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New comment by hugh4life in "AMD's 7900 XTX achieves better value for Stable Diffusion than Nvidia RTX 4080"

hugh4life — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 22:42:37 +0000

Weird you didn't post the comparison he made a couple weeks later where he says that sometimes DLSS beats native rendering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5B_dqi_Syc

New comment by hugh4life in "Google no longer automatically indexes websites?"

hugh4life — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 23:17:48 +0000

The past couple weeks there have been a few times I've been completely startled that google hadn't indexed a site. One of them is a forum that google used to completely index and now I have to use the forum search itself to find old posts.

New comment by hugh4life in "U.S. Officials in Germany Hit by Havana Syndrome"

hugh4life — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 15:17:59 +0000

I'm still very skeptical but humor me,

Given these anecdotes from Wikipedia:

"As the officer pulled his car into a busy intersection, he suddenly felt as though his head were going to explode. His two-year-old son, in a car seat in the back, started screaming. As the officer sped out of the intersection, the pressure in his head ceased, and his son went quiet."

"In 2019, a White House official reported experiencing debilitating symptoms while walking her dog in a Virginia suburb of Washington; the incident was publicly reported in 2020."

The most common explanation is microwave radiation. So, how large of a device do people think it would take to induce these symptoms?

Speculate, what would this device look like?

---- EDIT: China used microwave weapons against India in a border dispute. How similar are the symptoms?

https://eurasiantimes.com/has-india-finally-acknowledged-tha...

New comment by hugh4life in "‘Lolita’ Escaped Obscenity Laws and Cancel Culture"

hugh4life — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 14:52:37 +0000

If you want to get canceled, say that Vladimir Vladimirovich was obviously partly confessing when writing a story about Humbert Humbert.

Hiding in Plain Sight: Nabokov and Pedophilia https://www.jstor.org/stable/40754944?seq=1

New comment by hugh4life in "Deleting Facebook permanently"

hugh4life — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 17:31:40 +0000

I don't use facebook, but one thing I noticed with my parents it that it's pretty much replaced craigslist.

New comment by hugh4life in "FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization"

hugh4life — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 20:42:09 +0000

I fully support breaking up big tech, but there are geopolitical dimensions I'm surprised many pushing breaking up big tech don't seem to consider. It's much easier for non-US entities to selectively block and pressure smaller services.

New comment by hugh4life in "Qt 6.0"

hugh4life — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 03:09:50 +0000

Xfce, Cinnamon, and MATE all have a significant user base and they use GTK.

New comment by hugh4life in "Mailing lists are resistant to censorship"

hugh4life — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 16:35:19 +0000

Well, if you're worried about censorship(and lets be real, 99.9% of what people use mailing lists for won't be affected), don't use Mailchimp.

"We’ve updated our language to further clarify our Rules (Section 17 of STOU), which state that Mailchimp does not allow the distribution of Content that is, in our sole discretion, materially false, inaccurate, or misleading in a way that could deceive or confuse others about important events, topics, or circumstances."

New comment by hugh4life in "China would rather see TikTok U.S. close than a forced sale"

hugh4life — Sat, 12 Sep 2020 13:05:24 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_ma...

New comment by hugh4life in "Bardcore"

hugh4life — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 20:14:55 +0000

No mention of Stary Olsa?

Death in Rome does neofolk covers of pop songs.

New comment by hugh4life in "Mozilla project exposes YouTube's recommendation 'bubbles'"

hugh4life — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 20:33:06 +0000

One thing I noticed on music videos is that if I click on the Mix on the sidebar for that video it has a heavy bias for videos I've previously watched even if it has nothing to do with that song's genre.

I have kind of weird tastes that go from old country to happy hardcore to synthwave to many different genres and it's just weird how I get songs in the youtube mixes that are extremely unrelated to one another. I could be wrong, but it seems like it used to be much better than it is now.

New comment by hugh4life in "The TikTok War"

hugh4life — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 15:21:40 +0000

"I'm not sure how I got sucked into Tiktok but I was quickly hooked."

All these apps use behavioral design to get you hooked.

Tiktok is oversocialization on steroids. You have people not only acting out the behavioral scripts embedded and triggered in some meme music or voice you have people mimetically acting out what others are acting out. The psychological manipulation possible though TikTok is immense.

New comment by hugh4life in "Lawmakers begin bipartisan push to cut off police access to military-style gear"

hugh4life — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 18:29:34 +0000

"But what really kills the argument is looking at how our medical professionals have stepped up and responded to COVID-19, putting their lives on the line every day, with utterly inadequate gear. And still they serve."

You can't compare spontaneous heroism with mundane risk.

New comment by hugh4life in "Calls to Cancel SXSW Intensify as Facebook, Twitter Pull Out, 30K Sign Petition"

hugh4life — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 16:27:25 +0000

A bit OT, but the World Figure Skating Championships are being held in Montreal at about the exact same time as SXSW is suppose to be held(a couple weeks in mid-March). Which is fine by me. They're taking a lot of precautions but a lot of these people who attend these events come from east-asian countries... especially Japan. And they don't offer refunds on tickets which I think could result in quite a few people attending because of the "sunk cost" mentality that they don't want to lose what they paid for.

Governments are extremely reluctant to restrict travel and thus event organizers too are reluctant to do much more if it affects how much money they make.

I live nowhere near Montreal, but if I did I would lobby the local governments to see what can be done to reduce travel from the most affected countries.

New comment by hugh4life in "Fox News has stopped reporting on Coronavirus"

hugh4life — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 05:42:00 +0000

Coronavirus is all over Fox News webpage. It's one of the "hot topics" at the top. There are a lot of mentions of it.

New comment by hugh4life in "Facebook tax court trial begins over Ireland offshore deal"

hugh4life — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 17:24:56 +0000

The subpoenas you're talking about were purposely not taken to court.

New comment by hugh4life in "Can monoculture survive the algorithm?"

hugh4life — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 15:36:40 +0000

This is about 15 years too late. We haven't been monocultural for a long time... hence the frequent grasp to reboot things for when we were more monocultural.

New comment by hugh4life in "U.S. police may now be able to access online DNA database records"

hugh4life — Sat, 16 Nov 2019 14:25:12 +0000

A power database for genetic geneology could be developed just with the DNA of police officers. The government should be providing incentivizes to people who make their DNA information open for genetic genealogy searches rather than resorting to warrants on information people didn't agree to it.

New comment by hugh4life in "European Cloud Project Draws Backlash from U.S. Tech Giants"

hugh4life — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 14:06:48 +0000

Dependency leads you to getting screwed over in negotiations... from American IT to Chinese manufacturing. Autarchy is not a serious option but you've got to have options for exiting lopsided relationships.

New comment by hugh4life in "Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles"

hugh4life — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 10:22:48 +0000

"The photo-sharing social network has begun locking down its platform by preventing signed-out users from having unlimited access to public profiles.As a result, you’ll now be prompted to either sign up or login after viewing a handful of photos and posts via mobile or desktop web. Worse, there’s no getting around it."

I don't like the change, but it's about 36 photos which is quite reasonable.