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Mithaldu

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Mithaldu··on Delete Hate Speech or Pay Up, Germany Tells Social Media Companies
To be clear:

§103 is being removed, a paragraph that had a useful existence when it was easy to start a war by insulting a foreign head.

The "right to offend" is not being instated however, as §185 (law against insults) still exists and won't be removed, as it serves as a useful outlet for insulted people other than e.g. violence.

Mithaldu··on Systemd can't handle the process privilege for username startswith number
You can still respond by opening a new issue and referencing that one in it.
Mithaldu··on Delete Hate Speech or Pay Up, Germany Tells Social Media Companies
Little bit disappointed that you talk the insult law down that much. It serves a very real purpose in providing a tangible recourse that is at least better than the usual default, violence.
Mithaldu··on Delete Hate Speech or Pay Up, Germany Tells Social Media Companies
Given that these types of people literally do incite things like in the following video, i fail to see anything troubling in such police action.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmTtCyLvGUg

Mithaldu··on Zillow forces McMansion Hell to delete posts
Tumblr caches everything for a looooong time.
Mithaldu··on Star Citizen is likely in financial trouble
You can test it on earth! Take a glass, fill it with water. Put something in it that floats, keep it away from the sides. Rotate the glass.
Mithaldu··on Star Citizen is likely in financial trouble
The entire game design and physics of SC is built around "World War 2, BUT IN SPACE". I mean damn, they even have actual cockpit windows with no appreciable polarization (note the freighter pilot blinded by a simple laser scanner in the second video).

That said, missiles with proximity detonation only make sense if they're actually built to be fragmentation weapons, not pure explosive-based, due to explosion shockwaves being useless in space thanks to a lack of medium to travel in. And even for fragmentation they'd need to get really close due to inverse square law.

Mithaldu··on Localizing “Papers, Please” (2014)
Probably not. Narcissu will get you depressed. War of Mine is still too mechanical.
Mithaldu··on Jeff Bezos tweet seeking philanthropic ideas draws 42,000 replies
Which problem do you think cannot be solved with legislation that can be solved usefully by one-time application of money?
Mithaldu··on Jeff Bezos tweet seeking philanthropic ideas draws 42,000 replies
Great marketing campaign, but philantropic stuff needs to be long term to be of any use. Short term stuff can in fact be counter-productive by hiding that there is a problem that needs to be resolved.

The best solution for almost every response he got is: Introduce better legislation. Even charities are just bandaids over actual problems.

Mithaldu··on My biggest mistake as an F1 engineer
The rules would've been "don't do it again and move on".
Mithaldu··on My biggest mistake as an F1 engineer
Short version: He didn't fuel Raikkonen's car up enough which forced an early pit stop in the second-to-last lap of the race. However at the end of the race they placed the same as they had planned, and they had for the laps before the pit stop the advantage of having a stress-free race due to being in pole position.

And the lesson he learned from that: Don't stick to the rules too closely, but also try to see if breaking some rules can have positive side effects. Experiment.

Not a fun read. Very badly written as he constantly leaves out the consequences and details of decisions and circumstances, or only mentions them paragraphs later.

Mithaldu··on English is weirdly different from other languages
To be a little more exact: Have large amounts of heteronyms to have them be common and not strange exceptions.
Mithaldu··on English is weirdly different from other languages
As a german: No. German is a little oddly rigid due to being more tied to legislation and has a few weird corners like "ei". However in the big picture and on the scale of fucked-up-ness it's not even in the same order of magnitude as english.

You have a german username so i guess you're german too. Try to point out what's as weird in german as having to wonder in english how to even write a word just from the sounds.

Mithaldu··on Philosophy of Ghost in the Shell
> people into GITS might like this post we made about shots in the movie recreated from the anime: https://medium.com/@gitsost/a-love-letter-to-ghost-in-the-sh...

I find it quite superficial to call the new movie a love letter just because a number of stills have similar elements in them.

As an example: In the water fight scene the anime has a LOT of story-telling with her actions being clearly based on high level moral motivations, as well as observations of and adaption to the progression of the fight itself. Every action taken has a reason and nuance behind it, based on who and what her adversary is as well as the tactical situation. In the movie it's a straight-up beat-down of an almost entirely unresponsive puppet.

Mithaldu··on How a 64k intro is made
Ah, you're just really bad at communicating and get upset when people don't recognize your innate "cred".

I tried to be nice to you because what you said was ambiguous, period. But i guess if that's how you react then you deserve those downvotes.

Mithaldu··on How a 64k intro is made
It's unclear what exactly you're agreeing is "true". If you're agreeing with the "incorrect to conflate", then it is true that it would be incorrect, but not true that this needs to be pointed out.

With only a little bit of investigation, or even participation, it quickly becomes entirely clear that compos divide entries by hardware, and people in the demoscene don't ask oldschool 64ks to measure up to PC 64ks.

I recommend having a look at the various compo blocks on pouet: https://www.youtube.com/user/RevisionParty

Mithaldu··on Google Home: An Insight Into a 4-Year-Old’s Mind
I found that many adults have sadly forgotten how to ask "Why?" and instead get set in whatever their mind decided is the reason for something being the objectively true reason.

Encouraging children to ask why is not only the most kind thing you can do for them, but also the rest of the world.

Mithaldu··on How Four Native Developers Wrote an Electron App
I created an issue reporting the main problem caused by Electron for them: https://github.com/desktop/desktop/issues/1641

Maybe they'll figure something out.

Mithaldu··on A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to $1750 per month
Absolutely no shame on the author for something that can be easily overlooked, wasn't documented and not reported by any tool.
Mithaldu··on Working at Netflix 2017
Another example to add for "shady", for a long time Netflix used to push shows you'd watched to the end in your "continue watching" show to prompt you to watch them again, which could easily be mistaken for "the show actually has new episodes".

They did fix that though, i think.

Mithaldu··on 40,000-year-old bracelet made by extinct human species found (2015)
I've had many of my american friends tell me they've observed the bias and the details in upbringing, particularly stressing confidence as being more important than being correct, and "fake it till you make it".

And i think you're right about archeology. Most of the notable people mentioned in the history section of wikipedia are english.

Mithaldu··on 40,000-year-old bracelet made by extinct human species found (2015)
> Doing what?

Defaulting anything they should ordinary label as "purpose unknown" to "religious".

> How long have you been doing it?

Claiming that i am jumping to conclusions is ridiculous. I started the first post by saying i already thought my initial thought may have been doing that, and stated it as a feeling (subjective), and thus positioned it not as an objective fact but a hypothesis, inviting discussion. I was earnest, honest and clear. You're just being gracelessly sarcastic and dishonest.

Mithaldu··on Not Hotdog App
The author of the software disagrees with you, otherwise his response here would not have included the word "sorry": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14347371

Also, the show this app is based on is accessible to an international audience.

Mithaldu··on 40,000-year-old bracelet made by extinct human species found (2015)
Even if she's not american, it could be an attribute of the line of study. Mathematics weren't started in Germany, but many text books, even in the USA are strongly influenced by german aspects.

Also, if it's not that, where does that aspect come from then? How long have archeologists been doing this?

Mithaldu··on 40,000-year-old bracelet made by extinct human species found (2015)
I may be jumping to conclusions here, but this feels to me like a consequence of the american thing of "never admit when you don't know something".
Mithaldu··on Amazon to Build a Permanent Mary's Place Family Shelter Within Its Headquarters
No, this is a peace treaty for a single block in one city, out of an entire country that is still at war.

It's nice that a handful of people are being helped, but they are utterly dwarved by the amounts of people in the same situation who won't ever receive help, not because it's impossible (other countries do it fine) but because the country refuses to recognize the needs of all of its citizens.

Mithaldu··on Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update
Which is priced the same as the home version if you buy it via other vendors.
Mithaldu··on Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update
Pro 10 user here. Windows started wanting to update last week, but isn't because my group policy is set to notify for download and auto install, so all i had for the duration of the conference i was at was a notification.

It works fine.

Mithaldu··on Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update
You do get that freedom.
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