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  • You realize Russia asked their Hapsburgs to leave quite a while ago, right? During one of those big family fueds. They were quite insistent about it, too, even more so than the French.

  • If they have kids that survive, they are ineligible for a Darwin. The award is about ending their line in a stupid way, not just dying.

  • Try doing it diagonally with a wobble.

  • I've noticed my brain lately has been doing this thing where I'm watching something cool and it goes, "hey, wouldn't it be cool if <exact thing I'm watching>?"

    Well, yeah, but why are you activating the "I have a cool variant idea related to this" pathways and distracting me instead of just watching how this one plays out?

    Edit: corrected "largely" to "lately"

  • Yeah but is any of it going to be good? None of those titles inspire much curiosity for me, let alone excitement.

  • My guess is what's going on is there's tons of psuedo code out there that looks like it's a real language but has functions that don't exist as placeholders and the LLM noticed the pattern to the point where it just makes up functions, not realizing they need to be implemented (because LLMs don't realize things but just pattern match very complex patterns).

  • I guess it's possible for the keyboard itself to handle that, but I've set that up in the OS on both windows and Linux machines. And when I replaced a shitty keyboard with a better one just a little while ago, it had Dvorak already as the default layout.

  • Or someone gets the stickers and puts them on a random vehicle in a parking lot.

  • I was grocery shopping yesterday and saw ginger root and wanted some. But then I saw "Made in USA" so moved on. But then there was organic ginger root made in Peru and I got it. Not even sure what the price difference was, at the time I figured it didn't matter if the organic was twice the price, though now I wish I had checked because tariffs might have even cancelled out the organic premium. I'm not even sure what the current status is for Canadian tariffs on US goods.

    A few years back, I would have been happy to see ginger root made in USA instead of China. Funny how quickly things can change so much.

    Also, any politician who tries to work with these senators to increase Canadian spending on US goods risks affecting their own popularity more than the popularity of US goods here.

  • Except how do people generally get money from taking pills? Hint: it's not often because they are happy with the results.

  • In the contract: obligation to flail your arms and legs widely for maximum distraction.

  • Valve existed at that point, too.

  • Or with cosmic rays, not sure anything would be opaque.

  • Also windows locks files that are in use, so attempting to delete system32 would (probably, I've never tried it) give some errors because it's using a bunch of those files already and would leave those files intact even if you're very determined to get rid of them. This is why you need to reboot to apply many updates because even the updater can't get around that restriction.

    It's handled differently on Linux. I'm not 100% on the specifics of the implementation but it either loads files in use entirely into RAM or simply removes the reference to the file when deleted (or makes a new file and points the reference there if you're replacing the file). That means anything that is currently using the file can continue to do so after a delete/overwrite, so the OS doesn't prevent it from happening. This is why you can run any updates without restarting on Linux (though you do need to restart to get the system to use some updates, if they update critical components that can't be restarted independently of the rest of the system, like the kernel).

    If you want to nuke your whole os install drive on windows, you need to boot into a different OS instance (which is what the repair partition is, just a barebones windows install that can access files on the main install without the locking). But Linux can do it from within the same instance.

  • Also for flying cars, when a non-flying car breaks down suddenly, it can be a dangerous situation but you just need to avoid hitting anything until your momentum is lost and generally have options (brakes might lose power assist but could work, if they don't there's still emergency brakes, and if those also fail, there's engine braking if you have transmission control, or steering back and fourth to lose momentum via turning friction, and once you're going slow enough, even colliding with something stationary can help).

    With flying cars, maybe it can glide, assuming it even works like that and isn't more of a helicopter or just using some kind of thrusters. Plus, if you're falling to your death anyways, you might not have the presence of mind to try to optimize what you do hit with what control you do have to minimize damage to others. Hell, the safety feature might even be ejecting and leaving it to fall wherever, while hoping none of the other flying cars hit you or your parachute, or fly close enough to mess with the airflow in a way where the parachute might fail.

    And that's not even going into how much more energy it takes to fly vs roll.

    Flying cars don't make practical sense. And where they do, we already have helicopters.

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  • And then she was branded a witch and feared and revered for her witchly powers because it seems pretty fucking stupid to believe someone truly has strange and dangerous powers and immediately threaten their life.

    Later witch hunts were just ways to turn mob violence against specific individuals who the original accusers didn't actually believe were witches but wanted to kill.

  • Don't get me wrong, it's decent entertainment. It's just disconnected from any kind of scientific or technical reality and a part of me is rolling my eyes for a lot of it. And maybe a bit frustrated because I like thinking about things and analyzing and problem solving. I prefer hard magic systems over soft magic ones because there's no point in thinking about soft magic systems because they just do whatever the plot calls for when it calls for it while hard magic systems have to build up to it and need to be clever to surprise viewers.

    Tony uses a soft technology system that defies thought.

  • Combined with running to become the first extreme sport.

  • Yeah, that's my thought, though I have a kid. Doesn't really matter if I just want to rent one to have fun driving for a bit (other than if she'd find it cool to ride in one). Would be fun for a bit and then a huge liability to own one. Especially with how much attention they'd get. You'd get random butt prints from assholes taking pictures with it, not to mention some others driving nearby will get more aggressive when they see what you're driving, making accidents more likely. Not to mention everything about it will be very expensive.

    And, at least based on video games, you'd barely ever get out of 1st or 2nd gear in normal driving unless you want to risk getting it seized (or worse) for excessive speeding.

    Also, make one mistake with the throttle and a video of you spinning into a curb or something could go viral if it's one of the rear drive supercars.