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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it a good idea to take your physical dvd's and cd's or whatever and make a digital backup?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  YES! An extra backup never hurts! (Well it kind of does with these storage prices at the moment, but nonetheless…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would a insanely ridiculously expensive car be able to affect everyone's premiums?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Third party insurance often is only a minimum that you have to fulfill. E.g. IN USA has a law stating that you must have $25k liability insurance as a driver. If you cause damages beyond that then you privately are liable again. So in this case it also wouldn’t make everybody’s insurance go up.

  If you were the one unlucky dude who caused a wreck with the $1 trillion car, then you would just privately be f**ked.

  On a side note though: A lot of these kinds of court cases end up going for settlements much lower than the actual damages caused, because you can only recover the amount somebody actually has in court. If the damages are $1000 and the other person only has $10 to their name, you will only get $10 from them (and you will still have to pay your own layer costs from that as well). So driving this expensive car is really only dangerous to the owner who will lose a bunch of money if it gets damaged.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would a insanely ridiculously expensive car be able to affect everyone's premiums?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe this is different in different countries, but I don’t think insurance has to agree to cover a given vehicle for a specific person. So basically, if you try to insure it, they could just say no.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is behind the current Lemmy meme about 4 being a private key?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  supposed to …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come manufacturers use base 10 units when calculating the space of a hard drive? Giving you 931GB per TB Hard Drive. Why not advertise the number windows reads?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For the record, this is just windows. MacOS and (most) flavors of Linux use the standard SI units. And also, just because computers are base2 for the mathematics inside the processor, that doesn’t mean they have problems dealing with number other than 2^n. That would be equivalent to saying that humans can only use numbers like 10, 100, 1000 and nothing in between.

  (The only area where things do get difficult is calculating with fractional values, such as 1/3 because the count of decimals needed to represent can vary depending on the base. For example, 1/3 is difficult to represent in base10 because it is infinite 0.333… however in base3 it requires only a single ‘decimal’/fractional digit 0.1.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make Congress Earn Average American Wage.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sadly this is a very solid point. This would probably lead even stronger to the tendency that billionaires could simply bjy representatives/senators.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fix the system..⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost seems like the free market can regulate itself here, dosen’t it? If you can’t find people working for the price you are offering, then I guess you just need to up your offering until you find someone…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Olive Branch MS mayor refusing to lower flag for Dolly⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This seems like exactly the right question to ask. If yes, then why not for Dolly, if no, then I can get behind this argument.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people make such a big deal over ages of someone's account on here?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s like the false positive/negative game. If you are an actual person, then waiting a week or two for your account to mature in age is but a mere inconvenience to you. In comparison, keeping all the fresh spam/bot accounts off the platform is much more difficult. So the general consensus is to slightly inconvenience new users in the beginning in favor of having a better community in the longterm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My friend got hacked and of course microsoft will not even try to help⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Slightly off topic, but is there still no viable Minecraft fork?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CAPTCHAs make me lowkey mad⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t this the whole reason why proof of work captchas are being developed?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What options of resistance are programmers creating to not submit to AI culture?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  AI for the win in figuring out how to use code libraries with minimal to non-existent documentation scattered accross the entire web.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your must-block tags on social media?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You had me from the very end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to Strike Out on your Own⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Or maybe just focus your time on politics to make a country in which you are not allowed to fire people illy nilly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Embedded video in online articles is totally broken.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  While “taking a picture” is a viable option for personal blogs and such, it does technically break the ToS for most social media sites and also might violate copyright, which is why reputable news sources are left with the, arguably shitty option, of using embedded posts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This wsa considered in the earlier days of the web, but then intentionally not enforced. HTML was specifically designed to not fall into the same scheme as most programming languages in that it should try to render what it could even if there was a lot going wrong (unlike most programming languages that try to fail fast).

  (And before someone comes after me for comparing HTML to programming languages, I am well aware that it is not Turing complete.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a particularly informed comment, but I always figured because people started getting scared of the Christian god, so they started turning towards other religions. As a consequence, the Christian church needed to figure out how to make Christianity a bit more approachable, so the new testament and forgiveness were created.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why can't a PC-laptop boot without datetime?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I am fairly certain that I have had a PC before that had exactly the issue that the CMOS battery ran out. It was able to boot just fine, I just couldn’t get it to connect to the internet properly. Took me ages to figure out that the date and time in the OS were completely wrong, because I never really use my computer as a clock anyways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I stop sleeping through everything?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually, sometimes having too many alarms can actually lead to alarm blindness where the person does not really recognize the alarms as important and just subconssciousely turns them into background noise.

  That being said, I still think at least in the short term this is a good idea. In the longer term, do you make sure that you are really well rested? I.e. the 15 minutes of boredom trick? (Do absolutely nothing for 15 minutes. You should get really bored. If you can manage to stay awake even through 15 minutes of boredom, then you are well rested, if not you need more sleep)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mexico extends labor rights for app delivery and ride share workers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Well this was an emotional ride. I thought it was great news, but your comment makes it seem more like a publicity stunt. ˙◠˙

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Touch grass… and make local friends. People you know in real life; know their families. Most people are not nearly as bad as the world makes it seem at the moment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen to the Earth if it got booped by a giant asteroid going super slowly?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to mention the fact that an asteroid that large would also start exerting its own (noticeable) gravitaional field when it gets this close to earth. Although I guess you kind of already covered that with the tsunamis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  To play devils advocate here: So you help tide the people over that are carelessly thrown away by the disfunctional US government. Just so they can go back to doing what the government wants once the government starts paying them again? I would say these people need to learn not to trust the government and find jobs elsewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Before modern-day authoritarian regimes, did people living under abosolute monarchies talk criticize the monarchs? Or did they just stay silent in fear of persecution?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they were referring to criticizing the US government, not PRC. In an effort to keep free speech around in the US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How could I order a package without my parents finding it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And here I was being confused why some person’s parents would get so angry at them for buying computer parts from their own money. I see I was not cultured enough to understand the true question at hand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Independent tries to hijack their reader's swipe meant to leave the site to send them further into it instead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It is almost like this is why we had originally decided to put navigation buttons at the very bottom of the screen where they are easily accessible both by left- and right-handed users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a good way to check if all photos on google photos are locally saved on my own phone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess we need to open a new community nostupidanswers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can't countries with vast deserts make solar farms to power the world?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is also why there is a lot of work being done on room-temperature (-ish at least) supervonductors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the origin of the whole "X destroys and humilates Y" genre of debate videos?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Unrelated, but how do you write big text into a comment on lemmy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Agoda axes 50 Singapore staff; warns them not to report to govt agencies or lose their severance pay: sources⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Do they actually have a different choice? Do these companies get prosecuted by the government or are they just tolerated?

  (Just adking out if interest. I really have no idea about political situations in Singapore.)