soylentcola

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by soylentcola 8d ago
Surprised it hasn't been closed already. Sometime back before I left entirely in 2017, I tried making an account that wasn't tied to my real name, email, phone number, etc. and after a few days they asked for proof of ID because
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by soylentcola 3mo ago
Yeeeap. Was thinking about that and the Matrix mostly.
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by soylentcola 3mo ago
Not sure it's possible to say this without being pithy, but haven't there been stories told, perhaps TV episodes and films made, regarding the concept of using human bodies to generate power in support of machine intelligence? See
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by soylentcola 1y ago
I always wondered if "Lightspeed Briefs" was a pun on the "FTL" abbreviation that Fruit of the Loom used at the time (no idea if they still do).
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by soylentcola 1y ago
Good thing that could never be used as a "death ray".
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by soylentcola 1y ago
> shoot in whatever orientation fits the content or situation best. I'm with you there. It's the same for shooting still photos. ...but that doesn't stop people from shooting portrait video and then constantly panning bac
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by soylentcola 1y ago
And then (at least around here) they often make you scan a QR code in order to see the menu. It's often not a direct link to the menu, but rather a third party site or a link shortener that tracks traffic for marketing data.
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by soylentcola 1y ago
Oh yeah, it was awful by then. At my store you made essentially minimum wage plus a sort of commission for addons/upsales (as long as they were over a certain percentage of your total sales) and flat bonuses for new cell contracts, ph
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by soylentcola 1y ago
Can confirm. Finally got the GPU for my new PC in 2020 by (first) showing up at Microcenter on days when deliveries were expected, then eventually joining a discord where people posted daily updates when stock actually showed up (once I go
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by soylentcola 2y ago
The person in question published it openly on the internet (Twitter). Not gonna bother digging up the proof again because it's been widely reported and not denied - just minimized as some cheeky edgelord humor.
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by soylentcola 2y ago
Not to be too pedantic, but aren't those typically being purchased under some other license that doesn't apply to you (bulk, oem, cheaper country, etc) and then resold in violation of the licensing terms? And that's when they
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by soylentcola 2y ago
And (sadly in my case) Paypal. In 2020/21 I was working from home like many people. I'd been lucky enough to get an RTX3080 for my new computer build and decided to experiment with mining ETH during downtime - it was winter and t
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by soylentcola 2y ago
I disable them with a browser addon (and Revanced on mobile) because I seriously never want to watch a 30 second video on Youtube. Having to scroll past useless snippets when I'm looking for something had borderline-ruined Youtube for
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by soylentcola 2y ago
As much as I would love this (not interested in a portable game console, but definitely interested in a new top-of-line set-top-box) I can't imagine this is what's been holding nVidia back on a Shield refresh. If anything, the Swi
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by soylentcola 2y ago
Maybe it was all the people who'd followed the same navigation.
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by soylentcola 2y ago
I've got far from perfect pitch, but I can relate. In high school (mid 90's) I took up guitar and figured out that I could use (the memory of) the intro to "November Rain" by Guns N' Roses as a way to mentally get
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by soylentcola 2y ago
* until you zoom in or look at it on a screen larger than you'd hold in your hand. Seriously, even on a modern Pixel (mine) and iPhone (gf's), I'm often disappointed in the level of detail you find once you want to crop an im
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by soylentcola 2y ago
I'm a little surprised that with the current state of electronics and machine learning there hasn't been (as far as I'm aware) a resurgence of similar toy robots - a sort of updated Omnibot as it were. I remember wanting one
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by soylentcola 2y ago
Users of what, I wonder? That said, I've no idea where the numbers come from, but it covers some of the possibilities. I'm usually mixed. I pay for access to some things. I download copies of some things without paying for them.
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by soylentcola 2y ago
To be fair, regional burns are basically Burning Man without the techbro yuppie contingent. A lot more randos, hippies, and weirdos. More like summer camp for grownups than a place to show off on IG or whatever people use these days. *(
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by soylentcola 2y ago
Really? I get annoyed because after 4 or 5 decent picks based on whatever song I start with, it inevitably shifts to the most well-known, overplayed singles by any related band.
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by soylentcola 2y ago
Yeah...but when I started playing with Rebirth (software) in the late 90s, I remember recreating that song as I learned how to sequence drums, bass, and lead synths. It's definitely a corny song, but I needed to branch out from recrea
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by soylentcola 2y ago
On the Xmas theme - "Little Saint Nick". That one always gets me. It's the repetitive, bored-sounding "Christmas comes this time each year..." Like, no shit! That's how holidays work.
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by soylentcola 2y ago
Mostly. But they're also doing it as a gag, so you're expected to understand the joke is two ostensible "losers" claiming rock greatness (and doing it with a capable example of the stereotypical bombast you'd expec
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by soylentcola 2y ago
The lyrics are cheesy, but I find the music, harmonies/performance to be just fine. Wouldn't be the first decent song with crap lyrics.
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by soylentcola 2y ago
I was "Lucky" to hear him join Radiohead on stage to sing one of their songs back in 98 (iirc).
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by soylentcola 2y ago
> I couldn't get into Nickelback personally because they came in on a wave of similar music that I was generally over by the time they got big. I feel like that's often part of it. Something that represents peak (whatever) in
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by soylentcola 2y ago
I believe you are thinking of Flipboard (still around, but a bit different nowadays).
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by soylentcola 2y ago
Whoa, thanks for the rec. Really digging it.
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by soylentcola 2y ago
And Barkeeper's Friend makes it easy to polish up stainless if you like it to look fresh. I find it's mostly cosmetic, but I still do it a few times a year.

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