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ulyssessword
1yr ago
first unhideable-in-bulk comment
ulyssessword
1yr ago
second unhideable-in-bulk comment
ulyssessword
1yr ago
Update: it can't be collapsed by clicking the collapse button (the (-) or (+) beside the name). You can still use the vertical bar on the side.
ulyssessword
1yr ago
For me, it's a very light blue background for the comment.
I could definitely believe someone with different eyes/monitors not being able to distinguish it from white.
ulyssessword
1yr ago
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Create new services on that platform.
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Discontinue ones off of it.
There's a simple line from yesteryear's standalone applications to today's always-on DRM/subscription services to tomorrow's Metaverse.
If you don't believe me about the previous transition, try to buy Adobe Photoshop.
ulyssessword
1yr ago
People don't bother to cite the hedonic aspects of the act when talking about nonprocreative sex, but it settles the argument nonetheless.
I'd gladly pay $0.003 to read a web page if they offered a convenient way to replace their advertising revenue. In fact, I am paying more than that because they created horrifically bloated sytems that pass through some of the most expensive data transfer in the Western world. My adblocker blocks about 10% of the requests and the cost of data is about 17x the benefit of the advertising, so running an adblocker is economically efficient even before you consider the cost of seeing them (at $20/GB, 2.5 MB/page, $3.00 CPM).
Aside from that, I can do what I want with the things they send me. I can channel surf or leave the room to avoid TV commercials, skip to the articles in magazines, or scrape the logos off of physical products. Do you think that those forms of ad-avoidance are immoral in the same way?
EDIT: fixed strikethrough
ulyssessword
1yr ago
The comment preview doesn't match the rendering of my posted comment. Specifically, putting and words typed as:
\ and words
has the preview show a tilde followed by a struckthrough word, but the comment is different.
EDIT: this turned out worse than I thought. [backslash][tilde][space], followed by stuff, followed by [tilde][stuff][tilde] is rendered inconsistently.
ulyssessword
1yr ago
I'll second The Expanse, and recommend The Dagger and the Coin and The Long Price Quartet by (half of) the same author[1]. All three fit your criteria of having defined (if imperfectly understood) magic/tech and focusing on the conflicts between somewhat-sympathetic groups.
If I were to blurb all three series at once, it would go: People are meddling with forces they don't understand. You, as the reader, get a better view of the upcoming disaster than any individual character, but they really should have known better. The disaster causes drastic changes that nobody was adequately prepared for, and everyone has to readjust to the new world before the next thing happens.
1 "James S. A. Corey" is Daniel Abraham and Ty Frank. Those two series are by Abraham.
ulyssessword
1yr ago
A workaround is to click the vertical bar to the left and minimize it that way. The button beside the profile pic isn't working, as you said.
ulyssessword
1yr ago
Compare the book recommendations on the Friday Fun threads vs. /r/books, the relationship advice in Wellness Wednesday vs. /r/relationships, or anything about Small Question Sundays.
I won't say the /r/themotte was better at everything than the dedicated communities, but it at least gave a distinct perspective on things.
ulyssessword
1yr ago
I don't have a perfect record of predicting how movements evolve over time, but I'm not too worried about EA in the near-future. If they started (successfully!) defunding other charities, requiring workers in unrelated fields to adhere to their values, and creating entire industries of activists then I'd be more concerned.
I'm not worried about heartrending visuals, I'm worried about them using power in bad ways.
ulyssessword
1yr ago
Go for it. Why can't you apply for reinstatement now?
I don't expect them to accept your request, but it's not like they can do anything worse than super-banning you for asking.
ulyssessword
1yr ago
More rdrama remnants at https://www.themotte.org/badges
ulyssessword
1yr ago
Thanks, I'm interested in hearing what happens. I suspect that you're right, but I want to avoid arguing from imaginary evidence:
“Well, if you did go to the end of the rainbow, you would find a pot of gold—which just proves my point!”
ulyssessword
1yr ago
"Open External Links In New Tabs" is inconsistent. I disabled the setting, clicked on an external link (the Forbes link here, if it makes a difference), and it opened in a new tab.
I just tried clicking on http://example.com/ in this message preview, and it respected my settings. (EDIT: clicking it in the message, after posting, opened it in a new tab).
ulyssessword
1yr ago
Amazon putting out tons of propaganda to indicate that everyone is racist for not liking the the Rings of Power, followed by half of the people saying no that doesn't make us racist, and the other half saying they just don't like it because it's a bad show.
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50% "[I don't like it, and] I'm not a racist."
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50% "I don't like it, and it's a bad show."
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0% "I like it."
I could easily be misreading you here, but I haven't seen anything indicating that it's a good show and wouldn't be surprised if you hadn't either. Sure, I haven't been checking reviews or deliberately browsing forums, but that hasn't stopped me from forming positive impressions of other media I haven't watched.
ulyssessword
1yr ago
Should we count every time the presence of a gun made someone feel unsafe as an offensive gun use?
We already do that. What do you think "brandishing" is?
ulyssessword
1yr ago
As someone unfamiliar with Soviet history, I appreciated seeing how, though. I think it's a good response to an (alleged) troll because it defuses the argument instead of inflaming it.
ulyssessword
1yr ago
I meant merely glancing and seeing someone open carrying in a non-threatening manner.
At some point you have to stop counting the crazies, otherwise Paranoid Pete has 7.9 billion defensive gun uses per hour since "everyone's out to get him". I think we've drawn the line in a decent spot, where it has to substantially affect your behaviour before it gets counted.
Would you count every single traffic stop ever as a 'gun use?'
Let's ignore all of the ones done by unarmed officers.
No, I wouldn't. I'd only call it a gun use if the officer would have otherwise called for backup (or taken some other protective measure). Furthermore, I'm not sure about counting on-duty police officers in defensive gun use statistics, since they can also initiate force instead of just responding to it.
ulyssessword
1yr ago
Linking to a child comment currently brings you to its location on the page, without affecting the organization of comments.
For example, this one is structured like:
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parent comment
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child 1
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child 2
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child 3
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child 4
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grandchild 4.1
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grandchild 4.2 (link target)
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and I would like it to display:
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parent
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child 4
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, similar to Reddit.
EDIT: new bug: multi-level lists display properly on the comment preview, but not in the comment.
ulyssessword
1yr ago
More sidebar links? I'd like to see a link to the github page, formatting help, and maybe other things.
ulyssessword
1yr ago
After a certain temperature drop they become much less efficient.
That's correct. The technical term you're looking for is "Coefficient of Performance", which represents how many watts of heat you get out per watt of electricity you put in (e.g a COP of 4.3 means you get 4.3 watts of heat per watt of electricity).
According to the graph in this article, the COP of their heat pump drops from 4.3 at 60F to 2.2 at 0F. Furthermore, their nameplate capacity (i.e. the "20000 BTU" that gets printed on the box) is based off of ideal conditions, and drops at roughly the same rate as the COP.
ulyssessword
1yr ago
Also, maybe I'm missing something obvious, but I'm surprised more people don't use plug-in electric heaters.
Electricity costs about twice as much as natural gas for the same amount of heat. Standalone heaters also have substantially worse temperature control, air circulation, noise, etc.
Setting up a central heating system with a lot of zones isn't that much work (at installation time. Refits can be more difficult), so you can still get the temperature differentials if it's a widespread part of the local culture.
If a comment is deleted, it can't be collapsed. This would be useful if it had a bunch of replies that you'd like to hide simultaneously.
Example below:
EDIT: hmm, didn't work? Maybe it's only mod-removed ones, not user deleted.
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