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India landed on the Moon for less than it cost to make Interstellar | The Independent
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Slavery sure is cheap. Good call out.
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India landed on the Moon for less than it cost to make Interstellar | The Independent
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Slavery sure is cheap. Good call out.
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George R.R. Martin and other authors sue OpenAI for copyright infringement
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I have nipples Greg, could you sue me?
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Anyone else feels that they're more active on Lemmy than they were on Reddit?
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Content felt like it exploded just over the past couple of days. The coverage of world news events has been excellent. Memes have homes. It has been nice.
The breath of fresh air has generally been maturity in a lot of posts. Reddit felt like junior high deduction skills most of the time. I don't expect it to last, but it makes me engage more.
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Unlike previous attempts at trying reddit alternatives (like Voat), kbin and much of the lemmyverse doesn’t seem to be plagued with extreme far right buffoonery.
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You have some points, but "not well recieved" would be downvotes. I think banning is censorship and can be a fair complaint.
With that said, maybe the sub had posted rules that were violated. It isn't like OP couldn't create their own sub if that was the situation.
Banning people from communication spaces though should be a concerning behavior. It goes both ways.
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Do you think the guys on the titanic submarine will be rescued?
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I've heard a lot about oxygen reserves and zero about whether they have enough water for 3+ days.
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Fox News host caught accidentally making the case for Roe v Wade
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They are still contradictions. As we saw, there is collateral damage to hospitals and emergency resources when anti-vaccine folks hate science until they are on their death bed.
With that said, now we are doing better to the point that anti-vaccers aren't overloading hospitals and my argument becomes moot. But during a period of time once vaccines initially were available, anti-vaccine folks were definitely hurting other people.
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People with pets: how do you deal with all the fur?
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The confidently incorrect redditors are starting to arrive.
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Unlike previous attempts at trying reddit alternatives (like Voat), kbin and much of the lemmyverse doesn’t seem to be plagued with extreme far right buffoonery.
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But you don't know what they said or what the community was. You are missing my general point. Please don't support general fascism behavior, whether it is from the right or left.
On top of that, this isn't somebody's house. That isn't a good analogy.
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It’s official — LCD TVs won’t see any further development.
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Mine flickers when room temp is above 75 and gets jacked at 78.
The G3 is looking extremely appealing in all dimensions except price.
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Is there a way to create Super Communities?
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Interesting point. The local vs global is a nice solution. I agree that having non-US groups could be a good thing, compared to reddit. It always felt like the US drowned out international perspectives. From there, have a toggle switch to bifurcate the content on demand.
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It’s official — LCD TVs won’t see any further development.
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It is an LCD. The temperature sensitivity is the main board starting to fail.
I bought this is 2015, so it is about time to get a new TV.
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Unlike previous attempts at trying reddit alternatives (like Voat), kbin and much of the lemmyverse doesn’t seem to be plagued with extreme far right buffoonery.
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Transitioning is One solution, and it is valid to be able to discuss other options. Your citations bring good discussion points, but shouldn't be used to ban people.
My point is about censorship and the race to the bottom thst it can and often brings.
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Code Review
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I feel this way about open source and the seemingly frequent lack of detailed code reviews. This one project had two function options to use from a library. One handles errors by returning them to the caller so they can be handled gracefully. The other, calls PANIC! They chose the latter and it causes a crash loop for a relatively easy to hit code condition that is sensitive to User input.
Why ask for unit test, in the code review, when you can just accept the contribution for a feature that is used in large corps.
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Lemmy growth curve
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It is a tight small shop from what I understand. Their github: https://github.com/ernestwisniewski/kbin
Ernest, from what I've seen, has been very receptive and passionate about all the incoming users. They scaled their infrastructure quickly to meet demand and were interacting with users on kbin regarding features they would like to see. I have high hopes.
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Bill Gates said, "I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it." What's a real-life example of this?
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Lol, I haven't heard of the dreaded Blackboard in forever. What a boomerang of stress 😀
@killick, if this is a website you can automate this yourself by creating a csv of that data schema you want and then use Selenium to auto-fill and submit that web form. Automated UI testers use Selinum for testing, but it doesn't have to be just a test. Selenium shoud be free to run.
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Amazon made a new version of its cashierless tech that doesn’t need cameras
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I wonder if they just check the phone data. I assume most amazon customers have the app setup with location sharing. Not all, but most.
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Amazon made a new version of its cashierless tech that doesn’t need cameras
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Yea, i think your video surveillance case has a lot of value. With AI Algorithms these days and the postive feedback loop being clearly a purchase, it would be weird not to have this.
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Bill Gates said, "I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it." What's a real-life example of this?
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In a 200 person company, I made friends with some peeps in the marketing department.
Yep, their workflows have tons of automation potential. They are definitely doing hours of work that can be done in minutes. Companies really should have rotations where a dev just sits and watches sales and marketing do any data input work.
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Bill Gates said, "I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it." What's a real-life example of this?
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I do the same for our support documentation too. Is a question asked 3x in a month? Straight to the FAQ you go.
Some questions have been asked for Years. I've never understood why some people spend 100x the amount of time on a question than they ever needed to.
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Is it just me or did anyone else became a more avid poster since joining lemmy?
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I've started to see some of the hive mind downvote bridgade come here too. Heck someone downvoted your relatively neutral comment already, instead of taking the time to reply as to why they disagree. And those that do reply didn't actually read what you wrote and then put words and perspectives in your mouth.
A lot of reddit thinks in black and white scenarios where everything popularly decided can't have a extenuating circumstance. I am pretty sure most of reddit would argue with their own reflection. Maybe it's bots, maybe kids. It is definitely annoying and immature. It is hard to conversate in a thread when everyone is acting like a 5 year old not getting their lollipop.