fine_sandy_bottom @ fine_sandy_bottom @lemmy.federate.cc

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Yeah I don't know enough about the technologies involved to have an informed opinion but solutions involving nuclear always seem like this...

"Just let us keep doing what we're doing while we invent a new technology that will solve all our problems."

Obviously, the answer is... we absolutely should invent this new technology but while we're doing that we can transition to renewables and avoid grifts that rely on absurd energy usage like crypto and AI.

I don't think "slave" is a very helpful term. I'm not defending slavery in any way. The general consensus is that while some slaves may have been present and assisted in the building of Egypt's mega projects, the majority of the work was performed by paid labor. That said, "payment" was likely good food, beer, lodging, and some credit at the local brothel.

That link is talking about tabs?

That's just css. Every soft fork messes with that. You can yourself in user.css

The big deal with tabs is getting UX right. It's more about how it looks and whether it's intuitive, rather than implementation.

When I say "aren't supporting" I mean "not testing". These sites are broken.

All Firefox forks in existence are merely soft forks. They're not committing code, they just compile with different flags and configure.

I've been a firefox supporter since netscape.

That said, things aren't going great.

Because it's market share is in the toilet more and more web sites just aren't supporting it any more. My university's website, some government websites, and 2x industry platforms I use for work just plain do not work in firefox.

Mozilla just bought an advertising company. They can spin it as they like but basically, mozilla's primary revenue source in the future is going to be ads.

They just had a throw down with the developer of uBlock. I don't think this is particularly meaningful, but it's not a tick in the right column.

I'm not sure it will work out that way.

Brave will face the exact same problem an add-on or extension will. When they say ad blocking is built in, they've just compiled the binaries with specific addons baked in. So your experience with ads will be the same as anyone using chromium + ublock lite, or vivaldi, or whatever else.

Also, you might want to give this a read:

https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/

I think your angle is a bit reductive.

Conversations or interactions generally don't go from 0 to how-dare-you-not-care-about-my-baby instantaneously.

For example, in a cafe, order coffee, I've never met the barista before, they're not going to flop out baby photos and grill me about how much I don't care about their kidlet. They might make casual conversation, how are you, great day, bit tired, newborn up all night, oh I have a newborn too, she's been unwell, yeah ours had HFMD last week, oh that's tough, is she better now, was the fever bad, and so on and so forth. What I'm saying is, it's through the too and fro that you guage how interested someone is in the things that are important to you.

If my sister had a child then she would probably just expect me to care about her new baby because she's family and we see each other every week and the new baby is going to be part of my life for the rest of my life.

Another thing that happens is... people just get excited about things and that's ok too. I became a new father almost a year ago. To me, it's the most amazing thing that's ever happened to me. Of course I understand that it's not very amazing to anyone else, but for those first few weeks of course I was excited about it. It would be fine if I were to "overshare" with my barista, but it would also be fine if they were to tell me to keep my baby photos to myself.

Honestly I don't think it's that complicated.

Regulations are not profitable. That's it.

This is a non-article.

They're not just going to delete the settings menu.

They're trying to improve the UX the same way they've been doing since the first phone. Improve settings, make some predictive depending on your usage. Not a big deal.

Automation is always incremental.

I'm an accountant. Components of the job have been being automated or systemised for many decades. Most of the tasks that occupied a graduate when I was one 20 years ago don't exist anymore.

Not because AI is doing those tasks but just because everything became more integrated, we configure and manage the flow of data rather than making the data, you might say.

If you had to hire 100 professional programmers in the past, but then AI makes programmers 10% more efficient than previously, then you can do the same work with 91 programmers.

That doesn't mean that 9 people were doing something that an LLM can do, it just means that more work is being completed with fewer programmers.

To impart the perception of having a well informed opinion about everything.

This is just plain untrue.

In all cases you need to drive to the conditions. Observe your circumstances and adapt your behavior accordingly.

3s is a good yard stick, but there's plenty of situations in which it is not the ideal safe distance.

At 110km/h that's about 90 metres. Every idiot around is going to try to move around you to take up that spot. Being overtaken by idiots is unsafe. This is just one example, there's plenty of others.

It depends.

On a well developed well maintained "freeway" with multiple lanes, shoulders for break downs, gentle curves, et cetera it's common. 3 car lengths is more common here I think.

That said, on a "highway" (interstate?) without everything listed above I aim for 2 seconds, which is about 60 metres at highway speed.

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I used to think that but honestly now I avoid it where I can. Like between a wall and cornice a sash brush is fine. Removing switches like like fittings and switches is better than taping too.

Someone will be asking in a moment to tell us that this is shitpost community, some people are too uptight, that its dark humour, and that we should just block the community if we don't like it.

Only a child can find things like rape and suicide funny, because they lack the emotional depth to understand the ramifications of these concepts.

Plenty of sea snails that large.

Abalone are snails, they're a delicacy.

I'm sure it's possible but I suspect it's simply not cost effective.

Removing grease requires hot water, harsh solvents, and scrubbing. If you've ever cleaned an oven or bbq or whatever I'm sure you'd agree that it would be very difficult to automate.

Trichinosis is rumoured to be "what done for" the franklin expedition to find the north west passage.

The Jens Monk expedition lost 62 men to Trichinosis, and returned home with only 3 men alive.

https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/jens-munk-an-expedition-ahead-of-its-time/

I love reading about these guys, just so courageous. I'm sat here looking at spreadsheets worrying about emails. These guys did the equivalent of flying to mars in a washing machine, battling ferocious martians, succumbing to a war of attrition against a mysterious ailment, before un-dying and coming back home.

I don't understand the question.

You have a vending machine in a train station cooking greasy popcorn all day. Is there a machine that can clean that ?

Baked on greasy-buttery-ness is very difficult to clean.