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Re:My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii on Saturday October 31, 2026 @09:48AM (#50316181)
Not sure why this was offensive, the Wii had quite a bit of market success with the elderly.
Re:My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii on Friday October 30, 2026 @04:56PM (#50310039)
In defense the Wii was popular with people that very likely died of natural causes years ago.
Re:My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii on Friday October 30, 2026 @04:55PM (#50310030)
Dreamcast came with a modem and an optional Ethernet adapter 8 years earlier. The GD-ROM was too clever by half. But perhaps it was the prototype of peak game consoles. I have a soft spot because the home brew scene on that started a full quarter century ago.
Re:Honey, I Shrunk the TV on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @11:39PM (#50190923)
What exactly makes 55” the sweet spot for value? 55” is small at very typical viewing distances for 4K home theater. I get that many are content with a 55” or even smaller TV (25” was considered bigger than usual years ago and 19” was norm), but for an enthusiast crowd 55” doesn’t even meet minimal criteria so “value” is meaningless. As far as objective measures of value, 75” is closer to minimum in terms of cost per viewing area. 65” is within spitting distance of SMPTE guideline FOV (at least 30°) at 9 feet.

55” is the most commonly sold but that’s because there is a glut of shitty low cost TVs, that is the typical door buster low end panel with the crappiest Smart TV firmware you advise to avoid.

And no thanks I’m not going to give up Dolby Vision for a signage TV for security issues that border on paranoia. Keep the network cable unplugged and WiFi disabled.

Re:Airbnb bans making guests do dishes and take out the trash on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @09:49PM (#50190139)
And most AirBnBs charge cleaning fees. So if you’re not paying for “cleaning” what exactly is it?
Re:What I Self-Host on Thursday October 15, 2026 @10:24PM (#50113155)
> Sonarr, Lidarr, Radarr

There’s no value to this post honestly.

You mean dietitian.

This is meant to be good natured pedantry, but look it up, you may find it interesting.

Re:Cleo (Mathematician) on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @11:08PM (#50001509)
Were any of the 39 answers to a question that was not likely to be from a sock puppet?

Doesn’t necessarily make the solutions less impressive, but it’s kind of a relevant detail that is left out in the Wikipedia summary.

More AI slop.
Re:56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience on Thursday October 01, 2026 @03:38PM (#49926129)
You’re right, it just sucks. I don’t care how much AI anyone uses. It’s not that it’s “AI” slop, it’s slop. In this day and age we are almost certain AI was involved, but it has little to do with the criticism. It’s just a few short years ago we assume this kind of crap wouldn’t make it to the front page on the regular.

And the criticism isn’t even that it is off… things that are off can have artistic or entertainment value. This doesn’t. It’s just screams laziness.

Re:56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @09:52PM (#49916736)
Bunch of AI slop.
Re:Video CDs Break Windows Explorer on Sunday September 27, 2026 @03:11PM (#49869835)
VCD was the home video format of the masses throughout much of Asia in the late 90s and early 2000s.
Nobody called you out. You really can believe whatever you want. The delusions of grandeur comment was clearly not addressed at you personally (“site with delusions of grandeur”). Touch grass, seriously.
Re:Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative? on Thursday September 24, 2026 @09:52PM (#49839317)
MODY is something else entirely (a genetic mutation driven disease with distinct pathophysiology from Type 1). What’s being discussed here is LADA (late autoimmune diabetes in adults). LADA itself isn’t that rare but it is a small minority of all cases of diabetes in older adults.
Re:Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative? on Thursday September 24, 2026 @03:50PM (#49835957)
"Some day, your immune system may decide to attack your pancreas."

Immune attack of the pancreas is usually a disease of youth. Type 2 diabetes which is overwhelmingly the diabetes associated with aging is not an autoimmune disease.

Yale Appliance, Harper and Knowles. But I'm not sure why you think a snitty "but LG? Ain't nobody got time for that." deserves a more rigorous reply on an informal commentary site with delusions of grandeur. Like I said to the other dude, believe whatever you'd like. But if you're out in the sticks and you can't do your own service you probably shouldn't buy either.
"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience”

  - Albert Einstein
They have the functionality that if the local weather is predicted to be bad they will preemptively lower the temperature? Really, which ones?

That you can remotely control something isn’t “smart”

> so maybe I lower the temperature setting to try and extend the life of the contents.

Bullshit. The ideal refrigerator temperature is already close enough to freezing that any small adjustment you could make is unlikely to do any good. If this was actually a good idea then by your logic (similar to odd love for printer manufacturers) the all wise manufacturers would have already incorporated this into their “smart” fridges.

This is the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard. A standard mono laser printer can somehow print adequately without ANY color toner.
It’s pretty well known in the US that LG washers perform better and have a far better parts and service network than Samsung. You think whatever you want though.
Re:Working with Git Worktrees in Magit on Friday September 11, 2026 @09:26AM (#49658065)
No this is completely incorrect. The filesystem doesn’t break a link just if you open it. Your editor or higher level utility is free to do so (by unlinking and copying the data into a new file/inode), but this is not how the filesystem works.
Re:Audacity 4.0 on Thursday September 10, 2026 @07:25PM (#49651503)
Trying to shoe horn multiplatform UI into MFC? Just look at Unicode. It’s an unholy mess.

The only toolkit to do what it does? Qt does what it does, even if the approach is not the same (arguably superior), there’s also Tk. There’s also libui and IUP.

Re:Audacity 4.0 on Thursday September 03, 2026 @10:51AM (#49550704)
> wxWidgets uses the native OS interfaces.

Audacity was fooling no one that it was a native MacOS app, or even a particularly well designed GTK app. The fundamental idea of WX is not sound. Turns out MFC is not a great abstraction for AppKit.

Even Qt uses some higher level native UI interfaces on its respective implementations.

Re:Pac-Man, but you're the ghost on Sunday June 14, 2026 @02:02AM (#48524607)
Are you talking about for the AI Pac-Man or the ghosts? Because the ghosts in real Pac-Man don’t have cornering.
Re:Moving beyond fork() + exec() on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @12:06PM (#48462920)
NtCreateProcess was not a public Windows API. NT was flexible, that’s not what was being discussed, which should have been clear from the context.
Re:Moving beyond fork() + exec() on Saturday June 06, 2026 @01:05PM (#48426865)
This is not true. NT never had fork, was always based on the assumption of an MMU and Dave Cutler was a well known fork hater in the 80s long before this paper came out and made it cool to be so. By the time Windows 95 was out, the baseline was 386 with an MMU. CreateThread was initially designed for NT in 1993 though (which didn’t support pre-386 CPUs).
Re:Moving beyond fork() + exec() on Saturday June 06, 2026 @12:34PM (#48426561)
> It's weird to leave out a mention of copy-on-write

For the intended audience of such a paper this is base knowledge.

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

You can go straight to hell for making me feel old.

Re:Encephalitis on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @03:26PM (#48388667)
Absolutely not to defend what happened but that GAD diagnosis sets in motion the anchoring, because now you have an “established” (and recent) psychiatric diagnosis and it’s all too common that an ED is going to heavily prioritize this as a progression. EDs are just very bad in general about reconsidering a differential for a (new) chronic condition unless it’s flashing like a neon sign, especially when there is an easy enough dispo to reach for, transfer to psych in this case. But even worse, you already had an extensive outpatient workup to hang their hat on. From the history provided the history of a fall is the only thing mentioned that sounded like a slam dunk brewing neurological deficit, and it is not very specific, half the ED are people that fell. I’m sure you’ve read the MDM portion of the ED note, it may or may not give some idea of why neurological conditions were dismissed. Very unfortunate.

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