FactKnower69

Here's Palmer Luckey posting about "cuckoldry" on r/The_Donald, a subreddit which was banned for hate speech https://archive.is/4OuYq

"Heroic" hahahaha

>Plus, I think it’d be good for people to know you can become really hard to hit by all but the best shooters by… walking away slowly in a zigzag. Near impossible if you run.

I hope they never invent a gun that fires more than once per trigger pull, then you would be able to just sweep it around in the general direction of Invincible Mr. Zig

>WinUI

>modern Windows components

I swear to God if I ever downloaded a piece of open source software from GitHub, opened it, and saw the deformed Windows 8 Metro UI gawping back at me, I would do everything in my power to wipe the blighted individual responsible from the face of the fucking Earth

>Like it or not, an app to configure the device instead of the device having a VCR remote control to program in schedules is what consumers have gotten used to these days.

No?? When was the last time you spoke to another human being about this topic? Has any other person in your life seriously told you that they like having to download a smartphone app to set up their soundbar? Have you managed to fully insulate yourself from the broader world with a circle of dead-eyed freaks that gleefully spend their free nights registering their appliances online and reading end-user license agreements?

>I think that with respect to content that’s already on the open web, the social contract of that content since the ‘90s has been that it is fair use. Anyone can copy it, recreate with it, reproduce with it.

Good thing it doesn't matter what he "thinks" the "social contract" is, copyright is automatic.

every individual who gets their money by taking it from someone else through withholding shelter is a drain on the economy when they could be working a job that produces goods or services like everyone else

Do you have any professional experience using PHP? I have never in my life used another web development platform that requires me to install 3rd party patches like Suhosin to get to a baseline level of security

because as we know, human behavior is primarily genetic

>But my daughter is turning two and I have a new answer for you: there is nothing in the world that feels like this. I am so proud of her for no reason at all.

#1 reason not to have a kid: the apparently universal and irresistible urge to constantly tell other people about the latest unremarkable thing your unremarkable kid did and how proud it made you

a Christian fundamentalist doing a 180 on Terri Schiavo because she rediscovered Luddism is certainly an interesting take

>we need a way to make voters universally and roughly equal uncomfortable eith poor fiscal managment so they feel the pian when they vote thwmselves more stuff without also voting in a payment method

another small govt ideologue that thinks the US's federal budget works like a household's

>I'm sure the individual will greatly benefit when the EPA's regulation of the next great carcinogen is struck down on grounds that congress has not explicitly restricted it.

This is the real motivation; the Lead Paint voting bloc is dying off and desperately needs replacing if current political demographics are to be maintained

It's so funny when people from common law countries pretend like they have a functioning legal system

>The only reason a defendant settles is to minimize potential losses.

???

:)

Absolutely baffling that you could come to the conclusion that houses being kept empty for the benefit of speculators while citizens sleep on the street is somehow the best outcome

Wrong again. Why are France and Germany 2x as dense as Spain and the UK 3x as dense as Spain then?

No. AlphaGo et al gave the appearance of "world class researchers achieving state of the art on problem classes that humans have been devoting lifetimes of study for thousands of years". the current desperate LLM scramble, including stuffing shitty, hallucinating, half-baked paraphrase spam to the top of every Google search result page, gives the appearance of "panicked flailing and tacit admission that high level decisionmaking has been captured by terrified MBA types"

RNN gameplay agents and reinforcement learning are a thousand times more interesting than stochastic parrots that rephrase Google for you, you'll see once this hype wave finishes dying out in a couple years

sunk cost fallacy

>We shouldn't underappreciate quiet-failing as a product adoption driver.

I'm certain it drives a lot of early user retention in the short term, but I feel strongly that this is ultimately a very myopic view which will prove catastrophic in the long term in much the same way that swallowing exceptions at runtime builds compounding technical debt you'll have to reckon with sooner or later

more broadly, there is just so much handwaving away all the black box parts of deep neural networks that are completely opaque and there seems to be very little interest in building the tooling to properly visualize, explore, and DEBUG latent space; until those priorities change this whole thing is a huge time bomb.

imagine if instead of coming with full memory dumps and diagnostic codes, BSODs just said "sorry, your computer had an oopsie!", and not a single engineer at Microsoft had a complete understanding of why the BSOD happened in the first place; sometimes it just does that! whoops!

??? Xerox and Kodak are immortal household names that dominated their niches for decades, what level of "success" would satisfy you? what are you lamenting, that they didn't completely enshittify their products while they were on top and torch their brands to the ground for a little more revenue?

so has this ever happened in the past, or just baseless speculation at this point? this thread is chock full of china experts telling us with certainly what china is going to do (justified with a lot of "just trust me bro") but I'm not seeing a lot of evidence

>Neutrality in the face of gross violations of international law amounts to tacit support.

Overall hysterical post but this line was the best by far

>a country without a strong independent rule of law

I'd really like you to try and define this term in a way that doesn't exclude the US

Pointing out obvious bad-faith hypocrisy is actually called "whataboutism", you're doing a hecking fallacy!!

unironically saying "we cannot allow a mineshaft gap" in 2024

This feature wouldn't even be the worst thing in the world if it was strictly opt-in like every other piece of software you would run on your computer; the reason everyone is so fucking sick of Microsoft's rollouts is the way they trample over user consent by replacing every instance of "No" in their UI with "Not now" or "Remind me later", eventually hijacking your computer and forcing it to shut down and install updates while you were using it if you dare postpone their "optional" rollout for too long

It's just extra funny when the software you're being bullied into nonconsensually installing on your own machine is also literally spyware that screenshots your desktop every few minutes

Steam Deck + bluetooth mouse and keyboard + external monitor if you want