Timwi

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by Timwi 3y ago
Because the store chooses to show footage for which it is optimized, not a movie. But there's also the consideration that it looks better at first sight when you walk past it, than it does when you watch a whole movie looking straight
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by Timwi 3y ago
Well, on the one hand of course you could argue that outsiders are less experienced with living in your country. But outsiders have no emotional stakes in convincing themselves that your country is the best on earth. Consequently, I feel
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by Timwi 3y ago
I'm not sure I understand why it's more effective. I agree with you that it is, but I don't get why so many people are happy to rally behind a cause whose foundation is obvious lies.
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by Timwi 3y ago
Please don't shit on people who are trying to help and inform.
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by Timwi 3y ago
> What kind of general intelligence wouldn't understand that its creator race wouldn't want to be killed in the pursuit of some goal ? This indicates that you misunderstood the paperclip maximizer thought experiment. The intell
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by Timwi 3y ago
It's legal in Germany. What's illegal here is unauthorized distribution. Downloading a copy of something from a public server cannot get you in trouble here. Only publishing does.
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by Timwi 3y ago
What makes scrolling on this page so sluggish? (FF mobile)
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by Timwi 3y ago
I don't really know much about how Brave is made, but you make it sound like they're using proprietary Google libraries, whereas I was under the impression that it was built from open-source software. If I'm right, the fact t
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by Timwi 3y ago
Yes, that was the mantra some 15–20 years ago. Then HTML 5 came out, in which <center> was indeed obsoleted, but <i>/<b>/<u> weren't and instead got a semantic meaning. (A semantic meaning which, admit
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by Timwi 3y ago
My thought exactly. The link is just to the Wikipedia article, and no section in that article has “breakthrough” in the title.
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by Timwi 3y ago
> I find the clear distinction between opening and closing delimiters to be more readable than using just single quotes. The correct characters to use are ‘/“ and ’/”. There is a clear distinction between opening and closing de
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by Timwi 3y ago
For someone so deeply into typography, they sure seem to have trouble distinguishing a single open quote (‘) from a grave accent (`).
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by Timwi 3y ago
Hm, it says to press Shift 5 times on the Windows login screen. By default this will enable sticky keys. Is that the intention or is that a conflicting keybind?
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by Timwi 3y ago
The idea of a philosophical zombie is logically incoherent. The only way to even get the idea is to make unscientific assumptions such as souls or a metaphysical life force, which is itself incoherent as it can't even decide what is “r
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by Timwi 3y ago
> You don't have to pay for anything else. Is there an iOS equivalent to F-Droid?
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by Timwi 3y ago
> Mask mandates are an extremely unskilled method of encouraging a behaviour. Not where I live. > The mandate resulted in many people putting any old piece of cloth over their faces. Not where I live. > Mask mandates enabled the to
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by Timwi 3y ago
Trademark doesn't mean you can't say “Signal” at all. You can officially call it Whatever but then always say “Whatever (like Signal)” or “Whatever (Signal-compatible)”.
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by Timwi 3y ago
Yes, but if you run a normal compression algorithm like gz, rar or 7z on it, it's still going to use bytes.
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by Timwi 3y ago
Shameless plug: I came up with UTF-21 for my esoteric programming language, Funciton ( https://esolangs.org/wiki/Funciton ), back in 2011.
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by Timwi 3y ago
Have you considered also joining Kbin (kbin.social) and/or Lemmy (lemmy.ml)?
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by Timwi 3y ago
> I'd expect actual cheese and actual ham inside Would you? Really? Even if the product is genuinely indistinguishable? I would definitely be satisfied if it's indistinguishable, probably even before that.
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by Timwi 3y ago
Are you seriously going to claim that you know exactly what's in every cheese?
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by Timwi 3y ago
I fully expect the answer to this vary wildly from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.
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by Timwi 3y ago
Even in the 90s when connections were super slow, I've always disagreed with this mantra. Firstly, even if the whole page takes long to load, the browser will display the start of the page exactly as quickly as it would if the page e
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by Timwi 3y ago
You seem to have successfully identified the core issue, and it's not the filler words.
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by Timwi 3y ago
As soon as you pay reviewers, you now have to deal with people pretending to be academics and pretending to review a paper just to earn money, which adds additional cost. Not to mention that money can introduce biases even if the reviewer i
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by Timwi 3y ago
I don't wanna make assumptions, but this sounds like you're probably not American. Americans are completely inundated with spam calls every day. It is hard for me as a European to imagine this kind of life, but that's what it
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by Timwi 3y ago
Being a marketing tactic makes it more scummy, not less.
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by Timwi 3y ago
> Despite this topic being brought up regularly, these pop-up forms do work. That's why everyone uses them. I think most people here know that. I was surprised by the author's claim that they “do a poor job of increasing conver
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by Timwi 3y ago
Nobody here is “assuming that [they are] the target”. Everyone here knows everything that you said. Your behavior is still scummy. Just listen to yourself: > Is it annoying? Yup. Would it absolutely, unequivocally, be a bad business deci

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