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MicrowavedTea ,

More animal communities:

!bats

!superbowl (yes this is an animal community)

MicrowavedTea ,

I find myself adding this to a lot of hack/breach headlines lately

MicrowavedTea ,

I've finished mario kart in 4 different platforms. Not exactly hard but it does take some time so I'll consider it an achievement.

Auto-translate?

I see a lot of feeds in other languages that I don’t know (I are a merican so i just know the two - baseball and cursing.). But I’d be very interested if there was some kind of babelfish auto-translation for the other posts so I could see what they were about - does anything like that exist or is there any known effort...

MicrowavedTea ,

I know it was just an example but is there an actual advantage in using chatgpt over a translation service, say DeepL?

MicrowavedTea ,

I've always wanted to try this but is there a privacy implication? I guess it connects to an openstreetmaps account, which will then keep a public history of all the places you've been.

MicrowavedTea ,

Yeah it's the public part I meant. All changes would be shown under a single account.

How many people actually want fully on-site IT jobs?

I've been looking for a new job as a software developer. The huge majority of job listings I see in my area are hybrid or remote. I just had an introductory phone call with Vizio (which didn't specify the location type in the job listing). The recruiter told me that the job was fully on-site, which I told her was a deal breaker...

MicrowavedTea ,

You can replicate that remotely. I've had days where 2-3 people joined a call to share something and then kept that call in the background for hours, chatting about random things while working.

MicrowavedTea ,

I can bring my hands from the back of my body to the front (and the opposite) while holding them together. There might be a use for this if I ever get tied up.

MicrowavedTea ,

You mean that isn't normal? Well TIL

MicrowavedTea ,

The question is, is there a practical difference between lucid dreaming and dreaming about being lucid? I like to think it's the memory afterwards that counts.

Sticky trick: new glue spray kills plant pests without chemicals ( www.theguardian.com )

The insect glue, produced from edible oils, was inspired by plants such as sundews that use the strategy to capture their prey. A key advantage of physical pesticides over toxic pesticides is that pests are highly unlikely to evolve resistance, as this would require them to develop much larger and stronger bodies, while bigger...

MicrowavedTea ,

This is good news but I love that our current standard is at "not nearly as disastrous side-effects"

MicrowavedTea ,

But what happens when it's inevitably wrong? How do you type the word you actually meant to type?

MicrowavedTea ,

But if you do see a normal keyboard and can type each letter isn't that the same as what autocorrect is doing now? If I type "spmrthjng" my keyboard already autocorrects to "something". If you only see the keyboard after it's guessed wrong then that would just be autocorrect with more steps.

MicrowavedTea ,

Usually not and I always found it weird. In the rare occasion a smartphone appears in a dream it's always impossible to use, like nothing works correctly. I actually had a dream today where I was lost and Google Maps was giving some very bad instructions.

Strangely enough I don't think I've ever dreamt of a computer even though most of my day is spent in front of one.

MicrowavedTea ,

That's pretty cool tbh

MicrowavedTea ,

I get the computer part but why a desktop in particular? Especially for programming it shouldn't make a difference.

MicrowavedTea ,

I am a touch typist and laptop keyboards are fine. I haven't tried keyboards with weird curvatures but most desktop keyboards are too wide if you don't have big hands.

I can see the first point about repairability but it's not really something you can't do without and is the price to pay for mobility (which is something that could be considered essential). If you use a laptop with full peripherals, it can act as a desktop when there is no space but you can't do the opposite :p

MicrowavedTea ,

It always seems weird seeing most people in busses/trains doing nothing. That's one of the biggest advantages of having someone else drive you.

MicrowavedTea ,

Sure, I guess I included the subway in "trains". Most of my commute does not really have a view.

MicrowavedTea ,

Fair enough, maybe it can be a nice break if you're otherwise very busy.

Hey i just wanna know are raccoons evil in some kind of way ?

A lot of things i thought were cute and nice like dolphines, ducks, cats (i saw one cat eat anothers new born), dogs (multiple cases of eating dead owners due to a variety of reasons starting from trying to wake em up to other malicious reasons), hamsters etc turned out to be wrong . Raccoons are the only thing i believe in...

MicrowavedTea ,

What the others said, animals aren't "evil". But I'm curious now, what did hamsters do?

MicrowavedTea ,

I know I shouldn't but I laughed. Thanks, I'll now keep thinking about this every time a kid says they want a cute hamster.

MicrowavedTea ,

Rainbolt has a couple of videos playing against AI. I don't remember what they said it was trained on but it's possible it was based on that.

MicrowavedTea ,

If you've come across the short story Guts at some point, it's apparently part of the book Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk. I haven't read the whole book so not sure what the other stories are like but this story is really trying to be both gross and fucked up.

MicrowavedTea ,

I looked it up again when writing this comment and even though most reviews are negative they do make it sound pretty interesting. I've put it in a maaaybe list.

MicrowavedTea ,

Not sure if I'd call Area X fucked up but if you liked it definitely take a look at Borne (same author). It mixes the weirdness of area x with bioengineering and much more relatable characters.

MicrowavedTea ,

Yeah the second book was probably more disturbing, then the third went a bit off the rails. I should probably reread them at some point. I don't remember what happened to Control but the Psychologist's ending was pretty disturbing too.

MicrowavedTea ,

When was "originally"? Lyric availability is the main reason I chose spotify over YouTube music. If it's not included in the free plan then you can't compare that and won't pick spotify.

MicrowavedTea ,

Pay for it after trying the free version. Both spotify and YouTube music are terrible on the free version.

All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week ( arstechnica.com )

Below is a look at the most exasperating news from streaming services from this week. The scale of this article demonstrates how fast and frequently disappointing streaming news arises. Coincidentally, as we wrote this article, another price hike was announced....

MicrowavedTea ,

Why does it feel like lately more and more articles fit Not The Onion or A Boring Distopia?

Is anyone using VMware under a Wayland host?

I've been using VMware Player (free version) for a while now and it's been working fine. Recently I switched to Wayland and VMware's grab input behavior broke. The guest gets most keys correctly but Alt and Super are intercepted by the host. Clicking on the vm also gives me a remote desktop popup on the host prompting to allow...

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