knightly
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- Comment on What are people from Moscow and Versailles called? 3 days ago:
Muscovites and Versaillians.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 1 week ago:
0, and I’ve done 4 of these in the last year.
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 2 weeks ago:
Or having a button to refresh RSS feeds.
- Comment on Revolt's language options 2 weeks ago:
I’d presume the check mark means the language pack is available locally and the warning sign means it’s probably missing some localization strings.
- Comment on Judge disses Star Trek icon Data’s poetry while ruling AI can’t author works 2 weeks ago:
I think it comes from the right place, though. Anything that’s smart enough to do actual work deserves the same rights to it as anyone else does.
It’s best that we get the legal system out ahead of the inevitable development of sentient software before Big Tech starts simulating scanned human brains for a truly captive workforce. I, for one, do not cherish the thought of any digital afterlife where virtual people do not own themselves.
- Comment on It begins: Pentagon to give AI agents a role in decision making, ops planning. 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, once you know to look for gaze-directing design you’ll start seeing it everywhere. In movies and shows especially, a big factor in cinematography lies in how well the director can lead the audience’s focus.
- Comment on It begins: Pentagon to give AI agents a role in decision making, ops planning. 4 weeks ago:
To oversimplify, it makes the image seem more balanced.
The audience for this image is folks who can read English and are therefore habituated to parse text and images from left to right. By having the hand-shaker on the left use their distant hand, they avoid becoming the dominant figure in the image, thus emphasizing the figure on the right and leading the eye toward it.
- Comment on What are the democrats actually doing to help? 1 month ago:
Pretend they are Republicans and start breaking the rules.
- Comment on place yer bets 1 month ago:
In short, we already have a plan. DART proved that we can do it, and off-the-shelf rockets like the Falcon 9 have plenty of performance. All that remains is to wait until early 2028 when we get a proper fix on the asteroid, then we’ve got 7 or 8 months to prep and launch a mission before the window of opportunity closes.
- Comment on place yer bets 1 month ago:
Well, yeah. Deflecting an impact that’s scheduled 4 years in the future wouldn’t take much force and we did it once before with the DART mission. We can just do that again in the months between when the asteroid comes back around and when it flies past us.
- Comment on place yer bets 1 month ago:
We’ll get a better idea of whether it’ll hit or not in 2028 the next time it passes close to earth, which will give us plenty of time to respond before it might hit in 2032.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 1 month ago:
Seems to me that the most generous interpretation would be the preponderance of Oracle’s DBs in the government, and Musk being pedantic since they aren’t literally called SQL like MySQL, MSSQL, or PostgreSQL (even though they all fall into that category).
- Comment on In the 1985 movie Teen Wolf, when Scott Howard turned into a teen wolf, would he have had a human penis or a wolf penis? 1 month ago:
Yes.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 1 month ago:
Not unless the data associated with that SSN is itself inconsistent.
For example, when multiple people are fraudulently using the same SSN, the fraud monitoring DB would neccessarily need to record several entries with the same SSN.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 1 month ago:
Indeed, that’s a possibility, but I’m not privy to the structure of the social security administration’s databases so I couldn’t say if it was indeed the case.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 1 month ago:
To oversimplify, there are two basic kinds of databases: SQL and noSQL (“Not Only SQL”).
SQL databases work as you’d imagine, with tables of rows and columns like a spreadsheet that are structured according to a fixed schema.
NoSQL includes all other forms of databases, document-based, graph-based, key-value pairs, etc.
The former are highly consistent and efficient at processing complicated queries or recording transactions, while the latter is flexible and fast at reads/writes but not neccessarily consistent.
All large orgs will have both types in use for different purposes; SQL is better for banking purposes where consistency is paramount, NoSQL better for real-time web apps that need minimal response times and scalable capacity.
- Comment on Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website 1 month ago:
Look at the bright side, the Evil Empire is over! America is done. Cooked. The next few years are gonna suck a lot but the deteriorating conditions will finally push Americans into a second revolution.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 month ago:
If Trump gets to redefine reality as he sees fit then we do too.
See you on the other side, friendo.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 month ago:
Again, read the page you linked:
President Benjamin Harrison signed an Executive Order establishing the BGN and giving it authority to resolve unsettled geographic names questions.
Key word: “unsettled”
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 month ago:
Did you not read the page you linked?
That org was “established in its present form by Public Law in 1947 to maintain uniform geographic name usage throughout the Federal Government.”
It’s a standards-setting org that adjudicates between other agencies of the government when there is disagreement between them about a place name, it isn’t entitled to rename things all willy-nilly, lol~
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 month ago:
You really weren’t.
You should learn to hide your power level, lol~
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 month ago:
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 month ago:
You’re thinking of fascism. In America, the legislature names things, the executive signs or vetoes, and the judiciary adjudicates.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 month ago:
That would be less inaccurate, lol.
And no. I’ll be a pedantic asshole to anyone who pretends that Trump is anything other than one of President Musk’s assistants.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 month ago:
You underestimate how much I enjoy arguing with people on the internet, lol.
So is this your admission that your earlier statement was false, or are ypu still pretending that “part of” is the same thing as “all”?
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 month ago:
Oh, you’ve been caught being dumb and your story is changing.
First it was “the government”, now it’s “the president”.
That’s not how America works, lol. Naming things is a legislative responsibility. Trump can sign as many executive orders as he wants, but it isn’t official without an act of congress and a chance for the judiciary to object.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 month ago:
Then why are you here trying to tell people that one asshole with an opinion is the government?
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 month ago:
I was unaware that the executive branch encompassed the entirety of the government. Please, do elaborate.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 month ago:
the government of the USA has changed the name
When did they do that?
Or are you one of those people who would agree if Trump said “I am the state”?
- Comment on My German is a little rusty, but... 1 month ago:
Counterpoint:
