PhasmaFelis

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by PhasmaFelis 1y ago
A few kilobytes of text is not a resource that needed saving.
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by PhasmaFelis 1y ago
Mostly that's because devs want to drive people to the app, where they can track you a lot better, so they make their mobile sites shitty on purpose. Plenty of mobile apps are just webapps anyway under the hood. There's absolutely
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by PhasmaFelis 1y ago
Absolutely agree that it was politics, not science, but it wasn't really anti-science either. In a nutshell, his theory was fine on its own; he was punished for insulting the Pope.
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by PhasmaFelis 1y ago
It wasn't his theory, it was that he presented it in the form of a dialogue with a character who was an obvious stand-in for the Pope, and then made that character sound like a complete idiot. The heresy charges were an excuse to punis
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by PhasmaFelis 1y ago
This reminds me, some years ago as Google was expanding its translation service, someone tried translating text into and out of an obscure African language (don't recall which) and it always came out as weird Biblical-sounding semi-gib
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by PhasmaFelis 1y ago
Human bodies are scarce because you can't pay most people to live there. They're not mutually exclusive.
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by PhasmaFelis 1y ago
When a generally smart person makes a humiliating million-dollar mistake, then you can trust that person, more than any of their coworkers, to never make that specific mistake again. That's the "expensive education" here.
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by PhasmaFelis 1y ago
But they didn't have to, and a bit of thoughtful consideration would have (and presumably did) make that clear. This is less of a "caught driving drunk" situation and more a "caught driving with one taillight out" s
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by PhasmaFelis 1y ago
> Since this wooden rod travels several miles in a 6 second time frame - traveling more than 500M/s on average - don't we have to assume it accumulates? The basic assumption here is that the rules as written beat physics and co
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by PhasmaFelis 1y ago
Finding fun and unexpected rules interactions is certainly D&D. Finding obviously broken and unintended interactions that make no sense in-universe, purely as intellectual sport, is also D&D. Seriously expecting the DM to behave lik
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by PhasmaFelis 1y ago
Wasn't it also something to do with supplying government contracts, which require all behavior to be documented?
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by PhasmaFelis 1y ago
Some "significant effects" are a lot bigger and more broadly negative than others. You know this.
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by PhasmaFelis 1y ago
Whatever your feelings on the current US administration, no reasonable person could deny that it's having significant effects worldwide.
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by PhasmaFelis 1y ago
I want to know why the organ features an image of a man in the instant that his hat falls off his head.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
Yearly flu vaccines have been a thing for decades. If that's what OP thinks, I'm not sure they actually know what a vaccine is.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
I'm excited to hear why you put "vaccine" in scare quotes.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
If you do something with your car that ends up with it skidding on its side, that's a crash by any possible definition.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
Is a landing barge not "purposefully engineered to be flat"?
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
I believe it was what we call a joke.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
I am obsessively pedantic about grammar and spelling, in code and in English. I have a firm personal preference about how to spell "cancelled"--I like two Ls. The only reason I'd ever consider telling someone that "cance
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
> Why do tech workers get so wrapped around the axle of layoffs when most people are in a chronic state of tech job hopping? Most of us job-hop because we have to, not because we want to. There's a class of people in the tech in
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
I can't get past the second paragraph, where he introduces "Chiang's Law." I click through for the definition: > This law can be stated compactly as: science fiction is about strange rules, while fantasy is about spec
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
No one said they were.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
Reminds me of a few years ago, when a bunch of people were breathlessly claiming that blockchain was the future of videogames, because it would let you transfer items from one game to another. Take your favorite Skyrim sword and use it in M
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
There are games like Deep Rock Galactic that have really good support multiplayer for multiplayer mods; it tells you what you're getting into in the server browser, and IIRC even separates them into tiers (simple HUD mods you can use i
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
> And more people should consider backing off from political-media consumption as it is clearly toxic to the soul. Destroying the government services that allow disabled people to get healthcare and other basic needs is toxic to my liter
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
I would dearly love to return to even the 2021 era of the internet in general. 1999 would be ideal, actually. But I'd settle for most anything up to 2012 or so.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
Wow, that's obnoxious. You may be able to call down and ask for a folding table of some kind. But yeah, you shouldn't have to.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
Blaming all your problems on old people isn't any more attractive than blaming them on Jews/women/queers/etc. You're reading this on a device made in an underpaid Asian sweatshop, wearing clothes that are the same.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
I used to fly with a 13" MacBook and a frankly excessive amount of random stuff in my backpack, and it still fit under the seat without too much trouble. If you're trying to keep your daily carry bag super slim on principle, I gue

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