nilloc

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[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I know this wasn’t the main point of your comment, but to be grammatically correct, it would be “the maths math.”

Plural verbs go with their plural noun subject and don’t need the s:

  • This book belongs on the shelf.
  • These books belong on the shelf.

And like you said, maths being short for mathematics means it’s plural.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How do you see what the joystick is pointing at without looking at the screen it’s controlling.

Radio volume, climate controls, and drive/transmission controls are all necessary for safe operation and should be able to be used without taking eyes off the road if needed. There should be federal mandates to keep those controls off of gaze required touch screens. (I’m looking at you VW, of which I own 3 classic examples, but would never consider a current gen one).

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

So how do we tackle using speech that is technically ambiguous, but clearly meant to incite violence or stochastic terrorism?

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Like this would work for me:

RIP Rip Torn.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago

But it was based on light truck exemptions from CAFE standards, so they can be cheaper to build and sell at a higher margin. But now average buyers don’t want anything smaller for fear of being run down by all the trucks and suvs.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

1 button mouses haven’t been a thing for 15 years. Just because you can’t see it doesn’t meant the other button isn’t there and working.

And more importantly, Mac trackpads are the shit, 2-4 finger gestures, pinch zoom, 2d smooth scrolling and occasionally even rotating is super handy and really intuitive. Especially for 3D CAD on a laptop. They’re so good that a lot of people buy magic pads for desktops.

It’s why I’ve never settled on Gimp or Inkscape unless I’m on a Linux box. Also it’s not much fucking work to swap ctrl/alt/command keys around, but hardly any devs even bother with that because they assume Macs are still little blue blobs from 20 years ago.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Because google and Facebook co-opted it and took over the mindshare of openID.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Just get the docker image and run it in a vm…

Oh and if you’re a Mac user go fuck your self. We’d never change the keyboard shortcuts, native mouse/trackpad gestures, or use any of the menu conventions that you use in all your native apps.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 years ago

Those stickers were never about that.

Sure, there were police association stickers, you could get them ostensibly by donating to and supporting supposedly underpaid cops. But the blue line US flag was designed in 2014 to oppose protesters and for white supremacists to self identify.

Even the term “thin blue line” has changed meaning since the 70s when it began to stand for cops keeping quiet to protect each other. There’s a documentary from the 80s about it.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Worse, he’ll probably try to write these off as marketing expenses. Since that’s what he’s using it for that might actually be more legit than any of the other bullshit he’s been telling the IRS for decades.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It’s just that it’s really tricky to charge the final bit because the middle 80% is such a flat voltage curve. They have a 1000x life when they’re taken care of.

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