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by petsfed 2y ago
I'll concede that its less "give up your voice and everything about yourself for a boy" and more "give up your voice and everything about yourself for this way of life that you are clearly irrationally obsessed over and
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by petsfed 2y ago
Looking at the original article, that was for sure the subtext (especially in light of the fact that its coming from an unapologetically Christian source). Their pushback seems to be "parents are trying too hard to protect kids from
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by petsfed 2y ago
Its curious, because I have pretty stark objections to The Little Mermaid (chiefly, the subtext seems to be "it's totally ok to change everything about yourself to win the affection of a boy you literally just met" and in lig
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by petsfed 2y ago
I thought the pinnacle of this was the hooded wiregates, but I guess those are hard to manufacture cheaply, so they've become hard to find. I was planning to replace all of my old wiregates with BD Hoodwires, and then suddenly you coul
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by petsfed 2y ago
From a climbing standpoint? Either the Black Diamond Hoodwire (now discontinued, and I'll guard my stock with my life) or any member of the Black Diamond Rocklock family tree. From a general usage standpoint, Trango used to make a wire
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by petsfed 2y ago
If you had the appropriate resistor on hand, you could just a male-to-female jumper to span the distance. Have one lead of the resistor plugged into the female end, and it serves the same purpose as the 3 resistors twisted together. No sens
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by petsfed 2y ago
The shortcoming of the control scheme was that they wired the motors to respond to the controller wrong. That is, pitch was wired to yaw and vice versa. The controller just sends signals (digital values, specifically), what you do with them
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by petsfed 2y ago
> I don't think the US military generally uses off-the-shelf consumer products like the Ukraine military does, so does this actually affect them? They would be getting drones built to order from a military contractor anyway, so I do
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by petsfed 2y ago
This is where I land too. Python is very handy when I need to do something quickly, I expect to modify exactly what I'm doing often, and security and efficiency are not core goals. But every time I start to write a class in python, it
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by petsfed 2y ago
This feels like a variation on Zawinski's Law: Every program attempts to expand until it can run python [read mail]. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can. Or more broadly, the inner-platform effect. I&
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by petsfed 2y ago
I've been through the full FCC certification process for an intentional transmitter, and it is pretty labyrinthine, on top of being very expensive (I recall $30k, but I don't have access to that company's financials anymore).
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by petsfed 2y ago
A non-zero number of engineers will implement "hello world" wrong when they're first learning a language. That's not an argument against any given programming language either. "I made a design error that the documen
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by petsfed 2y ago
> Not only does a module reduce implementation complexity dramatically, standardization skips every engineer potentially making their own dumb component placement mistakes. And we've never found a way around that for the decades we
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by petsfed 2y ago
Don't misunderstand me, I think squatting is a bad thing. But its worth understanding why it happens, and a major factor is that home costs, to buy or rent, are out of control, which lowers the perceived ethical barrier to doing so.
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by petsfed 2y ago
That's how the labor class does it. My point is that investment purchasers are steadily pushing residential purchasers out of the market. What happens when its simply impossible to accrue via labor, in a single lifetime, enough wealth
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by petsfed 2y ago
"I so feared for my life that I drove to my primary home, retrieved my firearms, returned to my second home, where I then shot the home invaders through the window". Sure. There is no state in the union where you can shoot people
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by petsfed 2y ago
Or the owners of those 100k units that are just left to rot can accept that their "investment" can't (and shouldn't) make them money faster than inflation, and lower the asking price . The scenario you describe only exi
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by petsfed 2y ago
By incentivizing people renovating, then living in, the rundown house they bought, instead of seeing that option as equally valuable as just selling/renting the house? Its one thing to produce more housing, its another to somehow magic
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by petsfed 2y ago
It probably has the cutest little heat sink.
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by petsfed 2y ago
Because there's basically no design downside to having a higher power rating than needed, aside from BOM cost. If you're ordering a bunch to have on hand, you should just order the highest power rating you're likely to need i
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by petsfed 2y ago
There's already straightforward legal precedent around privacy re: what my neighbors can see from their property. If police want to set up surveillance from my neighbor's house, they can get permission from them, and/or a cou
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by petsfed 2y ago
Cloverleafs also suffer a lot more when merging traffic becomes backed up, since there's no guarantee that the traffic merging on/off will be at even close to the same speed as the traffic that isn't merging. It turns out tha
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by petsfed 2y ago
Fair point. And a good criticism to my concept is that if a person is falsely convicted of one heinous crime, then escapes and is accused of some other heinous crime, the original conviction would likely be used as evidence towards motive a
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by petsfed 2y ago
That's explicitly why I called out crimes committed as part of the escape and evasion as a potential example of "subsequent crimes that don't qualify for the death penalty". There are too many valid mitigating circumstan
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by petsfed 2y ago
I have what I believe to be an adequate criteria for inflicting the death penalty: 1. A person has to commit and be convicted of, and sentenced for a (potentially) capital crime. 2. That person has to escape from their final prison. 3. That
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by petsfed 2y ago
> And we just perceive it differently at different scales. Like with a stroboscopic light, we might perceive things differently depending on how we are sampling That's actually exactly what's going on with wave/particle d
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by petsfed 2y ago
I suspect that your anecdata results from the community that organized religion engenders. Irrespective of all the criticisms leveled at religion, the simple fact of the matter is that if you feel like you belong, that your struggles are no
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by petsfed 2y ago
Considering that I'm usually on the side of "its already illegal, making it more illegal won't help", I've struggled for a long time to express what exactly was the problem with e.g. automated surveillance, becaus
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by petsfed 2y ago
> Today's customer support zeitgeist is utterly opposed to this idea. I agree that it's the correct response, but support's goal — that is, the metric which they are apparently measured by, in nearly every case I've s
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by petsfed 2y ago
Man, if you can't see the difference between "so-and-so called me a mean name" and "1000 strangers all knocked on my door just to tell me, in excruciating detail, how they wish my children were raped and murdered",

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