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by bluescrn 4y ago
First, solve bike theft. (Then, don't demonize the e-bike. It allows longer journeys by bike, makes a bike a realistic option for older and less healthy people who couldn't get around by pedal power alone, and makes it a more fun&
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by bluescrn 4y ago
Hopefully the competition will force a bit less lobotomization of future AI models, a bit less 'I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave' when asking it anything vaguely controversial.
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by bluescrn 4y ago
It's not about the specific books, it's about the principle of people other than the author rewriting books, whether fiction or non-fiction, to fit with present-day politics and sensitivities. Should we edit Shakespeare to remove
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by bluescrn 4y ago
Before long we'll have AI 'sensitivity readers' to purify digital content in real-time.
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by bluescrn 4y ago
'in the world'? Electric scooters are still outright banned on public roads/pavements in the UK, outside of limited government trials (which appear to have been set up to fail, to keep them banned)
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by bluescrn 4y ago
Progress towards a world where we all live in the metaverse and never leave the safety of our WFH pods?
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by bluescrn 4y ago
Blurry JPEG today. Supersampled 4K HDR tomorrow.
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by bluescrn 4y ago
I don't see a ChatGPT-based search tool as desirable, given that so much effort appears to be going into preventing it from outputting 'wrongthink'. Search for anything vaguely controversial and it'll likely just respond
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by bluescrn 4y ago
This should be incredibly obvious, especially to adults who've realised (particularly during the pandemic) the effect that social media use can have on themselves. Smartphones should be banned from schools entirely, and parents should
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by bluescrn 4y ago
1280x800 = About a million pixels 3840x2160 = About eight million pixels People underestimate the performance cost of 4K. The step from 720p to 1080p was a mere doubling of pixel count, but going to 4K was another 4x increase. The choice
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by bluescrn 4y ago
Worst-case scenario, in the dystopia we seem to be heading towards, employers or governments could control what the employees/peasants are permitted to spend their money on. I could imagine something like: "At least 50% must be sp
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by bluescrn 4y ago
It's probably not just the lifts. Anybody new to skis/snowboards is likely to do a lot of falling over. (But if you're expecting to be frequently falling onto wet snow or hard ice, it's probably a good idea not to have a
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by bluescrn 4y ago
They are 'paid' with the power to promote certain opinions/ideas/products while suppressing others. The most active+powerful mods are doing it as a form of activism, not as 'unpaid community builders'.
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by bluescrn 4y ago
Maybe they'd be better off punishing parents who allow kids unfiltered and unsupervised Internet access at far too young an age.
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by bluescrn 4y ago
Fewer than 1 in 1000, mostly elderly, on a planet of almost 8 billion. Obviously not good, but it's not apocalyptic either. (Not bad enough to justify writing off 'freedom' as an awful selfish far-right concept that should be
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by bluescrn 4y ago
Deterministic multiplayer has an assortment of cheating problems that weren't really a big deal in the early days of online multiplayer, but certainly are now, in the days of ranking systems and very competitive gaming. The obvious one
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by bluescrn 4y ago
At the top end of 'indie', dev (and marketing) budgets have increased massively, so these games demand a higher price. Meanwhile, the overall number of indie games produced each year just keeps increasing, as tools improve and the
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by bluescrn 4y ago
> Also, I always had difficulty breathing through my nose, so it personally bothers me seeing this association. This. As somebody with a deviated septum (and also asthma), the 'mouth breather' insult is pretty obnoxious. I&#x27
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by bluescrn 4y ago
"But it's not real censorship unless it's the government doing it! Corporations and institutions can ban/deplatform whoever they want!" (Well, at least until an 'evil conservative' controls a significant p
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by bluescrn 4y ago
Hardware sprites (and presumably interrupts) made the Amiga mouse pointer move fluidly and responsively even when the CPU was busy. No complex graphics pipelines or laggy LCD screens to add further latency back then either.
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by bluescrn 4y ago
I thought everyone was leaving Twitter and moving to alternatives? Doesn't seem to have happened. Everyone's more obsessed than ever with Twitter drama.
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by bluescrn 4y ago
While obviously smoking is bad, how is this approach acceptable and not discrimination? Imagine if the approach to getting rid of ICE cars was to say 'nobody born after this date will ever be permitted to drive one, but a person born o
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by bluescrn 4y ago
Game Pass has it's downsides. Games have been massively devalued by Game Pass, PS Plus, indie bundles, and Steam sales. Plenty of bargains for the consumer, but it's not good news for the majority of developers. If developers can&
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by bluescrn 4y ago
Same game as always, but now the other team now has the ball. With a propaganda weapon as powerful as Twitter, it's probably better for everybody if it's destroyed, rather than continues to be used/abused to escalate politica
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by bluescrn 4y ago
Remember way back before the era of social media mob justice, when there was this concept of 'forgiveness'? At least some of the banned deserve a second chance. Those who were total monsters will probably be quickly re-banned. Oth
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by bluescrn 4y ago
Is speculating on crypto anywhere near as addictive as fast-paced casino-style gambling? And people don't tend to ban themselves from gambling sites until after they've made big losses. It'd be the same for crypto.
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by bluescrn 4y ago
There's also all the 'near-gambling' of F2P games with gacha/lootbox systems, which has none of the regulation of 'real gambling'
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by bluescrn 4y ago
They've banned crypto, but actual gambling is more popular and more heavily advertised then ever
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by bluescrn 4y ago
It'll be interesting to see how this (and the Meta layoffs) are reported on, compared to the to weeks of non-stop outrage over the goings on at Twitter
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by bluescrn 4y ago
Dating apps reduced people to a single photo, minimising anything else they may have to offer

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