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tias, (edited )

TIL you can have text formatting in headlines on Lemmy. Cool! …I think.

tias,

The Monster product placement was tone deaf and took away so much from the immersion. IMHO it almost ruined the experience.

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I feel like this is a solved and simple problem as long as there are no relativistic effects. Just make sure t1 and t2 are represented as seconds since a known reference time, e.g. Unix epoch, and make sure that measure is accurate. You don’t need to bring the Gregorian calendar into it, use TAI represented as an integer.

tias, (edited )

To do that you first need to choose a calendar and a time zone, then convert to that representation. It can be done, but you need a good implementation that understands the entire history of what has transpired w.r.t. to date conventions in that location and culture. For timestamps in the future it is impossible to do correctly, since you can’t know how date conventions will change in the future.

However, I should add that as far as mathematical operations go, calculating the number of months between t1 and t2 is an entirely different thing than the duration of time that passed between those timestamps. Even if it is expressed similarly in the English language, semantically it’s something else. It’s like asking “how many kilometers did your car go” vs “how many houses did the car pass on the way”.

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Why are you not moving to a different distribution model where you’ll get what you’re worth? I’ll go where the music is. If you keep putting it on Spotify then I’ll play it on Spotify.

tias,

So, where do I buy the music? I’m not seeing an alternative being offered here.

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I checked a couple of songs on my playlist and didn’t find places that were obviously better than Spotify. Is Bandcamp better? How about Beatport? Being able to buy and download music is not a guarantee that the artist is getting paid fairly.

As a side note I’m growing weary of having to keep track as a consumer of the revenue streams and ethics of every brand out there. There’s a lot on my plate already. I wish that if musicians didn’t want me to buy things for a certain price or at a certain place, that they just wouldn’t offer it to me in that way. Or, if they were being coerced into it, that they would push for regulation to prevent that. But I have a suspicion that the principle of supply and demand dictates that selling music online just won’t be as profitable as they (naively) expect it to be. Too many musicians, too few ears.

tias,

What’s your method of determining that Beatport and Bandcamp are good options?

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The sites won’t say “we rip off our artists and they’re very unhappy about it”. In fact as far as I can tell from visiting spotify.com, Spotify is just fine. So this is apparently not a sufficient method for finding out if a site is a good way of buying music.

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So hire other bus drivers, or just have kids take the regular bus. Where I live there’s no such thing as a school bus.

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If they don’t have a regular bus system that works then that’s what they need to start working on first. I’m convinced that it can be made to work if they are solution oriented instead of only looking for reasons why it won’t work and stopping there.

Where I live, buses have dynamic routes. You go on an app to book a journey, then you get a time and place to be where the bus will pick you up (plus a drop-off point). It works for school kids as well as anyone else.

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Valve is already getting your money for less effort

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Isn’t that Daniel Jackson’s girlfriend

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That was my initial thought too. But if Vader can stay at a distance and force-choke Wolverine until he’s passed out, then Vader could move in after it’s safe and basically burn up every ounce of Wolverine’s body except for the adamantium using the light saber.

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I got one made of holly, with a phoenix feather core. It’s very nice and supple.

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A Blunt Metro umbrella. Makes me happy every time I get to use it. It’s aesthetically pleasing, it oozes quality, it’s easy to bring with you.

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And now the downpour brightens my day 🙂

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And it doesn’t remove promotions by the content creators, so you’re still seeing lots of ads. Still, since my kids spend so much time on YouTube I think it’s worth reducing the amount of brain washing, but I’m definitely not happy about the pricing. It’s ridiculous when you compare it to other streaming services who also have to produce or license their content.

tias,

Really? I heard it was a disappointment.

tias, (edited )

Yeah I don’t know why you’re getting down voted. Obesity shortens life expectancy by around 10 years. Life expectancy for men in the US was at 79 years before covid (it is now down to 73 years). Gabe is currently 61 years old so he can be expected to die by the end of this decade.

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If the teachers see it then why do they get away with it?

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You’d be surprised how much microorganisms get around

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More like they’re all uncontrollably spreading in the wind like leaves in an autumn storm, landing everywhere.

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What is this from?

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Probably they are just now being called out on it

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Ghostery isn’t even an ad blocker, it’s just to prevent tracking.

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Oh OK my bad, that was news to me. I stopped using it a couple of years ago when Firefox got the functionality built in, and it wasn’t advertised as an ad blocker back then.

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She is also a friend of Tali’s dad in Mass Effect. Tali calls her Auntie Raan.

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I laughed out loud when Spock went “OH F…” and then they cut to the title in STNW.

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As it happens, when we go shopping for food we have more of a culinary mindset than botanical.

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“Betrayal may come with a kiss. Be wary of false friends.”

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Makes you wonder if Worf was in on it.

tias,

I meant in on her fucking other people than him.

tias, (edited )

What the hell. Just a couple of months ago Valve was saying a new Steam Deck was unlikely for the foreseeable future, and I bought one based on that information.

tias, (edited )

I see a potential here for the long-winded reaction scenes from Indian soap operas. At least then the viewer clearly understands that it’s not meant to be real time.

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Everybody except Hollywood executives

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In that case nobody is ok, so it’s not a very useful term.

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Nah, soon there will be synthetic meat and eating it will be better than ever.

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Yeah it would be reserved for the fucked-up decadent 1%.

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I know of someone who named her son “Scrotum”.

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It was a debate show on Swedish public television probably a decade ago. They were debating what you should be allowed to name your children (or not). More specifically the name was “Pungen” which is the determined form in Swedish, i.e. more like “The Scrotum”. I don’t remember why she wanted to name her son The Scrotum, it might have been some weird pagan tribute to the father. But as I recall it didn’t appear to come out of hate.

The name had been denied by the Swedish IRS (which decides who can be named what). I remember there was another kid named “Laser” who had been approved.

tias,

In that case a correct phrasing would be “As several women”

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More like devolving, am I right?

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Only if her children inherit the crown. Otherwise it’s more like a benevolent dictatorship.

tias,

Then what is the difference between a monarchy and a dictatorship?

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I live in a monarchy (Sweden) but the King does not control the country, and there’s no religious component to his position. I would not consider us a dictatorship.

tias, (edited )

I went to university with David Reveman. He did his master’s thesis presentation about compiz (or actually glitz which was a precursor) as slides on the top of the cube, and everybody just assumed it was PowerPoint. Then when it was time for a demo he just flipped the cube around to the Gnome desktop. People’s jaws dropped, it was amazing, 🙂

tias, (edited )

Sorry, I think I came off as too confident in my previous comment. I’m quite sure about my first paragraph but the rest is just speculation from an amateur.

If I would risk speculating even further though, there’s some similarity in the sense that infinities indicate a problem. In the ultraviolet catastrophe the infinity arises from the energy of arbitrarily short EM wavelengths. With gravity it arises in the density of black holes. It seems unreasonable that it would actually be infinite, and it’s possible that quantization of gravity plays a part in preventing that from happening.

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