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by xdennis 3y ago
But this is about the film version, though. Digital IMAX is pointless, but it is still technically "MAX" as the max is for physical size, not resolution. The original reason IMAX uses 70mm film (8.3x the area of 35mm) is because p
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by xdennis 3y ago
> How was wobbly windows useful? It warmed my soul. It's the only thing I really miss since switching to i3.
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by xdennis 3y ago
Seems fair. All the initial homo sapiens had black skin, so I guess it would be more representative.
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I don't think they're affectations of the youth. Take the term "fake news". If journalists were in the business of informing people they would translate it ("știri false"), but they always say "fake news&q
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by xdennis 3y ago
> Didn't the Japanese have bread or balconies before the Portuguese arrived? How does that work? I ask myself that every day. I think the answer is prestige. In my language, Romanian, many words are borrowed from English because the
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by xdennis 3y ago
But they're already filthy rich. Maybe I'm being too much of an idealist, but universities should be about education, not sport centers.
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by xdennis 3y ago
It's quite revealing when you say that "fairness" (scare quotes) is not important. But that's not the only/main reason. The proponents of affirmative action are guilty of the very thing they say they're against
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by xdennis 3y ago
> Athletics is the ultimate meritocracy ...but not in education. The US system of making athletes waste time in university is quite unique and ridiculous.
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by xdennis 3y ago
> The way you put it, it sounds like some random architect somewhere looked at Linear B, worked hard on their own, and came up with the answer. That's not even remotely true. Your assumption here is that a normal discoverer works en
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by xdennis 3y ago
> Related: Imagine having to remember the full scp / rsync command to sync source file(s) between your local machine and server, but it's just a drag and drop on VSCode. What's hard about this? rsync -a dir/ ser
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by xdennis 3y ago
That's not comparable. The French Academy doesn't dictate what words are allowed to be spelt on phones.
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by xdennis 3y ago
> I imagine that if I had dark skin, I'd feel a bit alienated by this experience. And the change is literally skin deep. They added skin color, but not racial features. The "black man" emoji just looks like a white guy wit
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by xdennis 3y ago
Every platform has its own set of pictures for emojis. How can you possibly align and size them consistently?
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by xdennis 3y ago
> you generate What do you mean by this? Because if by "you" you mean a closed source program which is automatically updated generates it for you on your device then I think it's more accurate to say "Service X genera
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by xdennis 3y ago
I'm curious if you're consistent on this and think cigarettes/marijuana/crack should all be/remain banned?
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by xdennis 3y ago
Headphones is where replaceable batteries would be most useful as you can carry multiple with you like with a GoPro.
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by xdennis 3y ago
"a lot" is too strong.
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by xdennis 3y ago
As a EU citizen, I'm happy the EU doesn't consider protecting the environment "totally backwards".
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by xdennis 3y ago
> T word, the F word, the D word, the S word, and the M word God, this is so childish. Perhaps you think that list should also only list words as "f-word" and have software interpret what it refers to so as not to offend anyone
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by xdennis 3y ago
Yankee is a slur? I thought it was just an endearing name for Americans. (I know in the US it only refers to North Americans.)
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by xdennis 3y ago
I don't believe it's copyright infringement either, but I don't believe it should be allowed either. It used to be that when people bought a piece of land they owned that land from the center of the Earth to the end of the Un
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by xdennis 3y ago
> LLMs are built upon neural networks which are modelled upon how brains work You are confused. Neural networks are inspired by how brains work, but they do not actually simulate brains. Airplanes are also inspired by how birds work, but
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by xdennis 3y ago
Just because we call both learning, doesn't mean that human learning and machine learning are the same. They most definitely are not the same. Human learning is very lossy. Even if they were the same, it doesn't mean that bots sho
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by xdennis 3y ago
Or come to Ubuntu without the nonsense: Linux Mint.
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by xdennis 3y ago
> anyone can feel comfortable demanding anything, what matters is what they get Try demanding that a lady give you her purse and see how far that takes you. Attempting a crime is often a crime regardless if you succeed.
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by xdennis 3y ago
That happens with everything. People talk about movies without having seen them, discuss what woodworking tools are best with no intent to buy them, and the relative value of random sports cars without ever being able to afford them. If new
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by xdennis 3y ago
But it's more fair and you are in control of your own fate: you can always study harder, but you can't improve the degree to which a random stranger likes you.
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by xdennis 3y ago
When the constitution was written, some states allowed abortion and some banned it. It makes sense therefore that there was no non-enumerated right to abortion, and states did have the right to ban it. The 1973 decision was most definitivel
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by xdennis 3y ago
> checked "White" for race and then "Hispanic" for ethnicity I've always found it weird how Americans can just declare something without having to provide proof.
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by xdennis 3y ago
The attitudes to race are different because of the different situations. The US is multicultural and founded on stolen land, whereas European countries (at least in the east) are nation states with a single dominant culture.

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