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To be fair, we’ll probably get there at some point. There are some reasonable large size/viewing distance pairs where 8k can make a difference.

But you’re right, we’re not there, and we’re not especially close. Maybe in 8-10 years, it’ll be a more serious endeavor. But it’s probably not an upgrade most people will get much out of then.

He’s really good at making topics you might not expect to be interested in into really good videos. Dishwashers, heat pumps, and so many more

Also the Soviet Union during the Cold War was much closer than Russia is today. Part of Germany was under Soviet control, and the Western capitol was Bonn, several hundred kilometers from the border. Modern Russia is a bit further than that, with a whole county between them.

If you dig far enough, there’s a chance you even find some sexist bullshit in there somewhere

It also compounds over generations; if you’re the child of first cousins, you really should seek someone who it would take genealogy research to find a common ancestor with. If you’re not, it’s still a serious risk to have kids with anyone too closely related, but level ramifications seem really harsh, especially thinking of situations like adoption where someone could end up there accidentally. And to your point, it isn’t the only way to end up with that kind of risk profile.

He did just reacquire ownership of GOG. Porting software can take time, but this actually might happen in the near future, at least a beta version.

I’ve found that a lot of recruiters who reach out are offering really mediocre jobs, and probably have one themselves. I had a recruiter email, text and call me within 2 hours for a role he had, which would be paid about half of what I’d been making when I was recently unemployed. Starting at 8:30am my time. When he told me what the role paid, I basically told him I’m not desperate, but he clearly is.

I think I’ve had one recruiter reach out in the last year about a role that isn’t at least a 30% pay cut, and that was one with a step up in responsibilities, with a small pay cut.

At first I was offended that they were even bothering to reach out for super entry level roles, when I’m clearly not at that level, but I think they’re just spraying and praying, and probably paid mainly based on how many people they get into jobs.

The battery in my desktop is just enough to keep time for a couple of years if it’s powered off. Totally insufficient

They believed what they did about Jewish people, the queer community, and communists, about as much as modern MAGAs do about the queer community, immigrants, and “Marxists”, and for basically the same reasons. The Nazis practiced cruel violence for propaganda purposes too. There are differences to be sure, but I don’t think you’ll find they’re not huge or terribly ideological.

The Papal states, which was the middle ages version of Vatican City, didn’t exist for a period of almost 60 years, when modern Vatican City was first recognized as a nation, in the Lateran treaty.

At some level, it’s a question of whether you view Vatican City as a new successor state, or a continuation of the former Papal states. The treaty framed it as a new state, which is at least an interesting historical fact.

No, it’s tricky for native English speakers too, and that’s the point. It’s a literacy test that was given to black people in Louisiana in order to justify taking away their right to vote

That’s not necessarily true, how clocks display time, and how they maintain time don’t have to match up. You can get digital or analog clocks that keep time by setting them then using a quartz clock to count the passage of time. You can also get digital or analog clocks that talk to a network time server, and can keep within tens to low hundreds of milliseconds easily. Gear-driven analog clocks are reasonably common, and you can even find a gear-driven clock with a digital face, though those are more of a gimmick.

Obviously, a clock with an analog face that speaks NTP is digital electronics, and there’s a certain aesthetic loss, in that something like a grandfather clock that does this is a silly thing to make. But you absolutely could if you wanted to.

There have been a small number of cases where it actually worked, but to my knowledge nothing universally applicable. AIDS treatments, however, have become so good that the disease is no longer seen as a major problem of our times.

We have a type of stem cell treatment used in extreme blood cancer situations that had cured a number of people of AIDS. To my understanding, it should work for most patients, but it’s a risky and extreme enough procedure that it’s not worthwhile compared to the standard treatment regimen. But if you also get leukemia, the treatment might cure both diseases.

Cancer is not one disease, at best you can cure a small specific subset of cancers.

With one given treatment, maybe. As far as I’m aware, there aren’t any cancers that are in principle untreatable, though a handful are very difficult to cure people from. We have a wide variety of treatments for a wide variety of cancers, some of which are now really close to 100%.

Give them bad data. Click on ads you’re totally disinterested in, ignore ones you’re interested in. Flip that sometimes. That’s actively hostile.

Getting to direct where every dollar goes above a billion is a huge amount of power. A single person deciding how to spend millions or billions of dollars to do what they deem to be improving society? They may do some good things, but a democratic process would probably do better overall.

You can run a VM in Windows. Virtualbox is what I’ve used in the past, and it’s pretty good. It’s obviously work to set up, but you can revert a VM and use it to test other sketchy software if you need

My household is down to one old MacBook not running Linux, I use firefox for most browsing, lemmy obviously, I’ve replaced a bunch of nonfree tools with things like krita, and host a number of things on docker.

But I also have an old Plex lifetime pass, and haven’t moved to jellyfin, functionally need an Android (or iOS) phone for work purposes, and fully abandoning corporate software like social media is hard, because so much communication happens there. I’ve used my own domain for email since college, so I have the option to move, but self hosting email is a very big step, and I don’t have the time to do it right. It’s small in some ways, but I try to run proprietary things in-browser rather than native builds when practical.

Have you tried a user agent switcher?

Asking whether the project uses AI responsibly means you either need to define responsibly in a way that people can apply objectively, noting that everyone will have opinions about whether it’s a good definition. Or you leave it undefined and the answer basically means nothing.

Instead he became a modern George Lincoln Rockwell.