To make things more confusing, there's a goofy formula which tells you the actual capacity of a given advertised capacity. A drive advertised as 1 TB will always have exactly 1,000,204,886,016 bytes. It helps to have consistency, but nobody seems to knows where the formula came from.
And that's only one of the hundred or so reasons he's the most corrupt president in modern history.
Take care of your wetware.
I just created !PapersWeLove@programming.dev if you're interested in sharing/discussing academic CS papers.
It's okay. Your continent's specialty is cheesemaking. And bread. You guys make good bread.
How the Executive Branch Works
Oh god it's 10 hours long.
I think a lot of nontechnical people or computer newbies have an assumption in their head that if you want free shit, you'll have to pay in other ways, like with advertising or tracking. It's just the way of the world that nothing is free. There's no free lunch. If a bittorrent client that you use to get free movies has ads, there must be no better options. We're bombarded with this idea constantly. Television, radio, streaming, social media. You get it for free but pay with your attention to ads. We've all been this person at some point.
Then you discover that there are other options, that there are groups of passionate nerds dedicating half of their lives to making useful stuff, distributing it to the world, and expecting nothing in return. This can't be real, right? What's the catch? I thought making software was so hard and boring that nobody would do it in exchange for nothing. But it's real. All this time you've been using crap software that nags you to try their other product, promotes products which have no earthly use, secretly captures information you expect to remain private, but there was this amazing thing outside the castle walls which does none of that. How did I not know about this before? Who are these altruistic people? I want to meet them.
Then you dig in more and find out about the free software movement. Some old hippie at MIT was mad he couldn't get his printer working because the manufacturer refused to supply the source code. He saw software being closed up and becoming industrial rather than academic, transitioning to making a profit, and couldn't bear it. Then we got linux, and all the systems around it, and all the distros, and there was once IBM who created the open PC standard, the copyleft/permissive division over licenses, and so on. Somewhere in the world, there is a 14-year-old learning about all this for the first time just as we did, and maybe it's all a little different because of AI and smartphones and that Stallman is more well-known to be sort of a creep, but it's still part of the history for how we got to where we are today.
It dawns on you that uTorrent is a trick and qBittorrent is the genuine, real deal. They're both "free" but one of them is more free than the other. One claims to be free, but was only created to make somebody passive income for eternity. The other is a bittorent client, a devoted implementation of a specification for an open protocol (the most basic of which is only a few pages long). Bittorrent is simple, fundamental infrastructure and there's absolutely no reason a client needs to show you ads or siphon away your data.
It seems like that's more of a Kuwaiti influence operation, not an American one.
As a Michigander, I can confidently say that this map is a capital crime in my state. Us and Ohio are mortal enemies. It's like labeling New Zealand "Australia".
I couldn't remember the name of the game. Looks like I found an off brand version.
That's part of the costume. /s
Elsewhere in the thread, someone dug up a reddit post of the original image from early 2022 where you can barely see the darth vader mask. The image has been processed in some way that has made the mask disappear.
Polandball should be more well known.
The main artists who run the subreddit have complained that the reddit algorithm which promotes posts is biased against posts from their subreddit for some reason. They'd do well to make a home over here.
They also do it to lessen the outrage that might be more likely to happen than if they rolled out the change on everyone all at once.
Bold strategy. Let's see if it works out. I rather think that if you don't participate, then you're effectively not included in the set of people whose interests are considered by politicians when they form their campaign promises. When you do this, the median is likely to shift right, not left as you think, if you take a moment to recall the definition of median. Sometimes we are placed in tough positions with few good options but still having to select one.
I would propose that a lot of the cases of Dems appearing to renege on campaign promises are the result of closed door deals with the other factions where they're forced to make compromises in order to get some of the things they (and you) desire. We're not privy to those deals because it would reveal to the voters that the politicians abandoned one wish for another and a competitor would use it against them in a primary, and then there would be no deals and Congress would grind to a halting stalemate.
Are voters clustered in the center of the political spectrum like a bell curve or are voters clustered in two camps at the extremes? If it's the latter, I could see the "don't vote" strategy working. Otherwise, it's bound to backfire because the leftmost candidate would need to move so far left to gain your vote that they would cede more voters to the candidate to their immediate right than they gained by moving left and lose the election as a result. They therefore don't consider you in their choice of policies and move farther right as a result, which seems counterintuitive, but it's true. This of course assumes a single political axis which isn't necessarily accurate.
The median voter theorem suggests that the two candidates will both have policies which reflect the median voter, with one of the candidates slightly left of center, the other slightly right of center. This is a result of the candidates wanting the most votes. If the leftmost candidate were too far left, they would lose. It's a derivable law of behavior as natural as objects falling in parabolic arcs under the effect of gravity. I mention this because there seems to be a prevailing attitude that politics is all corrupt and if there's no candidate with radical policies to tackle climate change, then it must be because industry has their hands in politics, and nothing you do can change it, and voting merely endorses the system, etc. That's true in some ways, but I think it's also true that politicians reflect what the voters want, and it turns out most people are selfish and don't give a hoot about the health of the planet or future generations. It's not you versus the politicians. It's you versus the people electing the wrong politicians. Participation counts. It moves the median closer to where you want it to be. Voting counts. Participating in other ways counts. Vote and talk to people.
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