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TheRealKuni

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TheRealKuni ,

It happens here, too. Like this shill post about the Scrub Daddy, where the comments are highly suspicious.

TheRealKuni ,

Because they have a creative marketing department who knows the cheapest ways to market things are to make it look like it isn’t marketing.

TheRealKuni ,

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and I know mine is unpopular, but I’ve really been enjoying Diablo IV. Especially seasons 2 and 3, the game has improved a lot since launch.

(But I’m in no way trying to tell anyone else they should like it. A lot of people seem to despise it, so I have a hard time recommending it. But I’ve had a fun time with it. It’s a great podcast or audiobook companion when I’m not pushing myself, and it can be rewardingly challenging when I do decide to push myself.)

TheRealKuni ,

Linux anyone ?

I don’t want to sound dismissive, this is a genuine question and not an attack on Linux.

Other than security by obscurity, how is it possible that an operating system whose entire source code is available to hackers to peruse at will could be more secure than a closed source one?

TheRealKuni ,

proggrammers

Also spelling, grammer [sic] etc.

There is a great t-shirt that says:

I’m a programar
I’m a programmar
I’m a programer
I write code

I love this shirt. So many programmers are awful at spelling. I do not, personally, suffer this malady, so I don’t own the shirt, but I still love it.

[OC] Anyone else insist on using the generic name for all meds? (lemmy.world)

Image: 4 panels organized in a rectangle following a sequential order like a comic strip. The first panel is of a man with a very serious face stating, "Hey man, got any diphenhydramine?" The second panel is a grainy picture of the actor Robert Downey Jr. with a slightly inquisitive face and saying, "What's that?" The third...

TheRealKuni ,

I’m a Fexofenadine Hydrochloride man myself, but I respect any second generation antihistamines and beyond.

(Actually, depending on whom you ask, Cetirizine is sometimes categorized as second generation despite its late arrival. Not sure why.)

TheRealKuni ,

There’s good reason to be snobby about antihistamines. Second and third generation antihistamines are straight-up better than first generation. No drowsiness and they last longer.

Diphenhydramine, for example, is pretty terrible. The FAA doesn’t let pilots fly for 60 HOURS after taking diphenhydramine because of how impairing it can be without the user realizing. Extended use of anticholinergics has also been linked to dementia, IIRC.

TheRealKuni ,

Standard Tylenol and standard Panadol are different dosages too. Regular strength Tylenol is 325mg, standard Panadol (and every other paracetamol brand I've seen for adults) is 500mg, which is the "extra strength" of Tylenol.

We have enough liver problems in the US without pushing more acetaminophen/paracetamol on people. 😅

TheRealKuni ,

I particularly like knowing acetylsalicylic acid because knowing that name helps you understand why really old bottles of Aspirin smell like vinegar: the acetic acid and the salicylic acid have begun to separate, and acetic acid is the active ingredient in vinegar!

TheRealKuni ,

Advil (without pseudoephedrine)

Yeah, that Advil Cold & Sinus is worth putting your name on a list for. Not sure whether I should be more angry at the DEA or the meth heads for it being behind the counter.

Benadryl

I would avoid diphenhydramine, personally. Second and third generation antihistamines like Loratadine (Claritin), Cetirizine (Zyrtec), Fexofenadine (Allegra), and others are much better for you. Non-drowsy, last longer, and aren’t linked to dementia.

TheRealKuni ,

I think they’re more a lesson in marketing than anything else. The scrubs themselves fall apart, clog drains, and contribute to the proliferation of microplastics.

TheRealKuni ,

You can get an adapter that makes wired Android Auto or Apple CarPlay wireless. I bought one off AliExpress for like $30 and it works great.

TheRealKuni ,

I installed Times New Roman on my Kindle. It’s just so easy to read over long periods of time.

TheRealKuni ,

My guess is that this is from the era around 2008-2010 where everyone was making “there’s an app for that” jokes.

TheRealKuni ,

And anyone who primarily uses iPhone would feel the same on an Android device.

They operate differently. That doesn’t make one better or worse. It’s like Photoshop and GIMP, once you know how to use one, using the other is unintuitive.

(I say this as someone who used Android phones for over a decade—and loved them!—and an iPhone for two years now.)

Using an iPhone for work, but returning to your Android phone for personal use, means you are never forced to relearn. Instead the iPhone just frustrates you. My first few days/weeks with the iPhone were constant frustration as I had to relearn how to think about the little things that had become so automatic about how I used my phone. But once I got the hang of it I actually quite like it.

I think the same would be true in the reverse.

It’s No Surprise That “Skills-Based” Hiring Has Not Worked (www-forbes-com.cdn.ampproject.org)

This article outlines an opinion that organizations either tried skills based hiring and reverted to degree required hiring because it was warranted, or they didn't adapt their process in spite of executive vision....

TheRealKuni ,

This would make getting a job out of college SO MUCH HARDER. Companies would do everything the could to get existing employees in the workforce, for whom someone else has already paid off their loan.

Much like cell phone carriers locking you into a contract, companies would try to force you to work for them for X number of years because they paid your loans. I suppose this could work similar to vesting, so it wouldn’t be impossible. But companies would still try very hard not to hire anyone with student loans. It would just benefit the wealthy people who don’t need them.

You Don’t Need to Use Airplane Mode on Airplanes | Airplane mode hasn't been necessary for nearly 20 years, but the myth persists. (gizmodo.com)

You Don’t Need to Use Airplane Mode on Airplanes | Airplane mode hasn't been necessary for nearly 20 years, but the myth persists.::Airplane mode hasn't been necessary for nearly 20 years, but the myth persists.

TheRealKuni ,

I use it ho properly disconnect from mobile network, if something not working with it on iPhone, disabling and enable mobile network did not do the trick, don’t know exactly why.

Because the cellular tower icon disables mobile data, but not the radios. You can tell because when you turn it off you’ll still see bars (if, you know, the radio is working).

Airplane mode on iOS disables cellular radios, but leaves WiFi and Bluetooth on. Your phone will sit there blazing (figuratively) as bright as the sun in its cellular radio spectrums trying to hit a tower when you’re 35,000 feet up, eating up your battery and potentially fucking with cell towers as you fly overhead, where WiFi and Bluetooth won’t. It also prevents potential interference from the 2G radio with the ILS the plane uses for landing (as I saw elsewhere from a pilot).

TheRealKuni ,

Mostly I’m just paying to not have to learn GIMP. 😅

TheRealKuni ,

Japan’s lander met all of their own internal criteria for being considered a success. And I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s at least partially true for this lander as well. This thing was absurdly inexpensive relative to previous projects, IIRC.

TheRealKuni ,

Sure. Calling the Japanese lander a failure and this one a success would be hypocrisy. I think both should be called successes, to some degree of the word success.

TheRealKuni ,

In iOS, the cell-tower-looking button is for data, it doesn’t disable all of your cellular radios. If you hold down the button in Control Center so it pops up the larger version with descriptions, you’ll see that it says “Cellular Data.”

The Airplane Mode button disables your cellular radios but leaves WiFi and Bluetooth enabled. This is what you want for airplanes. Hence the name “Airplane Mode.”

It’s been a couple years since I had an Android phone (rest in peace, OnePlus 7T Pro 5G, you were too good for this world) but I think to accomplish the same I had to enable airplane mode and then re-enable WiFi and Bluetooth, but I could be mistaken.

TheRealKuni ,

Yeah, I know the other tricks like running warm water or tapping the edge, and those are fine. But honestly use your arm instead of your wrist and most jars pop open. Torque that thing!

TheRealKuni ,

The thing is essentially a public dev kit. If you aren’t stupid rich and you can’t write it off on your taxes for business, it’s not worth picking up yet. And Apple knows that.

Give the tech time to mature. There were people who talked shit about the iPhone when it came out, and now we ALL use smartphones. I genuinely think AR (in a different form factor) will be a big deal. Possibly the thing to unseat smartphones, if manufacturers can start nailing transparent screens. But admittedly there are a few leaps in technology that will need to happen first.

Passenger sees Boeing 757-200 “wing coming apart” mid-air — United flight from San Francisco to Boston makes emergency landing in Denver (www.cbsnews.com)

Passenger sees Boeing 757-200 “wing coming apart” mid-air — United flight from San Francisco to Boston makes emergency landing in Denver::A United Airlines flight to Boston was diverted to Denver because of an issue with the plane's wing.

TheRealKuni ,

This is the plane, I believe. 29 years old.

TheRealKuni ,

This occurred on a 29 year old plane. This is almost certainly just a one-off issue. Unless it starts happening frequently with other 757s, it’s nothing to be overly concerned about. And in that case, the NTSB would figure out why it’s happening and issue a directive.

Planes are designed on a “Swiss cheese” model. Swiss cheese (as Americans call any variety resembling Emmental) is full of holes, but you can’t usually see all the way through a block of it. On a plane, something might fail and you can’t always prevent that, but you can make sure that there is enough redundancy that if something does go wrong you’re still covered. For something to cause a plane to crash, the “holes” have to line up so something could pass all the way through the “cheese.”

TheRealKuni ,

This particular plane is 29 years old.

That said, commercial airliners can go for decades just fine as long as they are maintained properly. Newer planes will be more efficient and have some newer features, but a tried-and-true airframe that has been well maintained is worth keeping around.

TheRealKuni ,

This "one-off" issue was spotted on dozens of 737s.

This issue with a damaged wing slat on this particular 29-year-old 757 was spotted on dozens of 737s? Do you have a source for that?

Unless you’re confusing this with the 737 MAX 9 door plug issue. That is not a one-off, that is a manufacturing/assembly issue. And that’s my point. The door plug situation is a systemic problem on many brand new planes, whereas this story is about a relatively small issue on a 29-year-old plane.

Something being damaged on a 757 shouldn’t shake people’s confidence in Boeing. Shit going wrong in the design and manufacturing of the 737 MAX series should.

TheRealKuni ,

Then he died an avoidable death because he refused to wear the HANS device, which was optional at the time, and which likely would’ve saved his life in his fatal crash.

TheRealKuni ,

What do you mean?

TheRealKuni ,

I wasn’t trying to say you were wrong…I legitimately don’t know what you’re trying to say.

TheRealKuni ,

God of War Ragnarök and Spider-Man 2 were phenomenal.

TheRealKuni ,

The Big Bang Theory is the nerd version of minstrel shows.

TheRealKuni ,

Car exhaust is so much worse for you than vaping. Much less second hand vaping.

TheRealKuni ,

“Long distance is the wrong distance!”

-Liz Lemon, relationship expert

Across America, clean energy plants are being banned faster than they're being built (www.usatoday.com)

Across America, clean energy plants are being banned faster than they're being built::The clock is ticking toward a deadline to meet renewable-energy standards. But USA TODAY's analysis finds local governments banning wind turbines, solar plants.

TheRealKuni ,

I used to think this, then my sister moved out to the country. The farmers and others who live out there bitch and bitch and bitch about the windmills because they look ugly, and all blink red lights synchronously at night and it’s creepy.

I think they just don’t like change, which is why they live in the middle of nowhere. I’m also fully in favor of windmills despite hearing their frustrations, I don’t have to live out there. They’ve never bothered me when I visit though.

But for farmers who don’t graze their animals near the windmills but instead plant crops, the lease doesn’t always cover the loss of cropland apparently. Because they can’t plant within a radius of the thing.

Making a PDF that’s larger than Germany (alexwlchan.net)

Some version of this has been floating around the Internet since 2007, probably earlier. This tweet is pretty emblematic of posts about this claim: it’s stated as pure fact, with no supporting evidence or explanation. We’re meant to just accept that a single PDF can only cover about half the area of Germany, and we’re not...

TheRealKuni ,

This is delightful.

TheRealKuni ,

My gut bacteria runs Doom at a smooth 60 fps

I’m not sure I want to know what the ‘f’ stands for here.

Microsoft is getting rid of WordPad after 28 years – the veteran editor has been present in the OS since Windows 95 (gadgettendency.com)

Microsoft is getting rid of WordPad after 28 years – the veteran editor has been present in the OS since Windows 95::Microsoft has begun getting rid of another veteran application in its proprietary operating system. The company has released a new test build of Windows 11

TheRealKuni ,

Emacs is a fine operating system, lacking only a good text editor.

Edit: For the record, I code in emacs every day at work. (Please send help.)

TheRealKuni ,

Eh, I’ve got so many keybindings and scripts and changes already and I actually quite like my setup. Not looking to learn vim keybindings beyond the ones I know (essentially how to close vim 😁).

TheRealKuni ,

Why Vivaldi will never create ThinkCoin

Because he’s been dead since 1741.

TheRealKuni ,

That’s a shame. I really liked my Fossil before I switched to the Apple Watch. It did a fantastic job of looking like a normal watch while still being a decent smartwatch.

TheRealKuni ,

I agree. I’ve gotten used to it, and I can understand its usefulness for ease of app development and density of data. But I miss having a circular watchface.

TheRealKuni ,

That's precisely why they designed it this way.

What? Can you explain what you mean here or is this just Apple hate?

I find it hard to believe that any company, much less one with such a high reputation for aesthetic, would design something specifically to irk people.

I think it was designed rectangular because it’s easier for smartphone app developers to make watch versions of their apps, easier to display data, and generally fits with the look of the rest of their rounded rectangular products.

As a watch it isn’t as visually appealing, but as a device it’s (arguably) more useful.

TheRealKuni ,

Ah! That makes sense, thank you

TheRealKuni ,

You can hardly consider it compression when you need a compute expensive model with hundreds of gigabytes (if not bigger) to accurately rehydrate it

You can run Stable Diffusion with custom models, variational auto encoders, LoRAs, etc, on an iPhone from 2018. I don’t know what the NYTimes used, but AI image generation is surprisingly cheap once the hard work of creating the models is done. Most SD1.5 model checkpoints are around 2GB in size.

Edit: But yes, the idea of using this as image compression is absurd.

TheRealKuni ,

Game Pass kicks ass. I don’t mind not owning a good chunk of the games on there, and the ones I decide to buy I get a discount on. And first party titles are on there day 1.

I understand some of the concern, but for me Game Pass makes an enormous amount of sense.

TheRealKuni ,

The A320neo and the Boeing 737 Max use larger turbofans for increasingly higher efficiency gains. These larger engines would be scraping on the ground with the original 737 design, which is why the engines had to be mounted further forward and higher on the wings. This is what changes the flight characteristics, leading Boeing to develop the MCAS system to make the plane fly like the older 737s, which famously led to two crashed planes when it malfunctioned.

The Airbus A320neo did not run into this problem because the landing gear for the A320 are longer and it sits much higher off the ground, so throwing on the larger turbofans still left them with plenty of ground clearance.

TheRealKuni ,

Thanks for reading it! 😄

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