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by samplatt 3y ago
I really miss the internet where that level of quality was expected of a well-trafficked reddit thread (at least when sorted by top/best).
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by samplatt 3y ago
What would happen if a storm flipped it over? Would it be virgin territory again?
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by samplatt 3y ago
Wonder if the judge just wants to meet Gabe ...
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Cloning the voice of a dead person, to me, feels even icky-er. Indigenous Australians would probably feel the same, too, considering they avoid contact with pictures or recordings of deceased people.
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by samplatt 3y ago
Many ASD-related surveys are not confirmed-diagnosed either, but only self-reporting as ASD. I mean I get it, it'd be a colossal pain to verify all that medical data, but it also makes for bad science.
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by samplatt 3y ago
My YT account has a total of five personally-recorded videos (from the era where smartphone cameras still sucked) with no music in the background and no monetisation on any of them. One of the videos was hit with an automated DMCA takedown,
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by samplatt 3y ago
That's the same thing, but presented even more bluntly as an open appeal to your baser desire for a mystery, but it's still clickbait nonetheless - it's presenting itself as a mystery without any further reason information ot
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by samplatt 3y ago
By presenting a mystery without any reason why else you might be interested other than the fact that it _might_ be a mystery. Many people prefer titles to be an accurate and concise summary of the article, rather than relying on emotional t
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by samplatt 3y ago
How is Samsung so bad at software in every single division they own? It's amazing.
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I would assume that it usually IS a feature on the top of a list... but then they actually start to work on it, and a new fresh set of young developers get exposed to the nightmarish clusterfuck that is datetimes and networking, and then it
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by samplatt 3y ago
In James Gurney's Dinotopia , humanity is described as imagining time as a line, whereas dinosaurs imagine it as a circle. They compromise and teach a single cohesive theory of "time as a helix" to both saurian and simian ch
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by samplatt 3y ago
Was looking at this the other night but didn't have enough skin in the game to reliably blindly-trust external tools to do this for me - I expect that something designed to circumvent encryption is going to come with a very high malwar
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by samplatt 3y ago
>(f) play God with anyone else's life with total insulation from the consequences. [...] Who the heck even comes close to (f) except Big Tech. Monsanto. Nestle. Enron, Goldman Sachs, the Pinkertons. BP, Chevron, Woodside, Rio Tinto,
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by samplatt 3y ago
>I can say from experiencing, 20 mins in the freezer for a bare 3.5 or 2.5 HDD would give about 5 mins of "quick, find important stuff" time... Well that's just pulled up a few traumas I'd forgot I'd buried. Gawd
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by samplatt 3y ago
I got rid of my Pixel 3 because I wanted the new-sexy... I wish like hell I'd stayed. Best phone I've owned since the dumbphone days. I hate pressing my thumb to the print reader on a screen; feels so wrong compared to the little
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by samplatt 3y ago
I've flashed every phone I've ever owned with custom firmware but the gadgetbridge route confused the heck out of me for some reason. I ended up just using a previous version of the software for a while until I changed phones, and
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by samplatt 3y ago
My Fossil Hybrid HR has (real) motorised hands sitting on top of an e-paper display. 2 weeks of battery pretty easily. Just a shame that the syncing software halves the battery of your phone, requires privacy-invasion talking-back-to-the-se
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by samplatt 3y ago
You are correct. That was badly edited on my part: I wrote half a sentence about the first synthesis but forgot to remove it when talking about the popularization.
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by samplatt 3y ago
>There is a reason we don't use LSD for psychiatric treatment. This is no conspiracy theory, they tried, and failed. This is wrong. There's a lot of misinformation around the history of psychedelics. The early "clinical tr
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by samplatt 3y ago
Also known as 'debugging'
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by samplatt 3y ago
There's a certain point in the security world where paranoia becomes a requirement, even though it only breeds more paranoia. An outcome of this is the requirement to treat all possibilities as certainties, regardless of evidence. In t
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by samplatt 3y ago
The Pterodactylus flying lizards are named literally for their "winged fingers". I suspect that we talk about this stuff when discussing evolutionary biology just fine, it's just that the "lizard brain" is a popsci
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by samplatt 3y ago
Or the opposite of a particular type of block-tapping mobile game, like these on Android/iOS: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=clear.tap.geom... https://apps.apple.com/us/a
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by samplatt 3y ago
Holy shit it's Soldat in the quake engine. Dude that's cool. Totally giving that a bash with friends if we ever LAN again.
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by samplatt 3y ago
ZeusBots were where it was at, for me. First few computers were too slow to run Quake effectively, but then I had a Duron 900 (they ran slow AND hot!), bought a 'PC Powerplay' magazine that came with a CD full of quake mods, and a
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by samplatt 3y ago
LFE can mean "bass shaker", but it's an industry-standard term invented by Dolby that effectively means "between 3 and 120hz", which usually means "subwoofer". These days crossover points are very config
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by samplatt 3y ago
Considering how much paid-for unimportant and unrelated drivel I now have to wade through every time I google to get what I am asking for, I doubt very much that whatever is optimal for search-engine ranking has anything to do with what use
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by samplatt 3y ago
This is true for most home users, sure. But if the tool is useful then it has a use in many industries with Windows systems, so someone can be paid to review the source.
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by samplatt 3y ago
Also the engineering industry. And Architecture. And mapping/GIS sphere.
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by samplatt 3y ago
I can't tell you how much I'm looking forward to seeing assets distributed in USDZ format. Specifically: nuts.

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