Waldowal

Waldowal , 1 day ago

Y’all shut the fuck up and just vote for Biden damn it.

He’s not Trump. Do your civic duty and keep the wannabe fascist dictator out of office. He’s not Trump. That’s all that matters.

Waldowal , 1 day ago

Fake reason: Reduce Chinese influence in the Philippines

Real reason: Ensure U.S. pharmaceutical companies get their payday

Waldowal , 2 days ago

Shatner definitely has them all

Waldowal , 4 days ago

The incident allegedly occurred after the coach – who also served as a hall monitor – ordered Michael to do pushups because he was horsing around in the hallway, but the teen declined because he had hurt his hand

Cop mentality. Escalate until someone’s unconscious.

Waldowal , 6 days ago

On a similar note for parents: At some point, you did/will pick your child up and then put them down for the last time.

Waldowal , 12 days ago

That glitch that discounts stock prices by a percentage?! What? Does that block of the code normally only discount a stock by a percentage under different circumstances?

Waldowal , 13 days ago

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Waldowal , 17 days ago

I’ve frequented Cracker Barrel’s since I was very little. And it’s a family tradition to always stop at one to eat on long road trips.

It’s gone downhill, and it started happening well ahead of COVID.

• Every server used to be an old southern person. They cared about their job, and proudly wore “stars” on their apron to represent their seniority. They were engaging, sweet, and often interesting to talk to. These days, I usual just see teenagers, or people who act like they are working there as a condition of their probation. I assume this reflects poor / eroded pay.
• A long standing “benefit” at Cracker Barrel has been the unlimited biscuits and cornbread that come with every meal. They used to bring out a huge basket of them - enough for everyone to have 3-4 - often as soon as you sat down. So good. These days, I usually have to ask for them. They usually seem to stall and only bring them with the food. And there is usually only 1 (maybe 2) per person.
• Similar to above, the portion size of just about every meal has shrunk over time.
• I know people that used to work there. All the food was either cooked to order or hand prepped and cooked that morning. There was pride in making the food fresh, and not letting it get old, cold, and stale. I’m not sure what they are doing now, but it seems like the quality is way down. It more often seems old, cold, and stale. I’m guessing the cooks aren’t paid very well anymore either.

So, I think this CEO has it all wrong. My guess is she’s going to turn it into another Applebee’s that gets some attention for a while for being new and interesting. Then, in a few years, it goes out of business.

Waldowal , 18 days ago

Something isn’t right with this article. I’m suspect:

• Type 1 is where your islet cells die off and you lose insulin production. Type 2 means your insulin production is fine, but your cells are resistant to the insulin. A Type 2 should have plenty of islet cells so adding more doesn’t seem like it would do anything. Your body should regulate those cells to output the same amount of insulin as before.
• This same treatment has been done in Type 1s already. It’s not new. The problem is their body eventually kills off the transplanted cells and you have to do it again. Plus, you have to take immune suppressing drugs forever.
• “Despite a kidney transplant, his pancreas still doesn’t produce insulin.” - This is just nonsense.

Waldowal , 18 days ago

I’m no expert in this subject either, but a theoretical limit could be beyond 200x - depending on the data.

For example, a basic compression approach is to use a lookup table that allows you to map large values to smaller lookup ids. So, if the possible data only contains 2 values: One consisting of 10,000 letter 'a’s. The other is 10,000 letter 'b’s. We can map the first to number 1 and the second to number 2. With this lookup in place, a compressed value of “12211” would uncompress to 50,000 characters. A 10,000x compression ratio. Extrapolate that example out and there is no theoretical maximum to the compression ratio.

But that’s when the data set is known and small. As the complexity grows, it does seem logical that a maximum limit would be introduced.

So, it might be possible to achieve 200x compression, but only if the complexity of the data set is below some threshold I’m not smart enough to calculate.

Waldowal , 23 days ago

I guess it’s crass to hand someone a bill mid-crisis, but I’m having trouble feeling too sorry for him. The costs don’t seem outrageous. And, he obviously skipped the traveler’s insurance.

Waldowal , 1 month ago

Hear me out: Nuclear airplanes.

It works for the submarines. Think of the pros:

• Full power electric outlets at every seat instead of that bullcrap they have today
• Flight attendants can easily be trained as Nuclear Physicists
• If a meltdown does occur, it might very well recreate the entire plot of Donnie Darko.

Waldowal , 1 month ago

They buried the lede:

Later in her speech, Lawrence joked that Pence was also in New York “receiving a [Nickelodeon] Kid’s Choice Award for weirdest dick.”

Waldowal , 1 month ago

As an older developer, you could replace “machine learning” with “statistical modeling” and “artificial intelligence” with “machine learning”.

Waldowal , 1 month ago

Those are “de-escalation devices”. First, you beat them with thing 1. If that doesn’t calm them down, you stun them with thing 2. If they are still not calm, you shoot them with thing 3. Repeat until America great again.

Waldowal , 1 month ago

“So there I was, watching Fox News on one TV, NewsMax on another, dick in hand of course - I’m an alpha you see. And I see this dude trying to steal my freedoms. I ran after him, and I heard him say something woke. It was either “Sorry - wrong house” or “I want to rape your wife and abort the baby”. I couldn’t tell which. Of course I had my blue steel beauty in the hand I wasnt using to rub one out - so I started blasting…”

Waldowal , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Kendall remarked after the flight: “The flight was nice and smooth, but an AI voice kept screaming the whole time about how Megatron is a failure at leading the Decepticons.”

Waldowal , 1 month ago

Good thing I don’t care about Kevin O’Leary.

Waldowal , 1 month ago

Classic internet vibes

Waldowal , 1 month ago

Do airlines typically handle 1 year olds flying alone? That seems nuts.

Waldowal , 1 month ago

Seems good, but if you are trying to make airport screening more equitable, why just Clear? What about “Sky Priority” and “Precheck”? I’m wondering if the airlines are lobbying for this.

Waldowal , 2 months ago

If your goal is rehabilitation, driving people insane with sleep deprivation isn’t going to help.

Secondly, think about how irritated and pissy you are when you don’t get enough sleep. Now imagine that in an entire prison population. You’re asking for trouble.

Waldowal , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I’m really curious about some details. They both meet this guy. He seems interested. Does he just keep talking to one face and ignoring the other? Were he and Abby kissing, and Brittany’s all “Ew, Abby, he’s gross”. When he proposed, was he like “Will you marry me?” And they both say “yes”, and he’s like “Uh, I just meant the left side”? How do you not end up dating and marrying them both?! Maybe they are in reality, but they can’t say that due to polygamy laws?

Waldowal , 2 months ago

He said that, then put Trump first. What did he do for America besides racist rhetoric, a few miles of border wall that apparently doesn’t work, and fast tracked a COVID vaccine you won’t take?

Waldowal , 2 months ago

You don’t need to be particularly smart to gang rape and shoot someone. Quite the opposite I would think.

Waldowal , 2 months ago

It’s the new “lingers”

Waldowal , 2 months ago

Whatever/whoever posts these captions used to often use the word “lingers” to describe lingerie. Ex: “Women in lingers on a bed.”

One day, some guy responded to a post and said he couldn’t take it anymore and to stop saying it. It actually stopped. Hasn’t used that word since as far as I’ve seen.

Waldowal , 2 months ago

Why couldn’t this still be “big bang”? Look at a grenade for example. When it explodes, a shock wave expands from it in a near perfect sphere, but the fragments previous packed inside of it explode out at different speeds depending on their mass.

If you were in the center of that explosion, measuring the speed of fragments traveling away from you, they’d travel at different speeds. Only the initial shockwave would be constant.

Waldowal , 3 months ago

Did he hit his head? The lead kick in?

I’m only half joking. I had a neighbor who I used to describe as slightly conservative-leaning. He suffered a brain injury on the job and is now a full tilt QAnon MAGA goofball.

Waldowal , 3 months ago

Autism, especially higher functioning, often comes with clinical-level anxiety. Definately talk to a psychiatrist and therapist. If you’re already on anxiety meds that aren’t working, try a different one. Keep in mind that the wrong one can cause suicidal thoughts. They vary quite a bit, and new ones are coming out all the time. You’ll eventually find one that helps take the edge off your anxiety. That will help you cope with the other things better. From my experience, things also get naturally better as you age, so there is light in the tunnel.

Edit: One other suggestion. Do the bad thoughts come at night? That’s also common. If so, try going to bed earlier - before they get a chance to get cranked up. Wake up earlier so you can have quiet time doing something peaceful like sipping coffee.

Waldowal , 3 months ago

Just guessing but maybe (G)ood, (A)cceptable, (M)arginal, (P)oor? Or perhaps (G)od-tier, (A)ss, (M)eh, and (P)wned?

Waldowal , 3 months ago

If this royalty thing doesn’t work out, she’s got a job in photo editing to fall back on.

Waldowal , 3 months ago

Are you commenting on 3d headsets in general or specifically Apple’s? Have you used other ones before?

Waldowal , 3 months ago

Maybe the article doesn’t provide enough info, but I feel sorry for this girl. Can you imagine being young in your career, and someone says: “Hey, you’re in charge of the guns.”. You don’t know what you’re doing. You don’t know you’re supposed to have safety meetings. You get a box of “blanks” from someone. It contains a live round. You don’t even know what a blank looks like. Someone dies, and everyone’s like “You should have known!”. That’s at least how this situation sounds. This girl is taking the fall for alot of bad decisions up the chain.

Waldowal , 3 months ago

One neat thing you can do is buy it in those states, and sell it in the other ones.

Waldowal , 3 months ago

Same. Not sure why it would go viral.

Waldowal , 3 months ago

Juggies?

Waldowal , 3 months ago

The only thing I’ll miss is that gag they always do on SNL Weekend Update where they show a picture of him smiling and say something like: “Mitch McConnell, shown here watching an orphanage burn down…”

Gets me every time.

Waldowal , 3 months ago

I don’t have all the piece-parts, but I’ve also heard BCG being studied as a cure/therapy for Type 1 diabetes (Faustman lab studies in Boston). At the same time, I’ve read studies linking Alzheimers to diabetes - some referring to it as “Type 3 diabetes”. Now this. These people should get together and talk.

Waldowal , 3 months ago

Here’s one article that talks about it: www.webmd.com/…/alzheimers-diabetes-link

I think it’s more a high correlation between blood sugar, tau protien buildup, and Alzheimers risk. But it’s not straight forward. If high blood sugar caused Alzheimers, most diabetics would get Alzheimers - which isn’t the case. There’s something else coming into play.

Waldowal , 3 months ago

Fuck these things. Even if they aren’t bad for the environment, they absolutely wreck your yard. In the summer, each week, I’ll go around my yard and clean out 15-16 massive webs. Some of them 40 feet up. Most of them face level. The webs are strong so they easily get filled with leaves. Your yard ends up looking like a fucking haunted house with webs everywhere and leaves floating in the sky. Not to mention the females are HUGE - 6 inches across the legs sometimes. Total nightmares.

Waldowal , 3 months ago

I think they can work, but only when certain pieces are there. The protest must have:

• A clearly defined goal
• Existing support somewhere in the government, or a financial incentive for people in the government that oppose you.

For example, civil rights and women’s right to vote had some governmental support. The protests had well defined goals, and helped raise awareness and support for those people already in government to enact change.

On the other hand, the 1% protests a few years ago, and more recently, BLM, had ambiguous goals. Without clear goals, no existing government support could be identified. And there was no financial incentive for others to act. The protests raised awareness but ultimately had little real effect unfortunately.

I do wonder if things have changed though. I think public shaming helped enact some changes in the past, but no one has shame anymore.

Waldowal , 3 months ago

Should have offered 100 million. You’re right. He won’t sell out his legacy for a million, but I bet he would for 100.

Waldowal , 3 months ago

Pretty confident if this happened because they hired a new (real) support operator who just didn’t understand the policy, they would have made a concession to the customer and the support person would likely just get more training.

But because it’s a chat bot that they really don’t understand (outside of their IT department), they go to court and shut down a system they likely spent hundreds of thousands of dollars developing.

This type of advanced decision making is why we pay CEOs the big bucks.

Waldowal , 4 months ago

I get what you’re saying. Without more context that this finding is one piece of a bigger puzzle, you can look forward to your Aunt Crazytown confidently informing you at next Thanksgiving dinner that you can’t breath well because you have a brain injury. It’s 50% a lack of journalistic probing, and 50% all the lead paint the Boomers ate growing up.

Waldowal , 3 months ago

Eh, he’s not commenting on the research though. He’s commenting on the article. The headline says “Long COVID seems to be brain injury…”, but we know that can’t be the whole story. If the journalist were doing a better job, it should have said “Long COVID likely involves a brain injury…”. They might have even asked the researchers how the brain injury theory could account for diminished lung capacity - but they didn’t.

Waldowal , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

As a Gen-Xer who’s been beaten into believing you can’t realistically “fight the man”, I fucking love the Gen-Z attitude.

Waldowal , 4 months ago

Well, it’s a dough flattened into a circle and covered with a base sauce. Usually a tomato sauce. Then, you can add whatever combination of toppings you’d like. Popular choices are pepperoni, mushrooms, ham, sausage, and black olives. Then it’s all baked in an oven until the crust browns up and the cheese melts. It’s typically cut into 8 pie slice pieces to serve. This particular one appears to include ingredients popular in Mexican foods.