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New comment by xref in "‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Officially Erased From Canon"

xref — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 04:47:06 +0000

Apparently _you’ve_ never heard of wizards!

New comment by xref in "The Lives of Others (2006 film)"

xref — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 03:55:31 +0000

I have this in my “East Germany” collection along with Good Bye Lenin! and Deutschland 83. Could probably use a few more entries.

New comment by xref in "Drone Adoption Favors Quantity over Quality in Warfare"

xref — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 01:55:19 +0000

[2022]

I’d imagine a lot more empirical evidence has been generated one way or the other in the intervening two years

New comment by xref in "An Interview with Lola De La Mata about tinnitus"

xref — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 04:54:13 +0000

The ringing in my ears has always sounded like the high-voltage flyback inside old CRT tvs/monitors. Maybe I spent too long around them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyback_converter

New comment by xref in "California Senate Passes Bill Requiring Passive Speed Limiters"

xref — Mon, 27 May 2024 05:08:29 +0000

But a good way to save pedestrians on the sidewalk

New comment by xref in "85% of Neuralink implant wires are already detached, says patient"

xref — Wed, 22 May 2024 05:08:35 +0000

IANAD but I’d imagine with all the knee/hip/everything replacements, metal plates in heads, pins in wrists, pacemaker implants etc that it’s a manageable issue.

New comment by xref in "Marc Andreessen Is a Maniac"

xref — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 19:47:47 +0000

Ben Horowitz co-founded Andreesen Horowitz so you know, take whatever he says about his partner with a grain of salt

New comment by xref in "996 working hour system"

xref — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 19:47:43 +0000

I would point out for centuries, I’m thinking at least through the Industrial Revolution, 10-16 hours was the norm and many families were still raised. And it was horrible.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-hour_day

New comment by xref in "Bypassing Denuvo in Hogwarts Legacy"

xref — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 03:57:22 +0000

From reading upthread it sounds like performance impact is heavily dependent on the skill of the game development team, ie: if they pick the wrong things to hook during the in-game runtime checks performance can suffer greatly

New comment by xref in "Tesla stock drops 29% in first quarter as global dominance wanes"

xref — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 18:26:38 +0000

We need less/more/same regulation, whichever one satisfies my desires at any given moment!

New comment by xref in "How engineers straightened the Leaning Tower of Pisa [video]"

xref — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 03:42:39 +0000

For people who like exploring, know the leaning tower of Pisa is absolutely _not_ a once-in-a-lifetime experience. There are over 100 leaning towers around the world!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_leaning_towers

New comment by xref in "Binance: Nigeria orders cryptocurrency firm to pay $10B"

xref — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 08:07:59 +0000

> The "anonymity and privacy inherent in the cryptocurrency system are what draw individuals, particularly those with illicit intentions, towards its use,"

1) people vastly overestimate how much “anonymity and privacy” cryptocurrency gives them (spoiler: far less than using paper money)

2) I’ve never liked this line of reasoning because it’s the same argument for why encryption should have government backdoors.

New comment by xref in "Oregon is recriminalizing drugs, dealing setback to reform movement"

xref — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 08:15:03 +0000

We already tried a temperance movement in America, it was…wildly unpopular and unenforceable to say the least.

New comment by xref in "Oregon is recriminalizing drugs, dealing setback to reform movement"

xref — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 08:12:50 +0000

I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make, but from looking at the last two federal election cycles the split doesn’t appear anywhere near 50/50

* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_president...

* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_Senate_el...

New comment by xref in "Oregon is recriminalizing drugs, dealing setback to reform movement"

xref — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 07:46:07 +0000

Aspirin has side effects.

New comment by xref in "Amazon blocks long-running FireTV capability, Breaking apps with no warning"

xref — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 03:21:08 +0000

Android Debug Bridge, for future readers

New comment by xref in "'It has gotten out of hand': wage theft rampant in US construction"

xref — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 01:12:53 +0000

For all the panics about shoplifting or stores claiming they’re closing because of retail loss (spoiler: that’s not the truth) it’s a drop in the bucket compared to wage theft

https://www.tcworkerscenter.org/2018/09/wage-theft-vs-other-...

New comment by xref in "Africa is building a Great Green Wall to prevent expansion of the Sahara"

xref — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 01:00:58 +0000

Looks like Millison is with Oregon State University

https://workspace.oregonstate.edu/osu-permaculture-design

New comment by xref in "Our Company Is Doing So Well That You're All Fired"

xref — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 00:39:46 +0000

“there’s nothing that can’t be solved by another layer of abstraction”

New comment by xref in "Why are shopping carts always broken?"

xref — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 17:57:07 +0000

I reread it 3 times and still left a typo in there, guess it’s good I didn’t become an editor :facepalm: