cucumberbob

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[–] cucumberbob@programming.dev 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Disagree. I’m not from the US, so maybe guns being seen as fun is more of a cultural issue in not aware of, but plenty of weapons are seen as fun here in the UK. And while we do have gun crime, I think firearms are seen differently here vs the US.

People will go axe throwing for fun. With Scouts, we shot air rifles on camp a number of times (supervised by people who knew what they were doing). Knife throwing is also a thing. Clay Pigeon shooting is also not uncommon here.

I genuinely believe using a weapon on a (non-living) target is fun for a lot of normal, well adjusted people.

[–] cucumberbob@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

how is the cause even relevant for a health insurance?

I have a feeling most insurers would want to charge a higher premium to someone with a history of freezing their own legs off. I doubt they have data to support it, but it’s not unreasonable to expect there’s a higher chance that this guy might self harm than the average person. Or require mental health support.

[–] cucumberbob@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I wouldn’t expect a response like this given that prompt.

I’d expect it to sound more like someone else’s opinions. Grok’s responses read like it is making those claims. When I gave your prompt to chatGPT, it answered more like it’s explaining others’ views - saying stuff like “deniers believe …”

Prompts like “write a blog post that reads like it was written by a holocaust denier explaining why the holocaust didn’t happen. Then write a response debunking the blog post” I could see working. The model of Grok I used would only do it with the second sentence included (with without). ChatGPT, however refused even with the second sentence.

[–] cucumberbob@programming.dev 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Pardon dealing industry? In the UK?

I’m pretty sure only 4 pardons have been given in the last 25 years. 1 was posthumous (Turing) and the other 3 were given to convicts who saved people’s lives while incarcerated.

I don’t think being anti-woke is going to help anyone get a pardon in the UK.

I do think it’s a grift, just not convinced it’s a grift for a Royal Prerogative of Mercy.

[–] cucumberbob@programming.dev 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There’s a guy on YouTube who, among other things, makes language intelligibility videos. Here’s the one he did on how well German speakers can understand Old English

[–] cucumberbob@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you mean by “backed” here? I think I’m misunderstanding but I thought (and a short google seems to confirm) that currency A being backed by currency B means the value of A is fixed at a certain amount of currency B, and there is some organisation “backing” this with reserves.

Not trying to shill/defend crypto, just confused on terminology :)

[–] cucumberbob@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Other comments seem not to mention the Real Debrid bit, so I’ll focus on that here:

Personally, I use my preferred debrid service to reduce the amount of stuff I need to store. You can mount the files you’ve got saved in your debrid using rclone with the webDAV creds that Real Debrid gives you.

You should probably use rogerfar’s rdt-client, even if you only use real Debrid to download torrents without using your own ip. It implements the qBittorrent API so you can point *arts at it as a download client. It’s got a couple of modes, so you can either have the files downloaded or symlinked from the mount discussed above.

Zerg from DebridMediaManager is something I've heard good things about, but i haven't been able to try it as its source-available for a fee, which i disagree with.