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Tlaloc_Temporal

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Tlaloc_Temporal ,

I wouldn't consider "tacos near me" a representative search; google specifically optimizes searching for products and especially local food.

I just searched for "first speedrun" and the first few results are decent but wrong, and the videos, shorts, and related searches after the first 2 entries are complete garbage.

Being served 70% links to products sucks when searching anything related to a product isn't fun either.

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

Oh, whoops, I wasn't comparing Stract, I was comparing Google. Those are the reasons I don't use Google search, I hadn't tried Stract yet.

After trying it, it seems cool. Not the best at broad meanings though. "Ram" returns an Indian politician as the "answer", a site in Japanese for the first link, and then mostly results for Random Access Memory after. No reference to the Dodge Ram (thank Odin), but also no reference to male sheep.

It also feels very anti-store, which is a nice change, but might ve an artifact of the seemingly anti-SEO stance, with random results from anywhere. Maybe that's just the European focus?

It also has issues with getting context from multiple keywords, and doesn't prioritize say "street car" over pages that happen to contain both "street" and "car". Excluding keywords with "-" works though, very nice. Quotes can help with phrases to, so " "street car" " finds exactly things called "street car" with the space. Both still miss streetcars though. Misspelling corrections are offered but not assumed, which is very nice.

Definitely the biggest issue is the seemingly random results. This might be good if you're searching for an exact string that is only present in a few places, but anything common and it's a crapshoot. It's nearly unable to find anything to do with shamrocks, prefering to find business' named Shamrock.

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

I'd compare it to The Lord of the Rings books vs the movies. The Movies are a great abridged series and they know what pacing is, but the books explain so much more and have several extra movies worth of cut content.

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

Time to sell toluene! taps temple

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

It was so thick you could cut it with a knife. Unfortunately, the pilot slipped and the cook fell out.

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

Not the account for the random hotel or restaurant. "Pay with the O'Burger app!" "Collect 425 SkyPoints with a Platinum Membership!"

You don't need an online account to buy food at a grocery, but if you had one I guarantee they'd spam the heck out of you, alongside whatever else they might do with your data.

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

I mean, paying for Netflix with cash would definitely be a power move.

Utilities don't have special offers that I know of. Check or online is very country dependent though.

I'm having a little trouble thinking of a service that would have automatic reminders but not require an account to access the service... Hotel? Something with layaway? Maybe car payments. Tuition too. Those don't exactly seem like spurious account services though... Maybe the reminders are for pickup?

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

Ah, term based contracts, that's the missing use case! Here I was forgetting not all contracts can be canceled whenever.

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

Probably a couple main hallways like a hotel, except the rooms aren't all lined up.

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

Boost still works with some finagling with mods

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

The fustercluck of comedic timing and ever more infuriating bad luck culminating in righteous anger and bewilderment at the absurdity of dying instantly to nothing is the most beautiful thing to grace my screen this year.

That kind of luck has got to be a once in a decade thing.

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

Automatic life maker‽ You definitely need to clean your dispenser tube...

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

Yup, as much as I vibe with the doughnut, getting to the roof trunk is a nightmare in a single story building, and every turn risks a surprise roadtrip to a nearby window. It's much harder to upset the pickle, and it it can run on vinegar!

Pickle me!

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

Cinnamon hearts DE is pretty spicy. Perfect counterpart to Spearmint OS.

Please, for the love of God, VOTE! (pawb.social)

I don't like Biden either, but anyone with half a brain knows there are two choices in the 2020 election. If we had a sane voting system, voting third party might be worth it, but as it stands, no one but you knows your favorite candidate exists and unless you want to become their campaign manager that will still be true in...

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

The best and brightest put them there because it made them more money. This problem won't go away until the system is changed.

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

Legislation basically specifing such has been passed for some reason, and I bet that reason is money.

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

Avatar is American, but it had fantastic cultural consultants.

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

Neither is China.

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

Lava doesn't adhere to a surface like water, it won't climb the walls of it container slightly. That is to say, it won't wet a surface, like water or flux will.

At least I don't think any kinds of lava or magma do. Maybe there's a variety that does?

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

Many of there were kicked out for their repressive ways too.

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

Eh, too much fructose and your body stops processing it. Fructose doesn't actually trigger your body to use it, and if you don't have enough other sugars present, it causes problems. Not an issue in moderation, but high-fructose syrup is used in so many things that it's a real concern.

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

Yeah, just about any diet will have enough other carbs to work, but if all you eat is white bread and pepsi, that will be another issue with your diet.

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

I've just realised that I independently came up with the idea for federated services while imagining how to make yt better over 5 years ago.

Cool!

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

Oppressive military dictatorship that really likes their military is idolized by wannabe oppressive military dictators who really like their millitary? Who'd have thought?

Oh, also the deep ties to cristianity and fascism. Inquisitions and crusades are exactly the legacy they're after.

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

I suppose that's fair, but there are a number of alarming things done in the name of the empire, especially after it fell. The whole latin influence on Europe was a net negative in my opinion. However, I can agree that blaming them for what happened later is a bit harsh.

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

I usually call that flushing

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Tlaloc_Temporal ,

I hate the context menu so much. What used to be clear and concise with custom plugins is now a mash of nearly identical flat icons and an extra click to get to anything useful.

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

It's a shared computer, so I'm somewhat uncomfortable tinkering with the OS. I would have done that immediately though!

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

Do the ECU and the cabin equipment run on the same computer? Can you tune the vehicle from the driver's seat?

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

Some parts of Canada had an environmental fee on plastic bags introduced a while ago, and some places phrased it as a 10¢ discount for using a reusable/paper bag.

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

For the record, on Boost the '>' started a quote, the '!' started a link to the "Tony" instance, and the '!<' just sat uselessly at the end.

Markdown useage is still pretty fragmented it seems.

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

Is your Boost updated? One of the recent updated added instance linking.

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

Nintendo have always been kinda unique though. Triple N games might be more accurate.

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

Ra-ra-ra-a-a?

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

Oh, AAAAARRR! Because it's a pirate game! Duh.

I don't see than in the article though.

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

All laws are just words on peices of paper. Why should you care?

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

My angle was more about all rules being social contructs, and said rules being important for the continued operation of society, but that's a good angle too.

Lots of laws don't come with real punishments either, especially if you have money. We can change this too.

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

Mint and Debian are great, and once you set everything as you like it, they're pretty solid. Pop_OS is easy if you have an Nvidia GPU too.

As for comparability, proton has all but settled the issue. The SteamDeck runs on Linux after all. Take a look on Proton Database to check if a game works well or not. FWIW, every game I've tried save one has been flawless, and that one did things with files and wallpapers.

If you have a second computer you don't need working, I'd recommend just trying something on it, switch distributions now and then. See how far you can get with just Linux.

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

If that's what a "talk" to plants drink does, I'd love to get a "talk" to humans drink. Imagine the psychology experiments I could set up if I could understand the subconscious pheromone, posture, subvocal, and other various poorly understood methods of communication!

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

Mmm, fried guinea pig...

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

Even easier, pick video lengths.

<1min, 1-10min, 10-30min, 30-60min, 60min+.

I'd use that all the time.

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

Knowledge theft just can't be compared with object theft like that. If you had a device that could perfectly replicate a car just by sitting in it, that would be closer.

Alternatively, car companies that can grenade your car's engine if you drive somewhere they don't like, or otherwise prevent you from using the car, while still asking for $50k+.

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

A device that destroys itself when stolen can't be stolen successfully. The metaphor still fails somewhat as making a new car isn't free.

I think I see your point though; theft isn't defined by ownership, so ownership status is not a case for theft (although they do tend to be caused by the same things). "If the plane wasn't flying, then I didn't crash"; crashing is not defined by flight worthiness, or even being in the air.

The logic of the idiom is in the simile though, "buying ≠ owning" has the same logical flaw; there are lots of things we buy that can't be owned, chiefly services. Yet the expectation of the saying is that buying to own is not owning. Perhaps more explicit would be "If not giving what was payed for isn't stealing, then taking what should be given isn't stealing either", or "If you take our right to own, we'll take your right to own".

Like most sayings, being snappy is more useful that being correct, but there's also an important meaning there if we take the snap out of it.

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

There are thousands of great game that wouldn't have got off the ground without early access, so not participating could absolutely change the quality of the final product. In many ways, early access in one step removed from crowdsourcing, which is an investment in an idea.

Investments aren't necessarily about leveraging capital to generate more capital. It would be a very sad life to live where everything must be categorized by ROI.

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

2^3^4 is ambiguous. 2^(3^4) is standard practice, but some calculators aren't that smart and will do (2^3)^4.

It's ambiguous because it works both ways, not because we don't have a standard. Confusion is possible.

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

It's ambiguous because it works both ways, not because we don't have a standard.

Try reading the whole sentence. There is a standard, I'm not claiming there isn't. Confusion exists because operating against the standard doesn't immediately break everything like ignoring brackets would.

Just to make sure we're on the same page (because different clients render text differently, more ambiguous standards...), what does this text say?

2^3^4

It should say 2^3^4; "Two to the power of three to the power of four". The proper answer is 2⁸¹, but many math interpreters (including Excel, MATLAB, and many students) will instead compute 8⁴, which is quite different.

We have a standard because it's ambiguous. If there was only one way to do it, we'd just do that, no standard needed. You'd need to go pretty deep into kettle math or group theory to find atypical addition for example.

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

That's an after the fact justification.

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

The original Greek "-ikos" was both the feminine singular when refering to "the art" (the whole field), and the neuter plural when refering to "things pertaining to the art". Latin took just the feminine singular, and most Latin-based languages today still use a singular, including English terms older than 1500 or so, like chemistry rather than chemics, taxonomy v. taxonomics, or arithmetic as opposed to arithmetics‽

Later in the Renaissance, people remembered Greek existed, and decided to try and bring back the neuter plural by taking a perfectly good -ic and slapping an s on it. Thus we get the somewhat newer sciences of physics, mathematics, ballistics, demographics, statistics, and so on.

The shortening of mathematics to "math" and "maths" was done much later, around 1900, give or take a few decades. Both versions can be found as purely written contractions beforehand, but their use in speech and whether the s was thruncated appears random.

Thus, if you must use a plural, the original useage has singular for the field ("Biomechanics is a difficult subject."), and plural for things relating to the field ("The mathematics used are difficult to parse."); don't try to justify using several thousand year old grammar (from a region remote enough that we forgot about it for several centuries) with syntax rules not present in the original. English is plenty fucked up as it is, let it build it's own syntax and heal a bit, eh?

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