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Buddahriffic

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  • Do you feel sad for people born today?

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  • People are bad at estimating how long it will take to develop something, but everything I've seen indicates that we are getting closer to it being a real thing.

    Though I'm skeptical about the safety, as it does sound like it could get pretty explody if the containment fields fail. Or if they fail in just one direction, I wonder if they'd shoot out a plasma jet that fucks up everything in its path.

    Even the sun shoots shit at us from time to time, which our own magnetic field generally protects us from.

    Not that I'm against fusion power, just not holding my breath that it's going to be all sunshine and no flares.

  • Do you feel sad for people born today?

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  • Yeah, I don't get how people can think like this but not want nukes to take out everything. Like you're living this shit, too, if you are willing to keep living this shit, why do you assume it's a bad thing for anyone to bring someone else into it? Anti-natalism is pro-extinction from my pov.

    Not that I have an issue with people taking themselves out of the gene pool or anything, I just find the position wildly inconsistent with anyone who wants to continue living themselves.

    And to be clear, I mean specifically the "if you choose to have a kid, you are bad" position, I can understand "having kids is not for me, I don't want to do parenting".

  • Get. Off. The. Plane.

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  • The pool of vehicles that still have MT is getting smaller and smaller each year, at least in north America.

  • Rule 34 rule

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  • Hey you should have some pride in your dad, being able to keep going longer than a movie!

  • Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates

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  • Guessing you mean in a similar vein to the connection between various degrees and food service jobs?

    Personally, I've been able to avoid IT jobs so far.

  • FTC Sues Gym Chains for Making It Hard to Cancel Memberships

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  • Or ignoring the conflict of interest that goes along with companies hiring the people who were regulating them.

  • Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates

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  • Computer science is not IT. IT is about knowing how to use, deploy, and administer existing software solutions, along with a bit of light development to get things to work together when they aren't necessarily directly compatible.

    CS is about creating software solutions and understanding how the pieces fit together (at a low level), as well as how to evaluate algorithms and approach problem solving.

    It's not even coding, though coding is obviously involved. For a coding class, they'll teach you the language and give problems to help learn that language. For CS classes, they might not care what language you use, or they might tell you to use specific ones and expect you to learn it on your own time. The languages are just tools through which you learn the CS concepts.

    An IT professional might know about kernel features and how they relate to overall performance. A coder might be aware that there is a kernel doing OS stuff under the hood. A computer scientist might know the specifics of various parts of what a kernel does and how one is implemented, perhaps they've even implemented one themselves for a class (I have, though I was personally interested in that kind of thing and it was for a class notorious for being difficult, so most grads didn't).

  • Walmart to Increase Prices ‘On a Week-to-Week Basis’ Due to Trump Tariffs: Report

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  • I remember back about a decade ago, I was buying kitchen stuff, getting ready for moving out of home for the 2nd time. I had gotten a few things from one of the specialty stores but was with my partner at the time at a walmart (which I hated already and wouldn't have been there on my own) and decided to hold my nose and grab some other things we still needed while there.

    Only when I looked at the prices, they weren't any better than the specialty place. Some things were even worse.

    I realized they probably just advertised some loss leaders to get people in and then their prices for everything else were normal or high.

  • Walmart to Increase Prices ‘On a Week-to-Week Basis’ Due to Trump Tariffs: Report

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  • M&Ms used to be pretty expensive but their prices haven't risen as much as the grocery stores have and now they are comparable. Sill a bit more expensive, but the quality is way better.

  • Modern Windows in a nutshell

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  • Libreoffice does this without forcing you to allow them to store all of your files. Because it's a feature that doesn't rely on any kind of cloud bs, MS just added that requirement because they are assholes that have no respect for their users.

  • Modern Windows in a nutshell

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  • Hmm I think now they meant the original "switch to linux" bit sarcastically and are stuck in a mindset thinking that it's way more complicated than windows and thus anyone claiming to have already switched must be lying...?

    Though thinking about it more, it kinda feels like a bad faith response, posting about a vague windows solution that they want people to know exists but doesn't want to share, while treating Linux as big and scary and requiring more effort than fighting against what your OS really wants you to do.

  • Modern Windows in a nutshell

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  • My approach was spending even more money for the pro version so I could access the OS settings paywalled by group policy and set it to never automatically download updates.

    It would tell me about updates, but wouldn't do shit until I clicked a button on the update page to actually install them (though without the option to pick and choose which ones).

    It still nagged me about stupid shit I didn't want, like edge, bing, one drive, and their office subscription.

    So when I built a newer computer, I gave them $0 and installed Fedora and laugh at my former reluctance because it's actually been easier and I haven't even had moments where I wished I had just stuck with windows.

    Not saying that it's been perfect without any issues, I just recall that there were also issues on windows to deal with, a lot more dated responses showing up in searches that tell you do go to some setting window that no longer exists because the question was answered 6 months ago. Oh and I haven't had to fight my fucking OS deciding to change my settings back to the shitty defaults they set (plus Linux just has better defaults, so doesn't even need as much settings tweaking).

    And as an added bonus, switching made me finally pull the plug on xbox game pass, which was a nice idea but I still mostly just spent my time playing games on steam and forgetting to check game pass when buying games on sale, so it was kinda a waste of money. But each time I considered getting rid of it before, I'd instead convince myself it was good to have and end up playing some games on there for a few days before forgetting about it again.

  • If There Was A Button That Made Everyone Amish

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  • Something Weird Al and Rob Zombie have in common, though I can't recall if Rob did it mid-song, but he definitely didn't do two songs in the same costume.

  • 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux

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  • Blizzard used a cheat detection system in wow that allowed their server to send arbitrary code for clients to run. The code failing to return an expected result was a sign that there was tampering going on. Emulating windows api to run on Linux is a form of tampering, though obviously not necessarily a sign of cheating. Guessing they used some code that didn't work on Linux and banned everyone who failed before realizing that some failed due to Linux, and then were able to separate the Linux users from detected cheaters by how it failed (either that or they had to undo all bans from that round).

    Though it does make me wonder if it meant they can't/don't detect cheaters on Linux. Probably not, because my guess is they start out by looking for any cheats they can find, install them on test machines, then work at detecting the differences between those test machines and ones without the cheat. So they'd know about Linux-based cheats, too. They might even be able to use timing-based attacks to detect kernel level ones, too.

  • If There Was A Button That Made Everyone Amish

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  • That would have been an awesome show!

  • When you realize your laptop hasn't been plugged in for the last 4 hours you've been working...

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  • Hammond also gets a very different ending in the book.

  • When you realize your laptop hasn't been plugged in for the last 4 hours you've been working...

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  • Their system was set up such that when they rebooted the whole thing (which they needed to do to get out of the lockout Nerdy used, intending to steal the DNA samples, deliver them to his contact at the docks, then return without anyone realizing what had happened), it would first start up only using AUX power. Then they just needed to run a command to have the system switch to main power.

    But they forgot because the whole island was a well-polished shit that they were barely holding together and hadn't ever trained on what to do after a reset.

    After this scene, the power goes out through the whole park and to restore it, someone needs to go to the power station and manually activate the mechanism that closes the breaker to bring main power back on.

    In the movie, IIRC they just skipped straight to the "start the power up manually in the power station", which Ellie does after Arnold fails to do so or return.

    The book had a better system overall (where main power could have been turned on from the control room, or safely in the bunker if they had remembered it before the fences failed) and the issue was with a lack of experience with that system. The movie's version was simpler but a stupid system for a park full of dangerous predators because it didn't have a fail safe at all. Plus that stupid 3d interface that apparently Lex knew and was thus able to figure how to enable secondary systems when all of that would be custom software running on the OS.

  • Teddybears - Punkrocker

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  • Or they could do something like the One Punch Man game, where you can select Saitama and he will destroy anyone else without effort (unless it's a mirror match, in which case it's a normal fight). But, because it's Saitama, he's always running late.

    So you pick teams of 3 and if Saitama is on yout team, you have to survive with just 2 until he gets there.

    So a game where you play as someone else but superman can show up and stomp everything before going off to do something else could work. You've gotta survive until he gets there and maybe do things to get his attention or help resolve some other issue he's dealing with.

  • If There Was A Button That Made Everyone Amish

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  • Yeah, I think it's "more humble", too.