FaceDeer

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[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 26 points 3 days ago

They learned from the best.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 59 points 3 days ago

From NYT:

As for Mr. Trump’s threats of annexation? “We don’t even want them to be the 51st state,” Mr. Cramer said with a laugh. But unable to resist, he added: “We want Alberta to be the 51st state. And then we have two Republican senators.”

Fuck these guys. They come on a mission specifically to beg for our favor and they still can't manage to avoid insulting us and our sovereignty.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They're both optional. You can turn it off in Notepad.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"This is a machine that shows a picture of a person wearing a garment."

Uploads a picture of a person and a picture of a garment.

Gasps in shock and indignation as it shows a picture of that person wearing that garment.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 11 points 3 days ago (3 children)

So, you'd prefer that the system require you to upload nudes of yourself first?

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

From NYT:

As for Mr. Trump’s threats of annexation? “We don’t even want them to be the 51st state,” Mr. Cramer said with a laugh. But unable to resist, he added: “We want Alberta to be the 51st state. And then we have two Republican senators.”

Fuck these guys. They're the usual entitled American idiots, blundering around in foreign countries without understanding them.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 30 points 3 days ago (11 children)

So how are languages lost, and what does that mean for the people who speak them?

If the language stops being spoken then there are no people who speak them, and asking what something means for those nonexistent people is kind of weird.

I'm thinking that the loss of distinct languages in active use is not necessarily a bad thing overall. It means more people can communicate with each other more widely. By all means document these disappearing languages as much as possible before they're gone, but there's likely a good reason most of them are disappearing.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So regulate the uses of the technology. Don't ban it outright.

Those companies are doing their manipulation currently by using the Internet and social media, should the Internet and social media be banned outright? We're using social media to discuss this right now, that discussion should be suppressed?

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 13 points 4 days ago (3 children)

"Someone might abuse it" is a reasonable concern. "Therefore nobody should be allowed to use it" is not a reasonable answer to that concern, IMO. We'd never have anything with that approach.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 3 points 4 days ago

I'm not a Rust programmer, but I've released a lot of code under MIT in the past and my reason for picking it was because it was so simple and flexible when it comes to reusing it with code under other licenses.

I recall once, years ago, a user coming to me quite angry about how I was releasing code under a license that permitted corporations to "steal" it. Just for him I dual-licensed that particular bit of code under MIT and GPL. He never responded so I guess that satisfied him? Whatever, I'm just happy he went away.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 15 points 5 days ago

This article goes into great detail about the various methods that one can use to measure or calculate the orbit-clearing capability of an orbiting body.

It turns out that for all of these different methods, you will find an extremely clear bimodal distribution that groups the 8 planets together as being highly capable of clearing their orbits whereas everything else falls into a statistically distinct non-clearing group. This is because there's sound dynamic reasons for why objects would fall into one group or the other with nothing lasting long in the "grey area" between them. Once an object becomes significantly better than its orbital neighbors at clearing the neighborhood it snowballs due to the feedback loop of scattering or absorbing its neighbors into itself.

That makes this a good criterion for classification. As the old saying goes, "cleave nature at the joints."

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