CoderKat

That's misleading because that's not that often. Most of the cops are beating up innocent black people, shooting your beloved dog, and performing no knock warrants on the wrong house.

Are plastic bags still a thing anymore? I think Ontario banned them, cause I haven't seen them anywhere. It's especially awkward if you use Instacart cause they just keep giving you need reusable bags every time. But even before this, they've been dwindling for ages, with lots of big chains no longer having em.

Only at places like farmers markets for me, and even then, I'd say at least half of vendors accept credit cards. And frankly I hate using cash. I don't want to carry physical money around when tapping my phone is so easy.

Heck, this has even been my experience at Walmart. Even the express aisle took an eternity compared to self checkout. I love self checkouts and think they're great. The complaints about hAvINg To ScAn mY OwN GrOCeriEs are ridiculous. I just want to buy my stuff and get home ASAP. Not like scanning groceries is difficult or anything.

Just wish the self checkouts weren't so shitty about mis-scans. If you accidentally scan something twice, you usually need to call an employee over. You should be able to do that yourself. If they're worried about theft, just make the button get flagged for loss protection to scrutinize or something.

I think it's more a question of where the line is. You virtually always have to compromise in at least some small ways.

Would you work for a company where the CEO is an outspoken bigot? What about a company that constructs weapons for the military that you know will be used to kill thousands? Or one of those scam call centers, where your entire job would be scamming the elderly? Or taking to even more extremes, what about a criminal gang where you may have to directly kill people? For that matter, what about indirectly killing people, like if your employer is a massive polluter?

Some of these I'm not even certain of my answer for. In my current situation, I'm well off and don't need to worry much about pay and finding work is easy. But what if I was in a desperate situation, where I was struggling to find work that paid enough to sanely live on? I know I'd definitely have a lower threshold then, but where exactly it lies is hard to say when I'm not in such a situation.

In general, P = NP means that some algorithms will become much faster to solve. We have some algorithms that we depend on being hard. Most notable is encryption. We depend on it being hard for am attacker to crack the encryption (but easy for someone who already knows the answer -- eg, your password). P = NP might (but not necessarily) make it easy enough for encryption to therefore be broken.

I say not necessarily because while P = NP does mean certain types of algorithms will become faster (in at least certain cases), it's still possible for them to be quite slow. P and NP refer to how long algorithms take, based on how they scale with input. P is polynomial and NP is non-polynomial. Polynomial functions scale far better than non-polynomial functions, but that doesn't mean they necessarily scale well, as there's plenty of types of polynomial functions, some which scale far, far better than others.

Wait, that's the front page? At first I thought it was an individual post page and the complaint was more about all the things surrounding the post. Instead, they take up almost the entire screen to show a single post?

There's AI that can sometimes do hands okay. It still often fucks up, so a human has to curate the work. And ideally selectively prompt the AI to regenerate parts of the image until the whole thing is perfect. I think Midjourney has the best performance so far. You can take a look for yourself in one of the many AI art communities. They're sadly not as active here as they were on Reddit, but there's imageai and stablediffusion communities (I forget the instance)

Yes, some people do misuse down voting, but it's absolutely worth it in my mind. It prevents bigotry from both being shown highly and also makes it clear that bigotry isn't acceptable. How do you think someone feels when they see a bigoted comment and it's in the positives. I'll answer that question cause I've seen it all the time: it's depressing as fuck. It still sucks to see bigoted comments at all, but at least when they're downvoted to hell, it feels better. It feels nice to know that the bigotry isn't accepted by others and that the bigot is in the minority.

Similar for general misinformation, scams, etc. It'd be nice if bad comments could just get removed before you see them, but that will never be perfect. Even well moderated communities still have delays before moderators see reports and most people won't take the time to report either.

And I'm upvoting you because while I completely disagree with your comment, I'm in gratitude of your effort and we will always need new comments.

Yeah, I remember I had a point in time where a Tesla would have been my dream car. But now, lol, naaaawwww.

Can you elaborate on the modding? I'm also interested in using Linux for gaming but Skyrim utterly demands mods and particularly I quite like mods like Skyrim script extender (I think that was the name) and I also really liked ENBs for the graphical improvement. And Nemesis was also sooooo much better than the alternative for managing all those mods.