HI losers ive been making this thing and this other thing (but not focused atm) and i'm hoping soemday i'll deploy it to rDrama.cc or something

discuss

@Schizo @BIPOC

picrel is Copebox FE displaying the results of my server's inner workings discuss (again)

I love this guy's work. If you are interested in a dev, operations, or devops career his roadmaps are pretty cool.

Related Plebbit post: https://old.reddit.com/r/DefendingAIArt/comments/103ytuq/george_crudo_of_mcfarlane_toys_tweeted_some/

Extremely frivolous stuff, but there's a fun debate going down over on Aella's twitter about personal hygiene. In short, as a true empiricist, she measures lots of stuff about her daily routine (iirc, using an app called Daylio), and recently revealed her stats for 2023. What is causing a kerfuffle is not the number of days she had s*x (63), took Adderall (126), or escorted (6), but the number of times she showered, namely 37 [sic].

Aella insists she doesn't smell (and says she's consulted with others to confirm this), but I think that's a very relative statement; some people seem to have a high baseline tolerance for stank of various kinds, to the point that even strong odours don't register to them as stank, while others like myself are very smell sensitive; at the risk of TMI, my wife was amused that I could tell when our kids in their diaper days had done a pee, because I could always smell it almost immediately even when she had no idea. Back in my online dating days, there were several dates I simply couldn't follow up on because the person I was with had bad personal hygiene. I'm not talking about a mild healthy body odour here, but when you're having s*x doggy-style and get hit by bad butt-stench it's an instant boner kill. And I'll be honest, I've had a crush on Aella for ages; she's a very attractive nerdy woman, and as a sexually confident and charismatic female Rationalist, she is a very horny unicorn among horses. But I've got to say, learning that specific factoid about her life had a similar effect on my idle long-distance lust as an F150's tires do on a small rodent (not that she should care, of course - just putting it out there).

That said, I am a bit of ablutomaniac - I shower and/or bathe 2-3 times a day. I don't think it's a hygiene thing per se. I shower when I get up because it helps me feel awake and ready for the day; I often have a shower or bath in the late afternoon/early evening after a workout because it feels great to soak sore muscles; and I sometimes shower just before bed, because I find it really nice to get into a bed with clean, fresh-smelling sheets having just come out of the shower smelling clean and fresh myself. I also routinely use (carefully chosen, subtle) cologne on my body as well as both fabric conditioner and scent booster when washing my clothes.

Anyway, Aella's feed is pretty funny right now, to the point that she's holding polls about showering, and I was curious what folks here think about it. Obviously me and Aella are at different ends of the ablutic spectrum, but what's a healthy normal number of times to shower/bathe per day? How much of it is down to personal preference?

I don't care about your parasocial simping drama.

Then skip the thread and move on. This is unnecessarily antagonistic and just plain obnoxious. Banned for a day.

She definitely has a bit of spectrum face going on. That will throw a lot of people off.

She has a playful and inquisitive vibe which a lot of people find appealing.

I admit I find it concerning that days she had s*x is greater than days she showered. But there is that famous line from Napoleon to Josephine, “Home in three days. Don't bathe.”

There's probably some deep primal appeal to her BO.

Reminder: It is impossible to be rational and a strag at the same time

https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui

UPDATE 2: This was the reason given by GitHub: https://archived.moe/g/thread/90718880#p90719629

Orange Site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34238944

https://old.reddit.com/r/trackers/comments/102n0gh/major_private_torrent_sites_have_a_security/

https://old.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/102y5is/major_private_torrent_sites_have_a_security/

Hacker news:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34254183

Is it possible that the marginal utility of software development diminishes over time? In a stagnant economy with stagnant analog technology, I think this is inevitably the case. It's natural for people to invest in the most productive areas first, so if things remain constant then the marginal value of software diminishes. I ask this because I'm curious for how sustainable the bull market for IT is.

On the consumer side of things, we've already gone from on average 1 hour a day online to twelve hours a day online over the course of fifteen years. This is an underrated point of the discussion, we're just running out of people we can turn into no life losers. It just seems like Youtube, TikTok, Facebook, etc are all fighting over an increasingly set pie. On the video game front, the library of past games is ever growing and you still have a bunch of people playing ancient shit like Star Craft. In the year 2000, you'd struggle to find anyone who would be playing a game made in the year 1990. Now, playing a game that's a decade old like Skyrim or even two decades like Age of Empires II is the norm.

I doubt we're ever going to see a bull market the size of the 2010s for software and IT again. The ability to software to proliferate an infinite amount of times is amazing, but it could also mean we as a society pick the most profitable fruit first and once certain things are sufficiently done, there's not much point in wasting the money to improve them further. I doubt there's going to be another goldmine like youtube again. To compare it to the oil industry, it's like if we used up all the highly profitable Saudi Crude and had to content ourselves with Canadian Tar sands.

Ask HN: What is the thing you've built that you regret the most?

The Qatar slave helmet.

My company built the smart helmet used to track Qatar’s army of abused workers. The claim is GPS and accelerometer where used to track if a worker stopped moving or fell due to an accident; the geo fencing was supposedly for tracking if they had enough workers in an area for the job.

The reality is the helmets where/are used as mass surveillance tech to ensure workers are continuously active and never leave their assigned areas for petty things like going to the bathroom or finding shade to prevent heat stroke

Ruby is my favorite language, and often it is a joy to use because of its combined attributes of brevity, expressive power, and feature consistency.

It's disappointing that there are so many more jobs for another popular language - one that lacks the elegance and consistency but which has a larger ecosystem.

You are obviously referring to Python

You can't slip nothing past these stonelets.

Saw this mentioned on orange site discuss...

Hard to think of something more insidious

Let's implement++

Orange site

1. Stack Overflow questions are being flooded with answers from ChatGPT

2. Use of ChatGPT generated text for posts on Stack Overflow is temporarily banned

3. Stack Overflow bans ChatGPT as 'substantially harmful'

It will take Days for me to just read the SO post

I know this isn't specifically tech related but this is a common issue for people who are shortsighted which includes a lot of overly-tech-obsessed people. Anyone have issues with this? Since about 5 years ago my left eye is so full of shit it's like looking through a constantly drifting cloud of spiderwebs. It's really a nuisance and a heck of a distraction when working on a bright screen, I end up 'chasing' the floaters around instead of being able to focus on the text or whatever I'm meant to be doing.

I'm thinking of having them cleaned out (youtube video related) but the surgery is a bit scary, it involves literally plumbing your eyeball in and then replacing the polluted gel inside of it with a clear fluid. (Yeahhhh.)

Just wondering if anyone else is affected by this and if they've done anything about it? I don't think there are any solutions other than the surgery or just tolerating it.

It's VERY ANNOYING.

Jannies next to be replaced by AI.

The black lines are just USB A connections, except the Steam Deck-->Steam Deck Dock connection, which is actually USB C. I'm thinking about getting a second monitor later on, but that might complicate things. I don't know really how switches work yet.