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  1. Comment on I almost got hit by a car in ~life

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    Cemeteries are filled with people who had right of way.

    Cemeteries are filled with people who had right of way.

    1 vote

  2. Comment on Smartphones arrived just before the US fertility rate plunged. One study says it’s a direct cause. in ~health

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    Yah I expect this is more due to American tastes (driven by that bloody truck designation tax loophole) for gigantic people destroyers instead of "normal" cars. I imagine the uptick at the end in...

    Yah I expect this is more due to American tastes (driven by that bloody truck designation tax loophole) for gigantic people destroyers instead of "normal" cars.

    I imagine the uptick at the end in elsewhere is owing to that particular fashion starting to infect the rest of the world.

  3. Comment on Why young men sound "less manly" in ~humanities.languages

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    Despite the accurate and helpful tldr, I'd highlight that the video is shy of 15 minutes and pretty interesting in content and presentation (if you like your presentation quite dry).

    Despite the accurate and helpful tldr, I'd highlight that the video is shy of 15 minutes and pretty interesting in content and presentation (if you like your presentation quite dry).

    8 votes

  4. Comment on Any fellow software engineers using paid GitHub copilot? in ~comp

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    "unless you factor cost in; in that case deepseek is lightyears ahead of Opus" is the intended reading I suppose

    "unless you factor cost in; in that case deepseek is lightyears ahead of Opus" is the intended reading I suppose

    2 votes

  5. Comment on Senior Ukrainian commander sees imminent 'turning point' in war in ~society

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    I dunno tbh. Their negotiations will be far better informed on war goals and hidden information than us. These will be professionals backed by the power of states - political scientists, analysts,...

    I dunno tbh. Their negotiations will be far better informed on war goals and hidden information than us. These will be professionals backed by the power of states - political scientists, analysts, military specialists.

    I doubt they'll be compulsive in the face of grand-scheme insignificant fluctuations like these into making impulsive decisions in negotiations that will take months.

    2 votes

  6. Comment on Senior Ukrainian commander sees imminent 'turning point' in war in ~society

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    Won't that calculus be baked into both sides negotiating anyway, and thus kind of cancel itself out?

    Won't that calculus be baked into both sides negotiating anyway, and thus kind of cancel itself out?

    7 votes

  7. Comment on Almost half of EU’s busiest flight routes are ‘hard or impossible’ to book on trains in ~transport

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    I agree that trains should be set up in a manner to make them cheaper, nationalisation being a great start. However I'm not sure they are necessarily cheaper, owing to the costs of maintaining the...

    I agree that trains should be set up in a manner to make them cheaper, nationalisation being a great start.

    However I'm not sure they are necessarily cheaper, owing to the costs of maintaining the vast infrastructure, and of adding capacity, changing routes etc.

    I'd favour using both levers to drive behaviour we need.

    2 votes

  8. Comment on Almost half of EU’s busiest flight routes are ‘hard or impossible’ to book on trains in ~transport

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    Ahhh I had thought your point about planes being more convenient was generalised, not specifically in reference to that route.

    Ahhh I had thought your point about planes being more convenient was generalised, not specifically in reference to that route.

  9. Comment on We heard you: the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro in ~tech

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    Ahhh cool I thought I'd recalled your being a software engineer - useful insights in use case and pattern. Thanks!

    Ahhh cool I thought I'd recalled your being a software engineer - useful insights in use case and pattern. Thanks!

    1 vote

  10. Comment on Almost half of EU’s busiest flight routes are ‘hard or impossible’ to book on trains in ~transport

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    Separate comment for separate point, but I'm not sure flying shouldn't be taxed vastly more to account for the negative externalities to the environment. If we want to save the planet we've to...

    Separate comment for separate point, but I'm not sure flying shouldn't be taxed vastly more to account for the negative externalities to the environment. If we want to save the planet we've to make some difficult decisions.

    1 vote

  11. Comment on Almost half of EU’s busiest flight routes are ‘hard or impossible’ to book on trains in ~transport

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    I disagree they're less convenient. A flight requires you be there long in advance to deal with security, usually with luggage limitations (you're separated and might have a small allowance). Also...

    I disagree they're less convenient.

    A flight requires you be there long in advance to deal with security, usually with luggage limitations (you're separated and might have a small allowance).

    Also a flight will at both ends dump you somewhere relatively useless in most cases, whilst most central train stations are, well, central with close access to just the population centres you're most likely to want.

    2 votes

  12. Comment on We heard you: the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro in ~tech

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    Wowee never heard of them before. Looks sweet. Do you mind if I ask your use case and how it suits it? Is it a snappy lil thing? How does the battery do?

    Wowee never heard of them before. Looks sweet. Do you mind if I ask your use case and how it suits it? Is it a snappy lil thing? How does the battery do?

    1 vote

  13. Comment on How are we all feeling about piracy these days? in ~movies

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    I'm not sure it's that much effort. I know people who use only public trackers, and unless they're looking for something very old or highly specific, it's basically never an issue to find it....

    I'm not sure it's that much effort. I know people who use only public trackers, and unless they're looking for something very old or highly specific, it's basically never an issue to find it. Certainly no more difficult than finding things on streaming sites.

    I'm not sure how much can be said on Tildes, but sonarr and radarr can be set up to subscribe to things you like so that stuff auto torrents when it's initially released. Generally the folks I know will just have their torrent client's Web interface on their phone - also not hard to set up. Theb they can trivially set things to download from anywhere, by remote, upon recommendation.

    For a new TV show episode, in maybe 4GB size, things can usually be pulled down and ready to watch in maybe 10 minutes off a public tracker, so I'd not describe the delay as often bothersome, myself.

    20 votes

  14. Comment on US begins blockade in Strait of Hormuz in ~society

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    That article doesn't actually say they've mined the strait so far as I can see? I'd be surprised if they have, as the threat to mine it is a powerful bargaining chip that can only be played once,...

    That article doesn't actually say they've mined the strait so far as I can see? I'd be surprised if they have, as the threat to mine it is a powerful bargaining chip that can only be played once, and which villifies iran. The strait is closed without its being mined anyway, so I don't see any value to having mined it already?

    I'd say it's more likely the US is suggesting they already have precisely because the indiscriminate nature of such a move looks bad for Iran, where otherwise the narrative is one of sympathy with the blame landing largely with trump

    3 votes

  15. Comment on Half-baked idea for metered inline image allowances in ~tildes

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    Fair, though having seen this meme whilst also being less saturated by it, for me the link was necessary context to avoid having to ask, or else not being included.

    Fair, though having seen this meme whilst also being less saturated by it, for me the link was necessary context to avoid having to ask, or else not being included.

    1 vote

  16. Comment on UK Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election, pushing Labour into third place in ~society

  17. Comment on Viktor Gyökeres' gifts of bundling and poaching suggest Arsenal have found the real thing – after a slow start, the Sweden striker is now appearing regularly on the scoresheet in ~sports.football

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    Everyone in my fantasy league has been calling him Le Slug for months now. Hopefully that sobriquet becomes ironic.

    Everyone in my fantasy league has been calling him Le Slug for months now. Hopefully that sobriquet becomes ironic.

    1 vote

  18. Comment on Why there's no European Google? in ~tech

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    Ahh tbf i support imgurs stance. Gods damn you repressive government regulations! (And thanks for the alt link, you're a hero.)

    Ahh tbf i support imgurs stance. Gods damn you repressive government regulations!

    (And thanks for the alt link, you're a hero.)

    3 votes

  19. Comment on How well can you predict the state of the world in 2041? in ~life

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    I had fun with it in any case, and given how interconnected the world is (or perhaps the anglosphere) I didn't find the scope of the survey to be excessively narrow to the US. Thanks for sharing!

    I had fun with it in any case, and given how interconnected the world is (or perhaps the anglosphere) I didn't find the scope of the survey to be excessively narrow to the US.

    Thanks for sharing!

  20. Comment on NexPhone - Smartphone PC that can boot into Windows, Android or Debian in ~tech

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    Perhaps I just think it sounds cool and want to justify it, but as a salaried drone (programmer) I can imagine using this to travel light and then remote into my work laptop (which I leave at home...

    Perhaps I just think it sounds cool and want to justify it, but as a salaried drone (programmer) I can imagine using this to travel light and then remote into my work laptop (which I leave at home wakeable on lan {wireguard baby}) so I can troubleshoot unexpected issues that come up whilst I'm away perhaps?

    As it is, for this I take a laptop on any multiday excursion, and that's a fair amount of carrying for something I rarely use.

    My main concern is that as a main driver of a phone, it seems I'd lose access to the phone to boot windows? And, like, I need my phone. So this'd have to be a secondary device. 🤔

    1 vote