OwlsParlay

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by OwlsParlay 2mo ago
"audiences are so sophisticated now in their knowledge of computers" It's funny they say this back in 1993. It feels like we've gone from computers being a niche but beloved piece of tech to a ubiquitous and reviled piec
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by OwlsParlay 5mo ago
Is it me or are those prices dead cheap compared to UK / US?
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by OwlsParlay 5mo ago
Trump has avoided a ground invasion up to this point for this exact reason, even trying to take one of outerlying islands would have heavy casualties due to drone warfare. There's speculation that the mess over the weekend was the resu
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by OwlsParlay 6mo ago
Interestingly US-based newsrooms are still geo-blocking EU users. Not even bothering to ask for cookies.
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by OwlsParlay 8mo ago
This is a country of 90 million, compared to Gaza which was 2million
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by OwlsParlay 9mo ago
For people invested in AI it is becoming something like Maslow's Hammer - "it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail"
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by OwlsParlay 11mo ago
At this rate that's a couple of large LEGO sets.
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by OwlsParlay 1y ago
That's a big part of it for you perhaps, but not for everyone?
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by OwlsParlay 2y ago
The biggest problem comes when this type of language policing is seen as the primary way of changing behaviours. It's correct to be anti-racist / anti-sexist / etc. but that doesn't come from just changing your language
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by OwlsParlay 3y ago
The sad fact is that this is more expensive than my 1-bed flat was 15 years ago. Rent really is insane if this is preferable now.
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by OwlsParlay 3y ago
I dropped the two BBC podcasts i'd been interested in (News Cast and In Our Time) for this reason, it's such a weird tack to take in order to chase views.
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by OwlsParlay 3y ago
I wonder if any of the commentators from 2007-2013 can share what they've learned in 10 years
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by OwlsParlay 3y ago
I'm always surprised Discourse was never integrated into SO.
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by OwlsParlay 3y ago
New Zealand has a similar problem https://www.reddit.com/r/MapsWithoutNZ/
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by OwlsParlay 3y ago
Why would the US want to do a Marshall plan? It was in full asset stripping mode in the USA itself in the mid 90s
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by OwlsParlay 3y ago
This, I find even trying to ignore news sources doesn't work. I continually try to prune the more tabloid papers like Daily Mail / Express / Sun but no avail.
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by OwlsParlay 4y ago
This is something some delivery apps have been accused of doing though. https://www.eater.com/2020/1/29/21113416/grubhub-seamless-ki...
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by OwlsParlay 4y ago
These days? Yeah, pretty much. Don't trust anything that isn't E2E encrypted and is on a centralised server.
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by OwlsParlay 4y ago
AS someone who watches a lot of YouTube, like the Let's Play content mentioned, I recognise and sympathise with the OP. But I think the problem isn't necessarily YouTube - thats just the drug of choice. It could be Twitch, it coul
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by OwlsParlay 4y ago
I don't think it was that different on the internet per se, but SE itself was relatively young at that point and more lax with its own rules. This early period is when you also had funny answers for bad questions, like using RegEx to p
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by OwlsParlay 4y ago
https://xkcd.com/1782/
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by OwlsParlay 4y ago
If you know the answer and it's a valid question (i.e. it's not trivial or easily googled already), it's fine to do. The point is less to reputation farm as it is to share knowledge.
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by OwlsParlay 4y ago
> What kind of lunatic watches someone's uploads out of chronological order? Welcome to the TikTok algorithmic feed. Viewing videos in order and with context is so passe. That said, I rarely do this as well. If I've found someb
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by OwlsParlay 4y ago
https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2022/05/14/shanghai-covid-r... Not exactly ignored. CNN has regular reports on China's Covid-19 response.
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by OwlsParlay 4y ago
95% of the country is basically fine. I have a few friends in cities like Chongqing and Nanjing and their only issues are travel restrictions between regions.
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by OwlsParlay 4y ago
You'd still start off with requirements - documentation - code, it's just on the understanding that any of these can change.
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by OwlsParlay 4y ago
> Whites were 80-90% of the population during that time, assigning a vague notion of "privilege" to an entire race of people as a basis for reverse racism is not only useless, but misleading, because these "privileged&quot
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by OwlsParlay 4y ago
Do you think white people who lived during the time of segregation or redlining had white privilege? Because there's plenty of those people still living today. The kids shouting slurs at Ruby Bridges are still alive. Now yes, obviously
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by OwlsParlay 4y ago
They do, but their population has also ballooned far past what their own agriculture can supply.
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by OwlsParlay 5y ago
Getting rid of the licence fee is long overdue, but strangling the BBC as part of cutbacks is just sad.

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