Wolf314159

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[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 1 points 8 hours ago

Nah, let the computers do the things that they're good at, like calculating time differentials. And let people reference something real, like the sunrise and sunset. The whole daylight savings time vs. standard time is dumb, and political timezones are unfortunate, but any time system becomes meaningless when it becomes too decoupled from the way people actually experience time. I don't care when noon is in Europe, noon will always be roughly midday for me. I don't expect that's an unpopular opinion for anyone that spends any significant portion of their time outside.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 8 points 9 hours ago

"Low taper fade"?

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

In the US it must be Springfield because there's so fucking many of them that they ~~named~~ made a TV show after it.

Stupid sexy autocorrect.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 1 points 5 days ago

What do you think consequences are? Think it through again.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

No consequences means no benefit either.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 8 points 5 days ago

There will ALWAYS be mistakes, bias, and corruption. There is no such thing as incontrovertible evidence. And even if there was some fantastical magical way to know absolute truth, that is still a pretty poor justification for more murder.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 30 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Execution of innocent people is (and always has been) the entirely predictable, inevitable, and probably unavoidable result of capital punishment. There is no getting around the fact that, as long as the state executes prisoners, innocent people will be executed and "the state", i.e. taxpayers, will pay more for it than they ever would have imprisoning the convicted for life.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's a damn shame that we haven't built a microwave that actually listens to the pops and stops when the pops slow, just like every bag of popcorn instructs you to do. We've got gun shot detectors; you'd think we could build a chip to analyze popping popcorn.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

TV static in recent movies and shows that are set in the past almost always instantly pull me out of the narrative because no one seems to be able to get it right and some are just stunningly bad. It's usually very subtle, so much so that I'm not sure I could even describe what's wrong. Makes me feel old to notice it.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 7 points 1 week ago

Like quibbling over the difference between rape and sexual assault.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Let this be a lesson to you then. Checking the logs should be your first troubleshooting step, not installing a variety of distros until one "just works". Good luck.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago

Why is that obvious design flaw relevant?

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