awesome_lowlander

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awesome_lowlander ,

Getting to space. Fuck Musk, but SpaceX is doing great work.

awesome_lowlander ,

if they’re using way above their share of bandwidth

Based on the numbers reported in the article, that's a significant chunk of their customers. The ISP was probably reluctant to upgrade their infra like they should have.

awesome_lowlander ,

I agree, we all need to move back to Africa. All 8 billion of us.

awesome_lowlander ,

Unless you're asserting that none of your ancestors have ever claimed land at the expense of somebody else, you're a colonist.

awesome_lowlander ,

My point being, go far enough back, and you WILL have found a people or tribe that got wiped out so another group could claim their territory. Where do you (arbitrarily) draw the line?

awesome_lowlander ,

The difference is that the settler romans and indigenous population at this point are indistinguishable from each other

So what you're saying is, if one side fully wipes out and/or swallows up the other fully, colonialism is then ok. How is that different from what Israel is currently trying to accomplish? If they succeed, in a century or two somebody would be saying the same thing you are now.

awesome_lowlander ,

Colonialism is not a rare event, it happens ALL THE TIME, EVERYWHERE. If you're only finding fault with the ongoing efforts, and giving the rest a pass because they are no longer visible in your day-to-day life, you are effectively saying success justifies it. Otherwise, you're just being arbitrary and inconsistent.

awesome_lowlander ,

Personally, I'm happy to see regulations that hold megacorps to the spirit and intent of those regulations, rather than having a dozen loopholes they can pass through. The lawyers are of course unhappy since they can't argue in court that they met the absolute minimum letter of the law.

awesome_lowlander ,

That’s over a thousand dollars!

This line I take issue with. EU penalties are possibly the most painful of all marketplaces worldwide.

awesome_lowlander ,

Sweden, which is currently experiencing an outbreak of gum violence, has 62 fatal shootings in 2022. To put that in perspective, adjusted for population, the equivalent would be 2000 shootings in the states.

Actual number of fatal, non-suicide shootings in the states? 20000.

awesome_lowlander ,

They have an inability to admit anything bad happens there

Don't know which Europeans you've been talking to, but I live in Europe and we certainly have a lot of complaints to go around.

awesome_lowlander ,

Did you reply to the wrong comment?

Jeffco Sheriff: Man shoplifts bolt cutters from Walmart to steal kid’s e-bike locked up in front of store ( www.denver7.com )

The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help identifying an alleged bike thief who, on Wednesday, shoplifted bolt cutters to steal a boy’s e-bike.

awesome_lowlander ,

Use a boltcutter, and you feed yourself for a day

Steal a boltcutter, and you feed yourself for a lifetime.

I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity ( ludic.mataroa.blog )

How stupid do you have to be to believe that only 8% of companies have seen failed AI projects? We can't manage this consistently with CRUD apps and people think that this number isn't laughable? Some companies have seen benefits during the LLM craze, but not 92% of them. 34% of companies report that generative AI specifically...

awesome_lowlander ,

Hacker News is not Lemmy

awesome_lowlander ,

Oh that. Yeah lemmy.ml has had a swear filter since day 1. In the early days it wasn't even optional I think, all the servers had it

awesome_lowlander , (edited )

Yep. Just another example of their 'free speech' principles at work

awesome_lowlander ,

My headcanon is that they have feedstocks and are just teleporting atoms around and gluing them together, maybe adding and electron here and there. If anything it's the most consistent use of their transporters.

awesome_lowlander ,

But we know that’s not how transporters work

Do we? Transporters are magic. They've never been logically consistent. Half the episodes either would have resolved in 5 minutes or never happened if they were.

this stuff may be just handwavy bulls#!t at

Fully agreed. Just like transporters :P

awesome_lowlander , (edited )

2 bytes would give you 0-4 per segment. Or about IPv2

awesome_lowlander ,

Whoops, bits vs bytes. This is why I should stop commenting before I've had coffee

Supermassive black hole roars to life as astronomers watch in real time ( arstechnica.com )

In December 2019, astronomers were surprised to observe a long-quiet galaxy, 300 million light-years away, suddenly come alive, emitting ultraviolet, optical, and infrared light into space. Far from quieting down again, by February of this year, the galaxy had begun emitting X-ray light; it is becoming more active. Astronomers...

awesome_lowlander ,

Unlikely. Time lag is how they can hide the server sharding.

awesome_lowlander ,

So, how many people scrolled through this thread looking to see if they were mentioned? 😛

awesome_lowlander ,

How is this even NSFW? Some people are just weird

awesome_lowlander ,

They've been on their last legs for decades now

awesome_lowlander ,

Frosthaven. Specifically the physical version

awesome_lowlander , (edited )

Ooh, ooh, do the nintendo switch next!

There's a lot of irony here considering how so many Japanese companies have a track record of pulling this kind of shit themselves.

awesome_lowlander ,

I meant their app store, as per this article

awesome_lowlander ,

It'd be nice if you actually pointed out what in the article contradicts their statement.

awesome_lowlander ,

“You do not call for peace and then come to a memorial site,”

Fuck off Pepe Frogface. If the Palestinians could have lived in peace none of this would ever have happened.

awesome_lowlander ,

As per Wikipedia:

The UN noted that there had been arrests of homosexuals within the past three years in 2018, 2019 and 2022.

So it's not like LGBT issues were much better under Imran Khan either.

awesome_lowlander ,

I wouldn't be surprised either, but you made it sound like things are a lot more clear cut than they actually are.

awesome_lowlander ,

Would any of your tech-handicapped relatives actually pay it any attention, though?

awesome_lowlander ,

Can we trade relatives?

awesome_lowlander ,

I guess stripes would be an easy place to start

Welcome to the black tape project

Missing mother found dead inside 16-foot-long python after it swallowed her whole in Indonesia ( www.cbsnews.com )

A woman has been found dead inside the belly of a snake after it swallowed her whole in central Indonesia, a local official said Saturday, marking at least the fifth person to be devoured by a python in the country since 2017....

awesome_lowlander ,

I'm interested in the list of countries you WOULD prefer to die in

awesome_lowlander ,

They did learn, how else are they doing this good a job?

awesome_lowlander ,

How do the units even work out? That's 0.5 kW per household, a ridiculously low number.

awesome_lowlander ,

1st world countries like Singapore and Norway have mandatory service too

awesome_lowlander ,

Thanks! Appreciate it, will take a look when I have time

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