paul_funyun

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by paul_funyun 3y ago
There's a lot of potential for posthumous practical jokes currently going unused! You want part of my estate, you better be ready for jump scares
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by paul_funyun 3y ago
Project much? Like teetotalers claiming that one drop of booze turns decent men into degenerates, it says more about the complainer than the subject of his ire.
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by paul_funyun 3y ago
They didn't buy the games, they just bought licenses to use them in certain ways. Their mistake
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by paul_funyun 3y ago
That's the beauty of widespread surveillance and easy bulk storage - there's no reason to give any of the surveilled parties the power to control the data. Camera records the footage and sends it to a centralized storage facility,
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by paul_funyun 3y ago
An aggregate of critics who may have different tastes or priorities than you is less useful for the reader than an individual person you're in tune with.
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by paul_funyun 3y ago
Sure, the legal requirements are more than sufficient
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by paul_funyun 3y ago
I would. Out of the bands I listen to maybe 5 of them I could name a single member. I'm a big reader but I couldn't tell you one thing about most of the authors other than their names.
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by paul_funyun 3y ago
The risk of death or serious injury messing with CRT displays is grossly overstated (note the lack of data on related fatalities). Use common sense and you'll be fine.
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by paul_funyun 3y ago
Good on them. No good ever came of engaging with the Verge.
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by paul_funyun 3y ago
You'd expect less commits on a mature, full-featured product. That repairmen are always working on a car is no endorsement of its functionality.
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by paul_funyun 3y ago
Mitigations=off is aging like fine wine.
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by paul_funyun 3y ago
Sad to say, Wayland just isn't ready for prime time. Like Achilles and the tortoise, it's just not achievable for X to ever be overtaken.
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by paul_funyun 3y ago
How about more driveable cities? There are a few walkies out there, but a stated preference for walking usually comes down to sour grapes (can't afford a car or a move to the burbs), or poor urban planning making driving more onerous t
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by paul_funyun 3y ago
I can't imagine what goes through the head of someone who thinks they don't have the right to say no. They don't have the right to be listened to or the right to use state power to enforce a colloquial notion of IP and rights
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by paul_funyun 3y ago
One, don't use a case. Look at how miners mounted their hardware on racks and take notes. Cheaper, better for temps, and the most efficient use of space. Two, I recommend ignoring electricity cost and using all you can. If it's ch
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by paul_funyun 3y ago
But nobody wants to go to public pools, given the option. With a public pool available, those people probably would have done the same thing. Nobody with a choice is going to a public pool.
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by paul_funyun 3y ago
Around here we just drive to the lake or river. Who wants to swim in a public pool when you could swim in a lake or river with no rules? Better swimming in the lake, bridges and rope swingsbeat diving boards any day, and you can crack open
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by paul_funyun 3y ago
Best firefox upgrade I've done lately is disabling all their "Enhanced Tracking Protection" features. Those are better done by adblock/ublock extensions and disabling them significantly improved the responsiveness and sp
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by paul_funyun 3y ago
Sounds good for me (first worlder).
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by paul_funyun 3y ago
I and a lot of other people would pay good money for a bespoke magazine though. A platform where reputable writers, authors, journalists of various stripes promise a monthly article that's print only. The company would bind together th
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by paul_funyun 3y ago
Looking forward to being able to automatically generate audiobooks in famous voices. Gilbert Gottfried's "Blood Meridian" will be a hoot.
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by paul_funyun 3y ago
Strip current moderation of subreddit ownership if they stay private, easy solution. Most users don't care about moderators or niche API issues.
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by paul_funyun 4y ago
It lends itself very well to a kickstarter type model, where early investors could get repaid in AI use at below market rates on the backend. There's a lot of gaslighting about the difficulty from people who fear hazards, real or imagi
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by paul_funyun 4y ago
An AI lawyer, operating within reasonable bounds, could absolutely be an asset to criminal defendants and parties to civil litigation. You could reduce a basic discovery request to mad libs. I'd go so far as to say you could do the sam
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by paul_funyun 4y ago
Correct about fashion, but wrong about the icons. Glassy icons are like concrete boxes, not cathedrals. They never looked good and were just the fashion for a while, like shag carpets or powdered wigs.
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by paul_funyun 4y ago
Nobody that would be confused by this would ever use Konqueror. Chrome or Firefox, those are the choices.
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by paul_funyun 4y ago
Archaeology is a subfield of anthropology in the US.
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by paul_funyun 4y ago
The study of chimpanzees and non-human hominids (neanderthals, homo erectus, etc) falls under the banner of anthropology. I'd hardly call Jane Goodall a colonialist.
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by paul_funyun 4y ago
If you don't want to look at human remains, what are you doing at an academic presentation about human remains? It's not some anthropology mystery box, attendees have some idea of what the presentation will be about.
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by paul_funyun 4y ago
How would testing a skeleton's DNA help a company put their hands on ancestral lands? If a company wants to use the land you throw those bones and artifacts in the trash and never tell.

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