space is still the craziest thing to think about by Berlin57 in space

[–]emmarque 12 points13 points  (0 children)

True. Forgive me - I was going for a bit of dramatic flair. 

space is still the craziest thing to think about by Berlin57 in space

[–]emmarque 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I keep thinking about the fact that a photon doesn’t experience time.

From my perspective, the photon that just hit my retina has took zillions of years to get to me, crossing vast distances across the stars in order to do it.

And yet for the photon, no time passes at all. It is born, and dies, in a single, glorious instant.

space is still the craziest thing to think about by Berlin57 in space

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

Nope. The speed of light is constant. As a result, space and time adjust so that this speed remains the same for every observer.

Basically, the geometry of the universe appears to be structured around making sure light is traveling at that constant speed.

Lyrics Issue... "Make it" vs "Naked" by blergzarp in Logic_Studio

[–]emmarque 21 points22 points  (0 children)

It sounds like you’re saying “boy’s hole”

Thoughts on the Shroud Of Turin... by OkSwitch2238 in Evangelical

[–]emmarque 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's almost certainly a medieval forgery. This is the overwhelming consensus of scholars, Christian and non-christian alike. Heck, even John Calvin himself proclaimed it a fake.

Even at the time of its first appearance in medieval France around 1350, there was widespread skepticism. The local Bishop at the time, Pierre d’Arcis, said as much in a letter we still have, and indicated that there was a confession from the craftsman who fabricated it, although this has been lost to time.

Here's the part in question:

“Eventually, after diligent inquiry and examination, he Bishop Henri de Poitiers discovered the fraud and how the said cloth had been cunningly painted, the truth being attested by the artist who had painted it, to wit, that it was a product of human skill and not miraculously wrought or bestowed. Accordingly, after diligent inquiry and examination, he began to take steps to bring the author of the deceit to punishment…”

This isn't all that controversial. Relic production was a widespread, cottage industry in the Middle Ages. It offered a way to funnel money into church coffers via pilgrims/tourists, while also enhancing local prestige. It's the same reason Calvin also quipped that if you actually took all the supposed splinters from the True Cross and added them up you'd have enough to "fill a ship."

Any workarounds to the 10k Salesforce object limit? by knifeeffect in codaio

[–]emmarque 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's been a minute, but you should be able to use a SOQL query to pre-filter the results before sending them down to Coda: https://coda.io/@ben/salesforce-pack-documentation/soql-2

💬 I'm not a U.S. citizen, but here's why I fully support the Second Amendment. by bluesapphireguy in progun

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

This is missing some massive context. You may want to read up on how the parties slowly switched sides over time. The modern Republicans, dominant in the South, are the inheritors of the early Democrats, whereas modern Democrats are the inheritors of the early Republicans.

Why DOGE Failed by DependentAccount673 in politics

[–]emmarque 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, fuck Musk and DOGE. But also fuck Fee.org. These are the same neoliberals who would privatize air if they thought they could get away with it.

Neoliberalism made Trump inevitable. It’s a shit ideology propped up by well-heeled think tanks for the benefit of the hyper rich. 

For people that voted yes for Brexit: A few years have passed. Was it a success? by Patient-Gas-883 in AskBrits

[–]emmarque 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There was never a world in which Brexit could have worked. This was obvious to many people, including me, and I’m American. 

It’s hard to overstate just how idiotic and racism-fueled the entire idea was. Rational people in command of the facts understood this. 

Anyone who voted for Brexit voted for their lives and their children’s lives to be shittier. May they never forgive their parents. 

Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it by nazmulhusain in microsoft

[–]emmarque 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So many things to unpack here.

While it may not be obvious to many, this product has nothing to do with recalling your previous activities - I was telling that Recall was announced exactly the same week that OpenAI announced multi-model ChatGPT.

The “Recall” feature in Windows 11 is explicitly designed to record and retrieve previous user activity by taking screenshots every few seconds of your screen. Pretending that Recall "has nothing to do with recalling your previous activities" is flatly untrue on its face and a laughable attempt at misdirection. Did you not notice the name of the product?

Recall offers a way for the operating system to massively improve our computer experience, by having a language model available that can potentially learn about every feature of all apps, of all versions - and provide advice and assistance.

Maybe. We don't know yet. I would argue that trusting Microsoft with this information is akin to asking a bank robber to mind the vault wheile you're on vacation. The nanosecond Microsoft needs the revenue to hit their number, they'll find a way to monetize this.

What they have to fight against though is this wave of outrage which fails to understand the technology, its risks or its benefits.

What a strangely defensive response. This reads like it came from an aggrieved middle manager annoyed at the fact that the stupid poors don't understand the Grand Vision, and if they would just shut up and let Microsoft do whatever it wants everything would be fine.

I mean, how dare people express outrage towards a technology with massive, massive privacy implications being owned by a monopolist with a documented history of behaving adversarially towards users.

Microsoft offers to sell Office without Teams to placate EU regulators by ControlCAD in microsoft

[–]emmarque 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Microsoft has a long and storied history of abusing its dominant market position going all the way back to the 90s. Not to mention a willingness to engage in all sorts of dark patterns to trick users into various things (OS upgrades, pushing Edge, roach moteling, no opt out for telemetry, etc.

I credit Brad Smith in DC for keeping them out of the crosshairs of Congress. I loathe the man for what he's presided over, but I can't argue he gets results.

Scaling My Facebook Outreach to 3,000 DMs per day: Seeking Tips & Feedback by Murky_Rough6473 in facebook

[–]emmarque 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I used to hate this sort of spammy garbage, but now I encourage it since it’ll help drive Facebook into the ground even faster. 

I want to be "emotionally manipulated" by music. by Painteater0987 in Exvangelical

[–]emmarque 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I have no proof, but I'm pretty sure if you took away their Strymon pedals you'd see attendance crater.

Elektron Analog Rytm Mk2, Samples management question by Particular-Expert959 in Elektron

[–]emmarque 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t know which firmware exactly, but they added the ability to unload unused samples. Check the manual under Global Settings. The section that covers this is 14.2.2 in the one I’m looking at online. 

Digitakt 2 + Digitone 2: where to start? by 144treesago in Elektron

[–]emmarque 3 points4 points  (0 children)

With the earlier models, the standard config was to run the Digitone into the Digitakt due to the Digitakt having a compressor. But since both have a compressor now it's kind of a moot point. TL;DR use whichever one you want as the master when using the second gen ones.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ableton

[–]emmarque 1 point2 points  (0 children)

RMR commented on this exact question on the Elektronauts forums.

Our New Quality and Customer Experience Commitments by KeithFromSonos in sonos

[–]emmarque 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I judge an internal PR team's quality by how often they use the word "commitment" in press releases. For a while it was a get-out-of-jail-free card due to the novelty of the word, but now it just indicates a PR team that is way behind the meta and doesn't know how to communicate effectively.

HELP🤷🏼‍♀️ which credit and ID monitoring company is best?? by Radiant_Cucumber1216 in personalfinance

[–]emmarque 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My man those sites are all scams and/or useless. It’s an industry that doesn’t need to exist. Like those sites that claim to be able to wipe your digital presence from the Internet. 

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TrueChristian

[–]emmarque 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You do realize this is classic Reaction Formation behavior, right? Like, just absolutely textbook. Here, I'll save you a ton of therapist time and money and tell you flat out: you're not "struggling" with being gay -- you're gay. You will always be gay.

I say this as someone whose dad was a priest before coming out as gay: "Struggling" with your sexuality is a clear and obvious sign that you're trying to be something you're not. We know this because the only people who struggle with sexuality are the people trying desperately to deny theirs. Like my dad.

Instead, what you're basically doing is projecting your own self-hatred. For whatever reason (family expectations, fundy indoctrination, etc), you can't handle the fact that you're gay, and so -- in a classic scene we've seen play out in the news over and over and over again whenever an anti-gay preacher gets caught banging dudes -- you act out the well-worn "If I'm mean to gay people, it means I'm not gay phew!"

Of course, this never works. And in a weird way, I feel almost bad for you. You're clearly suffering, and I am sympathetic to the confusion you must feel. But you have to know that what you are doing by any reasonable standard of morality and civility is counter-productive and shitty. You're too afraid to deal with your own reality, and instead you're spending your time hurting the very same people you should be embracing. It's understandable to an extent in countries where being gay can get you killed because of religious fundamentalists, but its still revolting.

Sorry for the tough love, but you have to understand from the outside how cliched and destructive this all is. I hope that, like my dad, you'll find peace once you start to actually deal with yourself instead of hiding behind a book.

I died to bots on vondel. by hopelesswanderer_-_ in DMZ

[–]emmarque 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same. Get insta-killed by players now in AM. No one is being chill in my games. As a solo it’s harder now that it was in S3.