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  • There are sewing machines that offer didn't stitching modes. In fact, different use cases have different optimal stitches. Like a decorative stitch can be whatever, and a hem doesn't need to handle the same kind of forces as a join, which itself might require different strengths (like a dress shirt sleeve vs a jean's pocket).

  • That would avoid "I'm such an asshole, they'd rather do away with me than follow" scenarios but not "turns out I hired a power hungry asshole that just wants to be in charge" ones.

  • Hell, even during training there's a part called "breaking" the horse, which refers to breaking its will. Not sure if this is still done these days since the demand for horses is way down, but I can't see that being anything other than a form of torture for "problem" horses.

  • They've been getting that for decades now, pretty much after they changed their approach after Vietnam.

    The contras part of the Iran/Contras scandal was about this in Nicuragua. CIA preferred the rightwing group that massacred whole villages over the lefwing group that had gotten power (though to be fair this conflict got pretty brutal on both sides, as can happen when one side is massacring entire villages).

    They had/have a school for training this kind of shit, too. Forget the name, but Behind the Bastards has talked about it several times.

  • Wait, so Dutch is the language of people and everyone else has been using animal languages this whole time!?

  • Also umlauts.

    Which might seem confusing but I wish English used accents/umlauts to show pronounciation because that would do a lot to unfuck the spelling of this powerful but bastard of a language.

  • I wonder how many billionaires will just get couped by their security forces once society has collapsed to the point where they wouldn't expect consequences. Their advantages right now come from society as well as the complexity of organizations and social networks. Transitioning to self-sustaining life in bunkers eliminates the power the billionaires hold over the security forces, like what happened with Roman and Ottoman emperors at various points as they grew more dependent on their security to the point the security ended up holding the keys. Especially if they go out of their way up hire security that will do anything they say.

  • Truth is there were people sitting on all sides of the table but DaVinci didn't think people would like a painting mostly of the back of their chairs and heads and invented a device to hide them so he could paint the rest as if they weren't there. And because of that, people thought there were only 12 disciples, but there were actually 13, plus about 7 fringe group members that weren't that into Jesus but liked his fan club so would come to hang with them.

  • I stopped using it once I found out their entire business model was basically copyright trolling on a technicality that anyone who answers a question gives them the copyright to the answer, and using code audits to go after businesses that had copy/pasted code. Just left a bad taste in my mouth, even beside stopping using it for work even though I wasn't copy/pasting code.

    And even before LLMs, I found ignoring stack exchange results for a search usually still got to the right information.

    But yeah, it also had a moderation problem. Give people a hammer of power and some will go searching for nails, and now you don't have anywhere to hang things from because the mod was dumber than the user they thought they needed to moderate. And now google can figure out that my question is different from the supposed duplicate question that was closed because it sends me to the closed one, not the tangentially related question the dumbass mod thought was the same thing. Similar energy to people who go to help forums and reply useless shit like RTFM. They aren't really upset at "having" to take time to respond, they are excited about a chance to act superior to someone.

  • On Super Mario Wii U this happens. My daughter used it to see how to get through levels she was having trouble with. It's frustrating to watch, though it showed me I was wrong that levels basically needed the run button to be held to make it across the gaps.

    And then you can either accept that the ghost beat the level for you or go back to trying.

    But, the thing is it's not very difficult to do this with specific games. You can just record the inputs as they come in and replay those, which is how replays or saved games often work.

    Seems like they want to be able to do this for arbitrary games, which requires a much more sophisticated system that can understand what's on the screen, what the goals are, and how to achieve them using just video and audio feedback (and maybe hint documents from the makers).

  • And Cajun.

  • It's such a stupid approach to the stated problem that I just assumed it was actually meant for something else and the stated problem was to justify it. And made the decision to never use win 11 on a personal machine based on this "feature".

  • I think one way to avoid the gag reflex is to "swallow" that cock. Like do the swallow motion but hold it mid-swallow (this trick works to make your Adam's apple easier to shave, too, as it kinda recedes under your skin).

    Never put this theory to practice on a dick, but the gag reflex is about avoiding inhaling stuff, and we (usually) have no problem swallowing food.

  • Don't worry, didn't intend that seriously, was just an attempt at a knowledgeable/novice reversal joke.

  • Sends it by taking a photo of the screen, which displays part of the PDF and some questionable browser tabs are clearly visible in the photo.

    Edit: questional -> questionable

  • Habanero juice mixed with vicks.

  • I mean, a few GB would probably be done in a few seconds, so no big deal, just don't seed past 1.5. The VPN actually makes it easier on the routers if there's any NAT going on because the VPN handles managing the individual connection forwarding table.

    Now if you said a few TB, that might be an issue.

  • They must have known that CGI in Pixar and Disney movies is very different from an AI-generated video and concluded that you had no idea what you were talking about based on that inaccuracy.

  • As I recall, it was a combo of automated and manual and they went public with the info because they lost knowledge of how it all worked.