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by chmod775 7mo ago
Given that pressure from natural selection has lessened a lot, chances are that we are less special now. Our intellect evolved for survival, but now it's very much optional - has been for many generations. It and may now even be inve
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by chmod775 7mo ago
Everyone is the hero in their own story - that's why nationalism can be so dangerous - yet seeing how it plays out in individuals is endlessly fascinating to me.
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by chmod775 7mo ago
> values align with those of the US Some values those are. Yikes.
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by chmod775 7mo ago
I've done similar shenanigans before. That main loop is probably simplified? It won't work well with anything that uses timing primitives for debouncing (massively slowing such code down, only progressing with each frame). Also a
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by chmod775 8mo ago
No, they do not. They just value their silicon valley paycheck over personal integrity. And really, this isn't a big deal. It's a bold lie everyone can see through, but it's not nearly as consequential as other bold lies soci
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by chmod775 8mo ago
There's servers where they just hang out, but which themselves are legitimate. Cybersecurity related ones etc. You can ban them and they'll just switch to another account within a minute. Occasionally discord or a server owner doe
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by chmod775 8mo ago
Because you now have more infrastructure than people to pay for and maintain it. As population density decreases, the people that remain are using oversized infrastructure. The relationship between required maintenance and amount of usage i
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by chmod775 8mo ago
One big issue is the "joints". It's always a trade-off between mass, strength, speed, precision, and dexterity. State of the art is matching or exceeding organic joints on 2-3 axis, while being an order of magnitude below hum
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by chmod775 8mo ago
> That region typically used flax for string. Replying to myself because I looked into this a bit. Looks like date palm fiber might have been more common for rope (likely much easier to make if you needed a lot). For this use-case probab
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by chmod775 8mo ago
> You need to create string. That region typically used flax for string. That's another thing that can be done with virtually no tools. Even if you skip the retting and merely hand-strip the fibers you still get something usable eno
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by chmod775 8mo ago
> I may have something to teach you about indicators, averages, and population samples/biases. You didn't sample. You filtered. You used a search engine to zero in on a couple dozen in a population of 350 million, then suggest
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by chmod775 8mo ago
Given need, access to anything that might serve as string, pieces of wood, and too much time to think about the problem, most singular humans will come up with that within the year, if not within days. That thing has probably been independe
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by chmod775 8mo ago
Do they work for a digital ads company like Alphabet or Meta? At least then they'd have a moral obligation to browse the web without an adblocker.
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by chmod775 8mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai_Viet_script
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by chmod775 8mo ago
I might have a bridge to sell you. What says a lot is that you had to dredge up some up to 7 years old posts on reddit, on which replies still overwhelmingly call the idea silly. This smells like an attempt to manufacture consent, but it&
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by chmod775 8mo ago
Sorry. That comment is too long. Didn't read. Hope you didn't waste much time on it. Jokes aside, that video is 2:23 long and it gets to the point within the first 33 seconds, at which point they have demonstrated the issue. You&#
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by chmod775 8mo ago
No, it’s not a lot to ask. That is assuming the user doesn’t first have to offer incense and whisper a fervent prayer to the Omniscient Deity of USB Devices to seize control of the mouse and click the link in divine intervention. However fo
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by chmod775 8mo ago
> iPhones have become the default smartphone, and is a status symbol compared to Android. It does not function as a status symbol in the west. It's not a big deal to get one if you really want to and live in a developed country. Peo
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by chmod775 8mo ago
The YT video they linked is excessively clear about what the issue is. There's no point in explaining it again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hksVvXONrIo
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by chmod775 8mo ago
They're saying that because saying what they actually mean would paint flock in a negative light, which they likely want to avoid for various reasons.
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by chmod775 8mo ago
Replying to myself because someone made pretty much exactly that: https://age-verifier.kibty.town/
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by chmod775 8mo ago
> In China cameras use your gait to automatically ticket you for J-walking and automatically deduct funds from your bank account. I’ve read that before at least. China is a huge place with a population larger than the entire western worl
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by chmod775 8mo ago
> If this behavior is acceptable then it should be legal so we can avoid everyone the hassle in the first place. Codifying what is morally acceptable into definitive rules has been something humanity has struggled with for likely much lo
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by chmod775 8mo ago
> On-device processing: Video selfies for facial age estimation never leave a user’s device. If true, there's little problem with just this from a privacy perspective, but that also makes it useless. Someone is going to make a brows
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by chmod775 8mo ago
I can highly recommend developing a habit of selecting words you don't understand, opening the context menu, and hitting search. Takes somewhere between 2 and 10 seconds to look up acronyms this way.
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by chmod775 8mo ago
It's one of my favorite examples of those in power absolutely losing their shit when surveillance and violation of privacy happens to them .
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by chmod775 8mo ago
> Yeah, meanwhile a scammer will actually pay to have a seal of approval. No they won't. Especially not automated spam. They'd just get farmed by people creating millions of fake e-mail addresses.
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by chmod775 8mo ago
> I just dropped by daughter off at a friend's house. 4 minutes by car In most urban areas that equates to about 20 minutes on foot. Why bother to even get into a car/bus for that? Edit: I checked your weather. Definitely would
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by chmod775 8mo ago
For literature: House of Suns* if you feel like strapping in for a wild ride with nevertheless believable physics. Leviathan Wakes/The Expanse if you're looking for a more "down to Earth" setting. Children of Time if you
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by chmod775 8mo ago
Really though? Seems to me that the only sub-genre of space science fiction that is surviving relative to others is hard space science fiction. There's an abundance of high quality titles to choose from even (compared to the previous m

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