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by nkrisc 9mo ago
Ignored by some , not all humans. I absolutely drive extra slowly and cautiously when driving past an elementary school during drop off and pick up precisely because kids do dumb stuff like this. Others do too, though not everyone of cours
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
They will happily find anything to be upset about. With people like that, it’s never about the specific conspiracy, they just need any conspiracy and so will invent one if necessary.
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
So where are the AI-induced gains?
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
I always put my taskbar on the side, both on MacOS and Windows. Well, I used to on Windows but apparently that’s too much to ask from Windows 11.
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
Yep, there’s always a new kind of weird to discover online.
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
The evolutionary explanation is simple: enough males with external testes successfully reproduce regardless.
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
Sure, if your app has something worthwhile to do offline.
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
Frankly the best outcome as it makes them useless.
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
Even as some who would generally prefer graphical CAD software in most cases, sometimes for simple parts like the examples in the linked article code really is just easier. Sometimes it’s the same when I’m working on texturing for 3D models
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
I don’t have autism, but thanks. Ending a (every, apparently) comment with “=3” is not normal so I mistook its meaning.
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
Ok, I see it now. I thought the period was a typo and they were trying to write some sort of expression. I still don’t understand why the emoticon is there or its purpose but whatever.
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
Wouldn’t the force be the force required to decelerate the plane’s vertical velocity to 0 m/s over whatever small amount of time?
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
It was a serious question but I see I should not expect an answer.
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
Random shuffling of songs usually refers to a randomized ordering of a given set of songs, so the same song can’t occur twice in a row if the set only contains unique items. People don’t usually mean an independent random selection from the
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
What does “5 sigma precision equals 3” mean?
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
I think that I struggled much less with Window 95 as a child than I struggle with Windows 11 today, as I near 40.
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
Most people don’t want to rearrange their life around what their phone can’t do.
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
It would be a pretty amusing demonstration to plug in the cable to a display, then pretend to plug the other end into an imaginary computer sitting nearby and have something boot up on the display.
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
> That sounds like something a guesser would say. No, it’s something anyone who wasn’t born yesterday would say.
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
What’s your point? It’s true.
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
I’m an asker, but I’m not going to waste my day asking everyone for $1,000 because I know it’s unlikely anyone will. “Asking” is for things you don’t already know the answer to, and “no” or “I don’t know” are acceptable answers.
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
Then just say, “No, that won’t work out for us.” Done.
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
I don’t think this will be a significant issue because I’m willing to bet the vast majority of people would rather spend their weekend doing something else.
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
They go in the junk folder and then get marked and reported as spam.
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
> How is this any different than say, Democratic voters who want medicare for all (or whatever) and not getting that for decades? How is it different? It’s different because people do stop voting for right-leaning Democrats who are all t
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
I only watched the first few seasons of IASIP, but I don’t remember them being sympathetic characters at all. The whole concept, and what made it funny, I thought, is that they really are all terrible people who just drag each other down.
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
You could say the same for dog fighting.
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
This was my screensaver for several years starting in maybe 2001. It felt really cool as a 12 year old to be contributing to the project in some small way. For a long time I would periodically check on the screen saver in case there would b
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
> May told the publisher, Maxton Books for Little People, that he couldn’t agree to a publishing deal because he didn’t own the copyright in the story he had written. > Apparently, that state of affairs didn’t sit well with those in c
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by nkrisc 9mo ago
I agree that sane regulation is the most likely successful approach in the world we currently live in. A large cultural shift would be required for total prohibition to be successful.

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