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by aidenn0 1mo ago
Also any points shown (e.g. destination, POIs) that are more than a few degrees away from straight ahead appear to be next to you, but following you which is quite confusing.
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by aidenn0 1mo ago
There are many sans-serif fonts that distinguish the lower-l and upper-i. For some reason they aren't as popular as the ones that do not. Perhaps the popularity of Helvetica (and other neo-grotesque typefaces) caused this.
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by aidenn0 2mo ago
I am by no means an apologist for Kant, but his ethics are clearly deontological, not consequentialist. He categorically rejected applying empiracism to ethics. Again, my memory is fuzzy, but I believe that Kant further argues that ethica
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by aidenn0 2mo ago
It's been twenty years since I read Kant, but it differs from utilitarianism in that it has no concern for utility of others, rather it's "if I could pick rules for everybody to follow, those are the rules I should follow. Er
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by aidenn0 2mo ago
I have a visceral hatred for Joyce so, even if I were a literary expert (which I'm not), I doubt I could judge it in an unbiased manner.
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by aidenn0 2mo ago
But when I see something incomprehensible, is it thick, or is it just stupid? Surely the literary field has its cranks that believe they have made something deep, but have just made something nonsensical? What's the literary equivalen
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by aidenn0 2mo ago
It is only equal to 1 by convention. If we instead considered the ratio of the diameter to the arc-length then rad would be 1/2.
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by aidenn0 2mo ago
Casio has so many great, cheap, watches for which you don't accidentally change the time, reset your stop watch, or switch from between 12/24h mode every time you bend your wrist. The F201W (which this appears to be based off of)
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by aidenn0 2mo ago
Neither of those fixes issues with system-calls not existing because the linux kernel was so old.
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by aidenn0 2mo ago
The cruelty scale is somewhat orthogonal to difficulty, and misses another axis; you can have punishingly difficult puzzles seem to have logic, and punishingly difficult puzzles that do not. Ending up in "walking dead" with no hin
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by aidenn0 2mo ago
Provenance is the basis of trust though; nobody hand verifies all software running on their own computer.
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by aidenn0 2mo ago
> it’s bad civic hygiene to build technologies that could someday be used to facilitate a police state. So: microphones, tape recorders, radios, television, and even the printing press are all bad civic hygiene? They have all been used
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by aidenn0 2mo ago
Ditto; my laptop is slowly losing ports on the right side, but it has 32GB of ECC ram...
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by aidenn0 2mo ago
Is it a Pioneer model? They stopped making their blu-ray drives which are at least perceived to be better quality than the competition, so NOS prices have gone way up.
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by aidenn0 2mo ago
There is probably an air fryer that would be a good choice for the majority of people, and probably also the best choice for a large minority. This is probably true for a large number of popular products.
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by aidenn0 2mo ago
I agree that they weren't terrible for the era, but they weren't great either. I'll pick on SQ1, since that's the highlight of TFA. Obtaining the Jetpack is not just punishingly difficult, even once you get to the point
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by aidenn0 2mo ago
As far as partying goes, I found Purdue ... fine? It was the only college I attended, so maybe it was better than I thought? I do remember a poster they put up with statistics to encourage people to drink less that said something roughly:
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by aidenn0 2mo ago
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the
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by aidenn0 2mo ago
The time from after the agricultural revolution to before the modern era was arguably much worse, with the overwhelming majority of the population being subsistence farmers.
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by aidenn0 2mo ago
AGI was an impressive game engine. It's just a shame it was wasted on so many bad games.
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by aidenn0 2mo ago
IANAL, but my understanding is that Judicial immunity in the US is absolute; if a Judge orders the police to beat up a defense attorney, they cannot be sued for it[1]. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mireles_v._Waco
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by aidenn0 2mo ago
I've become so cynical that I think even if universal health coverage would be passed, since it almost certainly would be run by the executive branch, it would become just another political football to be fucked with every 4 to 8 years
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by aidenn0 2mo ago
PT? Luxury! My daughter had PT referred by her pediatrician, then the insurance didn't pay all of it and when I asked the insurance company for the EOBs they said they were not allowed to give them to me because it would violate my da
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by aidenn0 2mo ago
Also needs a carousel that cycles in approximately 2/3 the time it takes me to read the item, with an arrow target small enough that I'm likely to miss the arrow and instead go to a random part of the page that I don't care a
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by aidenn0 2mo ago
"Nationalize Queen" might have been more confusing...
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by aidenn0 2mo ago
Can python properly reload an import yet? I complained about the lack of ability to do that about a decade ago, and was told that people were "working on it."
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by aidenn0 2mo ago
JavaScript has many (most?) of the language features that were cited as making Lisp "for the elite" when I was first learning programming. It also has a few that would have been considered esoteric (prototypal inheritence and asy
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by aidenn0 2mo ago
Some thoughts in no particular order: 1. FWIW, the older I get the larger a fraction of EWDs I disagree with. 2. If you take something wrong and reverse it you are usually left with something wrong. 3. Many of the language features that w
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by aidenn0 2mo ago
FWIW, several states already offer electronic plates (targeted at companies with fleets to manage).
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by aidenn0 2mo ago
And people who do so have been a punchline for a long time: https://megatokyo.com/strip/70

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