My hot take: it's not really a "computer" unless it's Turing-complete. The Antikythera mechanism is incredibly cool and all, but it can only perform a finite, fixed set of calculations and thus fails to meet that definition.
I've been buying AMD for -- holy shit -- 25 years now, and have never once regretted it. I don't consider myself a fanboi; I just (a) prefer having the best performance-per-dollar rather than best performance outright, and (b) like rooting for the underdog.
But if Intel keeps fucking up like this, I might have to switch on grounds of (b)!
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(Realistically I'd be more likely to switch to ARM or even RISCV, though. Even if Intel became an underdog, my memory of their anti-competitive and anti-consumer bad behavior remains long.)
As a 'murcan who took Latin in high school (because SAT scores were a higher-priority goal than actually becoming bilingual, LOL) and is now learning French of my own volition, I think maybe the Olympics would be a relatively good candidate for watching in French. At least with the simpler/less-subjective sports (e.g. track and field, as opposed to e.g. gymnastics), it could be possible to follow along just with the infographics on the screen even if you struggle to understand the commentary.
(Also, thanks for the advice. I've got a PIA subscription that I really don't use enough, so this is a good push to finally figure out how to set it up properly.)
It's crazy how it really is always projection, isn't it? Their primary argument against public media is invoking the boogeyman of government censorship and/or propaganda (but that doesn't really happen unless all the country's media is controlled by the government and that's not what's happening with PBS/BBC/etc.), when it's really that they're butthurt that their own censorship and propaganda is being resisted.
If these are the tacos we get, imagine how awesome the other timeline's tacos must be!
How would that [Trump going down for making some false statements to law enforcement] happen?
What follows is wild unfounded speculation that 99.9% didn't happen, but is technically a barely plausible hypothetical answer to your question.
If the ear injury wasn't caused by a bullet, then the miss wasn't as near as we thought it was.
If it missed by a lot despite being at [relatively] short range [for the type of gun used], then maybe it was on purpose.
If the shooter missed on purpose, maybe it was because he was hired by Trump for a false-flag operation in order to allow Trump to claim martyrdom, or even a casus belli to purge his enemies.
If this sort of absurd conspiracy were what actually happened, maybe Trump would lie to the FBI to try to cover it up, get caught, and get charged with more crimes.
They hate them because they're the rival gang.
I'm convinced that "analog sounds better" is just an inaccurate way people describe preferring the experience of listening to a record, and they just can't articulate that what they really like is the tactile ceremony of loading it in the player or looking at large-format album art or something like that. Surely nobody actually believes that less accurate sound reproduction is somehow an improvement.
But if he dies, his sentence ends.
The timing snuck up on me and I haven't figured out how to get viewing access to them (whether broadcast, subscription, or 🏴☠️). Any suggestions?
Any second-in-command that was actually popular would be a threat to Trump, so that cannot be tolerated. He's got to find an uncharismatic sycophant smart enough to help him purge enemies, yet dumb enough to be incapable of plotting against him himself.
I think a workbench (maybe minus the shelving) is a better first project idea than a table anyway, since it's a work surface you expect to get beat up and so it doesn't need to be fine furniture craftsmanship.
It does need to be flat and sturdy, though, so have fun planing all those studs so that you can laminate them without gaps and such.
Also, good luck going down the rabbit hole of workbench design and never actually building the thing because you're overwhelmed with choice.
Tl;dr: some GATTACA-type shit?
But it's a laser. However fast it's going, it's going the speed of itself!
"Ackchyually" indeed, LOL
And that tenet lives in their heads rent-free.
I remember the last good Pizza Hut I had. It was a personal pan pizza I got from the Pizza Hut kiosk at my college's student center, sometime in the '00s.
In every jurisdiction with misogynist judges.
"**Homicides only" means this chart excludes traffic deaths
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/25030964
> - > - Author: /u/tyrorc > - Link Shared on Reddit > - Original Reddit Comments > ---- Wanna know how the numbers change for "Other Humans" when deaths due to car collisions are included? It gets 1.35 million added to it, and those were 2016 numbers.
Automobile drivers are by far the most deadly animal, blowing mosquitoes completely out of the water!
Cake days have an off-by-one error
In my profile it says my cake day is today (June 13), but it was displaying a cake icon on my comments all day yesterday (June 12).
The icon was a black and white outline so I thought maybe it was showing it the day before on purpose so other people would see ahead of time, and that it would turn colorful on the actual day. But then midnight hit and it disappeared, so it must be a bug instead.
Wall framing question: stud spacing between openings
I'm framing up a non-load-bearing wall that has two closet doors on it, close together (the king studs for the two openings are 13" apart). Unfortunately, they are aligned such that one of the 16" OC common studs would fall within that gap. In fact, it would only be 1/2" away from the left king stud, so not even anywhere near the middle of the space.) Is it still normal/expected to include that stud, or can I omit it?
(BTW: both doors will go to the same closet so there's no perpendicular wall teeing into this one, in case that matters.)
Colorado’s Bold New Approach to Highways — Not Building Them | The state has made it harder to widen highways, and transportation officials are turning their eyes to transit.
The state has made it harder to widen highways, and transportation officials are turning their eyes to transit.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16028585
> cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/10092805 > > > > In Colorado, that new vision was catalyzed by climate change. In 2019, Gov. Jared Polis signed a law that required the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent within 30 years. As the state tried to figure out how it would get there, it zeroed in on drivers. Transportation is the largest single contributor to greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, accounting for about 30 percent of the total; 60 percent of that comes from cars and trucks. To reduce emissions, Coloradans would have to drive less.
Colorado’s Bold New Approach to Highways — Not Building Them | The state has made it harder to widen highways, and transportation officials are turning their eyes to transit.
The state has made it harder to widen highways, and transportation officials are turning their eyes to transit.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/10092805
> > In Colorado, that new vision was catalyzed by climate change. In 2019, Gov. Jared Polis signed a law that required the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent within 30 years. As the state tried to figure out how it would get there, it zeroed in on drivers. Transportation is the largest single contributor to greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, accounting for about 30 percent of the total; 60 percent of that comes from cars and trucks. To reduce emissions, Coloradans would have to drive less.
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
The rule is still present in your time, as it was in ours
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/10553287
> Alt text: pictures of suburban neighborhoods and homes with text over it that reads: “this is no place of honor. No esteemed deed is commemorated here. What is here is dangerous and repulsive to us. Turn back.”
Ikea launches deliveries by cargo bike (in Florence, Italy)
Saranno realizzate con la cargo bike
The article is in Italian; here's an automatic translation by Firefox:
> New sustainable delivery service by the Swedish giant Ikea on Florence. In fact, customers will be able to choose to receive in their homes light products - up to a total weight of 30 kilos - via cargo bike. A way to help reduce traffic and city pollution that will be made possible by the Ikea Italia agreement with Ecopony and Robin Food, local and ethical delivery specialized in deliveries on two wheels. A green experimentation that sees Florence as the protagonist. > > “With the increasing diffusion of sales methods such as e-commerce and new purchasing habits, it is necessary to put in place actions that are sustainable in the long term – says Carlo Guandalini, IKEA Market Manager Florence – For this reason, even in the city of Florence, we have implemented an important plan linked to the logistics of the last mile to ensure that the path of our products has a positive impact, not only for the environment but for the entire community”. > > Florence was also among the first Italian cities that saw IKEA equip itself with a fleet of electric vehicles to make deliveries to the plan in zero emission mode: from last June 10 electric vehicles were progressively introduced to cover all deliveries in the city. The Swedish giant aims to deliver zero-impact deliveries by 2025.
Someone gets killed by a car, so they restrict e-bikes.
(Title shamelessly stolen from this comment in the crossposted [email protected] thread.)
University of Georgia filed complaint on behalf of news outlet and transparency research organization, saying queries unanswered
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12964138
> cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/17136474 > > > The lawsuit’s claims highlight how “over the last decade, the failure of police foundations nationwide to provide basic levels of transparency raises questions about their motives, and whether or not they have the public interest at heart”, said Alex Vitale, the author of The End of Policing. “If you have nothing to hide, then why are you hiding?” Vitale said. > > > > Last week’s lawsuit draws attention to the center’s driving force, the APF – the nation’s largest police foundations, and one of the most well-funded among hundreds, with support from corporate donors such as Delta, Wells Fargo and Home Depot. Its CEO, Dave Wilkinson, is also the highest-paid among police foundation CEOs nationwide, with a 2022 salary of $500,000. > > > > Corporate funding, coupled with their non-profit status, have allowed police foundations to escape public scrutiny, said Vitale. “Police have relied on these slush funds to provide them with levels of independence from government oversight unheard of in any other agency,” Vitale said.
University of Georgia filed complaint on behalf of news outlet and transparency research organization, saying queries unanswered
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/17136474
> The lawsuit’s claims highlight how “over the last decade, the failure of police foundations nationwide to provide basic levels of transparency raises questions about their motives, and whether or not they have the public interest at heart”, said Alex Vitale, the author of The End of Policing. “If you have nothing to hide, then why are you hiding?” Vitale said. > > Last week’s lawsuit draws attention to the center’s driving force, the APF – the nation’s largest police foundations, and one of the most well-funded among hundreds, with support from corporate donors such as Delta, Wells Fargo and Home Depot. Its CEO, Dave Wilkinson, is also the highest-paid among police foundation CEOs nationwide, with a 2022 salary of $500,000. > > Corporate funding, coupled with their non-profit status, have allowed police foundations to escape public scrutiny, said Vitale. “Police have relied on these slush funds to provide them with levels of independence from government oversight unheard of in any other agency,” Vitale said.
Pre-dawn operations in residential areas resulted in a woman forced out of her home with no shirt and a man dragged by his hair
Pre-dawn operations in residential areas resulted in a woman forced out of her home with no shirt and a man dragged by his hair
Pre-dawn operations in residential areas resulted in a woman forced out of her home with no shirt and a man dragged by his hair
Pre-dawn operations in residential areas resulted in a woman forced out of her home with no shirt and a man dragged by his hair
Stop in the Name of The United Fruit Company! - Thompson SMG Riot Ammo (1925)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11207741
> In the 1920s an increasing number of corporations were acquiring machine guns for labor relations related reasons. Deterring striking employees. > > >Did you know that the Peters company made ammunition specifically for riot control for the Thompson submachine gun in the 1920s? And it wasn’t rubber bullets, either – it was paper-wrapped snakeshot. The cartridges were actually longer than a standard magazine would accept, necessitating the production of a special longer magazine to fit them. That magazine would hold 18 rounds, and was specially marked as such... > > >... At about 8 feet it made a pattern about 18 inches in diameter (from a rifled Tommy Gun barrel), and did not cycle the action... the proper way to use this ammo for crowd control: fire it into the pavement in front of the crowd, allowing it to ricochet up into the crowd at a lower velocity. It would be less lethal that way, but still a great way to lose an eye! > > Ian's video: [5:30] > https://youtu.be/ud3Csq6568k?si= > > Old Popular Mechanics article that mentions this type of ammo.
American society wasn't always so car-centric. Our future doesn't have to be
The surprising history of cars in the U.S. offers hope for a shift toward more climate-friendly transportation options.
cross-posted from: https://derp.foo/post/635208
> There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.