OkayPhysicist

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by OkayPhysicist 3mo ago
I live in one of the exceptions to that, and still have zero concern that someone's going to shoot up my workplace. Again, civilization works because the vast majority of people are utterly repulsed by the idea of harming another per
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by OkayPhysicist 3mo ago
So? The primary thing stopping people from doing really really bad things is, and always has been, most people not wanting to do bad things. It's never been difficult. Literally, right this second, you could grab a pen off your desk an
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by OkayPhysicist 3mo ago
Good luck with your Butlerian Jihad.
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by OkayPhysicist 3mo ago
If it's a superweapon, then it's unconstitutional to ban it. Huzzah for the 2nd Ammendment.
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by OkayPhysicist 3mo ago
I'd put the shift even later than that. 2015 maybe. I think 2008 redirected a lot of people who would have gone into "Business" in the abstract towards tech, eroding the prior engineering culture, and then it took a few years
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by OkayPhysicist 3mo ago
Here's KeePassXC being threatened with blacklisting over granting users control over their own data: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10407#iss... Here's the most readable referenc
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by OkayPhysicist 3mo ago
The cabal of evil behind the passkey project actively have KeePassXC on their naughty list fore deigning to allow users to access their keys, and specifically included in the standard the means to discriminate between different passkey vaul
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by OkayPhysicist 3mo ago
That issue was exactly why I took up my "Never use, under any circumstances" stance on passkeys. It is an indictment of the entire passkey project. I now routinely tell the less technical folks in my life, when asked about those w
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by OkayPhysicist 3mo ago
I've taken up the strategy of telling any less-technical person who asks me about passkeys that they are the mark of the beast, intrinsically evil, and should be avoided at all costs, and I encourage all y'all to do the same. Mayb
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by OkayPhysicist 3mo ago
If you're free, you're free to pursue happiness.
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by OkayPhysicist 3mo ago
That's how my friends and I play Civ. We had an issue in the beginning with players getting knocked out in the first day of a game that might go for 5 or more play sessions, so we devised a scheme where a player could be forced into va
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by OkayPhysicist 3mo ago
Another nifty maze solving trick: Using flood-fill in Paint or some such, starting at the entrance, paint the wall on one side of the entrance red, and the other blue. You'll find that the border between the red and blue sections (the
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by OkayPhysicist 3mo ago
That seems like all the more reason it's worthwhile. If they're going to invest in the tools for 1% of their users, why wouldn't they invest in tools for 50% of their users?
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by OkayPhysicist 3mo ago
The key observation missing from the conversation here is that you're being judged by Americans, where damn near everybody (save ~1% Native Americans) belongs to "an entire family tree" of immigrants. Race relations are one o
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by OkayPhysicist 3mo ago
Congrats on falling for hundred year old propaganda. Fascism loves dancing around in the flayed skin of the socialism it violently represses. Go look into what they did to trade unions if you think the Nazis were some Worker's Party.
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by OkayPhysicist 3mo ago
There is a very, very, very large gap between "open borders" and "keep all those disgusting foreigners out". I guarantee if you ask the average "immigration control activist" in most countries what the acceptab
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by OkayPhysicist 3mo ago
That's because they are wrong, immoral, and stupid. They're grovelling in the crumbs left over by the rich, and then getting pissed that there are other people groveling for the same crumbs. Blaming immigrants is easy because you
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by OkayPhysicist 3mo ago
The US funds (and used to even moreso) scientific endeavors that stand to bolster the entire country all the time. Medical research is the obvious one, DARPA is the defense based one (though oftentimes defense is just a post-hoc justificati
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by OkayPhysicist 3mo ago
Devtools are built-in on Firefox, and this one is probably useful to more people than want to be looking at the JS console. I can't imagine the maintenance burden is unreasonable, it's just a combination of features that Firefox a
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by OkayPhysicist 3mo ago
Users absolutely can edit HTML/CSS/JS without any other tools. That's what the entire dev-tools section of the browser is about.
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by OkayPhysicist 3mo ago
I quite like the 2 wavelength light that sodium lamps give out. When I was in school, my university gradually went from all sodium to all LED, and it was definitely a loss. The complete loss of hue, combined with the soft buzz of a dying so
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by OkayPhysicist 3mo ago
print.prefer_system_dialog = true in about:config does what you want, i think.
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by OkayPhysicist 3mo ago
"Vapes leading to smoking" headlines are always WILDLY misleading. If you look at the surveys they use to create those responses, they always include exceptionally low-frequency cigarette use. (think, "have you smoked a c
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by OkayPhysicist 3mo ago
Sabotage works by introducing friction into your opponents activities. Sabotaging one piece of one data center doesn't do much, but the more you do, the more outsized the impact. Imagine I'm a factory building widgets. If I buy ma
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by OkayPhysicist 3mo ago
Almost certainly. I can go out into the woods behind my house and get into the iron age in a few days (most of that time would be waiting for clay to dry and charcoal pits to cool). That cuts out ~300k years of anatomically modern human his
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by OkayPhysicist 3mo ago
IDK. I got a hand-me-down sporty car when I was in high school, which was initially white, then I had it painted orange as a birthday gift a year or two later. Comparing the before and after, there was a noticeable shift in how other driver
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by OkayPhysicist 3mo ago
In the context of competitive online games, ping is going to be ~10-60ms, depending on your connection to the particular server you're playing on, and not particularly noisy (and that's a roundtrip time. Client-Server latency woul
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by OkayPhysicist 3mo ago
Honestly, they probably would have been perfectly happy with a bookmark on their home screen, but have you ever tried walking someone who doesn't know how to enter a url into their browser through the process of making a home page book
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by OkayPhysicist 3mo ago
Nobody here is talking about the fact that a significant number of users want apps, too. I'm responsible for an internal tool at the company I work for, hosted as a website, that handles a bunch of miscellaneous tasks that other empl
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by OkayPhysicist 3mo ago
I was definitely that kid. I remember discovering that my district's web filter had a default password (something like "changethis123"), by watching one substitute with exceptionally poor typing skills. Problem was, substitut

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