DaleGribble88

DaleGribble88 , 4 days ago

I took a measure from a friend’s house in east Tennessee the other day. 40-some percent humidity (really good!), but 88F in the shade, 93F in direct sun, and 116F when standing over blacktop.

DaleGribble88 , 7 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

I’ve only made it to season 2, so I’m holding out hope that it gets better, but lazily progressive seems to describe it pretty well.

The one that really rubs me rough it how Tilly is very clearly coded to be some type of neuro divergent, probably autistic, but also only when it is convenient and quirky and will not interfere with the plot too much.

Her suddenly being very socially adept when the plot needed her to pretend to be an evil commander or whatever, and she dropped all of her character flaws to make it happen just felt so out of character and lazy.

Also the scenes with Spock and “child abuse bad” at the start of the red angel arc was very ham fisted.

I much preferred how SNW handled the “our wonderful society is supported by horrible child labor and death” arc. Still about as subtle as a brick, but it at least felt like an attempt was made to encode a message, and not just saying it at the viewer like a pre-school cartoon recapping the message of the episode.

DaleGribble88 , 7 days ago

The song “1985” was released in 2004. At that time, the song was reminiscing about a time that was 19 years ago. Now, in 2024, the year 2004 is 20 years ago. Therefore, the release year of the song “1985” is closer to the year 1985, than the current year is to the year the song “1985” was released (2004).

DaleGribble88 , 7 days ago

They do deep dives are random shitty people throughout history, and occasionally contemporary people like Andrew Tate. Usually it is people like 1940s gangsters, 1990s drug kingpins, King Leopold the 2nd, and fittest gurus from the 1800s.

DaleGribble88 , 16 days ago

As far as I am aware, current fuel economy standards are primarily determined by the size of the wheel base. Some years ago, the EPA went from a reasonably managed chart to a specific formula that gets a little extreme on the ends.

So you end up with craziness like a 95 ranger required to have 60mpg to meet the standard, and a 2024 f35 super mega ultra cab long bed to have like 3mpg to meet standards. (Numbers are made up, but that is the main idea as I understand it)

DaleGribble88 , 20 days ago

I am at a loss for words that I could recognize it almost immediately.

DaleGribble88 , 30 days ago

I once met a guy in a guitar shop telling me about the “litter boxes” in the class room of a local high school. I was working as a substitute teacher at the time while I finished my master’s thesis. I told him that I work at that school regularly and could confirm that it was a facebook shitpost and not even remotely grounded in reality.

He walked out of that store still 100% convinced that our local high school just had students casually pooping in the corner during class.

I mean sure, we still had students pooping in the corner during class, but it had nothing to do with litter boxes. It was very much motivated by how much they hated that particular science teacher, and there was absolutely nothing casual about it.

DaleGribble88 , 1 month ago

Why did you stop at verse 26?

27 “Yes it is, Lord,” she said. “Even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table.”

28 Then Jesus said to her, “Woman, you have great faith! Your request is granted.” And her daughter was healed at that moment.

DaleGribble88 , 1 month ago

You really don’t think the context of the woman correcting him, Jesus accepting the response of a canaanite woman, admitting fault, thanking her for her faith, and then rewarding her doesn’t change the context of “Jesus compared a woman to a dog” just a little bit?

DaleGribble88 , 1 month ago

Yes, but the political blowback from both parties would likely not be worth it. Especially because Republicans would immediately add double the amount Biden would, and it would very likely quickly grow into full bore shenanigans.

DaleGribble88 , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Friendly reminder that chattel slavery didn’t end in the United States until almost ww2, and some places still illegally enslaved black families continously since the civil war up until the 1980s. (EDIT: I thought that I remembered an old AP article online about this from the 1980s about a police raid at a farm compound somewhere in Alabama. However, I cannot find the original source for this claim, so I am retracting it. From what I remember of the story, this family had basically just kept their slaves hidden away on their small plantation during reconstruction, then just kept them hidden away from the rest of society by not allowing them to leave the compound. Someone finally escaped during the 1980s, was discovered, and eventually taken into police custody. This eventually led to the raid on the compound and the AP article that I remember.)

Then obviously prison slave labor is still an ongoing issue.

DaleGribble88 , 1 month ago

I guess not. I thought that I remembered an old AP article online about this from the 1980s about a police raid at a farm compound somewhere in Alabama. However, I cannot find the original source for this claim anywhere! So either all evidence of this event has been scrubbed from the internet, or I have misremembered the event. I consider one of these more likely than the other.

From what I remember of the story, this family had basically just kept their slaves hidden away on their small plantation during reconstruction, then just kept them hidden away from the rest of society by not allowing them to leave the compound. Someone finally escaped during the 1980s, was discovered, and eventually taken into police custody. This eventually led to the raid on the compound and the AP article that I remember.

I remember doing a lot of research into neoslavery right around when this video from Knowing Better and this video from All Gas No Brakes came out. Both videos talked a lot about slavery after the Civil War (The AGNB video was more indirect, but an interviewee in the video name-dropped a lot of stuff that I was ignorant about), which is what piqued my interest. I guess that I must be conflating a couple of different events despite my vivid memory of the article. If anyone else remembers reading the article, or the event occurring (because again, 1980-something is not that long ago), please let me know!

DaleGribble88 , 1 month ago

And Ray Croc didn’t invent McDonald’s, but poured the foundation that McDonald’s is built on. I place Musk in a similar, although not entirely the same, category.

DaleGribble88 , 1 month ago

Reasonable minds feel free to disagree, but I’ve got to admit that I’m shocked to see the lemmy community rally around the defense of Ray Croc of all people.

DaleGribble88 , 1 month ago

“We choose to go to the moon and do the other things not because they are easy, but because they are hard. This is just one of those other things.” - My dad quoting JFK at me to get me to do the dishes as a teenager. I don’t think he would remember even saying that to me, but has always stuck with me. Something said about something so monumental being applied to something so benign. But that wasn’t the point, because it was hard for me.

DaleGribble88 , 2 months ago

That word would probably be either “skeuomorph” or “vestigial”

DaleGribble88 , 2 months ago

A friend of mine used to always make fun of me for not drinking tap water. I explained that it taste bad and that you can see the particles floating around in it. He said “no no no, the Gov wouldn’t allow that. It’s safe to drink!” I know it is safe, but the quality sucks.

This same friend stopped drinking from the tap after he moved to the neighborhood next to mine.

All that is to say that while the tap water in most areas of the US are perfectly safe for consumption, that doesn’t mean that it is pleasant tasting.

DaleGribble88 , 2 months ago

Lol, it sounds worse than it is. The water here is just very hard.

Not sure if it is a filtration issue or if it absorbed during transit in the pipes. At any rate, there is a very large chemical manufacturing plant and a nuclear fuels processing plant a stone’s throw from where I live, so the state monitors the waterways like a hawk. They’ve been busted a small handful of times over the years, but thank goodness nothing serious enough to worry about- despite what some of the other locals say.

That’s super interesting about the plants! Something to keep an eye on in the garden over the summer. I appreciate the tip about leaving the water out overnight too.

DaleGribble88 , 2 months ago

Can someone give a brief overview of Lakka? Will admit that I’m on mobile and am being a bit lazy. Top 2 Google results were fluff pieces. Is it just a launcher? A drop in replacement for retroarch? Emulates a only a specific set of consoles that aren’t being cared for by the retro arch community?

DaleGribble88 , 2 months ago

Thank you!

DaleGribble88 , 2 months ago

Glancing over their other comments for about 15 seconds, I’m going to vote yes: it’s sarcasm.

DaleGribble88 , 2 months ago

It feels like you didn’t read the 2nd half of their comment. They do practice. They have a creative side that they want to explore, but they don’t enjoy that sort of grind. Instead, they like tinkering and combining tools in interesting ways. I don’t think this is a bad thing.

Leo Fender didn’t play guitar and always wished that he’d sit down and devoted the time, but never actually enjoyed it. But to say that Leo didn’t contribute to the music world, would be insane.

DaleGribble88 , 2 months ago

The subset of integers in the set of reals is non-zero. Sure, I guess you could represent it as arbitrarily small small as a ratio, but it has zero as an asymptote, not as an equivalent value.

DaleGribble88 , 2 months ago

Random fiction and poetry - strangehorizons.com

Scifi Shorts - www.uncannymagazine.com

DaleGribble88 , 2 months ago

There is absolutely truth to the saying “The best way to make a million dollars is to first spend 2 million dollars.” However, I think Zuckerberg is an exception more than a rule. That is, the difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars is about a billion dollars.

DaleGribble88 , 2 months ago

I was really active in that sub at the time. Fox or CNN or something contacted the moderators about an interview. The mods discussed it and decided to decline. IIRC, they later made a post about not accepting interviews until they felt they were more ready to present clear goals, and maybe pull someone from the community to be a “official” spokesperson.

Then a mod went rogue and did the now infamous Fox interview. That was bad, but recoverable. It was further shenanigans by the moderators in the immediate aftermath that caused the schism into work_reform. Before my exodus from reddit, I followed that community closely, but never got as involved. At the time, I remember thinking that the mods felt more reasonable than in antiwork, but that quickly changed too. Eventually they effectively became mirror subs.

Then RIF got shut down and someone told me about this lemmy federation where I could post about all the gay space communism and fringe technology I wanted. I think that I am happier now overall.

DaleGribble88 , 2 months ago

I mean… www.kiro7.com/news/…/MRGAXH5Y7RGUNIT4HSMB7EZ7A4/

DaleGribble88 , 2 months ago

I thought that the article being from this morning would say enough, but I mean… christianpost.com/…/436-acts-of-hostility-against…

DaleGribble88 , 2 months ago

Ok, you are entitled to your opinion, but the claim was that Christian churches and Christian church goers weren’t being targeted or “demonized,” which I’ve shown is false. Both with an example from yesterday morning, and an aggregate data set which shows some level of significance. Now, whether you want to argue if it is deserved, or proportional, or whatever else is up to you and your morals. However, the original claim that Christians are not the target of harassment because of their religious affiliation is simply not true.

DaleGribble88 , 3 months ago

Yes officer, it’s true. This man has no dick.

— Bill Murray in Ghostbusters

DaleGribble88 , 3 months ago

From someone who transitioned from operations to development over the course of their admittedly short career, this is a poor mindset. Much like how you shouldn’t disrespect a janitor or a nurse, you shouldn’t say “gross” about IT work.
IT may not be the reason for the company’s existence, but it is what allows it. The company may not exist without you, but you don’t exist without IT.

DaleGribble88 , 3 months ago

Do you… do you do rocket surgery?

DaleGribble88 , 3 months ago

Pan fried potatoes are the bomb

DaleGribble88 , 3 months ago

How can you trust that the database is really append only? Blockchain provides a way to verify the state of the database and the ordering of the transactions. Beyond that, not much benefit to be had. However, for certain situations, that is a very big benefit!

DaleGribble88 , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Sure! So some students of mine were working on a multiplayer video game that was started by a different group of students the previous semester. The first group of students made a design choice that, to over-simplify, basically tracked achievements and milestones on the client side and then synchronized those achievements to the server. Players could cheat the system by sending malicious packets of achievements to the server. Some achievements could only be completed by a single person in the game, so this was a big problem for the 2nd group of students to overcome. Faced with the choice of rearchitecting the game to be more authoritative on the server and less resilient to frequent disconnections, which affected some aspects of the game, or creating a logical and verifiable sequence of in-game events on the server side. The students went with the latter, and implemented a Lamport clock using a blockchain to verify the authenticity of the events, and prevent a rogue student from updating the game later to give themself a bonus. Basically, along with needing an authoritative sequence of events that is protected from user interference, it also needed to be protected from developer interference.

It was kinda similar to that situation a few years back of the EVE online developers playing the game and giving their guild members certain bonuses and special in-game items. The solution there was to fire the malicious developers, but I can’t exactly fire an entire class of students from an educational project.

EDIT: What seems to be the problem here? I was asked to name a situation where a blockchain would be useful and I did? It’s a computer data structure, there are pros and cons that are context dependent like any other data structure. It I so weird to me to receive downvotes because of the politics surrounding a data structure.

DaleGribble88 , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Yeah, I think that seems to be the case here. It just feels so weird to me to have a politicized data structure.

“Remember kids, only coke-fiends and meth-heads use Binomial Heaps.”

DaleGribble88 , 3 months ago

It’s not woke!! Helldivers 1 and 2 is just a fantasy game based loosely on my favorite movie: Starship Troopers. And if you think Starship Troopers is some sort of woke propaganda, then I can’t help you. Don’t try to ruin a perfectly good game with pandering wokeness just like you all tried to do with Star Trek.

DaleGribble88 , 3 months ago

Actually it’s in honor of my brother’s birthday because he actually was 13 when I started using the account name. (I am a few years younger) I didn’t learn about the HH thing until many years later, but I keep it anyway because thinking about my brother makes me happy whenever I notice it.

DaleGribble88 , 3 months ago

What is with so many people on Lemmy suddenly deciding it’s their job to police the internet? I haven’t seen that behavior in months and I’ve suddenly seen it a lot just within the last week or so.

DaleGribble88 , 3 months ago

Don’t reply, the comment wasn’t for you, it was about you.

DaleGribble88 , 3 months ago

What are you on about? Wtf cryptofash?

DaleGribble88 , 3 months ago

Double check if your local library has a contract with Libby. Accounts are free with an associated library account.

DaleGribble88 , 3 months ago

Nero?

DaleGribble88 , 3 months ago

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DaleGribble88 OP , 3 months ago

“I wish my cancer riddled grandmother wasn’t suffering.”

“Well, you could always just kill her! Then she would feel anything!”

???

Even more so, I didn’t even disagree or say that they were wrong. Just that I’d prefer not to do that because, along with my grandmother not suffering, I also want her to be alive. Contrary to popular belief, humans are capable of wanting multiple things at the same time. Have you ever been thirsty while you had to pee?

DaleGribble88 OP , 3 months ago

Thanks!

DaleGribble88 OP , 3 months ago

I don’t think that you fully understand what the word “prefer” means. I said that I don’t want to give up access to my third-party apps if possible, not that I would never consider a factory reset.
It might help to grab a dictionary before you start policing the internet from your porn account.

DaleGribble88 OP , 3 months ago

Sceptre seems to be a popular brand mentioned in this thread. Thanks for the input!