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by tshaddox 1y ago
It's so silly to blame the American people though, considering the vastly greater resources required to politically organize millions of people to counter the what a handful of people in the executive branch or a couple dozen people in
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by tshaddox 1y ago
Surely the President could simply prevent congresspeople from voting to impeach via various means.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
Also, any time anyone actually brings up any details about Presidential elections you'll quick get many people rushing to explain how the people do not in fact directly elect the President and how this is such an incredibly brilliant i
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by tshaddox 1y ago
Our legislature willingly gave up its power quite a while ago.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
I'm personally much less worried about genuine national security matters getting temporarily blocked than I am about general authoritarianism from the President ( any President). Given the impotence of Congress, what checks on executi
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by tshaddox 1y ago
I doubt anyone has many of them truly memorized. It's more like having the ability to quickly see each hex character and understand roughly what percentage that is, then quickly visualize the resulting color. My methodology playing thi
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by tshaddox 1y ago
One of the most difficult aspects of doing research involving causality is consistently avoiding the "casual" misspelling.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
The problem with this explanation is that it also requires multiple parties to be unaware of things which you seem to think are obvious or even self-evident: 1. The designers must be unaware that "no one wants" these new designs (
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by tshaddox 1y ago
Definitely the latter. On the iOS app you choose videos to download, and I believe they only work for 30 days without Internet access. I use yt-dlp for videos I want to archive, but I use the YouTube app downloads for one-off stuff like loa
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by tshaddox 1y ago
Does it help you to think of this as an instructional aid? That was literally the purpose of the digital version that inspired the project.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
Not sure what you mean. I was a test subject? The test still seems to be ongoing after 10 years. I fail to understand how any of these alleged experiments involve me.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
Yes, it’s mostly just the ads. There are some nice-to-haves like video downloads and background audio on the iOS app. I almost never use search, recommendations, or shorts, but I’m sure you’re right to criticize those features.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
Are they really trying? They have vast resources and engineering talent. I doubt they are sincerely trying and failing to implement something that radio and broadcast television have managed to do for the better part of a century.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
I pay for YouTube Premium, but I don’t share your moral opposition to ad-blocking. It’s not entitlement, because the service is totally free to stop serving me the videos.
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I never agreed to that. Shrinkwrap contracts don’t count. Also, if they don’t want to serve me the video without ads, they’re welcome to do that.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
That sounds off to me. I would think that the people who pay to avoid ads are very likely to jump to ad blockers if the ad-free subscription ceases to exist. Not to mention that they’re going to be very unlikely to convert on advertising.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
I’ve paid for YouTube Premium from the beginning (remember YouTube Red?) and it has been a mostly great service for 10+ years. The value I get is vastly greater than Netflix or any other streaming service. But if they ever start putting ads
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by tshaddox 1y ago
It's by far the best value of any of the streaming media services.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
Yes, that’s exactly what I meant. I’d go even further and say the hard parts of driving are the parts where you are likely better off with a general model. And it’s not just signs, construction, police stopping traffic, etc. Even just basic
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by tshaddox 1y ago
I could see it being the case that driving is a fairly general problem, and this models intentionally designed to be general end up doing better than models designed with the misconception that you need a very particular set of driving-spec
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by tshaddox 1y ago
And for restaurant websites, “Menu” is often one of the links inside the menu, so that’s certainly confusing.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
> At the least, I expected there would at least be a way for me to say "trust me JS, this date is UTC so please parse it that way" - but the only way I could find to force that to happen was to manually add a "Z". FWI
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> I'm a bit surprised that the ISO8601 spec dictates that absent the Z the date-time ought to be interpreted as local My understanding is that an ISO8601 timestamp with no offset simply means that no time zone is specified, like wha
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by tshaddox 1y ago
> JavaScript date parsing assumes that dates that lack the trailing Z are in the client time zone. The situation is in fact even worse than this. The current (ECMA262) spec states: > When the time zone offset is absent, date-only form
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by tshaddox 1y ago
Those cheap transparent ones in your second picture are infamously unreliable. I swear I’ve had ones that quit after a dozen strikes.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
Are you suggesting their lighters are bad? That’s certainly not my experience. I have a Bic mini that has been packed inside my camping stove kit (a small titanium pot containing an iso-propane canister, stove, and rag) for nearly 15 years.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
I wonder what the sentencing guidelines are for possession of a firearm with enough ammunition to kill 300 people.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
Presumably it’s for devices which do not have easily modifiable software.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
Turns out that it doesn’t matter whether people want to pay. Many paid services also include advertising.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
In the RC model aircraft community a common recommendation is to create safe containers to charge large lipo batteries in. People often charge their batteries in old barbecue grills, toolboxes, sandboxes, etc.

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