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xkcd #2832: Urban Planning Opinion Progression
I'm so happy this is becoming more mainstream. Huge props to people like NotJustBikes for such effective propagandizing.
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xkcd #2832: Urban Planning Opinion Progression
I'm so happy this is becoming more mainstream. Huge props to people like NotJustBikes for such effective propagandizing.
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Dutch government starts own Mastodon instance as reaction to the instability of Twitter
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Why not have a state-run instance on an open platform? It's better than relying on a corporation's platform. The government is 'the people' more than corporations are.
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Anon likes bikes
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I ride a bike to work every day. I'm never sweaty. The infrastructure to cycle exists so I won't get run over by cars.
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TIL that 70% of US traffic on reddit is from users on a mobile device.
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Aren't they also pushing changes to have mobile browsers redirect to the app with no option for staying in the browser?
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I wish there was a way to support the production, actors, writers, vfx artists, animators, etc. of good shows adequately while getting the piracy experience. This system really just fucking sucks. Even if you pay exorbitant amounts to streaming services, the people that made the art get jack shit.
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firefox
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Yeah it lags behind because Chromium is developed by Google, which is the 4th biggest company in the world. And Safari is obviously from Apple which is the largest company in the world. I don't think the fact that Mozilla lags behind should upset anyone. The fact they can compete at all is impressive I think.
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Authors Are Furious After Finding Their Works on List of Books Used To Train AI
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That would be a much better comparison if it was artificial intelligence, but these are just reinforcement learning models. They do not get inspired.
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what sniffing glue does to your brain
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Not to discount it as a problem.. but a lot of Eastern Europe has this issue. Hell, not even just Eastern Europe. Fascist parties exist in most places, Ukraine does not really stand out in this aspect.
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Just a small note, universal healthcare isn't an EU thing and not really adopted properly across the EU's constituent countries
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measuring rule
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The measurement for temperatures you experience really does not matter outside of what you're used to, do you think non-Americans get confused about how cold 6°C or 23°C is?
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Garry Newman: The new Unity pricing would have cost him $410,000 of lifetime revenue
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It's not "the easy route". Making a game engine is a tremendous investment these days. If you are making anything other than a game that looks like early 2000s or earlier, you need a pretty capable engine that takes years to develop. That's on top of the time it costs to make a game, which is also typically years. Not to mention that your proprietary engine will have subpar tooling and make your game development slower.
For anyone but industry giants it's not feasible to make a modern engine. Unless your game is not aiming to play and feel like a modern game, you have to run with an off-the-shelf engine.
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[meme] You'll know when you reach the Netherlands
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100%. If you are a car wanting to pass a bike and there is an oncoming car, you wait behind the bike for the other car to pass before overtaking.
This road is also probably super rural and does not have enough traffic for this to become an issue. Overtaking and oncoming traffic is not a constant given how sparse the traffic is.
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EU approves ban on destruction of unsold clothing
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How does this law favor fast fashion? it seems the opposite
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Matt Gaetz Shouts That ‘Only Through Force Do We Make Any Change’ While Standing Beside Trump in Iowa
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What makes you think vigilantilism is a problem with the extreme left?
Just as an example off the top of my head, the murder of Ahmaud Arbery was done by right-wing looneys and defended by the far-right as morally good vigilantilism, leading to the repeal of Georgia's citizens arrest laws (i.e., their laws for legal vigilantilism).
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Hexbearian jerking themselves off about how valuable they are to the rest of the fediverse, suggests "performing a coup"
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As a leftist, we don't claim these people. Their views are left-coded but inherently antithetical to leftist values. Marxism-Leninism is an attempt (and quite a successful one) to appease revolutionary sentiment by embracing the aesthetics of the left but wrapping it in an authoritarian state. It's similar to how the nazis called themselves socialists to leech off the socialist sentiment in Germany at the time. These dopes like leftist aesthetics but completely miss the mark on any leftist policy.
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World of machines vs. world of humans
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The employees might not have money for a car since they get paid a shit wage.. which means having to walk through the car infrastructure.
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Well that was great. Let's see what people on the internet think!
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I haven't experienced this at all, but I might not be viscerally bothered by a trans person existing to the point of ruining the movie for me.
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Tankie admins continue to waste their time by banning users who are already defederated, meaning none of these users could post anyway—also some genocide denialism and being proud of an echo-chamber
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They are authoritarians first and foremost, so it's a bit of a tough one for them there
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Garry Newman: The new Unity pricing would have cost him $410,000 of lifetime revenue
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You have no idea what you're talking about my guy. First off, Godot has been in development since 2007. That's 16 years ago. Secondly, Godot started in Codenix, a consulting company that made money by licensing then-closed-source Godot. They only made it open source in 2014 - 7 years into development. This is a company that made its money through selling a game engine, not through making games. Thirdly, Godot receives funding from massive companies (e.g. they received $250k in funding from Epic Games in 2020). Fourthly, Godot is not up to par with Unreal Engine or Unity. It's NOT a viable game engine for many games being developed.
Edit: also, I'm not a milennial. I'm a zoomer. No, I'm not too young to have an opinion on this, I've been making games for 15 years.
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Deep answers
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In fairness you spend a lot of your childhood licking everything you come across. I bet your tongue has touched many more of those objects than you can remember.