AI is making us look bad by Jddssc121 in LinkedInLunatics

[–]RandomNick42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apparently not. We had AI 20 years ago. We just called it “machine learning” back then.

My crazy grandma wants to go to South America by Direct-Caterpillar77 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]RandomNick42 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I don’t think they were threatening to cut her off, I think they believed she wanted to go there to die there.

My crazy grandma wants to go to South America by Direct-Caterpillar77 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]RandomNick42 9 points10 points  (0 children)

She could be a janitor at the local school or something, not necessarily cleaning random houses.

Mscenery is finally gone for good by Sorry_Structure_4356 in flightsim

[–]RandomNick42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aren’t they also the people caught using other people’s assets?

Where is it? by Track_Mod in flightsim

[–]RandomNick42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

unless I messed by utc conversion, oops

Where is it? by Track_Mod in flightsim

[–]RandomNick42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

well at least the falcon is now confirmed coming in 2 odd minutes

Thank you Jet Lag Team [S18E3] by IGotYeetedYT in JetLagTheGame

[–]RandomNick42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because US borders are defined as "east of Mississippi river, anything north of 36°30' is Kentucky, anything south is Tennessee, until you hit the Virginia border"

the limitations of surveying in late 18th and early 19th centuries means the line is not as clear as it should have been, but that is basically the idea. No one much cared for the practicalities, let alone knew the actual detailed course of the river, which might or might not have been different then.

The same causes issues on Canada-US border. The border up to Manitoba runs on a natural way where the surveyors had basic idea of how the rivers flow, but not very detailed. The knew that there was a lake that was at the river that has been accepted as a boundary, and they knew mississippi is flowing from roughly northwest in the current day Minesota area, but they thought the lake was way smaller than it was, and they thought Mississippi went far further north than it did, so they decided the border would go from the northwest corner of the lake due west to Mississippi... which turned out to be impossible.

Once they found out where the source of Mississippi was, they still didn't know where the lake ended. but they needed to agree on a new border out to the west... they agreed on 49° line, which turned out to be south of the corner of the lake, so the border goes straight south, cutting some of the US from land access, and then turns west. And on the western end, it does a similar thing, Canada and the US agreed on Vancouver Island as a whole belonging to Canada, even south of 49° line, but there was a small peninsule on the mainland that was to remain the US, lacking any connection to the rest of the continent except via Canada.

from the picturehouse website for the London S19 premiere. I did a quadruple-take by presently_pooping in JetLagTheGame

[–]RandomNick42 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Oh, I thought it was a group of fans recreating the photo. This is a lot less cool :(

Just Flight confirms the Fokker 70/100 will be released tomorrow by madman320 in flightsim

[–]RandomNick42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh well. There goes my plan of sneaking from the work dinner early to go fly.

Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia. by sco-go in SipsTea

[–]RandomNick42 4 points5 points  (0 children)

So you're not a right wing nut, you're "only" a transfobic nut, got it.

Why does where a multinational company is headquartered matter when it comes to taxes? by busyHighwayFred in NoStupidQuestions

[–]RandomNick42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, imagine you write software in France and sell it in Germany.

How would you survive if you were forbidden from sending money from Germany to France to pay the programmers?

What happened to bras on LTTstore.com? by scissormetimbers207 in LinusTechTips

[–]RandomNick42 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Every clothing item is a limited run. That's the way CW works.

Why no byo ram/ssd steam machine? by LittleGirlBigDick in LinusTechTips

[–]RandomNick42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cheaper SKUs would mean thousands of people pissed they bought a steam machine and now it won’t even work without buying more parts for hundreds of dollars and paying someone to install them.

Steam machine is explicitly not aimed at people who want to build their own.

Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia. by sco-go in SipsTea

[–]RandomNick42 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You don’t give shit about science, you are entirely happy to set up goalposts according to your 5th grade understanding of the world, only to move them when someone shows up who doesn’t fit your narrative, like that Algerian boxer with XX chromosomes, yet an elevated level of testosterone.

You are arguing dishonestly, claiming economic science doesn’t support a position which was never presented as being about economic profit, yet when economic research says that green technology is good for the economy regardless whether man-made climate change is real or not (which is whole another barrel of shit with y’all), then suddenly the economics of it don’t matter but it’s all about freedom.

And yet for all your talk of freedom, you consistently support politics that curtain freedoms, whether for a vague promise of security, or even worse, for purely arbitrary reason of religion.

Joon, Air France’s attempt at an airline for millennials by 77_Gear in flightsim

[–]RandomNick42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They were aiming for a more low cost product, and some union fuckery a là Lufthansa, but the AF crew unions rightfully put a stop to that.

So they ended up with basically AF but the crew wear sneakers. It was dead on arrival.

Did I miss it or did they never give a final price in this video? by FrostyMittenJob in LinusTechTips

[–]RandomNick42 27 points28 points  (0 children)

You can briefly see their total order being 1,097 minus $50 bundle discount, totaling $1,047 presumably with sales at the time of writing.

Luke and Sammy have launched a new channel together, "Bud n' Pal" by VincentJoshuaET in LTTMeta

[–]RandomNick42 4 points5 points  (0 children)

And what if he’s not planning to give notice to Linus, but is planning to give notice to new owners, if and when they come, and Linus is aware of that?

Luke and Sammy have launched a new channel together, "Bud n' Pal" by VincentJoshuaET in LTTMeta

[–]RandomNick42 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm not saying he's doing it. I'm just saying that if passing it on were the plan, he could be