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  1. Comment on What's a product or service that you use but don't want to pay for and why? in ~life

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    You will mess up! It's okay! I've broken and botched a million different things working on my place, you learn from the mistakes and you fix it. And even doing it twice it's still a lot cheaper...

    You will mess up! It's okay! I've broken and botched a million different things working on my place, you learn from the mistakes and you fix it. And even doing it twice it's still a lot cheaper than hiring it out. Just don't mess with the serious stuff (new electrical, load bearing walls, plumbing/gas etc) you'll be fine.

    2 votes

  2. Comment on Elon Musk plans to take on Wikipedia with 'Grokipedia' in ~tech

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    I'd be concerned about hallucinations but mostly I just don't see the value. I'm curious to where you're coming from though, what advantages do you see an AI encyclopedia offering over community...

    I'd be concerned about hallucinations but mostly I just don't see the value. I'm curious to where you're coming from though, what advantages do you see an AI encyclopedia offering over community curated resources like Wikipedia?

    6 votes

  3. Comment on Elon Musk plans to take on Wikipedia with 'Grokipedia' in ~tech

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    Does it? It's free with no subscriptions or ADs, where does the revenue come from? [Citation needed]

    the company generates insane amounts of revenue

    Does it? It's free with no subscriptions or ADs, where does the revenue come from?

    and the vast majority of their money goes to doing stuff other than running the site

    [Citation needed]

    7 votes

  4. Comment on What are some of your personal misheard lyrics? in ~music

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    For far too many years into adulthood I thought the lyrics to AC/DCs hit song was Dunder is not any word in familiar with. I have no idea why I never questioned this.

    For far too many years into adulthood I thought the lyrics to AC/DCs hit song was

    Dirty deeds, dunder sheep!

    Dunder is not any word in familiar with. I have no idea why I never questioned this.

    6 votes

  5. Comment on What's a setting that you'd recommend? in ~tech

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    I'd generalize to say liquids or semiliquids e.g. soup.

    I'd generalize to say liquids or semiliquids e.g. soup.

  6. Comment on HACKENBUSH: a window to a new world of math in ~comp

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    That was one of the most well produced and interesting math videos I've ever seen. I'm certain he would have been among the likes of 3blue1brown and minute physics had he continued. Sad to hear of...

    That was one of the most well produced and interesting math videos I've ever seen. I'm certain he would have been among the likes of 3blue1brown and minute physics had he continued. Sad to hear of his passing. Thanks for sharing!

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  7. Comment on What can I do with my old Pixel 3 phone in 2025? in ~tech

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    You mentioned using it as a nature cam but didn't have the storage space- I think you could pull this off with recording software that only records when motion is detected. If you have a place you...
    1. You mentioned using it as a nature cam but didn't have the storage space- I think you could pull this off with recording software that only records when motion is detected.
    2. If you have a place you could plant it somewhere to just check on something remotely with the camera without necessarily recording everything could still be useful. Like in your front window, your car, or at your job (see if the bosses car is there? idk.)
    3. Make or buy a little frame for it and turn it into a auto updating photo frame.
    4. Turn it into a dedicated smart home or media PC remote for the living room.
    5. This is web dev specific but it's nice to have an extra device on hand always plugged in for debugging live development on a real device.

    Random side note I was trying to remember where I saw your name and going through your history realized you're the one who I said I'd come up with a recording for and then completely forgot 😅 It's been hard with a packed house lately but I think I'd actually have time to do that in about a week if you still want those.

    6 votes

  8. Comment on Question about breathing while exercising in ~health

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    @akir already mentioned it but to reiterate it's the difference between cardiovascular endurance and muscle strength. They don't often train equally, the same thing happened with me. For me the...

    @akir already mentioned it but to reiterate it's the difference between cardiovascular endurance and muscle strength. They don't often train equally, the same thing happened with me. For me the solution was to supplement the strength training with exercises designed to target increasing your VO2 max which is basically the measurement of the most amount of oxygen your body can actually use when your body is under load (different from the total quantity of air coming in and out). I recommend looking up kettlebell swing ladders which is an oft cited way to improving VO2 max. Incidentally this also solved my problem of feeling like I was going to pass out anytime I did weighted squats.

    3 votes

  9. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    That's awesome! I remember the first time playing Jackbox thinking it was a great idea but also had so much room for improvements. I hope you keep us up to date on this and if you're comfortable...

    That's awesome! I remember the first time playing Jackbox thinking it was a great idea but also had so much room for improvements. I hope you keep us up to date on this and if you're comfortable share things like revenue over time. Building out a big side project into a business is a dream of mine, I'm stoked you're doing it! What's your stack for this project?

    2 votes

  10. Comment on Glow-in-the-dark succulents could be the future of ambient lighting in ~science

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    The post they were replying to was about petunias though which aren't succulents.

    The post they were replying to was about petunias though which aren't succulents.

    2 votes

  11. Comment on I wanna raise crickets for the sound in ~life.pets

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    What have you tried in terms of the hardware for the pre-recorded tracks? If it's just your phone or some Bluetooth speaker then yeah that will feel too fake and isolated. A little 2.1 sound bar...

    What have you tried in terms of the hardware for the pre-recorded tracks? If it's just your phone or some Bluetooth speaker then yeah that will feel too fake and isolated. A little 2.1 sound bar setup on the otherside of the room will sound significantly better.

    Personally I would vet that option fully first as having to raise crickets and listen to them all the time whether you want to or not may turn into hell. And I'm no cricketologist but I would think you would need a lot of crickets to get to something of a nice symphony.

    7 votes

  12. Comment on What are the standards for a good father/husband? in ~life.men

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    We don't know what the family dynamic is but I would assume that the husband is likely doing much more than just one night of handling dinner and the kids. Consider another possibility- Sometimes...
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    We don't know what the family dynamic is but I would assume that the husband is likely doing much more than just one night of handling dinner and the kids.

    Consider another possibility- Sometimes being a good partner is just noticing when your SO doesn't have capacity and needs you to step in to take the load off- even when you yourself are juggling a lot. Those moments, those little chores that are justifiably theirs and yet they become unburdened of them without fuss or fights are felt deep and appreciated at a level far greater than some objective measure of difficulty/effort. She could just be expressing her appreciation for one of those little moments.

    49 votes

  13. Comment on What's a question you could ask to determine if someone is an expert in your line of work? in ~talk

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    That's a better challenge. I think there's enough shared vernacular we can still generalize it to all dev fields (high level languages at least) and still confuse the pants off the lay person...

    That's a better challenge. I think there's enough shared vernacular we can still generalize it to all dev fields (high level languages at least) and still confuse the pants off the lay person though.

    Is it an issue if my string iterating function for getting the index of a particular substring returns -1?

    My signed int overflowed and I feel very negative about it.

    Null references are exceptional.

    This one needs some qualifiers to actually be true but I like the rhythm of it so I'm keeping it..

    Goto is bad, function calls are good, and pub/sub is goto but we all pretend it's fine.

    1 vote

  14. Comment on What's a question you could ask to determine if someone is an expert in your line of work? in ~talk

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    Software development is uniquely suited to this question- there are so, so many unique frameworks and tools it's easy to craft something that a junior dev can answer with ease but sounds like...

    Software development is uniquely suited to this question- there are so, so many unique frameworks and tools it's easy to craft something that a junior dev can answer with ease but sounds like complete nonsense to everyone else.

    What does the empty array in the useEffect do?

    Did the CI/CD pipeline fail the deploy because of a compiler error?

    I have a POCO I need to serialize before it lands in the noSQL DB- should I use the built in .NET System.Text or Newtonsoft?

    7 votes

  15. Comment on TV Tuesdays Free Talk in ~tv

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    I haven't seen it but I want to get some opinions on it- Dexter Resurrection. I was disappointed in the original series' ending then utterly bamboozled by the New Blood series which one-up'd it...

    I haven't seen it but I want to get some opinions on it- Dexter Resurrection. I was disappointed in the original series' ending then utterly bamboozled by the New Blood series which one-up'd it and delivered the most non-sensical bullshit ending imaginable. As you can tell, I'm a bit hesitant to try again. BUT I've heard really, really good things about the latest season so now I have to decide if Im going to saddle up this horse again even if it's probably going to buck me off.

    2 votes

  16. Comment on My favorite mouse costs less than USD 10 in ~tech

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    The weight, build quality, shape, everything about that mouse is just perfect. I still have mine in a box somewhere. On some bright beautiful day when I no longer need to juggle multiple devices...

    The weight, build quality, shape, everything about that mouse is just perfect. I still have mine in a box somewhere. On some bright beautiful day when I no longer need to juggle multiple devices I'll return her to her former glory atop my desk.

    1 vote

  17. Comment on Accessing a Google account without attaching to the phone on Android in ~tech

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    This is what I came to suggest. If you run into trouble with this approach you might have do the actual imap setup in your phone settings "Passwords and accounts" area rather than straight from...

    This is what I came to suggest. If you run into trouble with this approach you might have do the actual imap setup in your phone settings "Passwords and accounts" area rather than straight from the Gmail app.

    1 vote

  18. Comment on Sling TV’s $5 pass buys you one day of cable TV in ~tv

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    Here's my prediction- This creeps up in cost until it's only a few dollars less than the monthly subscription at which point no one really uses it, it's just a decoy feature to make the monthly...

    Here's my prediction- This creeps up in cost until it's only a few dollars less than the monthly subscription at which point no one really uses it, it's just a decoy feature to make the monthly subscription seem "cheap".

    6 votes

  19. Comment on I spent months living with smart glasses. People talk to me differently now. in ~tech

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    Just curious what he uses the xreal glasses for? I looked into those awhile back for coding on the road but seemed like the resolution was still too low.

    Just curious what he uses the xreal glasses for? I looked into those awhile back for coding on the road but seemed like the resolution was still too low.

    2 votes

  20. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Chipping away at my side project. I want to build the first high quality product and "actual" deals site. It tracks exclusively high quality products with real world averaged pricing over time to...

    Chipping away at my side project. I want to build the first high quality product and "actual" deals site. It tracks exclusively high quality products with real world averaged pricing over time to find when things are actually on sale instead of just discounts from artificial sale prices. At the current rate, it'll be finished.. never. I need to find some motivation or maybe try to find a dev partner. Not letting people down can be a strangely strong motivator for me.

    1 vote