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by redwall_hp 3mo ago
It's news to me that they weren't already. My exams were all in person and on paper in the early 2020s, and even my physics homework was a "do it on engineering paper and drop it in a mail slot" affair. The professors
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by redwall_hp 3mo ago
"You can own a printing press, but we'll throw you in jail if you dare to show the printings to anyone." The first amendment is a two way street. Everyone has an inalienable right to seek and read/view any media, and the
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by redwall_hp 3mo ago
1. Don't assume Meta is anything other than a state propaganda and surveillance apparatus. 2. It's onerous for upstarts, so it entrenches Instagram and Facebook. 3. Guaranteed knowledge of who everyone is, and their web browsing a
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by redwall_hp 3mo ago
Macs have two possible ways. If you have key repeat enabled, option+shift+dash. Some newer Mac users may have the mode on where holding a key pops up an iOS-style bubble of alternate options, in which case they will just hold hyphen.
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by redwall_hp 3mo ago
> I don't understand why we suddenly think that's the end of civilization. Because they've been told to think it by the combined forces of Meta and the Heritage Project. They spelled it all out in Project 2025, a check lis
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by redwall_hp 4mo ago
Sedan hits you, you get hit in the knees and fall on the hood. Brodozer hits you, it strikes your chest/head, pushes you over and drives over you.
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by redwall_hp 4mo ago
They still are. Any PS5 will play PS4 games. The PS5 Pro is a mid cycle spec bump that allows some newer games to have slightly better graphics. The games are still hard required to function within the expectations already set for the first
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by redwall_hp 4mo ago
That's a pet peeve of mine with improper capitalization surrounding this. AI = Artificial Intelligence. Ai = a Japanese name. ai = "love" in Japanese. Also, "jenai" (which sounds like an uncapitalized "genai&
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by redwall_hp 4mo ago
Commonwealth countries say "jab" instead of "shot."
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by redwall_hp 4mo ago
More people own cars than houses. I live in an apartment, and the only ways I'd be able to charge an electric car are expensive charging stations or plugging in an extension cord, leaving a sliding door cracked all night and hoping the
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by redwall_hp 4mo ago
The EV also has a ton more torque to get out of the ditch, and can apply it at very low speeds.
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by redwall_hp 4mo ago
The Sherman Act says that any action by an individual, or conspiracy of a group of individuals, to "restrain trade" or seek a monopoly is illegal. Monopolies aren't a prerequisite for antitrust action, they're the failur
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by redwall_hp 4mo ago
That's how I use Spotify. I make playlists of music I listen to frequently, separated by genre. If I want to play a whole album, I click through for one of those favorites or search for it. Mostly I find music via YouTube and then sear
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by redwall_hp 4mo ago
They did that back in the reel to reel tape days too...it was just destructive. Songs could have tons of layers, but they had to bounce tracks down to stay within track limits for the final mix. Queen's music is a massive pile of overd
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by redwall_hp 4mo ago
There was a lot more competition in the industry back then, before decades of consolidation. And less entertainment options competing for customers' attention.
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by redwall_hp 4mo ago
I buy/rent films on my phone, and play them through the Apple TV Roku app. (Roku sucks for its own reasons, but most TV platforms have Apple TV apps.)
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by redwall_hp 4mo ago
Apple has been running the iTunes Store without "pulling the rug" for about as many years as Steam has existed. Hell, they ditched DRM on music in that time period too and will sell you lossless ALAC as well as MP4 audio. (They ob
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by redwall_hp 4mo ago
Anubis is designed to stop a certain class of badly behaved bots. It intentionally doesn't run if a bot identifies itself with a UA, such as Googlebot, because then you can rate limit it or block by UA and with other tools. Anubis is a
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by redwall_hp 4mo ago
Everyone with Teslas around where I am recently discovered that this is super inconvenient when a nasty hail storm happens. I mean, all of our cars got totaled anyway, but they had the added insult of no longer having a roof and needing to
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by redwall_hp 4mo ago
It's the Nissan Leaf 2026 Pro https://www.nissanusa.com/vehicles/electric-cars/leaf.html
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by redwall_hp 5mo ago
The richest capitalist in the world unilaterally axed USAID at the behest of his cronies, and has directly resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children to date. Projections are 9-14 million overall deaths by starvation and di
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by redwall_hp 5mo ago
They shut it down after they killed a pedestrian. (They also got sued by Waymo for illegally acquiring trade secrets, and settled.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elaine_Herzberg
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by redwall_hp 5mo ago
Python is also already all over the Raspberry Pi and MicroPython/CircuitPython spheres, so there's an easy road into SBCs and microcontrollers. Education has already chosen Python as the preferred language for this sort of thing.
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by redwall_hp 5mo ago
Internet resources weren't amazing back then (and, of course, still dial up at home until around 2005) so I didn't know QBASIC existed at first. We were on to Windows XP by then, which I don't believe included it, but our old
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by redwall_hp 5mo ago
These are actually how I first learned to program, but around 2001-2002, when I was about ten years old. I found a couple of them at the library, and that's when I realized it was something you could just learn...but lacked a BASIC int
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by redwall_hp 5mo ago
The ones I've seen from PayPal are basically from sending a large request for money to you, then in the freeform text field for the reason, putting fake "if you believe this is a scam, call [actually a scam number]" text.
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by redwall_hp 5mo ago
Exactly. There's a lot of value placed on expert craftsmanship or just...being an extreme nerd about some niche thing, as well as on the act of creating things. Whatever you're interested in, there's some random person in Jap
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by redwall_hp 5mo ago
Since some people seem to have missed it: the final Discworld book, and Pratchett's deliberate "signing off," is the last Tiffany Aching book (The Shepherd's Crown), not Raising Steam. I can't really say much about
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by redwall_hp 5mo ago
That is accurate. Acura and Lexus were brands created for the US market. The original Integra was badged as Honda in Japan and Acura in the US, for example. A TLX or whatever is just a top trim Accord.
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by redwall_hp 5mo ago
Yep. Growing up in the 90s, Japan was the undisputed king of cool, affordable entry level sports cars. RX-7, Integra, Impreza WRX, et al. Yamaha, Korg an Roland were the defining instrument producers of the 80s and 90s. Few things have alte

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