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Perfect Strangers

What the fuck? When did Congress pass this, and why wasn’t there a huge public outcry against it?

It’s more like that hunting permit fees fund actual conservation efforts, not that there’s really much of a legitimate conservation effect from the hunting itself. (Except maybe when it’s an invasive species.)

What Nintendidn’t [yet], because that DS ad is a lot more recent and I don’t remember Nintendo itself having anything quite that risque in the '90s.

SEGA did what Nintendidn’t.

You are weirdly combative and rude about this.

Honestly, I’d be inclined to hire the high school’s ornamental horticulture class.

In general, I feel like students/recent grads might be the best way to get somebody who’s at least trying to do a good job, for a good price, at the cost of a higher chance of a genuine mistake due to inexperience rather than apathy.

I’m paranoid enough about it (and also stingy enough) that I mostly do my own work. I hired somebody to fix my HVAC once or twice because I know very little about troubleshooting it and they satisfactorily replaced the compressor capacitor, but later when the blower motor quit working (and I was able to figure out the problem on my own) I replaced that myself. Everything else, including plumbing, electrical, drywall, etc. that’s been done to my house in the last decade and a half, I’ve done myself.

I need to replace my roof soon, which (being critical to finish quickly once you start) is not a job I feel comfortable DIYing, but I can’t bring myself to try to hire anybody either. It’s a dilemma.

Just had one set of subcontractors throw away material for other fixes… Lead group days that the ones involved are no longer a part of the project, so we’re on the hook for even more.

Surely that’s not how that works. Somebody owes you the money for that material, although you might have to sue to get it.

I see every reason to anticipate the possibility and look for actual solutions (not just workarounds) that would head it off, such as organizing to defeat “age verification” politically in the first place.

Having a cavalier attitude like yours is a great way to fucking lose in the long run.

If they’re anonymous, it’s impossible to tell that they’re cops and therefore they must be arrested as criminals.

Once they’re identified and proven to be Federal officials, then they can be released and go on their anonymous way. But only after they’re identified.

From a basic physics research perspective (as opposed to an engineering process development for production perspective), are we even sure graphene semiconductors have that much potential headroom for improvement beyond the best possible silicon ones? I’m not convinced it buys us more than a couple of process nodes. I mean, we’re already making transistors so small you can damn near count the individual atoms in them today. Is making them out of atoms with one less valence level gonna be enough for a 10x, 100x, or 1000x improvement, even in the long run?

I was really just trying to be funny by mentioning the film Nintendo would like everyone to forget, which also happened to vaguely meet your description, but thank you for telling me the correct one.

It’s only a suspicion, but I think crazypeople.online might be related to hilariouschaos and/or exploding-heads. I give extra scrutiny to users from those instances just like I do with those from the .mls, for the opposite reason.

There’s no reason to think this case will be different.

Not even the end of Moore’s Law?

I’m not sure if you’re aware, but processors aren’t really getting much more efficient anymore. They’re just getting bigger (more parallel), which is why the price for the newer generations of GPUs has been skyrocketing. A new top-end GPU costs twice as much (or more) as a previous-gen one because it has twice as many (or more) compute units, since they can’t make the individual compute units much faster due to fundamental laws of physics.

What are you going to do when it’s at the hardware and/or ISP level, and there are no workarounds for it?

They’re not “self-imposed” if they’re illegally imposed by a tyrant.

a b rated movie about some old coots in NY.

What, you mean this?

It’s not “extra” if it’s a legal requirement.

More to the point, I’m not saying it has to be licensed as Free Software or that it has to be made immediately public. I’m saying that a copy needs to be sent to a government archive, regardless of how messy it is, so that the government can make it public later when the company doesn’t care anymore.