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by mr_toad 5mo ago
Lucas wanted to make a swords and sorcery epic in space, and that’s what he did. And he wanted to make space battles look like WWII dogfights, so he did that too. There’s no point trying to compare Star Wars with any sort of realism.
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by mr_toad 5mo ago
Almost every living thing except for bacteria (and viruses, which aren’t really alive) can reproduce sexually.
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by mr_toad 5mo ago
Log slides are potentially lethal in steep areas too. Whole buildings can get demolished if the logs roll down the slope.
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by mr_toad 5mo ago
> proving authenticity of non-AI resources You’re trying to prove a negative.
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by mr_toad 5mo ago
Somewhat larger, but still quite modest compared to some of the surrounding monuments, is the grave of Charles Babbage in Kensal Green cemetery.
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by mr_toad 5mo ago
> The John Snow pump Usually called the broad street pump if you’re trying to find it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Broad_Street_cholera_outb...
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by mr_toad 5mo ago
> Being able to choose is a good thing. Use what works for you. If you look at many of the ‘user stories’ in this thread (and others), you see a lot of people using vi/vim not because they decided to try it, but because they had no
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by mr_toad 5mo ago
> Question for web devs - are captchas effective any more? They’re effective at annoying humans. Driving traffic away from your site. Reducing conversation rates.
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by mr_toad 5mo ago
It’s poor logic, a non sequitur. An absurd reduction. By your argument anyone who hasn’t written a great literary work is a poor writer, and would be bad at writing online comments. LLMs aren’t lacking in the sort of writing skills that m
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by mr_toad 5mo ago
I’ve worked at some organisations that have strict rules (not always strictly followed) about what can go in Excel spreadsheets, and where they have to be stored. The C drive is verboten. Some also have standards about classification and
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by mr_toad 5mo ago
SQLite is around 1MB or less. This download is four thousand times larger.
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by mr_toad 5mo ago
> Blink is the most featureful It’s not a waste of bandwidth and disk space, it’s a feature!
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by mr_toad 5mo ago
Streets, tracks and maybe tarmacs are public utilities, not the vehicles themselves.
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by mr_toad 5mo ago
You can enforce an unregistered trademark, but you need evidence that it’s actually yours. Registration makes that easier.
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Amsterdam bans public adverts for meat and fossil fuels(bbc.com)
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by mr_toad 5mo ago
The far side of the Moon has really lived. I don’t think I’ve seen photos before that showed both sides in such stark contrast.
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by mr_toad 5mo ago
You saw speculation, and you raised with speculation and hyperbole!
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
Just to put things in perspective; a square kilometre can support nearly 250 cows in ideal conditions. The exclusion zone is 2827 square kilometres. Forest supports fewer animals, but on the other hand most of them are a lot smaller than
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
Measure twice, cut once.
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
It would be naive to think that either ruler intended to honour this agreement in the long run. Both sides were probably gambling on when, not if, the agreement would be broken.
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
How does the name GoDaddy not put people off? It sounds like a name for a pimp.
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
My parents used to measure us in feet and stones. I still know my height in feet, because it hasn’t changed in decades. My weight, unfortunately, I could only tell you in kilograms.
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
It’s not cost, it’s culture. Nearly every other country, including the vast majority of the commonwealth has managed to convert to metric distance. The UK and the US look like geriatric reactionaries, who refuse to change, not because the
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
Yeah, but the water temperature at this time of year is still pretty cold.
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
So is everyone going to run a company? Or what will the rest of the people do? If they don’t run companies, and they don’t have jobs, how will they buy anything, and who will the people who do run companies find customers?
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
Be French, and get divorced?
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
Are we though?
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
When Meta was a question mark, or a star performance was all about growth. But now it is a cash cow, performance has a different meaning. Efficiency is the name of the game, and efficiency is not synonymous with high salaries or headcount
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
> With time, their intentions have become much more clear Wasn’t the original intention behind facebook to accumulate a directory of hotties, probably with the aim of bringing them ‘closer’? They pretty much put it on the label; it’s no
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by mr_toad 6mo ago
Doesn’t surprise me at all. I signed up for an internet plan with a provider once, but they never let me login to pay the bills. After they started threatening me with collections and several phone calls layer it turned out they were bill

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