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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It should be legal to slash the tires of anyone who does this.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Only partially, unfortunately. There aren't a lot of people who speak full on Scots, the majority of Scotland speaks a dialect of English with a handful of Scots vocabulary now. It's an endangered language.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 3 weeks ago (29 children)

The danger isn't that it's smart, the danger is that it's stupid.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Particularly one who doesn't understand significant figures. Are you certain that you're precisely 74.000 inches, without even a thousandth of an inch of rounding? If not, you don't get to use 5 sigfigs when converting.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I wouldn't trust Sony to have kernel access.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Remember the 13 billion years before you were born? More of that.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Because it's just a text prediction engine, the only training data it has about taking a goat across the river is a well-known puzzle involving a wolf, a goat, and a cabbage, so it just regurgitates the solution to that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

It's the unabridged ISO 639 list.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (9 children)

Apple, in an attempt to leverage social pressure to drive sales instead of actually providing a quality product, displays texts from Android devices in a deliberately unpleasant to look at shade of green, and cripples features of the group chat if even one member of it is using a non-Apple device, incentivizing groups of friends and even families to ostracize people for using a different phone.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Also, adblockers still work.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's the first question in a battery of questions designed to force you to be aware of inconsistencies in your ethical framework. The first answer is supposed to be obvious: Yes, you throw the switch, but most people's reason for that creates a very messy precedent that the distinction between action and inaction doesn't matter, only the outcome, which later questions can exploit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Blowing up pipelines doesn't kill anyone. I know you think property damage is worse than murder, but sane people don't think that.

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