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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨cox-zucker⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wasn’t very curious since according to them, the primary point of the paper was making a joke. I’d supposed the algorithm wasn’t groundbreaking, just something to publish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think the PPE is for⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe an ordered table can’t have the element of surprise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  TheOldReader.com

  Free for 100 feeds, although it added a small ad in the home page recently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is not technical, but I hope Lyric the dog is getting some meat along with “Home cooked meals of green beans, sweet potatoes, carrots, and brown rice”. Dogs require meat, it’s not their fault.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mmmm... Yeah. It checks out.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And they KNOW humans provide sustenance on a regular basis, and protection, so I can’t believe they think we’re just giant hairless monstrous cats. They’d have to think everything else is a cat otherwise. Look at the flying cats, mom! I’m gonna catch and eat one!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Star Trek Discovery that bad?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I fully accept I have difficulty with using these pronouns. English is not my first language, and in my daily life I know zero nonbinary people, literally zero, so I don’t get to practice. I’ve only seen trans people on TV, or in discussions on the Internet, so I don’t get to practice those either.

  I know a handful of people that are gay or lesbian, but they’re not into choosing special gender pronouns. So my only practice before this discussion was another online discussion more than a year ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Star Trek Discovery that bad?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When I said Adira is a nonbinary girl, I meant she is female of sex and nonbinary of chosen gender.

  it was a big deal when they announced her, but the treatment was milquetoast and timid. Same with the few non-cis characters, they were tokens, the show didn’t have the courage to depict a future where a diverse gender philosophy is widely accepted. They yellowed out of it and presented as if it was still our time. I don’t dislike the show for being woke, I dislike it for being shallow woke.

  Same with the rest of it, it was 90% SFX and 10% writing. With long series like TNG you can afford the luxury of experimenting and fumbling the ball some weeks, it Discovery and Picard and massive productions that only have 12 episodes a year. They had to make every one of those count.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Star Trek Discovery that bad?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Again, let me explain it as a metaphor:

  a) You want to buy a new house, it’s beautiful although there’s a couple of leaks but the rest of the roof is solid. You decide like it.

  b) You want to buy a new house, it’s beautiful although most of the roof has leaks. You decide it’s not wort the effort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Star Trek Discovery that bad?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Those are reasons to hate any show. Discovery made the mistake of being made mostly of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Star Trek Discovery that bad?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve said it, examples. All series have their flaws, but overall their qualities made them last. Who hasn’t heard of someone binging all of TNG? Who has heard someone say “Discovery was so good I’m rewatching it with my friends”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Star Trek Discovery that bad?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If it doesn’t make you want to rewatch it whole years later, it’s bad Trek.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Star Trek Discovery that bad?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fans hated it because was different, that’s hardly a reason. They hated it because:

  • For the first time, Starfleet officers were emotionally-stunted or plain assholes instead of well-adapted officers.
  • The series revolved around a divisive character, hoping I guess that some people would become hardcore fans of Michael.
  • It intentionally wrecked canon, even one of the producers proudly said he didn’t watch Star Trek to avoid preconceptions.
  • Tech doesn’t make sense for its time. Practically none of it made any sense for a prequel, maybe if it had been a sequel.
  • The forced linking of the main protagonist to Spock was unbelievable, more so because it somehow gave her Vulcan powers by osmosis.
  • It promoted itself as progressive, but all it did was including a gay couple and a non-binary girl. The important characters were all cis, or left unspoken.

  It wasn’t just different, it was bad. Really bad. It was like a vuvuzela in an acoustic song.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New U.S. gov't rule says chipmakers have to make one chip in the US for each chip imported from another country to avoid 100% tariffs — Trump admin allegedly preps new 1:1 chip export rule under new t⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This piqued my curiosity, and it turns out that Þ is an obsolete Old and Middle English letter, which was pronounced almost like th.

  There’s a subreddit called BringBackThorn, with the description below. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a similar trend on the Fediverse.

  Bring Back Þ is a subreddit for þe movement to reintroduce þe letter Þ, pronounced “thorn,” an Old English letter representing þe ⟨th⟩ sound þat fell out of use wiþ þe advent of þe printing press. Printing press tilesets imported from Europe didn’t have Þ as þeir languages lacked þis letter and several oþer old English glyphs.

  TL;DR: Let the dude be, he’s not harming anyone with his hobby.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New U.S. gov't rule says chipmakers have to make one chip in the US for each chip imported from another country to avoid 100% tariffs — Trump admin allegedly preps new 1:1 chip export rule under new t⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the deal with your “th”s?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your favourite menu music in a game?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fallout 4, the theme is so somber it immediately gets you in the right mood.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't argue that.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen (and experienced in my fifties) that age does affect the working of your mind. I’d compare it to sleep deprivation. You know, when you’re young and reckless and haven’t slept well for a week, maybe pulling all-nighters for fun? It affects your concentration, your reflexes, and your general memory.

  Age is like a mild sleep deprivation that gets a little bit worse each decade. It takes effort to stay lucid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uh oh lol⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh no! We might not survive the collision to hundred fifty thousand years from now!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doot doot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Crabs know what’s up too, that’s why they wear their skeleton as an armor. Can’t hurt you if it’s outside.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why, as a responsible adult, SimCity 2000 hits differently⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am in that camp, and expected a more profound message. My disappointment encouraged me to write the TL; DR.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why, as a responsible adult, SimCity 2000 hits differently⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  TL; DR: Author played chaotic evil as a child, and lawful good as a he matured with adult life.

  Saved you a couple of minutes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  These organisms are doing their best, okay? They’re just too smol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does the Chinese government even work⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s because people can take a lot before becoming truly desperate. A revolution means risking mass death, and few are willing to sacrifice so others can have a better life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Behavioral Conditioning Methods to Stop my Boyfriend from Playing The Witcher 3"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As a compulsive player who recently got caught in the Fallout 76 hamster wheel, I find this too relatable, but also beautiful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Heroes with super strength would be really out of shape⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Excuse me, but even we regular humans can sap solar power from plants, with extra steps of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disco Panic!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not OP, but correct link: wired.com/…/how-the-disco-clam-uses-light-to-figh…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI lovers grieve loss of ChatGPT’s old model: ‘Like saying goodbye to someone I know’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fallout 4, it was Paladin Danse IIRC.

  I like the Fallout series, but man, the Institute was such a badly written villain. They make synths, they treat them like robots, okay, that’s understandable. They had the tech to rebuild the country, but nooo, they chose to kidnap people and replace them with synth doppelgängers because fuck know why. They could have stopped at the robots and that would have been the end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Expanding storage on simple home server⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My low cost solution has been adding external mechanical disks. Those can go up to 4 TB for cheap, so I put two and sync them with rsync weekly in case one suddenly fails.

  As others have wisely said, keep the fast SSD for your OS, media rarely changes and is usually accessed sequentially, it can live on slower disks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump wanted a US-made iPhone. Apple gave him a gold statue.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Let Apple additionally throw some underage girls for him to rape so the deal lasts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Crono Cross, the PS1 spiritual successor of Crono Trigger, has such an amazing soundtrack too.

  Also, the Witcher 3, such a perfect soundtrack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Poll] What social media platforms do you know about?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Email forums