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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_state

i would genuinely rather read the rough draft before it got turned into this slop. it would be messier, maybe, but it’d have actual human insight and direction.

care to elaborate?

it doesn’t even need to be particularly fresh. for the purposes of this map, it could update just once or twice a decade with no real value loss to anyone using it.

I always read it as “[disk|data] destroyer”, because that’s what it’ll do if you’re not careful.

what’s wrong with a 15-minute city?

So people will be more likely to think twice before using Cursor, Copilot et al? Good. I think they should. Your comparison to torture and sabotage is unfounded to the point of bei…

What exactly is the problem with having an opinion? People are allowed to have opinions. People working in a field are allowed and even expected to have opinions on that field’s cu…

There’s nothing wrong with judgment. Judging someone’s character based on whether they use generative “AI” is a valid practice. You may not like being judged, but that’s another ma…

not washing the rice is generally a bad idea even disregarding this factor, because the texture of the rice will come out quite wrong.

i’ve wanted to play KSP with telemetry visualisation and basic remote commands only for a while. i guess that makes me a masochist, but you could say the same of enjoying KSP at al…

You can absolutely solve 1000 captchas in a day. If we say it takes 10 seconds on average to solve a captcha, that’s 10.000 seconds for 1000 captchas, or just under 3 hours.

What is it about the people that started it that puts you off?

it’s equally interesting to look at this guy’s homepage: https://www.andrews.edu/~rickyr/

unfortunately this one expands past my viewport on mobile in all directions and then doesn’t let me scroll horizontally or vertically. i think it’s a pity, considering that even an…

> after all some normal passenger airports are a few thousand feet above sea level The parent commenter is referring to airports at high elevations. They mean to say that opening t…

> “If somebody came back and said, ‘Your science is bad,’ I think the United States would listen,” Treadwell told the media. “But I don’t think science is bad. I think we’ve had ve…

My understanding of the controversy around this project and/or its developer: - The repository, as well as some of the dev’s other projects, contained furry porn. I believe this ha…

funny little chatbot. i was able to cheer it up by telling it a joke and wishing it a happy christmas. made me smile a bit.

not exactly an unbiased or referenced report, either.

submitted using an archived link. the original is still up but the images don’t load. the archive preserves the chicken and the box in their full glory.