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trevcanhuman

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"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." -Mahatma Gandhi

Wu wei

CONTROL your vices

vice (Merriam Webster) \ ˈvīs \ Definition of vice (Entry 1 of 4) 1. b: a moral fault or failing 2. : BLEMISH, DEFECT 5. : an abnormal behavior pattern in a domestic animal detrimental to its health or usefulness.

carpe diem

I am trevor. I am a doer and a coder. I blog too.

https://blog.thetrevor.tech

My website:

https://trevcan.github.io

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/trevcan; my proof: https://keybase.io/trevcan/sigs/gaGODiC5XmrRYXSbvMfTz5vWjr5Jeoyg21fWDgR8x-I ]

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trevcanhuman··on FDA advisory panel recommends Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine be authorized for children
Yes, but I'd consider it extreme for businesses and other entities who do not need that personal information ask for it, I also have some sort of vaccination record but I rarely take it out or show it to someone.
trevcanhuman··on FDA advisory panel recommends Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine be authorized for children
Wow, I did not know that. I honestly don't know how to make a counterargument to this.
trevcanhuman··on FDA advisory panel recommends Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine be authorized for children
But won't herd immunity become a thing with covid-19 ?
trevcanhuman··on FDA advisory panel recommends Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine be authorized for children
Fair enough, but couldn’t a ban on people who do not have the vaccine be considered as discrimination ? Since when does an ice cream shop ask you if you already had your flu shot ?
trevcanhuman··on FDA advisory panel recommends Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine be authorized for children
Even having it for adults is quite dystopian to me! If the vaccine is voluntary then businesses should not force others to have it.

Edit: I’d also add of course government entities or government-owned institutions such as schools! I’ve heard that some public high schools in California will require a vaccination card!, which, in my opinion, is quite extreme.

trevcanhuman··on L0phtCrack Is Now Open Source
Yeah, the repos don’t even have a useful README, at least to understand whatever the software does…
trevcanhuman··on Raya and the Promise of Private Social Media
I remember this being on Billions.
trevcanhuman··on Enabling IPv6 support for GitHub Pages
I don’t really understand the benefits, would you mind explaining them to me ?
trevcanhuman··on Engineers are developing new ways to convert greenhouse gases to fuel
Ironically, both are UC. I even though at the beginning that OP's article was from the University of California. Pretty big coincidence.

> It is also worth pointing out that producing methane here on Earth for use around Earth is not particularly helpful. Methane is hard to store and is a better greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

Couldn't we run the methane through one of those electric generators used in farming for cows' feces ? I honestly don't know how efficient these processes are, not an expert by any means.

trevcanhuman··on A single person answered 76k questions about SQL on StackOverflow
OP probably meant to link here [0]. (taken from EForEndeavour's comment)

[0] https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/400506/congratulati...

trevcanhuman··on More Casio Watch Mods
Clever, I suppose a strong metal backplate could be made for the usb to rest below the watch itself, but maybe it’d take too much space. I think a microcontroller for the microSD to usb is needed.
trevcanhuman··on More Casio Watch Mods
Great, he’s back!!
trevcanhuman··on Spherical Gear [video]
I watched the video and there wasn’t any sound. Definitely a step by step graphical explanation helps a lot.
trevcanhuman··on Why Are So Many Young Men Giving Up on College?
ah, ok. My bad. I though by 'many' the commenter meant that most of people were minorities, which does not make much sense to me
trevcanhuman··on Why Are So Many Young Men Giving Up on College?
> Many men are feminists, are LGBTQ, […] or are minorities...

Doesn’t he/she mean by “many” that it’s a big portion? Why would minorities keep being minorities when they are common ?

trevcanhuman··on Why Are So Many Young Men Giving Up on College?
> Many men are feminists, are LGBTQ, […] or are minorities...

How can ‘many men’ be minorities ?

trevcanhuman··on Firefox Browser: best for a free web
From HN News Guidelines [0] “ In Submissions

Please don't do things to make titles stand out, “

The title you wrote isn’t even in the article as far as I can tell. Please correct me if I’m wrong.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

trevcanhuman··on Ask HN: HTTPS://Typesense.org/ Broken SSL?
I just accessed it with https in ungoogled chromium.

edit: maybe it's your region blocking it? Don't know much about the technicalities...

trevcanhuman··on A stranger secretly lived in my home
Have a similar situation at the moment. My grandmother has dementia and pretty much doesn't know where to go or what to do anymore. Is on meds almost all the time. Today she went like 6 times to the bathroom in an hour and this happened like for 3 - 4 hrs. I don't know if this is psychological / or from the brain or an actual urinary infection. I guess it's hard to find out this kind of stuff when she's on meds all the time. Interestingly, my grandfather is perfectly fine (she's like 79, he's 90 !). He's starting to have a bad eye but apart from that still goes out and about. Of course, his heart is sort of more tired now but he can still drive, walk around, go buy stuff. But my grandma can't, I can see in her eyes that she can't really recognize me or usually only recognizes her husband, unfortunately. Also, I had a grandfather who lost his life due to alzheimers, although I didn't really spend much time with him, or at least do not remember it but he was a veterinarian and died of relatively young age ( ~ 66 y). My theory for the cause of dementia for my grandma is that she stopped doing and having interactions with her friends and family. As we grew older, we stopped coming to their house, having dinner, having birthdays, family got more dispersed and she hasn't done much about it; the fact is, it's been only about a year and a half since the dementia first started (she was very functional like 2 years ago), probably the pandemic blew the fuse... She used to do all kinds of things back in the day. She coordinated exchange programs between my city and a sister city in the U.S. for students to learn the culture, language and study there. Also, she doesn't really have any friends afaik, just sometimes talks to her family but otherwise, has lost connections; while my grandfather, still looks for real estate to buy, things to do, art to buy/sell, etc. Still talks to some friends out and about.
trevcanhuman··on Global warming: is weight loss a solution?
wow, what a great way to put it (not meaning it sarcastically)
trevcanhuman··on Global warming: is weight loss a solution?
I most definitely wouldn't want to live in a society where I'm required to do certain things just because it helps my health. Our world around us is full of great freedoms which we are able to utilize depending on our judgment. Some are drunk, some are high smokers, and in the end it's all these things that make us who we are a part from our skills and mind and likes. Also, I don't want to be 1984'd.
trevcanhuman··on Global warming: is weight loss a solution?
did you mean to post a link (because [0]) ? I do not see it.
trevcanhuman··on Paid influencers must label some posts as ads, German court rules
Yet the TV industry is still far from done with shady advertising. Very Related: YouTubers have to declare ads. Why doesn't anyone else? [0]

On another note, that is like the shortest news article ever! It's literally just 102 words!

[0] https://youtu.be/L-x8DYTOv7w

trevcanhuman··on Bitwarden is now in Arch Linux community repository
Yeah, me too! I can even use it on iOS for that matter. It’s honestly good enough.

I actually tried setting up a bit warden server on a (not so old) computer but had just so much trouble with the docker image, couldn’t really find docs on how to set up without it, just ridiculous in my opinion. A few months later, I tried using pass full time and so far it’s been great!

trevcanhuman··on This AI Creates Virtual Fingers [video]
Yes indeed!
trevcanhuman··on Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?
Hey there, how can I download/install this? I've been meaning to but I couldn't find another way besides https://mkws.sh/mkws@4.0.11.tgz which currently throws a 404 not found error. Any ideas?
trevcanhuman··on How to teach programming and other things (2019) [video]
That’s just great, what a great parent you are! I personally do not know much HTML or even much about web dev in general but I suppose it’s worth a try.
trevcanhuman··on How to teach programming and other things (2019) [video]
Wow that is an awesome comment I think maybe even teaching people in languages such as shell which specifically and explicitly state when variables are being referenced (prepended with the $ symbol) would be an excellent technique in teaching to let students understand the different syntactics of programming, I think syntax highlighting would also help a lot, cause it would let kids (on their own) figure out that all text in pink is of the same groups and refers to variables, while code in blue is a function, therefore a ‘group of code’. Of course, I’d maybe explain first what data types there are and really what a computer is, because many people don’t necessarily understand what is happening behind the scenes and do not see it with such technicalities, maybe the majority say about computers that they ‘just work’.
trevcanhuman··on OpenDrop
Yeah, I’ve heard of it. Thought it was gonna be about that lol
trevcanhuman··on OpenDrop
Thought it was going to be an open source implementation of AirDrop.
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