SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
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SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
22d ago
ASMR
EWWWW!
That's another of those things that causes instant ctrl-w for me. I'm not bothered by those sounds in the real world since they're only occasional but that entire video format deserves to die a quick but extremely painful death.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
23d ago
That heavily depends on what exactly is meant by "bombing" and "to destroy". A few guided missiles or bombs sent from fighters are good for destroying individual buildings but won't do a whole lot if the goal is to make the entire port area long term unusable for docking ships. Even the Beirut port is still standing just fine after a one kiloton explosion. I suspect you'd need an actual nuke to truly destroy many ports so that they couldn't be easily made ad hoc serviceable in short time again.
I'm not sure what you mean by "different modes of perception" but since I've been watching photography youtubers while being down with the cold, macro photography is one I personally just ran into. Some people love high res closeup photos of insects whereas I get a very strong urge to hit ctrl-W the moment I see a blown up photo of almost any insect.
It's a bit of a problem because I'd like to see if I might like other kinds of macro photography but current enshittified algorithms make it damn near impossible to succesfully search for macro / closeup photography that doesn't feature insects.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
23d ago
So he could say ”no H1Bs for anyone making less than $300k / year” but not ”that’ll be $100k for that H1B, thank you very much”?
Why would homophones / homonyms even be a problem if / when the meaning is obvious from the context.
In Finnish I can say ”kuusi palaa” which could mean ”six pieces”, ”a fir tree is on fire”, ”your moon is on fire” or even ”piece(s) of your moon” but nobody would be confused with any real world use of that piece of sentence.
Even this infamous artificial example is obvious to any fluent speaker with some thought: ”-Kokko! Kokoo kokoon koko kokko. -Koko kokkoko? -Koko kokko, Kokko.” (-[Person named] Kokko! Assemble together the entire bonfire. -The entire bonfire? -[Yes,] the entire bonfire, Kokko)
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
29d ago
Citation needed.
There is certainly no such clause in Finnish law. Even supporting (ie. material / financial / other direct aid) terrorism is illegal only if the support is for an actual terrorism act or a designated terrorist group.
Don’t assume UK and Germany == most of Europe.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
29d ago
Is there a norm of it not being a fireable offence to openly celebrate murder?
Yes, there is. In most of Europe firing someone for anything outside work is explicitly illegal.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
And of course it results in taxes, but governments gonna tax.
Do I remember wrong or aren’t some of the oldest known writings basically tax records?
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
Look man, don’t go all reasony to me when I’m just looking for a cheap excuse to shit on furries as is sacred interwebs tradition.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
Goddamn furries!
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
Are you speaking from your general leftist activist experience?
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
This is the "just build your own international financial system"
And not just "build your own international financial system" but "build an international and national financial systems on every served country down to the street level" as banks tend to be unwilling (usually due to government pressure) to even transfer money between the official and inofficial financial systems.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
An excellent analysis and prototyping environment and absolutely horrible general purpose programming language.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
Either way, I have libertarian tendencies and I appreciate the opportunity to shoot my head off with a gun.
May I introduce you to the lovely world of C++?
Although Undefined Behavior might better be described as a large caliber chaingun firing explosive rounds…
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
A few days ago, imgur managed to piss off most of the people voting on images.
Given that this is the first time I hear that imgur even has voting, I predict this to be a nothingburger. The tiny portion who use it as social media instead of image host may care but absolutely nobody else.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
They're in different industries and have been for decades. The last time Motorola had notions of competing with Intel was 30 years ago. By the time Freescale was spun out in 2004, they had no commonalities (ignoring Intel's doomed to fail attempt at pushing into embedded / mobile processor market with Atom & Galileo). Freescale and then NXP have always been purely in "deep" embedded market where computing performance just isn't that important and is behind many other considerations. You use an iMX8 because you need a large set of integrated peripherals in a small form factor and at low cost. It might run Linux because that simplifies the software development and allows better networking and simpler multimedia display (think map or spotify album art) but you really don't care about how it performs in benchmarks (as long as it passes some minimum bar). Using a larger manufacturing process is an outright positive thing as it allows lower idle power consumption.
Intel OTOH has always been about legacy software support and how many GHz you get in a package / per $$$, considerations that simply don't exist in NXP's market. You'd never put an Intel cpu in an embedded device because it'd be a nightmare to integrate, eat too much power and cost too much compared to an MCU that does that job much better.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
And NXP is definitely not even close to a tier-one fab these days; I think they've capped out in the >50nm range.
That's a bit like saying Volvo isn't even close to being a tier-one supercar manufacturer these days...
NXP has never even aimed for the high end application processor market (not that Motorola was relevant in its historical equivalent since the late 80s either). They merged with Freescale for their microcontroller and automotive IC portfolio, not in an effort to compete with Intel or similar cpu manufacturers.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
A trivial example is "You should learn to repair your car" while ignoring that we don't live in the 90s anymore and most new cars cannot be repaired without special tools and software (sometimes even by third party professionals).
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
"Work harder" isn't bad advice so to speak but it's not that useful.
This gets into the core problem with much advice: It is rarely actionable and usually of the form "you should be like this" instead of "you should do this specific thing that you both know how to do and are capable of currently doing".
A classic example is "eat less to lose weight" which isn't actionable for most people (they'll just get hungry and fail to eat less) as opposed to for example "log every meal and snack you eat to make it easier to avoid pointless eating and try to eat these sorts of foods that keep you satiated longer".
Okay, so, you've probably heard of rabies. It's an incurable disease (at the very least it used to be, and it still is once symptoms appear) spread by biting that makes people bite others and be violent and semi-mindless in general.
Ahem. Rabies doesn't do that.
It can make people confused or aggressive but even confused or aggressive humans don't go around biting others (at least any more than people who are confused or aggressive because of dementia or drugs do). Human to human spread of rabies basically doesn't happen.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
That's Motorola Mobility (subsidiary of Lenovo, smartphones and stuff) or Motorola Solutions (safety and security products). Neither have anything to do with IC manufacturing.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
maybe Motorola if you squint
Motorola hasn't existed for 17 years and spun off their cpu / microcontroller business back in 2004 to Freescale which was since acquired by NXP in 2015.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
They went full retard. Never go full retard.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
No, but perhaps I should. I tend to be awerse to watching series that have (or at least should have) long term plot but were cancelled before resolving it or, worse, started strong but were derailed / ruined before the end (cough Game of thrones cough).
Yeah. It's a "kill it with fire and nuke the entire site from orbit just to be sure" type of feeling.
I have no problem with closeup photos of plants, eyes, amphibians or lizards but as soon as it's insects or arachnids (and probably some arthropods), I nope the hell out.
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