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New comment by baldfat in "Bitwarden Heist – How to break into password vaults without using passwords"

baldfat — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 17:53:08 +0000

I tell myself and other people if you have it saved in your browser are you okay if bad people know that password. Also it makes it easy for people in authority to get to that password with a simple court order.

New comment by baldfat in "In 2024, please switch to Firefox"

baldfat — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 16:23:20 +0000

These fear-mongers that make everyone hate needs to stop. Multi-millionaires that give their own agenda and anything else is anti-this or stupid needs to stop.

You also probably say you hate "Cancel Culture" while cancelling things including coke.

New comment by baldfat in "Julia 1.10"

baldfat — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 18:46:49 +0000

I like R and used it two ways. 1) Scheme-like functionalish 2) Tiddyverse and found Julia to be a lot of talk but seemed clunky to me.

New comment by baldfat in "California pulls the plug on rooftop solar"

baldfat — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 05:27:47 +0000

It's the financial piece. The poor again get screwed with higher prices because they will never have solar panels. So electric company was charging more to the poor to pay for this. Just like they do for food and for gas. Just like poor voluntarily pay the education tax for the rich.

Agreed that monopolies need to be regulated by the state. In PA my electricity went up over 300% in the first 6 years it was deregulated, and the company's profits were record quaters from 2008 - 2017.

New comment by baldfat in "Secretary Granholm to announce major scientific breakthrough by DOE [video]"

baldfat — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 15:52:37 +0000

I was a research librarian in an academic setting. So, I can do research and have an informed opinion. Now if I was to dispute the information then sure I need to have a masters or PhD in the field to have reasons why the vast majority is wrong. I cannot find a single article from an academic background stating that current laser technology will work. Nor do I see anyone that doesn't say decades away.

New comment by baldfat in "Secretary Granholm to announce major scientific breakthrough by DOE [video]"

baldfat — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:14:49 +0000

It's a big deal but its decades away. To do this they need to repeatably do it every few seconds. Right now they can do it once per week.

BIG CAVIET: The energy to power the laser is greater than the return. The return in energy is just greater than the energy the laser put in. So net loss. We need more efficient lasers and be able to make this repeatable and reliable. We are not closer except theory is being proven.

New comment by baldfat in "Long Covid: Hair loss and sexual dysfunction among wider symptoms, study finds"

baldfat — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 00:22:51 +0000

Everything you stated is based on emotional stances and conclusions. Medicine doesn't work that way. This was a pretty good study with a very large sample size.

The cohort included 486 149 people with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection who were not admitted to hospital, matched with a control group of 1.9 million people with no recorded evidence of coronavirus infection.

New comment by baldfat in "DaVinci Resolve for iPad"

baldfat — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 00:19:34 +0000

People have switched to Resolve due to it having a BETER workflow then FCP or Premier. Personally I jumped on the bandwagon due to Linux. The big difference maker for Resolve was when it became an editor. It was THE STANDARD for color correction for over a decade.

New comment by baldfat in "Dwell House – 540 sq ft prefab home that you can add to your backyard"

baldfat — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 18:13:11 +0000

You contact a contractor

New comment by baldfat in "I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard"

baldfat — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 13:15:42 +0000

I use a 84 keyboard. It is basically a laptop keyboard layout and it works great for me. It has del, backspace, esc and 4 arrows. It shares the function keys with media keys but I have it using function keys as its default and works great as a layout. I don't know why it just isn't the most popular layout.

New comment by baldfat in "Byte Magazine Special Issue: Smalltalk (1984)"

baldfat — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 00:09:50 +0000

I am the exact opposite :) I started learning languages with Basic, Assembly and Fortran and ended up loving all things Lisp.

New comment by baldfat in "Don’t call it a comeback: Java is still champ"

baldfat — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 19:24:28 +0000

I personally use Racket (Lispish) just because it is so much fun to build whatever I want and customize it. It just feels good to have my small projects just fit me perfectly.

New comment by baldfat in "10mbps over 1km on a single pair of wires"

baldfat — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 14:25:30 +0000

Why ruin a good meme with FACTS! People

New comment by baldfat in "A Road to Common Lisp (2018)"

baldfat — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 00:25:06 +0000

I would say nothing but also everything. Racket is Schema and Lisp mashed up. Though Common Lisp is very easy to read once you have Racket down. Personally, I prefer Racket for my personal side projects.

New comment by baldfat in "In 1997, Wired Predicts Things That Could Go Wrong in the 21st Century (2021)"

baldfat — Sun, 05 Jun 2022 22:33:46 +0000

Not if you discount hydro electric. We have to store the wind and solar and then be able to use it. We have the water pump idea where they pump the energy into water that is released at night in Virginia. We hear of melted salts as a means to create steam after dark.

Nuclear is really our only viable solution to get rid of carbon based energy, but that ship has sailed in most of Europe and no one is ready to finance a new plant in NA.

New comment by baldfat in "Are sprouted potatoes safe?"

baldfat — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 04:12:13 +0000

You can know most things do to chemistry and then there are places you can test the theory. For example night-shade vegetables contain solanine which people believed caused inflammation and increased arthritis pain. Some people do get pain from eating night shades and those people just avoid them. It just isn't a universal truth.

https://www.arthritis.org/health-wellness/healthy-living/nut...

New comment by baldfat in "Are sprouted potatoes safe?"

baldfat — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 04:09:04 +0000

I have an inflammatory disorder. Night-Shades cause inflammation is what every doctor told me. If I eat an old soft potato or one with spouts I do not get worse. After looking into it Night Shades are not bad for people with inflammation or arthritis.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/321745

New comment by baldfat in "Are sprouted potatoes safe?"

baldfat — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 04:06:25 +0000

Green color is blight. It is the part of a potato exposed to the sun.

New comment by baldfat in "The cancer vaccine roller coaster (2009)"

baldfat — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 21:38:05 +0000

mRNA for Covid was built on what was learned from trying to use mRNA for Cancer. I personally think mRNA is going to really help a lot of people in the future.

My kid passed away at 12 from Bone Cancer and my sister (not biologically related to my son) died from brain cancer qat 15. There is no treatment for Bone Cancer that actually makes survival any better in the past 35 years. This is a potential first treatment that might change the percentages for kids and adults. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2021.64261...

Kid Cancer cures requires a lot more time because kids' cells are always growing are much harder to come up with safe treatments. There was a 20+ year time when not one new chemotherapy was used to treat kids till St. Baldrick's funded research finally introduced something new for kids. If we get something that works on Adults it will take 10+ years to go to kids. If it works on kids then the research will help adults in a year or two. That the world focuses 90%+ on adult cancers is very frustrating.

New comment by baldfat in "Python is the best beginner language in 2022"

baldfat — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 17:06:17 +0000

Skills over specifics.

When you use the popular your average skills are lower. Also teaches you bad habits. Learning programming is different than learning a language. Once you learn programming you just learn syntax to learn other languages.

Also, Python might be popular but it is almost always the second-best option for whatever task you're doing. I still like to use the best tool for whatever I am doing.