Daniel Quinn

u/danielquinn@lemmy.ca
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She makes an excellent point that an opening is being made on the left that's backdooring some truly horrible influencers into the hearts and minds of otherwise good people.

However the suggestion that we need to reach out to Zionists to mend that hole is... well it's nuts really.

There's a growing convergence out there and we should embrace it. People traditionally on the left and right of a two-party system that's been largely aligned in its support for evil are finally realising that there's a lot of things we agree on that're not supported by either party. The only way we get those things is to break the hold the old guard has on us.

It was surprisingly common, though due to the cost of buying tapes, it wasnt as common as it is now.

VHS tapes have this nifty feature where you could store video on it in 3 different formats. While the tape from the rental place was stored in the format that fit roughly 2hrs on a tape, you could record three 2he movies to a tape if you used the lower quality EP format (I think that was the acronym).

This lead to people like my friend's dad keeping shelves of tapes with hastily a scrawled labels on them for 3 different movies or 6 different episodes.

All you needed for any of this was 2 VCRs, which from the early 90s were pretty affordable.

Well I'm not the site maintainer, but I'd argue that this would be fine. The question is about whether you're writing the code yourself: understanding what you're writing line by line rather than taking an "agent" to do the work, robbing you of that understanding.

Accepting criticism/review from a bot or a human for that matter wouldn't interfere with that understanding, so I'd argue that it doesn't apply.

There is however the ethical question of paying for such a bot, given that it's the product of massive IP theft and environmental arson. It probably doesn't apply to this specific declaration though.

I really liked VOY: "One Small Step" (s06e08) wherein the crew work to salvage the wreckage of an ancient Earth probe from a dark matter asteroid

It's a nice acknowledgement of the reality that space is fucking dangerous, and of the bravery of the men and women who shot themselves into it with little more than a few layers of metal and their wits to protect themselves. All this in the name of advancing science and exploration.

It closes with Seven reading a eulogy for the centuries-dead astronaut who died diverting all power to the sensors so that knowledge would be preserved.

on R(Aaaaaahh)M prices · c/fuck_ai · 9 pts · 8d

That actually might be better news as a repair might be a simple fix. It can't hurt to visit a repair shop and ask. It might save you a lot of money :-)

Another alternative might be buying a used/refurbished laptop comparable or even better than your current one.

on R(Aaaaaahh)M prices · c/fuck_ai · 8 pts · 8d

Laptop batteries can often be replaced or even refilled by a competent repair guy. You might want to ask around locally to see if you have someone like that around.