the media is giving so much attention to a couple of clips showing possible questionable dog training/care practices of a Twitch streamer.

  • Is it so hard to get Nvidia GPUs working with Linux?

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  • My main workstation runs Debian and has a 3090. No issues that I'm aware of. When I used to use Mint, I think I remember Mint having a GUI to easily select the Nvidia driver you want to use, so it was very easy. In Debian, you just have to run ~10 commands in shell to install the proprietary Nvidia driver. I have an older laptop with an Nvidia GPU too; that one is more annoying because I don't think any distro supports integrated/dedicated GPU auto-switching (I just have it set to use the Nvidia GPU all the time).

  • How exactly does one get better at programming?

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  • Working with/on things I found interesting helped a lot. I.e. lots of small projects/scripts, using different frameworks/libraries/languages that looked interesting. Experimenting and exploring different ways things could be done. Programming is one of those "10,000 hours" things; you need to be interested in what you're doing to do something like that for so long. Computer Science coursework helped a lot too, especially the courses heavy on algorithms, data structures, big-o, proofs, etc.

    In my CS coursework, we were exposed to many different languages and programming paradigms at the very beginning. It's fine to experiment and start learning multiple languages at once (preferably, all being quite different, such as a pure functional language, procedural language, object-oriented, declarative logic, etc).

  • Generative crash

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  • I think the profit motive is what's driving it in many cases. I.e. shareholders have interest in AI companies/products and are pressuring the other companies they have interest in to use the AI services; increasing their profit. Profit itself is inefficiency (i.e. in a perfect market, profit approaches zero).

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  • Good point. I remember a long time ago encountering a problem with Access shared over samba, because the system time of the "server" was off (bad mobo battery). I also found that the mechanical engineers were running Limewire on the server. (I was just working a summer job doing metal fab work, and they new I just started tech school for IT and asked me to look at it).

  • Cast iron rule

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  • I don't put mine in the dishwasher and I don't use soap when cleaning mine (cleans easy enough with hot water, dish rag, and sometimes steel wool), but I don't season either. I just use a refillable oil spray bottle.

  • Cast iron rule

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  • What they're talking about sounds like the pan I have. Bought it in the camping aisle, and it was much cheaper than the ones in the kitchen aisle. I haven't found the roughness to be much of an issue; I probably have to use more oil than I would otherwise. It has gotten smoother over many years of use.

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  • IDK know the answer, but I don't think I've ever seen an application that didn't work on a mounted share. Not sure an application can tell the difference. I see autofs comes with a "/etc/auto.smb" file on Debian, though I only use NFS on Linux, so I'm not sure on the exact details for setting it up.

  • Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one)

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  • Outside of the "stars" and directors, people working in the film/tv industry already have a fairly low income (median salary for professional actors is ~$47000/yr).

  • Why Is Python So Popular in 2025?

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  • I started using it as an alternative to Octave/Matlab and Perl. Python is better at general programming than Octave/Matlab, and better syntax than Perl (IMO) while being almost as easy to do the same stuff I was using Perl for. It's very good for quickly writing small scripts. Issues can arise on large projects/teams because of stuff like type safety, and it also has issues with performance.

  • How to manage docker compose apps?

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  • I think compose files are usually pinned to a version, or use a .env file that needs to be changed to update to a new version.

    I personally don't update very often; usually not until I'm forced to for some reason. I find that just checking the documentation for any upgrade/migration guides, and doing it manually is sufficient. I don't expose this kind of stuff publicly; if I did, I'd probably update regularly.