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Comment on I am a witch. Well, a well witcher... in ~talk
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Comment on America's never-ending battle against flesh-eating worms in ~science
Wolf_359 Link ParentWow that's actually pretty interesting by itself. America's relationship with South and Central America in general is fascinating. Unfortunately, a lot of the very real problems America faces with...Wow that's actually pretty interesting by itself.
America's relationship with South and Central America in general is fascinating. Unfortunately, a lot of the very real problems America faces with regard to our Southern neighbors (and the problems they face from neighboring us) are hard to talk about because of the all racism and hateful rhetoric surrounding our border and immigration policies.
I really like when we get a chance to just look at these things from a purely academic perspective. In this case, America seems to actually be helping them as well by trying to keep the screw worms and diseases in check.
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Comment on America's never-ending battle against flesh-eating worms in ~science
Wolf_359 Link ParentI don't subscribe to the Atlantic myself, but I have always been pretty blown away by their long-form content when I encounter it. As I type this, I'm wondering if I should make them a regular...I don't subscribe to the Atlantic myself, but I have always been pretty blown away by their long-form content when I encounter it.
As I type this, I'm wondering if I should make them a regular part of my media diet. I think the best article I've ever read in my life might be the article they published on Malaysia Airline's missing MH370.
Apparently it came out in 2019 and it's an article I still think about from time to time 5 years later.
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America's never-ending battle against flesh-eating worms
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Comment on Kendrick Lamar - Meet the Grahams (2024) in ~music
Wolf_359 (edited )Link ParentI'm not sure what option he was left with here. Prior to denying the allegations about underage girls, everyone was saying that he wasn't denying it. Now that he's denied it, everyone is saying...I'm not sure what option he was left with here.
Prior to denying the allegations about underage girls, everyone was saying that he wasn't denying it.
Now that he's denied it, everyone is saying he's playing defense and making fun of him.
I personally enjoy the music of both artists. If there is any merit to the fact that Drake has been inappropriate to young girls, or that Kendrick is a domestic abuser, then I guess that changes the equation. Right now there is a lot of mudslinging based on no actual proof.
Makes for some very solid entertainment though and I genuinely think every song in this battle has been pretty incredible so far. Different people hate Drake for various reasons, most of them unfair, but I think he's held his own. Family matters was great and the fact that the music video shows him crushing the iconic GKMC Van from Kendricks album cover was pretty vicious even though most people haven't really noticed.
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Comment on Can old, poorly wired electrical outlets cause a PC to freeze? in ~tech
Wolf_359 Link ParentI'm not really worried about the PSU as much I think. It's brand new, reputable brand, way more than this PC will need. And again, I put this pc through the ringer for many hours at my house with...I'm not really worried about the PSU as much I think.
It's brand new, reputable brand, way more than this PC will need. And again, I put this pc through the ringer for many hours at my house with no issues.
But I will keep your comment in mind. I removed Microsoft's child controls on a clean windows install and sent her home with it. Told her to plug it in elsewhere until she gets her wiring fixed. Told her to let me know if it freezes again and to shut it down ASAP if it does.
I will start looking at reseating the CPU and messing with the PSU if it happens again. No real indication of what was causing the freezing but I was totally unable to replicate it or find any record of noteworthy events that preceded it.
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Comment on Kendrick Lamar - Meet the Grahams (2024) in ~music
Wolf_359 LinkDrake is denying that he has a long-lost daughter. It'll be interesting to see if he's lying, if he doesn't know, or if Kendrick is wrong.Drake is denying that he has a long-lost daughter. It'll be interesting to see if he's lying, if he doesn't know, or if Kendrick is wrong.
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Comment on Can old, poorly wired electrical outlets cause a PC to freeze? in ~tech
Wolf_359 Link ParentShe bought this (once gorgeous) home from a hoarder for a very low price in order to fix it up. The bad part is that everything is old and the previous owner messed with all the wiring. Apparently...She bought this (once gorgeous) home from a hoarder for a very low price in order to fix it up. The bad part is that everything is old and the previous owner messed with all the wiring. Apparently he even bypassed a couple breakers?
The good thing about it being a hoarder home is that there are plenty of holes in the walls and you can easily see where the wiring goes. My thought is that she should try a different circuit while she waits to have the rest of the wiring sorted.
Should see the house though. It'll be incredible when she's done. Really ornate woodwork everywhere and she got this massive house for like 100k.
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Comment on Can old, poorly wired electrical outlets cause a PC to freeze? in ~tech
Wolf_359 Link ParentI think I'll skip telling her about the UPS and tell her to plug it in elsewhere in the house until she gets the wiring fixed. The wiring is a fucking mess throughout the whole house but maybe one...I think I'll skip telling her about the UPS and tell her to plug it in elsewhere in the house until she gets the wiring fixed.
The wiring is a fucking mess throughout the whole house but maybe one outlet will be reliable enough to at least see if that's the culprit for now while she works on having it all fixed.
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Comment on Can old, poorly wired electrical outlets cause a PC to freeze? in ~tech
Wolf_359 Link ParentI believe they were all home and had friends over. So probably a lot happening in the house with power usage.I believe they were all home and had friends over. So probably a lot happening in the house with power usage.
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Comment on Can old, poorly wired electrical outlets cause a PC to freeze? in ~tech
Wolf_359 Link ParentRight, this is kind of where my head is at. Brand new PSU though, way more than the PC needs (more than I have in my much newer build) and I couldn't replicate the issue at all. Seems like...Right, this is kind of where my head is at. Brand new PSU though, way more than the PC needs (more than I have in my much newer build) and I couldn't replicate the issue at all.
Seems like everyone agrees the answer to my question is, "maybe?"
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Comment on Can old, poorly wired electrical outlets cause a PC to freeze? in ~tech
Wolf_359 Link ParentLet's say it's wired very poorly. Let's say it's the perfect storm. Can this actually cause a gaming pc to freeze like that? I would be expecting a power error in the form of a shut down, frying...Let's say it's wired very poorly. Let's say it's the perfect storm. Can this actually cause a gaming pc to freeze like that? I would be expecting a power error in the form of a shut down, frying the PC, or a warning of some sort. But just a hard lock? Seems odd.
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Can old, poorly wired electrical outlets cause a PC to freeze?
Fellow PC builders, here's a fun one for you. I took some "old" and no-longer-used PC parts and built my sister-in-law a gaming PC for her and her stepdaughter to use. It was a Christmas gift so...
Fellow PC builders, here's a fun one for you.
I took some "old" and no-longer-used PC parts and built my sister-in-law a gaming PC for her and her stepdaughter to use. It was a Christmas gift so the stepdaughter could play the Sims.
She has called me three times to tell me it's completely frozen - like hard locked, dead freeze, screen is displaying the last frame it was on but you can't interact with the PC in any way until you reset it with the power button.
She let it sit for an hour before she gave up. Two times this happened while stepdaughter was playing the Sims 4 and once it happened while my brother-in-law was watching YouTube videos.
Obviously, I went through the usual things you'd think in this situation and I had her bring the PC over so I could do some digging. Fully expecting to find a hardware issue, I tried the following:
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I ran the Sims while also watching multiple YouTube videos in the background. Couldn't replicate the issue after about two hours.
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I obviously checked the temperatures while gaming and YouTubing, checked the usual performance metrics and everything was great.
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Ran OTTC stress tests - all of them. Under heavy loads, this thing was doing fine. Even at 100% utilization, the memory, graphics card, and cpu were fine. Did a power test too, fine. Did a "combined" stress test and all was fine.
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Ran mem86, no issues with the memory, no bad sectors or errors.
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Played Skyrim on ultra for several hours. This was a really fun way to troubleshoot.
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Checked the event log from the day she had freezes. I can see where the event happened because leading up to the unexpected "power off" event, there were a ton of events related to various processes timing out. Seems like it was unable to connect with services and run certain background processes while it was frozen? I didn't see anything that really stood out to me as being a possible cause except...
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in the event viewer, there were a few events related to Microsoft family safety. I set this up at the request of SIL so stepdaughter wouldn't get into anything she shouldn't. In the Event Viewer, it seems like maybe it wasn't verifying something correctly or didn't have permissions it needed? Upon Googling, I found some other folks with this error but I couldn't find anything about whether it caused freezing or not. Seems like one of the many events that just gives a warning but doesn't have any effect. One guy who had this issue had his computer freeze but disabling the family safety entirely did nothing. People in the comments thought it probably wasn't related. I also found another event that Google wasn't very helpful with. Might have been related to sound card but my sound card drivers are up to date and again, I have not been able to replicate the issue even when gaming and watching videos, so I don't know if it's related.
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I ran the Windows System Files Checker and found no issues related to my Windows install.
I can't figure out why this would be happening only at her house. She says it froze after one hour of use every time. This brings me to the title of this post. My SIL moved into a really old house with sketchy wiring. My FIL told her the wiring is so bad that she needs to get it fixed immediately or risk a fire, so she's working on that. This house has a butler stairway, asbestos, and plaster/lathe walls if that tells you what we're dealing with here. This is the ONLY thing I can think of that would possibly be different between the two setups and maybe explain the freezing, but it just seems so unlikely to me that this is the cause.
Help?
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Comment on AT&T announces $7 monthly add-on fee for “Turbo” 5G speeds in ~tech
Wolf_359 Link ParentIt really depends what you're doing and where. Obviously people with wifi at work and home are going to have a better time than those who use data all day at work to consume content. Watching...It really depends what you're doing and where. Obviously people with wifi at work and home are going to have a better time than those who use data all day at work to consume content.
Watching Netflix as a passenger on a long car ride will get you there in no time. So will listening to YouTube video podcasts.
Downloading games, playing multiplayer mobile games, using your phone as a hotspot for a PC or TV, etc.
If you're using mobile data for forums or whatever, you're not going to have an issue usually.
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Comment on What does “going with your gut” feel like to you? How did you learn to “trust your gut”? in ~talk
Wolf_359 LinkThere are times when your gut instinct is screaming at you to pay attention. Those times are easy and you should listen to your gut. There are other times when you just know something is right....There are times when your gut instinct is screaming at you to pay attention. Those times are easy and you should listen to your gut. There are other times when you just know something is right. You feel freedom and lightness in your decision. Easy to go with.
It's those in between times when it's hard. When you drop your kid off at a new babysitter and the usual fears come to mind. Is this person secretly a sicko who will harm my child? Did I get a bad vibe from some small thing or am I feeling the normal amount of parental anxiety?
Relationships were always hard for me too until I got older. Is this person a good fit for me? They do some things I don't like, but so does every human being. What's the difference between nobody is perfect and this is a red flag? What's the difference between relationships take work and this is too hard?
So yeah, gut instinct can be very obvious but it can also get muddled with irrational fears and anxieties.
Definitely listen when it's screaming at you. If something seriously doesn't feel right, or does, then go with it. When your gut isn't screaming at you, you have to use logic.
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Comment on AI video won't work in Hollywood, because it can't make small iterative changes, former Pixar animator says in ~movies
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Comment on Early tests of H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest US bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread in ~health
Wolf_359 Link ParentOne source said it had an R-naught of .05 in humans. Sorry, I don't have the time to Google that again. But your point stands. I suppose we are one mutation away from a potentially horrible...One source said it had an R-naught of .05 in humans. Sorry, I don't have the time to Google that again.
But your point stands. I suppose we are one mutation away from a potentially horrible situation in any case.
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Comment on Early tests of H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest US bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread in ~health
Wolf_359 LinkI don't know a lot about viruses other than what I've learned from books and TV shows. Well, that and what we all learned from COVID. Can someone with more knowledge tell me whether H5N1 actually...I don't know a lot about viruses other than what I've learned from books and TV shows. Well, that and what we all learned from COVID.
Can someone with more knowledge tell me whether H5N1 actually has a lot of potential to be another pandemic? A light Google search showed that it seems to have a pretty low R-naught in humans when compared to other viruses.
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Comment on Instagram's Nudify [non-consensual fake nude photo generator] ads in ~tech
Wolf_359 Link ParentI'd be curious to see whether there is a potential to reduce sexual crimes by providing AI porn as an alternative outlet for otherwise inaccessible fantasies and desires, violent or not. In other...I'd be curious to see whether there is a potential to reduce sexual crimes by providing AI porn as an alternative outlet for otherwise inaccessible fantasies and desires, violent or not. In other words, can we reduce these crimes by giving people a less harmful outlet? I could see this being the case. Sexually open societies with easy access to porn tend to be less misogynistic and less violent than sexually repressed societies. Compare The USA to India. Compare the UK to the Middle East.
If it does reduce sexual crimes, does this reduction outweigh the impact of what you're describing?
To be clear, I have no real evidence that this will be the case. For all we know, AI porn could be a gateway drug to more extreme and more criminal sexual desires. I doubt it, but it's certainly possible.
Thanks for sharing. You do bring up a valid concern. I hadn't even considered the "look what she was wearing" crowd in my response.
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Comment on Baltimore high school athletic director used AI to create fake racist audio of principal: Police in ~tech
Wolf_359 LinkFeel that I have to comment here since I recently had a somewhat controversial comment on AI porn in the thread about "Nudify." On one hand, those who disagreed with me will say this is a prime...Feel that I have to comment here since I recently had a somewhat controversial comment on AI porn in the thread about "Nudify."
On one hand, those who disagreed with me will say this is a prime example of why AI is so dangerous - and they're right.
On the other hand, this is also a prime example of how this genie is already out of the bottle, and how we will need to find a whole new attitude about photo/video/audio "evidence." From now on, everything is fake until proven otherwise.
Yeah, I love a good spooky story or unexplained mystery, but dowsing falls into that category of belief that I think can actually be harmful.
Conspiracies, homeopathy, witchcraft, etc. - they all teach that you can improve your life through superstition. Once you buy into one of these things, you are more likely to buy into the rest of them.