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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>4k To be pedantic, OP specified "HD" which is 720p. I gave him benefit of the doubt by saying "high resolution" in my reply, but I think 4K is unreasonable given the provided context. I'd wager 1080p ("Full
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>do you want a ≥5GHz multi-core CPU burning 150W just to watch a single video stream with maximum paranoia settings? I mean, yes? We're not talking about bloat here, you're deliberately imposing significant overhead load for a
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
There's an age old saying in Japan that if you want to hide a tree you should do so in a forest.
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>bad graphics performance (only software rendering supported, many frame drops when watching HD videos on YT) It might help if you used a computer with CPU horsepower that actually exists. And in case this sounded facetious, any reasonab
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I don't recall when this adventure started, but going through the Wayback Machine his karma was 1.7k around December 2023[1] and then climbed to 1.8k around September 2024[2] and then just a hair under 2.1k around October 2024[3]. So i
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Maybe stop doing that? There's a reason revolutions usually involve total destruction at some point along the way. Makes me wonder with the apparent lack of strong will just how much of the dissent is actually a (very) loud minority.
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If you were of high class like the nobility or mercantile, you had children to continue your powerful bloodline. You also married to sign off on alliances and cooperatives. Entire wars have been waged over familial ties and successors. If y
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>historically just put up with it because of social pressure to get on the life path to raising a family and lack of access to casual sex. For women it was also a fundamental question of literally living. Back when women were expected to
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Reading books, playing games, watching anime, conversations on IRC or Discord with long time friends, making stuff in the figurative garage that will never see the light of day... The list goes on. And that's besides life's necess
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As a "young single straight man" all I can really tell you is that I have utterly no desire nor interest when I have so many other things I could or should be doing instead.
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>Language changed. I argue that it hasn't; we say "man" both by itself and as part of another word (eg: manpower) in many contexts where gender is literally irrelevant. What has changed is the likelihood of certain individ
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>you're just getting a bunch of yelling and swearing before the crash. Even that is valuable information for discerning what went wrong and how.
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I agree life is seldom as simple as the examples, the small numbers are just for sake of brevity. In any case, none of that takes away from the crux of this conversation that programmes like mirroring surrounding demographics and others are
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To copy myself from another sibling comment: Man as in mankind. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/man >1a(1): an individual human >b: the human race : HUMANKIND >c: a bipedal primate mammal (Homo sapi
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But is the goal to hire from certain schools or to hire certain races? The axiom presented is that the employee composition must mirror the surrounding social composition, ergo you are hiring for racial reasons because you must set quotas a
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This is a very stark contrast to SonyHonda's upcoming Afeela 1 starting at an eyewatering $90,000 USD. https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/6/24336375/sony-honda-afeela...
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The only way to change employee racial composition is to hire and terminate on a racial basis. The only way to force that composition to mirror social composition is to do so explicitly and strictly on racial basis. A lot of factors go in
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Man as in mankind. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/man >1a(1): an individual human >b: the human race : HUMANKIND >c: a bipedal primate mammal (Homo sapiens) that is anatomically related to the grea
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
You are explicitly considering a man's race for something that is irrelevant to that consideration, in this case to answer whether to hire/admit them. You must consider a man's race if this concerns something relevant to that
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You are explicitly considering a man's race, that is racism.
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"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life." -Jean-Luc Picard Additionally, the Declaration of Independence states our fundamental philosophy as a nation that all men are created equa
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Playing Devil's Advocate, maybe browsers are still too incomplete. Once browsers are the operating system, everyone can simply speak Chrome and be done with it. The success of Electron strongly suggests both devs and users want to sing
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Yes.
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Say what you will about Steve Jobs, but he was an unparalleled salesman because he was seemingly capable of forereading what people really wanted. Nobody said they wanted an iPod or iPhone or iPad or a Macbook Air before, but when Jobs so
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>34% of adults in America did not exercise their right to vote. Why? Is it voter suppression, gerrymandering causing indifference, or people who felt their vote didn't matter? The 7.6% that are ineligible to vote are mostly adults l
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>At this point, stop encouraging people to vote. It doesn't work in the US anymore. "Democracy doesn't work if the result doesn't suit me; stop voting against my wishes."? Sincerely, please fuck off into whatever
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Addendum to note I got my reference numbers subtly wrong. "such structural destruction[3][4]" should be [4] and [5] instead, apologies.
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As a former fansub translator, it's better for mankind this way. Further thoughts on the matter: https://old.reddit.com/r/grandorder/comments/dnpzrh/everyone...
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>The Japanese are hard core about building standards. Note that this has been built on their fair share of blood and tears[1]. Japan gloated in the wakes of the 1989 Loma Prieta[2] and 1994 Northridge[3] earthquakes that such structural

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