blindsight @ blindsight @beehaw.org

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I use Real Debrid with Stremio + Torrentio. I just need to figure out how to add the manual torrent search & download plugin for Real Debrid since I watch a lot of obscure British TV, not everything is hosted already.

For mainstream stuff, it just works. For obscure stuff, it's about 50-50 if it's on there.

Manually downloading torrents is just for stuff I'll be transferring to a mobile device, like audiobooks. And cracked software, I suppose. I needed Adobe Acrobat for something and torrented it.

idk, I couldn't care less about 90Hz. I switched to 60 Hz to save battery on my last phone that had a 90Hz display anyway.

I love how narrow the Xperia 10 series is. It's a great one-handed phone, and the 21:9 aspect ratio is great for getting a lot of text on the page.

This was my main concern. What's the monetization strategy?

I sincerely hope you're right, but Biden is polling a lot lower now than he was in 2020, and it was a shockingly close race.

Regardless, it shouldn't be this close. Democrats need to shift to capture Gen Z and Millennial voters. Alienating young voters will be what loses them the next election, if they lose, and it's causing increasingly bigger problems for them as Gen Z ages into voting and Millennials aren't shifting right as they age. Democrats need to pivot to get young voters politically engaged.

Or, at least, that's my take as a non-American watching this trainwreck happen.

Similar for me, recently. When I'm really into reading, I can read more than a book a day. $15+ for an audiobook that I'll crush in a day just isn't possible for me. That could easily balloon to $5000/year for me and another $3000/yr for my daughter, and $2000/year for my wife. (I've read a 6-book series, a 3-book series, and almost half a 4-book series in the last week... And didn't sleep, lol!)

We can't afford a used car in audiobook costs each year.

I actually mostly switched to text-to-speech with Kindle Unlimited so authors get paid for most of my reading, but audiobooks I still pirate when I read them. By my napkin math, authors get about 20-30 times what I pay in KU fees based on our voracious reading.

I mean... That's literally why the Democrats lost in 2016 and why they're likely to lose in 2024. The Democrats can't even compete against a would-be fascist dictator. That's how out of touch they are.

It was very quick, aside from waiting a bit for the email to arrive.

But then you need to know enough about the topic already to know what is stable and what changes with newer versions.

Like, the "web dev boot camp" course I got from UDemy a few years ago as a guide for building a web dev high school course: I recently went back to to look something up, and the whole thing has been completely redone start to finish. Makes sense, considering that it's updated to the newest versions of Bootstrap and other libraries (and who knows what else).

I know nothing about Rust, but I would assume there are at least some libraries that have major new versions in the last couple of years which might change best practices somehow? idk. But the harder part is not knowing what you don't know.

Okay, let's see... Not sure if the spell is even activating that glyph sequence. Let's try casting it again with a purple glow rune there...

I already knew the broad strokes of most of what I've watched so far (about halfway), but it's very entertaining. I'm watching at 2× speed, fwiw (which is typical for me).

Edit: Just finished it. Wow. I had no idea there was still new ground to cover in NES Tetris. Really cool ending with explaining the next Grail in NES Tetris.

BC is doing a lot of work toward truth and reconciliation. This year is the first year that all high school graduates are required to complete a First Peoples course as part of their graduation requirements. (Usually as an English First Peoples course or as a grade 12 social studies course that meets another grad requirement, so it doesn't remove any elective choices.)

This is disheartening. I wonder how many of my former students were at these protests.

It's shameful that Canadian universities can't disentangle anti-Semitism from anti-Zionism. It is not racist to peacefully protest against the genocide being committed by the state of Israel.

I am feeling increasingly confused by the world and the direction it's going. I live in a different reality, it seems.

I think you nailed the confusion in this meme.

To simplify: it's confusing that ½ = 0.5, but 1/2 ≠ 1/0.5

My level of research was to come to the comments hoping someone had explained the weird numbering jump already.

The falling PISA scores are likely caused by smart phones and social media, neither of which are really in the control of schools. The data and argument are laid out on The Anxious Generation by Haidt. It's on my to-read list, but I've heard a summary of the main argument from a technology leader in education. The data is compelling.

The Fraser Institute, a conservative think tank, pushing for privatization in education through any means necessary isn't newsworthy. Can we stop giving propagandists air time? "Choice in education" is code for charter schools, which are a failed US experiment.

The real story about equity in education comes from Finland. Decades back, they set an educational mandate to increase equity in their system. They were trying to help the most disadvantaged students in their system succeed academically. The result? Finland rocketed to the top of the PISA scoreboard. Everyone did better.

The bullshit they're peddling about meritocracy in education is based on conservative ideology, specifically the capitalistic notion that there are winners and losers in the world, there always will be, and winners get there because they deserve it. The evidence says otherwise; rising tides lift all ships. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is better for all students.

I'm getting tired of conservatives trying to destroy our world-class education system. Yes, it has problems. Yes, it needs changes. But Canadian teachers are generally doing a very good job, and lots of places in Canada are on the cutting edge of implementing a variety of research-informed change that should make things even better.

If only we could only get conservative governments from cutting more and more funding from education...

To add to this:

Ain't no way a brand new game studio is getting a loan at 6%. If they can even get a business loan at all (good luck!), it would be at a much higher interest rate due to the risk, and/or require assets to be held in collateral (only an option if you're already wealthy to begin with...)

I've heard about this one before, but I'm downloading an episode now.

The one thing I hate about QI is that I've already seen it all and there aren't any more episodes.

Edit: That was great. It totally scratched the QI itch. Among many other tidbits, I now know how leech treatments were discovered, that there's a specific frequency that is arousing for badgers and sets off car alarms, and that in one year, over 700 American students were arrested for owning pagers.

Edit: Holy shit. The author of Goodnight Moon literally died from an overly-enthusiastic "can-can kick". She did it to prove she was feeling fine... (ironically) but she dislodged a blood clot that instantly killed her.

I don't see that as a counterpoint. I think it's reasonable that banks (and corporations, in general) are fined significantly for regulatory violations.

With regulatory capture, most regulations are weak to begin with. And if they don't have teeth, then they're entirely pointless.

Two years of free cashflow is a good fine for serious violations of ethics/regulations, imho. I don't think they're getting off lightly with that, though; it's a significant enough fine that they're incentivized to do better and, even better, acts as a warning shot across the entire industry.

I was curious, so I looked it up: Earthbound has a fairly gentle XP curve. Double XP takes you from level 33 to 40, assuming you play the same.

I haven't played Earthbound enough to remember if there's grinding, so idk if it's necessary. In general, I tend to find the existence of double XP romhacks is usually enough to indicate that I'd rather use them, based on my playstyle preferences. Someone thought it was beneficial enough to put hours of work into!

Not quite so simple. Converting to USD:

TD has a 5.37% dividend yield, a market cap of 134.46B, and $8.498B in profit.

Doing the math, their earnings are 6.32% of capitalization. They have less than 1% slack in their earnings yield after dividends. That works out to about $1¼B per year in free cashflow. So a $2B fine is roughly 2 years of capital accumulation; a big setback for sure!