CoderKat @ CoderKat @lemm.ee

I write bugs and sometimes features! I'm also @CoderKat@kbin.social.

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To be honest, pretty much all my files that actually matter are under my Dropbox folder. Everything else is ephemeral. I mostly depend on Steam or the likes to backup game saves. Not much else I care about. I've upgraded my PC a few times (with no full backups) and never missed a single thing that got lost in the upgrade.

I find it more common to do this for replies to my comments. I'm far more likely to post a first comment in a thread, but if someone has some disagreeing reply, the odds I'll say "fuck it, I don't care" is a lot, lot higher.

I'd argue that they have asked for trucks to get so big because they seemingly sell better that way. It's admittedly an imperfect thing to look at since there's few alternatives and many other factors, but these big trucks didn't immediately take over the market. At some point they were introduced and consumers liked them.

As someone who also loves that one and considered Airplane the best comedy, I concur. I'll also add both Hot Shots movies to that.

When you have a 3D printer, you have a compulsion to come up with uses for it, even if they're useless. 3D printers are great, but there's this urge to find more ways to use it, rather than be driven by what you want/need.

Are you suggesting that because the charges were dropped, he's not a murderer? Because that's not how language works. Being legally proven to have done a crime is not the same as having done the crime. You can be convicted while innocent or have charges dropped when actually guilty. It's perfectly valid to call someone a murder even if the legal system is a failure.

I don't think you can hand wave away all risks like that. Negligence is a thing and a waiver won't protect you from it.

Of course, there's the question of if the candy-murder factory was negligent. I'm sure oompa loompa lawyers will be arguing in court for many months.

Hey, where'd you find this? Do they have any that works on the rear blinkers?

I find this very unconvincing. Ads don't offer a service. They're not like a search engine or the likes. So why should ads have to target all groups equally?

Yeah, I'm proud of the younger generation. I see them standing up against the kinda shit that my generation at the same age just accepted or perpetrated.

You don't have to be that attractive. While attraction does matter and does help, personality plays a huge, huge role. I'm bi and find most people to be physically attractive in their own way, but only a small minority of people have attractive personalities.

But evil can never be truly deleted, can it? There will always be new villains. Can you ever truly call yourself done?

But it doesn't really matter what you do. What matters is if it makes the company money, usually meaning what a sizable number of other people do. Even if you spend less, if 5 other people spend more, that's why companies would want to do it.

I don't think this is the only reason though. I think it's also to keep the store feeling like a new store. They want shoppers to feel like they're getting new experiences every now and then. They don't want to be stale. It's like how many people rearrange their furniture every few years. Change gives feelings of novelty. Sure, you could buy a new couch, but just changing which walk the couch is against is a cheaper alternative.

Ah, yes, the writers are trying to stifle the innovation of the execs. Because we all know writers aren't critical for innovation or whatever.

I mean, have you seen what LLMs output? I think AI is really cool and has plenty of valid use cases, but it sure as hell isn't innovative at script writing.

I contest your usage of Canada as an example. While it's certainly not as polarized as the US, the effects of FPTP are still prominent. There's a ton of vote splitting at the federal and provincial levels. Eg, conservatives rule Ontario despite the majority of people voting for one of the two left-er leaning parties, since the two parties basically split the left vote down the middle, while conservatives only have one party.

I do completely agree that propositional voting is waaaaay better than ranked choice, though. Personally, I will take almost anything over FPTP, but some form of PR is vastly superior, as you noted.

But at least with ranked choice, people can start to vote for another party without it feeling like a penalty. As a Canadian, I basically have to vote strategic. I don't get to vote for my favourite party because of FPTP. Ranked choice would at least remove that issue.

I think the two party system of the US is basically where FPTP systems are all at risk to end up, especially since voting strategically gradually results in that. But the US GOP is so crazy that it's almost a necessity for any progressive to vote strategically, whereas at least in Canada, things aren't quite as bad, which makes it easier for people to take the risk of voting for who they really want to.

But even if a party gets, say, 5% of the vote and gets funding, that level of vote splitting can influence who gets a seat now. That might be fine and dandy when the short term doesn't matter too much, but right now, the stakes are very high in the US, since the right straight up wants to dismantle democracy, kill trans people, and completely ban abortions.

Those are high stakes just to likely get some more funding for a third party (much less win even a single seat).

IMO any political pressure that could go towards pushing third parties should first to towards electoral reform. Only then can third parties be voted for without putting a lot of people at risk.

Yeah, they're all pretty disappointing. I'd love to have something that feels like how movies portray digital assistants. Movie assistants never misunderstand you or say "I'm sorry, I couldn't recognize your voice". I've mostly used the Google one and it's so bad at doing what I feel like is feasible even with inaccuracy.

Eg, I've tried to tell my assistant to like a song that was currently playing on YTM but could not find a voice command that worked (and some commands backfired by making it skip to the next song). I've had very poor success with getting assistant to cast something to my Chromecast with my voice. It sometimes works, but it fails or gets it wrong so often that it's not worth the time.

Sometimes I use it for rewinding (e.g., "ok google, rewind 30 seconds") because many apps don't have granular rewind buttons and tracking on the track bar is way too inaccurate. But lol, it's so slow! It takes a few seconds to figure out what I said (so I have to ask it to rewind more than I wish) and it seems every app is unoptimized for rewinding, as it usually takes several seconds of loading.

It can't really do any kind of research either. You basically can just ask it to google things and it sometimes is able to extract the meaningful part from simple questions. It's a far way from how Hollywood thinks a digital assistant will work.

I loved Starlight and dream. Both were the kinda things that I wouldn't want every drink to be like, but wow were they cool to try out and I'd absolutely try any experimental flavours I see because of that.

I wasn't aware of most of the others though. I think these can be harder to find in some places. Most of the ones I've had were from 7-11s or similar convenience stores, but I don't usually even go to such places.

Fuck Ea-nāṣir and his low grade copper.

Oh, it's just like when I floated the idea that we should go out for drinks this weekend. No biggy. Just a little execution. I understand if you'd rather do it next weekend instead.