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by delecti 3y ago
In a typical American grocery store, many of the individually wrapped orange slices in the "cheese" section do not legally meet the requirements to be considered cheese. They still have their uses though (it's great for grill
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by delecti 3y ago
Similarly, "genuine leather" is the leather equivalent of American "cheese" (much of which isn't legally cheese).
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Lucky. The one time I flew when my ID didn't match my ticket (using an airline account that I forgot to update with my married name first) and it was a pretty big headache. I had to stand in the security line for about 15 extra minutes
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by delecti 3y ago
I doubt they mean literal pain. Writing with your non-dominant hand is an exercise in frustration and futility unless you're really dedicated to it. I find the inability to make my hand do what I'm thinking very stressful.
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by delecti 3y ago
They're really fantastic for people who don't write often (stick one in your bag and it'll definitely still work when you need it), but I don't love the writing experience. They take more force than many other pens, and
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by delecti 3y ago
But that's not accurate either. They've got a business account (gold checkmark), which AFAIK costs even more than $8. https://twitter.com/vice The problem is that any dumbass can pay $8 and spread algorithmically
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by delecti 3y ago
That $8 doesn't get you verification, it gets you a blue checkmark and algorithmic boosting. The article is about the fact that a lot of misleading or outright false information is being algorithmically boosted during an emergency situ
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by delecti 3y ago
In your eagerness to hate on everything Twitter ever was, and not just what it has become, you are ignoring that Twitter was a fantastic resource for that kind of thing for over a decade. It's not incompetence to use a free tool that
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by delecti 3y ago
I think the most intuitive way to think about commits in a version control system is that they would be diffs. It's certainly how most people interact with git. Even despite knowing that's not how they work in git, it's usual
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by delecti 3y ago
For most of Twitter's existence, it was a fantastic source of real-time information about rapidly-changing events. Many organizations used it to distribute urgent information, and it was totally reasonable for users to rely on that.
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by delecti 3y ago
Didn't they start with xmpp? Going from nothing to an established standard gets you going quickly, and then modifying that past the point of compatibility is a reasonable (if potentially cutthroat) business decision. Going from a custo
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by delecti 3y ago
Precisely for that reason. Most license agreements require the end-user to waive any recourse. That's what customer protection laws are for.
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by delecti 3y ago
I have such little patience for that kind of person. In slack (well mattermost, but it's essentially the same thing) you can copy the direct link to a message and it'll re-embed it if you link to it in a subsequent message. I&#x27
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by delecti 3y ago
That's mostly because we keep going into situations with political goals, and military means (when all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail). If a small country declared war on us, we could easily bomb them back into t
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by delecti 3y ago
It would seem that the "almost all" in their comment already does.
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Patent law is convoluted sometimes, but that seems like a somewhat charitable description of pretty blatant patent infringement.
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I think the main problem with 13 is that it doesn't give the illusion of freedom. I finished FFX for the first time recently (having previously gotten stuck on Gagazet Seymour), and it's almost as restrictive as 13, it just hi
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by delecti 3y ago
Correct, and that is also answered very early in the article.
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by delecti 3y ago
California and Nevada. From the first sentence of the article: > Mercedes-Benz is the first automaker to gain approval to sell a Level 3 automated driving system in the United States; the first customer-owned S-Class and EQS sedans in Ca
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by delecti 3y ago
The legality of a pilot watching a movie is irrelevant to the discussion. It's legal for the person in the driver's seat to watch a movie with Mercedes' level 3 "Drive Pilot" active (in certain locations). A cop pul
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by delecti 3y ago
The history of AI research has been one of moving goalposts. Technologies only stay "AI" until they're shown to be useful. At various points in the past, computing in general, self-modifying code, search algorithms, computer
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by delecti 3y ago
That seems to be a pretty big and weird theme of his. For a long time he was focused on creationists (first VenomFangX, then Ray Comfort), and at the time that didn't seem to be a big deal, because creationism deserves mockery. Then he
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by delecti 3y ago
Was this a normal option that could be enabled? I played countless hours and I don't remember it at all. The article mentions Perspective Mode like it was something that could trivially be turned on.
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Yes, on an ongoing basis. It's why (for example) there are now non-Disney adaptations of Winnie the Pooh, but none of them have him in a red shirt, which is a detail added later by Disney.
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That would certainly be good for Adobe's users , but it means they'll have to put in a lot of work, which costs money that could otherwise buy so many yachts.
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A person without aphantasia can experience thoughts as though they were literally seeing the things being thought about. There are varying degrees to it, and this, or something like it, makes the rounds on social media from time to time: h
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This: https://motherfrunker.ca/fsd/ (linked in the GGP to your comment) links to this tweet from Jan 23, 2017 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/823727035088416768 When asked the question &q
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by delecti 3y ago
The term "shemale" is usually confined to porn, where it refers to transgender women who still have their penis, rather than anything related to hermaphrodites.
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ISPs largely don't compete. They're legalized regional monopolies. There was a single cable TV provider, and they became the single cable internet provider, and so they don't need to reduce prices or improve the service offer
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by delecti 3y ago
I do think that most of it is ignorance, but realistically upload speed is irrelevant for most people most of the time.

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