jmcs

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GameStop selling 500+ stores because of "woke".⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  Weird, every time I went to my local GameStop before it closed it looked like a diversity fair.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Follows Google on a Controversial Decision - gHacks Tech News⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Just a reminder that alternatives like open street maps and Here WeGo exist and are not taking marching orders from Trump.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Entropy? Never heard of it.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because we still need to bring CO2 levels down even if we stop burning fossil fuel.

  And then we’ll probably need to burn fossil fuel to keep them at the right level, since we are in a capitalistic society and we’re never going to be able to shutdown the CO2 collectors if they are ever built.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mormons are about as Christians as Muslims. The only reason they are not lumped together is because they are mostly melamine-deficient.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MSN doesn't work in IronFox whatsoever⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That just sounds like they were trying to fetch a few resources and the request timed out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I liked Star Trek before it got woke. /s⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  True. We don’t have masterpieces like “Spock’s Brain” anymore. /S

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Assuming you mean discount, they pay the third party the agreed value, and give the discount from their percentage, or, if they think they can recoup it with more sales, they pay the difference from their own pockets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Stars of Star Trek: Section 31 Know Why You're Nervous About the Movie⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a very clear line between having a military and intelligence services and having a MKULTRA-era-CIA-in-space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Stars of Star Trek: Section 31 Know Why You're Nervous About the Movie⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “The people in the Federation exist in a bubble of safety and happiness, but there are outsiders to that sphere of the Federation—surrounded by the Dominion, the Founders, the Klingons [of this era], the [Romulan secret police] Tal Shiar, that don’t have the same moral relativity that we do. They would see [the Federation] destroyed to fit their moral relativism,” Kazinsky argued. “People need to understand why people don’t like the idea [of Section 31], but it hasn’t changed the idea.”

  This kind of logic implies that stooping down to barbarism is OK as long as you are hypocritical about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From during the Tiktok ban⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s also an important lesson.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From during the Tiktok ban⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t need to go back to TikTok. At least going by the memes RedNote seems to have an healthier and more wholesome environment, so if you are going to remain in a gilded cage of a social network, might as well make it the one with broader views.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, Trump is not even president yet, and his word already invalidates the written law… Americans are so fucked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm OOTL: Why is TikTok being banned?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny you say that, because Chinese apps like tiktok can’t ever be compliant with GDPR, and American ones are fully reliant on an executive order where Biden pinky swore to not use the Cloud Act against GDPR.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm OOTL: Why is TikTok being banned?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What if I think Facebook and Twitter should be shit canned too?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The main difference is that the project will be owned by the non-profit foundation. This still leaves mastodon.social in the for profit Mastodon gGmbH but Mastodon itself is safe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any games like Starfield?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m old enough to remember the Kickstarter campaign. I lost track of how many release dates flew by since then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any games like Starfield?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometime in 3025.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon gets corrected⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That means it’s not gender neutral, it just means you use male as a default in most contexts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who can relate?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Automobiles fall under the same exception as iron chariots (Judges 1:19).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikToker’s trip to China: The influencer or the influenced? - How Beijing's network of influencers across various platforms try to shape narratives on issues critical to its foreign policy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Both are bad, doing propaganda because the other side is doing it too only makes things worse, and people defending China because the US does it (or vice-versa) are bootlicking whataboutists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikToker’s trip to China: The influencer or the influenced? - How Beijing's network of influencers across various platforms try to shape narratives on issues critical to its foreign policy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hear me out, what if two wrongs don’t make a right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's been a feature of Australia's elections since federation. Albanese supports a change⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My perception, based on the election cycles I followed, is that, in Europe, the campaign period tends to be bigger when it becomes clear there will be early elections.

  For normal elections the campaign period is usually about 1 month. And for early elections there’s the entire dance around bringing the government down for a few weeks, and then everyone will be on full campaign mode until the election.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk says X’s algorithm pushes “too much negativity" while reports suggest the platform will suppress "criticism of the government" and "attacks against powerful people and institutions"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Because Jimmy Carter wasn’t perfect but at least he tried to the right thing. Then Reagan came and it became clear the abyss has no bottom, so the absolute sociopaths have an overwhelming advantage on the political space even if they pillage everything in sight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IEEE 754⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on the requirements of your app and what programming language you use. Sometimes you can get away with using a fixed precision that you can assume everywhere, but most common programming languages will have some implementation of a decimal type with variable precision if needed, so you won’t need to implement it on your own outside of university exercises.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IEEE 754⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Instead of representing $1.102 as 1.102 your store it as 1012 (or whatever precision you need) and divide by 1000 only for displaying it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Denmark: Union website deindexed by Google in the firm’s latest search experiment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And nothing of that has anything to do with blocking the union’s website besides Google’s sheer incompetence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mark Zuckerberg's Meta donates $1m to U.S. President-elect Trump fund⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bribe. Zuckerberg gave Trump an one million dollars bribe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not true in any big city. While the laws keep the landlord madness limited, real estate and rent prices are out of control because of speculation, and there are tons of horror stories to go around - and by experience, I would say they are even more common with individual landlords than with large companies, at least large companies don’t usually do anything obviously illegal and have less venues to make their tenants homeless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🫘 🟰 ❤️⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  meme economy community

  It’s spelled NFT.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hockey⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You also call it hockey if it has no puck. The common element in all hockey variants is the stick.