makeshiftreaper
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- Comment on who was the aggressor in cold war? 1 day ago:
It depended on where in the world you are. Both Russia and America wanted to avoid full on conflict so they establish proxy wars to try weaken the other. America was certainly the aggressor in Vietnam and Korea while Russia was the aggressor in Cuba and arguably in Afghanistan
- Comment on Nutjob or something? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers 2 weeks ago:
Elon’s stupid ass dedication to using cameras and image processing for self driving will ultimately be what leaves Tesla in the dust. A combination of LIDAR, cameras, and other detection tools are way safer than just cameras alone. I’m not a huge Mark Rober fan but he did show that you can beat Tesla’s self driving with Looney Tunes techniques
- Comment on There exist people who will go through the effort of leaving their home, traveling to a movie theatre, paying for a ticket, and sitting for 2-3 hours for a movie they claim "nobody wants to see" 2 weeks ago:
Exactly. Especially considering it’s rare that there’s a month where there are fewer than 2 movies I actively want to see in theaters. So I’m already saving money with it, all those other movies are just bonuses
Plus you get surprised. I thought Clown in a Cornfield was going to suck and I would have never seen Life of Chuck normally but I ended up really enjoying both of them
- Comment on I alternate my days. Some days I use this and on the others I use the Magic Eight Ball 2 weeks ago:
Remember, when someone asks what would Jesus do? Flip over tables and kick out all the bankers is an option:
and Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, and said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
- Comment on There exist people who will go through the effort of leaving their home, traveling to a movie theatre, paying for a ticket, and sitting for 2-3 hours for a movie they claim "nobody wants to see" 2 weeks ago:
It’s me. I watch a lot of movies and see arthouse stuff the public doesn’t care about and I something is a big enough train wreck occasionally I’ll see what’s going on (shout out to CATS). Though I have Regal Unlimited so I don’t “pay” for a ticket
- Comment on What are some lower size games that work well on linux handhelds? 3 weeks ago:
Can you tell I like rogue-likes? I do think they work great for mobile games since you can pick them up and put them down easily
- Comment on What are some lower size games that work well on linux handhelds? 3 weeks ago:
Cool, I updated my post. I remember for a long time it was only available on PC and iPad. Not on iPhone. So I just kinda assumed it wouldn’t
- Comment on What are some lower size games that work well on linux handhelds? 3 weeks ago:
Balatro
Drop Duchy
Into the Breach (I think this one works on Linux, I don’t think FTL does)
UFO 50
Crypt of the Necrodancer/Rift of the Necrodancer
Super Motherlode (since it looks like you used to play flash games)
Dave the Diver
Vampire Survivors
Hades 1 (it’s still fun even after 2!)
One Step From Eden
- Comment on Looking for games to watch Let's Plays of: Recommend me something! 3 weeks ago:
👏👏
- Comment on Looking for games to watch Let's Plays of: Recommend me something! 3 weeks ago:
I like watching people play Super Mario World romhacks. Grand Poo World is big and the streamer who made it (barbarousking) is entertaining
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Generally speaking trafficking is bringing something into a place where it is not allowed to be
So in your first example, you are allowed to watch that kid, and both of you are allowed to be in that state and to see a movie, so no, you are not trafficking
Similarly if you are allowed to have that gun in both states then you are not trafficking. Additionally in the US if a case involves crimes across states it’s typically a federal charge and not multiple state ones
People can be trafficked against their will for slavery purposes or by their will as a form of illegal immigration. You can even “traffic” legal goods like cigarettes if you transport them without paying all applicable taxes. It’s a catch-all term for transporting things that a place does not want to let in. Typically the term is only used for bulk transportation, smaller amounts tend to have other more specific crimes
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
That’s super normal. It’s important to remember objects don’t have any importance behind what we assign to them. If you still value that relationship maybe you can find a way to preserve it physically like the other commenters have suggested or it may be time to acknowledge that portion of your life is over and this can be symbolic closure. I have a beautiful handmade quilt from an ex-girlfriend and I haven’t seen her in almost a decade yet I keep it because the meaning behind it at the time is still important to me
An important thing to remember in these situations: “you cannot control your emotions, but you can control your reaction to them and allow that to shape you in the future”
- Comment on What OS does the Batcomputer use? 5 weeks ago:
I would guess the Batcave uses something proprietary based off of Wayne tech because he’s very paranoid. I’d also imagine it integrates some watch tower tech which is likely mostly from Cyborg
- Comment on Figure AI sued by whistleblower who warned that startup's robots could 'fracture a human skull' 5 weeks ago:
A huge point of I, Robot is that there isn’t some exact instructions you can give robots that will have them always protect humanity. They have an inherent danger in their literalism
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I think you’re just beginning to identify what The Hero’s Journey is
- Comment on Simplest Path to Jellyfin Access for the Developmentally Disabled 1 month ago:
Well you see one device is made by Microsoft which has been the defacto way to watch videos for a large chunk of its lifespan and the other gave us UMDs and camcorders with cables that could only connect to Vaio laptops, which were the only devices that supported writing to mini-disc
- Comment on Simplest Path to Jellyfin Access for the Developmentally Disabled 1 month ago:
I would not recommend PS5+Plex. I went through the whole set-up and the PS5 couldn’t encode over half my videos. When playback did work it was often choppy. I dislike that it has ads all over the place but the ONN Streaming Pro does a way better job as Plex streaming device at $45 than my PS5. Plus the controller will be much easier for simple tech users, you can rebind one of the buttons to go directly to Plex
- Comment on Protip: Don't lose count 1 month ago:
2nd pro tip:
If you’ve never attempted this before, when someone is pointing a gun at you is probably the incorrect time to try it out
- Comment on Is AI self-selecting through the stock market? 1 month ago:
You’re correct on fundamentals and technicals, it’s been a while since I took a Financial Mathematics class and I don’t remember doing very well in it regardless
- Comment on Is AI self-selecting through the stock market? 1 month ago:
Most algorithmic trading is not done by AI and won’t be at any time in the near future. Algo trading is primarily used for HFT (high frequency trading) and fundamental trading, both of which AI are terrible for. In the HFT world traders are fighting for fractions of microseconds, so AI is far too slow to be helpful. Trading on fundamentals also won’t work with AI because AI makes frequent (by trading standards) math errors
- Comment on exam cheating 1 month ago:
You’re putting words in the mouth of someone uninvolved in the conversation. Hank Green wasn’t in anything you posted and you’re slamming him like he is. I posted evidence in contradiction of your baseless statement
Truly, what the fuck are you talking about?
- Comment on exam cheating 1 month ago:
I find it weird you’re criticizing Hank Green in your comment but use 2 links that don’t directly reference him at all and in fact the 2nd link uses AI generated art and summaries of the article. Hank Green has had a varied and nuanced take on AI that largely lands on it being a negative for society
Here’s him calling it a bubble: youtu.be/Q0TpWitfxPk
Him saying AI generated videos are bad: youtu.be/Vz0oQ0v0W10
Talking about AI datacenters being a problem: youtu.be/39YO-0HBKtA
All within the past 2 months
- Comment on What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light? 2 months ago:
That is indeed what Randal concludes in the video
- Comment on What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light? 2 months ago:
Arguably you don’t, considering your matter will likely undergo a fusion reaction with what could nominally be called the ball, you and the ball will make a form of contact
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 2 months ago:
As someone who works in tech I occasionally point out to people that if Jeff Bezos decided to go full supervillain he could hold the internet hostage. If you disabled AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud individually the cascading failures on the various systems would take weeks to fix, which we might not have with a supply chain collapse. Genuinely, I think there’s a real chance it could trigger the collapse of human civilization
- Comment on metamorphosis 2 months ago:
Honestly the monkey’s paw wouldn’t have to do anything. Back when we had dinosaurs the earth had significantly more oxygen in the atmosphere which helped them be as large as they were. Most dinosaurs would probably slowly suffocate to death today from oxygen deprivation
- Comment on Batman probably checks for the bat signal the way we check our screens for notifications. 2 months ago:
Gotham is so perpetually fucked by so many supernatural phenomena that it’s actually rare for that to happen
- Comment on PayPal's Honey to integrate with ChatGPT and other AIs for shopping assistance 2 months ago:
I’m sure people know this but Honey is a surprisingly shitty company for such a simple product: youtu.be/vc4yL3YTwWk
- Comment on A question for the ages 3 months ago:
There’s precedent for tall:
