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  • Florida Deploys Police To Stare At Crosswalks, Stop Them From Being Painted Rainbow Colors

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  • Tit for tat is a good tactic, usually. There is something to be said for a chilling effect, or "intimidation", as a way to not just punish current behavior but to forestall future escalation. The only key is that it needs to be selective, and not permanent, and then extremely reversed when they switch to cooperation.

    They preach hate, you destroy their landscaping and signage. They remove your memorial and you burn down their building.Meanwhile you praise the episcopal church and very visibly support fundraisers by the united Methodist Church.

    It only alienates the people who were already too far gone. Others will tut at the disproportionate response but agree to the middle ground of "it's self defense, so it's justified in principle".

    Gotta shift the center somehow.

  • whats the cheapest legal way to dispose of my dead body so i can stick it to the funeral industry?

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  • The laws are usually amongst the oldest ones in a state and only revised pretty infrequently if someone has a particular issue. The dead person constituency is pretty weak, so the matter doesn't get a lot of attention. Basically once they wrote down that embalming chemicals can't be explosive (to prevent the coffin torpedo and general miguided insanity) there hasn't been much need to update them.

    In a lot of ways the funeral industry is better than others, regulation wise. You don't need to do business with anyone. You're dead. It's illegal to act as a funeral director without a license, and the regulations are entirely imposed in the director. If you've got a body to get rid of, you don't have to pay a funeral director. The government will take care of it pretty quickly if no one else will.We've got similar restrictions on barbers. Except for the government giving you a haircut if no one else will. They don't particularly care if you're hairy.

    I do agree though, a lot more basic functions of society should be fundamentally provided by the public. "Doctors" would have been a better, but less funny, example above.

  • NASA chief to defy agency's charter, terminating science

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  • I mean, they don't. They'll do what the want regardless, it's just a question of if they do it because they were attacked, they're defending against an "attack" they know is coming, or because the other people deserved it.

  • whats the cheapest legal way to dispose of my dead body so i can stick it to the funeral industry?

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  • Most states have laws indicating you must involve a funeral director to ensure the.body is disposed of properly, and then define the licensure requirements for a funeral director to include the types of disposal they can oversee.It means they don't need to define every type of burial you're not allowed to do, and there should be a qualified professional to ensure whatever you're doing is okay before you do it.

    The libertarian impulse to say that if it doesn't hurt anyone it should be legal butts into the reality that every time we have that policy for body disposal things tend to go funny in unexpected ways.

  • whats the cheapest legal way to dispose of my dead body so i can stick it to the funeral industry?

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  • Certain types of burial allow the body to potentially contaminate nearby soil. Others can leave behind a void that can either collapse and disrupt nearby graves, or in some cases lift the body back to the surface in heavy rain. (Extremely uncommon now because essentially nowhere allows you to use those methods)

    Funeral pyres or other forms of open air cremation are generally not legal due to concerns of fire spreading.Whole body water burial is probably not legal in a body of fresh water in the US due mostly to the complexity of figuring out which law applies to that circumstance in any of the bodies of water that could be used that wouldn't be grossly undersized and unsanitary. (Basically that means the Great lakes, which are the only ones with the depth and size sufficient, but are shared between multiple states and also Canada. Usually the rule is that if it's not forbidden it's permitted, but body disposal is more complicated)

  • Modern Windows in a nutshell

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  • Oh, don't get me wrong. It's odd for a clock to act this way, just not inexplicable. At best it's an example of UI standards being applied without regard to sense, which is very much in line with Microsoft.

    Most other clocks will do something similar, they just do it in the background. Something that's a lot easier to do if you're not following a UI framework that says you're never allowed to change something in a way that might cause the user to see a weird shift. Other things just acknowledge that clock sync should only take a few milliseconds before the clock is even visible, that a timezone DB update will rarely cause a change of more than an hour, and that a user will probably not even notice if there's a shift.

  • Modern Windows in a nutshell

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  • It makes sense in a weird way, but it doesn't feel right for a clock. You need to account for the case where it does take longer than it should to update, because sometimes it will for any number of really weird reasons. So you can't just design for the best case scenario.Now that you have a splash screen you need to ask yourself if it's better to show the splash screen while doing the update, or to just let the app be unresponsive for the common case of a moment and then show the splash if it goes over that.The answer is to show the splash in the common case too.Now people are seeing a "weird screen" for a moment before they can process what they're seeing. So you need to make the screen have a minimum display time to keep people from being confused.

    It's weird, but people can sometimes be more confused by thinking something happened too fast.

  • nooo my genderinos

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  • "applies" isn't the word I would use. It's not like nature has a line that once you pass some threshold of mass, acceleration or distance it needs to flip the relativity switch.

    Probably say "becomes noticable".

  • nooo my genderinos

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  • I'd actually argue the opposite. With states of matter, we're attempting to delineate how reality groups together sets of related properties that vary between conditions in similar ways for different substances.Looking for the edges that nature drew.

    With species though, we drew the lines. We drew them with a mind towards ensuring it's objectively measurable but it's still not a natural delineation. Taxonomists (biologists are actually a different field) mostly run into uncertainty with debating which categorization property takes precedence, and what observations of species have actually been made.So while they debate which system to use, the particulars of the systems are pretty concrete.

  • nooo my genderinos

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  • First you make them memorize single digit subtraction X - Y where X >= Y. Then you extend that to small double digit numbers.Then you teach "borrowing". 351-213. Subtract the 1s column. Can't take 3 from 1, so borrow 10 from the 5 in the 10s column, making 11 in the 1s column and 4 in the 10s.

    Definitely more clear, right?

  • nooo my genderinos

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  • I believe that's what happens anytime they say that we probably shouldn't focus on memorizing a multiplication table, or try to teach anything in a way that puts more focus on understanding how numbers work than on symbolic memorization.And that's like... Elementary school.

  • Is It Just Me?

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  • Uses for this current wave of AI: converting machine language to human language. Converting human language to machine language. Sentiment analysis. Summarizing text.

    People have way over invested in one of the least functional parts of what it can do because it's the part that looks the most "magic" if you don't know what it's doing.

    The most helpful and least used way of using them is to identify what information the user is looking for and then to point them to resources they can use to find out for themselves, maybe with a description of which resource might be best depending on what part of the question they're answering.It's easy to be wrong when you're answering a question, and a lot harder when you hand someone a book and say you think the answer is in chapter four.

  • California Gov. Newsom signs legislation calling special election on redrawn congressional map

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  • My only qualm with that is that if you select an algorithm, it needs to be selected, which means that the people in control of that selection can decide what's non-partisan in the selection criteria.

    I'm more in favor of defining properties that districts must have and then selecting a districting commission by lottery. Make it so you can't be fired for being on the commission, and pay people 20% over their wage for the time they're on the commission.

    If an algorithm has an outcome that seems flagrantly incorrect, you can't subpoena it and ask about its reasoning. The courts are already geared towards handling complaints regarding how a commission handled its responsibilities.

  • 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds

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  • It's frustrating because they used the technical term in a knowingly misleading way.

    LLMs are artificial intelligence in the same way that a washing machines load and soil tuning systems are. Which is to say they are intelligent, but so are ants, earthworms, and slime molds. The detect stimuli, and react based on that stimuli.

    They market it as though "artificial intelligence" means "super human reasoning", "very smart", or "capable of thought" when it's really a combination of "reacts to stimuli in a meaningful fashion" and "can appear intelligent".

  • Call of Daddy

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  • Yeah, I do sort of remember some of that. It's one of those things where I think people realized that the people laughing hardest weren't laughing at the same joke, and that kinda takes something away.

  • Call of Daddy

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  • Sadly, yeah. Like, a Hawaiian shirt and stupid tactical gear should be silly guy outfit, not "bring the race war".

  • Call of Daddy

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  • So, I don't hate tacti-cool baby gear, but it does make me angry.

    It should have been high quality baby gear targeted at guys being silly. The glaring contrast between its function and its theme should be intentionally funny.Instead you've got sexist shit trying to convince guys that it's okay, you can still be hyper masculine even if you care for your children, and selling profoundly inferior crap that's not even leveraging the ridiculous marketing options.

    All the actual baby supply companies have instead started using the stuff you would want out of "tactical baby gear", and coloring it in cheerful colors that aren't traditionally gendered.

    It's just a wasted opportunity for a good laugh that instead brings more shit into the world.

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  • The only thing, beyond laughing at it being dumb or making silly pictures that I don't really care about, that I've found as an actual useful use for this wave of AIs is basically "pretend you're an expert in whatever field you're being asked about, and that you're talking to a moderately less experienced professional, and give a very brief description of the topic, focusing on what the user can lookup on their own instead".

    As an example, I asked it about designing some gears for a project. It told me I used a word wrong and the more precise term would give me better search results, defined a handful of terms I'd run into, and told me to buy a machinery handbook or get a design table since the parameters are all standardized.

    The current approach isn't going to replace thinking for yourself, but pattern recognition can do a good job seeing that questions about X often end up relating to A, B, and C.

    Oh, and I also got Google's to only respond as though it's broken and it made it really fun to try to figure out the news through it's cryptic gibberish. A solid hour of amusement, and definitely worth several billion dollars of other people's money.

  • I love old sci-fi

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  • One of the defining characteristics of that eras literature, not just sci-fi, is a reflection of the cultural belief in a narrative history.The belief that society will advance, and that there's an inevitable direction that things will go even if there are setbacks.