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causi··on Yellowish Nodules on a Man Consuming a Carnivore Diet
Something is fishy. How is it physically possible to eat 12,000 calories of cheese per day plus hamburgers and lose weight? Somebody here is lying.
causi··on Show HN: Design/build of some parametric speaker cabinets with OpenSCAD
This guy might be good at designing but he is really bad at 3D-printing. All of that post-processing would've been completely unnecessary if he'd made better choices about material and print orientation.
causi··on Almost one in 10 people use the same four-digit PIN
I know people with "8472" as well.
causi··on Almost one in 10 people use the same four-digit PIN
I'm flatly amazed "1701" isn't in the top 50.
causi··on Why is homeschooling becoming fashionable?
I have many teachers in both my immediate and extended family. All of the ones who aren't retired say the same thing: the quality of parents is in the absolute shitter in two major aspects: parents don't want to teach their children anything they see as "the school's job" such as how to read or work on anything with their children at home. The second way is discipline. They instill no values of discipline or respect for the rights of others in their children. The "back of the room peanut gallery" that was one in ten or one in twenty children when I was young has grown to one in three. These are kids who've never seen negative consequences for anything they've ever done and steadfastly believe that will continue into their adulthood.
causi··on Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M
I'm not able to try it until later, but regarding the sample audio: The voice quality is quite good, but what's going on with all the random pauses between words? It's very Captain Kirk.
causi··on Celebrating the timeless allure of Tintin's aesthetics
It's really not that far out, considering the backdrop of what actual Belgians were doing to actual Congolese at the time.
causi··on USB On-The-Go
You're correct, but I felt the need to mention it as the OP's one is just a bare circuit board unless you pay extra for a similar acrylic frame.
causi··on Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs
Right. For the large companies, and the majority of the workforce, they mean nothing. Then the small to mid size businesses with some whackadoo who goes "we're not hiring X anymore, underrepresented groups only!" get a ton of press and create political capital.
causi··on Starlink is now cheaper than leading internet provider in some African countries
It's all so tiresome.
causi··on USB On-The-Go
I didn't comment on the kickstarter product. I commented on the forty dollar continuity tester.
causi··on USB On-The-Go
Wow that is some massively overpriced crap right there. Forty dollars for a USB continuity tester with a basic plastic case that only does type-C cables. Meanwhile you can get one, with acrylic case, that does types A, B, C, Micro, and Micro 3.0 for $17 off Amazon or $11 off Aliexpress.

https://www.amazon.com/Treedix-Tester-Checker-Acrylic-Chargi...

causi··on Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs
Personally I've yet to see a ray tracing implementation that I would sacrifice 10% of my framerate for, let alone 30%+. Most of the time, to my tastes, it doesn't even look better, it just looks different.
causi··on The GPU, not the TPM, is the root of hardware DRM
This is why it's so important to have local copies of things you value. Movies, shows, games, Youtube channels, everything.
causi··on In Defense of Y'All
I still don't understand why some Hollywood writers are so out of touch with reality that they create characters with horrible fake Southern accents saying "y'all" as a singular pronoun. Nobody would actually do that unless they have brain damage.
causi··on The unbearable slowness of being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s?
The vast majority of the brain's processing power, including conceptual processing, is not conscious. Conscious thought is the framebuffer of the mind, subconscious is the RAM.
causi··on A simple math error sparked a panic about black plastic kitchen utensils
"The fuckup in the paper doesn't mean the paper is wrong, according to the person who fucked up the paper."
causi··on A simple math error sparked a panic about black plastic kitchen utensils
I don't know where this "unless the surface is sterile it is significantly dangerous" thing comes from. How many people have died from bacteria that grew on wooden utensils that were regularly washed? Is it anything other than zero?
causi··on BlenderGPT
AI-generated modeling is such a fun concept. If you want to pee yourself laughing, ask ChatGPT to generate SCAD files of things like animals or everyday objects.
causi··on The PayPal Mafia is taking over America's government
What is this? A stub of an article with no author whose only content is "Trump is best buddies with a group of tech bros" with no comment on what that means or predictions about what policy decisions it implies. Is this AI-generated?
causi··on What happened when a city started accepting - not evicting - homeless camps
You're absolutely right. And the reason isn't because you have to be that bad to be homeless, but that if you're not that ill-equipped, you're usually in the category of the invisible homeless, couchsurfing or living in your car, etc.
causi··on What happened when a city started accepting - not evicting - homeless camps
No matter where you fall on the line between "seize all rental properties and give them to the homeless" and "if you can't buy a house you should go starve to death in the woods", I think most reasonable people would agree that giving open permission to set up a zone where laws barely apply and people who live there or happen to be don't get the same degree of protection and law enforcement as you could expect on the sidewalk in front of a Walmart to be a bad idea.
causi··on Switch 2 will be backwards compatible with Switch
Incorrect. The Wii is far more similar to the Gamecube than the WiiU.
causi··on Switch 2 will be backwards compatible with Switch
Shoot, they don't need a hardware generation to do that. ActiBlizz told everyone who spent $40 on Overwatch "Fuck you, go play a different game".
causi··on India's airline industry in chaos after 90 hoax bomb threats in a week
the threat itself is sufficiently disruptive

Exactly. My point is that it shouldn't be, because there's about as much actual danger as a twelve year old cursing at you on Xbox Live.

causi··on India's airline industry in chaos after 90 hoax bomb threats in a week
Those are not airline bombings so I don't know why you think they're relevant. People do not call airlines, say they're going to blow up a plane, and then blow up a plane. Ever.
causi··on India's airline industry in chaos after 90 hoax bomb threats in a week
I couldn't find any examples of airline bombings that were preceded by threats.
causi··on India's airline industry in chaos after 90 hoax bomb threats in a week
I don't understand why authorities even respond to bomb threats at all. If your security procedures are sufficient to keep people from bombing planes, bomb threats are irrelevant. If someone intends to bomb a plane, they don't announce it, making bomb threats doubly irrelevant. An institution getting a bomb threat is about as consequential as someone threatening to kill you in a Youtube comment.
causi··on Germans decry influence of English as 'idiot's apostrophe' gets approval
It's bizarre. I hate seeing it as well but if I don't pay attention I find myself typing them for no discernable reason.
causi··on Gorhill pulls uBlock Origin Lite from Firefox store
Yeah they've repeatedly used his name in advertising Firefox Mobile.
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