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What isn't illegal but should be?
  • Conflicts of interest. Sometimes illegal, but not nearly as much as they should be (almost always)

    Like congress members being allowed to trade stock, which can then be affected by their vote

    Or one of the specifically carved out exceptions to the medical kickbacks laws is for the people who negotiate drug prices for pharmacies

  • Last book that made you cry.
  • How do induction stoves work?

  • The moviegoer experience these days
  • I think that just supports my point, that rather than survivorship bias this is a small group of companies owning the entire industry, and movies are just actually getting worse

    Gaming is going through the same thing with Microsoft now owning most of the industry, but 1-5 people can make an indie game without leaving the house. There's also a number of non-shittified stores for distribution, meanwhile media and streaming services are firmly in the stages of enshitification

    I don't think indie movies will be able to take over the way indie games seem to be - not without the streaming industry changing first

  • GOP Rep. Introduces Articles Of Impeachment Against Kamala Harris —Though Political Stunt Is Bound To Fail
  • And here I was, pissed at the Democratic party for not having a transition plan after such a big fuss skipping the primary. Good thing the other side was even less prepared

    How did we get here?

  • This explains much.
  • Nope, apparently you can get screwed by RNG, but you were in control. I don't remember it being particularly hard either

  • Anon gets confused
  • Leafy greens are a real world stamina potion

  • Anon gets confused
  • Leafy greens are a real world stamina potion

  • Anon gets confused
  • Leafy greens are a real world stamina potion

  • Anon gets confused
  • Leafy greens are a real world stamina potion

  • I swear I check them often enough!
  • You guys have numbers? I have the infinity sign on every new device within days

  • The moviegoer experience these days
  • No, survivorship bias is real, but this is late stage capitalism. Disney owns it all, and the occasional worthwhile film sneaks under their writing by committee bullshit

    There's plenty of good movies that future generations would happily watch... But proportionally? The number of movies made a year has exploded, the number that make an impression for even a year has dwindled

  • Reddit is now blocking major search engines and AI bots — except the ones that pay
  • It's structural - you can be open or locked down, and it's hard to decentralize if you're not open

    You can make it easier or harder to work with that data, but ultimately it's obsfucation - you could make it hard to parse and obscure details, but ultimately if you want decentralized federation you can't hide too much

  • rule if you love girl rule
  • Let's put it another way. If you're a trans-girl with a bulge, that's your gender. That's part of your identity

    You're a trans-girl - a subcategory of girl, and from there a sub-category of trans girl. Gender is a nebulous concept, there is no perfect form of any gender

    You can't line up a bunch of girls against a wall and arrange them by how much of a girl they are

    Our brains are wired to categorize to take short cuts - but people don't fit nearly in boxes

    Getting less philosophical, for some people that might be a huge trigger, for others it's just a trait. And if it's just a trait...well people like being desirable, and people don't generally appreciate traits of themselves they've accepted as part of them being tiptoed around like a taboo

  • The Rule
  • Why, of course! People on here saying it's impossible, smh

    Let me introduce you to the wonderful world of thrashing. What is thrashing? It's when you run out of ram. Luckily, most computers these days do something like swap space - they just treat your SSD as extra slow extra RAM.

    Your computer gets locked up when it genuinely doesn't have enough RAM still though, so it unloads some RAM into disk, puts what it needs right now back into RAM, executes a bit of processing, then the program tells it actually needs some of what got shelved on disk. And it does it super fast, so it's dropping the thing it needs hundreds of times a second - technology is truly remarkable

    Depending on how the software handles it, it might just crash... But instead it might just take literal hours

  • Jeff's magic money machine
  • I just remember the day, as a software dev with a solid understanding of Blockchain, my older dev neighbor started explaining how NFTs worked

    I thought he was confused or stupid or something.

    "Wait, so like you have these super rare images, proof you own it on a Blockchain, and a link to the place they're all publicly hosted?"

    Him: "Yep"

    "And the only use for these right now is as a profile picture?"

    Him: Shrug, "yeah, people use them for discord and stuff"

    "But... Couldn't you just download the image and use it anyways?"

    Him: "Yeah, it's all publicly hosted"

    And it was about then my brain locked up. I did multiple hours of research later, sure I had to be missing something

  • Never believe the hype.
  • Why? Fast food is just a starter job for high schoolers /s

  • Anon is an anthropologist
  • There was always struggle over territory. Generally non lethal, just like predators facing off

    There was no war. War requires agriculture - an army cannot march or camp without food constantly being shipped in

    Famine also is usually due to agriculture - monocultures and short-sighted management of the environment.

    There were hard times. Droughts happened, sickness happened, people were not always very cool to each other. These things weren't done on institutional scale, because the only institutions were meetings between groups occasionally sending representatives

    The more I learn about ancient history, the more I realize we fucked everything up societally. Technology is great, and yes we have a lot less mothers dying in childbirth... Except we didn't for most of recorded history (and we're backsliding), because literal childbirth in the woods was better than delivery in a hospital until a century ago

  • Lemmings of ...uh... Lemmy who ate ramen noodles dry, whaddup wit dat?
  • I no longer do this.

    Not because it's not delicious (it is), but because it's a super cheap and easy way to eat 300-400 calories of straight carbs

    I'd say don't knock it until you try it, but just put in a slight effort and snack healthier

  • [Mega thread] - Biden ends bid for presidency
  • Nope, they just have money we don't have

  • Anon is an anthropologist
  • Because for most of it, we were living our lives, planting the trees that gave us food, protecting the animals we ate from other predators, and just living off the land. We spread over the entire world and shaped the land to better suit us

    We weren't primitive, for millennia we turned most of the world into a paradise built for us, then tore it down in a few centuries and are now flirting with extinction

  • Looking for distro recommendations

    Between wanting to do more with local LLMs, wsl annoyances, and the direction tech companies have been going lately, I think it's time I start exploring a full Linux migration

    I'm a software dev, I'm comfortable in the command line, and I used to write the node configuration piece of something similar to chef (flavor/version agnostic setup of cloud environments)

    So for me, Linux has always been a "modify the script and rebuild fresh" kind of deal... Even my dev VMs involved a lot of scripts and snapshots. I don't enjoy configuration and I really hate debugging it, but I can muddle through when I have to

    Web searches have pushed me towards Ubuntu for LLM work, but I've never been a big fan of the window Managers. I like little flourishes like animation and lots of options I can set graphically, I use multiple desktop multiple monitors

    I've tried the one it comes standard with, gnome, and kde (although it's been about 5 years since I've last given them a real shot).

    I'm mostly looking for the most reasonable footprint that is "good enough", something that feels polished to at least the Windows XP level - subtle animations instead of instant popups, rounded borders, maybe a bit of transparency here and there.

    I'm looking at Ubuntu w/

    • kde w/ plasma (I understand it's very configurable, I don't love the look and it seems to be a bigger footprint

    • budgie (looks nice, never heard of it before today)

    • kylin (looks very Windows 10 which is nice, a bit skeptical about the Chinese focus)

    • mate (I like the look, but it seems a bit dubiously centralized)

    • unity (looks like the standard Ubuntu taken to it's natural conclusion)

    • rhino Linux (something new which makes me skeptical, but pretty and seems more like existing tools packaged together which makes me think the issues might not impact actual workflow)

    • anything the community is big on for this, personally I'd pick opensuze, but I need to maximize compatibility with bleeding edge LLM projects

    My hardware and hard requirements are:

    • nvidia 1060ti
    • ryzen 5500u
    • 16g ram
    • 4 drives nearly full, because it's a computer of Theseus running the same (upgraded) vista license that came with the case like 15 years ago
    • multi desktop, multi monitor
    • can handle a lot of browser Windows/tabs
    • ideally the setup is just a package mana ger install script with all my dependencies
    • gaming support would be nice, but I'll be dual booting for VR anyways

    I've been out of the game for a while, I'd love to hear what the feeling is in the community these days

    (Side note, is pine as cool a company as it seems?)

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