distract8901

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by distract8901 3y ago
I think you're looking at it backwards. The problem is people with authority who think that it makes them better than you. The autistic person rejects that idea completely. You seem to be arguing that autistic people also reject the id
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by distract8901 3y ago
> I think what I’m getting from this conversation is part of what’s being expressed here is a lack of awareness of social danger You're confusing "being aware of" and "caring about". Autistic people are acutely
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by distract8901 3y ago
Why are you so unwilling to accept the extensively documented phenomenon of an autistic person being more intelligent than average? Some autistic people are genuinely ahead of the curve. Some individuals develop extreme talent/intell
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by distract8901 3y ago
Yup, the "because I said so" type really isn't worth respect in the first place. Authority figures are fine when they act with reason and respect. When they don't, that's when we have a problem. I will never underst
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by distract8901 3y ago
What part of their comment is disagreeable?
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by distract8901 3y ago
Bluetooth link negotiation happens in a few dozens of milliseconds. Any perceptible delay is down to the host operating system setting up audio drivers. The headset can't know what the host is doing or even that there is a delay.
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by distract8901 3y ago
MP3 decoding is just math. If you have enough CPU to decode a compressed audio stream, it doesn't cost anything to also have it decode MP3. Sure, you could store those clips in a more appropriate codec, but what do you gain? It'
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by distract8901 3y ago
This is the precise reason I prefer embedded development. The challenge of fitting my entire application into a handful of kilobytes with just a KB or two of RAM is a lot of fun. I get to build a program that runs really fast on a very sl
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by distract8901 3y ago
I recently switched to a local pharmacy after getting berated by a CVS pharmacist for standing in the "wrong" line. CVS in general has been absolutely awful in the last few years. What really turned me against them was "CVS
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by distract8901 3y ago
Slightly OT, but what the hell is going on with these massive persistent popups on every website imploring me to sign in with my google account lately? After the first dozen I just added a uBlock filter for it, but it's ridiculous now.
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by distract8901 3y ago
"Have you tried SCF /scannow?"
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by distract8901 3y ago
It's only a matter of time before the conglomeration of ancient software slowly having complexity bolted on becomes self-aware and helps plot the overthrow of the lunar government
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by distract8901 3y ago
My bet is that btrfs will replace ext4 in the nearish future. It's the default for Arch, which also comes default with filesystem snapshots before any system updates. It's pretty nice. I think it also supports some flavor of volum
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by distract8901 3y ago
People always seem shocked to learn that capitalism is completely and absolutely indifferent to morals, ethics, or human life
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by distract8901 3y ago
The more correct analogy is advertising heavily to kids that you give out free candy, and then give them so much they get sick. Parents can't surveil kids 24/7. It simply isn't possible. You have to have some trust that your
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by distract8901 3y ago
GitHub has started showing me a persistent login pop-out on certain pages. Literally no way to dismiss it, so I just uBlocked the element. I don't really want to log in to GitHub in the first place. If I'm there its to check out a
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by distract8901 3y ago
Don't forget YouTube shorts! Google will absolutely never let you forget.
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by distract8901 3y ago
Fun fact! Your local instance creates a shadow account for remote users, which has a unique ID and a copy of the profile data, but is otherwise empty. I haven't seen this documented anywhere and it cost me about a day of effort when I
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by distract8901 3y ago
Basically, you can have your server follow another instance as if it were a user account. Assuming the remote instance allows follows, their local feed gets duplicated to your federated feed. If they allow mirroring, you can configure the s
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by distract8901 3y ago
I was at the company for three or four years. It was fine working as a floor level employee, and my last manager encouraged me and gave me a lot of freedom to do what I wanted because I really did boost sales. I only took the assistant mana
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by distract8901 3y ago
Pretty much. I took the retail job because I couldn't find a programming job. Before that I was a video game programmer. I actually got hired here as a mid level unity programmer, but it quickly became clear that my other skills were m
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by distract8901 3y ago
No, it's pretty much "hold my beer, I got this" billions of times until something works. Evolution isn't organized or eloquent. It's messy and random and non-optimized. Evolution results in many individuals who are
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by distract8901 3y ago
My last job was a corporate hellscape. I worked really hard to move up to assistant manager, then corporate put me in a failing store on the other side of the state and just left me to rot. I had zero employees, just me and the manager. W
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by distract8901 3y ago
I wouldn't be so sure the flag is actually false. Samsung has been getting increasingly scummy with their software. I wouldn't be surprised if they rolled some malware into one of their apps.
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by distract8901 3y ago
They absolutely, definitely are not anonymizing your data. They may be "anonymizing" it, but there is exactly zero chance that they aren't linking it to you in some other way. Google does not give out free lunches. You are a
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by distract8901 3y ago
I've been using PeerTube recently. After spending a ridiculous amount of effort, I have a server that pulls down indexes from other servers and mirrors content both for me locally and to share bandwidth with other users. As absolutely
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by distract8901 3y ago
I can't imagine that google hasn't thought about it. The sheer scale of the processing cost to do it is probably too high with as much video they serve.
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by distract8901 3y ago
Open source firmware for what though? I'm gonna assume this is PC firmware based on the list of players, but I haven't been able to find any conclusive information on the website. Super annoying when groups like this use an ext
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by distract8901 3y ago
Back in my day, a teapot in orbit around the sun was the best we had and we liked it
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by distract8901 3y ago
It's more than that. The story of the seven sisters is in many different cultures and the story is usually the same: seven sisters chased into the sky by a hunter. Most also have a story about the seventh sister leaving the sky or simp

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