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Re:Why I don't discuss politics with friends on Thursday April 03, 2025 @02:36PM (#43573624)
I was talking to a very drunk Republican girl the other day. We were having a small argument about why we would send medical support to Africa for AIDS. Her argument was something about fixing America first (I was also drunk).

I asked if she regretted her vote for Trump after several people she knew lost their government contracting jobs, and she said "No, fuck that guy, I didn't vote for him."

Re:Play and learn how a nuclear plant works on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @04:21PM (#38537066)
It's not really similar to your idea, but your idea unlocked a memory of playing Gizmos and Gadgets as a kid.

Edit: So I decided to go and play it on an online archive site. It's just as fun as I remember.

General software development.

If there's a bug in your software, you tend to want to fix it.

Obviously the fact that it's an attack vector is an incentive.

As an Android user, I sometimes feel like I should be a protected class.

But I get cheaper DoorDash orders, so that's good enough for me.

Re:Recreating Medieval English Ales on Thursday May 18, 2023 @06:52PM (#35995377)
Ah, so that's how Soylent was founded.
Re:UK Blocks Microsoft’s $69B Activision Deal on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @05:44PM (#35720439)
You're not wrong. But if I'm paying $70 for a game, I'm definitely going to be annoyed if the trees look like they were pulled from Ocarina of Time.
I have an ongoing chat in chatGPT where it's instructed to every once in a while ignore my question and just respond with "Shut up, nerd."
Now I'm curious about training a bot on my IRC logs from the early 2000s.

It'd be like a chat time machine. I'd love to go back and bullshit with long-lost online friends about modding Halo:CE on Xbox again.

Re:Show HN: GPT-4-powered web searches for developers on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @03:31PM (#35545447)
There... is.
It's basically social suicide for kids now.

But it's great for people like me, because I'm much less likely to be added to a family group text.

Insane, terrifying, incredible, etc.

We're rapidly stumbling into the future of media.

Who would've imagined a year ago that trivial AI image generation would not only be this advanced, but also this pervasive in the mainstream.

And now video is already this good. We'll have full audio/video clips within a month.

nutsome
Re:The Lilium Jet on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @05:59PM (#33087641)
My crypto project is powered by D batteries.

I don't know how dense they are, but they're pretty heavy.

Re:Nukemap on Friday March 11, 2022 @03:40PM (#30645715)
I imagine having access to the user analytics of this site is one of the most anxiety-inducing states of being known to man.
Re:Pilot FriXion Erasable Pens: A Comprehensive Guide on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @03:19PM (#30619453)
Just make sure your notebooks don't get too hot.
Re:Venting doesn’t work on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @01:43PM (#30618400)
Well yeah, but just don't call them out.

If you identify a problem, the person responsible will (usually) know you're talking about them, and may even appreciate that you're not calling them out in front of the team.

If necessary, you can always reach out to them one-on-one afterwards.

Re:Venting doesn’t work on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @01:22PM (#30603624)
Best approach: Don't hire people like that.

Good approach: Specify that complaints be non-specific to a person on the team.

Re:Google Ads suspended me and turned a deaf ear on Friday March 04, 2022 @05:42PM (#30561597)
This applies to literally any public corporation.
Judging from the current sentiment around piracy among younger generations, I've concluded that MPAA/RIAA propaganda against piracy has been a rousing success.

My philosophy has always been: Pay for things if you are able, it's convenient, and pricing is fair. And if piracy is easier than paying, piracy always wins.

It's the reason I buy all my video games now and rarely pirate music anymore, but half of my TV and movies come through my seedbox.

Re:Why is LinkedIn so cringe? on Friday February 04, 2022 @07:02PM (#30215346)
I have an endorsement for HTML by a salesperson at a publishing company I did some IT work for during college.
Re:Protons are probably smaller than long thought on Friday February 04, 2022 @04:59PM (#30213918)
A better analogy would be to subtract the amount of bullets embedded in the wall behind the ducks from the total bullets fired.

Assuming ducks stop the bullets.

And assuming it's not just one immortal duck flying around super fast.

Re:Researchers shrink camera to the size of a salt grain on Thursday February 03, 2022 @04:55PM (#30199515)
It's inevitable that at some point in the future the only way to achieve true privacy will be to be completely and totally uninteresting.
Re:The Great Resignation? More Like the Great Renegotiation on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @01:10PM (#30075520)
"Vaguely Tech-related Information for Programmers" wasn't a catchy enough name.
Re:RNA Takes Over on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @04:22PM (#29478394)
A swamp is a type of wetland. They weren't renamed.
Re:Bypassing 2FA – Secret double octopus [2019] on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @04:18PM (#29478345)
> Why hasn't such a product been invented yet?

The YubiKey Nano is really small. I'm sure a skilled piercer could find a way to get it under your skin.

Re:How to fold an origami cat: Lexus takumi challenge (2020) on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @07:24PM (#29182879)
draw binary tree

flip whiteboard upside down

Re:Facebook Stole Our Name and Livelihood on Monday November 01, 2021 @07:36PM (#29074848)
Re:Facebook Stole Our Name and Livelihood on Monday November 01, 2021 @07:28PM (#29074740)
You're making a product. You should probably talk to someone who knows about trademark law.

Maybe a lawyer?

Re:EFF co-founder John Gilmore removed from org's Board on Monday October 25, 2021 @07:05PM (#28994306)
War with whom?

The government? Tech companies? ISPs?

All are in some ways restricting certain freedoms, while enabling others.

And what freedoms are you afraid of being taken that have not already been taken in some form?

I'm absolutely not disagreeing with you. I support full and absolute internet freedom. I have the ability to put absolutely anything I want on the internet with zero restrictions, but depending on what it is and how I put it there, there are many ways it may then cause me to lose freedom in some way.

Which one should lead to war?

Re:EFF co-founder John Gilmore removed from org's Board on Monday October 25, 2021 @06:03PM (#28993693)
I don't disagree with this, but there's a threshold in which the misinformation becomes the prevailing "truth" for a portion of the population, and is no longer able to self-correct.

If there is a force actively working towards this as a goal, do you not think that force should be actively opposed?

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