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aaaantoine ,

If one were to press charges against an IVF clinic I can imagine few greater uses of jury nullification.

aaaantoine ,

How did it take them 80 years to find a bomb in a back yard? Is it a large yard? Was the bomb buried?

What makes fishing as a hobby so appealing that people will fish all hours of the day and in nasty weather?

I saw some people fishing the other day in 16 degree Fahrenheit (-9 Celsius) weather at 4:30AM. They were not ice fishing with a little hut, but standing at the base of a bridge with no shelter or campfire. People are at that bridge fishing regularly when it is cold but that was the coldest temp I have seen so far. Why is it so...

aaaantoine ,

Although not true, I give this a pass for being a Nirvana lyric.

aaaantoine ,

OFF THE TOP ROPE!

aaaantoine ,

There’s one still open in NY.

aaaantoine ,

Is that all it does? Is HP so backwards that they introduce a whole new attack surface just to store a date stamp?

…Actually don’t answer that.

Cops Used DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face—and Tried to Run Facial Recognition on It | Leaked records reveal what appears to be the first known instance of a police department attempting to use faci... (www.wired.com)

Cops Used DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face—and Tried to Run Facial Recognition on It | Leaked records reveal what appears to be the first known instance of a police department attempting to use faci…::Police around the US say they’re justified to run DNA-generated 3D models of faces through facial recognition tools to...

aaaantoine ,

There’s no way this would have been admissable as evidence on its own.

aaaantoine ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/9390fb53-b4e3-4d67-a9fa-f01c12183f43.jpeg

Screens keep getting faster. Can you even tell? | CES saw the launch of several 360Hz and even 480Hz OLED monitors. Are manufacturers stuck in a questionable spec war, or are we one day going to wo... (www.theverge.com)

Screens keep getting faster. Can you even tell? | CES saw the launch of several 360Hz and even 480Hz OLED monitors. Are manufacturers stuck in a questionable spec war, or are we one day going to wo…::CES saw the launch of several 360Hz and even 480Hz OLED monitors. Are manufacturers stuck in a questionable spec war, or are we...

aaaantoine ,

On one hand, 360hz seems imperceptibly faster than 240hz for human eyes.

On the other hand, if you get enough frames in, you don’t have to worry about simulating motion blur.

aaaantoine ,

They’ve been separate desktop environments from the start. From top to bottom they share nearly nothing. The compositors, window managers, toolkits and shells are all different.

They also are ideologically opposed. If they merged, which direction would they go? The more feature-rich KDE? Or the more streamlined Gnome? Such a merger would lead to infighting and stagnation.

This is before even talking about the actual code underlying both environments.

I think it’s better for everyone if they stay as two separate projects.

aaaantoine ,

Right. Is it 10 figures? 7 figures?

… 5 figures?

aaaantoine ,

Isn’t this how Donnie Darko started?

aaaantoine ,

Cisco might have something to say about that name.

aaaantoine ,

Are there at least two front facing cameras for depth perception?

aaaantoine ,

She’s a high school teacher. I’m gonna guess the students figured it out first.

aaaantoine ,

None of them.

Well… Not on purpose. I could totally see someone blurting the gossip in the school cafeteria.

aaaantoine ,

My guess is that some genres are going to be more problematic due to more extensive use of anti cheat. What are some of the games you’re having trouble with?

aaaantoine ,

That’s the mean (average), not the median (middle).

Median is the one where half the numbers are smaller and half are bigger. If only the top income changes, the median stays the same. The mean goes up.

aaaantoine ,

Also, the other good Ion Storm game, Anachronox.

I haven’t played it in 20 years and still remember some great moments.

aaaantoine ,

Well… if you want most of the main story but without the gameplay, someone had made a movie out of the cutscenes awhile back.

I ended up quitting on the final boss. Partly because I was gut punched by an unexpected plot point just prior. But also because it was the third big fight since the last save point and I got lost on the mechanics. I caught the ending through the movie I found.

aaaantoine ,

Well I guess these aren’t sex stones.

What is a sex stone, you may ask?

It’s a fucking rock.

aaaantoine ,

Wyatt was pulled to safety by a team from the Grand Canyon National Park, who rappelled down a cliff after deciding a helicopter rescue would not be possible due to the terrain.

If this were a plot point in a movie, I would have called it a contrived excuse to have the heroes scale a rock wall.

aaaantoine ,

“One point twenty one jigawatts!”

aaaantoine ,

I get the reasoning for excluding wine and beer, but flour?

aaaantoine ,

Obligatory xkcd

aaaantoine ,

Idle games or incremental games are my go-to for casual play. At the moment I’m playing through NGU Idle mainly because It’s a super slow burn but unlocks lots of goofy features over time. I’ve been progressing for a couple years now.

aaaantoine ,

The video is TL;DW for me right now, but there’s a comment on the video which is fascinating enough on its own to pique my interest:

Back in 1997, a nasty October storm knocked down some power lines near my home. One of our dogs ended up getting her back legs paralyzed after going outside and had to be put down. We thought she stepped on a downed line, but after seeing your demonstration with the Hulk Hogan figure, I think I have a better understanding of what happened. Just going near the downed line would have been enough to do the damage.

aaaantoine ,

In very rare cases (nuclear fusion) the water is destroyed into its primitive elements

Simple electrolysis will split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen.

Nuclear reactions will change the atoms, but you don’t have to go that far to break down water.

aaaantoine ,

That’s a really good illustration of scale. The last time i saw a demo like this it used 3D rendered cubes. There’s something wonderful about using an actual, physical medium for this.

aaaantoine ,

Well… at least no one was hurt.

aaaantoine , (edited )

I feel like vanilla GNOME is intentionally a barbones common workflow, and that extensions are how you customize to fit your needs.

For example, I often switch between desktop speakers and headphones (where the dongle is always connected), and sometimes other audio devices. I installed the sound input/output chooser so I don’t have to go into Settings every time I need to switch inputs. It saves me multiple clicks. But I get that not everyone needs immediate access to change audio devices, so why clutter the UI?

I’ve used both vanilla GNOME and the post-Unity Ubuntu spin on it. In either case I’ve grown accustomed to the Activities screen, quickly accessing it pressing the Super key, and using it to switch windows and manage full screen apps on different monitors.

aaaantoine ,

If I remember correctly, there’s already a system tray icon that lets you adjust volume on your current devices. The extension adds the ability to switch devices from that drop down instead of drilling into the settings app.

aaaantoine ,

Agreed, but at least it’s not as bad as it was.

aaaantoine ,

Maybe there never was a cake.

aaaantoine ,

Removing it even refactoring old code can be very therapeutic.

aaaantoine ,

I’m sure it’s highly subjective. But if you want to go about it scientifically, you can survey a number of strangers to answer the question for you.

Now, where to find those strangers…

aaaantoine ,

That’s because these programmers are getting paid by the character.

This is also why Java dev pays so well.

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