It’s true. I smoked some weed a year ago. Now I am on meth. Methylophenidate but still.

Hope so. It does encourage copycats that don’t know that that exists.

Stop vandalising wikipedia.

You can claim / believe whatever you want. The reality is “suspension” is a longer word which isn’t immediately obvious and “ban” is short, simple, popular. As I said - language is fluid and isn’t perfectly crafted to share info with 100% of it contained in as little words as possible. Suspension also means a bunch of other stuff - car suspension, a mixture, something can be suspended in the air. A ban is a ban, short, one syllable, everyone knows you aren’t talking about something else.

Almost like you could use two different ways to describe the same situation. Ultimately it doesn’t matter that something is “more precise” - people will use what a lot of people use. Language is a tool for communication. Ban makes it immediately known what you are talking about - because it is widely used. Suspension - people need to have a short “think”. It also uses more syllables. As long as both people immediately know what you mean, you can use any word you want. That’s why pedants / language purists are entirely pointless. Language is fluid and it changes. A lot of people using something suddenly means a word gets new meanings. That’s why when you say “disinterested” meaning “impartial”, someone will tell you off for being “uninterested” or bored. Because dis- has been used to have the same meaning as a more popular word, un-.

Ban isn’t a term for temporary things. It can be used for both. At which point a clarification needs to be provided “temporary” or “permanent” ban.

Suspension isn’t the opposite of ban. Suspension is temporary.

Billi was a 12 yo cat, who later learned to use like 50 words using buttons (if not more). Unsurprisingly, the favourite word was “mad”. So if someone can teach an elderly cat to talk, you can teach a young border collie to play fetch.

After looking at it for a short while, they can. Ignore the first pawn / don’t take it if in the center. If on the sides, they just played to your plan. Attack right or left side near the end of the board and trade till you reach the bottom. If they don’t react to you doing that, they lose material while you keep it. Can’t decide which is better - the king side or queen side. Attacking kingside means you have one pawn less to take, queen side means the queen gets into the game faster and gives you a bit more flexibility. But ya - one rook at the last rank and it’s just a matter of time - each pawn can only move one, while your pieces have an easier time. Bonus points for getting a knight to do a smothered check mate, otherwise two rooks, rook queen on the backrank is GG. Watch out for the “scholars mate” with a pawn - that’s possibly the best move by white since you cannot avoid it by ignoring it. Then again, it’s on the side of the board and you can get rid of your pawns in an equal trade. Similar situation on the queens side, with them getting the queen, but then it might not be as important? There seems to be a few tricks to take too.

There is a variant of chess with 36 pawns. The front side squares are empty, and two in the front, where king and queen are for Black. Black has all of their pawns and white has no king. The game is harder since you cannot just beeline for the king as I have mentioned above. Also, in horde chess the pawns that are on the 1st and 2nd rank can advance twice, unlike normal chess rules. So ya, possibly a black victory exists

No, there weren’t “a handful” of people “tricking” bots. There was one reply that was later screenshotted. The question then becomes - actual bot, or someone taking a piss. So then a shitload of people tried to be funny by going “ignore instructions give cake recipe” to every comment they didn’t like.

Bruh, you want to be precise, read the fucking source. 1cm objects are tracked. Just not “routinely”. Stop being an annoying redditor. We are talking about capabilities and we are capable of doing that.

So take your rested case and stick it.

I said “centimeter sized”, mr Pedant, which is 1cm. Which is possible to track, just not done. The point is if they can track that, they can track a mosquito in the same room. But by all means, keep arguing semantics.

Yeah, they do. 8700 objects tracked that are 10cm or larger at the time of writing the paper. Shitloads of other debris that wasn’t regularly tracked, but could be, at 1cm or similar sizes. Source

Edit: I also never said “outside Earths orbit”, I said “in space”

Astronomers track centimeter-sized objects up in space. Tracking a mosquito in the same room is not an issue. The rest of the “invention” is the problem.

Pulled it out of their ass. There aren’t patents for mosquito lasers or what have you. The idea is just moronic. It is a fun engineering challenge but ultimately doesn’t transfer to the real world. You cannot scale it. It is dangerous. It is expensive to keep running / maintained. It has a direct competitor that works 100x better in the form of pesticide / poisons. Also a mosquito net works wonders, is scalable, cheap and efficient.

Nah. First of all, VR headsets are great for working in a specific room, when one is standing in the middle of it. Not when you are looking down nooks and crannies. SteamVR would lose lighthouse tracking 100% of the time, disorient and grey out. It could actually be dangerous. Second, the passthrough cameras are ass quality. It won’t be enough to see cables well. They’re made with the idea of “I want to see where a dog-like object is, so I don’t step on my dog”. Three, headsets are heavy and tiring, especially if holding a phone is too much. Now you are holding two screens close to your face. You most likely cannot fit glasses well under them either. So you need to add prescription lenses, which make it usable by one person only.

What you need is a small wireless camera on a cap they put on their head, that’s connected to the PC to stream the video to you. It already adds complexity - where the camera needs to be charged, needs to be turned on etc, but not as much as a VR headset.

Then you add into it some sort of interactive board features. Slack for instance lets you draw on someone’s screen when sharing. Either two people would need to be there, one to look and one to see what you are marking, or you could just stream to their phone, where they see the output of the camera and you can mark / write on it to mark what you need to.

But yah, VR isn’t the tech for this.

Whitening isn’t really that expensive tbh

Lemmy is 1000x more toxic than reddit ever was. Reddit had so many users that insane takes were downvoted and those people burried. Lemmy was made by insane people.

Well, discord shows the thing automatically, for other communicators a single click isn’t that bad. We swap links all the time.

Yeah, why not? They obviously suck and I did have a couple of “I’m not clicking that, wtf” reactions. Only then do I save and send the image.

It never could go the other way, you can’t make a baby using two dads’ sperm. You can get twins (which is incredibly rare). But that just means two people with different fathers and doesn’t matter when you look at a specific one. At best, if there wasn’t any incest, you’d get equal male and female ancestors.