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MentalEdge

@ MentalEdge @sopuli.xyz

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Eskating cyclist, gamer and enjoyer of anime. Probably an artist. Also I code sometimes, pretty much just to mod titanfall 2 tho.

Introverted, yet I enjoy discussion to a fault.

  • lasik: wearing glasses with extra steps?

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  • Eye surgeries always come with risk. When they go wrong, you can even end up with worse vision than before.

    If life is comfortable for you, I wouldn't change anything.

    I'm not sure why the surgery wouldn't help with near-sightedness. It modifies the shape of the lens in your eye, essentially applying correction directly to your body.

    How much can be done and in which direction, depends on the individual. As you're essentially working with a subtractive tool (using a laser to remove stuff) to modify the optical material in your eye. You're limited by the shape and amount of material in each persons eye in the first place, and you can't make changes that would require adding material. As such, there is a maximum amount of correction that can be applied before you run out of usable material, and it varies from person to person.

    If more is neded beyond that limit, you will still need glasses.

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  • And that's why astrology is different from astronomy.

  • The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the app Dutch citizens use for everything

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  • Oh good.

    That the plan got frozen wasn't nearly as publicized as it initially passing.

  • The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the app Dutch citizens use for everything

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  • Meanwile, in Finland, we outsourced our fucking vote counting system, to god-damn AWS.

  • I can’t expect anyone is allowed to walk through the nacelle catwalks.

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  • Oh shit! I remember.

    That actually confirms though, that they somehow "just know" when a stop is their destination. Even when there are multiple people in the lift going to different places.

  • I can’t expect anyone is allowed to walk through the nacelle catwalks.

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  • Has anyone though about the fact that the turbolifts are voice controlled, but don't announce where they're arriving?

    Lots of times we see people joining other people already in the lift. People always just announce their destination as they step into the lift, and presumably it figures out how to most efficiently get to each place the people in the lift are going, and whether to pick up more people on the way. But not once is anyone confused about whether to get off when the lift stops somewhere. And would it not be more efficient to announce where you're headed at the door, before a lift arrives, so that the system can group people going in the same direction?

    Does everyone just "know" the different decks and locations by sight? Is there a display that shows the current deck/location, or what direction a lift is headed?

  • I can’t expect anyone is allowed to walk through the nacelle catwalks.

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  • Obviously the turblift cabin is simply beamed in its entirety when crossing the gap.

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  • cats*

  • Bitwarden New CEO has extensive M&A, Private equity experience, Removes Transparency from its Motto

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  • No?

    I get that clients might break, but the web portal running inside vaultwarden isn't gonna suddenly stop working.

    Vaultwarden itself is self-contained. An API change won't do anything to it.

  • A more private way to distribute votes

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  • Except that "fake" voting patterns become impossible to spot.

    The way they are now, you can look at how an account votes, when it was created, as well as their posts and comments, to determine whether an account is a legitimate user.

    Creating fake accounts that look like legit users is a lot of work. Creating just one, then setting a number a really high, is much, much easier.

  • Stop Killing Games delivers 'absolutely incredible' hearing in European Parliament: 'There was no [parliament member] that wasn't responding positively'

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  • Wow! Absolute gold.

  • Stop Killing Games delivers 'absolutely incredible' hearing in European Parliament: 'There was no [parliament member] that wasn't responding positively'

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  • undue burden on small developers

    Uuh, more often than not, the small devs already make their games indefinitely playable and preservable, just out of a love for the medium.

    No actual artist wants their work to have an expiry date.

    Legal enforcement is only needed for the passionless big publishers that shutter games just to funnel players into purchasing their latest releases.

    It's mentioned in the parliament presentation. Only a small minority of game publishers engage in this BS, but it's ALL the big ones, meaning the problem is experienced by the vast majority of consumers.

  • How far would you swallow your morals for money?

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  • By that logic, only the CEO is guilty.

  • How far would you swallow your morals for money?

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  • Yes.

    And that's not what I do. Participating in evil is evil. I remind people of that. It's so normal that it's easy to forget.

    If a person isn't evil, they should want to stop as soon as possible. The ones that care can easily forget to endeavor to do so. Me included.

  • How far would you swallow your morals for money?

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  • That line is always said in direct response to something they do.

    If you focus on the action, you allow a lot of people to take comfort in the illusion that they are a good person, despite their actions.

    That's not how it works. If you do evil, then you are part of the problem. That only changes once you stop.

  • How far would you swallow your morals for money?

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  • I've literally said "people like you are the reason the world sucks" to peoples faces.

    It's unlikely to change anyone, but someone has to tell them. Otherwise, the ones that try to lie to themselves about what they're doing, might succeed.

  • Stuff for kids?

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  • Fireshare?

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    This little lass has cost me nearly 4k$ over the last few months.

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  • I've no doubt the staff are friendly, and that the vets genuinely care.

    I myself was with the same practice for ten years, and the price for the yearly checkup was reasonable.

    Until my boy was diagnosed with kidney failure. The care was excellent, and the diagnosis correct, but the price for the bloodwork and kidney ultrasound raised eyebrows.

    I went looking. Straight up scam. The place was owned by a group that owned several other vets in the area, all with a pattern of low prices for the basics, and then 5-10 times the "norm" for everything beyond that.

    The next practice over charged 1/5 for the same bloodwork, and could have saved me over a 1000€ on the ultrasound.

    So, just double check. If you're getting the best price in your area without compromising on the care, good. But if you haven't made sure, you should.

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    This little lass has cost me nearly 4k$ over the last few months.

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  • If you can, try to find a practice that hasn't been bought up by private equity.

    Pumping prices on pet care is another straight up evil thing happening, because people will pay anything for love.

    With the result that people who really can't afford it, either go into debt or lose their pets early.

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  • I think probably the biggest thing my parents did with me and by siblings, was humble themselves in front of us. They never tried to maintain infallibility or some illusion of omnipotence. I've seen some parents try to fight tooth and nail to maintain that well into their kids adulthood, and far beyond the point the kid has come to know better.

    If our parents lost their temper, or made a mistake that affected us in some way, they'd apologize. To us. And that goes as far back as I remember. No privately apologizing to themselves because we wouldn't remember anyway. But to us.

    One of my core memories, is an argument I had with my mother, about how I needed her to be kinder with her choice of words sometimes. She was saying that I can't let every word people say to me affect me like that, to which I made the point that I don't. That the only reason I was asking, is because she's my mother. And that what she says goes straight into my heart, and even when I know she doesn't mean it, I literally can't stop it.

    It took her about ten seconds of silence to process that point, after which she apologized and promised to try.

    That's not to say we were raised the "free range" style. Our parents were strict, but they didn't try to make their authority out to be absolute on matters where it wasn't. Instead, we obeyed because of the simple fact that they had wisdom and experience we didn't. And they in turn openly acknowledged that that didn't mean that we had zero. As we grew up, they'd go our of their way to let us defer to our own judgements more and more on more and more matters. Mistakes and all.