MisterFrog

MisterFrog , 17 hours ago

It’s not like AI is a legally defined term anywhere (that I’ve head of). Surely someone will end up suing google for things like this.

MisterFrog , 2 days ago

So far I’m sensing a food related theme with your sexual conquests

MisterFrog , 4 days ago

The rest of the world would like a word. Do you really think only you people in the US exist?

Also the equivalent for psi is Pa (=N/m²), usually as kPa or bar (100 kPa).

Most people don’t really understand either to a great extent, and are just familiar with one or the other.

As always though, metric wins because of its interoperability with all the other metric units.

MisterFrog , 4 days ago

Be mad that income tax is unnecessarily difficult to deal with. As has been pointed out by others online a lot recently, the US makes personal income taxes hard, where other countries you can fill it out in minutes if you have no deductions, and less than an hour if you do (and have kept good records).

No one likes paying taxes (usually) but since the process is so painless I don’t hear people complaining about income tax that much (outside of the right-wing media in my country, Australia)

MisterFrog , 10 days ago

May I introduce East Asia? They also like to do addresses top down

MisterFrog , 10 days ago

Oh sorry, my point was that East Asia does it YYYY-MM-DD, with the exception of maybe some different delimiter and leading zeros depending on preference, they already coincidentally do it the ISO way!

MisterFrog , 13 days ago

This is interesting. Not a lawyer, but I’d encourage anyone in Australia to demand a free repair under Australian Consumer Law because the company bricked the laptop. I’d guess it would fall under the Acceptable Quality consumer guarantee, since the fault was caused directly by the manufacturer.

Not sure how you’d go about proving that, but you could then just take it to your state tribunal, like VCAt in Victoria and file a small claim.

Not a lawyer, not legal advice, but something to think about if you’re in this situation.

MisterFrog , 16 days ago

An email client that can’t open email files? Hmmmmmm.

Is this something to do with the fact it’s routing all emails via Microsoft servers?

I am not a developer

MisterFrog , 16 days ago

Problems caught early are much easier to fix than problems caught later. This applies to any project (I’m not a programmer, but an engineer in the traditional sense).

Just “doing it” without coordination and review is a great way to waste a bunch of effort down the line with re-work.

Edit: typo

MisterFrog , 17 days ago

The Key Word is every month was a record setter. May the gods have mercy on us. We’re so fucked

MisterFrog , 18 days ago

YYYY.MM.DD and 24 hour for sure.

Everyone using UTC? Nah. Creates more problems than it solves (which are already solved, because you can just lookup what time it is elsewhere, and use calendars to automatically convert, etc.).

I for one do not want to do mental gymnastics /calculation just to know what solar time it is somewhere else. And if you just look up what solar time it is somewhere, we’ve already arrived back at what we’re already doing.

Much easier just looking up what time (solar) time it is in a timezone. No need to re-learn what time means when you arrive somewhere on holiday, no need for movies to spell out exactly where they are in the world whenever they speak about time just so you know what it means. (Seriously, imagine how dumb it would be watching international films and they say: “meet you at 14 o’clock”, and you have no idea what solar time that is, unless they literally tell you their timezone.)

Further, a lot more business than currently would have to start splitting their days not at 00:00 (I’m aware places like nightclubs do this already).

Getting rid of timezones makes no sense, and I do not understand why people on the internet keep suggesting it like it’s a good idea.

MisterFrog , 18 days ago

My condolences. I’m already annoyed with the times USC units are presented in Australia (our nominal pipe sizes are often talked about in inches, and sometimes valves and such have USC flow coefficients because the manufacturer is American).

So I cannot imagine the pain you must be subjected to.

MisterFrog , 17 days ago

Oh right, yeah. We do this at my company which has operations world-wide. If we say timezone we say UTC±. Apologies for the misunderstanding

MisterFrog , 16 days ago

I’d be worried of the same outcome as pushing someone’s face into a cake without checking for cake supports.

Random twig in the right orientation, haha there goes your eye.

MisterFrog , 17 days ago

I’m not saying china doesn’t have problems, but it’s this kind of attitude that sends us down the path of us vs them that I think is toxic and leads to nationalism.

I have no issue with people criticising things in other countries, just not be absolute about it.

There most certainly are many not fake things in China that are great. Friendly people, wonderful food, natural wonders (this and perhaps some others excepted, but still), beautiful villages etc.

Just as there are bad things too, historical and contemporary.

Only a sith deals in absolutes.

“Oh this is whack, the park authority/ Chinese government faking a waterfall? That’s pretty shit.” 👍 An opinion I think many could agree with and is a valid criticism.

“Everything in China is fake” 👎 No it isn’t.

MisterFrog , 18 days ago

How are pardons a thing. Seems incredibly ripe for abuse.

MisterFrog , 18 days ago

Most people would agree yes, they should be pardoned. I’m not against the idea of pardoning completely, just the idea of it being a single person questionable, since it seems a bit risky.

Someone could have a political opponent killed and then just pardon the assassin.

Doesn’t seem like a sensible thing to have around.

MisterFrog , 18 days ago

I mean, trump pardoned war criminals. So I do not see why not (IANAL).

MisterFrog , 18 days ago

The graphic made me double take this also. I’m like, what new fresh hellish projection are we in for now.

MisterFrog , 21 days ago

I am dreading the day my company makes me “upgrade” my windows 10 laptop to 11. I really hope they’re paying for legacy support for 10.

I right click, soooooo often when managing files at my job. I’m going to pull out my hair if I can’t change the “see more” behaviour.

Also, I’m a top taskbar user (that’s where programs put their tabs, it just makes sense!)

I don’t know how they could fuck up windows this badly.

MisterFrog , 17 days ago

🇳🇵 non-regtanguar flag gang unite!

MisterFrog , 29 days ago

The only issue is they have not enough storage capacity for the excess.

MisterFrog , 29 days ago

This is a problem I’d very much like governments to sink a bit of money into. Sure, we don’t have 100% efficient energy storage, but we certainly have technology that does the job. Liquid air energy storage, fly wheels, thermal sand batteries etc, can be installed anywhere and are available right now. Not to mention pumped hydro if you have suitable terrain.

There’s a lot of stuff that we could build, and honestly, we just need to build it, now, even if it’s not profitable, or super efficient. There’s a bunch of solar and wind around the world not being built, or curtailed because prices go negative when there’s no one to store it.

The free market sucks. We need government intervention to do the things the profit motive won’t.

MisterFrog , 30 days ago

Something tells me this isn’t going to fly in Australia, unless they’re willing to be giving out refunds for bricked phones.

MisterFrog , 1 month ago

This is what will push me over to Linux too, just will be procrastinate a bit because I don’t have lots of time to work out all the kinks

MisterFrog , 1 month ago

This is a solved problem, in other areas of the world.

I would avoid 250g, that just means you have to multiply and divide by 4, which is more of a pain than multiples of 10.

In Australia, all food and grocery products (other than fresh produce by unit, like 1 avocado), must be labelled by weight, volume, or other suitable metric (number of toilet paper sheets, for example) by a suitable multiple of 10.

Spices, x$/10g, vegetables x$/kg, other stuff per 100/g. Whatever results in a reasonable $ number.

Even if it’s different it’s hilariously easy to compare.

This can of tomatoes $0.70/100g, is cheaper than $8/kg fresh tomatoes, easy peasy because you just move the decimal.

It really is nice, sorry to rub salt in the wound 😅

MisterFrog , 1 month ago

Wait, not only the POTUS can pardon people (to me, already insanity waiting for more abuse), but your state governors TOO?

Jesus Christ.

MisterFrog , 1 month ago

Physiotherapists use a form of acupuncture called dry needling, which can be used to trigger muscle twitching/relaxation (I’m not really super knowledgeable on it, I’ve just been to the physio, who use this in combination with massage, specific exercises etc)

It’s certainly not placebo

As for all the other claims made, I dunno.

MisterFrog , 1 month ago

In Australia all junk fees are expressly prohibited by Australian Consumer Law.

Help, I’m so confused.

(Not to say things are hunky-dory over here, just that their arguments, while already being ridiculous on first inspection, hold no water whatsoever because things work just fine here with hidden fees being illegal)

MisterFrog , 1 month ago

In most places (in the world other than the US), tax is included in the price. Are you not tired of seeing a price and it not being the price you actually pay?

MisterFrog , 1 month ago

Am I the only one who watched the video, and due to nostalgia upscaling my memory, could hardly tell any difference other than frame rate.

I should go look at the normal game 😅

MisterFrog , 1 month ago

Is this a joke? (I know it isn’t).

Why would I want to know the dimensions of the unfinished product? I’m not a construction worker, so honestly is there any reason?

MisterFrog , 1 month ago

Where do you live? Sprinkling in some consumer law may help

MisterFrog , 1 month ago

Not legal advice (I don’t even live in Europe), but this might be helpful: commission.europa.eu/…/digital-contract-rules_en

MisterFrog , 1 month ago

I think it’s wild that the increase has to be legislated each time, why not just give the responsibility of increasing it each year to a government agency which needs to follow legislation to set it (based on XYZ metrics)? This is how it’s done in many other countries.

MisterFrog , 1 month ago

This and the worse right-click menu make me dread the day I have to switch at work :/

MisterFrog , 1 month ago

(Below is my opinion, I respect you have yours, and I’m not having a go at you. I just want to take part in the discourse friendo!)

To me, if they wanted to store it in my area by encasing it now (or, any time in like the last 40 years), I wouldn’t mind either.

The issue that isn’t fear-mongering that people continually overlook because of all the knee-jerking people lamenting that it’s “unsafe”, is that we then have to maintain containment for thousands upon thousands of years.

That’s the issue, permanent storage, not all the temporary storage that is happening now.

Nuclear is not a great solution to immediately reducing emissions, in my opinion. Takes way too much capital and way too much time to get operational. Don’t close still operating plants, but damn, we need to be building the fastest shit possible, right now. Not something that takes a decade to build. We have solutions ready, governments just aren’t getting their act together and build it. Even if the business-case doesn’t make complete sense; we don’t have time.

Sand batteries, liquid air energy storage, lithium ion batteries, flow batteries, (plus a bunch of other contenders) they’re all immature technologies but they do work right now, anywhere, no terrain for pumped-hydro required. Sure they’re not very efficient, or have crap lifespan in the case of Li-ion, but solar plants literally aren’t being built in some places because prices go negative during the day, and plants are being curtailed.

We need to build storage, now, even if it’s not a silver bullet. And we can’t wait for expensive-as-fuck nuclear.

Someone should call me when we decide re-enriching spent nuclear fuel is fine and we can do nuclear waste recycling, actually getting our money’s worth. Or when thorium gets good.

My personal opinion conclusion:

• Nuclear waste is not immediately that concerning for safety, it’s the fact we’re signing up to store it for longer than recorded history.
• It’s expensive and takes to long to build
• The technology needed for the energy transition already exists
• Also agree, that turning off operating nuclear doesn’t make sense.

Thanks for reading, looking forward to hearing people’s thoughts.

MisterFrog , 1 month ago

I think it’s naive to think that the imperial core will stop with the needless wars simply because oil is no longer the hot commodity. There’s always perverse interests to use the military for power projection and resource control.

Under your current voting system, this will never change.

I for one, refuse to be shipped off in our generation’s tribute to America. Our government (Australia) is still the US’ vassal state.

MisterFrog , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Thank you. This is such a breath of fresh air. In all cases I prefer a simple answer, when organising an event with multiple people where I want to get ideas on numbers for planning.

• Yes - great! See you there

• No (with or without a reason) - fantastic! We’ve all got our own stuff going on or reasons why we don’t want to go!

• Maybe, with a reason why, or when you would be able to give an answer - cool!

• Maybe, with no further explanation - ugh. I’ll just assume you’re not coming and don’t care.

Maybe with no explanation is the cowards way out. Especially when “no sorry, I’m busy!” is the standard white lie.

“No because I don’t want to (don’t feel socially up to it)” is the hero’s response and I salute you 🫡

MisterFrog , 1 month ago

Here’s the trick (maybe): “Don’t you know that WhatsApp is owned by Meta and collecting information on your chat metadata (who you chat to, when, your contacts, their contacts).”

Tell them to get Signal. If there’s any country on this planet where convincing people to use Signal is easier, it must be Germany. GMaps streetview was banned there until recently, everyone uses fake names on Facebook, if they even made one in the first place.

Surely they must be amenable to Signal

MisterFrog , 2 months ago

TotalLauncher

MisterFrog , 1 month ago

Journalists barely cite anything. “A study from this organisation says this.” Don’t tell you when it was published, or link to the official website. Nada.

Journalists are pretty trash at citing their sources on average. I think it’s wild most countries don’t seem to regulate this. It would do wonders for archives of news content so that you can actually follow up on the story to it’s source.

MisterFrog , 2 months ago

Because it makes getting an intuitive sense of what solar time it is somewhere harder.

Can I call my grandma in a different country? Hmm what time is average midnight there. Okay 8 (so far, same thing as looking up a timezone), and it’s 18:00 now, so 10 hours after midnight, which is like my 23:00. Needlessly complicated with extra steps for the average person.

Sure, you can say, I’ll call you X and that will mean the same thing everywhere, but does not have any information about solar time. And these days, it’s automatically converted if you use a calendar (which you should). This is the point of programming, to make the USERS life easier, not the dev. The end is more important than the means, I think we can agree.

Or: what time is it where my grandma is? Okay, cool, I have a sense of what that is immediately after knowing the answer.

There are reasons we do things this way. Working roughly to solar times has more benefits than being able to say a time and it mean the same moment everywhere.

I say we leave things the way they are, works okay.

MisterFrog , 2 months ago

Could you elaborate a little, I’m not quite sure how it’s related to timezones

MisterFrog , 2 months ago

Which I think we can all agree is more work than what we currently need to.

It’s not just one addition, it’s 2 operations following knowing what time midnight is to understand what the solar time it is: what time is it now, minus what time is their midnight, and then you have to add that back to what your midnight is to get a sense of the time. Or you just start thinking in solar time WHICH IS WHAT WE ALREADY DO.

That’s 2 calculations. Currently we do 0.

Innately knowing what time means in films, talking to people over the phone, going to a new country. It would be a huge pain in the arse.

"They met up at 13:00“ great. So where are they in this film? Forcing exposition where currently you might let it be vague.

People who advocate for one timezone simply haven’t thought it through.

MisterFrog , 2 months ago

This is fantastic

MisterFrog , 2 months ago

She is peak wholesome+handsome content. The fun she’s having decimating those logs is infectious.

Quality recommendation 👍