remotelove

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[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 2 points 17 hours ago

Pho would be the first date and it's usually only spicy if you make it that way. ;)

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago

Some instances are just geo-blocking the UK. Honestly, the world should just block the UK right now.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago

A $1.1 trillion spend for Russia might actually get them a partially working aircraft carrier.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

I am curious about your view. Can you point to anything specific? We all know he made a big investment into Framework and he was a fanboi of that company for a while.

There are some very real constraints around how LTT can review laptops now. Any promotional work (reviews, status updates, etc.) that LTT does for Framework is easily framed as such based on video context.

I am genuinely curious about this and your point of view. Why? I am not a huge fan of deception or otherwise shady practices that would illegally harm competitors.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

Ok, sorry. I was just curious as the video title is different and I didn't see the upload name itself. (in the video thumbnail itself: "Birds can store data")

This was just a slight difference that got me thinking about file sizes, why a PNG was converted instead of just drawing on a spectrograph and other little nuances of this process, s'all.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

OP, how exactly did you extrapolate that title from the video?

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago

I watched the video, and you are incorrect.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 15 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I seem to have missed the question.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

This is a satire community, but I have seen the occasional non-meme float through here with mixed results....

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That looks welcoming.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

Yeah, absolutely a rolling ball effect. It's probably a difficult process to kick-off as the immediate surrounding space of an inactive black hole is going to be super super empty. (Any small stuff nearby would just get monched with no trace.)

Once the process starts though......

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

When the conditions are right for them to start feeding on matter again, sure.

While I don't know the exact processes that turn feeding events on or off, I suspect that the energy released from an accretion disk can disturb enough material in the surrounding area to cause more material to fall into the black hole, causing even more chaos.

Once this activity dies down, it may take quite a while for something with enough mass to get close enough to trigger another event. (Just spit balling, I would speculate it would have to be a gas cloud with the mass of several hundred [thousands?] stars or so.)

Or, I could be completely misremembering how this process works. The important bit is that black holes are suspected to go through spurts of feeding.

 

So, yeah. It's been a few years sober now, so that is nice.

One thing I have noticed about myself is the actual existence of a personality. It wasn't a change that happened within the first few months of being sober, but over the following years.

Strangely enough, a bizarre trait is that if given the chance, I can talk about just about anything for hours. My saving grace is that I was always a repository for massive amounts of random information, but now, I can string all of that data together into coherent sentences then easily pivot into all related sub-topics and associated information on top of that.

I make a ton more off-the-cuff jokes now and I don't even know where they come from. It seems I have the ability to make people laugh, which I never thought possible.

Overall, my personality has become extremely broad these days and the above is just a couple of examples. One might say that I am a pleasant person to be around? (That is a very strange feeling, BTW.)

Has anyone else seen themselves or others go through massive personality shifts like I describe? I am not understating "massive". I surprise myself nearly every day with how intense I can get.

FWIW, I was an extremely heavy drinker when I quit and was about a year into serious dependency.

 

Quick definition for those who don't know: Cognitive dissonance occurs when a person's behavior and beliefs do not complement each other or when they hold two contradictory beliefs.

Story time! Please read this in it's entirety as there is important context as well as an actual point.

I have been spending some time with the in-laws over the past couple of weeks, because reasons. They are an immigrant family, but have been in the US since the tail end of the Vietnam war. All hold US citizenship and it's a large family.

Politics has cone up occasionally, but for the most part, we tend to steer away from those discussions when we mistakenly bring them up in conversation. Strangely enough, some are actually Trump supporters but I wouldn't go so far as to say anyone is full-blown "MAGA" or anything. I would describe the support as mild and truly ignorant of broader level politics.

So, there was some discussion about how immigrants needed to be kicked out of the US and there was support for mass deportations. Another conversation was about how "everyone"abused food stamps and welfare, but within about 10 mins, the discussion flipped to what products another person in the family could buy with their EBT card. Medicare and Medicaid is also a waste of the countries money, but then later there was a discussion about how to use those benefits for another family member.

Politics aside, cognitive dissonance is a bitch to deal with, especially when it's coupled with anecdotal evidence that may not even be real. I suspect that any experience with other "immigrants" I heard over the last couple of weeks are likely the result of a single, heavily biased experience coupled with gossip. (The gossip may create false memories of a situation the person believes is true. I think there is a special name for that.)

Telling a person bluntly that they are wrong is usually counter productive. Calling out the contradictions in beliefs can also be strangely unproductive as well. When a valid argument is made and a person realizes they can't resolve a conflicting belief, the tendency seems to be to fall back on a generic phrase like, "Well, I don't fully understand it, but that person must know what they are doing.", or something similar.

Provided that you actually give a shit, how do you go about cracking the shell of someone that has fallen victim to this kind of thing?

 

I have no plans to move from Lemmy any time soon, but I am curious if PieFed integration was being considered.

It would probably make more sense to fork Connect but a "multi-client" would be neat.

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There seems to be a correlation between how long a feed hasn't been interacted with and this behavior. (Scroll up and down a feed; Wait a random amount of time; pre-fetching seems to halt.)

There are times when pre-fetching the feed can be slow and briefly pause while loading. Sometimes, this is when the feed will lock up.)

 

... this happens more often on cursed memes. /s

I can still slide to open the menu, but cannot take action on the feed. (The + button opens in the fore-foreground, so it works as well as 'back to exit' Connect.)

I was playing with the thumbnail preview in fairly rapid succession when one just "stuck".

 

Seemingly random. Error may only happen on the first post a new thread. Could be a server-side issue, but not sure.

 

Menu -> Refresh does not cause this issue.

 

I just realized that I have never used an oscilloscope on anything over 50V DC. (There has never been a need, actually.)

The goal is to trace how noise generated by my PC GPU is propagating through the power circuit. As I don't want to start tossing in power filters at random spots, it would be nice to actually understand what is going on first.

TBH, measuring mains AC doesn't seem any different than any other measurement I would take, other than using a 1:100 scope probe. Are there any "gotchas" I should be aware of that would put my scope at risk?

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by remotelove@lemmy.ca to c/foodporn@lemmy.world
 

OMG. This recipe is one of the best I have tried.

 

Our dev does good things. Please help keep the world economy intact by buying him a coffee.

Connect -> Settings -> Scroll to bottom -> Support your dev link.

Nelson demands it.

Edit: A few coffees later and the DOW is up 2k. Coincidence? I think not.

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