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- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Honestly, it sounds perfect. A chance to get some independence, yet still close by so he's got a safety net and support (and so you can simply stay in each others lives)
- Comment on possibilities 1 week ago:
Por que no los tres?
- Comment on If there's a sort of "apocalyptic" event but there are still surviving communities, will people be able to make eyeglasses again, or are people with vision issues gonna be fucked? 1 week ago:
Alternative theory. It impacted a similar proportion of the population, but people in general were vastly less likely to be in situations where it impacted their life in an overly negative way
- Comment on If there's a sort of "apocalyptic" event but there are still surviving communities, will people be able to make eyeglasses again, or are people with vision issues gonna be fucked? 1 week ago:
Rather short sighted of him to let interest build up over thousands of years!
- Comment on If your happiness is derived from your enjoyment of a false (i.e. fictional) stories, is that truely happiness, or is that technically a delusion? 1 week ago:
Are you truly happy? Then that's true happiness, however you got there...
Are you not? Then it's not, however you got there...
- Comment on If there's a sort of "apocalyptic" event but there are still surviving communities, will people be able to make eyeglasses again, or are people with vision issues gonna be fucked? 1 week ago:
Aristotle was writing about myopia over 2000 years ago...
- Comment on BaDumTss 1 week ago:
It would be ionic if it does
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
blahaj zone doesn't, but we manually approve applications.
- Comment on Why is land/sky so cleanly split between mammals/birds? 2 weeks ago:
when mammals have reached such places, flightless birds have almost immediately experienced population collapse.
New Zealand bird like in a nut shell
- Comment on Should I unplug my smart tv from the internet? 3 weeks ago:
This is what I do. It stops it from auto updating and from phoning home, but still lets the individual apps function. Some of the apps don't work, because they can't update either, but if we get desperate, we just punch the TV through the pihole just long enough to update the individual app. It's a reasonable middle ground.
- Comment on "Tea cup" app - user database leaked today (incl. drivers license & IDs). Daily reminder not to give your ID to online services [THEY DO NOT PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION] 4 weeks ago:
Someone spilt the tea...
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 4 weeks ago:
I don't care if I like them. I very much care if I'm making money for people who are actively trying to take away my rights
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 5 weeks ago:
He left Mozilla (chased out because he's a homophobe) and went on to found Brave, where he still remains
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 5 weeks ago:
The fact that the dev behind brave is a homophobe isn't opt in though...
- Comment on Why do people hate coldplay? 5 weeks ago:
You mean comment chain right :p
- Comment on cookie combs 5 weeks ago:
Someone hexed those cookies
- Comment on Why do people hate coldplay? 5 weeks ago:
Mostly because they used to rule the world, but everything they touched wasn't gold, it was all yellow
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Hi, from another instance (technically two) that doesn't require emails!
- Comment on this 82 year old woman dressing like she was 40 or younger makes me think about how ridiculous I'll look like when and if I reach that age. Am I misguided? 1 month ago:
"acting" your age says everything. If you're acting, you're not living authentically. And sometimes that's just how it is. But if you're aspiring to a life that involves confining yourself so that you can live on other people's terms, maybe you should dream bigger.
- Comment on Scifi question about time travel: 1 month ago:
Think of it this way.
"I went back in time to save my family" in an infinite timelines story means that going back in time spawns in infinite number of worlds that didn't exist before, in which the family doesn't make it, and an infinite number in which they do. And not a single one of those families is the "real" family of the person who went back in time.
The fact that the author choose to focus on one perspective in which it seems like the time travel has made a difference, doesn't change the fact that it didn't make a difference, and the family they were trying to save is gone. The infinite copies weren't "saved" from anything, because there are infinite versions that weren't.
The only way to tell a meaningful story in that situation is to create situation where the actions of jumping back in time alter the future of the person jumping back in time. And that means you either suck up the paradoxes, or you write a clever story in which the paradoxes are neatly accounted for before they ever occur (or you write a closed loop story)
- Comment on Scifi question about time travel: 1 month ago:
Invincible can't move between the infinite timelines though, and no storyline is hanging off of the important changes he makes those timelines by travelling through time/dimensions. He's not "saving" anyone by jumping through to another universe
- Comment on Scifi question about time travel: 1 month ago:
That's exactly my point! In an infinite timelines story, there is nothing that has special meaning over the others, making it boring, because it's all irrelevant!
- Comment on Scifi question about time travel: 1 month ago:
The reality I experience is the only one that matters to me. To an outside observer, all of them are as equally real and there is no true timeline.
In a story, there is no real, there is only outside observers...
- Comment on Introducing reitti: a selfhosted alternative to Google Timeline 1 month ago:
Is there any way of forcing it to rebuild places and trips? Somewhere along the line, most of mine disappeared. It's still building new ones just fine as GPS logger adds real time data, but most of my historical stuff is gone.
The actual data is there, and it shows up fine on the maps for each day, but the places/trips/stats etc are mostly empty.
I can't see anything in the logs that might explain it
- Comment on Scifi question about time travel: 1 month ago:
Apologies, I copied and pasted the answer below from another reply I made elsewhere in this thread
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I'm not talking about about the possibility of real infinite dimensions. I'm talking about sci fi, and stories, which is the context of the OPs question.
In a "real" scenario, the experience that matters is the one I'm having, not the one other versions of me might be having.
But in a story, there is no "true" timeline, or a more "real" timeline. They're all being retold to us indirectly, and the choice of the version of the person retelling those experiences is arbitrary by the author. It doesn't matter what perspective the author chooses, because every other outcome also happened, the author just didn't tell us those stories.
- Comment on Scifi question about time travel: 1 month ago:
I'm not talking about about the possibility of real infinite dimensions. I'm talking about sci fi, and stories, which is the context of the OPs question.
In a "real" scenario, the experience that matters is the one I'm having, not the one other versions of me might be having.
But in a story, there is no "true" timeline, or a more "real" timeline. They're all being retold to us indirectly, and the choice of the version of the person retelling those experiences is arbitrary by the author. It doesn't matter what perspective the author chooses, because every other outcome also happened, the author just didn't tell us those stories.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
You've shown your kid that he's in charge of his own body, and shown him that you can be trusted if he approaches you with sensitive or embarassing topics.
What other people think is irrelevant, because your relationship with your kid will be forever better because you've shown him you can be trusted.
- Comment on Scifi question about time travel: 1 month ago:
Except for the fact it makes every decision, every moment of tension and every event that occurs irrelevant, because an infinite number of universe exist in which the events occurred and in which they didn't occur.
- Comment on Introducing reitti: a selfhosted alternative to Google Timeline 1 month ago:
I've got a question about how reitti calculates significant places/visits.
I was thinking of adjust gps logger so that it doesn't log points if they're within 10m of the last point it logged. That will clear up the data when I'm at home or work, so that there is less of a random squiggle of location data. It will record me arriving at home, and leaving home, but not much in between.
Will that impact how reitti calculates locations though? Is it looking at the number of points, or is it simply a matter of duration within a particular vicinity?
- Comment on Introducing reitti: a selfhosted alternative to Google Timeline 1 month ago:
Having all of this data stored in a location I can control has been really good.
But yesterday, it was pointed out to me that the API reitti provides means I have access to over a decades worth of location history that I can use to geotag my photo collection! That is a game changer. I've been trying to find a way to pull that information from google location history for a long time, and it turns out, you've created it!
This is really valuable to me, so I want you to know just how much I appreciate the effort you've put in to making it. Thank you