Adderbox76

joined 2 years ago
[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 hours ago

When I graduated highschool, the idea that some dinosaurs had feathers and evolved into birds was still "fringe science".

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 hours ago

Are...are the walls talking to you, Donald?

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 6 points 12 hours ago

Tuvok had a potty mouth before going through the kolinar.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 21 points 12 hours ago

You don't tear out an architectural feature like that. You make it a focal point.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 41 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

It's more complex than just "prison labour isn't that bad."

I agree that prisoners should have jobs, opportunities to train for new vocations, something to be proud of accomplishing when they're locked away.

But that's not why they work. They work to make the prison more money, and in a profit driven prison system, it disincentivises rehabilitation because recidivism ensures a hefty circulating population of re-offenders.

In a system that saves money and stays competitive by using their prison labour as slave labour for pennies, there is no onus for that same system to try to help its prisoners not reoffend.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Resolve does indeed have a proxy mode, as does Kdenlive.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 days ago (6 children)

What if the rapture DID actually happen. But it turns out the only person who qualified was some baker from a village in Greece so no one noticed...

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yes.

There are a couple of limitations in the number of filters/effects you can use. And on Linux, the free version won't edit MP4 natively. But the reality is you shouldn't be editing on MP4s anyway. It's a dreadfully inefficient format for doing actual editing as far as scrubbing through the timeline, etc... MP4 is a final product format. For editing you should be transcoding your clips into something like Apple Pro-res or DNxHD.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

A long long time ago, someone asked me a rhetorical question and it's lingered in my brain ever since. I don't know why I still think about it to this day but I do.

"Do you think, when someone is going insane, there's a point where they are about to cross over the line, but there just still barely sane enough to know that they're insane?"

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes. Public money public code and all that.

However...

For security reasons, I wouldn't feel comfortable if every one who wanted to could just contribute to it. It would need to be a closed developer group with security clearance. We can all look at what they're doing, but we can't insert our own patch commit requests to them ad nauseaum.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

I mean "welcome" in the most generic, passive aggressive Canadian sense of the word. Shutting the door is exactly what the strength of federated/defederated social media is all about.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 219 points 3 days ago (24 children)

They're welcome to it.

As far as I'm concerned, this is the entire benefit of lemmy/piefed/etc... They can have their space, and any other instance can choose not to federate with them so we aren't forced to listen to them, unlike the alternative, where an algorithm forces them into everyone's face.

Rather than telling them they don't have the right to speak, we simply have the ability to shut our window and not listen to them.

Let them bitch at each other.

 

I was thinking this while watching the SpaceX flight get scrubbed for the third time in as many days.

I don't know if it was the stream I happened to be watching, but it was just a heavy heavy circle jerk about how part of the goal of Starship is to have "30 minutes" to anywhere on earth by going suborbital.

But it struck me that business relies on consistency. Flights leaving on time, arriving on time. If I have a conference in Hong Kong, am I going to wait three days for the perfect launch conditions because my sub-orbital flight launch is delayed by a bad cloud somewhere in the launch zone?

Until orbital and suborbital launches ae robust enough to happen like clockwork in ANY weather condition, it'll never be popular enough to be feasible.

 

Since Wrestlemania there's been nothing but stories about John Cena winning an amazing 17th title, blah blah blah... It's a "History making moment", yadda yadda yadda...

Like...of course he did. It's the storyline. It's quite literally "in the script".

This isn't an achievement. Why is this in my sports news next to last night's hockey scores instead of next to an article about who was the bitchiest on the lastest episode of Real Housewives?

I get it. I loved Wrestling growing up. Back when we all WERE pretending it was real; Macho Man, Hulk Hogan, The Undertaker, etc... But I thought at some point they steered into the whole "entertainment" aspect when most of us grew the hell up and clued into the absurdity of it all.

 

It sure would explain the similarity between the ever more potential state of America and her novel The Handmaid's Tale.

 
 

For example, why do we say "Your pupils are dilated". They aren't. It's the iris aperture that is dilated.

 

My work uses a whole lot of group texts. I don't know why they don't use something like Signal or whatever...it is what it is.

But every Google Message alternative I've tried sends my replies to every member of the group individually rather than replying IN the group chat itself. Is that an issue with the app itself, or in the settings, or something else entirely.

I want to move away from anything that is linked in any way to stupid Gemini. But this is the last thing keeping me using Google's built-in Messages app.

 

There are many reasons to hate the Cybertruck. Looks, shoddy workmanship, flat out performance lies, Man-child business owner, etc...

But my biggest gripe, and this is the unpopular bit, is that in my opinion, it's not actually a truck at all.

The Cybertruck is a uni-body construction, often called a "car chassis". It shares that with the Honda Ridgeline, Hyundai Santa Cruz, and a few others. Trucks that are meant to do actual work use a body-on-frame construction because it has more ability to flex and twist when you put a heavy load in the bed or towing something heavy.

To put it simply, if you put a heavy enough load in the back of a uni-body truck, you're going to lose some traction on the front wheels as the weight will tilt the entire body backwards, whereas real trucks made for work are developed with the bed mounted separately to avoid that issue.

I know that yes, Santa Cruz, Cybertruck, Ridgeline, etc... are still technically classified as a truck. But in my (unpopular) opinion, anything uni-body shouldn't be classified as one.

 

Just a super quick question about helping to update the map locations.

Between StreetComplete and Organic Maps, which is faster for submitting recommended changes to the OSM team in regards to things like business hours, etc...

 

Just immediately reminded me of this gem from a while ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3BtmeUhOHU

 

...but its robot designs were well ahead of the curve for the time.

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