SpaceScotsman

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Honestly, "country of origin" will have straight lines drawn on a map that are so far removed from where the people who lived there originally considered their borders even that's probably not pinning it down well enough.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This is why you keep a several hundred megabytes history file set to remember "forever"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

fiercely confident of their own independence

In fairness, if you let the average cat out into nature it would be fine. Dump the average libertarian into nature and they wont last the night.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago

This is a fair point. If people demanded their money back when a film has bad audio, I wonder if that might incentivise the industry to care more about this.

[–] [email protected] 154 points 3 weeks ago (32 children)

This is a real pet annoyance of mine, and I have seeing apologist posts on the internet about it.

If the actors cant enunciate properly except when they're shouting, that's not adding realism, they're doing bad acting.

If the sound engineers can't get a good audio balance for anything except the loudest moment in a film, that's not a limitation of technology/sound physics, they're bad at mixing.

If the director can't keep all of this in check and make a film that people can actually enjoy, that's not artistic choice, they've made a bad film.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I'm surprised VLC fares that badly with CCs encoded this way. Usually it's pretty good. I'm also now wondering if ffmpeg also shares the same problem

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

For a brief brief moment I was elated when I parsed the title as 'Palantir says it has given up on AI'. Then I read the article and was left dejected.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Adjusted to the initial sale value of the car - Less easy to cheat by not declaring income, and bigger cars (likely more expensive) that take up more space, pay more.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Absolutely. Screenshots of 3d desktop cube on ubuntu more than a decade ago is what taught me linux existed. It's an absolutely terrible and inefficient way to run desktop workspaces, but it hooked me all the same.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Users need to know what this dot means, and some like children or the elderly will likely not understand the ramifications

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago
  • No job, grind away the entire waking day with a low paying zero hours contract while filing job applications, No videogames, no relaxation, more stress, costs healthcare providers more

  • No job, spend some of the day working while filing job applications, Yes Videogames, relaxation, lower stress, costs healthcare providers less

Yet another case where if the politician seriously thought about the issue for just half a minute they'd realise their attitude makes no sense.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago
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