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by trafficante 3y ago
Was present for the Hakkar plague and can confirm the accuracy of this post. I was starting to doubt my own memory a bit because it’s been so many years since the event and every article that pops up about it makes claims about stuff like “
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by trafficante 3y ago
> They also did this back in Mists of Panderia, and not just for a short time, but it was end game content where you could use an object and become a hostile PVP player to EVERYONE, not just the other faction, even on PVE servers. This e
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by trafficante 3y ago
The gatekeeping makes absolute sense if you hop on YouTube to see the difference in behavior between Waikiki and even the more well known spots on the North Shore.
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by trafficante 3y ago
> repeal the Jones Act Man do I wish more attention was given to this matter. Virtually all the national security arguments in favor of the Jones Act are either moot or straight up farcical in Current Year. It’s particularly strange when
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by trafficante 3y ago
Semi-hijack with a tangential question: Has anyone put together a resource - or better yet, an automated service - for migrating away from Google (Gmail in particular)? I’m curious if anyone else here can anecdotally confirm, but in the pas
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by trafficante 3y ago
> purity as in the sample is uniformly constructed of the right atoms but they are not in the right configuration The conclusions in the linked pdf suggest this may be the issue with LK99. 1. https://arxiv.org/abs/23
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by trafficante 3y ago
Seems like it may depend on getting specific binding sites. > Finally, the calculations presented here suggest that Cu substitution on the appropriate (Pb(1)) site displays many key characteristics for high-TC superconductivity, namely a
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by trafficante 3y ago
What feels “new” (at least to me) is that we no longer have any sort of large gradient between art house films and “turn your brain off and consume” mass market films. In 2023, you’re probably either going out to see a subtitled Korean dram
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by trafficante 3y ago
Reagan the Actor had very different politics than Reagan the Candidate. Check out his stump speech for Truman[1]. Quick highlight quote: “Remember that promise: a real increase in income for everybody. But what actually happened? The profit
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by trafficante 3y ago
> We tried this in the 1930s in Europe and it didn’t seem to go very well. I agree, a bureaucracy banning books and reference material that ran counter to the approved narrative was quite disastrous. Hopefully we don’t repeat that mistak
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by trafficante 3y ago
Grew up in PA and love seeing Yingers blow up, but I bet their success is largely due to the same reason we loved them back in the early 2000s: they brew a tasty no-frills lager at a good price. Seems a lot of the brewing industry chased fa
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by trafficante 3y ago
> Your environment is super important to your mental/emotional state. If you can jump into different virtual environments for work or relaxation, that'd surely help your brain switch context and focus. Absolutely crucial observ
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by trafficante 3y ago
Quest 3 will (hopefully) allow for higher bitrates and maybe AV1 support but I don’t see it having a huge impact on overall wireless latency. Decode time on the old SoC is only a few ms with h264 and really the only thing h265 brings to the
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by trafficante 3y ago
I was extremely impressed at how well this demo functioned on my Quest Pro. Obviously I haven’t used the Apple HMD, but I was able to easily eye-select nearly every UI element in the demo (resize boxes were a bit wonky) and could even do th
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by trafficante 3y ago
For those not in the know, this is an actual thing that was happening a few years back. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/02/cops-using-music-try-s...
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by trafficante 3y ago
Sample size of one, but I suppose maybe I’m in that category of power users - given that I’d post 3-10 “effort posts” per day. Apollo finally went dark yesterday, I deleted it, and haven’t felt a single compulsion to check the mobile Reddit
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by trafficante 3y ago
Like many…odd aspects of current society, it’s hard to tell what’s intentional. In this case, the Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID) movement seems to suddenly be making significant progress after stalling since the 90s - just in time for c
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by trafficante 3y ago
The economist in me knows that most of the downturn in marriages is due to financial reasons, but the decline in relationships overall makes it clear there’s more to the story. I wish more research was done in this area, it’s obviously an i
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by trafficante 3y ago
Same here. The combo of “actually having an important package scheduled” plus a convincing phishing page easily hijacked my brain into filling out the personal info form without even checking the full domain. I only snapped out of it when i
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by trafficante 3y ago
Good: unlike Reddit’s mobile site, the mobile design is clean, legible, and free of weird dark patterns. It’s also easy to make an account and get up and running quickly. Bad: low engagement with about 4-10 users commenting on most topics.
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by trafficante 3y ago
I’ve been a (paying) customer of Google Domains for quite a number of years now. Better options have arisen for my needs over the years (largely family name domain parking and email aliases/forwarding), but it honestly hasn’t been wort
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by trafficante 3y ago
Also Google (and distressingly, DDG as of late) sanitizes the hell out of the SERPs to only present you with “approved viewpoints”. And I’m not talking about fringe Q Anon type stuff: the other day I was looking up the specifics of China’s
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by trafficante 3y ago
> It doesn't sound like prior efforts work well for that use case at all. Fwiw, this is essentially correct for all consumer grade HMDs prior to the end of 2022. Fresnel lenses meant you could only achieve (relative) text clarity in
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by trafficante 3y ago
It’s quite obvious that this will effectively duplicate 1440p monitors since the much lower resolution Quest Pro is (mostly) able to do so with 1080p. Hopefully it can do even better than 1440p, but honestly that might be “good enough” when
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by trafficante 3y ago
Who else noticed that none of the presenters were actually wearing the device they were unveiling? Best case scenario is they didn’t want to monkey around awkwardly with fit and adjustment. But even in that case, wasn’t the whole thing pre-
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by trafficante 3y ago
Software sales have taken a real beating. Saw a game launch post-mortem a week ago that had the Quest store beating the Steam release by ~2x. This is actually a lot worse than it sounds given VR’s niche status and the fact that devs were re
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by trafficante 3y ago
Depends on whether this new device follows the Quest 2 design or the Quest Pro. I suspect it’ll be like the 2, judging by it having a full gasket. For the Quest 2: you can purchase premade lens kits with your prescription that snap on over
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by trafficante 3y ago
I personally agree that AI art is likely a cultural cul-de-sac, but I don’t think our current society has a framework that can exclude it from the art world without inflicting an Emperor Has No Clothes situation on several decades of post-m
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by trafficante 3y ago
I hope smarter minds than myself will somehow figure out a way to square this circle and get heavy restrictions on commercial usage without killing the technology outright. As far as AI rap goes: Notorious BIG is (by far) my favorite rapper
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by trafficante 3y ago
It’s 5-something in the morning and I can’t stop laughing at the mental image of some guy cackling maniacally in the toiletry aisle while DoSing toothbrushes. The absolute personification of Chaotic Neutral

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