ExpensiveConstant

@ExpensiveConstant@kbin.social
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Might be getting wooshed but Slurms was voiced by David Herman

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That one's hard for me to read and I'm not even dyslexic!

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I just read the article, she's suing the school because she claims administrators ignored reports the kid had a gun as well as a history of "troubling behavior"

I mean I remember taking biology that went over reproductive anatomy in 6th grade. I feel like gender identity isn't any more mature of a topic than penises and vaginas. Maybe my school was an outlier though? Either way I think letting kids who might not feel comfortable with their gender know that their feelings are valid is important enough to warrant mentioning in elementary school

In January [Barbers Hill Independent School District Superintendent Greg Poole] placed a full page ad in the Houston Chronicle, arguing that “being an American requires conformity with the positive benefit of unity"

TIL being American is actually about conformity. Thanks Texas

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X is the name of a windowing system used in a lot of Unix-like operating systems

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Here's hoping these companies have to pony up billions not millions

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Will you also need a pilots license to purchase? I wonder where you would even be allowed to transition from driving to flying...

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Smurfing is when a player has a secondary account so they can play against/with lower ranked players. Imagine a chess grand master putting on a disguise and going to a beginners chess tournament

"All bleeding eventually stops"

Shout out Zoidberg

Wow whiteboy7thst now that's a name I haven't heard in a LONG time

Have you considered that you may be turning into a vampire?

Easy: Bologna

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I blame the rise of frameworks, libraries, and IDEs. It’s easier for someone who knows nothing to throw some software together and ship it.

I very much disagree with this. Yes to an extent you don't need to know as much as you might have in the past but if we had to constantly reinvent the wheel, I don't think we would have nearly as many people entering/remaining in this field. Additionally well written frameworks and libraries can actually make your code safer since you don't have to reinvent the wheel and discover the pitfalls all over again. IDEs are also a net positive IMO. Errors next to the line of code that caused them, breakpoints, interactive debugging. These are all things I personally would find hard to live without. Necessities? Technically no. But good god do I not want to have to read build output unless necessary.

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Scruffy from Futurama

I mean, you can add their user agent to the robots file but the crawler could just change their user agent or even ignore the robots file if the server isn't filtering requests by user agent

Isn't signal open source though? I know being open source doesn't magically make it interoperable with other services but even if Signal or Whisper systems sell out, someone could just fork the projects

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The problem I have with this view is that AI "reading" a book is not the same as you or I reading. It doesn't actually learn it's just predicting the most likely sequence of words to be a response to whatever prompt it receives. In that sense, the words are just data, not actual words. Given how valuable data is in this day and age, I think it makes perfect sense for OpenAI to have to either: only use public domain/authorized works, or pay the creators for their work.

How are biometrics fundamentally insecure?

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Watsky!

Not saying they won't do what the title suggests but I feel like the article itself takes a pretty big leap from the quotes used to the headline. Alito's comments seem to be more focused on governmental discrimination based on religious beliefs than on attacking the legality of same sex marriage

Whenever I see his name now I always think of this interview he did with Jena Friedman. Her composure through the whole thing is incredible

And the effects will be

While the effects you list don't seem entirely implausible, you're stating these hypothetical situations as if they are already fact and we have evidence to indicate that. I agree with @substill in that I don't see Threads being a threat to small communities.

Can you help me escape politicians who are taking away the ability for women to have safe abortions, attempt to overthrow the government, and their voters who brag about it by flying fascist flags on their cars? What about massive inflation without a similar rise in income that is needed just to survive?

Nope, that's going to take a lot of work to do anything about. What (imo) your therapist should be helping you do is develop strategies that let you deal with your anxieties. If therapy was only for dealing with things after the fact I don't think I would be doing it because I agree with you, we can't escape all the awful shit in the world but what we can do is make it not so debilitating that you can't do anything.

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Yeah I thought the complaints about iOS were a bit weird as well. It seemed like they didn't like that smartphones got more capable. Of course there's going to be a million apps and a million settings when (as you put it) consumers increasingly expect their devices to do everything

I don't mind ads as long as they're not following me around. Show me ads based on the community that I'm browsing or something if you want better targeting

Not saying they won't do what the title suggests but I feel like the article itself takes a pretty big leap from the quotes used to the headline. Alito's comments seem to be more focused on governmental discrimination based on religious beliefs than on attacking the legality of same sex marriage

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Honestly I feel this so hard. I'm getting increasingly tired of the BS Microsoft is pulling with Windows but at the same time my primary use case is gaming. Gaming on Linux is getting better but I don't want to do additional work to install and play my games or have any doubt about whether I can run a certain game. Windows, for all its flaws, does meet those requirements.

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I'm confused, I thought I was pretty clear that therapy isn't going to fix any of the societal issues that give you anxiety, it's not supposed to...

Wow I really did not know there was a confederate flag on top of that car. That's crazy