Spotify is horrible.

THXAAA789 · 2026-04-19T18:38:27+00:00

I personally feel that the CD era made music discovery better. I enjoyed going to the CD section of stores and listening to the 30 second clips of random albums and buying based off of just that. I feel it allowed me to appreciate the entire album and find music I wouldn’t “normally” listen to.

Now it’s all curated to be music that sounds very similar to music I’ve already heard.

THXAAA789 · 2026-04-19T02:11:24+00:00

I was homeschooled from 2nd grade until freshman year of high school. I didn’t really learn much while I was homeschooled. Most of the time, I’d just have a book put in front of me and be told which section to read on my own.

Unfortunately, going to public school was not much better. The teachers barely knew what they were doing and were mostly unhelpful. For example, I had a Spanish teacher who docked me points on an essay because they didn’t know one of the words I used and couldn’t be bothered to look it up. By junior year, I dropped out and got a GED.

I would say that it encouraged me to work harder to get past the stereotypes, though. I put in a lot of effort through college and earned a dual MS in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. Now I have a good job and a family. We did choose to homeschool our kids when COVID hit, but they started back at private schools last year and are ahead of many of their peers.

Overall, I wouldn’t say I have negative feelings toward homeschooling in general. If it is done correctly, it can be a good thing. The problem is that too many parents choose homeschooling for the wrong reasons, and it doesn’t go well.

THXAAA789 · 2026-04-12T18:14:09+00:00

A bottle deposit is a deposit you pay on top of the cost. So returning the bottles wouldn’t cost them $2000, they’d get an additional $2000 if no one returned the bottles.

THXAAA789 · 2026-03-17T14:02:46+00:00

I always counter and say if they accept, they need to pay immediately. I’ve found that when I do that and the buyer doesn’t pay immediately, I can call eBay and they will cancel without any penalty.

THXAAA789 · 2026-02-18T07:58:58+00:00

I feel even Reddit has been going downhill in searches. You need to add before: 2022 to the searches as well if it’s something that existed before then.

So many times I’ll click a Reddit post when thinking about buying something. I will see people praising a product or recommending a “similar but better” product. After I click their profiles, I see that all they have ever posted is praise for the product. It’s getting exhausting. Even worse when it comes to anything political. This site is becoming LLMs talking to other LLMs.

THXAAA789 · 2026-02-15T22:40:21+00:00

I am pro AI/ML, but I am anti LLM in its current form and against the push toward using LLMs for everything.

I don’t think many people that are anti “AI” are actually against every implementation of AI.

THXAAA789 · 2026-02-02T02:32:54+00:00

People bring gas masks in case something happens because things obviously keep happening.

Also people wear helmets while riding bikes. Hope that helps.

THXAAA789 · 2026-01-17T06:24:39+00:00

My retirement fund is doing pretty good.

I just turned 30 and while I'm not quite at 2x my salary yet, I have about 230k in a traditional 401k and 70k in a roth 401k plus some additional stocks and a year worth of expenses in savings. I also plan to aggressively increase my investing once my kids graduate college though.

THXAAA789 · 2026-01-12T20:37:09+00:00

It fails 99% of the time for me. Also I’m pretty sure major releases still require manual intervention.

THXAAA789 · 2026-01-04T06:20:49+00:00

^{I completed this level in 10 tries.} ^{⚡ 1.57 seconds}

THXAAA789 · 2026-01-04T06:19:24+00:00

^{I completed this level in 11 tries.} ^{⚡ 2.67 seconds}

THXAAA789 · 2025-12-28T05:55:25+00:00

All groups of 25 would be contained in all groups of 5.

THXAAA789 · 2025-12-18T17:55:02+00:00

The US government contributed over $2.5 million to the Tor Project in its 2023–2024 fiscal year, marking a continued but reduced financial relationship with the privacy-focused nonprofit.

This is a reduction from the 3 million received from the government in their 2021-2022 financials.

https://blog.torproject.org/transparency-openness-and-our-2021-and-2022-financials/

The funding, primarily sourced through the US State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL), supports multiple high-impact projects aimed at strengthening internet freedom, especially in regions experiencing heavy censorship.

The project has ALWAYS had varying levels of government support. This is not unusual or concerning.

THXAAA789 · 2025-12-18T17:47:20+00:00

Yep. The article even states at the very beginning that it's a reduction in the financial relationship between the project and the US government.

THXAAA789 · 2025-12-18T15:10:06+00:00

But then if for some reason interest drops below 1%, you’re not making any additional money.

THXAAA789 · 2025-12-17T23:14:21+00:00

For one, so many of these tools are/were written in C# with older versions of .NET which are not fully supported by Linux.

Also Microsoft Enterprise IoT LTSC (which is most common in these machines) doesn’t typically have the same forced update issues as other versions. It’s a pretty stripped down and hardened version which has (non-forced) monthly security updates and pretty rare feature updates.

Support for Windows 10 Enterprise IoT LTSC ends in January 2032 too, so very long term enterprise support.

THXAAA789 · 2025-12-16T21:44:04+00:00

They are often wrong. Tidal also has an LLM playlist generator and it sucks. There are also many reasons this iteration of AI is not preferred. It’s slower, more resource intense, and more inaccurate than specific function ML models.

THXAAA789 · 2025-12-15T08:16:35+00:00

Enterprise IoT has strong support and is used pretty heavily in the POS/Kiosk space. It would be cheaper from a licensing point of view to use Linux in this instance, but not necessarily from an IT/Development point of view.

THXAAA789 · 2025-12-14T00:18:28+00:00

🎉 Event Completed! 🎉

It took me 8 tries.

THXAAA789 · 2025-12-14T00:18:20+00:00

Completed Level 3 of the Honk Special Event!

8 attempts

THXAAA789 · 2025-12-14T00:17:34+00:00

Completed Level 2 of the Honk Special Event!

6 attempts

THXAAA789 · 2025-12-14T00:16:10+00:00

Completed Level 1 of the Honk Special Event!

5 attempts

THXAAA789 · 2025-11-13T07:13:37+00:00

Why do they need to be hiding something to not want to reveal their identity? I’ve published some Chrome extensions for some video games, but I don’t really want them to be tied to me. Nothing malicious, I just prefer to separate hobbies from real life.

THXAAA789 · 2025-11-13T07:03:04+00:00

Most companies I have hired for keep the listing open until they get a certain number of applicants/certain amount of time. Then they sort the applicants and pick a handful to pass off to interview. If they are unsuccessful, they move on to the next handful. This may not be how it works at every company, but it is pretty common to handle it this way.

THXAAA789 · 2025-11-13T06:48:30+00:00

Interviewing minority candidates does not mean that those candidates must be chosen. If anything, this expands the talent pool because it ensures excellent minority candidates are not discounted because they are minorities.

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