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Sakos commented on German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detention facility   kpbs.org/news/border-immi... · Posted by u/axiologist
ReptileMan · 6 months ago
3) Read the article
Sakos · 6 months ago
Be specific. I did read the article. She's stuck with ICE and nobody in charge gives a shit. Did you read the article? Tell me the part of the article that changes the fact that going to the US today is moronic. You realize she tried to cross the border on the 25th? 5 days after Trump's presidency started and 4 days after Trump started rounding up and deporting illegal immigrants. Or is that too difficult for you to understand?
Sakos commented on German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detention facility   kpbs.org/news/border-immi... · Posted by u/axiologist
Sakos · 6 months ago
1) This is horrifying and shouldn't happen to anybody.

2) You have to be an idiot to visit currently. The rule of law is now nothing more than guidelines and Trump and his ilk have publicly stated they alone can decide what's right or wrong.

Edit: Somebody fucking explain. She tried to cross the border on the 25th, 5 days after Trump's presidency started and after he started rounding up and deporting people.

Sakos commented on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting   bbc.com/news/live/c625ex2... · Posted by u/yakkomajuri
verisimi · 6 months ago
> no-one, I mean no-one would ever do that inpublic

I agree. It seemed to me like Zelensky initiated the public display. Both trump and jd Vance we also commenting on his inappropriate public statements.

Sakos · 6 months ago
"Grab her by the pussy" Trump and "childless cat ladies" JD Vance aren't really people to listen to on what statements are inappropriate.
Sakos commented on Decades of Research Misconduct Stalled an Alzheimer's Cure   sciencefriday.com/article... · Posted by u/sorokod
ein0p · 6 months ago
What do doctors prescribe nowadays? Same discredited meds?

How about SSRIs, for which much of the research does not provide supporting evidence? E.g. there's a 2022 meta-study by Moncrieff et al that shows there's no consistent evidence tying serotonin to depression. An earlier 2008 placebo-controlled study by Kirsch et al shows that SSRIs are barely any better than placebo.

IOW, SSRIs are useless horseshit for the vast majority of people (especially in the absence of e.g. CBT) and the theory behind them is not supported by evidence. Why are they still prescribed?

Sakos · 6 months ago
Many people have been helped and are helped by SSRIs today. I wouldn't be here today without SSRIs. And while CBT was a huge factor in why I'm largely a healthy, productive adult now, CBT wouldn't have done anything for me without an SSRI to help regulate my emotions first.

It's easy to look at studies and say "this shit doesn't work" (despite there being plenty of studies that show they're clearly effective and they're one of the best treatments we have). But when you talk to people taking it, clearly there are way too many that benefit from them to just say we need to stop prescribing them. That's just deciding due to your own biases that countless people need to suffer unnecessarily. Why? Why would you want to do this to people? Or do you not actually care about the suffering or wellbeing of the people affected and you just have this vague idea of "SSRIs bad"?

I spent a lot of time reading studies before going on SSRIs to decide whether it was worth it. The literature unambiguously said that SSRIs are absolutely a valid form of treatment that can help (even though it won't help everybody). Who are you to say they're horseshit?

Sakos commented on Ask HN: Do US tech firms realize the backlash growing in Europe?    · Posted by u/julianpye
Daril · 6 months ago
For what it counts, I deleted my Amazon account today (and lost all my Kindle books in the process), I'll never buy anything from them again. I'll close my S3 storage account with a US company in the coming months : I'll switch to a German service. In the coming weeks, I'll also delete my GMail account (my devices are already deGoogled since many years). There a lot of European alternatives that respect our privacy, our values and principles.
Sakos · 6 months ago
I don't know how to degoogle at this point. 90% of my registered accounts across the internet are with my Gmail account because I didn't want them tied to my private email.
Sakos commented on Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Linux GPU Compute Benchmarks   phoronix.com/review/nvidi... · Posted by u/shikharbhardwaj
shikharbhardwaj · 6 months ago
We're already seeing reports of the 12HPWR connector not being able to handle the power the 5090 demands [1]. It seems that for this generation, NVIDIA left little headroom. Might be best to run these undervolted to have some of that headroom back.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndmoi1s0ZaY

[2]: https://youtu.be/8PDYJI0W6Gk?t=430

Sakos · 6 months ago
It's more that it's perfectly happy sending all 600w over a single wire if the resistance on the other wires is high enough. Since there's a single point of connection to the card and a single shunt, there's no way to do load balancing like when there used to be two or even three 8 pin cables.
Sakos commented on Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System   jellyfin.org/... · Posted by u/doener
RickHull · 6 months ago
My media center is a laptop with a broken screen, running Arch Linux and Kodi. Kodi has a web interface that you can stream to. Why might I want to add Jellyfin?
Sakos · 6 months ago
The most useful part of Jellyfin is on-the fly transcoding to whatever bit rate I want at any particular time, no matter where I might be. I've watched stuff off my server on a train with terrible connectivity by setting it to 360p. If you only watch at home, then it's probably not that useful to you. I also like all the library features and tracking my per episode watch history for shows.
Sakos commented on Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System   jellyfin.org/... · Posted by u/doener
yegle · 6 months ago
Cloudflare Tunnel only works if you access it via a web browser right?

I'd prefer using Tailscale so that I can also access it in their native apps on Android and Android TV.

Sakos · 6 months ago
I'm not sure why it wouldn't work with the apps? I have my jellyfin server behind a CF tunnel and I can access it in the Android app by my domain.
Sakos commented on California homeowners to fund half of high-risk insurer's $1B 'bailout'   calmatters.org/economy/20... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
lttlrck · 6 months ago
The state had, IIRC, a $100 billion surplus 2 years ago.

They knew the insurers were leaving and why. Yet didn't fund FAIR correctly at the time? Or what's the excuse?

Of course now there is a massive deficit. Maybe they'll pay us back on the next surplus...

Sakos · 6 months ago
Why would the state pay to fund FAIR? It's just a pool of insurers required to provide fire insurance and it's paid for by insurance customers. Even if the state had $100 billion surplus, why would it be justifiable to use it on FAIR as opposed to the countless other ways the money could be used to help Californian residents? It would effectively be like taxing Californians to pay for homeowner fire insurance. Is that fair?
Sakos commented on TL;DW: Too Long; Didn't Watch Distill YouTube Videos to the Relevant Information   tldw.tube/... · Posted by u/pkaeding
someothherguyy · 6 months ago
> into a single tweet

It would say something like, "This text attempts to summarize the entirety of human knowledge".

Still, IMO summarizing videos is useful. Even if the summary is not accurate or a 1:1 representation of the content, you can mostly get the gist of what is being said without being baited into watching advertisements.

Although, this site doesn't seem to do a great job at summaries. Kagi's universal summarizer has much better results, https://kagi.com/summarizer/index.html . However, it requires transcripts to be available for videos.

Sakos · 6 months ago
I think a lot of people are sort of missing the benefit of something like this.

How do you read a book effectively? You skim the table of contents. You skim the contents of each chapter and mark interesting paragraphs. Then you go through the book another 1-2 times, each time getting deeper into the text and cross-referencing information between different parts of the book.

What tools like this will do is allow us to apply this same workflow to videos, which can greatly enhance our understanding of videos we're interested in and help us contextualise it with the rest of our knowledge.

I've already been doing this and it's helped me expand my knowledge and understanding in ways that wouldn't have been possible without an unreasonable investment of time and effort.

u/Sakos

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