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by vundercind 2y ago
I have bad news for you about which side of things a lot of the 2nd amendment fans are gonna be on if this comes to the US. The history with actual cases of private arms being used to support or to resist government tyranny in the US can
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by vundercind 2y ago
This is further complicated by a history (yes, in the US) of not just failing to prosecute obvious war criminals, and of pardoning many who do somehow manage to get convicted, but wide swaths of the population treating them as heroes . The
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by vundercind 2y ago
Plenty of the most-powerful already keep causing harm just to make number go up even more, well beyond the point at which they can conceivably personally benefit before they die. Imagine if they could conceivably personally benefit from t
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by vundercind 2y ago
From what I've seen of research on apparently-dispersed storage of memories in worms, I'd not be at all surprised to find that a human brain separated from a body has (assuming we could "boot it up" in that state, as you
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by vundercind 2y ago
It'd be pretty weird if it were called 2k. 1080p is in an absolute sense or as a relative "distance" to the next-lowest thousand closer to 2k pixels of width than 4k is to 4k (both are under, of course, but one's under
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by vundercind 2y ago
https://xkcd.com/1775/ This one covers several things but is basically motivated by spreading the bad news about the seriousness of cat bites, as made clear by the alt text.
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by vundercind 2y ago
TL;DR it slowly, and mostly asymptomatically, eats its way up your nerves until it reaches your brain and starts eating that . That's when you start developing significant signs and symptoms, by which point, maybe weeks after exposure
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by vundercind 2y ago
Most folks' lives are just already full , is the thing. We can barely find room for a couple family heirlooms, let alone an inherited hobby, including and maybe especially a collecting hobby. It's a little different when we'
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by vundercind 2y ago
Damn cute photo. "HOLY SHIT, LOOK AT ALL THE BLINKENLIGHTS!"
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by vundercind 2y ago
Just having to go through close not-at-all-rich relatives' ordinary household crap and various beloved (by them) keepsakes and deal with the pain and hassle of that in the wake of their deaths is bad enough. I can't imagine having
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by vundercind 2y ago
I think this is where you get a lot of stuff about how actually some dumb shit a rich or powerful person keeps doing must be part of some master plan, or working toward some purpose we don't know about. [EDIT] Where you get people co
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by vundercind 2y ago
Some of this can last into adulthood—a common problem for small business owners and contractors is charging too little, because they know their costs and time and what a fair price seems like it should be. They have to have that innate chil
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by vundercind 2y ago
Yes, except that they’ve mostly learned to not act drunk except when they are in fact drunk. Otherwise, yes. I just figured realizing that (and, not unrelatedly, that at least 95% of people in prestigious and powerful positions, in society,
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by vundercind 2y ago
The point where they re-centered React around a bad half-implementation of Objects, in a language that already has an OO system, was when I decided they were out of real problems to solve (or didn't know how to approach those real prob
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by vundercind 2y ago
I've run into this with nostalgia-toys and board games. Modern "reprints" usually suck, even if they superficially look the same. Loopin' Louie? The modern one's lighter and has a weaker motor, even if the original
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by vundercind 2y ago
Yep, don't give a shit about making a statement, just finally gave them a try and realized I'd been wasting my time with half-broken computers my whole life until then, rather than the 75% broken computers I could have been using.
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by vundercind 2y ago
I've got to admit, digging through a shoebox of fifty blurry lightly-water-damaged family or childhood photos is kinda better than finding a directory of 10,000 perfect digital photos of the same stuff. One's pure joy, the other
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by vundercind 2y ago
I started playing computer games and accidentally became a programmer. I wasn't even trying to make games, just play them. Shit, I even tried not to become a programmer, but people kept offering me jobs that paid enough that it was
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by vundercind 2y ago
In both cases, you're trying to figure out what actually playing the game looks like.
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by vundercind 2y ago
> Google Lens brought seamless OCR to images. Do you have to open Google Lens to do it? I could already do something like that, just didn't. It's totally different when it Just Works.
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by vundercind 2y ago
You could already OCR. What made me actually use it was exactly its becoming an OS feature. Now it seems weird if there's an image with text and I can't select the text I can plainly see on my screen.
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by vundercind 2y ago
I'm sure everyone experiences this some, but do wonder if it's maybe worse for those for whom the year 2000 hit at the wrong point in their personal timeline. I don't think I ever quite got over guesstimating "X years ag
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by vundercind 2y ago
Similar journey here. I think I’ve become some variety of techno-determinist pessimist. We are what technology lets us be, including when it comes to ethics and government. And major inventions aren’t guaranteed to push the space of the pos
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by vundercind 2y ago
Having never heard of this series until this HN thread, I assumed from context that you meant Bill Skarsgård, who of course is a natural for an out-of-place somewhat-alien a-touch-androgynous misfit, having played that kind of role well b
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by vundercind 2y ago
I have found recommendations of (especially) genre novels from people I don't personally know to be nearly useless. The usual problem is that the work is just OK but gets talked up like it's great. Sometimes, it's outright
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by vundercind 2y ago
“Yeah, welcome to the club pal”
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by vundercind 2y ago
“What is my purpose?” “You commit an incredibly boring sort of fraud.” looks at hands “Oh my god”
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by vundercind 2y ago
A conversation vaguely pointing toward a key game mechanic that might have something to do with metatextuality but which mustn't be described for fear of spoiling it is a damn good way to get me to buy a game. (Just purchased. Easy b
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by vundercind 2y ago
Just about the only innovations in board games per se that I've seen, that've made them easier to play, are increased focus on helpful iconography, and more widespread use of "cheat sheets" (cards, little cardboard bit
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by vundercind 2y ago
I loved my tiny little NES manuals (the artwork!) and big-ass PC RPG manuals like the one for Fallout 2.

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