Especially that new religion, endemic mostly to the US and Canada, that doesn't identify as a religion. Its core tenets are racism, privileges and invented genders, it's extremely vile towards unbelievers, and it has taken over quite a few state and city governments.
Nope, all adverts are fraud. Their purpose is to make you buy something you wouldn't otherwise -- ie, to make you do unoptimal decisions. There's also a second effect of making the good's price increased by whatever was the cost of the advertising campaign, making you actually pay for being lied to. The third effect is wasting your time and attention.
Effects 1 and 3 can be countered with an ad blocker. Setting one up properly might take a bit of time but is strongly beneficial to you in the long run.
An activity was conducted like it had been done 100s of times before with a clear expected and safe outcome.
"I have expended 100 bullets shooting in the air on various weddings, funerals and parties, yet no one was killed by me this way yet. By others, yeah, but not by me, until now."
The effect of this is having primary school children, who used to at least get some Sunday school, now being told they are gender fluid snowflakes that to feel out their sexuality.
I'd agree with you 100% if not for the mention of the Sunday school. Forcing religious beliefs onto kids is child abuse exactly the same as forcing them to believe about "gender fluid" nonsense. The current crop of leftist beliefs is a new religion, no better and no worse than "a bearded man in the sky demands you to give your cow to the priest". Which makes both the root of all evil.
It wasn't the child, it was someone next to it. The idiot who threw the boiling water should be prosecuted for assault -- at this point, this can't be argued to be an accident, it's more like shooting into the air on a crowded street,
Killing an innocent bystander is no selection, at least unless the trait we're selecting against isn't "don't stand near dangerous morons".
Well, Polish current national-communist ruling party (far right ideologically, far left economically) does that and ties most handouts to reproducing.
Not only people are rewarded for quitting their jobs (handouts stop if you exceed a threshold by a penny, and even minimal wage is usually too much), but you get most money if you produce the most kids. With additional fat payout for not aborting damaged fetuses.
d) Because despite a large amount of open jobs, those guys aren't willing to get some required skills.
The education system is to blame, with all the participation prizes and discouraging rewarding effort, so is the culture prevalent in some groups (like, music that glorifies gangsters and drug dealers).
TFA says the ground-ice table is 4.0-4.8km below the surface. That'd make the well quite deep -- we did manage a 12km hole on Earth but it took multiple decades to dig. Doing so without means to ship all the equipment might be a wee bit hard.
And if you dig that deep, you might reach Hidden Fun Stuff.
YEAH!! And let's ban those annoyingly noisy motorcycles, they're dangerous as f*** too.
And especially those murder-machine polluting boxes speeding around. Ib the US, it's somehow believed that if you don't own/use a car, you're not a human being, but thankfully this belief isn't as prevalent in the rest of the world.
There's something worse: American "chocolate". I first thought the sample I tried is badly spoiled -- it tasted like vomit. Turns out, US manufacturers intentionally add butyric acid (which is a good part of what makes vomit smell) because it was what "consumers demand".
Early on, chocolate production in the US was done with exceptionally bad hygiene and poor process, resulting in a product that was spoiled and in any civilised setting would be thrown out. Yet like that cheese gunk, companies instead make people think this is what chocolate tastes like.
Being able to legally call a product with no cocoa at all "chocolate" doesn't help, either.
That's no good at all. Wake me when it can crank up to 11.
Microsoft promised there won't be Windows 11, and I believe them -- they alternate between a passable version of windows and a bad one. Why do you think Win 9 got skipped?
if each replacement is a slightly imperfect replica of the original, neither you nor anyone else will probably be able to tell any difference for the first few replacements. But at which point do you stop being 'you' and start being something else?
What is the coordinates 100 nautical miles north? What is it south? What is the _approximated_ position 100 nautical miles west or east?
Depends on where you are. Newsflash: no matter how Mercator would wish, Earth is not a cylinder. Nor even a ball. At least no one seriously considers calculating west-east position in miles, but for north-south, there's indeed that temptation. And errors are big enough to make any navigation that'd use miles dangerous. You want your plane to land on the airport rather than somewhere the next city.
Miles were useful for 16th century navigation when the winds drifted you so much that you had to see where you are upon reaching land anyway. They are useless today. So is their associated Comic-Sans-of-map-projections.
How long would it take if one of those FB-generated movies about you and your friend were sent?
I'm pretty sure there's not a single device with Fecesbook not blocked on multiple levels within ten meters from my current position. On the other hand, what friend? I spent the NYE fitting a dual-slot external-power-needed graphics card into a board on which the PCIe x4 slot takes most of the board's length -- the stereotypes about our kind won't reinforce themselves:p
"statute" ("land", "international" (heh)) mile: 1.609344 km; "survey" mile: 1.609347 km. Sea miles had different sizes until late 20th century before coalescing into 1.852 km. You get an error of over 15% if you say just "mile" without specifying what kind of mile you mean.
A nautical mile is the "natural size" (or part of it) of the planet. Anything else than nautical miles make no sense for navigating either planes or ships.
And why exactly would one kind of mile be better for navigation than, let's say, nanolightyear (which fits among the range of historical miles)? A nautical mile has no upsides above any other arbitrary unit, but has the downside of making calculations hard when dealing with any other unit. The value of metrication is not in the metre being somehow better, but in ease of dealing with bigger and smaller metric units.
Even worse are variants depending on what you measure: nautical inch vs avoirdupois inch, dry vs wet vs slightly moist gallon.
Q: There's a straight road surveyed as 100 miles long. At one end, there's a car going 100mph, and a plane also going 100mph. After one hour, where will they be? A: The plane will be past the road's end (somehow aircraft speed is measured in sea miles even above land), the car won't make it yet as car speeds are in land miles which are shorter than survey miles.
Yeah. They bash Firefox as "slow" while it's the only browser among these three that can discard a meaningful part of ads and tracking. _All_ people I care about see no ads (either by being tech-minded on their own, or by having someone set it up for them), so a realistic test should have no ads and trackers included.
And those cause more than 90% of slowness.
Right now (family home), I'm sitting on a 32-bit Pentium4 with an ancient monitor, while the good monitor and 4294967296 SoCs sit unused (long story...), and Firefox works pretty adequately. Also got a super-restricted new laptop (Thinkpad T480) with me -- Chrome on it is _slower_ than Firefox on the P4.
Article is literally about Facebook. That is the problem to solve for, given how it is built.
That's an XY problem -- if the transport has scaling issues, instead of throwing more hardware at it at some point it's good to take a step back and see if there are better approaches. And the core functionality is so simple that replacing just that part while keeping parts of the several-hundreds-of-megabytes-per-phone bloat they insist so much on having intact is a viable proposition.
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Especially that new religion, endemic mostly to the US and Canada, that doesn't identify as a religion. Its core tenets are racism, privileges and invented genders, it's extremely vile towards unbelievers, and it has taken over quite a few state and city governments.
And that "brand awareness" is positive or neutral for the rationality of shopping decisions, how?
Nope, all adverts are fraud. Their purpose is to make you buy something you wouldn't otherwise -- ie, to make you do unoptimal decisions. There's also a second effect of making the good's price increased by whatever was the cost of the advertising campaign, making you actually pay for being lied to. The third effect is wasting your time and attention.
Effects 1 and 3 can be countered with an ad blocker. Setting one up properly might take a bit of time but is strongly beneficial to you in the long run.
An activity was conducted like it had been done 100s of times before with a clear expected and safe outcome.
"I have expended 100 bullets shooting in the air on various weddings, funerals and parties, yet no one was killed by me this way yet. By others, yeah, but not by me, until now."
The effect of this is having primary school children, who used to at least get some Sunday school, now being told they are gender fluid snowflakes that to feel out their sexuality.
I'd agree with you 100% if not for the mention of the Sunday school. Forcing religious beliefs onto kids is child abuse exactly the same as forcing them to believe about "gender fluid" nonsense. The current crop of leftist beliefs is a new religion, no better and no worse than "a bearded man in the sky demands you to give your cow to the priest". Which makes both the root of all evil.
It wasn't the child, it was someone next to it. The idiot who threw the boiling water should be prosecuted for assault -- at this point, this can't be argued to be an accident, it's more like shooting into the air on a crowded street,
Killing an innocent bystander is no selection, at least unless the trait we're selecting against isn't "don't stand near dangerous morons".
Well, Polish current national-communist ruling party (far right ideologically, far left economically) does that and ties most handouts to reproducing.
Not only people are rewarded for quitting their jobs (handouts stop if you exceed a threshold by a penny, and even minimal wage is usually too much), but you get most money if you produce the most kids. With additional fat payout for not aborting damaged fetuses.
So that's all digging the hole deeper and deeper.
d) Because despite a large amount of open jobs, those guys aren't willing to get some required skills.
The education system is to blame, with all the participation prizes and discouraging rewarding effort, so is the culture prevalent in some groups (like, music that glorifies gangsters and drug dealers).
TFA says the ground-ice table is 4.0-4.8km below the surface. That'd make the well quite deep -- we did manage a 12km hole on Earth but it took multiple decades to dig. Doing so without means to ship all the equipment might be a wee bit hard.
And if you dig that deep, you might reach Hidden Fun Stuff.
YEAH!! And let's ban those annoyingly noisy motorcycles, they're dangerous as f*** too.
And especially those murder-machine polluting boxes speeding around. Ib the US, it's somehow believed that if you don't own/use a car, you're not a human being, but thankfully this belief isn't as prevalent in the rest of the world.
You do realize Slashdot clones exist that have no ads at all?
There's something worse: American "chocolate". I first thought the sample I tried is badly spoiled -- it tasted like vomit. Turns out, US manufacturers intentionally add butyric acid (which is a good part of what makes vomit smell) because it was what "consumers demand".
Early on, chocolate production in the US was done with exceptionally bad hygiene and poor process, resulting in a product that was spoiled and in any civilised setting would be thrown out. Yet like that cheese gunk, companies instead make people think this is what chocolate tastes like.
Being able to legally call a product with no cocoa at all "chocolate" doesn't help, either.
If we just had laws banning a thing named "fraud"... But then, a campaign donation makes you immune to such details.
Not everything needs to be (or should be) in the core.
But... but... how would you use Pocket, Snippets or Reader Mode?
That's no good at all. Wake me when it can crank up to 11.
Microsoft promised there won't be Windows 11, and I believe them -- they alternate between a passable version of windows and a bad one. Why do you think Win 9 got skipped?
if each replacement is a slightly imperfect replica of the original, neither you nor anyone else will probably be able to tell any difference for the first few replacements. But at which point do you stop being 'you' and start being something else?
So it'd be just like human body, then?
And that simulation would differ... how?
It's like running a system on bare metal vs an emulator. Only the hardware differs, the software might be even unaware of anything being "amiss".
It gets even funnier if the emulator itself is emulated. Like... are you so sure our universe is running on bare "metal"?
What is the coordinates 100 nautical miles north? What is it south? What is the _approximated_ position 100 nautical miles west or east?
Depends on where you are. Newsflash: no matter how Mercator would wish, Earth is not a cylinder. Nor even a ball. At least no one seriously considers calculating west-east position in miles, but for north-south, there's indeed that temptation. And errors are big enough to make any navigation that'd use miles dangerous. You want your plane to land on the airport rather than somewhere the next city.
Miles were useful for 16th century navigation when the winds drifted you so much that you had to see where you are upon reaching land anyway. They are useless today. So is their associated Comic-Sans-of-map-projections.
How long would it take if one of those FB-generated movies about you and your friend were sent?
I'm pretty sure there's not a single device with Fecesbook not blocked on multiple levels within ten meters from my current position. On the other hand, what friend? I spent the NYE fitting a dual-slot external-power-needed graphics card into a board on which the PCIe x4 slot takes most of the board's length -- the stereotypes about our kind won't reinforce themselves :p
"statute" ("land", "international" (heh)) mile: 1.609344 km; "survey" mile: 1.609347 km. Sea miles had different sizes until late 20th century before coalescing into 1.852 km. You get an error of over 15% if you say just "mile" without specifying what kind of mile you mean.
They told us the sky would fall when the old leaky extension APIs were removed, and it did not.
It took over a year of hard work of many extension makers, and not all regressions have been fixed yet.
But yeah, I haven't ran Waterfox in over two weeks.
A nautical mile is the "natural size" (or part of it) of the planet. Anything else than nautical miles make no sense for navigating either planes or ships.
And why exactly would one kind of mile be better for navigation than, let's say, nanolightyear (which fits among the range of historical miles)? A nautical mile has no upsides above any other arbitrary unit, but has the downside of making calculations hard when dealing with any other unit. The value of metrication is not in the metre being somehow better, but in ease of dealing with bigger and smaller metric units.
Even worse are variants depending on what you measure: nautical inch vs avoirdupois inch, dry vs wet vs slightly moist gallon.
Q: There's a straight road surveyed as 100 miles long. At one end, there's a car going 100mph, and a plane also going 100mph. After one hour, where will they be?
A: The plane will be past the road's end (somehow aircraft speed is measured in sea miles even above land), the car won't make it yet as car speeds are in land miles which are shorter than survey miles.
Yeah. They bash Firefox as "slow" while it's the only browser among these three that can discard a meaningful part of ads and tracking. _All_ people I care about see no ads (either by being tech-minded on their own, or by having someone set it up for them), so a realistic test should have no ads and trackers included.
And those cause more than 90% of slowness.
Right now (family home), I'm sitting on a 32-bit Pentium4 with an ancient monitor, while the good monitor and 4294967296 SoCs sit unused (long story...), and Firefox works pretty adequately. Also got a super-restricted new laptop (Thinkpad T480) with me -- Chrome on it is _slower_ than Firefox on the P4.
Article is literally about Facebook. That is the problem to solve for, given how it is built.
That's an XY problem -- if the transport has scaling issues, instead of throwing more hardware at it at some point it's good to take a step back and see if there are better approaches. And the core functionality is so simple that replacing just that part while keeping parts of the several-hundreds-of-megabytes-per-phone bloat they insist so much on having intact is a viable proposition.