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New comment by cryzinger in "Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick"

cryzinger — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:43:59 +0000

You really don't want fraudulent clicks ("invalid traffic", per industry lingo) coming from your home network, because any publishers (apps and websites, per normal-people lingo) who use tools designed to block invalid traffic might start flagging legitimate traffic from your network.

New comment by cryzinger in "Donation Controversy"

cryzinger — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:37:14 +0000

The "radical tolerance" thing is also a little ironic, since the biggest controversy with the party that the founder donated to is that the party isn't tolerant of people from different backgrounds or nationalities...

[insert Paradox of Tolerance quote here]

New comment by cryzinger in "[dead]"

cryzinger — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 22:54:40 +0000

But the culprit likely would've been identified and mitigated sooner?

New comment by cryzinger in "Designing emoji for the way we communicate today"

cryzinger — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:36:43 +0000

You can also use Emoji Kitchen to generate the images if you use a non-Gboard keyboard! https://emojikitchen.dev/

New comment by cryzinger in "Pushinka"

cryzinger — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:10:52 +0000

I don't think she was a full corgi (you almost never see all-white corgis, and not quite the right head/body shape) but she definitely had some corgi in there, or a similar herding breed. There's no way Strelka was a full corgi, either (although the idea of stray corgis running around Soviet Moscow is awesome, lol) but she also had a very expressive, corgi-ish face!

New comment by cryzinger in "Speculative Growth and the AI "Bubble" [pdf]"

cryzinger — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:42:31 +0000

Ha, not to say too much, but I've been reading a bunch of network history stuff lately as research for a speculative fiction setting where there's no unified TCP/IP spec like we have today. (Although I'm far from an expert on networking in general, lol.) I've read a little bit about OSI and the protocol wars, but the CLNS stuff in that wiki link is totally new to me, so this looks like fertile ground for me. Thanks for sharing!

New comment by cryzinger in "Speculative Growth and the AI "Bubble" [pdf]"

cryzinger — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:38:19 +0000

Ah, I understand :)

New comment by cryzinger in "Speculative Growth and the AI "Bubble" [pdf]"

cryzinger — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:04:54 +0000

I'm curious about the "if traffic was billed, it wouldn't have happened" part... are you saying that if traffic had been billed per [unit]byte, there would've been no incentive to build fiber networks?

New comment by cryzinger in "Why I Left Google DeepMind"

cryzinger — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:29:02 +0000

I for sure agree about encouraging people to dig deeper and wider, and that absolutely none of this is new or is occurring in a vacuum, but (and I don't say this to single you out, this is just a long-held feeling I've had) I do also think it's important to encourage and commend anyone who reaches these conclusions, however late or nascent they might be. Especially someone with the backbone to speak out at and then quit a cushy, prestigious job.

Something something every journey, something something single step. For the author (and for all of us, really) I hope it's one of many. And I think they should be proud of this particular step :)

New comment by cryzinger in "The Human Cost of DOGE's War on USAID"

cryzinger — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:53:06 +0000

It's interesting (by which I mostly mean "fucked") how some proponents are acknowledging the consequences after the fact, even for selfish reasons--like Musk "believ[ing] he’s going to be held accountable by history"--but it's obviously too late to undo the damage, and they'll still never outright admit "you were right and we were wrong" to everyone who predicted exactly what would happen.

I don't know if there's a word for it, but the mentality or personality trait or whatever that makes people hand-wave away completely predictable outcomes until they actually happen is beyond infuriating. It's bad enough when it's just a shitty team lead who's steering a project off a cliff. At this scale I can't even think about it for too long or I get lightheaded.

New comment by cryzinger in "The Victorian War on Rabies"

cryzinger — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:10:18 +0000

Dogs were the #1 way for humans to catch rabies for most of human history, which I didn't realize until I read Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus.

New comment by cryzinger in "Should DayQuil Be Legal?"

cryzinger — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:01:28 +0000

You won't OD from sulfates in shampoo, but there are serious pros and cons to using them at all:

Sulfate-containing shampoos give you a deeper clean, but can dry out your scalp and make the color in color-treated hair fade. They're ideal for most people, especially if you don't wash your hair every day.

Sulfate-free shampoos are more gentle, but if you're supremely oily and/or don't wash your hair every day, you might not feel like they clean your hair well enough. Almost all "color-safe" shampoos are sulfate-free. They're ideal if you wash your hair daily and/or have a dry scalp... and they're a must if you dye your hair and want to keep the color looking nice!

New comment by cryzinger in "Falling fertility on the left as key driver of US birth decline"

cryzinger — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:45:57 +0000

Agreed, although one thing I'll grant is that these days it seems like extremely large families in the US are almost always evangelicals, who obviously skew conservative, and there's not really a counterpart to that on the left. So even if families are getting smaller in general across the political spectrum, could it be that the outliers are imbalanced?

New comment by cryzinger in "As downtown Seattle offices empty, city facing years of 'zombie' towers"

cryzinger — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 19:10:44 +0000

It's not easy, but some people are trying it! https://www.npr.org/2026/02/21/g-s1-110595/from-cubicles-to-...

New comment by cryzinger in "Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%"

cryzinger — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:30:24 +0000

IIRC Showdown has a tacit agreement with TPC (or at least has historically; unclear if Champions will change anything in the future) and is allowed to exist so long as it follows certain rules. I can't find it right now, but I swear I read a comment from Zarel, the creator of Showdown, explaining what some of those rules entail, including an agreement not to include any moves or mons that haven't been officially released in the mainline games yet.

Other people have speculated that TPC can't/won't axe Showdown because they know that VGC players rely on it heavily to test out team comps before official tournaments, and Champions doesn't seem like it fills the same niche, unless TPC is suddenly about to change their stance on genning :P

New comment by cryzinger in "Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%"

cryzinger — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:19:11 +0000

I'm guessing it didn't have wiring or plumbing when it was originally built, though. If professional electricians/plumbers added those _after_ the fact, then that's still way different than trying to DIY everything in the 21st century.

New comment by cryzinger in "Font-Family Recommendations"

cryzinger — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:02:59 +0000

This drove me crazy on one of my (very lightweight) static sites... even on incredibly fast connections you'd always see that FOUT. I managed to solve it with font-display: fallback.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/A...

I also had to make sure I was preloading my fonts properly... not sure if this is the same guide I followed, but it's close. The only difference is that I swapped that "&display=swap" to "&display=fallback":

https://dev.to/pilcrowonpaper/preloading-google-fonts-37h1

New comment by cryzinger in "In San Francisco, even $180k tech salaries are no longer enough"

cryzinger — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:31:24 +0000

This snapshot seems to work: http://archive.today/2026.06.29-174214/https://www.nytimes.c...

New comment by cryzinger in "Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep"

cryzinger — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 18:25:04 +0000

The shipping forecast is great... or I should say, moderate, occasionally poor :)

New comment by cryzinger in "Slow breathing modulates brain function and risk behavior"

cryzinger — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 04:48:36 +0000

Ah, that does make a lot of sense!