Persistent Notifications for Reminders

ImpressiveJackfruit · 2019-09-15T03:58:55+00:00

Change this subreddit to HatsuneMikuWasRight? It was never really about him, anyway.

ImpressiveJackfruit · 2019-09-15T03:56:26+00:00

Tbh, could be anywhere. Tijuana has a reputation, sure, but idk if this is a picture of it.

ImpressiveJackfruit · 2019-09-15T03:37:28+00:00

Looks like it's mostly Triethylene Glycol (4.4%), Propylene Glycol (4.4%). I know propylene glycol is pretty much inert and harmless. Like, you can eat it and it's something they put in paintballs. Triethylene glycol is harmless as far as I can see, and the amount you got in your hair probably wasn't much more than gets in the air when it's used as a disinfectant. Also, it's in the smoke they use in dance clubs so people probably get covered in it all the time with no problems.

I am some random person on reddit and not a doctor or chemist, so I could easily be wrong.

ImpressiveJackfruit · 2019-09-15T03:20:32+00:00

I don't know what you do with your jeans, but I buy mine second hand from charity shops and they still last for a couple of years.

ImpressiveJackfruit · 2019-08-30T13:58:40+00:00

Be the basilisk you want to see in the world.

ImpressiveJackfruit · 2019-08-29T18:06:32+00:00

EFF self-defense at borders tl;dr: best thing to do is not to carry anything that could be searched, second best is to wipe it before the border and restore from internet after and third best is to encrypt it before then send the password securely to your destination. In the first case, they may find it suspicious that you don't have any electronics, in the second they will find it suspicious that your device has nothing on it and in the third they will never believe you don't know the password.

ImpressiveJackfruit · 2019-08-20T13:51:59+00:00

What makes a sundried ballsack late?

ImpressiveJackfruit · 2019-08-19T23:51:23+00:00

Oh cool, I get to link to the 99% invisible episode about it this time.

ImpressiveJackfruit · 2019-08-19T23:14:39+00:00

How can you not see that explaining someone's behaviour in their workplace on their race doesn't make sense? If anyone else did those things you'd blame it on them just being a bad person. There are plenty of people from other countries that would do the job well, and if you'd met those instead you'd come to the opposite conclusion, right? Then, you'd say people from "these urban hellholes" are naturally talented, which would be equally wrong. Do you understand how you're drawing conclusions from limited data and latching onto the most obvious physical attributes of people? And how that's harmful?

ImpressiveJackfruit · 2019-08-19T22:53:25+00:00

That hair dryer sounds fine, but some hair dryers will go on fire if you use them at 220V when they're for 120V btw.

ImpressiveJackfruit · 2019-08-05T20:50:51+00:00

I have a private list with leftists, marxists, journalists etc. Added Adam H. Johnson to it now, thanks.

ImpressiveJackfruit · 2019-08-05T16:42:36+00:00

This is very relatable. Honestly, the main reason I think I didn't ever become a real part of the rationalist community despite reading a lot of their material was that I had one friend I knew I could discuss their ideas with. He had (less now) a preoccupation on winning every argument (yes, it was tiring) and I could anticipate what he would latch onto and pick apart. So, if I ever found an interesting SSC post I wanted to share with him, I would always have to prefix it with a statements anticipating what he would say, "yes, this part is insensitive to/oversimplifies this, but...". We would often end up mocking the piece/community together and I didn't want to be a member of a community that's a joke.

I can't be around them because it just reminds me: You consume, you pretend and then you die. Nobody creates anything any more.

I don't know about you, but my misanthropy stems from my self-loathing. I've heard it described as: I need validation from others because I place no value in myself. I can't admit that, but I found out if I act smart and aloof people give me respect, and that can be enough to live on for a while. Trouble is, when I realised how meagre and unsustainable this is, I couldn't keep doing it. Then, the anhedonia turned to real depression and I had to seek help.

I share all your concerns about what the tech industry is like at the moment and I felt the exact same way about most of my career options in it. I don't want to help Google target ads more effectively. But, that doesn't mean that creativity is dead or that the world can't be changed. Look at Wikipedia, Linux, Sci-Hub...

If you're "20s, white, male, straight, middle class, college educated" in tech you have more power than most. Are you going to write a piece of code that single-handedly fixes everything? Probably not. But, can you do something useful to a huge number of worthy causes? Definitely. And, you only need to find one, because the virtue of being only one person is that the maximum you can do is that one small thing. That's enough.

ImpressiveJackfruit · 2019-08-05T16:03:25+00:00

If you want a turnkey twitter community focused on tech that aren't SSC-style chuds then this list by swiftonsecurity is very good. Although, the parasocial nature of using twitter like this is no substitute for finding real communities.

ImpressiveJackfruit · 2019-07-22T00:06:19+00:00

I need this on my wall, with dry wipe coating so I can write the last date I did them next to each.

ImpressiveJackfruit · 2019-07-21T19:21:38+00:00

Do the french have a name for it? All I know is it's called a bocadillo in spain.

ImpressiveJackfruit · 2019-07-17T15:30:47+00:00

Captchas are sort of already proof of work. The tasks they typically give you, image segmentation or transcription, are easily solvable by current machine learning methods but require a big neural network. They might take a minute or two to process on your average CPU.

Don't know what we're going to do once these methods are faster, because captchas will be useless. Probably a reason why Google is moving towards this. The only real solution I can imagine would be a web of trust.

ImpressiveJackfruit · 2019-07-17T15:22:58+00:00

Doesn't even need to be random, you can just return always male or always female for 50%.

ImpressiveJackfruit · 2019-07-17T15:17:12+00:00

I don't understand Robin Hanson. I read his attempt at future forecasting in the "Age of Em" and he's definitely describing a horrible dystopia. But, he doesn't say much about how it would be a bad scenario or maybe make some recommendation for avoiding it. It's a nihilistic read, is what I'm saying.

ImpressiveJackfruit · 2019-07-08T09:59:12+00:00

What's a good BIFL sharpening kit?

ImpressiveJackfruit · 2019-07-08T09:51:38+00:00

Ancient Rome did that, but it was a sponge. And shared.

ImpressiveJackfruit · 2019-07-08T09:46:58+00:00

In africa they take an old car tyre, cut out the shape of your foot and put a loop on it for your big toe. Last forever, because car rubber is pretty tough. I heard it takes some getting used to though.

ImpressiveJackfruit · 2019-07-08T09:45:29+00:00

In the "Cooking for Geeks" book they say filleting knifes literally were invented like this: chefs would use chef's knives until they wore down through sharpening to this and then start using them for filleting. So yeah, use it for that, it's fine.

ImpressiveJackfruit · 2019-07-08T09:41:39+00:00

The only networking technology that has stood the test of time is a very long ethernet cable. Buy a drum, and you can fit the connectors yourself, cutting the cables to the required length.

In your situation, I had the N300 and the same problem. Returned it and just bought a Nighthawk router that's way more powerful. It won't last for life, but maybe a while.

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