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New comment by bigmattystyles in "That Methyl Methacrylate Tank"

bigmattystyles — Wed, 27 May 2026 02:35:30 +0000

Tangent but there's a great Sublime song titled `Garden Grove`. Looks like they made a modern video for it that presumably shows a lot of Garden Grove. Or it could be Long Beach, I don't know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpSo_zj0UQw

New comment by bigmattystyles in "What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard"

bigmattystyles — Tue, 26 May 2026 05:05:36 +0000

I was a lot more permissive parent when my children were imaginary.

New comment by bigmattystyles in "Integrated by Design"

bigmattystyles — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:19:05 +0000

To me, that actually screams LLM. At the very least much LLM assisted.

New comment by bigmattystyles in "How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?"

bigmattystyles — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 04:06:53 +0000

He’s one hell of an attorney too.

New comment by bigmattystyles in "Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026"

bigmattystyles — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 22:27:09 +0000

I think you're going to get downvoted to oblivion but as far as I'm concerned, that's been my impression as well.

New comment by bigmattystyles in "Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts"

bigmattystyles — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 23:30:21 +0000

I'm sorry that you're dealing with this - it was my greatest fear at that point. That my daughter seems to not have my disposition and seems happy go lucky is the greatest thing ever. There's no rhyme or reason to my depression and anxiety, it's completely maladaptive and I'm relieved, that knock on wood, she stays happy and light while not having to shield herself from the horrors of the world.

New comment by bigmattystyles in "What Did Medieval Peasants Know? (2022)"

bigmattystyles — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 06:27:16 +0000

That was Baldrick's line though - he was definitely lower class.

New comment by bigmattystyles in "How to tolerate annoying things"

bigmattystyles — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 18:06:18 +0000

Sometimes, it’s your own mind too. I have at times, pretty bad OCD in the form of terrible intrusive thoughts. They can trigger such distress in me that I’ve lost years of my life to them. Learning to tolerate them is essentially the first step to reducing their frequency in the conscious mind. That and meds but if I could just stop thinking some things, trust me, I would.

New comment by bigmattystyles in "Why aren't smart people happier?"

bigmattystyles — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 23:45:26 +0000

Evolution doesn’t care about happiness. Not directly anyways. I guess it cares for it as much as it is advantageous for reproduction, like smarts…

New comment by bigmattystyles in "New attacks are diluting secure enclave defenses from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel"

bigmattystyles — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 03:11:49 +0000

Yes, I think we’re saying the same thing. A TPM is a Secure Enclave.

New comment by bigmattystyles in "New attacks are diluting secure enclave defenses from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel"

bigmattystyles — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 14:33:46 +0000

It’s also where private keys for your device to secure your data live, so it’s like nuclear power, you can make a bomb or a clean power plant.

New comment by bigmattystyles in "Project Amplify: Powered footwear for running and walking"

bigmattystyles — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 22:39:57 +0000

Come to think of it, why is Superman muscular?

New comment by bigmattystyles in "Intel Announces Inference-Optimized Xe3P Graphics Card with 160GB VRAM"

bigmattystyles — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 19:50:17 +0000

I remember Larabee and Xeon-Phi announcements and getting so excited at the time. So I'll wait but curb my enthusiasm.

New comment by bigmattystyles in "Wi-fi signal tracks heartbeat without wearables"

bigmattystyles — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 23:22:20 +0000

I may actually wrap myself in tin foil!

New comment by bigmattystyles in "The Molecular Basis of Long Covid Brain Fog"

bigmattystyles — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 19:25:22 +0000

If it's like coffee, you don't necessarily like it at first.

New comment by bigmattystyles in "California law forces Netflix, Hulu to turn down ad volumes"

bigmattystyles — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 07:31:21 +0000

The video store example is funny because iirc, it wasn’t until someone high up/very involved in government got bit by it. During Robert Bork’s failed Supreme Court confirmation, a reporter figured out he rented porn. Maybe it was something less raunchy / embarrassing than porn but either way, iirc, they got that law on the books fast after that….

New comment by bigmattystyles in "Gore Vidal: American Prophet"

bigmattystyles — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 06:11:05 +0000

Always loved his role in Gattaca.

New comment by bigmattystyles in "Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account"

bigmattystyles — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 05:37:40 +0000

I don’t know, I work for a massive (benevolent of course) corporation and it’s still pushy with Lock Screen ads, copilot, etc… and it definitely doesn’t just work. Maybe for the CEO it does though…

New comment by bigmattystyles in "Creative Technology: The Sound Blaster"

bigmattystyles — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 04:49:26 +0000

I look back fondly to kid years when I took shots in the dark with IRQ and DMA settings on my boot diskette (so as not to mess with my dad’s settings) with autoexec.bat and config.sys (?), trying to balance out keeping enough available memory for the game but still keep the sound driver loaded. I don’t remember all the details, we’d guess a lot, but still learned.

Also, from the article, the nomad mp3 - now that’s a blast from the past.

New comment by bigmattystyles in "Belling the Cat"

bigmattystyles — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 19:19:25 +0000

And he was the bane of fables to memorize and recite when I was a kid. Always struck me later on with ‘la cigale et la fourmi’ was always praised as a good lesson but that it was a bit cruel. I always preferred maitre corbeau avec son fromage.