silasmariner

joined 2 years ago

Picks from a list of films with similar runtimes and jumps you in at the same point from the beginning. Now you're 20 mins into sharknado 4, have no idea what's supposed to have happened. Doesn't matter. It's sharks in a tornado it's not too hard to follow.

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

People do kinda pick where they are though? If there's some unoccupied housing in Denver, but you're living in Austin it's not necessarily useful, that's what I meant. I agree in principle on social housing, but there would probably need to be some kind of associated projects -- either new construction or housing where ppl live but there isn't enough accommodation, or new jobs created in areas with surplus, or both... And then you also need to think about local amenities (shops, hospitals, parks, schools, that sort of SimCity thing)

Sorry, I might have come across as if I fully disagreed with the notion, but I really don't - I just think that the idea only works with a more integrated policy.

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Do people get to choose where they live in this scenario, or do we just allocate housing based on where's currently unoccupied?

I was once like you. Until started optimising performance. There's always a better way.

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago (6 children)

I think landlords make a lot of sense for commercially-zoned property, and for residentially there needs to be some way to live somewhere even if you can't afford the mortgage deposit. So there's nuance here that needs addressing IMO.

Ok so like this shouldn't be too hard to explain. I assume this is your first time on this planet? Well it doesn't matter. Sometimes someone will say or imply two separate things in the same sentence. An example might be something like 'have you seen my new green pencil?'. Now these things might not always have a relation -- new and green do not necessarily imply one another. But they have a semantic link nonetheless. Doctor does not necessarily imply intellectual, but may be considered relevant. Idk man stop getting upset

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago

Not sure students are necessarily benefiting? The point of education isn't to hand in completed assignments. Although my wife swears that the Duolingo AI is genuinely helping her with learning French so I guess maybe, depending on how it's being used

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Try that count on each of 5 separate browser window. Amaeteur. I exaggerate, of course. Only a couple have that many tabs. I actually closed a window today - it only had 8 tabs - and opened a new one with more tabs from the references of the pages I closed. Eventually I will read the internet.

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

mRNA vaccines are, of course, just the absolute tits - but they're a tiny proportion of modern vaccines and the very first ones are one a few years old, created to treat COVID. But yeah, 100%, we don't use the virus in the vaccine! Even the first ever vaccine was (as you will know) not created from the disease it was meant to treat, but from one similar enough that it gave protection to the other. And smallpox doesn't exist any more so, well, that worked out pretty well didn't it. You don't give someone the virus to stop them getting that virus, but you might well give them a virus, in an attenuated form of the target

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