Yeah I personally took it as a weird meme and not a real ad

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Pretty much everything that's not totally inert produces heat, but the point (they claim!) is that these newfangled doodads don't generate power using that heat.

So far we've mainly been generating power with more and more ingenious ways of heating up water.

Ah, it happens.

One time when I was still with my ex partner I meant to text them "hey remember to buy some salt from the store" and I accidentally typed "you motherfucker you've ruined my life" instead

On a semi-related note, I was actually radioactive for a few days once, after I got my thyroid nuked.

What was cool was that it turned out that regular 'ol camera CCDs (like the one in your cell phone) can detect alpha particles, so I naturally pressed my phone to my neck in a dark room and got this video. Those tiny white "flashes" you see are actually all alpha particles (video in a spoiler block so it doesn't take up half the screen at least on lemmy-ui):

::: spoiler video :::

I verified it by taking more video with the phone away from my body – no flashes!

:3

Huh, surprising to hear that at least "officially" SD's gotten slightly less… well, nazi.

Also, love the Stafford Beer quote 😀 Honestly "the purpose of the system is what it does" is an excellent heuristic.

Yeah but that's exactly it though: they're not very moderate if they really have no qualms about collaborating with the likes of SD.

It's the same here in Finland too, the "moderate" and "fiscally conservative" National Coalition Party (Kokoomus) is suddenly pretty much indistinguishable from the far right Finns Party (Perussuomalaiset) now that they're in a 100% right wing government. They're eg. loosening the punishment for denying the Holocaust, blocking the progress of a law that would ban "conversion therapy" (ie. psychological violence to turn people straight), their MPs are now openly racist, and so on.

Feels like "moderate" conservatives are just waiting for an excuse to drop their masks. One of my former acquaintances who is supposedly a moderate KOK voter told me straight up that the world would be a better place if gender minorities (like me…) didn't exist.

I've always found it a bit funny that one of the Swedish conservative parties is called the Moderates. They pretend they're "centre right" like every fucking conservative seems to, because for whatever baffling reason they lack the spine to call themselves right wing. "Nooo you can't call me right wing, that hurts my feelings – I'm centre right and a moderate! But anyhow, Hitler was right and trans people and leftists should be put in death camps, and here's some Russian propaganda for you that proves all this"

Oh don't worry, we're working on fixing that. There may be life on Earth, but no intelligent life.

This is, fairly predictably, probably going to be an unpopular post.

And before some bright spark comes in accusing me of being pro-genocide, Israel can get fucked – just because I'm against Palestinian genocide doesn't mean I have to be blind to this shit.

Goodbye

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The point is that they were the biggest supporter, and workers were more likely to vote for the social democrats or communists. Nowadays even workers seem to love fascists

Oh I wish it was. Eg. here in Finland sharing movies etc. among friends or downloading them off the internet used to be legal as long as you weren't doing it for profit or distributing stuff to a huge audience, but that changed in 2006 because the new EU Copyright Directive required it, and that directive was hugely influenced by the likes of WIPO.

I wonder if you're not thinking of the L.P.D.: Libertarian Police Department bit, because eg. the publicly funded sidewalk thing sounds very familiar:

I put a quarter in the siren. Ten minutes later, I was on the scene. It was a normal office building, strangled on all sides by public sidewalks. I hopped over them and went inside.

Not anarchist though, but your description sounds like it'd match

Governments rarely realize anything related to IP that the copyright mafia doesn't spoon-feed them, unfortunately.

The inconsequential typo really wasn't what elicited my comment

Conservative masculinity:

Honestly the fact that anybody is attracted to men proves sexuality is not a choice

people still constantly bring him up, and even say his political views aren’t “that bad” on lichess during random broadcasts

Gee I wonder what kind of people would say that 🤔

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Researchers have achieved data rates as high as 424Gbit/s across a 53-km turbulent free-space optical link using plasmonic modulators—devices that use special light waves called surface plasmon polaritons to control and change optical signals

This could be a line from Star Trek

I've gotten so cynical about the "sustainable" label that I pretty much assume any product, company, etc. that claims to be sustainable is probably the exact opposite.

They're "depressed and despondent" because they judge comic movie fans? This is some prime Dr. Phil level psychology right here.

Far as Swift's syntax goes, I really like argument labels too, but it's just that there's SO. MUCH. SYNTAX. Lots of sugar, yes, but sometimes that's part of the problem in my opinion, because it often adds to the syntactic and semantic "noise." Also, there's 98 keywords (more if you count eg. try, try! and try? as different keywords, and this count is missing eg. sending and other new keywords) – compare this to say Rust's or or Python's 35. Java's got 68, while C++ also has 98 and it's notorious for having way too many of them. And then there's all the symbols – some of which have different meanings in different contexts.

It's true that ARC only applies to reference types, but even with value types you can often get some fairly surprising performance problems due to implicit copies, for example in getters and setters – and the _read and _modify accessors that can sometimes help with that due to returning (well, yielding) a borrowed value instead of a copy aren't meant for "public" use (which doesn't mean many libraries etc. don't use them, much to the consternation of core devs).

Urr, I don't think that's it. I'm not sure stereo sound for vinyls has ever worked so that something like this would be necessary, and it wouldn't really make sense – why would they have to put vocals on one channel and instruments on the other?

A stereo vinyl player just has the needle moving up and down in addition to left and right, so that the left-right axis is the sum of the waveforms of both channels and the up-down axis is the difference – which means that a regular mono player can play stereo vinyls

Would have cost you exactly 0 € to not be a cunt, but here you are.

I didn't correct it because I was away from my computer for an extended period – the current version has a different image and is correctly attributed. I didn't delete it because then the existing conversation in the comments would have also gotten nuked, exactly the same reason the mod didn't delete it either.

THE PEETS

Yeah I doubt those particular comments have anything to do with "AI". It just seems fashionable to blame AI for absolutely everything nowadays

I'll just make a new one (this isn't oc) when I get home but that'll be 10h at least. It's OK to nuke this since it is sorta misinfo, although I didn't know it when I posted it

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So if any Jews, gay people, communists, Roma, etc. during the Holocaust wished death on the Nazis, they were as bad as the Nazis?

Swift is… not a great language. It's got some promise but goddamn does it have a "designed by committee" feel to it; they just keep throwing on features like they're going out of fashion and it's getting ridiculously complex. Just the syntax alone is a bit of a nightmare – soooo many keywords and symbols. It's also extremely hard to predict how well Swift code will perform, in large part due to ARC (automatic reference counting) memory management, which is a huge downside for game development. And don't even get me started on the new concurrency stuff…

Just as a side note, it's not purely an Apple project nowadays. They're still the "project lead" but it's not exclusively theirs anymore. Still, regardless of that, at least personally I really couldn't recommend it especially to someone looking to get into game development.

Ah, figures. I should know better than to post quotes without checking if they're attributed correctly

It's the same with conservatives pretty much around the world right now.

I really don't know how we're going to unfuck the situation without a lot of bloodshed – and make no mistake, it would be them who spill that blood like they're already doing, just at a much larger scale. As it is, conservatives are a threat to stable and peaceful societies, and due to their resistance to meaningful climate action they're an existential threat to humanity in general.

I actually originally dug this picture up for a post of this RawStory article titled 'Their ignorance is willful': WaPo analyst says enough with the MAGA voter pity, which is highly relevant.

The problem with the majority of right wing extremists isn't that they're just stupid misled bumpkins, but that they're actual psychopaths who vote for people like Trump because he's promising to hurt everybody they hate

… what

– Comrade Stalin, is it true that you collect political jokes?
– Yes
– How many have you collected?
– Four labor camps' worth