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I would have laughed at the thought a few years ago, but now I am slowly starting to adopt some of the viewpoints of American second amendment hardliners.

It's just unfortunate that producing a half decent computing platform is significantly more difficult than a rifle (and that in the case of said hardliners, the capital is backing them, here it's working against us).

How did you conclude that from a single comment and no posts?

Genuinely curious.

The win would be if someone started to question why an institute would force Google products on its students in the first place.

>Food.

Ol’ Mao would like to have a word with you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_commune

[bell ring] What is PGP?

Eh. Sudan has had a de-facto, _permenant_ DST from 2000 to 2017. Had absolutely no effect iirc save for the expected confusion in the first few months, especially considering that the change was made in winter.

The Amish are an exception, one of the rare ones (along with the handful of protected, isolated tribes). The rule is that a technologically inferior group will get rolled over by a technologically superior one for the benefit of the latter.

And lose the performance gains of multi-channel memory access. A minor issue of CPU performance, but devastating for IGPs.

But I suppose when one has to amputate, not being able to run a marathon isn't really a blocking factor...

>unstable chunk of desert.

Ain't dictating anything. You're the ones with the guns all over who's doing that (and shaping said instability in the first place).

Well, it was called the "British Empire" up til recently (or still is, according to Mark Curtis)...

I am aware of weir hydraulics and no one is denying the hazard they create. I am saying that everything generates a hazard and managing it is always going to be required.

That said, any structure spanning the width of a channel alters the flow in ways that are hazardous to swimmers and boats.

Not be insensitive to death, but this not really a damning case against the structure itself. Hazards to swimmers are pretty common and can happen with any hydraulic structure and often without. Especially in the latter cases the, expected response are warning and prohibition. Those caused by a structure should be even easier to manage because they are predictable.

That this hazard is tied to a structure with no utility is a specific scenario. But in another where the structure does serve a purpose then restricting one recreational activity in its vicinity may be an acceptable cost. Par exemple, would you be against fencing a substation or prohibiting kite/drone flying near high voltage lines?

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I typed Pentax (a pumps brand) for the least mentioned Italian brands question. It insisted that it's the Japanese cameras brand.

The aesthetics are nice, but I think the idea of the game itself is seriously flawed.

> Many NOOMBYs consider local dams indispensable ties to their community’s past; in Billerica, some town officials have objected to the demolition of the Talbot Mills Dam on the grounds that “it has long served as a symbol of the Industrial Revolution” that remains “unquestionably one of the major focal points in the area.”

I used to hate the "but what about historical site upstream?" argument often used against dams. The prioritisation of a few tombs and piles of stone over what would improve the lives of thousands to tens of millions living now. It's kinda ironic seeing the same asinine argument being used from the other side...

That said, reducing dams to just hydroelectric generation is probably going to skew the narrative to the wrong direction.

This is an issue of trajectories. Perception of Canada and France has not shifted significantly in the observation period; the US dropped by an unambiguous 38%. So it's not about what the US was, it's about what it's become/becoming. An example of Newton's first law, if you will.

Or at least that's how I am interpreting the parent post...

I suppose the disagreement here is on the scope of “rendering.”

Why is it “impossible”? If you mean that a rendered frame has to reside in the graphics memory before being sent to the display, then I think that was the case even when software rendering was a thing.

If you mean rendering a frame entirely in the main memory by the CPU, then there is nothing making it impossible. I mean, most major 3D rendering software still have CPU renderers as an option. Slow, but doable.

P.S: I am using offline renderers here as an extreme example. A game renderer - especially for scenes like Quake’s - are definitely going to be far simpler and cheaper.

Because as much as I often wish that it didn't, the past exists...

Qgis is a pretty useful software and a great OSS project, but I wouldn't go as far as putting that low. That honour goes to GDAL/OGR, PROJ, et all.

QGIS is more of a slab/deck that links all those foundations together.

You're forgetting QGIS's own plugin ecosystem, which afaik doesn't prohibit slo-... err, vibe and assisted-coded contributions.

Although that would probably change of the AI-assisted spam shifted over to it.

Wait till you see how many taps it takes to access the equivalent list on the Play Store...

> I was ridiculed by my friends for that.

The sad part about the privacy discourse is that people not only don't care, but they would argue for the invading party. And I am not talking about your average teenager looking for their next brainrot fix, but highly educated and extremely intellegent people!

I've long since gave up trying to talk to people about these issues. Which unfortunately means I'll surrender to exposing myself to this plague to some degree, considering how herd immunity principles apply here as well.

LG was caught abusing (although it's hard to argue that it isn't intended behaviour) Windows automatic installation of hardware-related software to install adware. Doesn't take too many tinfoil wraps around one's head to imagine them doing the same to enable network sharing (assuming hardware support is ubiqtuous enough).

https://www.techspot.com/news/113031-lg-alienware-monitors-c...

>Generic mass spying.

Like PRISM, Boundless Informant, Stellar Wind, etc?

> They'll spy on users usage habits, and likely backdoor their OS for the feds, but they won't individually exfil your browser cookies and steal money from your bank account.

What’s the difference between backdooring for the US gov’t and directly robbing/bugging you (assuming for the sake of argument that they don’t already do at least the latter)?

Used to be that you’d only ask that question if you were brown and/or write your name from right to left. Doesn’t matter much whether you were from Svalbard or Sanaa these days…

Weird Al - Word Crimes

I love LO and I appreciate the love they are giving to Arabic speakers, but that "متال" is killing me!

But how are they going stuff them chokeful of intrusive bloatware then?

Yes. Perhaps pushing sophisticated models that require validation, on users who most definitely won't (and the whole premise of the model itself is that it spares them work) was a bad idea...