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by alterom 6mo ago
Thanks for the actionable advice. Side note: I've never seen that "certified humane" label. I'll look for it though. The people who are saying that it's "easier than ever" to be buying ethically farmed pro
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by alterom 6mo ago
>The comparaison of chicken and tomatoes is a strawman. It's a direct answer to the question asked by the parent. The answer is: no, vegetables are not cheaper than meat in the US. It is perverse. Which is my point: what enabl
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by alterom 6mo ago
Well of course. Free market (even as a theoretical concept) is only possible with regulation that prevents monopolies and ensures some sort of fairness. The agricultural market is perhaps the furthest thing from it, given the importance o
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by alterom 6mo ago
>Aren't vegetables cheaper than meat? Do you even do any grocery shopping where you live? Not long ago, I could get chicken for $0.99/pound, same as the cheapest tomatoes, whereas quality tomatoes sold for $2.99/pound.
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by alterom 6mo ago
>On the first clause, exactly. (The second clause appears to be a bit of ad lib.) The original definition of martyr is: "a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty for declaring belief in and refusing to renounce a r
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by alterom 6mo ago
>We used to have more humane farming. We used to have laws against child labor. So, you get the point of having legislation like laws prohibiting child labor instead of moral grandstanding calling on people to abstain from purchasing
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by alterom 6mo ago
>Equating eating meat with martyrdom in the year 2026 is, in fact, the same cognitive dissonance you personally deny You completely missed the point. In the context of picking battles, martyrdom is (self) sacrifice for the sake of sa
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by alterom 6mo ago
To the extent that I can, I do try to pick ethical products (like the aforementioned free-range eggs). It's not an all-or-nothing thing indeed; there's a huge spectrum between veganism and not at all thinking (or caring) about whe
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by alterom 6mo ago
>Obviously there's the cognitive dissonance aspect to point out, but we are all doing that to some extent. Not necessarily. I mean, the people who give out an uncomfortable laugh do exhibit signs of cognitive dissonance. I don&#x2
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by alterom 6mo ago
>Picking surfaces is easy. That depends on what we mean by surfaces , and in the case of filleting, the user really wants to be picking adjacent faces (as in: an edge between two adjacent faces). That, or even a region to roll a ba
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by alterom 6mo ago
I like their attempt to teach us about "selfishness" even more. Product regulations are "selfish", mmmkay. Requiring seat belts in cars is starting up tyranny¹. Ditto for rear-view cameras. How dare they! Those authorita
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by alterom 6mo ago
Mmmmmkay. Now go ahead an explain how having a microSD¹ slot may hurt someone who has a device that reads/writes data². Not hurt shareholder value . I'm talking about people ³ here. I'll wait. Very curious to hear your pe
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by alterom 6mo ago
Case in point: 8% battery left, going down to 7% typing this comment.
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by alterom 6mo ago
>With the storage cost crisis On that note, mandating an SD card slot as a requirement would be a very much welcome next step. Manufacturers selling space-crippled devices just to upsell "premium" models is such an environm
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by alterom 6mo ago
Well, user picking a couple of surfaces is literally an operation on a boundary representation, so of course it's a PITA with fields :) I think the future is CAD is combined fields and breps. They're literally dual, one is covar
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by alterom 6mo ago
>(In exchange for some other difficult problems). Ahhaha. (I used to work in nTop, and boy is this an understatement when it comes to field based solid modeling)
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by alterom 6mo ago
>You must never have lived through governmental collapse. I have (1990s Ukraine emerging from the ruins of the USSR). >The children and the women will be selling ass for basic necessities, raped by both neighbors and invaders, and
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by alterom 6mo ago
>It's the thing gun manufacturers are selling to their customer base though. The theory was they were lobbying for this to prevent competition Does anyone actually believe this? Is there any funds for this theory? Seems to be too
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by alterom 6mo ago
Also: "I see you are trying to print a hollow cylinder. Sorry, you can't print gun barrels" Also: "The Letter_C.stl can't be printed because it is an 88% percent match for a gun trigger"
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by alterom 6mo ago
>Anyone with any engineering knowledge can see why the 3D printing analogy doesn’t work because there isn’t a fixed set of models being banned. Also because you can manufacture the exact thing with a lump that you just saw off later (or
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by alterom 6mo ago
>I never understood banning nunchucks. They kind of ban themselves. I mean, that's a solid reason to ban them :-) In countries where healthcare is socialized at least. As a cost-saving measure. They're melee equivalents of fo
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by alterom 6mo ago
>You can easily go through a couple hundred rounds in one visit to the range. Range shooting is not what they're trying to legislate though. Whoever killed that healthcare CEO didn't need a hundred rounds. This legislation is
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by alterom 6mo ago
>Or maybe even just flash the firmware on the licensed printer Yeah, that would also be a crime under this proposal. Which is one of the big reasons it's problematic.
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by alterom 6mo ago
It's ridiculous that this is even being discussed. The people proposing the bill must have zero understanding of how a 3D printer works. It makes as much sense as requiring saw manufacturers to implement protections that restrict what
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by alterom 6mo ago
The argument was they feel they are invincible in their [monopolist] position , and that argument is only made stronger by the cases you cited as none of the outcomes really moved the needle in that aspect.
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by alterom 6mo ago
They weren't talking about the warning. The warning was cited as an explanation as to why that game was delisted . The objection was to Google wielding the power of picking and choosing which controversial materials the users are al
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by alterom 6mo ago
>I’m generally with you, but I am not prepared to say companies should be forced to host and distribute content they believe reflects badly on them. There's platforms , and there's Apple and Google . You don't need to
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by alterom 6mo ago
>Have fun with homeless people committing theft in the library. Oh yeah. In Finland, the country notoriously famous for its unmanageable homelessness problem . Get a reality check, my friend.
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by alterom 6mo ago
Runs OK on mobile Edge on an inexpensive 3 year old phone (Android, Galaxy S23 5G). So yeah, interesting indeed.
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by alterom 6mo ago
I still hope to see the world where Oberon is the future (and present) of OS and programming language design, and I know very little about it. Thanks to your work, that's about to change. Thank you times a thousand <3

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