I can’t think of a time I ever looked up someone’s account karma. Maybe there was a time or two I noticed it was discordant with their level of activity.

Karma on a post takes up some of the role nonverbal signals have IRL, and Lemmy separating out up and downvotes is an improvement.

What kind of token rate do you get if you try to run them in swap space?

They were wrong, and they know it, but also nobody’s allowed to say that. Ditto for a bunch of other Mao policies.

And is only going to get more exploitative.

Oh shit, if you came to see this as an actual loved one, adding a paywall would be legal kidnapping for ransom.

It should be said that while that exists (try dating while quadriplegic), there’s a lot more people out there who actually could find someone, but think they can’t.

Still, China likes to ban things almost for it’s own sake, and this is an example.

That’s hard to say, at this point. A cheap, always available and completely sycophantic AI seems like it would be hard for a lot of people to resist.

What is clear, is that contraceptives existing is responsible for almost all of the decline since historical times.

They both feel so terrible.

I guess, the best would be to be the idiot, and then get kicked out. Dragging everyone down with you comes with so much guilt (or should), while a bit of rejection beats the frustration of being a Cassandra.

Unless it’s a team doing something evil, in which case you should make them idiots, and then quit.

That’s some nice DIY. Also cool you can actually see plain hydrolysis working with the ph indicator.

Isn’t there a way to manually whitelist modified software on your AV, if it’s your own machine?

With modern software, there’s also the problem of just learning whatever weird stack the game is running on, to know where to look.

Yes. Assembly is barely abstracted from the actual machine instructions, to the point where the process of translating it is easily reversible. Reading assembly code is a thing all on it’s own, though.

There’s specialised software available for this kind of reverse-engineering now, too, if you’re doing something more complicated than just looking for and cutting out a system call.

Depending on location they can all be illegal. Firecrackers specifically are illegal in my region, IIRC.

Are they really cheap socks, at least?

It’s… just an order. Letters could go diagonally or back and forth, as long as everyone knows how to follow through them. It doesn’t matter where they are on the page, and yeah, you can do that with Latin text as well.

Logographs do carry information more densely, since they’re not constrained by actual speech sounds, but I don’t think that’s what you’re talking about. (They’re a lot harder to learn than a sane alphabetical system, as a tradeoff)

Yeah, past experiences with a wonderproject that actually turns out to be meh may very well be part of it. Especially if it’s an older person.

Speaking of pollution, the whole “wifi/5G causes cancer” thing is still out there too, and might be conflated with a datacenter.

No, but appreciating what a big generic building does could require education.

If there was any education behind making those slopcenters, they wouldn’t make them gas powered in a desert.

Yes, they’re designed and built by illiterate cavemen. /s

Like, obviously you know engineers do that, and are educated and well compensated. It seems like you’ve drifted off to a different argument here.

The rich are also more educated. Lemmy hates AI, but other upper-middle-class types might just see a datacenter as a big box full of cool technology.

To plumbers and cashiers, it’s more of a new-fangled abomination we don’t need.

It’s not really a profession, more of a business which you may or may not run yourself.

There’s also the kind that’s old and semi-retired and cares for properties part time. I’m curious what the breakdown is now. When it comes to the big properties, at least in Canada it seems like there’s more multi-shareholder corporate landlords than Trump family-type landlords.

Wait, really? Do you have a link?

The conventional wisdom is that they barely ever work, but they’re also cheap enough per view it still makes economic sense for the one influenced purchase per person per year or whatever.

I can’t believe this is the only mention of landlords to date.

Fun fact, in Europe a lot of countries will pay for your homeopathy. Woo actually might be a bigger thing there.