rumba

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[–] rumba 4 points 2 days ago

Hell, I don't even trust a single study anymore... This one was done in India under the pressures of not having enough dentists to cover their massive population.

The actual point behind it might be if you're not going to floss, definitely mouthwash

[–] rumba 16 points 2 days ago (4 children)

mouth wash is at least as good

Mouthwash has a couple of downsides.

  1. It does not discriminate good bacteria from bad bacteria. If you stop or delay treatment, you have a chance of getting a runaway situation with nasty bacteria.

  2. It does not remove plaque. If you stop or delay treatment for a while, bacteria make and settle down in to plaque. You're relying on dental visits to remove the plaque.

  3. Mouthwash does not remove food lodged in the gumline or in between teeth.

If you don't like flossing, I'd recommend getting a waterpic. Keep your tongue scrubbed and brush after every meal. Only use mouthwash if you start having funky smells / tastes / things seem off.

No cavities in 25 years. Unfortunately, the 25 years before that did not go as well, it took me a long time to sort out dental hygiene.

[–] rumba 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Music artists aren't getting paid.

Companies regularly buy up IP, then leave it unavailable.

No central ability to find things.

All licenses are temporary and have no end date.

Companies are regularly raising rates far beyond inflation.

Lowering quality for a given price, then making a higher price point to get it back.

Adding advertisements and raising rates to get rid of them.

Selling our watching habits.

Or, you can download it and not deal with any of that.

When piracy rates go up, it's because customer service and value has gone down.

[–] rumba 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I keep one in a docker container and one in an actual pi, that way I can perform updates and upgrades without interrupting DNS service at the house.

[–] rumba 19 points 3 days ago

We're too corrupt to allow the competition :)

[–] rumba 6 points 3 days ago

If it weren’t mainly a rural vs. urban split, I

Yeah, we'd have to move them somewhere, perhaps down South.... Make the link around say Virginia... Sounds familiar, but I can't lay my finger on it...

[–] rumba 1 points 3 days ago

source AND solution to!!!!

[–] rumba 8 points 3 days ago

I was on a cruise once. Upper deck mini-buffet had a plate of piped black bean croquettes.

They were lumpy like the beef here, and because they were piped, one side of the ends was pinched off.

The head chef for the boat was making his rounds. We were laughing at the presentation. He smiled at us probably thinking what are these assholes laughing at, he looked down, frowed, what za fuk were zey thinking putting shit out like this. Within a few minutes the pan disappeared and the next day that buffet was quite pretty.

[–] rumba 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

First time I've heard of your project. it looks great!

Do you have any place you'd like to collect result issues? I'd be willing to run it for a while and give feedback on anything out of whack.

The biggest problem I see in about 10 minutes of playing with it:

Official documentation gets trampled by older fan docs.

q="Setting up Tailscale on Linux"

In a perfect world would give you "https://tailscale.com/kb/1031/install-linux"

Bing, Google, Quant, all rate that high (#1), it's a universal instruction page for most linux.

q="Tailscale" does bring me right to the official site.

q="site:tailscale.com tailscale setup" does net a couple of results from their kb, but not 1031.

another example

q="Pinokio Setup"

expecting to headline pinokio.computer as the official site, but there's nothing on the first page.

changing it to q="pinokio" drops you right on the pinokio.computer

q="site:pinokio.computer pinokio setup" results in no results

It's super responsive, please keep up the good work!

[–] rumba 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Max had already turned on the shower for me, setting the water temperature right where I liked it. As I jumped into the steam-filled stall. Max switched the music over to my shower tunes playlist. I recognized the opening riffs of “Change,” by John Waite. From the Vision Quest soundtrack. Geffen Records, 1985.

Ready Player One had an AI that prepared his shower for him

[–] rumba 3 points 4 days ago

no no no, kaspersky is where it's at

[–] rumba 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hell, even if you are a programmer and have no memory issues, it's a hell of a lot faster to have it boilerplate something for you for a given engine with certain features than to sit down and write it from scratch or try to find a boilerplate. Stack exchange usage has been going down regularly as LLMs are filling the gap.

It doesn't get you to third base or anything. But it does get you started and well-structured within the first couple minutes of code for any reasonably simple task.

Last year I worked on a synchronized Halloween projector project. I had the first week of work saved into my repo, but as Halloween approached, I wrote a lot of it on the server. After Halloween, I failed to commit it back and inadvertently wiped the box.

This year, after realizing my code was gone, I decided to try having copilot give me a head start. I had it start back over from scratch, asked it in detail for exactly what I had last year, it was all fully functional again in about 4 hours. It was clean, functional well documented code. I had no problem extending it out with my own work and picked up like I hadn't lost anything.

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