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Yaky

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  • What's a NON-HORROR NON-DOCUMENTARY movie that disturbed you or made you very uncomfortable?

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  • Black Mirror's Striking Vipers episode. Initially made me uncomfortable, but then prompts questions about virtual/online interactions and where to draw the line. Building (virtual) things in an online game together with a (adult) friend is OK. (Virtually) harming or killing your (adult) friend in online game is OK. Is having (virtual) sex with your (adult) friend in online game OK?

  • Has there ever been an industry that's been "enshittified" and then un-"enshittified"?

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  • AFAIK internet access was very siloed in the 90s - AOL, CompuServe, Prodigy and the like, which weren't quite ISPs, since they allowed access only to their own services and networks. Then, in 2000s, these companies evolved and ISPs started providing access to the WWW, whick you could call "deshittifying" internet access.

  • What's an interesting etymology for a common term?

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  • Proto-slavic used the root "dn" (дн) for water, which explains river names such as Dnipro (Дніпро,Днепр), Danube (Дунай/Donau), Don (Дон), Dnjester (Днестр, Дністро).

  • What's an interesting etymology for a common term?

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  • "Вертолёт" (vertolyot) is a direct copy with "vert" meaning "spin" and "lyot" meaning "to fly".

  • What's an interesting etymology for a common term?

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  • I heard that in Czechia and Slovakia, the word for jeans is/was "Rifle" (pronounced "reef-le"), since Rifle was the first brand of jeans imported there in the 80s.

  • What's an interesting etymology for a common term?

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  • I've heard that it's shortened "son of a gun deck", conceived on a gun deck, which would be enclosed and quiet(er)

  • What's an interesting etymology for a common term?

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  • Another one on illegitimate children: "Son of a gun" is a shortened "son of a gun deck", i.e. conceived by a sailor on a gun deck.

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    A data center drained 30M gallons of water unnoticed — until residents complained about low water pressure

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  • Using tap water for cooling is such an idiotic engineering decision it feels like it was suggested by an LLM chatbot.

    Power plants use water too, but they draw it from the nearby river or lake, recycle it through cooling towers, and/or dump it back out into the river or lake. Or course that has its own effects, but at least it's not depriving a nearby town of drinking water by existing.

  • Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone

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  • AFAIK Librem claims they use separate verified suppliers and builders (compared to more common Android manufacturers, for example). Kind of a zealot thing too though.

    And PinePhone (original) at $200 is not that expensive if you think of it as a compact version of a Linux platform like Raspberry Pi. Raspberry Pi + charger + battery + touch display + 4G modem + GPS unit + microphone + speaker will probably run close to $200 too.

  • What was the most recent thing that made you cry as an adult?

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  • Speaking of games, ending of Outer Wilds.

    After discovering everything you can, you still cannot stop the end of the world. Everyone dies. At least you can get the astronaut band to play together one last time.

  • The AI-designed car is taking shape

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  • "Software-defined vehicles"? Dafuq?

  • Even experts are surprised by AI’s latest ‘vibe-mathing’ advance

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  • This reminds me of a story my graph theory professor told me (long before LLMs). One of their grad students discovered that a subset of graphs that are of type A and B at once has fantastic properties, such as fast searching, and a few others, useful in communication networks etc.

    Excited about their potential thesis, student asked the professor to take a look. After calculating which graphs actually are types A and B at the same time, professor found that the intersection of such graph types is a null set. So the theoretically nice graphs the student "discovered" simply do not exist.

  • What is the "Mamdani Act"? GOP bill would ban socialists, Marxists from US

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  • Manners are important.

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  • Makes perfect sense. This comment just made me realize English does not have a distinction between order and request. While, for example, in Russian, orders are said in indefinite tense (?). So when you order a dog to sit, you would say "to sit!" (сидеть!), or to order someone to stop, "to stand!" (стоять!). Another less formal way to order (usually a group) is to use "we" as the subject, for example, "[we are] not sitting, [we are] working" (не сидим, работаем)

  • IKA Besta 3D Printer Cabinet

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  • This looks so much better and easier than half-assing LACK tables and plywood/plexiglass together.

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    Is it true that the education system is crap in America?

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  • The feedback loops that local funding creates are vicious too:

    desirable neighborhood -> higher prices -> more taxes -> better funded school -> desirable neighborhood (for families)

    undesirable neighborhood -> low prices and no population increase -> worse funded school -> undesirable for families

    As you said, next to one another. By sheer luck I happened to live in an apartment building that somehow belonged to a rich school district. Next building over was in the poor school district.

  • Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they worked hard for it(including waiting 24 hours)

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  • Who are these smooth-talking scammers that can guide a regular-ass user to jump through hoops in settings to install a malicious app?

    Maybe I should ask them how they do it, because I cannot convince my family to download and use Signal. You know, the legit app from the official app store.

  • Harmony - Yet Another Discord Alternative

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  • That is fair, and I appreciate the explanation.

  • Harmony - Yet Another Discord Alternative

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  • Edit: Author says GenAI was not used for code, see below.

    Original comment, observing signs of GenAI project:

    What's up with these brand-new "Discord alternatives" being cranked out en masse? Would be easier to contribute to XMPP or Matrix IMO.

    Initial commit 14,203 files changed +2872320

    AI? Or "i worked on this for 10 years and uploaded just now"? /s

    Overabundance of emojis in description. Probably AI.

    Would be cool to see if anyone manages to get it running.

    Were you able to run it yourself? What.