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there's no way to monetize lemmy, right?
just making sure i'm on the right liferaft...
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wait.. TARS was an in camera model? what?!
Sometime later (and deeper): "hmm... seems very uneven.. going to have to use a self leveling magma.."
Indeed. Which makes it an even bigger problem that there are hardly enough moderate politicians saying "here's what we hear you saying about migration and he's what we will actually do to rectify that"
I didn't mention the censorship because he is wrong about that
I also don't agree with his quote about "no need for barriers". I wasn't aware he had said that.
He is referring to the poor handling of migration in Europe, which is true. And the general ignoring of popular outrage at how migration is managed.
That he is a fascist dickhead is indicative of the problem. Many many people who are not racist think migration is handled terribly in Europe and the problem is moderate politicians are hopelessly slow to engage with this and as a result the only people talking about it are fascist nutbags...
The problem with democracy is sometimes the majority legally vote for the checks and balances to be weakened..
Pray, I guess?
mishandling migration, and ignoring populist concerns.
I think Vance is a tool, but can someone explain how these two points aren't objectively true?
Oh it won't end
"retention bots" of some description wouldn't surprise me in the slightest..
endless wars of who's federeated with who
i've been here for months and months, i might have seen this mentioned as an aside once or twice. but "endless wars"?
It's a bit like why drilling into a wall might make the lights go out if you hit a cable. Your brain only registers "feeling" in any part of your body because a nerve carried that information to it. The nerves from your lower arm and hand pass your elbow. Hitting the nerve directly causes signals in it which you brain interprets as pain in your fingers. Presumably the nerves for the pinky side of your hand are slightly more exposed.
It would be ok.
"Internet Cafe" mid 90s. Clicked down through yahoo's directory not really knowing what I was looking for. Found the canonical list of lightbulb jokes. Funny but overall I was quite underwhelmed. Got a print magazine that listed and reviewed websites.
Simply put, because you often want to change the state of something without breaking all the references to it.
Wild off the top of my head example: you're simulating a football game. Everything is represented by objects which hold references to other objects that are relevant. The ball object is held by player object W, player object X is in collision with and holds a reference to player object Y, player Z is forming a plan to pass to player object X (and that plan object holds a reference to player object X) and so on.
You want to be able to change the state of the ball object (its position say) without creating a new object, because that would invalidate how every other existing object relates to the ball.
Evolutionarily speaking, threats from outside are an existential threat and need spreading. Good deeds at home are already known by everyone who matters and the 'reward' is survival of your children, not you 'feeling good'. People do 'hero worship' though. I think you are downplaying that. Though the influence that comes from such a position probably means people are inclined to cooperate with 'power' because it has, de facto, already shown itself to be powerful. Whereas those 'asking' for power are necessarily weak.
This is all pop-sci evolutionary psychology so discard at will...
Could it be "if it stops me getting at stuff, copyright bad. If it stops the rich getting richer, copyright good"?
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This doesn't correlate with good developers at all in my experience. If I was to ask one question it would be "tell me about your passion project" or "What's the last thing you nerded out on?"
hahahahahaha nope.

Is there a site that has introductory reading lists for a wide range of subjects?
I like to binge read and self educate. When coming to a new topic (let's say History of Western Art or Pharmacology) I've never found a single place where I could look up the key texts that a university student would be reading to get into the subject. Usually I search around and find an actual university's reading list or something equally well put together but it's hit and miss.
Had anyone ever come across a single place that holds this kind of info over a wide range of subjects? (Books specifically)

Is there a good compact encyclopedia in print? (UK)
Am looking for a compact paperback encyclopedia but am struggling to find one available in the UK. I used to have the Hutchison compact, but believe that was last printed in the 90s..

Is there a decent paperback encyclopedia (compact) still available in the UK?

Why did (what is now) Canadian territory not get caught up in the American war of independence? It was all British, right?

Are the 'doors' on the ISS locked?
You know, "hatch". But it's funnier saying door. Could a ship just dock with it, equalise pressure, and open the hatch? Or is there some sort of security? I tend to think there's no lock because of a macabre situation where the crew are dead and the station is being recovered. But it's amusing to think in space they don't need to keep the doors locked.

Radio Times Christmas cryptic crossword
Believe I've finished this (if anyones stuck on any clues am happy to help), but am just mystified as to how some of the clues are supposed to work..
34a A posh car taking carriers outside department store
_ A _ R _ D _
So for this I had "Harrods". So "department store". The "posh car" is rolls royce giving the RR. But I'm lost as to how the remaining letters on the outside (HAODS) are "carriers". It almost seems like a typo for HANDS, which would make sense, but obviously doesn't give Harrods, or anything else that makes sense
Help? An I missing something or is this a mistake by the setter?

I had a hazy memory of The Ten Commandments seeming to be on all day long when I was a child. I've just seen it's on Channel 4 for 4 and a half hours(!) I feel vindicated.
I am, however, watching Death on the Nile on bbc 2

Found out today Sam Lloyd (lawyer in Scrubs) is Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future)'s nephew. What are some other surprising and lesser known actor connections?

Which celebrity were you sure had already passed away but has not?
A family member put on a game show that included Brian Blessed and I commented it 'must be old as he's been dead for a while'?
Nope. 88 and going strong.
Who else has surprised you?

In principle, could gravity be used to send a information from within a black hole's event horizon?
I feel the obvious answer should be "no" but help me think this through. It came from the previous Q on blackholes and am posting here for more visibility.
So considering two blackholes rotating about each other and eventually combining. It's in this situation that we get gravitational waves which we can detect (LIGO experiments). But what happens in the closing moments when the blackholes are within each others event horizon but not yet combined (and so still rotating rapidly about each other). Do the gravitational waves abruptly stop? Or are we privy to this "information" about what's going on inside an event horizon.
Thinking more generally, if the distribution of mass inside an event horizon can affect spacetime outside of the horizon then what happens in the following situation:
imagine a gigantic blackhole, one that allows a long time between passing the horizon and being crushed. You approach the horizon in a giant spacecraft and hover at a safe distance. You rele

I used the word "aglet" in everyday life AMA

Who popularised the 1980s ballad upward key change?
Modulation / key changes have been used in music for ages but the style I'm talking about is the distinctive last verse (or chorus) sudden key change up to power through to the end. Seems to have come about sometime in the 60s/70s and was everywhere in the 80s onwards.
Examples:
Heaven is a place on earth - Belinda Carlisle
I will always love you - Whitney Houston
But who popularised it? What was the first big song to do it and set the style for the genre?

In the liftoff app on Android, how do you get from replies in your inbox to the conversation thread?
I seem to be completely failing to work out how to do this? See the reply in your inbox in the context of the original conversation?