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AndyLikesCandy ,

I would totally pay for YouTube premium if they weren’t so good about making me watch my favorite gun-tubers on other platforms. Every channel has this endless and constantly changing list of words they can’t say for fear of being demonetized.

Fuck them indeed.

Break up the monopoly and I won’t need to block your ads because I’ll be able to go elsewhere.

Child Welfare Officials Have Searched Her Home and Her Son Dozens of Times. She’s Suing Them to Stop. (www.propublica.org)

The allegations against L.B., made by an anonymous caller at 4:45 a.m. that day, were false. These included that she was a stripper (she worked at a home for people with disabilities); that she used drugs (none were found, and a drug test was negative for all substances); and that an abusive man lived with her and that she owned...

AndyLikesCandy ,

They would only be forced to if she filed a lawsuit against the anonymous caller. People have done that before.

AndyLikesCandy ,

Quite possible, but I’ve also seen genuine bullying this way too.

AndyLikesCandy ,

$500mm is a fraction of what it costs to secure it. That just cannot be it.

AndyLikesCandy ,

This dude(ette) globalizes.

AndyLikesCandy ,

Here’s a fun thought experiment: What gregorian year and date will the spacian date value of zero correlate to? Trick question.

The atomic clock on the moon and every other celestial body colonized will simply start at zero, and thanks to relativity it will not actually be the same rate of time passing as on earth.

Enjoy your nightmares.

Younger users of Lemmy: Did you ever love a game that you just really sucked at?

So I was watching a few youtubes and remembered how the vast majority (of like the ten) nes games me and my sister had were hard as all hell. I loved to play Little Nemo and Street Fighter 2010 but I am pretty sure I never made it past the third level of either. Let alone infamously hard games like The Lion King....

AndyLikesCandy ,

How do you define young?

I’m definitely too old but I loved Tarkov before cheaters ruined it.

I know some early-20’s folks who grew up on DayZ.

Both games very hard to not suck at.

AndyLikesCandy ,

Interns do but should not get the level of write access that makes a durable change impacting all customers. Deadlock a server or even wipe SQL tables, this is an outage. Break a customer’s configuration, send the wrong client’s paperwork, again small scale problem you can deal with. Interns don’t change company policy.

I think it’s a more foundational architecture question: why do you push builds to all customers at once without gating it by SOMETHING that positively confirms the exact OTA update package has been validated? The absolute simplest thing I can think of is pushing to 1 random car and waiting for the post-install self tests to pass before pushing to everyone else. Maybe there’s actually no release automation?? But then you make it safe a different way. It’s just defensive coding practice, I’m not even a CS degree but learned on the job something always breaks so you generally account for the expectation that everything will fail by making a fail-safe just so the failure is not spectacular. Nothing fancy, just enough mitigation to keep the fuck up from eating into your weekend if it happens on a Friday.

China launches world’s fastest internet with 1.2 terabit per second link, can transmit 150 4K movies a second (www.firstpost.com)

China launches world’s fastest internet with 1.2 terabit per second link, can transmit 150 4K movies a second::China is claiming that they now have the world’s fastest internet. Their new network transmits 1.2 terabits per second. That’s over 1200 gigabits, per second. At this speed, the network will be able to send 150 4K...

AndyLikesCandy ,

149 camera feeds of the person watching the 1 video should be enough no?

AndyLikesCandy ,

Not a Republican but see one risk and one flaw in teaching kids to rely 100% on science: there are strategic reasons to make some decisions which you miss if you rely solely on “science” sources. The biggest risk here is if kids are taught to trust anything called “science” but not how to differentiate between good studies and bad studies - there are journals that will publish anything, and it’s easy to manipulate people if they cannot effectively differentiate between good and bad studies, which requires a deeper understanding of statistics and ability to think critically about the variables tested, controlled, and overlooked or ignored.

AndyLikesCandy ,

That’s the thing though, outside of studies published in journals where you look up their ranking and it’s high enough that you trust the peer review, how do you tell the difference between imperfect and flawed in a way that renders the conclusion useless to your use case? It’s not a rhetorical question, that’s what I’m saying requires deeper knowledge and where you should not trust it alone without having qualified help review it for you. And without the help, yeah it’s just as well to go without.

AndyLikesCandy ,

You disagree with my statement that is not actually contradicted by anything in your statement, apart from your open acceptance of flawed studies?

My question then is this: what do they teach kids to allow them to spot flaws and what do they teach them as the method for determining who is reputable? Beyes theorem? How to control for multiple variables? I don’t actually know whether they go into this or tell kids to JUST trust an authority.

Flawed studies have done all kinds of harm over the years before being retracted. Linking vaccines to autism for one.

AndyLikesCandy ,

Came here for this. Need to find an island air strip where we store all the factory reject F35s to host some lost Ukrainian fishermen…

AndyLikesCandy ,

“unproven” because it’s Texan. Fuck The Verge, Internet porn addiction is as real as those beetles that have sex with beer bottles because they’re brown and perfectly glossy like an ideal mate.

AndyLikesCandy ,

There are things every mating creatures brain is hard wired to look for, as signals of a healthy and breedable mate

Like the caricatures of sexual perfection in porn, the brown beer bottle happens to be the anime girl of a species of beetle whose males will regularly get carried away trying to reproduce with manufactured human garbage creating an actual risk to the species

www.thoughtco.com/the-giant-jewel-beetle-1968152

AndyLikesCandy ,

I wasn’t kidding. www.thoughtco.com/the-giant-jewel-beetle-1968152

Imagine an alien species bombarded the planet with real-dolls, we basically did that to this species of beetle

AndyLikesCandy ,

I agree porn addiction has been around for a long time, but it’s very different not that we’re reaching a point in time where people who are expected to be adults and functional in their mid 20’s grew up in a world of ubiquitous Internet access and had smart phones.

So while porn addiction existed since photography, this is the first time we get to see the effect of population-wide unrestricted access to these things from a very young age.

It’s actually probably better now with parent-child account management and the like, which didn’t exist at all 15-20 years ago. Also 15-20 years ago CSAM, death imagery, real rape and mutilation videos were all on the front pages of openly accessible .com’s anyone could visit.

AndyLikesCandy ,

Sounds like you’re conflating gangbangers who post tiktok videos of themselves blasting the air with the 1/3-1/2 of normal humans in American households who own guns.

The real problem here seems to have been the court confusing a gangbanger for a human who can integrate into society.

AndyLikesCandy ,

As a matter of fact, it is a subscription, and it’s exactly how the right to privacy, right to not self-incriminate, due process in general, and “beyond a reasonable doubt” work: on the principle that it’s better that some evil people will get off and reoffend than it is for innocent people to be incarcerated for failing to prove their innocence. Not how it always works when prosecutors and judges have a different personal philosophy, but that’s the idea and the trade-off taken.

AndyLikesCandy ,

I’m not sure you fully understand the words you’re saying, “right to live” would necessarily demand compelling people to act in the furtherance of everyone else’s lives. You could be held criminally liable for eating too much for example, because you’re taking away resources needed to keep others alive, and your unhealthy lifestyle taxing the health system actively hurts those who need it more.

You’re looking for a different kind of government altogether.

AndyLikesCandy ,

Can you quantify this surplus? Because your unqualified statement requires there to be enough to meet ANY demand. You just sound like a genzedong tankie who does not understand the most basic market theory that for every demand there must be a counterpart, who themselves will have demands, and there’s no unlimited resource hack IRL (yet).

Your right to life ends where my right to not get unalived by your wishes ends.

Sorry meant to add here and this app needs polish… Deleted comment too slowly.

Also your tangent changed subjects. Right to life. Criminality vs liberties.

AndyLikesCandy , (edited )

Do you know how many dollars you’d have if you took every dollar away from every billionaire and divided it evenly? Enough for a nice dinner, maybe a very cheap getaway, not enough to stop working or get all your needs met by someone else who is in the same position as you.

AndyLikesCandy ,

You’re the one who replied to my deleted comment with " all those billionaires exist" (I can’t actually pull it up in this app now to quote).

That’s some maoist theory you’re leaning on.

AndyLikesCandy ,

App issue, reposted

AndyLikesCandy ,

Ok so America has 300,000,000 people. That’s $3 per person for every billion dollars. Come on genius, bring that math, explain how all those billions divide into everyone having everything they need and everyone else will absolutely deliver those needs.

AndyLikesCandy ,

Your grasp of how money works is surface level.

Let’s start here: billionaires do not have billions of dollars like Scrooge McDucks swimming in gold. They hold securities for companies that are doing things on the idea that they can sell them and redeploy that capital later.

In other words: the money means nothing. All that wealth means is they’re the ones who control resources.

By similar reasoning, modern monetary theory is that government can print money and activate unused resources without driving inflation very much.

So what you want is a planned economy. Soviet style. In fact the language you use makes it clear you’re fully bought into tankie propaganda.

There are 3 ways to make people do things: money, love and power. So am I going to give you everything you need because of love? money is clearly not the means to ends in your system. That leaves the threat of unaliving.

And so we’re back at gun control, the only way your kind is able to make such a system work: by killing everyone who disagrees.

AndyLikesCandy ,

You’re right that you cannot pay a dividend but you missed the check on your knowledge of how wealth and money work: that money doesn’t exist. Only a miniscule fraction of that wealth exists as a budget you can just spend as you know it. All that those billionaires have is the ability to tell people what to do and all they can spend is reallocating productivity towards other goals. All the money that actually gets spent goes into other people’s pockets and gets spent in turn. The inefficiently in this system is far lower than the inefficiency in a planned economy.

AndyLikesCandy ,

You’re 12 aren’t you?

AndyLikesCandy ,

I brought up points you clearly never knew or thought of and you shut down.

You need to find an echo chamber on Reddit if you want someone to stroke your comfort zone.

AndyLikesCandy ,

Look you’re the one who reached your cognitive limit and switched to name calling. Call me whatever you like but you’re the one being a petulant child while I was mistakenly attempting to speak with you as if you were capable of engaging in a real conversation.

AndyLikesCandy ,

Ugh I don’t know which is worse. Next timeline, portal gun.

AndyLikesCandy ,

Tool cabinets are a marvelous thing. I have a little thing squirreled away in a drawer of other tools, just the top of a box that a screen protector came in, that is just full of tiny specialized precision tools that I very seldom need.

AndyLikesCandy ,

And I’ve been slowly replacing windows with Linux since the arrival of Windows 10.

AndyLikesCandy ,

It’s okay to blacklist an entire publisher.

I haven’t bought any games from EA at all since 2013 and know I missed nothing because it’s all just reruns of the same game formula.

AndyLikesCandy ,

It takes two looked great, but there are just so many games out there I still feel ok having missed it.

Mirrors edge was 2008.

AndyLikesCandy ,

CS:GO is a valve title not EA. I was specifically referring to EA.That aside…

CS:GO was only a repackaging of CS expansion which itself was a repackaging of CS half-life mod from 1998.

Sure 14 years later the graphics engine was a little updated and there were new maps, but I played a lot of the original and after installing CS:GO I was supremely underwhelmed by the lack of change.

AndyLikesCandy ,

This is the way forward

AndyLikesCandy ,

Google must be scraping the bottom of the barrel of crazy that’s also stupid enough to pay for ads, I think it’s common knowledge now that Google games analytics to artificially inflate the appearance of ad impact.

AndyLikesCandy ,

I don’t think they need to be pushy, just the quality of product decisions has been going down as time goes on. Monopoly a bigger issue for sure, If not for the massive decline in value to both users and advertisers, we wouldn’t mind the monopoly so much.

AndyLikesCandy ,

Ah yes that’s where their development resources for all the last 5 years went: fucking up the paid experience with minor tweaks and fucking up the free experience with major tweaks.

I pay for this shit for my whole family and don’t know a service with anywhere near the same library, I’d jump ship in a heartbeat to a service with both a complete music library and a first-class podcast listening experience for web/PC users.

AndyLikesCandy ,

stop collective punishment

  • Chinese officials collectively punishing Muslims in their own country, for less
AndyLikesCandy ,

I’m not an Aussie and I’m not following this in particular, but from what I’ve seen that’s how bad ideas work: you don’t want to start a dialogue where the noes point out all the flaws in your ideas. In the US the extreme of this is legislation passed in a specially coordinated session at midnight with an absolute minimum of debate.

With that said, why the hell does a budgeted program belong in a constitution and not in a regular legislated budget? And why the hell does one specific group need specific recognition defined at the level of a constitution, as opposed to broad rules changed in such a way that their specific exclusion is forbidden with a catch all that also benefits other minorities?

AndyLikesCandy ,

I know we only ever see a handful of rooms, that’s fine, but with over 100 crew they always all have personal quarters that are probably the square footage of 3/4’ish containers.

150m in diameter is one way to think about it. But then it’s also 8 containers long, or 25 containers circumference at the largest point down to no more than a few in circumference at the bridge.

You know, that seems tiny, it’s like there’s no volume left for the hardware that needs to be between every room and all over the hull

AndyLikesCandy , (edited )

"I would love to live here"photo looks like a typical suburb - with a population density that is at a level where everyone still needs to own a car. I’m thinking European cities like Bern. Most people don’t need one to get to work but basically every household still needs one for non-work use.

Car-free population density should be more like minor Japanese cities (like Kanazawa, etc), or old towns in Europe (downtown Bordeaux).

AndyLikesCandy ,

Both sides paint the other as the enemy of democracy and freedom.

That’s just what happens when you have two authoritarian parties. They just lob Accusation-In-a-Mirror attacks at each other.

AndyLikesCandy ,

I mean you lack the legal option of having a means to defend yourself.

AndyLikesCandy ,

You clearly grew up more privileged than me, and lived a more sheltered experience, if you truly don’t know that criminals work in groups.

Bored teens with no futures do exceptionally dumb shit, like attack people for fun. They pick the weakest person they see, and in NYC every year there are at least one or two stories where the attacks turn into homicides.

AndyLikesCandy ,

Your arguments are so informative and full of insight, you should publish to a journal.

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