wheats

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by wheats 4y ago
>I’d be more interested in making sure that such technology is never required for basic living Cell phones are a requirement for basic living. That's a large part of why it matters.
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by wheats 4y ago
>It's difficult to track infant mortality across countries, because countries have different standards for reporting infant mortality. My understanding is that our ranking there is in significant part an artifact of measurement. I h
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by wheats 4y ago
The insecurity is an issue, sure, but also just the fact you are turning over a crucial human activity to be far more strictly regulated. A "no fly lists" could be extended to "no drive lists" for instance; turning off t
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by wheats 4y ago
>as the individual its so hard to get any meaningful change When the union's inspiration through the workers' blood shall run, There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun; Yet what force on earth is weaker than the f
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by wheats 4y ago
I agree with everything you said, and also want to point out Twitter doesn't really have much of a "core experience" shared across its entire userbase either. Trending topics and promoted tweets on Twitter are largely determi
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by wheats 4y ago
>"The best thing I did was become the shameless type of person who actively tries to create/join/combine social circles. It pretty quickly put me in touch with other people who do the same, and my social circle grew natura
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by wheats 4y ago
>"planned, organized, or arranged in advance (often of an event or situation intended to seem otherwise)." - Oxford English Dictionary Seems to me it's the very definition of staged. They arranged all aspects of the route
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by wheats 4y ago
Well, it would be application dependent of course. For instance at that price we are talking about a machine that was purchased because it needed to have 1.5TB of RAM and channels able to take advantage of it. I would imagine it indeed coul
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by wheats 4y ago
Has there been any word on a timeline for the MacOS Steam version?
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by wheats 4y ago
>streamline most/all of the features in DF What features did they streamline? I thought they just replaced the ASCII graphics with sprites and changed some hotkeys?
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by wheats 4y ago
Someone correct me if I am missing some nuance here but I think the two MacBook options aren't contenders for best laptop running Linux. The drivers simply don't support basic things like the touchpad or wifi (at least not without
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by wheats 4y ago
This is also true of Mastodon. If you join an instance and change your mind you can switch instances and take all your follows/followers/posts etc. with you. In both situations it is a major interruption to the sign up process and
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by wheats 4y ago
>"Auto-assign a server" So right now I am on Mastodon as if I am going to create a new account. Here is the list of approved servers I am being presented to choose from: masto.nyc (for people living in New York City) poweredbyg
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by wheats 4y ago
>"onboarding isn't as much a priority" I hear people talk extensively about how difficult it is to get acquainted with Mastodon and how their onboarding is a big part of that problem. What exactly is the problem? What solu
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by wheats 4y ago
Gettr, Parler, Truth Social, Hive, Tribel, Post, Cohost, etc. etc. etc. Apparently the decentralized stuff does matter because Mastodon is by far the largest Twitter clone and that's its defining feature.
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by wheats 4y ago
Where did he claim this? I have never seen him make any claims except that impressions are down on seeing spam (i.e. there are still bots but fewer of their posts are being displayed).
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by wheats 4y ago
Maybe a really unintuitive system for ranking too? Like make it unclear why some posts are ranked higher than others, and why some are somehow greyed out even though there isn't an obvious way to downvote or report content. Also make i
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by wheats 4y ago
As the blog post says non-responders do tend to have different opinions on average than responders. Typically they do try to demographically determine who those non-responders are so they can adjust and increase the weight of that group pro
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by wheats 4y ago
I've played about 100 hours of Factorio and have often wondered if it's approaches can be generalized beyond the game. Does anyone beside the poster above believe they are?
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by wheats 4y ago
Harvard, Georgetown, and Colombia.
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by wheats 4y ago
OK let's go, give us your top 3 favs.
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by wheats 4y ago
>moving to a Mastodon server with an admin with their own fun and unique ideas about moderation isn't the tea. Well, that's supposed to be the benefit of Mastodon, isn't it? Every platform has moderation rules and owners&#