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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Don't forget the garbage listicle websites which pollute every search for "the best x" where x is something like a vacuum cleaner. Judging by the utter uselessness of search engines these days, there must be A LOT of those sites...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

...dams, and despite that, they contribute 69% of cat and dog deaths in Springfield, Ohio. Why is that? Just asking questions...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Also, I don't think being remembered is the main point. It seems to me to be more about a violent release of frustration and getting back at the people who "wronged" them, usually combined with suicide by cop.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yes, collective punishment, i.e. trump gets elected.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The problem with using the filibuster is that it only works when you know the other side doesn't have 67% in the senate. With both the democratic and republican parties being in the pocket of AIPAC, I suspect they could easily get the votes to break Bernie's filibuster.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

To combat this I think drivers, firmware, etc. should be acknowledged as being in the same category as spare parts, manuals, repair tools, etc. They are equally as vital to being able to repair your device, and therefore should be open sourced at the latest when a manufacturer pulls support. Of course I would prefer them to be open sourced immediately, but with how software IP works currently that seems like a pipe dream, especially for devices with very complex drivers, like GPU's.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Ah yes, the old "Communism is when no food" non-argument.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

And much before that it was rule-based machine learning, which was basically databases and fancy inference algorithms. So I guess "AI" has always meant "the most advanced computer science thing which looks kind of intelligent". It's only now that it looks intelligent enough to fool laypeople into thinking there actually is intelligence there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

For many people, including me, part of recovering from that abuse is accepting that you're significantly different compared to the average person. If you're ND and can't accept that, you might be masking and that can be really harmful.

That being said, there's still a difference between being called "different" or "weird", and if the latter is being hurled at you with malice by friends, they might not really be your friends...

[–] [email protected] 146 points 2 months ago (7 children)

IMO this should be the case for everything developed using public money, looking at you, pharmaceutical companies...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Even if it's just playing back videos, it still should compensate for the distortion of the spherical display. That's a "simple" 3d transformation, but with the amount of pixels, coordinating between the GPUs and some redundancy, it doesn't seem like an excessive amount of computing power. The whole thing is still an impressive excess though...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Who do you think the profit of increasing the price tag goes to? The workers in the factory to help them deal with inflation, or the rich shareholders?

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