NaturalPhallacy

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by NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
>while advertisers are fleeing because Trump is back on [citation needed] CNN's ratings were never better than under Trump. He's fantastic for advertising. So is Musk. All controversial figures are. That, oddly, isn't cont
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by NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
All the people saying twitter is now dying remind me of "the walls closing in" on Trump, who is running for president in 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLEchPZm318
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by NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
The largest amount of traffic twitter has ever received was November 7th after his takeover.
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by NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
Completely agree. My favorite example of this is Douglas Adams' description of flight (or orbital mechanics): "Throw yourself at the ground and miss."
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by NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
The idea is a bit older than that: Clancy here expresses an idea evoked in similar statements made by others, all derived from the orignial made by Lord Byron: Lord Byron: Truth is always strange; stranger than fiction. Mark Twain: Truth is
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by NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
"Fiction has to make sense, reality can do whatever it wants."
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by NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
Millions die every year for we are mortal and numerous. Thankfully, the world's population grew during the pandemic. 210,000 to 448,000 Americans die every year to preventable medical errors: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
Oddly enough I was rocking 100% accuracy by ignoring the face and looking at the background. Maybe a face-centric ML isn't so good at backgrounds. Shocker!
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by NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
Copyright infringement isn't stealing. My perspective on this was formed when I sold a chemistry program I wrote on a TI-85 to another student in 1997. It felt ridiculous to charge a lot for something I still had after selling it so I
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by NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
I might have to check this out.
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by NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
> Like, we can't yet have Fortnite that's 3000 players. Interestingly EVE online (the only true MMORPG in IMHO) can have player battles that large. Typically they get TimeDilation™ applied, which means that the game actually
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by NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
Is there a darkmode version of those?
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by NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
144hz monitor? :D
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by NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
My experience: "Wow, neat. I wonder how they did this." tries to right click (no context menu appears) hit F12 for developer tools "Oh, it's just a solid 173KB of javascript. No big deal. " notices the window
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by NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
I wonder if you could do this if you cranked your polling rate up to 500hz like many gaming mice can.
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by NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
> this is sad because youtube is and always has been extremely resistant to public pressure. it doesn’t matter how much people complain, this is going to happen. Well of course they are. YouTube isn't a public utility. And we aren&
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by NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
"Twitter usage is at an all-time high lol" November 7th: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589784134691741696 The questions are: can they monetize that, and will it continue? But as far as twitter dyi
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by NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
> And without A/B testing, every product you use would be worse. Worse for whom ? I feel like a lot of the A/B testing results in more revenue, a more addictive app, and less user satisfaction, because they're not testin
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by NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
This feels like a fluff piece.
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by NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
What I'm seeing is individual tweets disappearing while looking at my feed. And it's animated + 144hz monitor so I can see them fly away into the either. Sometimes while reading them and about to click on them. And then I can&#x27
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by NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
Yes. As in I'm looking at the screen reading a tweet, and it vanishes in some animated fashion with me not doing anything. It's not gone, but I have to know how to find it to see it again.
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by NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
This is one of the coolest things I've seen out of twitter. Now if only if the feed would stop disappearing tweets in the middle of reading them, that would be great.
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by NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
Because it's not sourced from "authority". Because the authorities are just as polarized as the userbase, but have power they didn't earn, and are rarely held accountable. Or at least they used to be on twitter. Twitter&
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by NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
I'm way more in favor a of a system that employs the userbase to "fact check" than whatever busybody connected to a partisan "fact checker" at twitter doing it manually and adding their own particular bias.
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by NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
I feel like editorializing people's tweet's is insulting, and patronizing and is basically the platform abusing its own users. If a person disagrees with a tweet, or wants to add context they can reply to.
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by NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
Thanks for the recommendation! From Eleven Magic Words Unlocked: > Recall how plea deals are structured, and how the entire purpose of a suspended jail sentence is to dangle the anvil over someone’s head to “encourage” them to do the thi
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by NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
> They were dumped unceremoniously, the result of the addled whims of a walking meme. If this was a HN comment it would get flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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And extremely biased, like the rest of big tech: https://files.catbox.moe/3mvjhv.jpg
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Why would you want to drive into work just to get fired?
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by NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
Have you not noticed tiktok? People are being trained to have the attention span of a gnat.

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