xdennis

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by xdennis 4y ago
> It means better lives for all of us benefiting from innovations that happen there. You no longer need to farm in freezing weather when your John Deere tractor can drive itself That's not done out of charity, it's done for pro
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by xdennis 4y ago
No, because I'd get banned. I gave it a prompt containing the word of n and it actually ignored it but started talking about the Jews in terms that would make 4channers blush.
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by xdennis 4y ago
What's the 4chan version?
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by xdennis 4y ago
> Guns have only one purpose: physical combat. I'm pretty sure the vast majority of gun owners have never actually shot anyone. More common uses are: training, hunting, collecting, and plain old having fun shooting things. I used to
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by xdennis 4y ago
Some people actually enjoy developing and scanning/printing everything themselves. But it's true that colour photography is essentially dead for non billionaires. I stocked up with more than 100 rolls a few years ago. When I run o
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by xdennis 4y ago
It's not the EU's fault that you have to click cookie banners. Those banners are only required if a website plans to do malicious things with the cookies. If they're used to track who's logged in, they are not required.
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by xdennis 4y ago
This is not about renting. It's just weird when some people consider themselves home-owners when they haven't actually paid for their house. Being a home owner is a great thing, but that something very few people can achieve today
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by xdennis 4y ago
Paying taxes doesn't mean you don't own it. If you don't pay your taxes you go to prison, they don't take your house away.
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by xdennis 4y ago
> It's not uncommon for wealthy people to borrow against their stocks and then buy a home "in cash". In that situation, you'd never say "the bank owns their home" just because they owe the bank a bunch of mo
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by xdennis 4y ago
I wouldn't say so. Some of the colonizers were quite small: the Portuguese, the Dutch, the Belgians, &c. But it's important to state that it wasn't Europeans, but western Europeans who colonized. Here in Romania we never
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by xdennis 4y ago
I'm not convinced that subpar graphics is the reason for the lack of browser games. I'd suggest that the reason is monetization. People are used to buying phone apps and console games, but expect web pages to be free. And open sou
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by xdennis 4y ago
But then why say "equity"? Blind grading can, of course, eliminate bias and achieve equality. But to achieve equity, you need to know the race, sex, religion, etc in order to "positively" discriminate.
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by xdennis 4y ago
> My takeaway is that for truly private chat one should write his own software That's the only way to make sure you're using software you trust, but rolling your own crypto implementations is often not so secure (because of the
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by xdennis 4y ago
I can't tell if this is a parody of American Psycho or not.
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by xdennis 4y ago
"For Security!" has become a universal cudgel: * For your own security (from theft) we'll hardware lock your phone. Best to throw it in the dumpster if you forget the password. * Can't allow people to repair their own ha
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by xdennis 4y ago
I don't think it's off topic. zoover2020 is inviting Americans to Europe because the prices are honest. eurocars is giving a reason why moving to Europe is not a good idea (salaries are atrocious).
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by xdennis 4y ago
> It took only SIX months for the mainstream US press to turn the country I grew up from being a 'model democracy in the region' to 'authoritarian state' after that country refused to play along with the US foreign po
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by xdennis 4y ago
Examples: anything that's political. Let's take for example the article about Patrisse Cullors (of BLM fame). A video surfaced of her saying "I am a trained Marxist". If you look at the archives[1], many people wanted to
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by xdennis 4y ago
I wouldn't say it's garbage, just that the quality varies a lot. Uncontroversial stuff is quite accurate. A simple metric I use is: how long the talk page is. If a talk page has 15 archives then the article page is probably politi
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by xdennis 4y ago
> - First hydrogen fuel cell: 1842 > - Earliest li-ion battery: 1965~ You just limit to lithium-ion to mislead. Battery vehicles predate all of that: > The invention of the first model electric vehicle is attributed to various peop
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by xdennis 4y ago
People who use emojis aren't the type to lookup the official meaning. In other words, actual use is at times very different from the official description.
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by xdennis 4y ago
You know it's a terrible take when it can be turned around on you. That is, "if you don't like comments no one is demanding you read them and share your brilliant takes on opposition to mixing sexuality into technical matters
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by xdennis 4y ago
> Meat was a luxury product not eaten every day for most of history And nobody want's to return to those dark ages. This devil's alliance between veganism and environmentalism is what put me off environmentalism. Climate change
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by xdennis 4y ago
Even if fake meat tasted better and cost less, people would still eat meat too. I like chicken more than potatoes, yet I still eat potatoes. Fake meat's best outcome would be for it to be enjoyed as much as meat, but it couldn't r
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by xdennis 4y ago
You're re-writing history. The existence of airborne diseases has been known for hundreds of years, and masks have been used for more than a hundred. In Asia they were using masks from the start, just like they did with the original SA
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by xdennis 4y ago
Not sure which people you're referring to by "they", but if you mean me: Internet porn is the exception because of privacy reasons. For some of those examples they don't store records (voting, buying alcohol, etc), and i
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by xdennis 4y ago
Those are not comparable, primarily because of privacy. People don't care that you know that they voted or had a drink. And in those cases, they don't record who you voted for, what porn mag you bought, etc.
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by xdennis 4y ago
> I don't understand why people think this is a bad thing except unless they think children should be watching porn? It's a very bad take for you to assume that the opposition is from people who want children to watch porn. Pro
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by xdennis 4y ago
Norse was a very breathy language, hence all the h's and f's. BTW, the Old Norse word for strength was "megin". Which word looks like a cat stepped over a keyboard: "megin" or the one with "str" and &
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by xdennis 4y ago
The difference is that Perl 6/Raku was a huge change from Perl 5. For Python, the small improvements weren't worth the break in compatibility.

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