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Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

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Post by SoftTalker »

phoghed wrote: post #353
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #218

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> Cars are literally the number one killer of children 0-14 in the United States. More than cancer, more than guns, more than the next 7 reasons combined Cars are heavily regulated. Require licenses to use. Entail massive losses of freedoms when used, e.g. you can be randomly breathalyzed or whatnot. Cars are dangerous. Comparing anything to a car (or, per Altman and now Dario, to a nuke) means it should be tightly r…

The regulation of cars exists mostly to extract rent from you rather than keep you safe in the USA. I don’t personally know a single person who has failed to obtain a drivers license. Get into a hit and run and there’s almost no chance anyone finds who did it. There’s a near 100% chance the person that did it paid the registration fee for their car though, paid to get it inspected, paid to renew their license with no…

Depending on Flock coverage, hit-and-runs are much more solvable than they used to be.

Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

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Post by IndySun »

psychoslave wrote: post #308
IndySun wrote: post #277

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>researching Nordic assisted death and asking which drug exactly they administered (and what quantity). Odd ban. The countries with legally passed instances use similar drugs/processes — you could research about those, wiki, google, actual websites, dignitas et al. No ban needed. Was the ban reason spelt out? Was it your wording?

Wild guess, but even if those creating the filters would agree with you, it doesn’t mean they know how to nerf the system only for the cases they want to actively wipeout.

>Wild guess, but even if those creating the filters would agree with you, it doesn’t mean they know how to nerf the system only for the cases they want to actively wipeout.

Thank you. I don't understand your comment. I don't know 'nerf' (as in Star Wars?) in this context, and the system to wipeout is what? Are you referring to Assisted Suicide?

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Post by mmmlinux »

SoMomentary wrote: post #92
IAmGraydon wrote: post #53

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I mean no offense, but it's kind of crazy that people think that linking handwriting recognition, a technology that was first rolled out 24 years ago in Windows XP, with an LLM is "soooo incredibly cool". I don't get it.

What really irks me about it is that the palm pilot I had 20+ years ago actually had BETTER hand writing recognition than the software on my devices today!

If by hand writing recognition you mean force you to learn their "graffiti" system, and write one letter at a time sure. Lets not even pretend newton did any better.

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Post by charcircuit »

DaSHacka wrote: post #284
charcircuit wrote: post #163

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Except in the case of video games it in practice means that cheaters get to terrorize your playerbase without being banned. This tactic is the kind of decision that is made by people staring at metrics all day without considering what's going on in reality.

It's pretty effective actually, this is why they do ban waves. One of my friends in high school used to cheat on a popular video game. The fact ban waves would occur about once a week to once a month meant whenever his accounts got banned, he never knew why exactly and wasn't able to stop it the next time. Of course, if ban waves are too long apart then yeah you're just letting a known cheater wreak havoc on the play…

But the price of a new account is low. So worst case cheaters can cheat on the playerbase for a couple weeks get banned and then switch to another account and continue cheating for another couple weeks.

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Post by georgemcbay »

sethammons wrote: post #327
georgemcbay wrote: post #105

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I'm in the US and twitter videos don't play for me. I see what looks like a video control when I view the post, when I click it, it throws up a modal log in/sign in dialog. No way to view the video while logged out.

I don't have a twitter or x account. I clicked the link, a log in modal popped up, I dismissed it, then was able to play the video. Firefox on iPhone if it matters.

> Firefox on iPhone if it matters.

very possibly, I am using Chrome on a desktop.

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Post by onraglanroad »

SiempreViernes wrote: post #299
shaky-carrousel wrote: post #276

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It won't be good, as the definition of what's a crime and what is not changes due to political reasons (read corruption).

But to object to the statement made you need to think most laws are substantially wrong, not simply that some laws are problematic.

Not most, maybe just one.

Consider a Schindler's List type scenario. It's a crime to help a Jew escape. Now mostly I believe in the rule of law and if I broke a law because I thought it was justified in that particular circumstance I would accept my punishment.

But in that scenario, accepting my punishment would mean I couldn't help others.

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Post by linsomniac »

josh2600 wrote: post #5

This is sick, in the 90's Tony Hawk sense of the word. I love that people can just bang stuff into existence now. There were times in my life where I would wait for an engineering team to change the color of a button for a day to a week. We are not in the slow times anymore.

>I love that people can just bang stuff into existence now.

I need to see if it can build me a fabulous todo app.

4-5 years ago I spent around a year refining a paper-and-pen daily planner, and I went 100% into it and liked it. The paper planner though had a non-ideal workflow, and so I wanted to look into some automation of it. I got a Kindle Scribe hoping they might grow its capabilities. It had a great "it's like paper" experience, but no automation or tools or apps seemed to come along. So then I tried a fairly high end Boox, I got it and then used it only a couple weeks and then stopped doing that daily planner process entirely.

But if Fable could build a Boox or reMarkable app, that might be a big win.

I've tried task warrior, and todoist, and in the end I just keep going back to a straight text file I edit.

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Post by plorg »

IndySun wrote: post #383
psychoslave wrote: post #308

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Wild guess, but even if those creating the filters would agree with you, it doesn’t mean they know how to nerf the system only for the cases they want to actively wipeout.

>Wild guess, but even if those creating the filters would agree with you, it doesn’t mean they know how to nerf the system only for the cases they want to actively wipeout. Thank you. I don't understand your comment. I don't know 'nerf' (as in Star Wars?) in this context, and the system to wipeout is what? Are you referring to Assisted Suicide?

Nerf used this way is more in analogy to the toy guns (Nerf as a trade name, they launch foam projectiles, there even exist hobbyists who will upgrade them to be more energetic/destructive), it means to make the system ineffectual in some way that blunts a powerful feature, often with the stated goal of protecting the user.

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Post by BoxOfRain »

stavros wrote: post #270
echoangle wrote: post #227

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https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoBestFriendsPlay/s/W88nHchQti Seems to be this one. The unpaid servant is Kreacher.

Oh I forgot about Kreacher, I thought they meant Dobby. The whole thing is bizarre, Harry is so intent on freeing Dobby but then he's fine with every other house elf being a slave. They didn't even care about Hermione's initiative.

It's not the only example of extreme immorality that's presented pretty causally in the series.

I loved the books as much as anyone, but Azkaban struck me as utter barbarism even then. You're telling me that prisoners, regardless of what they were actually sentenced for, get psychologically tortured through the magical induction of deep despair until they develop a form of dementia? And this happens whether you're a murderous dark wizard or you do a bit of magical petty theft or fraud? The Ministry using Dementors for law enforcement would morally justify rebellion against it in my view, not only are they slavers they're also torturers on a scale that would make many dictatorships blush.

It's obvious that the Ministry a wicked institution, but it's also an incompetent one since the Dementors aren't even really loyal to them; they jump ship to the Death Eaters as soon as they get the chance to.

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