dream_weasel

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[โ€“] dream_weasel 1 points 26 minutes ago

The answer here being that unskilled labor is not derived from everyday language, and people who can't conceive of that being the case are angry about it. And, by probability, are more likely to work jobs classified as "unskilled labor". ๐Ÿคท

[โ€“] dream_weasel 1 points 29 minutes ago

all work is knowledge work

No. This is the follow on to "I didn't read the definition of unskilled labor" vis a vis "I didn't read the definition of knowledge work"

[โ€“] dream_weasel 1 points 31 minutes ago

Damn. We should all quit our jobs and become billionaires!

[โ€“] dream_weasel 2 points 32 minutes ago
[โ€“] dream_weasel 1 points 34 minutes ago

That's a junk ending. You try to replace anything with a machine. It's nontrivial. But then, to come full circle, it's a skilled labor job ;).

[โ€“] dream_weasel 4 points 40 minutes ago

It's wild that no one can look up how unskilled labor is actually defined.

[โ€“] dream_weasel 3 points 7 hours ago

Wow that's subtle. Good catch

[โ€“] dream_weasel 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

It seems to me you are mostly right but not all the way right. People eat until they are full and also many, many people have a broken sense of satiety. Of course part of the blame lies with foods designed to incentivize people to overeat.

However.

  1. The average person is in my opinion inexcusably ignorant of what foods (s)he SHOULD be eating. This education topic is my wife's job, but the amount of people who can't tell you what a carb is, or as adults don't eat "green" foods, or a million other things is astounding. There's an education crisis on this front.

  2. There are remedies to the problem of satiety (though surgical) but I suspect habit also plays a large role. You don't need to count calories your whole life to get the hang of portion size. Not everyone has the executive function to stick to it, but that's the next point.

  3. We don't demonize people with broken arms, that is true. BUT people with broken arms seek treatment, and also they heal in less than a year no matter what. It's disingenuous to make being overweight for your whole entire life the fault of the rest of the world. There are absolutely contributing factors, but there is also only ONE person who is accountable. I'm not saying weight should be demonized or persecuted, but "it would be hard to lose weight" is a pretty dumb reason to increase your all cause mortality without at least trying a lifestyle change.

This last bullet point is why I'm suggesting the physics approach. It is irrefutable. If you put more in your body than you use, you will gain weight. If you put in less you will lose weight. There is literally NO WAY this doesn't work. It may not be pleasant or infinitely maintainable for everyone, but it's true.

[โ€“] dream_weasel 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Let's not also forget cerebrospinal fluid or the juice in your eyeballs! And of course pus.

[โ€“] dream_weasel -1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Sounds like not a very good approach then. I'll stick to the physics, thanks.

[โ€“] dream_weasel 5 points 2 days ago

Is your neighbor about 155 years old? ๐Ÿค”. Could be him!

 

Today my PC finally ate it. No POST, no disk activity, so I'm pretty sure the mobo has failed. I built this PC 8 or 10 years ago, and I'm honestly too old and out of touch to know where to start on a rebuild lol.

I'm an arch Linux user, my job is in machine learning, and I'm looking at a soup to nuts style rebuild but I don't know where to start. I want as much future proofing as I can get and I'm happy with a budget anywhere from $2k to $8k. I don't game now, but I might want to in the future.

So it seems like to leverage good ML tools I'm locked to cuda, so probably Nvidia GPU. Does that mean 4070 Ti is the knee in the curve? CPU I came from AMD but I have no idea. RAM speed is something I have never ever considered. And mobo wise, I have a couple of M.2 drives now, but I'm not sure what else should drive decisions? 1 monitor currently that I intend to replace, so I'm not sure why I would need multiple GPUs or something that necessitates a lot of PCIe connections.

I want a plain old closed black case, no color changing gamer shit, and about as much computing power as I can get. Pcpartpicker came up a little short, how do I start?

I've got maybe a week of lead time, then I would like to pull the trigger. This whole build process was a lot easier circa 2003!

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Body shaving for ladies? (self.wetshaving)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by dream_weasel to c/wetshaving@sub.wetshaving.social
 

So I've been wet shaving a long time and I'm pretty handy with a DE razor, a half hollow straight, and a shavette, but I'm at a loss for this one...

My wife is getting laser hair removal for several areas including Brazilian, and there are sone places she just can't shave. Apparently a wax is no good because they are basically destroying the hair root and follicle and it targets the melanin?

So, to the point, my wife took a shower today and did her best, then I took a quick shot with my adjustable DE, but the results were... not so good. I think this may be a shavette problem for control, but I gotta see what I'm doing so a thick soap lather cushion is out. Also there's some delicate contouring obviously which is pretty different from my leathery flat face.

The treatments are kinda pricey so it's important to get a clean shave, and anything she can't do is basically the most important stuff to zap... But I figure the first time I cut her or leave a nick I'm out. I gotta figure out the... uh... Front door back door problems because those are just not flat areas and the risk of failure or accident seems high.

Anybody got experience? Or ideas? Water-based lubricant was pretty decent (the third thing I tried) to help the shave, but tools and materials seem like important choices to make.

Edit: Mods I'd mark NSFW but idk how to do it. This is like my 3rd lemmy post ever.

 

I have been using the Kasa (TP-Link) branded smart switches around my house, but now that I have a few third reality zigbee sensors for my doors and so on, I am seeing the value of using more outlets/switches that act as zigbee repeaters. Do any of you have pretty reasonable (and cheapish) smart light switches or outlets I can invest in? The Amazon offerings are in the $50 each one which is pretty steep, though I guess I could just do one each room and do the rest with Kasa stuff.

I would like to expand the zigbee mesh network so I can use the devices where I actually want them without using smart outlet devices plugged into real outlets all over the place. If there was something that was $20 or less each item that would be super excellent. The wife and I plan to move in the not too distant future and I'd like to replace the "in the wall" stuff so that HA works throughout the house and I don't have plugs / dongles / wall warts all over the place.

Thanks in advance for any insight!

 

Really enjoying nvim-dap-ui lately, but I always have to adjust the sizes of the windows. The docs have left me high and dry so far, but maybe one of you have a good solution for a consistent layout when you first attach to a file?

 

I saw a post of the guy doing NFC to get various disney+ and Netflix shows. I've installed an integration with ADB... and have no idea how to proceed. Any of you have yaml snippets I can steal to that end?

I really want to be able to turn on the lights, turn on the TV, and start cocomelon for my daughter on Netflix in the basement as a one stop script, but I apparently am not smart enough.

The other guy link is in Reddit so I'm not going to link it but it is really easy to find on Google: an NFC card system for Netflix.

Thanks!

 

Or are you open to hearing all kinds of opinions?

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