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by afandian 16d ago
As everyone is sharing their favourite miniature artists I’m going to share Bobby Fingers, who makes the best videos on YouTube IMHO. The Jeff Bezos boat would probably appeal to this crowd, although it is by not remotely miniature.
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by afandian 28d ago
The web around the late 90s and early 2000s had some really sketchy stuff. I think the difference is that it used to be the sleazy underbelly. Now it's accepted as mainstream. My local 'newspaper' website is chock full of s
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by afandian 28d ago
I doubt that anyone knows 300 million people let alone that many Americans.
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by afandian 2mo ago
Agreed, I doubt that a mega-behemoth like Google or Microsoft could emerge in Europe. Especially not on a compressed timescale. But if they really wanted digital verification without the surveillance capitalism built in, I’m sure there are
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by afandian 2mo ago
We need to remember how to operate without the Internet, and de-risk our dependence on it. Whether that's reducing the use of computers in our daily lives, or getting more open-source-software-runs-offline-on-my-machine. We did it befo
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by afandian 2mo ago
What are the "AI gods" going to do in this scenario? AI is about many things, but a big factor is enclosure.
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by afandian 2mo ago
I don't understand where the all the EU anti-trust and anti-corruption regulators are here. _Governments_ enforcing that you have a Google or Apple account to participate in society is transparently absurd. This isn't only a digit
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by afandian 2mo ago
It's been dark since the Grimms, and likely long before! I just rewatched it (link in sibling link). It's mocking Farquaad, but I think is clearly meant to be taken as slapstick. Implying that torture is no big deal.
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by afandian 2mo ago
I'm referring to this scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYcm_9YELQE At the opening of the scene, the gingerbread man is being drowned in milk. You see from the shadow, and the voice, that he's having his head
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by afandian 2mo ago
I was horrified by the literal waterboarding scene in Shrek. Granted it was a year or two before the USA started trying to normalise that form of torture. I don’t know what was in the popular consciousness in the US at the time. But it’s ve
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by afandian 2mo ago
I imagine their maths is fine. Their objective is to tackle climate change through raising awareness. That happens at the macro scale.
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by afandian 2mo ago
Luddites were campaigning against child labour and dangerous working conditions, amongst other things. Pick which side of history you want to be on!
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by afandian 2mo ago
Yet here we are talking about the environmental impact of Microsoft data centres in NL. We wouldn’t otherwise be.
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by afandian 2mo ago
I'm sure there was some passive agreement involved, and probably some "politician's syllogism" too. But the null hypothesis is that there is no new legislation to vote on. It must have come from somewhere!
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by afandian 2mo ago
You can survive and be exist in society without both.
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by afandian 2mo ago
I doubt those representatives gathered a sufficient mandate from their public given the huge consequence. I’m no conspiracy theorist, but it does seem that there’s an international influence outweighing democracy. Cui bono?
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by afandian 2mo ago
There’s a huge amount of stuff that the EU does that no one consented to, or had a realistic democratic avenue to influence. I’m in the UK and very anti Brexit. But were we still in, I would have no idea how to influence what happens behind
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by afandian 2mo ago
The challenge is to retain an ordering over the result set. How would infinite scroll behave any differently in this case? The changing results seems to be an orthogonal concern to pagination/infinite scroll.
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by afandian 2mo ago
Infinite scroll evolved alongside algorithms that incentivise addictive content. So it’s “good” UX in that it’s effective for consuming addictive content… When I’m trying to do something constructive, like search or browse, infinite scroll
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by afandian 2mo ago
Yes. "I rubbished his proposal", i.e. "I criticised his proposal". (I can't imagine what an intransitive 'rubbish' would mean!)
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by afandian 2mo ago
"To rubbish" is a very common verb, at least in British English.
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by afandian 2mo ago
I wonder if it’s malicious compliance on the part of the manufacturers. They can trivially determine if their tech is effective. Making it mandatory, despite the problems they must surely know about, might produce some democratic pressure f
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by afandian 3mo ago
Luckily our investors helped us out with the regulatory capture, so we don’t need to worry about the safety, just the palatability.
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by afandian 3mo ago
Maybe it's the cause of our "bad teeth". (I heard the rumour too. But no-one I know fails to rinse the "washing up liquid" (as we call it) off their plates)
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by afandian 3mo ago
Wow! (No, from dry-cleaning)
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by afandian 3mo ago
Too late, already been done! https://stroodles.co.uk/collections I bought some edible cups out of curiosity a few years back. Nice for coffee. I did end up eating them all, although some of them were still dry at the time o
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by afandian 3mo ago
Thanks, I might try and reset that 'trust'. I don't recall if it popped up or not originally.
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by afandian 3mo ago
It's a quite old, third-hand car. But there are plenty of people reporting the same thing. But why can't my iPhone let me set permissions for the thing I plug it into? It's unreasonable to prevent me from changing the audio o
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by afandian 3mo ago
I don't know the first thing about dishwashers, but it seems obvious to me. The cycle-to-volume ratio is as bad as it could possibly be. Conventional dishwashers recirculate water as they wash and rinse. I imagine there's an mx +
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by afandian 3mo ago
The innovation here is clearly edible soap. And the 'less water' claim is technically correct, but it doesn't mention the decamethylcyclopentasiloxane. Just because it's complicated to spell, you understand.

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