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by ufmace 4y ago
> I don't think your characterization of the conversation is fair. You're free to think so. I for one don't care to censor those who disagree with me. Note that there's a number of deleted comments, and neither of us
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by ufmace 4y ago
I know they've removed it since the time of the comments I will refer, but I still feel like I would not choose Lemmy to host a forum due to the conduct of the maintainers on the threads regarding the hard-coded slur_filter. See https
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by ufmace 4y ago
Generally the end of the month that you were terminated in, unless you pay the same company to keep the same plan via COBRA. It's the same plan, you're just paying what you paid for it before plus whatever the company was paying f
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by ufmace 4y ago
If "cancel culture" is no big deal, then why is everybody so terrified of Elon taking over Twitter? What is so bad about this that you feel the need to make weak-man arguments accusing everybody who is moderately pro-Elon of being
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by ufmace 4y ago
I went in assuming that this was going to be a hit piece. It's not quite that bad, but there's elements like that. I have no idea who this "former Tesla engineer" is or what their biases and motivations are, or how the a
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by ufmace 4y ago
That does hit me a bit. I've been reluctant to use desktop linux again after I finally got tired of how often I'd have to repair everything after a few years of use. People on threads like this keep claiming that it's "b
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by ufmace 4y ago
Regarding camera movement, not completely sure what would be required for a VR-like experience. But I can watch bodycam videos like https://youtu.be/0RGLSTXu7Ws?t=75 (police action, end of a high-speed chase) and never thin
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by ufmace 4y ago
That's what I was thinking. Some people are complaining about very subtle details not being quite right. But to me, what really stands out as video-game-y is the way the character and camera and other people move. It's hard to des
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by ufmace 4y ago
This pretty much. You've got to be able to rapidly identify everything you see and predict what it's reasonably likely to do, which sounds like an AGI-scale problem.
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by ufmace 4y ago
You cannot just add "public transport" to most of our existing cities to replace peoples' cars. The reason is that everything is too spread out, mostly due to the large parking lots everywhere. That may be sub-optimal in a ce
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by ufmace 4y ago
My argument is not really about price, but instead capability. I'm not saying that everything is just great with nuclear now - my impression is that it's vastly overpriced due to excessive regulation and red tape and being over-
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by ufmace 4y ago
The nuclear plant can be relied upon to produce its full rated 1.2GW 24/7/365 absent maintenance periods scheduled well in advance. Wind power etc will produce its rated power only when it feels like it with no warning or predicta
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by ufmace 4y ago
I agree with the sibling that that isn't a representative number. I think we'd want to know something related to actual participation - what's the average daily or weekly number of posts or likes or whatever equivalent is in
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by ufmace 4y ago
I thought about that, and I'm not sure it actually changes anything. So you want to register a new device with your Signal account and you don't have the previous device, either because you're a malicious attacker or you lost
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by ufmace 4y ago
The weird part about this - why does Signal let anybody access the same account with just a SMS verification? I would think it would be better to send the verification message to be added to an account through their Signal account. Telegram
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by ufmace 4y ago
They haven't established how many people actually want it. If 60 million Americans live in communities with such rules, presumably at least a substantial number of them, if not an actual majority, want visible hanging laundry to be pro
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by ufmace 4y ago
I agree - it reads like propaganda paid for by this "Project Laundry List" organization, in the pattern of PG's Submarine article. Since when does this need to be a national issue anyways - "U.S. residents fight..."
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by ufmace 4y ago
It seems pretty obvious to me that it ought to be reformed to be basically what /u/SamBam thought it was instead of being eliminated entirely.
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by ufmace 4y ago
We've also been going for a while on night charging to help the grid - usage is (used to be?) lower at night, so you can start charging a bunch of electric cars and not notice too much. For now at least. I wonder if/when we'l
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by ufmace 4y ago
I saw a paper just a few years ago about how to shift the Earth to a higher orbit to mitigate solar brightening/expansion. It involved a large asteroid in a careful orbit that could gradually pull the whole Earth to a higher orbit. Pro
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by ufmace 4y ago
I'm not a super expect in space, but I'd argue yes. There is more radiation there, but we know how much and how to shield from it. The ISS does have an "escape module" descent craft allowing the crew to evacuate in a few
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by ufmace 4y ago
I don't get what the point is of a crewed flyby. The crew would just be cooped up in the craft the whole time with nothing to do except take measurements with instruments that could just as easily be done by a machine. This isn't
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by ufmace 4y ago
I have a feeling that the overall reality is far more hit-or-miss than the author implies. If you happen to be lucky to have all hardware that Linux supports well, then everything does work nicely (which is infact a nice improvement over th
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by ufmace 4y ago
Personally, I chose ChromeOS as the bare-metal OS for my laptop because I think it's the best of both worlds: For web browser-based stuff, I have a constantly-updated state of the art browser with full vendor-backed hardware support fo
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by ufmace 4y ago
I just read it, and I don't see any contradiction here. IMO, he's recommending simple and direct anti-bot methods to web admins specifically because it's better than relying solely on Cloudflare etc for all bot blocking. He n
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by ufmace 4y ago
I remember using some of those early Windows Mobile gadgets. They were pretty nice and decently capable compared to the rest of the mobile device market at the time. Problems included: 1. UI was stylus-only resistive touchscreen and basical
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by ufmace 4y ago
Funny, I see the opposite on Instagram - it's loaded with "suggested posts" based on things you liked, other accounts you follow, or apparently just things that you stopped scrolling for a second or two on, which I guess it d
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by ufmace 4y ago
What is your source for them actually doing something evil? They responded to the accusations on this thread here: https://kiwifarms.ru/threads/matthew-prince-lied.128900/ I haven't seen any evidence that the
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by ufmace 4y ago
> As I remember the policy they posted had exceptions for sites that were dangerous/etc. I think what they did today is completely consistent. It's a fig leaf and an obvious moving of the goalposts. Any time they really hate a
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by ufmace 4y ago
> he declared he would not be buying the $300 espresso machine he had come in to buy FWIW I strongly doubt that people who say things like that ever really intended to buy the thing. If you were really planning on buying a $300 expresso

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