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by smolder 2y ago
From [0]: > Out of 38 products ordered from fast-fashion giants, CBC Marketplace found one in five items had elevated levels of chemicals, including lead, phthalates and PFAS. Lead, we know is bad. Pthalates were recently shown to be bad
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I don't think hating or lauding his music is really appropriate in this thread --it's kind of off topic. We can admit it's subjective and tastes will vary.
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The youngest religion is probably something silly like the people who say they are jedi from Star Wars. Though I'm of the opinion the old ones are mostly silly, too.
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NFTs: for imposing scarcity on things that have no reason to be scarce. It always struck me as backwards.
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At some point in working on old cars you need definitely need to give up on oem parts and fabricate or buy reproduction things. There is an inflection point where it is less hassle. People tend to overvalue authenticity, I think, so for me
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Thanks for making this correction. It made me wonder about the rest, but the gist seems real.
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You're right, just vectors and trig are fine for rendering a few spheres or whatever. Doing transforms on 3D model coordinates was where it came in.
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I've forgotten most of the specific matrix multiplication stuff I needed to know to write a ray tracer, and my ray tracer was dog slow compared to pixar's renderman. I wouldn't say it takes multiple PhD careers, though. It wa
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That was a good bit, but no, it was based on reporting about the connection mentioned in the link above, an investor having served on a board with CEO of In-Q-tel.
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I meant that order is good, not really that ethics are conditional. There are exceptions where I'd say go ahead and foment rebellion, be obstinate, etc.
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It kind of sounds like you're advocating the type of security where the computer is secure against its owner, can't be programmed by its owner, doesn't support modifications to the OS, and so on. Is that right, or so you envi
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Criticism is one form of support, yes! Despite my previous post sounding pretty sympathetic to kowtowing... It bugs me when people don't get that. The so called free world was built on antifragility.
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That's nuance to talk about, surely, but do they? Did you threaten the NSA's spying capability with some novel encryption or something?
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They suggest the connection is tenuous , not that there is none. Though I'll admit that I [mis?]remembered it as being a little more direct than that.
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When police have a false story that your own lawyer and everyone around you seems to buy, you might then falsely admit guilt. Knowing a lawyer so well that they believe your words above anyone's is a rare privilege.
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In-Q-tel also had a hand in Facebook's rise. I remember being laughed at in about 2010 and called a conspiracy theorist for suggesting big tech was on intelligence agencies' leash, but it's pretty clearly true. Society is bei
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The good guys/bad guys dynamic has always been slightly wrong. You have imperialists oppressing foreign powers, political incumbants oppressing dissidents, and so on, but despite all that, a hierarchy exists, and helping the top helps
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> it is not generally advantageous to actually hurt the opponent more than needed to signal dominance It is advantageous to beat a rival and take their energy even within a species. That's part of the whole 'survival of the fit
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The success of birds, bees, trees, plankton, mammals and so on. Many life forms have been rendered obsolete when the right adaptation comes along and forms a new branch.
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Right, the requirement for life is an entropy gradient sustained long enough as well as the right materials present to capture that.
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IMO it depends, did you find the warp zones yourself or were you told about them? They're hidden. Finding them by luck doesn't feel like cheating to me, but getting outside knowledge to bypass big parts of the game kind of does.
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I think you missed something if you felt the borrow checker made things too hard. You can just copy and move on. Most languages do less efficient things anyway.
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I don't personally think she ran a decent campaign. It was very standard and bland talk of unity and other hot air -just the stuff you expect politicians to say when trying to get elected, nothing to really build trust in her. She need
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Nobody wants abortion at 9 months.
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This would be like the old school computing environment where you get an audible beep every time something is written to your hard disk. People noticed abusive code much more easily then.
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Unrestricted app installation is not bad. It's a trade-off. It's freedom to use your own hardware how you want versus 'safety' and restriction imposed by some central authority which aims to profit. Fuck app stores, gene
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My analogy was bad and I'd probably be wrong as you (and your sibling post) say to expect WebGPU to have any lurking dangers as compared to WebGL. I was mainly trying to express concern with new APIs and capabilities being regularly ad
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I sort expected a reply like this or something about their faulty ECU code and unexpected accelerations. I can't really argue these points effectively, so I'll just say: maybe I'm wrong.
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I'd dispute that I know nothing . I'm not an expert but have worked with both, mostly WebGL. Anyways, sorry, it was a bad analogy and you're right, I don't know enough, particularly to say that WebGPU has any unique fla
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I commend Toyota. I don't know to what degree this is greenwashing, but I suspect it's... less than average. I may be biased, but I think they're responsible stewards of their market share. They seem to be huge for the right

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