jmp242 @ jmp242 @sopuli.xyz

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From what I've been able to work out - AirBnB doesn't make a lot of sense in the US at this point - it often costs as much or more than an actual hotel or resort or more traditional house rental, and there's all these extra gotchas with it that make it really... well - not interesting to me because of uncertainty, and that's just financial and if you're actually going to have a place to stay when you get there. Some of that was potentially worth it when it was 1/3 the cost I guess, but now that it's popular, people aren't doing it "for cost" or "to get a little extra for an unused room or whatever" but as a business. And guess what? Hotels, being competitive, already have close to the cheapest IT CAN BE in a given area to stay as a business venture.

On the resorts rentals, it's really weird, but many places have partnered with AirBnB to I guess get them listed there also - basically like companies that have listings on eBay, Amazon, Walmart online, NewEgg for the same thing. It's just a place people go more than say expedia. Of course, I do wonder how many people who are inclined to stay in those resorts are going to AirBnB anyway, vs just direct to the resort or more traditional booking methods.

Edit: Remembered - I've been told it's very different in Europe still, so I guess it pays to check when traveling to other countries. If you're ok with the tradeoffs for the savings.

Wait, you're claiming inflation is rising because of increased interest rates? That's a first. Cite?

SPE shows that people being paid or encouraged to act a certain way will act a certain way, especially in deference to authority - which we already knew IMO. How does this translate to the Internet - people can be paid to spread info online that might be misleading or straight up disinformation? That doesn't seem especially novel to me. PR and Propaganda existed long before SPE or the 60s.

Do you have any links to what sort of subliminal marketing you're referencing that is shown to work?

It was more like 26 cans I believe. Stupidly high.

I don't think the SPE is that good a reference, and also not super meaningful to this sort of case of Internet manipulation anyway. Look at the amount of points showing it was basically not a normal experiment but predetermined to act out how the PI wanted - in that wikipedia link.

My understanding of MK Ultra was basically the government wasted a lot of money because of fear of missing out vs the Soviets. It didn't accomplish anything.

And subliminal marketing has been widely debunked to my knowledge. People thought it might do something, but experimentally it didn't.

I would have pointed to disinformation campaigns myself - there is research that implies it works.

Honestly, this is just people being stupid. Validate your addresses. Maybe they should change from .mil to .mil.us or something so at least it's going to a US address (and fits the rest of the world better).

We make the prompt be user@hostname so no matter what you use it shows what host you're on. This is configurable in .bashrc iirc.

I might also recommend tmux, there's a script you can use to also set prompt in the window view. Though this is best used as a jumpserver setup.

That is true, I just think it might be hard for many people to understand.

Discord is also at least 2 completely different experiences IME. If you're in a niche server, it can sort of work like reddit with threads etc, because there's like one reply every 30 minutes to a day or 3.

If you're in a busy community it's clearly not at all like reddit, and is like all the huge chat rooms of the past and range from immediate interaction time waster to completely unusable for anything except watching text fly by.

The "Right answer" is copy all the content to another device, upgrade disks, copy content back to new array that can take advantage of the larger disks. Or even safer, set up a completely new device in parallel and then copy data over, decommission the old device.

Some RAID systems will let you do what you say, but will not let you expand the usable storage space. Some will have particular disks they'll even take. It really depends on the RAID system.

Hmm, not really. As I've said before - a lot of the news stuff is also on Ground News, WaPo, Mastodon or Lemmy. There's no great replacement for /r/sysadmin, but that needed replacing as it got to be useless over the last few years. I don't know if there's a /c/changemyview or not, but that isn't necessary.

Actually, I just spend more time doing other stuff for entertainment - read more books, catch up on more podcasts, yes watch more youtube, TV, Movies whatever. Go outside, walk the dog. I'm kind of surprised how much time I can spend on lemmy lol.

Given it feels like Reddit is getting rid of NSFW content (API changes on that too) - maybe try finding other locations for that content? I'm honestly surprised how many people used reddit for that kind of content. Never would have occurred to me lol.

You know, of all the things to use reddit for - porn never occurred to me. It's not like there aren't literally thousands of dedicated sites for that...

I remain confused by the Vocoloid sensation. I'm also really amazed by that video - how TF did they project like that in a way that looks good on stage. My goodness. This is one of those "We're in the future now" moments. Though I really can't see wanting to go to a concert that's entirely virtual - I'm waiting to have it in my house like movies I guess.

This just seems so much like tamagotchis - like ... it's not real. Maybe I need to see one singing in English.

They never tell you enough on the statistics on the news to actually get much solid info. Like sample size, error bars, did they fit a particular distribution, what was tossed as outliers and more.

I always think about the chance of rain report and the different explanations of what it might mean (I don't recall which is correct, but it illustrates how confusing it can be) :

Chance of rain today based on a predictive model

Is different from

It WILL rain today in this region and this percent of land area will get rain

Is different from

Over all the historical data for this region, we got rain on this percent of days when the conditions were "the same" in the past.

But all can be reasonably said to be 59% chance of rain today.

I would say way more important is how to identify scams, whether they are online, by phone, mail or in person. Just a basic heuristic on - is this too good to be true? So you can take a pause and go do research. Most of the time, a ticking clock on a "great deal" is just a sales scam, and that "for 10 minutes only price" comes back weekly or is just actually "the price".

Realize what makes "a call about your cars warranty" or "your credit card rate" spam at best. Take that and apply to more things. Is the car salesman vague about stuff? Probably going to try and screw you. Does the subscription only show the promotional rate? Know to get that ongoing rate before signing up. Just try and hone a gut feeling when things seem off somehow.

But there's the rub. Right now the "principle" here is basically being a luddite to me. I don't see a big moral quandary - I see a contract dispute between 2 well funded groups regarding voluntary employment. And a demonstration of why Unions might be good for workers.

Isn't animated content the precursor for this? Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse 'live forever'. We might also take a little from recast characters over time like James Bond, The Doctor, Captain Kirk, Superman...

I guess if we mean actors separate from characters it's a little different. Though I think wr still might take something from Bugs Bunny who's been in various shows, movies etc. And the famous part is the character, you have to be a big Bugs Bunny nerd to know or car about who is doing the voice or animation or writing really. So that might well be where we go - the character is tied to the brand / company that owns it but no particular person.

I don't think there's gonna be a big backlash really. This may make actual actors in movies like the etsy handcrafted stuff vs the knock off brand on Amazon, but both have a market. The "more expensive" real market might well shrink a lot and if you want to be an actor you're back to actual stage performance.

I lucked into a great job in my field, but I also figured out what I wanted to do by 15 IIRC. So I could make it happen when the luck struck.

There's still "work stuff" like getting to meetings at a particular time I don't love, and some tedious stuff too. There's the HR training etc that's annoying. But day to day I also get to 'play' with stuff I could never afford as a hobby.

Even if you find what you love, and get a job doing it doesn't mean it's a great job. Pay attention to others, do they stick around, or are they bailing ASAP? Is there a functional HR department (often not in small business and there are some stories there)? Do management seem to have a clue, or are they crap with unrealistic deadlines and budgets? Be ready to still change jobs inside whatever fields you like and get into.

Also, like somebody else said, try and figure out if you have to go to college for your field. Or if there's an apprenticeship you need. The 'try a bunch of different things' isn't bad advice, but while you can become a roofer pretty easily, you're not trying out being a doctor...

I used to have quite the diet coke habit. I would regularly drink 6 cans before noon to wake up, and on weekends when I didn't need to get to sleep, I probably did often hit 14 cans or more. But I think I even topped out around that 14 can amount because you start getting caffeine side effects and twitching...