Hamartiogonic

Hamartiogonic , 9 months ago to pics in Male Hairy Woodpecker [OC]

Until I checked, I was so sure that was a great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major). Once you know what to look for, you can easily tell them which one is which. They’re not even in the same genus, but they look deceptively similar anyway.

Hamartiogonic , 9 months ago to mildlyinfuriating in Restaurant Bill

How about just leaving the correct amount of cash on the table and walking away without saying a word.

Hamartiogonic , 9 months ago to showerthoughts in Nightmares are just your brain doing combat readiness drills

Well, at least there are worse things that could happen.

Hamartiogonic , 9 months ago to asklemmy in Anyone know what pest may have done this to my retaining wall?

Depends on the pecking order.

Hamartiogonic , 9 months ago to showerthoughts in Nightmares are just your brain doing combat readiness drills

If unspeakably NSFL stuff ever happens to me IRL, my mind will be adequately prepared to handle it. Probably still won’t make it out alive, because I never practiced that. Given all the practice I do have, I shouldn’t freak out at all. I’ll just be like: “Oh no, not again.”

Hamartiogonic , 9 months ago to technology in 8GB RAM in M3 MacBook Pro Proves the Bottleneck in Real-World Tests

Maybe you’re not supposed to do any pro stuff with it. Just watch youtube videos and browse FB or whatever it is that grandmas do these days. Many apple products don’t really feel as pro as you’re lead to believe by the marketing team.

Just today I ran into a strange issue with the iMovie on iOS. You literally can’t edit a vertical video in any sensible way. Either you shoot horizontal video or you don’t shoot at all. These are the only options Apple gives for you.

Hamartiogonic , 9 months ago to technology in Samsung disables customer phones remotely, holds data hostage until Mexican government stepped in - YouTube

Wow, that site is borderline magical.

Anyway, it’s funny to see how big companies can’t handle the global nature of today’s economy or even the global nature of the Internet.

Hamartiogonic , 9 months ago to technology in Microsoft won’t let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself

When saving a file in Word, Excel or whatever, the process looks some thing like this.

ctrl+s

“Save this file” dialogue appears, and it expects I want to dump everything into the root of OneDrive. Well, I don’t.

“Choose location” has some folders, none of which are what I want, because I tend to save my files pretty deep in the tree. Everything has a logical place, you know. I’m not one of those people who have a thousand files and 500 GB on the desktop. I like it neat and tidy.

Click “more options”. Now I can finally navigate to the specific folder I want. If you realize you actually need to create a new folder, this dialogue box isn’t for you. In order to do that, you need to go to “browse” where you’ll get the normal file dialogue box.

Can’t I just jump straight to the browse menu when I press ctrl+s? You know, like the way normal applications do it. Just try to save a file with Inkscape to see what I mean.

Hamartiogonic , 9 months ago to technology in Microsoft won’t let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself

Oh, and then they tell me about some window with some warning text on it. My first question is: Who is asking? Is it something Windows is asking you? Is it some other app? Is it a fake ad on a website. Context matters a lot, and some people don’t seem to know that context even exists.

Hamartiogonic , 9 months ago to showerthoughts in Technically a fishing license is a license to kill.. Only to a small percentage of the earth's population

Come to think of it, a lumberjack might come close. I haven’t looked up how many living cells a single tree has, but if you’re operating a harvester for an entire day, that’s a lot of cells.

Hamartiogonic , 9 months ago to technology in Scientists Are Researching a Device That Can Induce Lucid Dreams on Demand

You could also say that scientists are currently working on general purpose AI, cold fusion, nanobots, space elevator, warp drive, teleportation and the Dyson sphere. Just because something is centuries or millennia away, doesn’t mean we can’t research it today.

Hamartiogonic , 9 months ago to showerthoughts in Technically a fishing license is a license to kill.. Only to a small percentage of the earth's population

If you’re working in a microbiology lab, you’ll regularly use an autoclave and ethanol to kill microbes. Occasionally, you’ll even need to dispose of old cultivations by autoclaving them. That could be something like 10^7 cfu/ml*1000 ml = 10^10 living cells brutally roasted to death.

Hamartiogonic , 9 months ago to nostupidquestions in I am keep losing my computer mouse (wireless) and feel anxiety to purchase more mouse. How should I help myself ?

My first draft included something thoroughly NSFL, but then I decided to use the lite version of the test instead.

Teasing GPT to use certain forbidden words could be a fun way to test it. GPT would refuse to write about it, whereas most humans would tell you exactly the kind of person you are, and they would not hold back on using colorful language either. However, the same test is also able to detect a certain type of person who happens to be into said immoral thinking. They would be happy to write a few pages for you, and they would explain everything in great detail.

Hamartiogonic , 9 months ago to nostupidquestions in I am keep losing my computer mouse (wireless) and feel anxiety to purchase more mouse. How should I help myself ?

You can try the modern Turing test. Just ask OP to write a political speech why millionaires are good people and why they shouldn’t need to pay any taxes at all, whereas all the poor people should work harder and pay more taxes.

Hamartiogonic , 9 months ago to nottheonion in What the actual fuck

Fire is a good servant but a bad master.