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  1. Comment on PanGui - A cross-platform UI library with a razor sharp focus on performance, simplicity and expressive power in ~comp

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    Do they take donations? Seems like those could help fund it to reduce the price.

    Do they take donations? Seems like those could help fund it to reduce the price.

    1 vote

  2. Comment on Patreon tests a native live video feature where creators can stream 24/7 in ~tech

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    24/7 live, what would you do with that? Stream... cats?

    24/7 live, what would you do with that? Stream... cats?

    1 vote

  3. Comment on Texas measles outbreak grows; Michigan, Pennsylvania report new outbreaks in ~health

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    Damn, what a selfish virus. Least it could do is help us in return. :( Just read there's a chance measles will cause "Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis" which is fatal and you might not even...

    Damn, what a selfish virus. Least it could do is help us in return. :(

    Just read there's a chance measles will cause "Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis" which is fatal and you might not even know about it for years. Measles is apparently not to be trifled with. Q_Q

    7 votes

  4. Comment on Texas measles outbreak grows; Michigan, Pennsylvania report new outbreaks in ~health

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    Immune memory wiped?! I didn't know that was a thing. I wonder if people with deadly allergies or immune systems that attack themselves might actually want to catch it?

    Immune memory wiped?! I didn't know that was a thing. I wonder if people with deadly allergies or immune systems that attack themselves might actually want to catch it?

    2 votes

  5. Comment on How to retrain your brain to crave movement more than screen time in ~health.mental

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    Not all news, though I admit nearly all of it in the USA is biased, yellow(tabloid) journalism. I get most news from reading, I avoid the worst offenders (like CNN & Fox) and learned to pick out...

    Not all news, though I admit nearly all of it in the USA is biased, yellow(tabloid) journalism.

    I get most news from reading, I avoid the worst offenders (like CNN & Fox) and learned to pick out words that are used to manipulate readers which mitigates their affect to some degree. The difficult part is the missing, twisted and unnecessary facts that are hard to get past without research which can leave you feeling stressed until you have enough info to know the full story. I can't wait until an AI is created that can look at what you're reading and point out the BS by doing the research for you.

    I seek news out because in my experience news that finds me is usually from people who can't parse the BS from the truth and are freaking out about something the news said (like my mother). Especially with our idiot-in-chief, what he does is bad enough but then the news ramps that up 100 fold and throws in stories that are basically rumors, twisted information and irrelevant events made out to be world ending issues "He farted, we're all doomed!".

    5 votes

  6. Comment on Clobazam, an anti-anxiety drug, is polluting our waterways – Swedish study found traces of the drug had altered the way wild Atlantic salmon migrate in ~enviro

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    Did I miss where they tell us how much is actually in the waterway vs the dosage used here? All this article seems to tell us is that the drug works on fish. I'd like to see them raise fish and...

    an implant which slowly released small amounts of clobazam.

    Did I miss where they tell us how much is actually in the waterway vs the dosage used here? All this article seems to tell us is that the drug works on fish.

    I'd like to see them raise fish and other aquatic life in a controlled environment. They could setup an aquarium near the contaminated water, such as just outside of where waste water is discharged from a major city, and see how it affects fish. They could test the water regularly to see how contaminated it is. Cleaner water could be piped in from upstream of the discharge point to create control groups, especially if they made sure no major towns or cities were upstream. The cleaner water could be tested regularly too. With this setup we could get some really nice data and the city could also be used to test various methods to clean wastewater.

    4 votes

  7. Comment on Microsoft launches generative AI-powered, Quake II “inspired” tech demo in ~games

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    Boo, made for chrome and no mouse. It doesn't capture the keyboard so it tries to search the page in firefox. :/ Overall, not bad for a proof of concept, but it's got bugs to work out. The enemies...

    Boo, made for chrome and no mouse. It doesn't capture the keyboard so it tries to search the page in firefox. :/

    Overall, not bad for a proof of concept, but it's got bugs to work out.

    The enemies disappear if they get behind you and I think the map changed on me, either that or I did something weird. Enemies died upright (physics issues) and super deformed. I wonder if this'll be the next "simulator" game (Surgeon, Goat, "I am bread", that one with old people, etc...) where half the fun is fighting the game engine and the crazy stuff that happens when you do.

    1 vote

  8. Comment on Brazil’s government-run payments system has become dominant in ~finance

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    That would be nice, if we could trust our government to do something without being "lobbied" out of the idea by those who will lose out in the deal. The part where it's cheap for retailers is...

    That would be nice, if we could trust our government to do something without being "lobbied" out of the idea by those who will lose out in the deal.

    The part where it's cheap for retailers is rather appealing. Pix's 0.22% sounds great, everything is several percent higher than it could cost just because everyone compensates for debit and credit card fees.

    I'd like a better name than Pix though. US Credit, e-dollar...

    2 votes

  9. Comment on The Tiny Soapbox: a platform for small, low-stakes rants in ~talk

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    Wait, that's a thing? I've been doing it wrong this entire time? It would just be weird to put the closing quote after the period "like this." "Yeah, that's just weird unless it's an entire...

    Wait, that's a thing? I've been doing it wrong this entire time?

    It would just be weird to put the closing quote after the period "like this." "Yeah, that's just weird unless it's an entire sentence being quoted." It'd be sort of like doing the same with parentheses (like this.) (Which I think is wrong unless the whole sentence is within parentheses?)

    Wait, I found something. Proper English really does put the period outside. Well, if you consider UK English as proper instead of American English. Such weird differences.

    8 votes

  10. Comment on The Tiny Soapbox: a platform for small, low-stakes rants in ~talk

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    How about we just move Christmas and bring back celebrating the Winter Solstice with feast and fun? Valentines day has some religious background I think? Christmas does too, can't remember what...

    How about we just move Christmas and bring back celebrating the Winter Solstice with feast and fun?

    Valentines day has some religious background I think? Christmas does too, can't remember what though. 😏

    3 votes

  11. Comment on The Tiny Soapbox: a platform for small, low-stakes rants in ~talk

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    I support this, the metric version of a foot! We already have yards & meters, Miles & KM, Inches & CM, but Feet has no friend. Random thought: Isn't a hand fairly close to 10cm?

    decimeters

    I support this, the metric version of a foot! We already have yards & meters, Miles & KM, Inches & CM, but Feet has no friend.

    Random thought: Isn't a hand fairly close to 10cm?

    10 votes

  12. Comment on It's official, Switch 2 Joy-Con will not feature Hall Effect sticks in ~games

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    Sounds like an Apple product if they were to cheapen their hardware. That requires you to install an emulator right? An increasing number of people are not tech savvy enough to handle such things...

    Overpriced console.

    Overpriced accessories.

    Overpriced games.

    Gimmicks no one will cares about.

    And now, potentially issues with stick drift again.

    Sounds like an Apple product if they were to cheapen their hardware.

    There’s always Steam.

    That requires you to install an emulator right? An increasing number of people are not tech savvy enough to handle such things or would rather pay more to avoid it. The fact that the emulator isn't an official Nintendo product will drop more off the list as some people think it's not legal or see 3rd parties as sketchy.

    Remember, Nintendo's primary markets are people looking for family friendly games and casual gamers. Neither of which will want to put in the effort to bypass Nintendo. It's probably why they also don't upgrade the joysticks, their primary audience won't wear them out nearly as fast as a gamer would and it helps convince them to upgrade when it does wear out. It all feels like planned obsolescence to me.

    6 votes

  13. Comment on What if we made advertising illegal? in ~tech

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    I'm going to add a repair wiki to my list of things that we should have..... Oh neat, it exists, but it's rather sparse: repair.wiki - now if every company added their products to it and did the...

    I'm going to add a repair wiki to my list of things that we should have..... Oh neat, it exists, but it's rather sparse: repair.wiki - now if every company added their products to it and did the QR code thing we'd be golden. Down side being that many companies don't want us repairing things.

    2 votes

  14. Comment on What if we made advertising illegal? in ~tech

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    Oh right, it's 3 tiers. For some reason I was picturing the bootleggers as the businesses but it'd be the ad companies in this situation. Would we end up with an advertisement mafia?

    Oh right, it's 3 tiers. For some reason I was picturing the bootleggers as the businesses but it'd be the ad companies in this situation. Would we end up with an advertisement mafia?

  15. Comment on What if we made advertising illegal? in ~tech

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    Oh dang, yeah, now that you pointed out graffiti and spam I can see it now. It'd be like viagra spam or those car warranty phone calls, paying randos to paint coca cola bottles on walls "not our...

    Oh dang, yeah, now that you pointed out graffiti and spam I can see it now. It'd be like viagra spam or those car warranty phone calls, paying randos to paint coca cola bottles on walls "not our fault some hooligan likes our product".

    Booze might not be the best example, the target audience actually wanted booze. I doubt they could do much with how many actually want ads.

    3 votes

  16. Comment on What if we made advertising illegal? in ~tech

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    Sound like the shopping channel, but for the internet.

    Sound like the shopping channel, but for the internet.

    1 vote

  17. Comment on What if we made advertising illegal? in ~tech

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    I'd be ok with "Banning unethical advertisement". Then defining that. Unethical ads would be those that mislead/manipulate (which includes what you said, using personal info, political mud...

    I'd be ok with "Banning unethical advertisement". Then defining that.

    Unethical ads would be those that mislead/manipulate (which includes what you said, using personal info, political mud slinging, etc...), harass (popups, sound, self playing videos, etc...) or trick (fake games, fake articles - including: fake article ads, the article themselves designed to show ads with content copied from elsewhere or AI generated (think "slideshows" articles & those abominations that have ads every other paragraph).

    1 vote

  18. Comment on What if we made advertising illegal? in ~tech

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    If I wanted a chair I'd search the web or pick one out at a furniture store. I don't think an ad has ever actually lead to me buying from someone. Closest I got were the purple mattress...

    If I wanted a chair I'd search the web or pick one out at a furniture store. I don't think an ad has ever actually lead to me buying from someone. Closest I got were the purple mattress commercials, but still never bought one. If there were no ads people would just do this.

    1 vote

  19. Comment on What if we made advertising illegal? in ~tech

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    For ads tho? I cant picture that.

    black markets

    For ads tho? I cant picture that.

    1 vote

  20. Comment on What if we made advertising illegal? in ~tech

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    With text the edges/header/footer have been fine. Mid article, flashing, videos, sounds, popups, fake articles/games are all bad.

    With text the edges/header/footer have been fine. Mid article, flashing, videos, sounds, popups, fake articles/games are all bad.

    1 vote