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We Avoid Temptation But It Keeps Finding Us
- Comment on How do you go about evaluating sources of information for truth/credibility/etc.? 3 days ago:
This is not exactly what you’re talking about but it’s close and actually is available on the web: check out the camera feeds from ISS. Pretty incredible to just watch the world literally go by.
- Comment on Call me 1 week ago:
As others have said the paper is fake but 813 is a real area code, specifically Tampa, Florida.
- Comment on Burning Up 2 months ago:
That’s not either scale being intuitive or unintuitive, that’s your familiarity with one over the other.
I got curious so I did some research on the definitions and why everything is this way. It looks like they originally picked the coldest thing they had (brine, possibly inspired by the coldest weather), the freezing point of water, human body temperature, and the boiling point of water. It was supposed to be brine at 0, water freezing at 30, the human body at 90, and water boiling at 240. Fahrenheit then recalibrated his scale slightly to make his math (and thermometer design and production) easier, and also because he noticed water actually boiled at 212 by his newly modified scale.
Looking at it like that work the context of what they had at the time and what they were trying to do, it makes a lot of sense.
- Comment on Is Elder Scrolls 6 doomed to fail? I can't see how it will work 2 months ago:
In the far field that is Starfield
You spend time with Martian Marines
Until you turn to
collecting succulents and tangerinesThis was generated with the help of c. Sativa, not AI
- Comment on Amazon Bans Its Drivers From Moving Their Own Lips Too Much At Work 2 months ago:
As much as watching everything literally burn would be exceptionally cathartic, it wouldn’t be useful. If you ask me, these CEOs and rich bastards can work X hours a week scrubbing toilets or otherwise contributing to society.
If you refuse to contribute to society cause you were rich and think you’re hot shit, then jail. Something like the minimum security prison in Norway where the point is rehabilitation. If you’ve committed war crimes or premeditated murder or otherwise genuinely can’t be offered even that much freedom, then real prison, but still a decent real prison.
Putin and his ilk are a different matter. What was good enough for Mussolini would be just as good for them.
- Comment on Amazon Bans Its Drivers From Moving Their Own Lips Too Much At Work 2 months ago:
This tech isn’t new, exactly, though it’s probably significantly more sophisticated now. I used to work at a company that used similar monitoring a decade ago. Theirs was (allegedly) triggered only by the motion of the vehicle, I believe DriveCam was the brand name. It sucked back then, I’d imagine it sucks worse now.
My guess with the reality of the situation is Amazon or their insurance company required installation of the cameras and a low-to-mid level manager somewhere noticed that singing was triggering them, so the manager told people to stop and eventually you end up with this news story. Amazon gets at worst plausible deniability and shitty things continue.
- Comment on Centipedes Don't Fuck 2 months ago:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centipede#/media/File%3AM…
Assuming this is actually representative of the difference, it was definitely a pair of centipedes.
I’m not surprised in the least that at a minimum it’s more complicated than the meme suggests, and now I’ve learned far more about centipedes than I ever wanted to. Thanks!
- Comment on Centipedes Don't Fuck 2 months ago:
Ok now I’m curious about what the fuck the two centipedes I found in my basement that I thought were fucking were actually doing. They sure looked like they were fucking.
- Comment on Dispatch From a Meatpacking Factory: “If We Unite as Workers, We Have the Power” 3 months ago:
In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold,
Greater than the might of armies, multiplied a thousand-fold.
We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old
For the union makes us strong! - Comment on I want to donate old work shirts, but I don't want people to be mistaken for employees there. How do I remove the logos? 3 months ago:
If it’s just HF and you didn’t sign any paperwork on the matter when you worked there, it’s probably fine. If you signed paperwork, consult an attorney yadda yadda yadda.
It’d be one thing if you worked in an industry where those uniforms might give you actual access somewhere (police, fire, EMS, etc), but this is not that.
- Comment on Fallout London - Official Launch Trailer Premiere 3 months ago:
They’re just using Gog as a CDN essentially. They have instructions to grab the downloaded files and zip them into a normal mod format so you can install them however you want.
- Comment on Fallout: London | Trailer 3 months ago:
The more relevant section is here
“It’s not uncommon for larger game companies like Bethesda to have mixed reactions to fan-made projects of this scale, we saw this with things such as Fallout: The Frontier,” says Carter, referencing the game-sized mod for Fallout: New Vegas that launched in 2021. “They often tolerate projects’ like ours’ existence as long as they don’t infringe on their intellectual property or negatively impact their brand.”
That said, I agree with you. The Frontier had issues because they put problematic shit in their mod. Bethesda has explicitly given shoutouts to Sim Settlements (I’m pretty sure there’s others) in the recent past.
- Comment on No Man's Sky - Worlds Part I is out now and drastically transforms the planets 4 months ago:
They’ve been adding gameplay for years. Maybe you should actually take a look and see.
- Comment on Escape from Tarkov is offering players in-game currency as a bounty for reporting cheaters 4 months ago:
Now that you mention it, isn’t AI essentially worse crowdsourcing?
