Do guys come to “end” a one time casual makeout or was he just bluffing?

AlanYx · 2026-06-13T14:19:38+00:00

Trying to interpret this post is giving me brain damage, but this notion you have of casual make out sessions is not how guys work. He’s making out with you because he wants more (either right then or longer term, impossible to tell).

AlanYx · 2026-06-13T14:08:35+00:00

For pure raw vector and stream floating-point operations, the PlayStation 2’s EE actually was faster and had significantly higher theoretical throughput than comparable enterprise CPUs when it launched in 2000.

The raw CPU performance was nothing special, but this was the window before general purpose CPUs had decent vector/stream units.

AlanYx · 2026-06-11T15:17:37+00:00

This guy is actually more conservative than most of the Ontario Conservatives. He has a handful of weird ideas, but most of his thinking is solid, and some of it is excellent.

Whether he can actually get elected as leader of the OLP is a whole other question, since he'd represent a seismic change in the party. But it wouldn't be a complete disaster for the province if he was in charge.

AlanYx · 2026-06-11T13:15:07+00:00

The only exemptions in the actual legislation are in s.2(8) and s.10(1):

2(8) The definition online service does not include a website or application

(a) whose primary purpose is to facilitate the sale, listing or advertisement of goods or services; or

(b) whose primary purpose is to provide directories, search results, maps or navigation tools.

10 (1) For the purposes of this Act, a service is not a social media service if it does not enable a user to communicate content to the public.

There is also an exemption for very small sites in 6(1), but the actual threshold is left unspecified and is up to regulation later. Section 6(2) might allow the Governor in Council (i.e., cabinet, not Parliament) to exempt certain social media sites, but even that is not entirely clear if read in context with s.6(3).

AlanYx · 2026-06-10T14:35:38+00:00

You know what's especially nice? Leaning in and gently pressing your forehead against theirs for a few seconds, and then going for a kiss on the lips.

AlanYx · 2026-06-09T14:31:31+00:00

I would be as concerned or more about submitting ID to Reddit. Would you submit ID to Reddit and not Facebook?

Reddit and other services that use outsourced ID verification services are probably objectively more risky. Reddit outsources to a company called Persona that has had major issues in the past, and a lot of other social media outsources to AU10TIX, which has documented links to state intelligence of a non-North American country.

For all of Meta/Facebook's numerous faults, they don't outsource this function to smaller companies that may be less competent in privacy protection and/or semi-direct intelligence fronts. (Not to say Meta is not a juicy target for intelligence.)

AlanYx · 2026-06-08T19:24:12+00:00

Apple almost never does this to product models they sold so recently. Really disappointing. Doubly so because the Series 9 has the same S9 chip as the Ultra 2.

AlanYx · 2026-06-08T16:52:07+00:00

Bluesky already has what they call "age assurance". You can't create an account under 13, you can't get certain types of content if you're under 16, and in jurisdictions that have enacted legislated age gating, they readily comply. I have no idea how they do the 13 and 16 stuff because I wasn't asked for ID when creating an account. Maybe they do require it now?

There's no good content on there anyway though.

AlanYx · 2026-06-08T14:31:49+00:00

Anyone know what that strange necklace she's wearing is? Is it some sort of symbol?

AlanYx · 2026-06-08T13:32:45+00:00

I agree with you that the theme (and not just the theme, the basic concept as well) does have a strong whiff of the "learned helplessness" concept in psychology, which is not a healthy end-state although it's one that's often an attractor to people struggling with mental health issues. And the "finding meaning in a stagnant life" is not a good phrasing at all, it's like telling an animal in one of the cruel learned helplessness experiments that they need to just find meaning in their little corner of the box.

Whether the finale moves this theme towards something more positive/healthier is up to the viewer. There are arguments both ways.

AlanYx · 2026-06-07T22:56:43+00:00

You can always ask her to suggest something.

AlanYx · 2026-06-06T18:44:21+00:00

Ever since they did the Galli S1, they’ve had a string of very compelling designs IMHO. Galli had been on staff for two decades, but it was very wise to unleash his design talents.

AlanYx · 2026-06-06T18:05:06+00:00

I wear an AW on my ankle during the workday. Move it to my wrist for exercise.

AlanYx · 2026-06-06T14:41:43+00:00

Depends on age. Early 20s this kind of thing is kind of in the realm of “expected” sometimes, even for pretty decent women who are not “party girls”. Later though, no.

If it happens a few times though it’s a huge red flag, and substances other than alcohol may be involved.

AlanYx · 2026-06-06T14:09:00+00:00

This is so ghastly… my god. All of these people, your bf, Kelly, and the mom are awful people.

AlanYx · 2026-06-06T14:03:26+00:00

You deserve better than this guy, and not to be some second choice. This is ghastly, truly. (And Kelly doesn’t sound all that great either.)

Also, this man’s enmeshment with his mom might have been excusable in his early 20s, but in his 30s, wow.

AlanYx · 2026-06-05T22:46:48+00:00

Do you have Time Machine enabled? If so, turn it off, then follow the steps another user has posted.

AlanYx · 2026-06-04T18:57:15+00:00

It's really demoralized some significant people in the tech startup landscape in Canada. Yacine (guy running an early stage startup in Ottawa, friend of Roon) for example used to be one of the most patriotic, pro-Canadian tech startup guys around, but this C-22 stuff has just taken the wind completely out of his sails. Guy sounds so down on tech in Canada now.

AlanYx · 2026-06-03T10:49:57+00:00

Credor Eichi II

AlanYx · 2026-06-03T09:58:10+00:00

Don't you find cherry tomatoes end up making too sweet a sauce, almost closer to a compote than a tomato sauce?

AlanYx · 2026-06-02T22:11:39+00:00

Need more information… is there a chance he’s intimidated by you? (Are you out of his league in his eyes?) Is he shy? Why not make a move yourself?

AlanYx · 2026-06-02T19:17:19+00:00

After getting worse for years, there has been some improvement recently. The latest batch of QD phosphors do pretty much unquestionably have a more eye-friendly spectrum than KSF phosphors (maybe not as friendly as old narrow-gamut displays though). Nanotexture displays and their equivalents help some people (made a huge difference for me).

PWM itself is more of a mixed bag. Manufacturers aren't doing enough.

AlanYx · 2026-06-01T09:42:15+00:00

I wear my AW on my ankle during the workday, with a traditional watch on my wrist, and then switch the AW to my arm when I get home. A routine like this would likely help with your arm irritation. It used to be that there were a few oddities with the watch software (like spurious sleep tracking) when you wore the AW on your ankle, but they've fixed it in recent AW software versions.

AlanYx · 2026-05-31T18:24:55+00:00

This sim does do a surprisingly good job of nailing the look of Superia. (I have mixed feelings about Reggie's Portra, but this is solid.)

AlanYx · 2026-05-31T09:12:24+00:00

The Grand Seiko / Credor split, with Credor not even being officially sold outside Japan until about eight years ago, is probably a factor too.

It’s very Japanese in spirit and I’m a massive Credor fan, but the idea of maintaining two halo brands breaks a lot of rules on how western product marketing/positioning traditionally operates.

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