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New comment by dc96 in "Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies"

dc96 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:52:27 +0000

Why would one of the most popular languages in the world not have a word for "bribe"? Seems a bit condescending, implying Russians can't tell the difference between a "bribe" and customary behavior.

New comment by dc96 in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

dc96 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 23:35:25 +0000

Fixed this for you: "I haven’t been affected, so everyone else is overreacting."

New comment by dc96 in "Drilling down on Uncle Sam's proposed TP-Link ban"

dc96 — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 19:53:07 +0000

You're comparing apples to oranges here. The USA is supposed to be capitalistic, free market, yada yada. China doesn't make that claim.

The main point the comment you replied to is trying to make is that the US doesn't put their money where their mouth is.

New comment by dc96 in "The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything"

dc96 — Tue, 06 May 2025 11:13:15 +0000

Link is down. Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20250506062631/https://notashelf...

New comment by dc96 in "It’s still worth blogging in the age of AI"

dc96 — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 18:11:32 +0000

AI is a lot more powerful in this aspect.

MS Word would find no qualms in this sentence:

"I started the car and went for a drive on the highway. There were many other cats on the road but it was nevertheless agitating."

Given the correct prompt (that avoids changing your literary style altogether), AI can quickly suggest cats -> cars and agitating -> peaceful, since it's much better at contextualizing.

New comment by dc96 in "Postzegelcode"

dc96 — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 21:54:39 +0000

Seems strange they would design a system that could scan faster than they could process the DB, no? I assume there's some queue in between. But the real answer is probably just: multiple scans happen for the same piece of mail. Eventually, one or both of them will be marked as due for payment. The question then becomes, was it worth saving the postage cost for what is potentially a much costlier penalty?

New comment by dc96 in "Cold brew coffee in 3 minutes using acoustic cavitation"

dc96 — Wed, 08 May 2024 01:32:08 +0000

Looks like the comment you replied to links to a Jura as well

New comment by dc96 in "This is a teenager"

dc96 — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 22:43:10 +0000

You're misinterpreting. When sorted by annual income, the top 5 incomes all have the same value: 380,288. This points to something weird going on in the data, unless all of those specific participants happen to work the same job at the same company. Even then, years of experience and salary increases would likely differ.

New comment by dc96 in "Archive your old projects"

dc96 — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 16:43:25 +0000

DAW/NLE = digital audio workstation/non-linear editing (you'd have to search both terms in order to get the correct context, especially if used right next to each other).

The author is probably talking about video editing of some kind, whereby he either regrets not saving more source code or taking more screenshots of his work if I had to wager a guess. Not sure what the "non-realtime/static artifact from code" refers to when it comes to video editing -- perhaps much of it was rendered from code? 3D software, programmatic editing, etc.?

Wabi-sabi being used a bit weirdly in this context, but I think they mean the temporality of it all has innate beauty. Sometimes not capturing every single moment/line of code is OK, and there is beauty in a moment not strictly captured, to be appreciated more since you'll never see it again.

New comment by dc96 in "Suit alleges recreation.gov cluttered with junk fees, seeks millions in refunds"

dc96 — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 18:32:41 +0000

Cancellation fees should not be more than double the actual fee of booking. This highly incentivizes no-shows and the use of virtual credit/debit cards for the initial booking.