slackdog

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by slackdog 4y ago
If only Dianna had been boosted 5 times instead of 4.
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by slackdog 4y ago
Incidentally, it was while working at Amazon years ago that I first encountered the divisive and paranoia-inspiring form of DEI training which I described above.
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by slackdog 4y ago
I suppose it's probably an unrelated effect, but electron beams are often used for sterilizing things like food, medical packaging, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron-beam_processing https://en
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by slackdog 4y ago
> My experience has led me to believe that most individuals in favor of corporate DEI initiatives are earnestly and in good faith attempting to put into practice the recommendations of critical race theory and related frameworks. Yes,
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by slackdog 4y ago
If an alcoholic tells you he wants to quit but never seems to actually quit, does that make him a liar? Of course not.
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by slackdog 4y ago
AFAIK they don't use pressure vessels for pressures this high; they use diamond anvils.
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by slackdog 4y ago
Nature has a well known bias for papers with sensational titles.
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by slackdog 4y ago
Corporate DEI initiatives using divisive rhetoric designed to foster paranoia, in order to keep workers on edge around each other. ( "You're all racist. Even if you think you aren't racist, asserting you have no subconsciou
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by slackdog 4y ago
Residents need jobs. Alaska is one of the most beautiful states in the country, but there are relatively few opportunities for work. If there were more jobs, more people would consider moving to Alaska. We got a taste of this effect when
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by slackdog 4y ago
A lot of the old software they host can be run in an emulator in your browser. I don't think there's much cause for concern in these cases. Doom via in-browser DOSBox: https://archive.org/details/doom-play
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by slackdog 4y ago
It's at least an indication of a general preference for privacy, which sycophants for surveillance capitalists often try to claim doesn't exist ( "only you nerds care about privacy, normal people don't care" )
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by slackdog 4y ago
Even without tracking, virtually all advertising is a form of psychological warfare. Here's a common sort of ad: an image depicting young popular people having fun in the park, with cans of cola next to them. The message? If you dri
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by slackdog 4y ago
That is misleading, the article doesn't say that.
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by slackdog 4y ago
So you're going to give up and die because you have a broken finger. Got it. If I believed you I'd call you pathetic, but I know you're almost certainly bullshitting because you lost the context of the conversation, made a
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by slackdog 4y ago
Sure, I get that. But it's their problem, not my problem. I'll only switch when it becomes my problem.
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by slackdog 4y ago
I'm not worried about some specific risk coming from Roku itself. But Roku contributes to the normalization of surveillance capitalism which I think is fundamentally corrosive to a free and democratic society. Having such a business
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by slackdog 4y ago
I'm hoping that KSP1 gets an open source engine re-implementation, ideally with optional physics fixes. Performance and physics jank were the two problems with KSP1 and it sounds like KSP2 didn't address those at all. I mean, add
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by slackdog 4y ago
I'll switch when IPv4 stops working. Until then, I have no reason to switch. > It's costing ISPs I hate my ISP so this is actually a feature. If they add an IPv4 surcharge to my bill then I'll reconsider.
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by slackdog 4y ago
It's a very outdated but common notion, popularized around about in the 17th and 18th centuries by the likes of Rousseau. It often gets tied up with enlightenment ideas and is popularly espoused by many (naive) people even today. It i
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by slackdog 4y ago
My impression was that the 2013 SimCity was effectively single player if you didn't connect the game to any of your friends, but that it had always-online DRM which they tried to excuse as something other than DRM.
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by slackdog 4y ago
All my fingers work fine on a touch screen. If your thumb was injured and you needed emergency assistance, would you really give up instead of trying to use your index finger? Really? You would just lay there and die because you can&#x
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by slackdog 4y ago
Usually when game or movie publishers do this kind of crap, everybody slaps the year onto the title anyway. "Prey (2017)", "Dune (2021)", etc.
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by slackdog 4y ago
Some single player games in the same broad genre as Sim City have successfully been adapted to multiplayer, so the premise of doing so wasn't poorly conceived. Transport Tycoon to OpenTTD in particular. The problem in this case was t
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by slackdog 4y ago
> so if I actually fell and broke my thumb, Thankfully most people have four backup fingers on the same hand..
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by slackdog 4y ago
You should design your site so that you can troubleshoot it without using real user data. Failing that, you should receive voluntary informed consent from the users, and exclude those that don't consent. A/B testing / etc is
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by slackdog 4y ago
American checks and balances aren't relevant to the EU. The CLOUD Act requires that American companies turn over data stored in the EU without any involvement of EU due process and checks and balances, violating EU laws. The CLOUD A
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by slackdog 4y ago
The CLOUD Act allows the US government to compel a company to turn over their data even if that data is only stored in servers in a foreign country, with no due process in that country. It requires American companies to violate EU law. T
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by slackdog 4y ago
They definitely detect the explosions themselves, not just missile launches (remember that ballistic missiles are only one method of several for delivering nuclear weapons). This is for monitoring compliance with nuclear test bans, as well
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by slackdog 4y ago
I don't see how anything you said contradicts anything punnerud said. What is punnerud supposedly confused about?
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by slackdog 4y ago
By lay-observers, probably. But probably not by the systems actually designed to detect nuclear explosions, because those systems can distinguish nuclear explosions from other sorts of very large explosions by looking for characteristic em

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