Bluestrike2

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by Bluestrike2 2mo ago
Most of that discussion is less about any advantages inherent to either aspect ratio and more about just viewing the film as the director originally intended. The cinematographer would have composed shots for the main 1.43:1 aspect ratio fi
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by Bluestrike2 5mo ago
I for one am quite happy that Mercedes is committed to a physical button for hazard lights, parking assist overrides, and the other controls that are used so very...rarely. Perhaps they'll do something about the less commonly used butt
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by Bluestrike2 5mo ago
Even if modern renewables and batteries kill the need for future nuclear power plants, that doesn't excuse the consequences of decades of burning fossil fuels because environmental groups fought against nuclear power altogether. We had
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by Bluestrike2 5mo ago
Try for too much impact, and you end up browbeating the reader until they're little more than metaphorical pulp. A human writer might like using those types of sentences--or any of the obvious LLM writing tropes--in specific contexts,
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by Bluestrike2 5mo ago
Disregarding the fact that NHTSA findings apparently contradict it (though that may just be a more recent change than the 2022 report), Tesla claims to use five seconds before a collision event as the threshold for their data reporting on t
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by Bluestrike2 7mo ago
Shorts are treated as a privileged feature; they aren't going to simply hide them just because a few of us have the unmitigated gall not to watch them. That's not to their benefit. Youtube and the other platforms want to manipul
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by Bluestrike2 8mo ago
If it's a strategic play, it's a terrible one that douses usability in gasoline and sacrifices it at the altar of visual novelty for no real gain. Apple has spent literal decades working on and refining their Human Interface Guide
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by Bluestrike2 9mo ago
Fair enough. I fully recognize just how easily it gets abused, and "used with purpose" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in my original comment. That said, if someone's going to engage in sentence sprawl, I'd much rather a
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by Bluestrike2 9mo ago
> it's not X (emdash) it's Y No, no, no! Stop that! The em dash is an wonderful little punctuation mark that's damned useful when used with purpose. You can't turn it into some scarlet glyph just because normal peop
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by Bluestrike2 11mo ago
> If you dont believe even his mother, theres tons of other evidence. The anti fascism messaging on his bullets. The text messages to his partner saying a Kirk was full of hate. Sigh. That's not what I claimed. I can accept his moth
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by Bluestrike2 11mo ago
These questions are almost always more complex and nuanced than simply left or right . I agree with you on the second part to a degree—insomuch as the modern media landscape pushes people to quickly label shooters and tends to disincent
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by Bluestrike2 1y ago
The problem with using modern pressure treated wood for outdoor furniture is less any cancer risks like with the old CCA treatments, and more that it's just a bad choice for a bunch of different reasons. Modern copper-based treatments-
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by Bluestrike2 1y ago
I realize it's just another hair-brained scheme likely cooked up on the porcelain throne, but part of me is curious about how exactly they'd implement this train wreck. Since Trump is relying on declarations of national emergencie
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by Bluestrike2 1y ago
Ah, sorry about that. Any lack of clarity is on me; I had walked away for a bit before responding and ended up flattening the branch in my head by the time I started typing. You're fine :).
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by Bluestrike2 1y ago
I think the issue is less the cost to developers and more the cost to users. Were there more users, no doubt a larger number of indie developers would be able to justify the expense. Without those users--or at least a reliable promise of
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by Bluestrike2 1y ago
> I might be sympathetic to this reasoning if this was a $2 coffee or something, but $60/month is nothing to be sneezed at, and I'd expect buyers to read the very legible text under the price tag. In some things, expectations a
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by Bluestrike2 1y ago
This is a bit longer than I would have wanted to spend writing about Adobe billing practices, but oh well. Is it the most manipulative dark pattern in e-commerce? Hardly--there are plenty far more vicious--but it's still an attempt t
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by Bluestrike2 1y ago
A bit of common sense and understanding would go a long way to eliminating half the complaints you hear about HOAs. If you know the tree is going to immediately start dying, you're just going to find the cheapest, least healthy sapling
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by Bluestrike2 2y ago
I'd expect the original agreements that were put in place--both the ones with the subcontractors as well as the purchase agreements--are quite strict on what you can do with the plane. Trying to reverse engineer software (the policy wa
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by Bluestrike2 2y ago
It's not really accurate to say that we can't go back to the moon. Setting aside the fact that there have been a number of successful unmanned lunar missions in recent years, whenever your point gets made, it usually glosses ove
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by Bluestrike2 2y ago
> That's why all this stuff is backed up to an iron mountain. When one of your threat vectors is a massive ball of nuclear fire right on top of the federal government in DC, your offsite backup policy is going to be absurd overkil
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by Bluestrike2 2y ago
It's common enough that a bigger percentage of normal people than you'd think probably find themselves using it on sites at least occasionally (Reddit, etc.), even if they don't consciously think of it as Markdown or know all
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by Bluestrike2 2y ago
> This seems to be incorrect. Given my estimation of the current political climate, if you sacrifice yourself to save the world, you will be dead and then someone else will destroy the world anyway while you're not there to stop the
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by Bluestrike2 2y ago
Or that they just weren't very good business people. Their understanding of climate change back then was good enough to have a damned decent roadmap for how things were going to play out over the next fifty years. They were capable of
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by Bluestrike2 2y ago
Glad we got around to closing that barn door. It only took nearly twelve years from when adaptive headlights hit the market. Heads should have rolled years ago when the problem became glaringly obvious.
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by Bluestrike2 2y ago
> It's also a type of fraud which is fairly easy to detect. If a car is recorded as driving just 2000 miles per year, yet freeway cameras detected it driving 100 miles every weekday all year, open a fraud case. Sure, but why bother?
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by Bluestrike2 2y ago
Which has its own unexpected bug in that the extended deadbolt can damage the wood frame and/or trim. Or perhaps the sensor you use to determine the door's state (open or closed) is positioned on the hinge side in such a way that
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by Bluestrike2 2y ago
It's almost certainly less to do with location scouting and production design, and more about perceived biases. If studio executives think American audiences can't relate to trains or subways because they're less commonly use
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by Bluestrike2 2y ago
Perhaps a better explanation might be that they're all capable of being considered ambiguous whenever and however the clerk administering the test desires them to be? In that sense, they were impossible because a clerk could reject any
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by Bluestrike2 2y ago
As with anything, it's all about implementation. The Supreme Court's size fluctuated over time, with different presidents increasing--or decreasing--it, often in response to the Court's actions or the major political disputes

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