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Nice to see a new verb used in a headline.

I love this way of thinking about it.

I haven’t been interested in AI enough to try writing code with it, but using it as an interactive rubber ducky is a very compelling use case. I might give that a shot.

I don’t think he is saying that an inability to differentiate between foreign languages is racist, but rather that given a random shithead who holds truly racist beliefs, it is unlikely they will be able to recognize differences between Asian languages.

To put it more generically, most people in Set A exhibit Trait B, but having Trait B alone does not mean you are a member of Set A.

PS2 is retro now? Damn, getting old really does sneak up on you.

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These two are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

Oh my, what a throwback. Nicely done.

What is this, a Billie Eilish music video?

Same.

It was MySpace.

Your analogy is very incomplete. No one is saying that Intel’s products or technology is “moving backwards”, but rather that their market share and performance as a company are declining.

Take your person “standing still” and imagine they were previously in the lead during a marathon and suddenly stopped before the finish line. They’re not moving backwards, but their position in the race is dropping from first, to second, to third, and they will eventually be last if they don’t start moving again.

It’s all triangles.

Sure. They relate different properties of triangles or periodic phenomena.

But can you explain what a “sine” operation is actually doing? Algebra and calculus can pretty much all be explained in terms of basic operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. But I’m in the same boat as @rekabis@lemmy.ca - trig operations feel like a black box where one number goes in and a different number comes out. I am comfortable using them and understand their patterns, but don’t really get them.

It’s only a matter of time before it’s not an option anymore. Every shitty new behavior they put in is an easy-to-use option at first, then a registry setting or policy, then even that goes away and it gets baked in.

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Embedded software developer here.

Oh damn, I thought I was going to be the only one here!

I don’t know how you get by with only one. Between source code, simulators/emulators, datasheets, requirement specs, log files, e-mails from senior devs with tribal knowledge not written down anywhere else, and a bunch of other bullshit, I sometimes find 3 24" monitors to be lacking.

Distractions aren’t a problem because I can easily use up all that screen real estate for a single task.

From the hovertext: “I wrote 20 short programs in Python yesterday. It was wonderful. Perl, I’m leaving you.”

After years of a dozen other languages, I finally tried Perl the other day.

Never again, if I can help it.

Depending on the beam’s weight, where it impacts, and what kind of tank it is, here are some possible effects:

1. Absolutely nothing
2. Cause the crew to button up, reducing their visibility
3. Draw the crew out to assess or repair damage, expsoing them to small arms fire
4. Remind the crew that their enemy is active in the area and slow the advance
5. Distract the crew long enough for infantry to employ a more effective weapon, possibly including approach the tank on foot without being seen
6. Main gun barrel impact - deform the barrel enough to disable it
7. Turret impact - disable turret rotation, reducing aiming capability
8. Track impact - mobility kill by damaging roadwheels and/or track, or just getting stuck there
9. Direct side impact - probably nothing
10. Random gear impact - even old tanks have external mounted machine guns, optics, radio antennae, and shit that could be disabled
11. Exposed crew impact - squishy squishy

Of all these possibilities, I think just trying to get the damn thing stuck in the wheels/tracks is the most likely to actually work, even on relatively modern tanks.

If you read the fine print, many “lifetime” warranties are like this too. They mean the “lifetime of the product” which is usually defined in the same fine print as like, 5 years or some other bullshit timespan.

The graphics and gameplay are definitely dated, but at $7, it’s still worth giving it a try. I’m happy to replay it every few years, but I also played it shortly after it came out, so the nostalgia factor probably biases my view of it.

I like to think of it more like an interactive comic book than a modern game. Even after a dozen playthroughs over 2+ decades, I still usually find one a couple things each time that I don’t remember. Maybe that’s just because I’m old and my memory is fading, but it’s still fun.

That’s a pretty reasonable position to take. I don’t agree with it, but I understand how you arrived there.

Do you still think that being a pedophile is the only reason someone would say Rittenhouse’s shooting was unjustified?

Also right.

The point I was getting at is that the question of whether or a shooting is justified depends entirely on the circumstances that led to the shooting. Not someone’s past criminal behavior that the shooter was not aware of.

You may certainly disagree with other peoples’ reasons for viewing the shooting as unjustified. But it seems that you are either unwilling or unable to see that both people involved in an altercation can be bad. One shouldn’t be considered a hero just because he’s less bad than the other.

The dead pedo deserved what he got. Rittenhouse is a dumbass who was looking for a fight and luck was the only thing that saved him from killing an innocent bystander.

These can both be true at the same time, and saying that Rittenhouse’s actions shouldn’t be celebrated is not the same thing as defending pedophilia.

I think you missed the whole point of my comment.