[–] 7 points 3 days ago (1 child)

You can't really be saying "haven't fired a single shot" in response to a thread on multiple failed assassination attempts.

Also about the only context I can think of where people are saying Americans don't have enough gun violence.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Yeah, I totally get that sign language is a real language.
    It's that I don't expect a dictionary to have the same level of precision as a medical dictionary or encyclopedia. It similarly talks about kidneys as a pair of organs on the right and left of the abdomen, and the liver as a large organ in the upper abdomen.
    No mention that the kidneys are made of nephrons, their connection to the bladder or role regulating osmotic equilibrium.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    Sure, like I said: I know the anatomy. It's lacking in clinical precision, but it describes what people mean when they say clitoris, which is the glans.

    If someone says to rub their clitoris they're not asking you to rub their labia majora. (They might appreciate it but it's not what their asking)

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  • [–] 6 points 5 days ago (5 children)

    Alright, so I fully know about the extent of the anatomy and physiology of the clitoris , but I'm struggling to see a way that this is outdated.
    Lacking in clinical precision sure, but it's not like it's describing as a vestigial nub that may offset hysteria.

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  • [–] -5 points 6 days ago

    I don't particularly agree with that stance. In terms of what I'm dealing with in the game, there's really no difference between the developer asking an AI to make an asset filter and them knowing they need to Google kuwahara image abstraction .

    When it comes to making an asset, I care that someone thought about what it should look like. Having it generate the asset is just hitting shuffle until you stop. Having it build the filter or tool is no different than finding a tool or filter and then using it to make the asset.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    I think we should have all but completely open borders. The only reason I see to have border controls to control the flow of potentially invasive plants and animals, to prevent the import of food, etc that doesn't meet domestic safety guidelines, basic demographic and census tracking, and to make sure that anyone coming in knows their rights and isn't being abused.

    more acceptable number of people being deported if it follows the correct legal process

    This is a very confusing statement to me. What do you think deportation is?
    I'm not sure how you can be particularly upset that someone is okay with people being sent home after getting a proper trial and legal due process, particularly when the alternative is "not that".

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  • [–] 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    You started at "Democrats were using these camps", and now you're at "the Democrats did something that can be interpreted as a precursor to what's happening now".

    You're wildly shifting the goalposts to keep Democrats central to your ire, while also saying that something is just as bad as something that is an escalation of it.
    A preceding B does not make A equivalent to B.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    Yes. It prohibits the disenfranchisement of any citizen based on sex. At the time that really only had impact on women, but the amendment doesn't specifically grant voting rights to women.

    The post is clearly a joke because they start by appearing to advocate for an awful thing, and then turning it around at the last second by advocating for the awful thing for the people who most often actually advocate for the first bit.

    It's not super funny or poignant, but it's obviously a joke.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago

    Yeah, I'm not sure I'd credit the economic system with repairability or blame it for unreliability.

    To use WW2 as a measurement point: western allied vehicles tended to be extremely repairable. Eastern allied vehicles were also extremely repairable. Western vehicles tended to have closer tolerances for parts, meaning a part could be damaged easier. Eastern tended to have simpler parts, meaning they could be repaired. Western vehicles were geared towards modular components and ease of replacement, so you could swap an engine in 20 minutes or spend an afternoon building a new tank out of two that had been destroyed, even if one was a different model. The Eastern tanks tended to have a more intensive overhaul process, and less shared components between models.
    Nazi machines were a shit show with custom parts, low repairability, and poor workmanship. I have no idea why people give them credit for good engineering. Jets are cool, but useless if you can't fuel or fix them. Advanced engine systems are great, but you can't repair them and they explode under stress. Ornate and bespoke parts are cool until they're produced by slaves who do the minimum to avoid death and it warps, leaving you without hope of replacement, no ability to scrap the damn thing, and an enemy who can repair their tanks by either sufficiently motivating a tree trunk into an axle or by using three cars to build a new tank to factory spec over lunch.

    You've got America turning car manufacturers into weapons builders: stellar. Mass production and modularization with a skilled assembly line.
    You've got the UK having people build machine guns in their basements from simple plans. Wicked little death traps.
    You've got the soviets dictating material allocation and design priorities.

    The common factor to the good design is the workers distance to design feedback.
    The easier it is for a person doing the work to correct how the work is done, the faster the design will iterate and the better it will get.
    That feedback loop can be good or bad regardless of the specific economic model.

    Hell, duck tape was the result of an ammunition factory worker thinking the tape they were using for ammo boxes was stupid and would get her sons killed, so she wrote the president. He didn't understand in the least, but gave it to the war production board and told them to Fix The Problem, which they did.

    Conclusion: if you want good shit, have the people building it tell you how to fix it. Repeatedly.
    And don't use fucking slave labor, it's unethical and bad manufacturing.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    We often buy too much candy. When we realize we did, we usually have a soulful moment where we need to decide how much candy we're keeping for ourselves. Yes, we can buy candy anytime but we're adults so we usually don't buy bags of little sugar pucks.
    After we've broken our hearts taking more than we need and less than we want, we usually try to wait until it's the last kid of the night who's old enough to understand but young enough to be utterly bombastically awestruck and dump some preposterous amount of candy in their bag after doing a quick non-verbal "you cool with this happening?" Negotiation with their parent.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    Most people don't put so much pressure on it. It's just a fun holiday where you get to dress in a costume and go running around the neighborhood getting candy.

    on TV and it seems to be a stage managed

    That's the TV part.

    kids dress up and everyone buys candy for everyone else's kids

    Yup, that's the holiday in short. You also get "spooky", which is like scary but no one is scared.

    It's one of the best holidays because the entire point is "fun" and the stakes are low.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    Do they require disclosure of what font the developer used for coding the patch? No one thinks it matters, but no reason not the be transparent, right?

    The reason not to require disclosure is because in their opinion it doesn't matter any more than the font matters. If the person reviewing the code can't tell it's AI, and the code stands on its own, then it stands on its own. If they can tell then it doesn't meet code standards anyway.
    A perspective that I don't disagree with is that "disclosure" can be a shield for the developer to hide behind. "Anything weird wasn't me being dumb, just the AI being wonky", and that's writing an excuse for subpar code. You submitted it, it's your code, and if you can't justify some dumb bit in it then you deserve the shame without the help of a face saving "it was the AI".

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