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cooljacob204

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cooljacob204··on After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fire TVs with ads
I'm dreading the day my LG TV decides it doesn't want to allow me to disable ads.
cooljacob204··on After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fire TVs with ads
Google has started to do the same thing making my nvidia shield a paperweight to me.
cooljacob204··on Hard-to-swallow truths they won't tell you about software engineer job
Honestly sounds like the author has only worked at toxic places. I can't relate to half his points.

Software development certainly is a dream job for me.

cooljacob204··on Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss
Yup, never ever buy lasers / UV light equipment from Amazon. Shit's dangerous and they don't go through any real regulation.

You often get class 3B lasers being sold as 3R which is extremely dangerous. I opted to pay a lot more for a green laser for astronomy purposes on a legit website then buy dirt cheap on Amazon because I don't want to blind/injure myself or others.

cooljacob204··on We apologize for the confusion and angst the runtime fee policy caused
Or they could update the TOS to not allow for changes to apply retroactively to games.
cooljacob204··on Seafood banned after Japan starts releasing Fukushima nuclear wastewater
Lol no, they arrested a lot of people for this.
cooljacob204··on Llama 2
That is very common in software licenses.
cooljacob204··on Why I Hate Frameworks (2005)
> Oh, you want routing? "Not my business", says React. Go add a routing library. You want a framework for managing global state? Go find one. Want a kitchen sink frontend solution which bundles all of these commonplace features together? Use Create React App, or Next.js, or whatever fits your use case.

Double edge sword in my opinion.

Every single react Project I jump into is completely different and a pain in the ass half the time to figure out what is where and what is doing what.

On the other hand I can jump into just about any Rails project and hit the ground running.

cooljacob204··on Introducing Superalignment
You kid yourself if you don't think people will hook them up to bipedal robots with internal batteries as soon as they can.

I guess we could shoot it, and your gonna be like boooooooo that's terminator or irobot, but what if we make millions and they they decide they no longer like humans.

They could very well be much smarter then us by then.

cooljacob204··on Debris found came from missing Titan sub, says friend of passengers
I guess it's great practice for the coast guard / navy which they need to do anyways.
cooljacob204··on Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddits Continuing Blackouts
How does moderation work? If a mod deletes a post on A does it get deleted in B?
cooljacob204··on Unihiker, an $80 single-board PC with 2.8“ touchscreen, quad-core ARM Cortex-A35
Google Bard isn't the best when it comes to writing code in my experience. Try GPT, you should get very different results.
cooljacob204··on Reddit Doubles Down
An absolute ton of search results can't be viewed right now because subreddits are locked down.
cooljacob204··on A new class of tiny, self-propelled robots that can zip through liquid at speed
No it's not. It's an external force propelling it. Clickbait article and headline. It's literally a piece of plastic that they move with noise. It's neither self propelling or a robot.

This kind of stuff has also already been done with magnetic fields.

cooljacob204··on Changes to Tailscale Pricing and Plans
Ah so not really all that realistic for personal use with multiple users.
cooljacob204··on Changes to Tailscale Pricing and Plans
How does the multiple users work? I don't see an option to invite other users.
cooljacob204··on Heroku has been running a second copy of my scheduler instance
I used a digital ocean ubuntu droplet with haproxy and certbot back when I first started off. Used their Postgres service for the database and only opened port 443 and 80 to public traffic. Droplet backups for backups if the vm needed and deployments were a manual git pull.

Sure a little complicated but there are plenty of good tutorials out there.

I would say Heroku for a new dev is not actually ideal. It hides way too much of the inner workings and makes it harder to learn about web development. I think it's more appropriate for a startup which just wants a ci/cd pipeline and some redundancy without investing that much time into it.

cooljacob204··on Folia – Multithreading Coming to your Minecraft server
I wonder how it handles the seams between the regions. How does a player interact with another player on the other side of this border.
cooljacob204··on I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition mechanisms
> My ISP regularly messes up with its ipv6 routing

Can you expand on this? I recently upgraded my network to support ipv6 but a big concern I have is what if they (Verizon Fios) change my assigned block? How can I make sure my PI hole and server has the same static IP address?

cooljacob204··on I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition mechanisms
I recently upgraded my lab and network to support IPV6. I wish I had waited two weeks so I could have read this first.
cooljacob204··on Is this the end of crypto?
Yes but it's used by far for more legitimate stuff. I would argue crypto outside of investing is not.

Also I don't want to ban crypto. I want to crack down on these exchanges which encouraged everyone to gamble on crypto and lost a ton of people money.

cooljacob204··on Is this the end of crypto?
And that's a fair point. But the problem is Crypto is an investment playground by people from rich countries and legitimate uses of it in countries like say Venezuela is an extremely small part of total transactions.
cooljacob204··on Is this the end of crypto?
When Crypto was young it was this cool new technology that mostly interesting because of the underlying tech. But even back then it was mostly valuable for buying drugs online and other illegal stuff.

Now it's that and a way to scam people of their life savings. I do hope it dies out, it should have been heavily regulated from the get go. Way too many people saw these high production commercials with their favorite celebrities they trust telling them to invest in crypto and lost everything.

It never had a real use outside of scamming people and buying illegal shit, no matter how hard others pushed to normalize crypto it never happened. And why would it? Everyone was yelling at people to hold. Don't spend it, it will go to the moon!

And sure it keeps your money away from the spooky scary government. But I prefer my government insured bank account using a government managed currency and recourse for any scams/hacks that might happen to me.

But I don't think it will ever die. Just like MLMS, pyramid schemes and other crap like that.

Also don't even get me started on these centralized exchanges where you don't even own your key and have to verify your identity (Which is how most users interacted with crypto). It's completely counter to the point of crypto.

cooljacob204··on Unlimited cloud storage, hosted on a Discord channel
While this is a pretty cool project it's also a great way to ruin free message history.

(Not really blaming OP, this was inevitable)

cooljacob204··on New lightweight material is stronger than steel
Also steel is 100% recyclable. If I recall correctly, most steel used today is recycled.
cooljacob204··on Tesla owner says he mines up to $800 a month in cryptocurrency with his car
“It’s much faster, and it’s much more energy efficient,”

How does this make any sense? They still need to recharge their car. It's no different then an actual mining rig.

cooljacob204··on Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps
They often fly their missions at night time, so this would mitigate that.
cooljacob204··on TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS
It is open source:

https://github.com/stream-labs/streamlabs-obs/

cooljacob204··on Do not leave XPS laptop in any sleep/hibernate/standby mode when placed in a bag
Caffeine shouldn't prevent it from sleeping anymore anymore unless you have an HDMI plugged in it.
cooljacob204··on TSA’s “See cash, seize cash” policy
It's not like they seize money out of my bank account..
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