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New comment by fuzxi in "Corded headphones are making an unexpected return"

fuzxi — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 04:06:32 +0000

Fulltext archive: https://archive.md/A9Mm0

New comment by fuzxi in "Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US?"

fuzxi — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 08:03:52 +0000

>Even if we abandon looking at it as as a strictly energy in energy out situation

There is no reason to abandon looking at it that way. Eating healthier will not result in you losing weight if your caloric intake remains the same. Feel free to continue eating $1 burgers, just eat fewer of them.

New comment by fuzxi in "Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US?"

fuzxi — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 03:09:11 +0000

That is a coping mechanism for the obese. It is simply not true.

New comment by fuzxi in "Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US?"

fuzxi — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 03:07:51 +0000

Same if no one was obese.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28533668

New comment by fuzxi in "Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US?"

fuzxi — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 02:36:22 +0000

Getting vaccinated doesn't prevent you from spreading covid.

New comment by fuzxi in "Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US?"

fuzxi — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 02:33:58 +0000

>One takes a couple minutes and the other is something requiring an hour or more of dedicated time per day for potentially years (or a whole lifetime!

Nope. You don't have to dedicate time to exercising to lose weight, you can just eat less.

New comment by fuzxi in "Court issues permanent injunction in Epic vs. Apple case"

fuzxi — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 03:19:27 +0000

I literally cannot speak to a human at my ISP unless I tell the robocall system that I want to cancel. As in, I'll call and say I need to return some equipment, be on hold for an hour, leave a callback number, and not get called back in the same week. Versus calling and saying I need to cancel, then getting connected to a service rep in 15 seconds and asking them about returning equipment.

New comment by fuzxi in "Police find electronic signal-jamming device inside California home"

fuzxi — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 04:32:47 +0000

I'm amazed that the FCC wasn't on him in days, or even hours.

New comment by fuzxi in "Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes"

fuzxi — Sat, 28 Aug 2021 01:23:02 +0000

There's a NewPipe fork with SponsorBlock support. https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe

New comment by fuzxi in "Denser cities could be a climate boon – but nimbyism stands in the way"

fuzxi — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 09:47:10 +0000

I am going to buy all the land surrounding your house and use it to build airports and coal processing plants. Not your land, not your business, so I better not hear any complaints alright?

New comment by fuzxi in "Bigger vehicles are directly resulting in more deaths of people walking"

fuzxi — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 05:09:00 +0000

Full speed hits are a greater threat to other people when you're in a larger vehicle. More mass means more force to impart at the same speed.

New comment by fuzxi in "Facebook hacker beat my 2FA, bricked my Oculus, and hit the company credit card"

fuzxi — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 11:01:12 +0000

Generally speaking, you don't lose access to your Steam library unless you defraud them, e.g. by charging back purchases. I don't buy that the Russian guy got banned for spamming. The only evidence that that was the ban reason is his own words. Considering that this story seems to have only been picked up by sites like "oneangrygamer", "riseupgamer", and the Daily Stormer, I'd lay money he's not being honest.

New comment by fuzxi in "Steam survey shows Linux marketshare hitting 1.0%"

fuzxi — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 23:55:22 +0000

That absolutely does not solve the problem? A grandmaster chess player is going to get tired of playing handicapped games against 1000 Elo noobs.

New comment by fuzxi in "Steam survey shows Linux marketshare hitting 1.0%"

fuzxi — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 21:28:47 +0000

>Make it expensive for those caught cheating and equally expensive for those making false report

Well now you've tipped the scales too far. Nobody is going to make a report, even when it's justified, if they're risking their account to do so.

New comment by fuzxi in "Steam survey shows Linux marketshare hitting 1.0%"

fuzxi — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 21:26:01 +0000

Overwatch briefly had a system like this, where you could mark players in your matches positively or negatively, so they'd be more or less likely to show up in your future matches. They had to remove it after a top level player could no longer find fair matches. He was waiting 10-20 minutes before getting matched with much lower skilled players. He was by all accounts a pleasant person, but he was so good at the game that many people would mark him negatively simply so they would never have to play against him.

New comment by fuzxi in "Home Depot is introducing power tools that won’t work if they’re stolen"

fuzxi — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 19:44:24 +0000

$9 means exponentially more to me than it does to a national chain.

New comment by fuzxi in "Duolingo reaches $6.5B valuation on day of IPO"

fuzxi — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 04:52:19 +0000

They've been working on improving their recordings for years. It's a lot better now.

New comment by fuzxi in "Our Tesla Model 3 Hasn't Delivered Big Savings in Maintenance Costs"

fuzxi — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 04:37:23 +0000

The article does say that those costs aren't included in the maintenance total.

But considering that they replaced the entire windshield (and sunroof glass) for what they describe as a stone chip, I'm inclined to believe they may have been overpaying or overdoing maintenance anyways. AAA suggests the price to repair a windshield chip would be around $100, and that replacement isn't necessary if it's smaller than a quarter.

New comment by fuzxi in "Google Translate pronounces 'rooster' in Spanish"

fuzxi — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 04:15:42 +0000

The tone is really...enthusiastic? Try listening to gallos ("roosters") for comparison.

New comment by fuzxi in "Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S. offices"

fuzxi — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 01:21:06 +0000

Medical Review Officers actually have access to prescription histories. I'm not entirely clear on how it works as I haven't personally seen that end, but they can verify non-negative results without speaking to the donor and report the result as negative (clean) to the company. They only need to speak to the donor if there's a non-negative result and they have no prescriptions that could cause a false positive for that. Also the MRO contacts the donor directly using the information on the chain of custody; the employer is never made aware that there's something abnormal about the sample.