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- Comment on death sentence 2 days ago:
Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act of 2001
Not everything needs to be an acronym.
- Comment on Soup 1 week ago:
That’s fair. I do make a distinction between understanding how something works and why something works. Making it work the way you describe, to me at least, is understanding enough of how it works to be able to reproduce it, even if we don’t yet understand why it works. Until we understand this science, it’s magic.
- Comment on Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest 1 week ago:
It did say “subjective negative reviews”. I would take that to mean that strictly objective negative reviews are perfectly acceptable.
- Comment on Soup 1 week ago:
But wouldn’t understanding the structure assist is rebuilding a mechanical version and, thus, recreating the consciousness into an artificial mechanism (such as a Terminator-esque android)?
- Comment on Soup 1 week ago:
Very interesting! Maybe once we understand the structure, we can recreate what’s behind the structure. Not sure if that’s a good thing, but it certainly is intriguing.
- Comment on Soup 1 week ago:
I’m familiar with some of those, but they don’t digitally map thought and then read that map. At least not the last time I looked into them… Do they now?
- Comment on Soup 1 week ago:
This sounds pretty amazing. Do you have any sources (or process names that I can search)? I would love to read more into the LLM part of your statement. Seriously sounds like scifi, and I’m loving it.
- Comment on Soup 1 week ago:
That actually doesn’t sound much better to me, but my understanding of vitrification is minimal, at best. Still cool, though.
- Comment on Soup 1 week ago:
Thanks for this. Quite gruesome, but not at all unexpected. I remember having a conversation with a friend of mine a while back, where I made the argument that water expands when frozen and, since humans are mostly water, freezing a human would crack every vital organ. I’m actually upset to discover I was right.
- Comment on I just want to view the recipe 1 month ago:
Reminds me of this scenes from Ready Player One. Except, we don’t have Holiday’s ad restrictions.
- Comment on You Can Now Follow President Biden on the Fediverse 1 month ago:
I was on the fence, until I heard it’s on Threads. Hard pass.
- Comment on I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot. 1 month ago:
Hahaha! A light version of it. I already have a light accent, so I emphasized it some, but I didn’t want to offend haha
- Comment on I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot. 1 month ago:
Att et al keeps throwing around the word ‘unlimited’. I actually had a conversation with Verizon, before I dropped them, and actually used this exact quote to the guy…
He was like, “process bride. Nice. But, yeah, I have to read the script.”
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 4 months ago:
Because you have to choose: children or Festool. Only the few elite can have both.
- Comment on Someone has registered www.bellriots.com it's counting down. 4 months ago:
Same here. I reread the message chain several times before it sunk in that they were being kind and not dickish haha
- Comment on Someone has registered www.bellriots.com it's counting down. 4 months ago:
There was a tinezone issue with their code mastodon, in the mastodon way, found a way to contact the site owner and they got everything fixed. People can be great, when given the chance.
- Comment on This ad that says “Wake up! A beach house is not a dream.” 4 months ago:
A quick google search shows that this is fake…
- Comment on Every single rising post on Reddit is crypto spam 8 months ago:
That’s fair. I’ve never been a Twitter user and haven’t been on fb in close to 4 years, so they didn’t even come into my fov, but you bring up a very good point.
- Comment on Every single rising post on Reddit is crypto spam 8 months ago:
I guess we now get to see what happens with little to no moderation on social media platforms. Starting with Reddit…
- Comment on 66% of Americans say they want extended European-style vacation policies at work 8 months ago:
You have FMLA, which guarantees that you won’t be fired (once approved) for 12 weeks. The first part uses your vacation days (because, apparently, being out on maternity is a vacation and you won’t need anymore days once you’re back), the rest of it is unpaid. Once 12 weeks rolls around, you either come back or get fired.
- Comment on 66% of Americans say they want extended European-style vacation policies at work 8 months ago:
The other 34% probably.
- Comment on 66% of Americans say they want extended European-style vacation policies at work 8 months ago:
There are 4 other parties from which ton choose…
- Comment on Shrinkflation is out of control 8 months ago:
Cool business move… NOT!
(Should we even be bringing back the ‘not’?)
- Comment on Shrinkflation is out of control 8 months ago:
Some countries have outlawed this behavior. If the seller/producer wants to decrease the package contents and keep the package size and price the same, they can (of course), but they must write on the package that the contents have decreased in large bright characters that are hard to miss. Something like this:
255gnow 200gI’m not sure where you are (assuming USA, based on the packaging), but it’s not illegal in the USA, since consumer protection is near to nonexistent.
- Comment on Windows Updated and is Pushing More Stuff 8 months ago:
Yeah, but nothing here would be considered as a “new feature” and each is an ad for a product that OP chose not to use during initial install. As such, s/he shouldn’t be reminded of them, especially not during an OS update and certainly not with an unskippable window. Yes, s/he has the option to skip each feature individually later, but this initial window is either a “remind me later” or a “do it now”.
To get into specifics of each item:
OneDrive has been around forever.
If OP customized his/her browsing experience, s/he clearly doesn’t want “Microsoft recommended browser settings” (which, by the way, is Edge with Bing search and with all telemetry turn on high).
365 has been around for a while, and this thing is pushing the subscription (by definition, an ad for a paid product).
Windows Phone app isn’t new, either.
Microsoft Hello has been around for about as long as Windows Phone app and features.