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  • They're so spacious

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  • Sounds honestly like it’d be a bit of a spooky spot secluded in the middle of the night

    Reminds me of a particular scene from the Zodiac movie, which is more or less set in that time period, so yeah spooky indeed.

  • They got us by the balls

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  • Oh wow, he appeared as one of the bad guys in the movie Tetris. Didn't realize he was the father of ...

  • Age checks could turn internet into an ID checkpoint and would kill anonymity, Proton CEO says

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  • Age checks could turn internet into an ID checkpoint and would kill anonymity, Proton CEO says

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  • Age checks could turn internet into an ID checkpoint and would kill anonymity, Proton CEO says

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  • Age checks could turn internet into an ID checkpoint and would kill anonymity, Proton CEO says

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  • Age checks could turn internet into an ID checkpoint and would kill anonymity, Proton CEO says

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  • Age checks could turn internet into an ID checkpoint and would kill anonymity, Proton CEO says

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  • The laws can absolutely be written such that companies are required to suspend service to any suspected child without requiring ID to use the service.

    The laws shouldn't focus on "harming children" so much, but on "harming humans".

    The big tech companies should be held responsible for the actual damage they are inflicting upon society, and their methods to artificially inflate "engagement" (or whatever the hell they call it) should be held to scrutiny. Whether or not the damage is inflicted upon an underage person or an adult, is merely a distraction.

    Those assholes would love it if we all had to identify ourselves and prove our age, if it means they get to keep inflicting their shit upon us.

  • Age checks could turn internet into an ID checkpoint and would kill anonymity, Proton CEO says

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  • I like trains

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  • I did not care for the Godfather

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  • Quoting myself:

    It’s a great movie

    So: ???

  • I did not care for the Godfather

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  • Interstellar is a very plot driven movie, it's leads you by the hand saying "these things are happening, in this order, and it's interesting and engaging", and when the movie is done you get it: the journey is at an end, and the good guys conquered the big problems, emotions were felt along the way, and you're not really left with any lingering questions afterwards. It's a great movie, but it's also a rather easy movie to enjoy if you're into space stuff.

    Whereas 2001, aside from being an absolute visual feast, is more abstract and theme driven, about humanity's place in the cosmos, and it makes you ask deeper questions, but you must actually pay attention and discover those questions and explore them in your own mind to actually engage with the movie. It's not a passive experience, and your engagement with the movie can stay with you for days. It's certainly a much more difficult movie to enjoy.

    When I was in my 20s, I hated movies like 2001 and Bladerunner, I found them so tedious, because I wanted scifi like Aliens goddammit. Later, I learned to really enjoy these more cerebral movies that took effort to engage with, because they were so rewarding when that effort paid off.

  • The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices

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  • Would be nice to see the gaming industry pivot back to making innovative games within the constraints of hardware, instead of just expecting customers to throw ever more powerful (and power consuming) hardware at it.

  • Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy

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  • Why would I throw it away, when I can give it to someone who needs it more, or sell it?

    Because selling is always a hassle, dealing with choosing beggars and scammers, and it may not be worth much anymore for general use.

    For example, my old PC is a i7 4770k... it can't run Windows 11 or play remotely recent games. I don't know anyone who could use this thing, so to save a few watts I took out the GPU, put it in eco mode and have been using it as my Linux server.

    My NUC uses 6-7W idle.

    I have played around with some mini PC's (minisforum and beelink brand), they're neat but they turned out to be not very reliable, two have already died prematurely, and unfortunately they are not end-user serviceable. Lack of storage expansion options is an issue as well, if you don't just want to stack a bunch of external USB drives on top of each other.

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  • The logic behind the keep-right law is this:

    1. It is illegal and dangerous to overtake on the right.
    2. It optimizes the capacity of the road. If you are in the middle lane with nobody to the right of you, the space to the right of you can't be used by anyone, because of point 1.

    To address some of your points:

    be in the way of people trying to get on

    The onus is on the people who are trying to get on to merge properly. Moving over for people who are merging is generally discouraged. Personally, I only do it for slower traffic (large trucks) or with short, difficult on-ramps.

    in, what, 4 seconds

    The way keep-right is policed is that you are only expected to move back to the right lane if that lane is free for a reasonable distance. Police typically use a margin of 20-30 seconds or so of middle lane camping without passing anyone before ticketing you.

    I’m going to merge when it’s -safe- to do so

    As you always should. Keep right doesn't change that.

    I could technically squeeze in between two of the cars in the column I’m passing

    See above. You are never expected to squeeze in between two cars. As long as you are passing you are allowed to be in a lane to the left of the traffic you are passing. The faster driver coming up behind you just needs to wait until you have finished your pass and have the space to move over.

    Anyway, my point still stands. You may prefer your keep-your-lane logic over keep-right logic, but in large parts of the world it is against the law, and you should try to follow the laws of where you are. I'm not saying keep-your-lane logic is indefensible when considered in a vacuum, I'm saying you're not in a vacuum so you should be predictable and follow the same rules as everyone else.

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  • something has to be the rule for processing it

    Well the rule is: any order goes. Summation is commutative.

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    I dunno

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  • If you have a bunch of unparenthesized addition and subtraction, left to right is correct

    If you have a bunch of unparenthesized addition and subtraction, left to right doesn't matter.

    1 + 2 + 3 = 3 + 2 + 1

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  • The logic still applies though

    No it doesn't outside of [parts of] the US.

    For traffic to flow safely and predictably, we should strive to do what the law prescribes, so that everyone is on the same page instead of everyone operating according to their own made up rules. The law in most places is keep right if possible, regardless of how many lanes there are.

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  • US defaultism much?

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