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by pohl 4y ago
The ability is still there. Usually it’s the willingness that’s absent.
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by pohl 4y ago
I have no idea how any of this works, but I recall reading that the ground effect threshold is some proportion of the aircraft's wingspan (half, I think?) so it could be that it's more difficult for a model just because it's
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by pohl 4y ago
s/best/beast/
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by pohl 4y ago
I'm with you in the abstract, but where I live there's toxic culture around sports that made it unpalatable for me as a kid. Back then what turned me off was belligerent parents on the sidelines yelling at the children, but the sy
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by pohl 4y ago
Sometimes I use the internet to shitpost.
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by pohl 4y ago
Swift is kind of like the two-headed best Orthrus from greek mythology, but where classes & OOP are confined to one head. You only really need to deal with them when you're interacting with legacy APIs. All of the new APIs use valu
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by pohl 4y ago
Swift is different from Rust, but it's more towards Rust's end of the spectrum. Sure, it has classes, but it's almost as if they're mostly there to aid in compatibility with Objective-C APIs like UIKit. SwiftUI builds UI
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by pohl 4y ago
With TypeScript being a strict superset of JavaScript, wouldn't that entail dragging all of JavaScript semantics along?
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by pohl 4y ago
There are no religious nuts in cancer-holes.
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by pohl 4y ago
Moreover, now it's now easy for adherents to some myths to find each other on the internet. IMO this is not a good tradeoff.
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by pohl 4y ago
Criticism can be both valid and entirely irrelevant at the same time. People are just protecting the S/N ratio.
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by pohl 4y ago
True. I'd still rather listen to what my oncologist has to say, though.
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by pohl 4y ago
Like kevinmchugh pointed out, imagine parentheses to group "(Christian Science) Monitor". Christian Science is a set of beliefs that the "First Church of Christ, Scientist" adhere to. Stuff like the belief that disease
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by pohl 4y ago
One thing I've noticed with regard to all of the safety claims made about glyphosate is that it only claims that it's safe with respect to humans directly. They never discuss what it might do to your gut biome. That seems like a
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by pohl 4y ago
Do you suppose that might be an outmoded historical bias? I'm wondering if maybe the advancement of hardware has made it so that the costs of AOT compilation and a type system should no longer stand in the way of delivering a reasonabl
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by pohl 4y ago
...they don't even have the most basic understanding of...I'm completely baffled at how people cannot comprehend... Maybe it's not a failure to understand. Maybe it's a symptom of the world-wide denial-of-service atta
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by pohl 4y ago
Society isn’t collapsing. It is revealing itself. What does that even mean? Is it revealing itself as being intrinsically ephemeral or something? How is that not a distinction without a difference?
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by pohl 4y ago
The sun is estimated to have formed less than 5B years ago. The universe is roughly 13B and change years old, and the first stars started forming only 100M years after the beginning. There's absolutely no way it could be a first genera
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by pohl 4y ago
Underrated truth bomb right here.
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by pohl 4y ago
Haven't people who are attracted to crypto, for the most part, already decided that oversight is bad because something something decentralization?
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by pohl 4y ago
From the comments: Note that no 5 MW engine was demonstrated in this video. It's just a figure that engineer guesstimated as a plausible combined power output of multiple stacked engines. Quote at 3:05.
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by pohl 4y ago
Q: How can I tell my date is really from Project Veritas? A: Have them read the internal memo out loud. If they pronounce it in the most tortured way, like vah-REE-TASS, run.
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by pohl 4y ago
I bet that, for most people, it's just a feed. Most Twitter users probably just follow what's interesting and doom-scroll without tweeting. It's only really a game for the minority that wants to call attention to themselves.
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by pohl 4y ago
Or, just like everything else, the same forces that brought us to this point would weaponize direct democracy as a denial of service attack against itself and we'd still be able to accomplish nothing.
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by pohl 4y ago
It sounds like you're not asking about technical enforcement — as opposed to prodding, which is what I was talking about. You're right, though, they do also apply pressure through technical means. They did this at design time, by
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by pohl 4y ago
There are comments in that thread that insist this was not shown on CCTV.
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by pohl 4y ago
True, and not just the system software, but the larger software ecosystem as well. Apple paved the way for the M1 by years and years of goading developers to be honest with themselves about what QoS priorities they really need on their Dis
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by pohl 4y ago
Whatever one thinks of the legal grounding of the Roe decision, those criticisms pale in comparison to throwing stare decisis out the window and trying to make an enumerated-rights argument without even addressing the 9th amendment[1] in th
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by pohl 4y ago
Another related word is "assclown" — which, as far as I can tell, was created accidentally when actor David Herman delivered a line of dialoge with emphasis on the wrong syllable while filming Office Space. He was meant to call Mi
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by pohl 4y ago
That's kind of how it works, though, innit: wannabe autocrat demagogue gets a bullhorn, uses it to leverage power via populist rhetoric, then shoves activist justices onto the bench — who, surprise, do their activist thing... That&#x27

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