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You should put a line through the bad information too, in case someone stops without reading the edit.

The name Harkonnen (though Finnish) was chosen because it sounds Russian. However, no, it isn’t really a US VS Soviet story. It’s about systems. It’s about ecology, power, and freedom. If you only read Dune then I can see how you could think that, but the other books give you a lot more information.

Arrakis is terraformed, and this disrupts the ecosystem of Shai-hulud, which destroys spice production. It also destroys Fremen culture, with people teaching what the Fremen were like, but not really knowing.

Paul and, to an even further extent, Lato II are aggressive dictators. They destroys people’s freedom, with the end goal to create people who can’t be predicted who rebel, because that’s the only way (that they can see) to guarantee freedom for humanity.

I addition to this, the Harkonnen are really just there as a subversion. Paul’s grandfather, as he learns in Dune, is the Baron Harkonnen, so he is a Harkonnen. This really destroys any message about it being one side VS the other.

It’s about systems. Paul was systematically bread. The Harkonnen and Atreides were used by the emperial system to maintain control and order (although this failed). The system of ecology keeps Arrakis in balance, and the people live in harmony with it. Systems of control prevent people from being free.

Would you agree that the dashboard of a car is UI? If so, isn’t that just data visualization?

You can’t disappoint a hologram!

Tomatoes don’t really. Once you get them growing, which is trivial, the largest issue is you get far too many. I’ve never seen anyone grow onions though, so that might be harder. I don’t know.

You dislike tomatoes? They aren’t the best thing plain, but they’re fine. A little salt and they’re pretty good plain.

I understand not liking onions alone, but I enjoy them. I can’t just eat a whole onion raw on its own, but I do enjoy eating some.

I use it sometimes, usually just to create boilerplate. Actual functionality it’s hit or miss, and often it ends up taking more time to fix than to write myself.

Yep, and anding with a bit ask is incredibly fast to process, so it’s not a big issue for performance.

It might be worth considering telling her that you think it’s unhealthy, and asking if she’d be up for testing blocking them and seeing how it makes her feel. After a month (or whatever you decide) if she wants them back you can do that.

Knowing my parents, they wouldn’t agree to this no matter how good or reasonable it seems. They aren’t addicted to shorts, but they are to conservative media, and it seems really unhealthy for them and seems to have made them worse people. Maybe you’ll have better luck though. I think if you do it without her consent it’d be even worse if/when she finds out.

You know they sell shorts in most stores, right? You don’t have to cut the bottom off of pants to get short pants.

Yep. My guess is that the entire purpose of them is that they aren’t fulfilling enough on their own to satisfy you, so you just go to the next one, ad infinitum. It’s the media equivalent of potato chips.

OK, just so you’re aware, since you are being condescending, there’s two pictures. One of them Windows Home is ~10%, one Windows Pro is ~10%.

Both cost money. I don’t know what $ upgrade means, but I’m assuming you mean they cost extra, which both do no matter what, which is what I was talking about at first. It’s not only one that costs extra.

In the post, Linux has a “negative” cost. In reality this means it’s closer to the base cost and the “free” Windows is baked into the price, not actually free. Both versions of windows have a cost. One is higher than the other though.

I think you misunderstood what’s being discussed. In this post, all Windows versions cost money. It’s just they bake it into the advertised price and say Linux is a reduction, which means you’re paying the difference if you choose to go with the default. It isn’t free, no matter how they display it.

Y/m/d sucks honestly. It’s the opposite order of what you want. Day is most critical, then month, then year. That’s the order it should be in. Everything else is different levels of bad.

I’m not the person who brought git up. I was just stating that work is work. Sure, git is doing something useful with it. This is arguably useful without the work itself being important. Work is the thing you’re complaining about, not the proof.

This solution is designed to cost scrapers money; it does this by causing them to burn extra electricity. Unless it’s at scale, unless it costs them, unless it has an impact, it’s not going to deter them.

Yeah, but the effect it has on legitimate usage is trivial. It’s a cost to illegitimate scrapers. Them not paying this cost also has an impact on the environment. In fact, this theoretically doesn’t. They’ll spend the same time scraping either way. This way they get delayed and don’t gather anything useful for more time.

To use your salesman analogy, it’s similar to that, except their car is going to be running regardless. It just prevents them from reaching as many houses. They’re going to go to as many as possible. If you can stall them then they use the same amount of gas, they just reach fewer houses.

Compare this to endlessh. It also wastes hacker’s time, but only because it just responds very slowly with and endless stream of header characters. It’s making them wait, only they’re not running their car while they’re waiting.

This is probably wrong, because you’re using the salesman idea. Computers have threads. If they’re waiting for something then they can switch tasks to something else. It protects a site, but it doesn’t slow them down. It doesn’t actually really waste their time because they’re performing other tasks while they wait.

Let me make sure I understand you: AI is bad because it uses energy, so the solution is to make them use even more energy? And this benefits the environment how?

If they’re going to use the energy anyway, we might as well make them get less value. Eventually the cost may be more than the benefit. If it isn’t, they spend all the energy they have access to anyway. That part isn’t going to change.

Proof of work is just that, proof that it did work. What work it’s doing isn’t defined by that definition. Git doesn’t ask for proof, but it does do work. Presumably the proof part isn’t the thing you have an issue with. I agree it sucks that this isn’t being used to do something constructive, but as long as it’s kept to a minimum in user time scales, it shouldn’t be a big deal.

Crypto currencies are an issue because they do the work continuously, 24/7. This is a one-time operation per view (I assume per view and not once ever), which with human input times isn’t going to be much. AI garbage does consume massive amounts of power though, so damaging those is beneficial.

It could be infinitely wide too if they desired. It shouldn’t be that hard to do I wouldn’t think. I would suspect they limit the time a chain can use though to eventually escape out, though this still protects data because it obfuscates legitimate data that it wants. The goal isn’t to trap them forever. It’s to keep them from getting anything useful.

The problem I can see with it is taking attention away from other people. It Should be in it’s own community so people can block it or follow it if they want. I don’t have any specific issue with it except that it forces everyone else to do the same thing or not be seen (assuming there’s enough content to get to that point).

It’s like youtubers all having to follow the trend if telling people to like and subscribe and that crap. Either you follow or you get left behind. It sucks. Algorithm manipulation is bad.

Yeah, I’m assuming this is in place to comply with the stupid UK age verification laws anyway. They don’t want to enforce an age restriction, but they’re forced to for their users. They don’t care about users on other instances. That’s not their problem.