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New comment by mgiampapa in "Facebook is cooked"

mgiampapa — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:38:35 +0000

I am both strongly pro 2A, and extremely liberal. Sometimes it gets things wrong, but I just use the feedback buttons and snooze content I don't agree with and it remarkably stays mostly on track for me.

New comment by mgiampapa in "Facebook is cooked"

mgiampapa — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:36:06 +0000

IDK, I still find my Facebook and Instagram feeds very topical and useful to me, so I keep using them. I also curate aggressively, have a wide variety of interests and a few hundred close connections. It could be that I am just fitting into what the algo is steering to, but I don't get the low quality stuff that OP is complaining about.

New comment by mgiampapa in "Facebook is cooked"

mgiampapa — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:35:22 +0000

Social media is mostly about what you make of it and how you interact to find value. This is the same in Twitter, TikTok, FB, Instagram, even LinkedIn.

If you don't interact with the product, you get lowest denominator crap.

New comment by mgiampapa in "99% of adults over 40 have shoulder "abnormalities" on an MRI, study finds"

mgiampapa — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:01:38 +0000

If I learned anything at Buy N Large University, AR screens in eyeware may be huge.

New comment by mgiampapa in "99% of adults over 40 have shoulder "abnormalities" on an MRI, study finds"

mgiampapa — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:59:46 +0000

The issue with those inclined pillows with the arm hole in them is that they can be a really hard angle for a side sleeper to be at. It makes my back and hips hurt way worse than my shoulder.

New comment by mgiampapa in "Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi"

mgiampapa — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 11:02:09 +0000

You clearly did not live in the world of watching two teens on computers in the same room hold two entirely different conversations out-loud and over AIM.

New comment by mgiampapa in "Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?"

mgiampapa — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 08:38:45 +0000

56k was also unidirectional, you had to have special hardware on the other side to send at 56k downstream. The upstream was 33.6kbps I think, and that was in ideal conditions.

New comment by mgiampapa in "The Myth of the ThinkPad"

mgiampapa — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 06:07:47 +0000

Trackpad != trackpoint. The track point is the little eraser nub pointer embedded into the keyboard. Many thinkpad enthusiasts disable the trackpad entirely.

New comment by mgiampapa in "US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified"

mgiampapa — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 06:39:01 +0000

Being medically stupid isn't a protected class. You can refuse service to anyone you want to otherwise. It's not an ER, it's a Pediatrician, and they value not endangering their other patients who actually follow medical advice.

New comment by mgiampapa in "US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified"

mgiampapa — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:39:11 +0000

The doctors offices want none of it. It's all FoodTV and HGN.

There is no utility in pissing off 75% of your customers. I'm thrilled that my kid's doctor doesn't even allow patients that aren't vaccine schedule compliant.

New comment by mgiampapa in "Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch"

mgiampapa — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 21:53:56 +0000

I firewall my TV from my Printer just so they don't get any ideas.

New comment by mgiampapa in "Venezuela's Navy Begins Escorting Ships as U.S. Threatens Blockade"

mgiampapa — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:11:56 +0000

If its not in the middle east it's just a sparkling police action.

New comment by mgiampapa in "Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices"

mgiampapa — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 23:28:42 +0000

RC Cola, this is your moment to shine.

New comment by mgiampapa in "It's ~2026 –. ChatGPT still doesn't allow email change"

mgiampapa — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 23:51:44 +0000

All software is more hacked together than we want to admit.

New comment by mgiampapa in "Meta Says the 2,400 'Adult Movies' They Torrented Were for Personal Use"

mgiampapa — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 18:45:45 +0000

I can remember at least one incident when someone on the bus from SF to campus was actually watching porn on their laptop. IDK if they were torrenting it at home or at work, but there were many emails about not streaming content on the shuttle bus WiFi.

New comment by mgiampapa in "New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair"

mgiampapa — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 20:20:19 +0000

hydroxyapatite is a mineral like your tooth, that's how it supports remineralization.

It's actually great stuff and works wonders for tooth sensitivity above and beyond fluoride shellac. I also order it from the more civilized world.

BioMin is available in the US and is similar, but I don't find it works better and I don't like that it doesn't have fluoride. (I live in an area without fluoride in the water)

New comment by mgiampapa in "Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division"

mgiampapa — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 20:47:22 +0000

Have we learned nothing from Cambridge Analytica?

New comment by mgiampapa in "Ultrasonic Chef's Knife"

mgiampapa — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 22:28:53 +0000

A Santoku or other knife with scalloped sides do well. There are also in fact, cheese knifes, for cutting and serving that are popular for self service cheese boards. Wire is also popular for cutting large block cheeses.

New comment by mgiampapa in "Denmark close to wiping out cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-out"

mgiampapa — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 01:56:04 +0000

The current recommended cutoff is 45 (well, pre the current US administration). So I think it was a question of we tested this at the time in these high risk age groups and we were still waiting on the results for other cohorts that were less important.

New comment by mgiampapa in "How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity?"

mgiampapa — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 20:32:10 +0000

If you have time based billing you can also input that into the system and it's even more effective. For example, if you tell it that electricity is cheap from 9am - 5pm (peak solar) and expensive from 5pm - 9pm (peak residential demand) it will take your trending consumption and decide when your solar production isn't keeping up with foretasted demand and let you charge from the grid to at the cheap rate to make up the shortfall and minimize cost. It even factors in things like grid charging speed and total site usage limits, which are great given my 100amp panel.