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Re:Sites in ChatGPT on Friday October 02, 2026 @07:40PM (#49939928)
The dimension knob doesn't have user-select: none; and you probably have no idea what that means and why it's annoying.
Re:PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock on Sunday September 27, 2026 @01:28PM (#49868798)
I would LOVE general extension support for NewPipe. It outclasses the Youtube UX on many fronts but it really needs things like filtering by title to make your frontpage/feeds the way you want them.
What do you mean? It's stock Android. Other manufacturers are putting much more effort into UX in my opinion. Do you mean something else?
Re:One-Electron Universe on Sunday September 20, 2026 @05:21PM (#49780191)
> The situation described in The Egg replaces morality with a direct reason not to harm others, because you are the person who will suffer because of it.

Or you've already been said person, in which case it won't harm you anymore. Not to mention that it's inevitable that you will hurt the victim because it already happened from the victim's POV, who you've already been. The egg is in a fundamentally contradictory realm anyway because it's asserting free will and same-universe time travel at the same time.

> the story's premise kinda eliminates our usual ideas about morality

Allowing for psycho maxxing, yes. You can take "I should be a good person" from it, but so far you haven't made a compelling case. There's no reason why you shouldn't be an exploiter in 1-10% of your lives, living off the direct and indirect suffering of the 90%. Kind of like within a modern life you can choose to suffer 90% of the time (work, gym, studying,...) to get a halfway decent 10%.

Re:One-Electron Universe on Sunday September 20, 2026 @04:44PM (#49779886)
Re 1, why?

Re 2, yes and in 300 BC you're also expected to already have been 50% alive there.

Your egg can't explain consciousness or the arrow of time either. How is the person in egg limbo, the fetus being developed I mean, conscious? How does the egg limbo work at all? You're gonna need a big hand to wave the (meta-)physics of your little egg universe away.

Re:One-Electron Universe on Sunday September 20, 2026 @04:00PM (#49779477)
I probably should have phrased it "do you have a moral right to self-harm"? The starting point is usually that you're allowed to do anything you want, total freedom, and then we blacklist everything we deem immoral. You don't have an explicit license to breathe either, it's just not blacklisted, not by your gov, nor morally. As far as I can tell, many people refuse to morally blacklist self-harm, because there's no victim other than the perpetrator. This is doubly true in the egg scenario where you are also everyone who suffers any secondary harm from the self-harm, like also being every saddened family member. To make a long story short, I'm not asking about goodness of anything here, "ok" just means "granted."
Re:One-Electron Universe on Sunday September 20, 2026 @03:09PM (#49778946)
Assuming the premise of the short story is true, of course. Otherwise, what's the point. I can't simultaneously grant the premise and pretend that I didn't just grant it, by denying my knowledge of the rebirth mechanism.
Re:One-Electron Universe on Sunday September 20, 2026 @02:14PM (#49778386)
Engage in the thought experiment that you are/were/will be every human for a sec. Is self-harm morally ok? Many would say yes. So "the egg" already gives those people a pass to hurt everyone else in this world because it's a form of self-harm. Great. Now for those who explicitly don't want to self-harm. "The egg" implies that your rebirths happen serially in meta-time. You live this life, then the next, then another,... those lives may overlap on earth, but in egg-time, they don't. This means you can statistically expect you've already lived 50% of them. There's no guarantee of this, but the distribution is normal, not uniform [1] (similar reasoning found in doomsday argument [2]). 50%, give or take, humans out there you've already been. Everything you do to them, you do to your PAST self. You're not only absolved of moral accountability, but also of the physical consequences of treating them horribly. So while "the egg" tries to do the opposite, it really seems to justify psycho maxxing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_argument

Re:What will our economic future look like? on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @05:40PM (#49634784)
You live on Mars?
Re:iPhone Duo on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @03:21PM (#49632633)
Seriously though, for 2k you can get a good gaming PC even in today's market.
Re:iPhone Duo on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @02:43PM (#49631793)
Would probably push the engineers to deliver three-way foldables like the Huawei Mate XT from two years ago. The two-way folding phones are wasting a screen and will go down in history as an abomination. The weird 1:1.4 width:height ratio wouldn't be necessary if you could 3x the screen size instead of only 2x. At 3x, the ratio could be 1:1.73 folded, giving you 3:1.73 unfolded (which equals 1.73:1). 1.73 is much closer to 16:9 (1.77) than 1.4 is.
Re:ChatGPT Images 2.5 on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @07:09PM (#49618438)
Sounds like a complex question. On average you'll visit like 1.5 sites. Those SQL queries are peanuts compared to an LLM burning through tokens. Besides, for hard questions, the LLM itself might download 30-60 websites to find the info on your behalf, e.g. checking the state of RAM prices.
Re:ChatGPT Images 2.5 on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @03:22PM (#49615497)
Do you want to know how many identical questions ChatGPT gets asked every week, recomputing its answer each time because people stopped sharing results? I don't, but I'm sure it far exceeds 3 billion. "How to center a div", "how to install this and that package", "what is this pop culture reference", "who is this famous person",...
Re:ChatGPT Images 2.5 on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @03:14PM (#49615350)
even the whataboutism is slop
Re:Literary Sins on Sunday August 09, 2026 @03:39PM (#49234956)
"Show don't tell" has been a disaster for mankind. I'm sick of authors turning every scene (especially openings) into a puzzle because just telling the reader what's going on would be too low-brow for them. If telling, or even summarizing, your story in a straight manner makes it bad, you just have a bad story. Part of the reason why Harry Potter was so ridiculously successful even before the movies is that it broke this rule. Intended as a children's book this was probably deemed necessary, but in reality it's just better writing, period.
Re:Writing by hand is good for your brain on Thursday July 23, 2026 @01:07PM (#49024894)
The notes only make sense with context. I'm not interested in copying three or so sentences for every small comment or even just a highlight.
Re:Astronomers may have found the first exomoon on Thursday July 23, 2026 @12:45PM (#49024573)
No, but let's keep pouring billions into confirming that the laws of physics apply outside of our solar system - smaller objects orbiting larger ones? Who could have guessed?

I'm sympathetic to space colonization, which seems like the most optimistic long term future for humanity, but the focus on exoplanets, -moons, even signs of exo-civilizations feels like making up theories about the bottom of the ocean centuries before the invention of submarines.

Re:Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @10:22PM (#49016049)
I don't really care how you adopted it, but you sure speak Reddit, down to the exact way you're cursing me for calling you out on the hypocrisy of you secreting the human equivalent of slop while complaining about the literary quality of AI.
Re:Judge a book by its first pages on Saturday July 18, 2026 @07:40PM (#48963554)
If that is true, it's bad design. The site definitely needs a dislike button too, while we're at it...
Re:Judge a book by its first pages on Saturday July 18, 2026 @07:38PM (#48963542)
This is basically an ad for recent books the maker likes or gets paid to promote and the selection is hot garbage
Let's just as enthusiastically revote on the chat control law right now then! Oh, wait... revotes only happen when the bureaucrats/lobbyists want them
Re:I have seen the dystopian future of elderly care on Sunday May 10, 2026 @05:24PM (#48088230)
Great, and I do agree, we know who to pay more (and who less), but how do we get there democratically? Should we vote for the party that says "we support LGBT and an infinite influx of cheap labor" or the "we support the military and the free market" party?
Re:I have seen the dystopian future of elderly care on Sunday May 10, 2026 @05:11PM (#48088089)
I'm sure there are many systemic issues but the primary victims are the elders. For starters, they don't have a choice but to be there.
Re:I have seen the dystopian future of elderly care on Sunday May 10, 2026 @04:54PM (#48087894)
There's a long period between beginning and full, diagnosed dementia. You won't be able to tell what you're signing but you won't be protected by a dementia diagnosis either.
Re:I have seen the dystopian future of elderly care on Sunday May 10, 2026 @04:51PM (#48087872)
Shoulder pain? Sorry, but your insurance only covers suicide. Dementia? Every day you don't agree to end your life, your caretakers will take it personally.
Re:I have seen the dystopian future of elderly care on Sunday May 10, 2026 @04:42PM (#48087773)
This framing is ridiculous. Elder abuse and neglect is rampant. Nursing homes are run like prisons and you're empathizing with the guards.
Re:Every GPU That Mattered on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @12:25PM (#47677734)
Not only that but a lot of the "defining games" are just games that appeared at about the same time but can be handled by much older GPUs without issues. For me graphics haven't made a real difference since Unreal Engine 4 anyway. It's all about the content these days, not the skin.
At least Germany isn't looking at entering any wars at the moment...
Ten years of "refugees welcome" to fighting age men who we don't trust won't run amok when we go to war with a third party. Very cool.
translation: cancer

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