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druidjaidan

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  • Is the AI Conveyor Belt of Capital About to Stop?

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  • Unemployment around the 2008 crisis peaked around 10%.

    You're delusional if you think the 2008 recession remotely compares to the impact of the great depression. You just have 0 frame of reference to compare. I say that as part of the most impacted group: I was just getting out of college when that crashed and it killed my job opportunities.

  • FIFY

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  • US citizen here. Stayed in many hotels. Never once tipped for housekeeping. I've tipped for lots of small extras, like bag service, valet, etc. I know it's a thing some people do, but it's certainly not standard or expected. Cleaning the room is part of the stay price.

  • Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s

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  • Technically your mouth connects directly to your asshole...

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  • A very small minority of lawyers work criminal cases.

    This lawyer in particular only works on Social Security Disabilty claims.

  • Itch.io Re-indexes free NSFW content, are in ongoing discussions with payment processors to re-introduce paid content

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  • Steam's bans were (as far as I've seen) far more targeted at content that is a lot tougher to defend. It's a lot tougher to defend rape and incest content than just all porn and nsfw. Obviously it's all fantasy and fiction, but it's still more difficult.

    Itch.io went full into banning everything labeled nsfw, LGBTQ, violent, etc. The fact that Steam had a much more targeting impact implies to me that they used their stronger position to negotiate prior to the ban rather than itch.io that banned first and is now trying to walk that back.

  • Cruz’s Claim He Returned to Texas as ‘Fast as Humanly Possible’ Crumbles

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  • Woah woah woah. His punchability doesn't compare to the absolutely smashable Mitch McConnell

  • Plex has paywalled my server!

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  • The World's First Mass-Produced Flying Car Is Here and It Costs $1 Million

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  • The problem it solves is that most small airports are located miles away from the communities they serve. That isn't an issue with a car, but it does suck when traveling.

    Uber/Lyft have mostly solved this problem. However. There are plenty of small rural communities or small vacation destinations which are too rural to have taxis or uber/lyft.

    Is it worth it? No. But it's a legit problem

  • The World's First Mass-Produced Flying Car Is Here and It Costs $1 Million

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  • This is more complicated than you think. The vast majority of airports in the US are tiny little things you would barely know are there unless you're a pilot. Most don't have rental car services. Many are in communities where even lyft/uber are not available.

    The flying car thing is still pretty dumb. But it's not as dumb as it might first sound. One of the #1 problems my family has when we fly our (very small, very old) plane on trips is how to get from the airport to anyplace reasonable.

  • The World's First Mass-Produced Flying Car Is Here and It Costs $1 Million

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  • Woah woah woah. Not even close to true. The only things you can fly without a license is a single seat ultralight, paramotor, and similar things that most people would barely think of as a plane. There are very specific and restrictive requirements, both on the aircraft and what you can do with it.

    Anything bigger, homebuilt or not, will require a LSA license at least ans many (if not most) a full PPL.

  • HP Inc settles printer toner lockout lawsuit with a promise to make firmware updates optional

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  • It's not really surprising. The demand for printers has fallen off a cliff due to wide acceptance of digital alternatives. People barely need printers now and as such aren't willing to pay much for them.

    This is further exacerbated by the reality that a printer is actually a fairly high precision device and expensive to manufacture.

    So you have an expensive to manufacture device that consumers aren't willing to pay much for. So what happens? They adopt a consumable based business with the printers being locked down to force you to buy their overpriced, high margin consumables that have a low absolute price so consumers don't think about it much.

    Let's say that we regulate away this lock in. What will happen? Well the price of printers would have to climb to match their actual cost to manufacture. That price would likely turn off consumers from buying them at all. The end result would be the end of the printer business altogether. Maybe not a bad thing as not printing at all is likely a better ecological outcome.

  • Thousands of datasets from Data.gov have disappeared since Trump's inauguration. What's going on?

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  • I think it's more Luigi and less Floyd

  • DJI will no longer stop drones from flying over airports, wildfires, and the White House

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  • As a pilot...the real faa maps take training to read, but they are quite accurate. But maybe they publish something useless and contradictory for drone operators.

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  • It's a very dumb saying. If you don't have the volts you won't get the amps to kill you that's ohms law.

    However, there are plenty of harmless high voltage scenarios as well. Situations with high voltage, but no power.

    So really you need both.

  • YEET

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  • That is not the definition of escape velocity. Escape velocity is the minimum velocity to escape a body's gravity well entirely. Orbital is much lower

  • YEET

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  • That is not the definition of escape velocity. Escape velocity is the minimum velocity to escape a body's gravity well entirely. Orbital is much lower

  • YEET

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  • Ignoring that it burned up and ignoring losses due to drag if it somehow didn't. Isn't the point of escape velocity that it explicitly won't come back down.iar least not on earth. Your trajectory won't matter as you have enough velocity to escape the gravity of earth and will orbit the sun. Further if you managed the solar system escape velocity you will end up orbiting the galactic core. Trajectory doesn't matter if you have escape velocity. Correct trajectory just minimizes the delta v needed to reach that escape velocity.

    At least that's all my recollection.

  • Plex is overhauling its apps with a redesign and under-the-hood upgrades

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  • About a year ago, and I don't recall the specifics. I remember combing through trancode logs and not being able to figure out a path forward. I'm sure I could have solved it given enough time, but failing to play on Firefox or provide a clear solution was enough to convince me that the Wife Approval Factor was going to be too low.

  • Plex is overhauling its apps with a redesign and under-the-hood upgrades

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  • I abandoned jellyfin shortly into my self hosting setup. Plex just worked, with Jellyfin I spent an hour trying to figure out how to get it to serve an acceptable to Firefox codec and never succeeded. I'm sure with more effort I could have figured out what the magic combination was, but it wasn't obvious and I had too many other things to set up.