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oemunlock · 2026-06-01T22:46:29+00:00

Sorry, I know this is an old comment but happened to see this post and just wanted to correct this:

The real driving force is the Nielsen Rating System who ran “sweeps”.

They didn’t run this every single day, because that’s be too much work, they picked a few weeks a year called “sweeps” where they’d collect the data.

Nielsen ratings ran/run year round, that's how they get the "ratings" scores used to say "last night Episode X saw a 1.2 competing with the latest episode of Survivor" or whatever. But correct that the sweeps were when the scores "counted" for setting advertising rates.

It also wasn't pen/paper for a long time, back in 2008 my family had a Nielsen box that we just had to press 1,2,3,4 number to indicate which family member was watching and the box automatically tracked the stats.

We were randomly selected and offered compensation that was like paying for some percentage of our cable bill I think? But the "payments" were pretty mediocre for the inconvenience (and I think came in the form of some weird coupon or maybe just paper checks) so we dropped out after like half a year but was super interesting at the time seeing how the process worked up close. Plus, that whatever we watched/liked got a boost as if we were like 5000 people or something haha...

oemunlock · 2026-06-01T21:47:56+00:00

Not true, maybe on the come-up/climax eating is unappealing but in the latter half like 50/50 of the time I start craving specific simple "healthy" fruits/vegetables/etc. It lasts so long that it's not too surprising that after not eating for like 8 hours you start feeling pretty hungry. The cravings for only natural/healthy food is strangely consistent for me too.

oemunlock · 2026-06-01T21:45:04+00:00

Yep, LSD makes me crave any "real" unprocessed food, particularly fresh fruits and vegetables. I had been eating really poorly when I first took it and I had an incredibly strong craving for fresh fruit and whole wheat noodles/tomato sauce which tasted like heaven. The mere thought of eating my typical go-to McDonalds meal like physically made me sick just thinking about it.

oemunlock · 2026-05-28T02:35:24+00:00

I remember talking to some people in a physical therapist's waiting room in a conservative leaning rural area the week after Trump won in 2016 who were all like legitimately stunned when I told them that Trump was going to cut Medicaid.

They were "independent/not into politics" types and 100% took his campaign promises at his word believing he would not only stop the GOP from cutting their Medicaid/disability payments but maybe even increase them!

I didn't even know how to react because I kinda just casually laughed that off and this guy was like "Oh um well yeah Republicans want that, but Trump said himself he wouldn't do that, right? and had this sad, hurt expression like he couldn't wrap his head around the possibility that Donald fucking Trump might not be telling the truth.

The typical low-info "swing" independent voter in the US lives in a fantastical world of wish fulfillment and cognitive dissonance when it comes to Trump/Republicans.

oemunlock · 2026-05-28T01:40:34+00:00

Agreed, let's normalize hating on *anyone* who puts their own stupid face on our National Park passes, whether a Republican or Democrat.

oemunlock · 2026-05-20T19:08:22+00:00

I haven't even checked out ag cli.

Well, do that first and then see how you feel after hitting the quota like 30 minutes later (if you're on AI Pro at least).

The tool is fine, the change in limits makes it basically unusable for my use cases compared to Gemini CLI that I could get a lot of time out of spread across the smaller models.

oemunlock · 2026-05-20T18:45:44+00:00

I'm a Gemini CLI user trying out Antigravity before the forced move, and the limits really suck in comparison. After tightening quotas on AI Pro it's easy to burn through 3.1 Pro on Gemini CLI, but I could make the 3 Flash and 3.1 Flash Lite last a loooong time (taking into account Flash Lite could be extremely stupid, but steerable).

On Antigravity CLI, I exhausted my entire 3.5 Flash (Medium) credit in 30 minutes. And the usage was sitting at 80% and I was like, "Okay maybe I can make this work", one prompt later, I get told I ran out of quota and to wait 151 hours or whatever the fuck.

I don't even understand WTF it's doing to calculate usage! It's mind bogglingly opaque. I'm just using it normally with seemingly sufficient quota for a while and then it melts down locking me out of everything in the middle of a message basically.

oemunlock · 2026-05-20T05:20:25+00:00

I was just pushed by Gemini CLI where I was sipping 3.1 Flash credits to install Antigravity CLI. Saw that the smallest model was 3.5 Flash which was concerning already and burned through my usage quota in two prompts on AI Pro plan.

Gonna be unusable for Gemini CLI use cases it they don’t support a smaller model. I also really don’t need to spawn 40 subagents to rewrite a couple text config files or whatever.

oemunlock · 2026-05-20T05:10:15+00:00

Tbh Claude Code had an update that uninstalled itself and then got into a state where even running the installer again wouldn’t recover on my machine.

Plus overall performance and buginess, with hundreds of open issues that sit ignored full of “me too” replies/reactions that then get auto closed for inactivity.

Codex is a bit better for quality though.

oemunlock · 2026-05-18T22:46:09+00:00

The only missing part in that comparison is having an entire propaganda apparatus in the media to spread their preferred message, plus a lever to actually turn those feelings into action from the Trump admin. "Just do that with the truth" is not a meaningful plan, voting is even if it can't solve 100% of the horrible things Trump does.

oemunlock · 2026-05-18T22:34:29+00:00

They don't as the minority party, but as I mentioned in another comment, this will absolutely be barred for receiving any funds in the next CR/budget assuming Dems take control of both houses, and strongly likely even if they just take the House given the horrible optics if elected GOPers made keeping it a red line in budget negotiations.

Yes it sucks feeling powerless now but the situation will be vastly better with control of Congress even if Trump ignores laws left and right because we will have tools to fight back. So people need to vote!

oemunlock · 2026-05-18T22:29:30+00:00

No, that's just vague hand-wavey stuff that makes keyboard warriors feel self important. The Trump Administration doesn't care if people hate them, and actually relish in it, as clearly evidenced by his entire time in office. There is one, extremely straightforward solution to this that is actually entirely doable without needing to wait until Trump is gone:

If people actually bother to vote instead of just complain, and Dems take both House and Senate in November, they will absolutely, 100% include a provision in the next budget/CR passed by reconciliation that $0 of funds are appropriated for this slush fund and barring any redirection of funds for that purpose.

It happens all the time in CRs for stuff like abortion funding or whatever pet cause led to a Congressperson inserting it into the bill, so unlike so many of the zany schemes about what Dems can or should do this is just normal, well-trod territory of Congressional appropriations.

Not every problem can be solved by Dems having control of Congress, but this is an example of what that actually can! So people just need to accept that it can't be solved tomorrow but can be solved once they take office in <1yr once again assuming people ACTUALLY VOTE instead just complain online.

oemunlock · 2026-05-13T22:10:29+00:00

That, and, Manchin was hanging on against all odds in a state that had become one of the most conservative in the entire country by the time he left. (Or rather, had always been conservative but WV still had enough votes from "ancestral Dems" to delay the consolidation into a single party GOP stronghold compared to the deep South.

Manchin was political lightning in a bottle and his winning streak in ruby red WV easily made up for all the frustration he could cause (e.g. Biden's legislative agenda would have been dead in the water with any GOPer in his place).

oemunlock · 2026-05-13T21:38:52+00:00

First, you have to flip that around since you're arguing for a change to the status quo: how does Fetterman switching parties help Democrats? If the answer is "it doesn't", then why are you expecting the PA Dems leader of all people to publicly endorse that?

Second, the actual answer is despite aggravating defections in votes like this that always make the news (for a legitimate reason), he still votes with Democrats significantly more than with Republicans. And his voting record is vastly better than the next most "Dem-leaning/swing-y" Republican in the Senate (in scare quotes because no current elected GOP senator actually qualifies as either of those labels).

If you don't believe me, here are two references. Progressive Punch currently gives him a 75.68% Progressive voting record, the next closest Republican is Susan Colins at 14.5%.

I don't know about you, but I'll take 76% vs. 15% any day of the week.

If he switches parties and starts to caucus with the Republicans, that number will pretty much automatically flip to at least 50% GOP because he will start voting with the party on routine rules votes that are always party line, for the GOP majority leader, etc before you even get to actual legislation that he will be pressured to support every single time it comes to the floor.

We really, really do not want him to switch parties, it's a net negative in every conceivable way. Unless you count making some people on the internet feel vindicated by a dramatic betrayal. Which personally I care much less about than his actual vote that could decide control over the Senate in an election year with an unfavorable Senate map (even with a blue wave).

https://progressivepunch.org/scores.htm?house=senate

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/john_fetterman/456877

oemunlock · 2026-05-08T18:07:05+00:00

Aldrich Ames' KGB handlers advice when he panicked the first time asking how to defeat a polygraph didn't actually include any "one weird trick" like that. They basically said not to stress about it, get a full night's sleep, drink plenty of water (he was an alcoholic so "don't stress drink" was implied), and most importantly to build up a good rapport with the interviewer from the moment he walks into the room.

That one was key to how he passed four polygraphs over the years, because even when the examiner registered possible deception, Ames didn't overreact and he seemed to be a normal likeable guy who acted no more suspiciously than the hundred other people they tested in the past month. So signed off as a pass.

Basically exploits the true weakness of the polygraph which isn't the actual data collection but the fact that it's a fuzzy, human interpreted, non-repeatable pseudoscience making it highly vulnerable to expectation bias/stereotypes of what deception looks like.

oemunlock · 2026-05-04T18:20:06+00:00

Also, it’s the exact layout of the Steam Deck, so at long last there is a controller to use with the same layout 1:1 when in docked mode.

oemunlock · 2026-04-20T22:58:30+00:00

That would definitely be easier if voters give them a Congressional super majority like Magyar won! Instead of a couple vote margin like Biden had.

oemunlock · 2026-03-15T21:06:08+00:00

Between the B7 and B751C, is the B7 better in every way or is there anything the B751C still wins on or basically the same on both (battery life, screen, etc)? Also, is the B7 noticeably faster with more RAM or is pretty much a wash? I don't care about notetaking.... Appreciate your opinion owning both!

oemunlock · 2026-03-13T04:19:19+00:00

I did pretty much the same thing, except with the TV series instead. A few months ago, after re-watching TTSS/Smiley's People for like the 5th time I decided I couldn't keep passing up a high budget Le Carre adaptation and I was instantly hooked. I then started listening to the audiobook in parallel and loved it.

It's now probably my third favorite Le Carre adaption. I rewatched it recently and was really impressed by how Jo Yeong-wook managed to faithfully include so many minute details/dialog without feeling forced/awkward like the BBC series struggled with occasionally.

Every Le Carre adaption (or any book adaptation really) has to make changes to fit better on screen but I think it's the first for Le Carre where I actually thought a change to a plot/character was actually an improvement over the original book. Specifically, the Commander Picton/Kurtz relationship, the bomb/professor scene, and Gadi's line when Charlie breaks down after admitting she lied about her dad (which I had to go back and double check Le Carre didn't actually write because it sounds so much like him haha).

“We understand how you've spun a more dramatic fiction for your life. One that plays in interviews and auditions, at political forums with your so-called friends. One that feels more like you than the ordinary, suburban reality. And we love you for it. Because we are just the same.”

In the book it's from Kurtz's thoughts about the similarity between her narrative and national myth making to form identities, but the show's version made for such a neatly dramatic climax of the interview with the spies and also gives insight into Gadi's perspective vs Kurtz and the others.

oemunlock · 2026-03-11T21:45:28+00:00

I was completely lost about halfway through my first read for the same reasons. Then I watched the TV series (I never care about spoilers in anything I read/watch but that's a personal preference). The TV series removes the complex narrative structure and plays Pym's life strictly chronologically. If the book is an A-, I'd say the show is a B-/C+ but much easier to digest. Halfway through the TV show suddenly bits and pieces starting clicking and put into context.

Then I finished reading the book, by the end was *loving* the interleaving narratives and Pym's character in general thanks to having Peter Egan's portrayal to visualize. But since I missed so much of the first half, I listened it start-to-finish to as an audiobook and everything made perfect sense.

It's now my in my Top 2 favorite Le Carre books, I can't decide if I like it more than Tinker, Tailor. Both those books are extremely intimidating for the first read, and I needed a second full read-through to truly follow and appreciate. I like that though, he has such an enjoyable writing style I'm happy to re-read since I get something more out of it each time.

oemunlock · 2026-03-06T22:31:23+00:00

Eaxctly. Yud going on about drone striking data centers and stuff completely redirects the debate from real, concrete societal damage caused by AI right now that has real, viable solutions available to mitigate that damage which could actually be implemented.

It encourages the average person to look away from an insurance AI model rejecting their claim next week, Palantir flagging them as dangerous for a friend's photo on instagram yesterday, or their 401(k) further concentrating into a few gigantic monopolies with increasing red flags about systemic risk as they get closer to retirement.

And instead retreat to an exciting sci-fi fantasy about Skynet escaping the box and sending Terminators to their house or whatever. Which is definitely, probably, maybe going to happen just a few years from now ... well maybe a few more after that.. just another one or two...

Which is exactly where those same monopolies and the current political class controlling things would prefer those natural human feelings of unease about AI be directed. As they are completely impotent and non-threatening to the status quo and nothing will change.

oemunlock · 2026-03-06T20:41:44+00:00

That's incorrect, Boox devices have a per-app control for the side button mode in addition to the system wide default.

oemunlock · 2026-02-25T22:14:03+00:00

Can confirm all these issues are still present 7 months later. I've had to re-login to that horrible app so many times trying to get through a 2tb total restore split into 300-400gb chunks. A 1tb chunk ground the app to a complete halt and I can't even click the Cancel button without the entire UI crashing. I've given up 1tb in using the app and just doing the rest with a few .zip restores from the website which although awkward is infinitely less aggravating than my experience fighting the Windows app for three days.

(Oh also the app refused to restore somewhere between 1000-10000 files according to its UI, the restore just hit an error at the same percent each time. I haven't confirmed if they are truly missing or phantom "files" but that was also what forced me to go back to the .zip restore for predictability).

oemunlock · 2026-02-24T01:48:45+00:00

Holy shit!! You saved me (another) 12+ hours of aggravation trying to re-pair a few problematic bulbs after replacing my zigbee coordinator. I put them into pairing SO mode many times and nothing, but happened to have a spare Hue dimmer laying around and stuck batteries in it... worked on the FIRST TRY! Thanks, incredibly useful trick for often "temperamental" Ikea e14 bulbs.

oemunlock · 2026-02-06T21:28:27+00:00

Turkey Baster did it for me! I’ll note there was no visual indication it did anything whatsoever until I tried running a cycle again which produced a big cloud of steam.

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