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jimbob45 commented on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month   theverge.com/tech/875309/... · Posted by u/x01
x0x0 · an hour ago
I think Discord is trapped in an ugly place:

1 - Piles of parents too stupid or lazy to, well, parent the children they made;

2 - A very reasonable societal expectation that it shouldn't be easy for young kids to access, or even be exposed, to the worst dregs of the internet;

3 - Very different use cases (gaming, kids stuff, free/affordable slack for communities) all on the same platform;

4 - A pile of morons in legislatures who insist there's a magic highly private way to do all this, but (see Australia) refuse to lay out the actual method. It's a government-wide game of underwear gnomes.

jimbob45 · 23 minutes ago
That’s not a reasonable societal expectation. That should be an expectation of the parents to follow through on.

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jimbob45 commented on 50 years ago, a young Bill Gates took on the 'software pirates'   thenewstack.io/50-years-a... · Posted by u/MilnerRoute
King-Aaron · 7 days ago
There's a bunch of stuff coming out about his coordination with Epstein to run pandemic simulations, and a lot of business level stuff going on after Epstein's initial run-ins with the law. That aside if he's on a personal enough level to ask him for antibiotics to sneakily slip his wife, then Bill would definitely know about all the rest.

Really don't have any more room to give these people the benefit of doubt.

jimbob45 · 7 days ago
If you’re Bill/Melinda and you’re undertaking a massive project to change the world positively, why not take money from Epstein? The public benefit would dwarf whatever benefit Jeff could obtain.
jimbob45 commented on Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors   notepad-plus-plus.org/new... · Posted by u/mysterydip
egl2020 · 8 days ago
This all fascinating, but in the end: I have notepad++; what should I do?
jimbob45 · 8 days ago
Gedit is an underrated alternative imo.
jimbob45 commented on Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media   yle.fi/a/74-20207494... · Posted by u/Teever
OsamaJaber · 9 days ago
The real question is enforcement They tried this, and kids just moved to platforms nobody knew existed
jimbob45 · 9 days ago
Eventually group SMS would still function well for this, no? Shared email lists barring that. This seems like a race to the bottom.
jimbob45 commented on Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level   uni-bonn.de/en/news/017-2... · Posted by u/brandonb
wwwtyro · 11 days ago
My understanding is that:

1. When someone consumes fat, bile is released into the gut.

2. Oatmeal (and other soluble fibers like psyllium husk) capture this bile and it is excreted in stool.

3. In order to create the bile, the liver needs LDL. Because the LDL it used to create the bile was lost when it was captured, it exposes more LDL receptors and pulls LDL out of the bloodstream, thereby lowering LDL levels.

It seems to me that in order to maximize the effectiveness of this LDL-lowering approach, one must not simply consume psyllium or oatmeal, but rather consume them in conjunction with fat. Not saturated fat, obviously, which raises LDL, but perhaps unsaturated or polyunsaturated fats. My expectation is that this would trigger the bile secretion required in order to actually sequester it.

jimbob45 · 10 days ago
By that logic, it would seem that oatmeal would be best placed in a non-breakfast slot, no?

I’m genuinely curious. I have a vested interest in this.

jimbob45 commented on The WiFi only works when it's raining (2024)   predr.ag/blog/wifi-only-w... · Posted by u/epicalex
vghaisas · 11 days ago
I've collected a list of fun stories of this form and post them when this comes up:

- Car allergic to vanilla ice cream: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wkw/humour/carproblems.txt

- Can't log in when standing up: https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/3v52p...

- OpenOffice won't print on Tuesdays: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161...

jimbob45 · 11 days ago
- We can’t send an email more than 500 miles

https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles

jimbob45 commented on Where to Sleep in LAX   cadence.moe/blog/2025-12-... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
jimbob45 · 11 days ago
You sort of have to plan ahead for this now. If you’re not careful, your belongings will get pinched. If you wear an inner jacket with pockets, though, you can safely stash your goods and conk out. Even better if it’s just a reversible jacket. Luggage is harder but as long as it’s locked, you can usually just tie it to yourself and be safe enough.
jimbob45 commented on Amazon cuts 16k jobs   reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/DGAP
echelon · 12 days ago
Shouldn't we all want H1B rather than offshoring?

That keeps the facilities here, the local employment options here, the growth here, the tax base here...

We should want more smart people moving to this country. More business creation, more capital, more labor, more output.

Immigration is total economic growth for America, non zero-sum. Offshoring is not only economic loss, but second order loss: we lose the capacity over an extended time frame.

jimbob45 · 12 days ago
Yep. The negativity around H-1Bs is centered around using them for low/mid-level roles in the pursuit of wage suppression, racial/caste discrimination with hiring managers abusing the system to get their friends in, and the tech industry unnecessarily hogging them when we really need them in niche industries (e.g. nuclear engineering).

Trump made the cost change some months ago to address those concerns but I haven’t seen any studies showing whether or not those changes had a positive effect or not.

jimbob45 commented on Chuck Klosterman on why we've never actually seen a real football game   latimes.com/entertainment... · Posted by u/proposal
jimbob45 · 13 days ago
Bit silly considering the scoreboard typically has a TV that shows the most important bits that would have been seen at home anyway. His argument may have made sense in 1980 before TVs were introduced in stadiums.

For an actually interesting topic worthy of your time, check out how 1st down markers are calculated and shown on screen at home. It’s much more complicated than you’d think.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_%26_Ten_(graphics_system)

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