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- Comment on It do be like that 23 hours ago:
This is why people need to publish negative results: so future generations of PhDs don’t think their ideas that don’t work are “novel.”
- Comment on A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates 2 days ago:
“There is no system but GNU, and Linux is one of its kernels.”
Anyway, the point of linking that page is that RMS is a saint, not a god.
- Comment on Ubisoft argues players don't own their games in wake of The Crew lawsuit 3 days ago:
Thanks for the correction.
- Comment on Ubisoft argues players don't own their games in wake of The Crew lawsuit 3 days ago:
If buying isn’t owning, pirating is stealing.
- Comment on Ex-PlayStation exec argues 'only the dog can hear' differences between consoles and gaming PCs: 'They're all quite similar' 3 days ago:
LOL, imagine thinking you’d ever actually have a wide selection of in-stock GPUs to choose from and wouldn’t have to settle for what you can get.
- Comment on Trump-backed bill to stop 'rogue' judges passes House 5 days ago:
Every Republican is a traitor. Every single one.
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 5 days ago:
By their argument, nobody’s “purchased” anything from them in over a decade!
What they’ve been doing that whole time is committing massive fraud (false advertising, violating the First Sale Doctrine, etc.) instead.
- Comment on Justice Dept. Bars Its Lawyers From American Bar Association Functions 5 days ago:
No. It means he’s gearing up to remove the bar as the authority that decides who gets to practice law, if not destroy the profession as a whole.
After all, with the judiciary castrated and Trump acting as judge, jury, executioner, and king, who needs lawyers anyway?
(This sounds like hysterical hyperbole, but holy fuck, it actually isn’t.)
- Comment on Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York 5 days ago:
Haha Roosevelt Island trash system go pshew
- Comment on I lost 6 to 10 years of my retirement last week! 6 days ago:
You lose if you sell or if Trump fucks up the economy enough to completely wipe out many businesses (such that their stocks go to zero/get delisted).
Frankly, given the real possibility of (a) the US becoming a Russia/Iran/North Korea-style pariah state or (b) the MAGA fascists triggering a civil war, that could actually happen.
- Comment on Dunno what HD is, but doc says I got eighty of them bitches! 6 days ago:
ADHD has fuck-all to do with autism. They’re different conditions with different symptoms and anyone who conflates them like in OP’s meme is a fucking moron.
- Comment on Max pulling THIS shit every time I finish watching Last Week Tonight 1 week ago:
Reminds me of how when my kids finish watching a decent-quality kids show on Prime or YouTube, the algorithm will try to autoplay absolute pablum like Baby Shark, Cocomelon, or some other trash. It’s like it deliberately chooses the most basic mind-numbing schlock available.
- Comment on What are some of the most realistic fictional movies ever made? 1 week ago:
WarGames. Everything but the AI was very realistic. (Well, also except for the fact that the movie’s NORAD headquarters was apparently way fancier than it was in real life.)
- Comment on i want to tye dye my lab coat 1 week ago:
In high school, one of my science teachers had a tie-dyed lab coat.
- Comment on Anon orders food 1 week ago:
I hate to say it, but I think that might be one of those differences that actually is inherent due to biology. Ultimately, women can only benefit reproductively from one partner at a time, whereas men can benefit reproductively from as many as will have them. Therefore, women are only interested in compliments from a prospective partner they might actually choose, while men are happy to receive any expression of interest.
- Comment on We are so cooked 1 week ago:
Slap her in the face for me.
- Comment on If you're still on Reddit... 1 week ago:
No. At this point Reddit is evil because it’s censoring anti-fascist content and organizing. It’s becoming a Nazi bar just like the rest of them.
- Comment on If you're still on Reddit... 1 week ago:
Name and shame. Which browser and which instance?
And is it just something like an SSL error (i.e. the instance screwing up), or is it specifically some kind of anti-Lemmy disinformation?
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 1 week ago:
Every difference between digital and vinyl is caused by vinyl failing to faithfully reproduce the original signal. It may be “pleasing” signal degradation, but it is degradation nonetheless.
As for the analogy about different headphones, I don’t think differences in quality of the amplification/playback hardware are necessarily tied to the recoding medium playback mechanism itself. In other words, you could just as easily hook some vacuum tube amp up to your CD or FLAC player if that “warm” sound was what you were going for.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 2 weeks ago:
there is a difference in sound.
Yeah, there is: vinyl is objectively worse.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 2 weeks ago:
Up to 8 points, depending on whether playing with tech that was already old at the time counts. For example, I’ve never used a typewriter to produce a document, but I’ve pressed the keys on one to understand how the mechanism works.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 2 weeks ago:
The one with a sliding metal thingy had a floppy magnetic material inside it just like the bendy one.
- Comment on Federal Workers Union Sues Trump Over Attack on Collective Bargaining 2 weeks ago:
The trouble is, shutting down the government would play right into Trump’s hands because that’s what he wants to do anyway.
What we need is a general strike of everybody outside of government too.
- Comment on Anon interviews for a tech job 2 weeks ago:
So has the US, in theory.
- Comment on Anon watches It 2 weeks ago:
Also, WarGames was very accurate, except for the “WOPR having artificial general intelligence” part.
- Comment on Should I withdraw/stop putting into my 401k? 2 weeks ago:
In an ordinary recession, you should definitely keep buying because stocks are basically “on sale.”
In this recession caused by sovereign risk (i.e. the government itself fucking up), it’s possible that the market might never come back. If you believe that – or if you just want to boycott US investment to protest against the fuckery – you should still keep contributing to your 401k, but invest it in international ex-US funds.
- Comment on Always guard against living in the world of fantasy rather than undeniable facts 2 weeks ago:
The “4” guy is simping for billionaires, who will buy the forum and censor the other guy for calling him out as a “dumb fuck.”
- Comment on What TV series have the best intros? What TV series have the worst intros? 3 weeks ago:
Best (that haven’t already been mentioned by others):
(The rest are so iconic I’m not even gonna bother linking them.)
- The Twilight Zone
- Gilligan’s Island
- Golden Girls
- The Wonder Years
- The X-Files
- Cheers
Worst: I dunno, because my criteria for “worst” is being forgettable.
Polarizing/YMMV:
- M*A*S*H
- Cops
- Comment on Anon is chasing an old high 3 weeks ago:
I think that fish may just have been screenshotted mid-catch. In the game, when you catch a fish you fling it through the air in an arc and then it lands in your hands:
That catch animation doesn’t show it, (maybe it’s from an earlier version of the game?), but I’m pretty sure the current version scales the sprite bigger and then smaller as it travels through its arc as sort of a 3D special effect.
- Comment on The lost Family Guy pilot (1998) has been found 3 weeks ago:
This makes me appreciate their voice actor casting choices for the real show.
