"Why won't these sexist women come see our superhero movies? Come on! We don't WANT to make movies you actually want to see, come to the movies we want to make instead!"
[admin mode] been having some challenges since this morning keeping my sites up. Seems like it might be related to running a single threaded Apache limiting simultaneous connections. Switched to a multi threaded Apache with a ton more connections and everything seems much happier. In fact, everything seems snappier everywhere. Hmmmm
In November of 1983, the UK health minister told parliament there was no evidence that blood products can transmit AIDS. By 1985, untreated blood products were all banned for causing AIDS.
Really, if you micromanage an individual enough then they will never be enough.
You make eye contact it's a problem. You don't make eye contact it's a problem. You make too much eye contact it's a problem. You make not enough eye contact it's a problem.
Essentially you just set the bar so unrealistically high that everyone is always breaking the rules.
It shows a lack of wisdom on the part of people implementing such policies. If I'm going to be walking on eggshells around anyone of a different race, I'll just avoid people of different races, and so will most people, though if they have an academic career to protect they won't admit to it. (Unless the point is to promote segregation which some people think to be the case)
Nobody wants to hang out with someone who can and will destroy your life with a word. Eventually people like that either learn to chill out or they find themselves all alone.
You make eye contact it's a problem. You don't make eye contact it's a problem. You make too much eye contact it's a problem. You make not enough eye contact it's a problem.
Essentially you just set the bar so unrealistically high that everyone is always breaking the rules.
It shows a lack of wisdom on the part of people implementing such policies. If I'm going to be walking on eggshells around anyone of a different race, I'll just avoid people of different races, and so will most people, though if they have an academic career to protect they won't admit to it. (Unless the point is to promote segregation which some people think to be the case)
Nobody wants to hang out with someone who can and will destroy your life with a word. Eventually people like that either learn to chill out or they find themselves all alone.
I was a relatively early adopter of VR. I have an oculus rift 1.
Its pretty interesting but the thing is, people think it'll take off like smart phones but they are the exact polar opposite thing as a smart phone. Smart phones took the deskbound PC internet experience and put it into your hand so you could go out and live life and just take a peek at your notifications. People can end up sitting there staring at a screen for a long time, but it doesn't feel like they are and thats why its so addictive.
By contrast, with VR you are strapping a thing to your face just to start. By definition it takes over your entire field of view, and you can't just slip it in your pocket, its all or nothing. You cant just glance at it either, it must take over your whole view.
Another big thing is that it can make you feel icky. It covers a chunk of your face so if you're waking up heat by making big physical movements the way that you need to in VR, a good chunk of your head which is a major place that he goes to be released is insulated by your vr helmet. In addition to that, VR can make you motion sick. This isn't a problem with smart phones, but it is a huge problem with VR and for some people thats going to keep them off the platform.
It holds a lot of potential in many fields, but I never expect it to become as ubiquitous as smart phones, because it simply isn't inherent in their nature.
We have a lot of other technologies that are like smart phones but aren't as popular for similar reasons. Portable video game consoles like the Gameboy did well, but not smart phones well. Smart watches are popular, but not like smart phones. Portable music players sold very well, but not like smart phones. Smart phones were a perfect product to solve a very specific problem comparing being connected on the go to being strapped to a desktop computer and not a lot of devices will ever have that level of appeal to as many people.
Its pretty interesting but the thing is, people think it'll take off like smart phones but they are the exact polar opposite thing as a smart phone. Smart phones took the deskbound PC internet experience and put it into your hand so you could go out and live life and just take a peek at your notifications. People can end up sitting there staring at a screen for a long time, but it doesn't feel like they are and thats why its so addictive.
By contrast, with VR you are strapping a thing to your face just to start. By definition it takes over your entire field of view, and you can't just slip it in your pocket, its all or nothing. You cant just glance at it either, it must take over your whole view.
Another big thing is that it can make you feel icky. It covers a chunk of your face so if you're waking up heat by making big physical movements the way that you need to in VR, a good chunk of your head which is a major place that he goes to be released is insulated by your vr helmet. In addition to that, VR can make you motion sick. This isn't a problem with smart phones, but it is a huge problem with VR and for some people thats going to keep them off the platform.
It holds a lot of potential in many fields, but I never expect it to become as ubiquitous as smart phones, because it simply isn't inherent in their nature.
We have a lot of other technologies that are like smart phones but aren't as popular for similar reasons. Portable video game consoles like the Gameboy did well, but not smart phones well. Smart watches are popular, but not like smart phones. Portable music players sold very well, but not like smart phones. Smart phones were a perfect product to solve a very specific problem comparing being connected on the go to being strapped to a desktop computer and not a lot of devices will ever have that level of appeal to as many people.
>I am looking forward to the day where every word we "publish" on the "internet" costs money.
"Looks at word counts of my posts"
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!
"Looks at word counts of my posts"
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!
Or even better: please stop helping. I wouldn't need any help if I just made what I make instead of handing half of it to these guys to "help"
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but to an extent I sorta feel for her. I mean she's a young woman, she's probably been surrounded by woke idiots her entire life, and she's probably always been rewarded for spouting this nonsense. Then suddenly the culture shifts two degrees and she's on the defensive for saying what she's always been told are the right things to say.
I mean, don't get me wrong -- I'm still not going to watch Snow beige and the seven shortest people at the unemployment office, but I've lived through some of the cultural changes myself and they can be somewhat jarring if you don't expect them -- even for an ideology I disagree with I can empathize with someone blindsided by it.
I mean, don't get me wrong -- I'm still not going to watch Snow beige and the seven shortest people at the unemployment office, but I've lived through some of the cultural changes myself and they can be somewhat jarring if you don't expect them -- even for an ideology I disagree with I can empathize with someone blindsided by it.
I feel like when you see channels like yours or HTME where it's like "No, I want to do a thing" it becomes really clear that there's a chasm between conceptually knowing how to do a thing and actually doing the thing. In your case, I think about trying to get desktop GPUs running on a raspberry pi, and it's theoretically simple enough, but in practice was overwhelmingly complex.
In HTME's case, you see how hard it is to make steel or clear glass even if you know exactly what chemicals you need and even if you can get those chemicals, but especially when you're not relying on the precursor tools that are already available in a modern world.
In HTME's case, you see how hard it is to make steel or clear glass even if you know exactly what chemicals you need and even if you can get those chemicals, but especially when you're not relying on the precursor tools that are already available in a modern world.
Yeah yeah. It happened. It can't be taken back. And besides Trump, it's also happening to guys who aren't billionaires like Louis Rossman who years after leaving the state still faces constant harassment from their bureaucracy.
Problem is that what happened here can happen to anyone.
In Canada, der fuhrer Trudeau siezed the bank accounts of the common man who had the gall to disagree with him. It's just one tiny hop from one to the other.
In Canada, der fuhrer Trudeau siezed the bank accounts of the common man who had the gall to disagree with him. It's just one tiny hop from one to the other.
It's deeply ironic. They call us Nazis for opposing them, but the actual historical national socialist ideology was deeply rooted in disgust, which is an emotion whose utility is preventing and fighting disease. They saw their quest as one removing disease, they saw the people who were associated with disease as subhuman and any actions taken against them justified. Nazi propaganda painted the people who were later rounded up and sent to concentration camps as diseased and parasitic. They were described the same way you might describe rats.
I can't help but notice that we were described in such terms, as diseased, parasitic, as dangerous spreaders of disease. All for the crime of opposing their specific methods. Some people are still trapped in the propaganda of that time, and even at this moment think the world is dying (a position completely removed from reality) and it's solely the fault of us dissidents. They believe that if only we would sit down, shut up, and do what we are told then the miraculous healing of the planet would occur, that covid would mystically be purged from the world.
I can't help but notice that we were described in such terms, as diseased, parasitic, as dangerous spreaders of disease. All for the crime of opposing their specific methods. Some people are still trapped in the propaganda of that time, and even at this moment think the world is dying (a position completely removed from reality) and it's solely the fault of us dissidents. They believe that if only we would sit down, shut up, and do what we are told then the miraculous healing of the planet would occur, that covid would mystically be purged from the world.
You know, I click on a lot of things on fediverse behind sensitive tags.....
but I think that was actually something I shouldn't have clicked.
but I think that was actually something I shouldn't have clicked.
No kidding. It was one of the biggest lessons that the winners learn from the first world war, and that's why instead of just trying to punish the germans, the italians, and the Japanese, Europe and the Americans generally tried to rehabilitate those countries after world war II. It was an absolutely brilliant move. If it was just a matter of punishing them again we probably would have ended up with world war 3 a lot sooner.
I kind of feel like if organizations understood the benefits of running their own instance they would. Instead of having to constantly worry about trying to convince platforms to police speech in ways that they want, they could just do it themselves. In terms of communities, a lot of companies already managed their own communities and this would open those communities way up so a bunch of people that might never go to for example forum.blizzard.com might nonetheless sign up for their community on their own instance and keep up to date with the latest things that are going on.
Success is certainly possible, what the fact that eBay didn't last forever also goes to show that you have to keep on working to get better and better or else someone else is going to build a better mouse trap.
Paying money for St. Anger after they bitched about naptster killed Metallica in my eyes. They're dead, dead forever. It was good while it lasted.