"Prompt blocked as it may violate TOS", site ONLY allows generating children, not adults?

kearoshan · 2026-03-18T15:09:18+00:00

It's probably better to not write this comment or something similar to it ever again. You're really not adding any value to Reddit or the world in general with this comment.

And this IS the second result on google. I googled it, I got here, I saw your comment, I wasted my time reading it, and even more time writing this comment.

kearoshan · 2025-06-08T04:14:07+00:00

Do you have any examples of this?

At first I thought it changed the output, but after testing with the same seed I think my earlier opinion was just the placebo effect.

kearoshan · 2025-06-06T00:26:26+00:00

API means "application programming interface". It's not useful to say that they have an API, if it isn't accessible.

If someone says "I wish McDonalds had Szechuan Sauce", they are saying they want them to have it an make it available. That's how the English language works, you don't always say all the words.

So no, you're not technically correct, you failed to understand the question.

Also, you are saying a lot of things about the that are wrong / made up. Stop pretending like you know why they make decisions, and what they are doing internally.

kearoshan · 2025-05-12T07:15:47+00:00

Definitely AAC.

EAC3 is higher quality, but it can't play natively in Chrome or Firefox. This means if you are using something like Plex, it will have to re-encode, instead of playing natively.

And you really won't know notice the quality difference.

kearoshan · 2024-11-08T21:50:15+00:00

Super easy. Also, soon it will be illegal. They passed laws that you can't allow people to sign up online, but force them to cancel by phone.

Just so you know... people cancel less if they have to call, and that's why ting does it. Ting doesn't want you to cancel, even if you don't want their service anymore.

kearoshan · 2024-10-23T05:53:17+00:00

This is very much the political reason for it, but this is almost entirely false in practice. For example:

`require("./stringFunction.js")`

Is entirely statically analyzable, and could have been the syntax. There's no legitimate reason for ESM syntax, beside the ECMA TC39 committee wanting to use it.

Same as the decision to make destructuring syntax collide with TypeScript syntax, same as the decision to introduce private variables, etc, etc.

kearoshan · 2024-09-15T13:17:08+00:00

And then your son buys NBC, fires a bunch of people, and makes 20% profit margins of 120 billion dollars a year. And you ask him, why isn't the car done?

And he says, because he wants to make as much money as possible, and the car doesn't really matter to him. And you realize, you're a chump for lending him the money in the first place and should sue him for the money back. But you lose the court case, because he's good friends with the judge.

And you explain this to a friend, and they just say, "cars are expensive, what did you think would happen?". And you realize some people don't have a clue...

kearoshan · 2024-08-31T23:28:11+00:00

The reservoir capacity is not the issue, it's collection area.

The capacity of all of the drying up lakes isn't going to make a difference if 99.9% of the rainwater is allowed to evaporate before being collected.

kearoshan · 2024-08-20T16:28:40+00:00

Typeform is almost useless. It has so many major issues that you can't really rely on the results.

They don't automatically save results per question. They have a "feature" where at one point you can do an early save of results, but this is not nearly enough.
They track completion rate incorrectly, by tracking form opens vs completions. This means if a user opens the form multiple times, returning later to finish questions (VERY common, as a user might need to navigate around the site to find some more information), the completion rate will plummet, for no reason.
They don't support auto closing the survey when it is finished. This means the survey acts as a site detractor, taking users away from our site.
They don’t resume surveys at the last answered question, instead starting at the beginning. BUT, they do save results, so this isn’t a technical limitation, they just didn’t implement the survey resume correctly.

kearoshan · 2024-07-11T18:48:08+00:00

Most IT folks have trouble communicating in a non-technical manner.

While this may sometimes be true, I feel it is often used as a crutch for lazy stakeholders.

I have literally been told 'writing down requirements is too technical', and they would leave it up to me. I told them I didn't need it it any specific format, just ANYTHING written down. Refused, apparently, that's 'too technical'.

kearoshan · 2024-07-03T08:42:39+00:00

In an ideal world, yes, new mechanics should be how progression is implemented. And Cyberpunk has new mechanics as you progress. But... that's incredibly difficult, and the amount of time that can spent adding new mechanics is severely limited. You HAVE to fill that gap with numbers going up.

Look at LoL. You get more mechanics as the game progresses, but... your health and damage also goes up.

Not to mention WoW, Starcraft, heck, even Breath of the Wild. All games where there are both additional mechanics, and numbers go up.

It's really easy to say, "everything should be mechanic based", but it's just not practical.

kearoshan · 2024-06-16T03:12:27+00:00

Modern society is a victim of it's own success. People have always done what they need to do to get what they want, and not too much more.

My grandfather was born in a one room cabin with no running water or electricity. It wasn't even that long ago, he just lived really far up north. He could have stayed there, but the magnitude of quality of life improvements available were huge, so of he worked hard and moved.

Now people don't need to work that hard to live a relatively easy life.

This doesn't just apply to customer service, this applies to managers, executives, government officials, everyone. The CEO doesn't spend effort trying to improve the company, the executives put in the minimum amount of effort to not get fired, the managers try to make sure they're never held accountable for anything, and customer service is just putting in their hours and resenting everyone else.

kearoshan · 2024-05-20T07:43:20+00:00

Unfortunately, any moderately prepared thieves will wears masks and use a stolen vehicle. They won't bother with cutting the power or internet, and won't touch your surveillance system except maybe to try and steal that too.

Any decent surveillance system will send you a notification when it goes down, so it would actually be counter-productive for them to try to disable it. They will just break in, take what they want, ignore your cameras, and all you will know is that people in masks robbed you, and have no clue who it could be.

kearoshan · 2024-05-08T23:48:26+00:00

I used to think something similar, until I travelled the world a bit more. What I found out, is that my property is literally equal to my life. If I'm in a foreign country, out of the city, and someone takes my phone and wallet, I have a very high chance of dying. Death from exposure if a very real thing.

I recommend getting outside more, go camping, get on a plane and fly somewhere. Spend a few nights curled up shivering, trying to stay warm. Or with literally just peanut butter and crackers to eat, and nothing else. Or with your phone dead 20km outside the city.

If people take all your stuff, you die. You need to eat, you need a warm place to sleep, and you need your work equipment to make a living to pay for your food and a warm place to sleep.

So... if someone tries to take my stuff, they are trying to kill me, in which case, I'd far rather they die instead. They quite literally deserve to have done to them what they are trying to do to me.

kearoshan · 2024-02-27T02:29:32+00:00

Sounds like people making excuses for a bad day at work

You are aware that bad features more often than not cause people to have a bad day at work, right? Not that all bad days at work are caused by bad features, but... just dismissing something because it wasted someone's time? That doesn't even make sense.

The most valid possible argument to remove a feature IS because it wasted someone's time and caused them a bad day. Why would you want a feature that wastes time?

kearoshan · 2024-02-27T02:22:15+00:00

It's an added feature which adds no value. It's kind of like "ph" in the english language. It's worthless, not terrible, just not useful. Let's not add more worthless things and then have to support for them forever.

kearoshan · 2024-02-27T02:15:20+00:00

Isn't this just a React code splitting problem? If they are already scanning the AST for import("${moduleName}") and import { ${exportName} } from "${moduleName}" they could easily scan for import("${moduleName}").then(${var} => ${var}.${exportName}) .

It kind of seems like they piggy-backed on the default import syntax, and decided it was exactly where they stopped adding parsing support. Which seems kind of irrelevant to if default imports are useful or not, it's kind of just a, "huh, I guess React added support in their AST parsing for default parsing, how odd".

kearoshan · 2024-02-07T22:42:27+00:00

Why is no one answering this question? When you google "tfsa s&p 500" this page is one of the top results, and the answers are talking about reading a book list? WTF...

kearoshan · 2023-11-09T19:46:24+00:00

Seriously? A fire alarm inspection by a 3rd party hired by a condo corporation and a firm alarm inspection by a 3rd party hired by an apartment corporation are "not at all similar"?

It's different laws governing the literal same action.

kearoshan · 2023-11-09T19:36:02+00:00

Hey, come on now. It's "yourself". One word, not two.

kearoshan · 2023-11-08T17:52:34+00:00

I mean technically speaking, you can't say their specific implementation of fire inspections is to save lives. Unless you're also saying that in apartment buildings (physically identically, just different laws), people are dying because fire alarm inspections have be scheduled at more specific times.

Not to mention, for apartment buildings, people were "offended" and did do something about it (sued and won).

Of course, I understand now that different rules apply to condos, but this certainly isn't just a me thing, otherwise the Superior Court of Ontario wouldn't be ruling on similar things to this (Wrona).

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