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HarkMahlberg HarkMahlberg @kbin.social

Programmer and Airplane Enthusiast.

"You just don't know how AI works" earns you a block.

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www.cnbc.com Trump guilty on all 34 counts in hush money trial, in historic first for a former U.S. president

Donald Trump reimbursed Michael Cohen for the $130,000 in hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.

Trump guilty on all 34 counts in hush money trial, in historic first for a former U.S. president
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www.cnbc.com Trump guilty on all 34 counts in hush money trial, in historic first for a former U.S. president

Donald Trump reimbursed Michael Cohen for the $130,000 in hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.

Trump guilty on all 34 counts in hush money trial, in historic first for a former U.S. president
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Anyone got any good alternatives to #stackoverflow?
  • Let's be real, SO didn't need AI, most of it was already a shit salad. It became increasingly less useful from 2016 to now.

  • Anyone got any good alternatives to #stackoverflow?
  • @atzanteol I said Alternative, not Regurgitative.

  • Exclusive: Bernie Sanders worries young people are underestimating the threat from Trump
  • He might be popular here on left-wing Internet forums, but his voters don't turn out.

    https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/sanders-banked-on-young-voters-heres-how-the-numbers-have-played-out

    Bernie and Warren are great at pushing progressive policies into the public consciousness, don't get me wrong.

  • Sovcit submitted some documents to the court.
  • You're not even going to tell him which line number? You monster.

  • Apple denies violating US court order in Epic Games lawsuit
  • The Apple filing criticized what it called an attempt by Epic to make Apple's "tools and technologies available to developers for free."

    Wouldn't that be fucking great. Man, if only.

  • There is no hate like Christian love
  • it costs nothing to keep your bigoted opinions to yourself

    I used to not understand the concept of opportunity costs but now I'm beginning to believe that there is such a thing even when spouting disgusting, obnoxious, dogshit opinions. Like, some people in the world are losing out if they don't take an opportunity to slander and disparage someone else.

    They're lower than dirt.

  • There is no hate like Christian love
  • I mean, I get that this is basically the last standing GOP policy, but to read those verses correctly, you have to remember that "to suffer" is another way to say "to put up with," and he's talking to his disciples, not the children. He's just saying "Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!"

  • 'Donald Trump did this': New Biden abortion ad features a woman who says she almost died because of the Texas ban
  • I think you got the wrong takeaway from that story... The character of God rebukes the dead man for not accepting the practical help of other people. It's just framed as though God sent the rescuers to convince the "believes in miracles" crowd that no such things exist.

    Consider a simple rewording: instead of "I sent you two boats and a helicopter" you read "Two boats and a helicopter came to save you." This solves your only hangup and doesn't even change the story. Your beef is with the aesthetic component, not the meaning of the story.

  • Balatro 1.0.1 Patch Notes
  • Added toggle for 'Reduced Motion', removing the swirly background and gyrating card motion

    Judging by other comments online people seem to love the aesthetic, but I IMMEDIATELY turned off the CRT, scanlines, and screen shaking settings. It was just too much for me. I'm so happy they're letting me take out the last thing that is fucking with my vision after a long play session.

    Changed the first shop in every run to always include a normal Buffoon pack as one of the pack options

    I think this is a good change too. Might still be a little RNG reliant, but this definitely helps when more often than not, I restart the run after taking a look at the first couple of shops.

    Upcoming blinds/tags can now be seen in the shop immediately after defeating a boss blind/cashing out

    Also a worthy change.

    Changed Fibonacci - costs $8 instead of $7, because Fibonacci

    lol

    Changed Seance - Now uncommon and $6, was rare and $7

    Awww, I'm disappointed that the Magic TCG reference is now a little less on the nose.

    Overall there's a LOT of balance changes in here. I'm a little concerned that LocalThunk might have bitten off more than he could chew. Especially given that the blinds' base values have been reduced to make the game easier. Though, is it to make it "easier" or "less RNG heavy?" I guess we'll find out soon enough.

  • Baldur's Gate 3 Dev Larian's Publishing Director Calls Games Industry Layoffs an 'Avoidable F*ck Up'
  • So they just have to make good enough games to avoid two complete flops in a row. Which is impossible

    BG3 made a lot of committed repeat customers for Larian, I don't think it's impossible their next game will sell very well based on name recognition and good will alone. A guarantee? No. But a safe bet.

    It’s the equivalent of the rich billionaires saying if you want a house just work hard and buy one. It’s not hard! Why are the poor people complaining?

    If this is the source of your rage posting, that's a lot of misguided anger to point it toward Larian. Are we gonna complain about the one-man developer who quit his job to develop Balatro? Yes he was privileged enough to have savings to dig into, but neither him nor Larian are anywhere in the same ballpark as EA, Microsoft, Ubisoft, etc. They're just the wrong people to get mad at.

  • Baldur's Gate 3 Dev Larian's Publishing Director Calls Games Industry Layoffs an 'Avoidable F*ck Up'
  • Your other comments which are the same comment repeated to everyone. I also don't see any logic, just ragebait.

    Blocked by OP, lol

  • What are your complaints about Lemmy?
  • Ever since reading about the challenge of deleting an image from your profile, a GUI for that. It should not only be an API call, not should you have to contact your instance admin to do it. It should be completely self-service from your profile page.

  • wedistribute.org Content Nation Backlash Highlights Mastodon's Toxicity

    It turns out, if people in an online community really don't like what you're doing, they can turn to harassment, threats, or worse to try to shut you down.

    Content Nation Backlash Highlights Mastodon's Toxicity
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    Bocchi - 忘愛 【Official Lyric Video】

    "忘愛" サブスク配信中 / 2024.2.7 2nd EP「思春期と時間旅行」releasehttps://bocchi.lnk.to/BouAi作詞: 三苫 由以 / 鈴木 将也 作曲: 三苫 由以編曲: BocchiSupport Drums: 佐藤 文耶 (yunoka)Recorded & Mixed...

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    www.cnn.com US Steel, once the world’s largest corporation, agrees to sell itself to a Japanese company | CNN Business

    US Steel has agreed to be bought by NIppon Steel, Japan’s largest steelmaker, in a $14.1 billion deal.

    US Steel, once the world’s largest corporation, agrees to sell itself to a Japanese company | CNN Business
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    /kbin meta @kbin.social HarkMahlberg @kbin.social

    Blocked users who move instances don't stay blocked

    Posting to raise awareness of this behavior with kbin. Maybe it's something Ernest can address in the ActivityPub rewrite, maybe it's something that doesn't need to be (or can be) addressed at all.

    On Mastodon, if you don't like your instance or it's in the process of shutting down, you can migrate your account to another instance. I was aware of this feature, but I hadn't considered how such a move federates to kbin, until now.

    I had blocked a user of a niche Mastodon instance, and then they migrated to a larger instance. After the migration, I started seeing their posts again, with my blocklist only containing the old account, not the new one.

    Now to my knowledge, this feature of Mastodon is not a standard component of ActivityPub. I think it's a great feature actually, but I'm concerned that enables a sort of harassment whereby an attacker can harass someone, get blocked, migrate to another instance, and continue harassing their target. This feature being non-standard, I don't know how it gets broadcast to other instances, let alone if/how kbin should handle it.

    Should kbin automatically update blocklists with the newly migrated account name and instance name? That feels like the ideal solution, but I don't know how feasible it is. Just wanted to open this up for discussion and awareness.

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    Linguistics @kbin.social HarkMahlberg @kbin.social

    "a hell of a" ✔️

    "a hell of a" ✔️ "an hell of a" ❌ "one hell of a" ✔️

    \#linguistics

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    projects.apnews.com Diplomas for sale, $465: Inside one of Louisiana’s unapproved schools

    Louisiana’s off-the-grid schools are a rapidly growing example of the nation’s continuing fallout from COVID: families disengaging from public school.

    Diplomas for sale, $465: Inside one of Louisiana’s unapproved schools
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    apnews.com On Day One of Gaza cease-fire, Hamas and Israel carry out first swap of hostages and prisoners

    On the first day of a four-day Gaza cease-fire agreement, Hamas released 24 hostages abducted by militants from southern Israel seven weeks ago. In return, Israel freed 39 Palestinians from prison on Friday.

    On Day One of Gaza cease-fire, Hamas and Israel carry out first swap of hostages and prisoners
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    [News] House passes a stopgap bill to avert a government shutdown

    www.nbcnews.com House passes a stopgap bill to avert a government shutdown

    The bill now heads to the Senate, which is expected to pass it before Friday's deadline. It would keep the government funded through early next year while Congress debates spending.

    House passes a stopgap bill to avert a government shutdown
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    \#citiesskylines2 I think I figured out how to satisfy low density residential demand in the game. It basically operates on the concept of Induced Demand. Ju

    \#citiesskylines2 I think I figured out how to satisfy low density residential demand in the game. It basically operates on the concept of Induced Demand. Just like adding a lane to a highway incentivizes people to use the highway more, leading to the same congestion problems. If you constantly zone low density residential in an attempt to "chase the demand bar," what you're doing is increasing the supply of houses. Meaning, driving down the COST of housing. Meaning more citizens can afford a house, meaning they buy up that supply, so they demand more... it's a feedback loop, like acquiescing to a child who only ever wants to eat chocolate.

    So, counterintuitively, you need to IGNORE their demand. By keeping the supply constant, and with demand increasing, the cost of the housing goes up. This prices out some of your citizens, and so they will begin demanding lower-cost options. Enter, medium density housing. You start with row housing, then medium density, then mixed-use. This doesn't happen fast, let alone instantly, so you kind of have to plan this strategy from the founding of your city. At one point I had a 15k pop with almost exclusive demand for medium density housing.

    As your citizens get more educated through college and university levels, they'll be able to afford those suburbs again, and the demand will return. But they'll also be young enough that living "in the big city" will be desirable and they'll start demanding high density apartments close to shops and offices. Beware the Low Rent zoning type! Despite being high density, if your citizens are too well educated and make too much money, they'll abandon these buildings the moment they can afford nicer places. But I guess they're a good stopgap measure between medium density and regular high density.

    So Induced Demand is a double edged sword: you want to avoid inducing demand for low density suburbs, and purposely induce demand for higher densities.

    \#citiesskylines

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    www.politico.com Senate confirms top Navy, Air Force picks as Tuberville feud intensifies

    The move comes as several GOP members confront the Alabama senator over his blanket hold on nominees.

    Senate confirms top Navy, Air Force picks as Tuberville feud intensifies
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    thehill.com RFK Jr. pulls more votes from Trump than Biden in three-way race: Poll

    Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appears to pull more support from former President Trump than President Biden in a hypothetical general election matchup, according to a new…

    RFK Jr. pulls more votes from Trump than Biden in three-way race: Poll
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    [News] Mike Johnson elected House speaker, ending 22 days of GOP stalemate

    Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) won the floor vote for the House speaker gavel on Wednesday, ending the weeks of stalemate and failed nominations that followed the historic ouster of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)

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    This carpet took years off my life just looking at it.

    Like I'm pretty sure this is the color of the blood that Akira Kurosawa used in Ran. It's fucking haunting.

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    [Folding Ideas] This is Financial Advice

    Clickbait Title: if the price is zero then you can buy all the shares

    I tell you what, when you try and tell this story you either sum it up in ten minutes with the broadest strokes or you settle in for a rabbit hole made entirely out of onions and ogres. Conspiracy theorists flock together and constantly try and rope each other into the orbit of their personal hobby horse conspiracy, so once you break the surface suddenly you're digging through endless side stories, each with their own cast of characters, trying to figure out if some tertiary claim is true, was maybe true in the past but is no longer true, or was never true, and discover that the only sources on the matter are the same three people quoting each other in an endless circle of false legitimacy.

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    [Folding Ideas] This is Financial Advice

    Clickbait Title: if the price is zero then you can buy all the shares

    I tell you what, when you try and tell this story you either sum it up in ten minutes with the broadest strokes or you settle in for a rabbit hole made entirely out of onions and ogres. Conspiracy theorists flock together and constantly try and rope each other into the orbit of their personal hobby horse conspiracy, so once you break the surface suddenly you're digging through endless side stories, each with their own cast of characters, trying to figure out if some tertiary claim is true, was maybe true in the past but is no longer true, or was never true, and discover that the only sources on the matter are the same three people quoting each other in an endless circle of false legitimacy.

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    [News] Dianne Feinstein, longest serving woman in the Senate, has died at 90

    Feinstein suddenly became the mayor of San Francisco when two other officials were assassinated. Later she was elected to the U.S. Senate after male senators grilled Anita Hill in public hearings.

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