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my_hat_stinks

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  • Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device?

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  • Drawing a distinction between privacy and security is kind of nonsense in this context. While they are technically different, they're only different in the way that an apple and a fruit are different. Privacy is an aspect of security.

    If your privacy was violated in any other context you would not feel secure.

  • Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device?

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  • That's a very different question. A smartphone can to some degree emulate the other devices listed so when people are asked to pick only one device most are naturally going to choose that even if it's not currently their primary device, and since they could only choose one it's not useful in determining how many people use other devices. It also appears to be a follow-up question asking about second most important devices so it's definitely not useful out of context.

    From that survey question alone you cannot reasonably claim which device is used most often.

  • It's impossible to defend any amount of alcohol consumption without sounding like an alcoholic.

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  • I can't think of a scenario where you ask someone to defend why they don't drink but they are the one that is insecure and judgemental. There's plenty of situations where people drink when they shouldn't (eg driving) but it's not quite so common to be in a situation where you must drink but don't.

  • where??

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  • It's an alignment because if you look up at it they're in a line. That's what alignment means, Lara Croft and ancient artifacts are optional.

  • Playing Dragonsweeper because of Ars' article. Did I have any way out of this without guessing?

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  • From what I could tell the gnome teleports to a random still-covered empty tile and dies when there's nowhere left to run.

  • Another smart move

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  • That's slightly misleading, I think. There are no arrays in Lua, every Lua data structure is a table (sometimes pretending to be something else) and you can have anything as a key as long as it's not nil. There's also no integers, Lua only has a single number type which is floating point. This is perfectly valid:

     Lua
        
local tbl = {}
local f = function() error(":(") end

tbl[tbl] = tbl
tbl[f] = tbl
tbl["tbl"] = tbl

print(tbl)
-- table: 0x557a907f0f40
print(tbl[tbl], tbl[f], tbl["tbl"])
-- table: 0x557a907f0f40	table: 0x557a907f0f40	table: 0x557a907f0f40

for key,value in pairs(tbl) do
  print(key, "=", value)
end
-- tbl	=	table: 0x557a907f0f40
-- function: 0x557a907edff0	=	table: 0x557a907f0f40
-- table: 0x557a907f0f40	=	table: 0x557a907f0f40

print(type(1), type(-0.5), type(math.pi), type(math.maxinteger))
-- number	number	number	number

  • Kitty Wishes

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  • They didn't wish for food, you can see all the cans stacked in the cabinet through the glass until the last panel.

  • Can I use A.I generated pics for book cover to sell?

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  • I also take idioms literally, I read the entire book right there before deciding whether to buy it. Obviously you can't trust how they chose to present the book so you need to read it to know if it's worth reading.

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    AITAH My brother is a Musk apologist and I no longer want to come to his wedding

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  • If we can't say nazi what's a better way to describe an authoritarian who supports far right German political parties and openly throws nazi salutes?

  • Seriously

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  • So what was the joke? People try to play off a lot of really horrific shit with "it's only a joke".

  • Path of least resistance

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  • The desire path curved towards the road crossing, they paved a straight path pointing away from the crossing, new curved desire path formed by people crossing the road

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    Permanently Deleted

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  • The fact you feel the need to hide significant aspects of yourself from your employer means that these social issues greatly affect you. So much so that I'm not convinced this isn't a troll, "it's fine as long as I don't see it" is literally a homophobe trope.

  • What's something you can't buy ready made, but have to make at home?

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  • You're just not looking hard enough. This was the first hit when I searched.

  • What's the dumbest argument you've ever had?

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  • I can kind of see their thought processes there. They're sharing right-wing media so they're likely already primed for those biases, plus that article title is intentionally misleading by suggesting asylum seekers will by default get priority over all other patients. It isn't until the sixth paragraph that they admit it's priority care for vulnerable people which is a group that happens to include asylum seekers and undocumented migrants (terms which this writer uses interchangeably, because of course they do). Very poor journalistic integrity even for a rag like this one, imo.

    This type of article is intentionally misleading and written primarily to rile up people with poor media literacy. Making people angry makes it easier to manipulate them, and vulnerable groups are naturally less able to fight back so they're an easy target.

    In an ideal world after being challenged they would have reevaluated the source and their beliefs. In practice very few people do that and they just get more entrenched instead. Especially if it's someone anonymous online just telling them they're wrong.

  • What's the endgame when the rich have all the money?

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  • What's the end game for cancer?

    There isn't one, it doesn't matter that the host dies eventually as long as they get to keep growing for now.

  • Google Maps is over! The tech giant complies with EU orders to remove navigation services from search results

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  • They were, but chose to remove the feature instead of complying.

  • Google Maps is over! The tech giant complies with EU orders to remove navigation services from search results

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  • You're absolutely right, Google chose to inconvenience their users rather than make it simpler for the user to choose their service. This is what Google chose to do rather than comply with regulation to make the field fairer. Google did this. The article is a PR piece to shift blame from Google for yet another anti-user decision Google made.

    Google is not the good guy.

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    How can/does a linear and curved slope reach the same endpoint from the same start point, what sorcery is this?

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  • They only need to overlap at the start and end, meaning the rest of the line can be way off and it'll still start and stop at the same places. Here's a quick graph courtesy of WolframAlpha showing three curves with the same start and end point.

    Which line is more gradual or smooth really depends on what you mean by those terms.

    Another way to visualise it is to imagine a string tied taut between two posts making a straight line. If you add some slack to the string so it's no longer taut you'll see the middle curve as it's pulled down by gravity, but it's still tied to the same two posts so it starts and ends in the same place as the taut one.

  • What's on the bottom?

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  • I don't know about the big bang, but the elephants and turtle are Terry Pratchett. Discworld, Pratchett's most well-known setting, is a disc shaped world on the back of four elephants on the back of a turtle.