Lmao at that subscription model they have. They offer 2 subscriptions for more than twice the price if a single one for “serious investors”.

Was it even that or just a hash of the url (or whatever text/data was being “confirmed”)?

I never liked steak. Growing up, my parents tended to overcook everything (not sure if deliberate, my dad always ordered his steak well done at restaurants), which made eating steak or pork chops an annoyingly chewy experience all for the reward of dry, bland meat.

Just a few months ago, I bought a striploin cut and decided to keep it simple and just die a fry/bake and got lucky and cooked it perfectly (I say got lucky because I had screwed up my plan but caught it at the perfect time and the next few attempts weren’t nearly as good because I didn’t screw up the flawed plan and inadvertently stop cooking it when it happened to be perfect). And now I get why some people are obsessed with steaks.

I still prefer burgers and generally meats that aren’t beef if I’m having meat, but every now and then I’ll try a steak. Though I got a mixer and grinder, so there’s a decent chance that the nice cut will get turned into a nice burger or meatballs, now that I have easy access to ground meat that isn’t just from scraps or cheap cuts and don’t have to hand mix it.

Yeah, it’s like the difference between sitting in a stopped car with all the doors open vs sitting in a moving car with the front driver and rear passenger windows open. The first one might feel cooler on a windy day, if the wind is blowing in the right direction, but the other will have consistent airflow from the outside through the car and back outside.

There is no right to be forgotten on the internet, especially on the fediverse. Anyone looking for data can just roll their own implementation that just marks “deleted” posts or comments as “potentially interesting” instead. If you don’t want anyone to see something you said, the only option that works is to not say it in the first place. This applies to the whole internet, just the fediverse is set up for it to be even easier to automatically archive it all.

Yeah iirc they engaged several fishing fleets in the Atlantic (or seas coming off the Atlantic), thinking they were Japanese torpedo boats, and at best tied because while they did sink/damage some of the fishing boats, they also damaged several of their own ships.

I wish their leader had realized that what he did wasn’t something you could just back down from and that his life was on the line either way.

The risk in this case is 1 in 25 from consuming up to 14 drinks per week.

There was another one a little while ago that said “even 1 drink a day isn’t safe!” … With a 1 in 1000 chance of dying to some alcohol related cause.

These never give any kind of timeline to the risk, too. Like is that a 1 in 25 chance of dying slightly sooner than normal but with alcohol related to that death or a 1 in 25 chance your life will be cut drastically short? My guess would be a mix.

Even with smoking, I remember seeing a stat of something like a 1 in 2 chance of developing a major smoking-related illness in your life. Which means half of smokers do it without any major consequence. Though I also think these studies miss something on the other side: everything adds up and if smoking makes your lungs slightly weaker, that could still be the difference between life and death if you end up with pneumonia or something that would have otherwise just brought you to the brink before recovery. Those 90 year old smokers are just lucky to avoid the major and minor issues.

Though there’s always a chance that smoking took the fall for the oil industry because car exhaust isn’t good to inhale either.

The people doing them accept the risks. This one is particularly stupid, as at least four people all failed to notice something very important, but the majority of people who do pointless dangerous shit survive it and go on to do other pointless dangerous shit because they enjoy it.

I’d like to see an end to people trying to control others to save them from their own choices. Everyone dies eventually and I won’t choose to live in a padded room to put that off slightly.

10 was the last one with a technical improvement (its kernel had a scheduler that was better at scheduling on modern processors where some cores share caches while others don’t). Though the anti-features meant it was a tradeoff vs 7 (and just ignore 8 entirely).

It was kinda funny because before I switched to linux and made the question moot, I kept searching for some technical reason, anything, to actually want to switch from 10 to 11. All I’d get were things that other desktops have been able to do for decades (virtual desktops, which I first saw in Litestep (I think?) back around 2003), or anti-features like recall and copilot integration.

Oh, that might have been plain old incompetence rather than deliberate evidence tampering if both sides agreed to the bits that incriminate their own side. Unless there was something more going on that the logs would have shown, like “damage detected while self-driving enabled, dispatching Tesla cleanup crew to take care of the witnesses”.

I imagine it more as a condescending IT guy who isn’t actually very good at his job and has secretly set up each machine to spy on the users (but again isn’t very good at what he does so it isn’t much of a secret).

Curious: what was the outcome of them being caught doing that?

Yeah, I like the version where he has a crush on Death and wants to impress her by killing half the people in the universe.

But I think they wanted to set up an infinity war where he deserved to win, which IMO he absolutely did. I was disliking it the first time I watched because I expected it to do the typical hero movie thing where the heroes pull off a win even after fumbling things as hard as they did in infinity war, but then he did the snap. Advantage of not paying attention to their plans, as I wasn’t aware that there was going to be a second part until I saw how that ended, so it was a surprise.

But all he really did was turn back the doom clock by one doubling period. You can’t stop exponential growth with a single cull, unless that cull is pretty much 100% (or leaves the remnants so scattered they age out of reproduction age before uniting).

Fucking autocorrect keeps turning itself back on after I disable it in my settings. It fucks up more than it helps and I can type fine, including correcting typos and if I miss one the I miss one.

Seems like a pretty risky lie as the car should have logs saying exactly what happened (at least to the level of detail of cruise control + accelerator vs self-driving).

Alcohol, too. While I do believe many/most did the whole “social life is at the bar” out of high school, I think millennials were the generation that started breaking the cycle more and started doing more things while drunk (like board game bars, video game bars, escape rooms, etc), and then transitioned to not getting as drunk so they could do the things better and not be as much of a burden on those around them who weren’t just trying to get wasted for the night.

Also more options that weren’t as destructive as alcohol for those that still wanted to get fucked up. And less judgement about those options.

My version of questioning this is if the same source is providing both the file and the hash, does it matter how hard it is to fake the hash? It could just generate a new hash for the fake file, couldn’t it?

Have you tried amphetamines?

They do have such a system. If you click your username on the top of your desktop client (I’m on the Linux client but believe the windows one also works like this), there should be an item “View my wallet”, this will take you to a page where you can add money to it.

Or if it only shows up for me because I have a balance (sold some steam cards), go to Steam -> Settings and there should be an “Add funds” button right below your profile pic in the Account tab.

They only seem to support specific values (mine does 5, 10, 25, 50, 100). Oh and there’s a link to redeem gift card codes; you might already use this page to get there if you use gift cards.