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Give me something juicy

[-] ageedizzle@piefed.ca 18 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah everyone seems out to get Firefox lately. I almost wonder if its the Chromium gang tryna slander the competition

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by ageedizzle@piefed.ca to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

I'm asking not specifically about smoke detectors but any device that beeps but does not make any other, non-beeping sounds. Examples include microwaves, the timers on ovens, the fare system on a bus when you give it your fare, the little beepy heart monitor things in hospitals and old-school digital watches. These things beep but they seem to only beep; they do not make any other, non-beeping sounds.

So my question is: how do these things beep? It must be a speaker right (?), and if it is a speaker then why do these devices never make any other sounds other than beeping? (Because presumably speakers have a greater range than just a few beeps.) Or do these devices have specialized speakers that can only make a few sounds? If so, how do these speakers work?

I'm not sure if I articulated this very well but hopefully that makes sense.

[-] ageedizzle@piefed.ca 19 points 3 weeks ago

What’s the point of owning property if you can’t even do what you want with it? 

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I'm asking for public policy ideas here. A lot of countries are enacting age verification now. But of course this is a privacy nightmare and is ripe for abuse. At the same time though, I also understand why people are concerned with how kids are using social media. These products are designed to be addictive and are known to cause body image issues and so forth. So what's the middle ground? How can we protect kids from the harms of social media in a way that respects everyone's privacy?

[-] ageedizzle@piefed.ca 20 points 3 weeks ago

If this works then it’s great news. A big part of vaccine hesitancy is literally just people being afraid of needles. So a needle free vaccine would increase uptake of vaccines.

[-] ageedizzle@piefed.ca 30 points 4 weeks ago

The US already has intelligence sharing programs with many of their Allies (eg the five eyes alliance, which includes Canada, Australia, the UK and NZ). So other nations very well may have copies

[-] ageedizzle@piefed.ca 24 points 4 weeks ago

I do too. But if someone really does want to use these tools then there are better and worse ways of doing it

[-] ageedizzle@piefed.ca 42 points 4 weeks ago

I recommend duck.ai as an alternative way of accessing ChatGTP. Is not a perfect solution but it’s better than accessing it straight from the OpenAI website

[-] ageedizzle@piefed.ca 26 points 1 month ago

This is why all cars would be better if they took the tires off and just used bare metal rims on the pavement. That might be hard to control though so maybe we should create metal grooves in the road so they can follow their tracks. And at that point we could just automate the whole thing and people wouldn't need to drive for themselves

[-] ageedizzle@piefed.ca 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's not what OP is saying.

So I suggest instead of having these limits be conditional school speed limits, they should just be the normal limits all the time. It wouldn’t hurt people to slow down when kids aren’t present, so just make the speed limit reduced all the time on roads around the school.

They still want to slow down. That said you are correct that this means they wouldn't need to read the sign.

[-] ageedizzle@piefed.ca 46 points 1 month ago

We also need to keep trying to diversify our trade. Even if things go back to normal the US has shown us that they are unstable economic partners

[-] ageedizzle@piefed.ca 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It’s definitely a bad look for politicians to be paid super high salaries, but it’s actually a good way to curb corruption. Because financial struggles are a major motivation for turning to bribes. If you look at high corruption countries such as Mexico, you’ll see that they pay their public servants so little that they basically have to accept bribes to make ends meet. But thats not the case here, because we pay our public servants high salaries.

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My whole life I’ve been told that if you fall asleep in the bath then you’ll drown, or something. But is this true? I’m a grown ass adult I think I’d just wake up if my head fell under water

[-] ageedizzle@piefed.ca 54 points 1 month ago

At this point I say we should just cut our losses and just let that bridge sit unoccupied for now

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by ageedizzle@piefed.ca to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

It’s my understanding that mass produced items are all basically the same. If you buy something like a toothbrush, for example, then any other toothbrush from that same assembly line is going to be basically the same and have all the same specs (with the exception with minor defects here and there), because the machinery and process to make any those toothbrushes are all basically the same.

But that can’t be the case with locks and keys. Because if every lock and key were the same then there’d be no point in having them. Anyone could just bought the same key/lock combo could use it to unlock your front door. So all or most keys and locks must be unique. So how are they mass produced in a way that preserves their uniqueness?

[-] ageedizzle@piefed.ca 25 points 1 month ago

Gretzky was a Canadian icon. A source of national pride. But when Trump was threatening to annex Canada it came out that Gretzky was a MAGA guy. This caused a widespread sense of betrayal among the Canadian public.

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