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jiminymcmoogley commented on How to teach your kids to play poker: Start with one card   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/ioblomov
AtlasBarfed · a month ago
Gambling is a huge addiction problem. Your comment is like saying someone that occasionally smokes cocaine isn't addicted so cocaine isn't addictive.
jiminymcmoogley · a month ago
I think a more apt comparison might be that it's like saying an actor who has played roles which involve them pretending to snort cocaine isn't addicted so acting in roles that involve the portrayal of drug use isn't addictive.
jiminymcmoogley commented on An electric new era for Atlas   bostondynamics.com/blog/e... · Posted by u/colinramsay
coffeebeqn · a year ago
They did say it’s for commercial use. Probably for warehouses and such where sadly backflipping is not relevant
jiminymcmoogley · a year ago
see what i find puzzling is that warehouses have flat floors right? so what benefit does the upfront cost of building something with a bunch of extra actuators for all the joints in 2 legs, and the ongoing running costs of far less mechanically efficient bipedal locomotion have over wheeled movement like their other robot, the Handle, offers? i should mention i know nothing about robots so i'm sure there must be a good reason for it, but this thought has been on my mind ever since I saw george hotz bring it up in the Comma Body reveal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhvt0ZmqmGQ as a layperson, i feel like biomimicry only makes sense for hands and arms, at least for the vast majority of commercial use cases
jiminymcmoogley commented on Asus refunds Zenfone buyer for failing to provide bootloader unlock tools   androidauthority.com/asus... · Posted by u/kirenida
nebulous1 · a year ago
Do you use a banking app? Last I read depending on the type of check used some apps can still be problematic.
jiminymcmoogley · a year ago
For UK banks on my Graphened Pixel 6a I can use the apps for HSBC, First Direct, Barclays, NatWest, RBS, Co-Operative Bank and Metro Bank with no issues, and have only had trouble with the Lloyds Bank app as of an update from maybe 2-3 months ago which throws an error saying they've detected I'm using a jailbroken/rooted device
jiminymcmoogley commented on Meta outage   metastatus.com/... · Posted by u/geocrasher
dddddaviddddd · 2 years ago
I've known several people who, when they got signed out, couldn't remember their password and access their email, and so made a new account. I'm sure Facebook will see a spike of this.
jiminymcmoogley · 2 years ago
yeah i'm hoping it was just an auth server outage and browser sessions werent invalidated because this basically described my situation, but i wont have access to the only device i own that still (hopefully) has a an active login session until the weekend to find out
jiminymcmoogley commented on Oxford researchers use hedgehog crash test dummies to limit lawnmower injuries   bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england... · Posted by u/edward
57FkMytWjyFu · 2 years ago
This is like expecting Teslas to swerve for squirrels.
jiminymcmoogley · 2 years ago
As a hypothetical owner of both a Tesla and an autonomous mower, i would not want my Tesla to swerve (at least in any way that might endanger me or other humans) for a squirrel, whereas I would probably want my autonomous mower to "swerve" to avoid a hedgehog, if not because i like little animals then just because i wouldn't want to clear up entrails off of my lawn
jiminymcmoogley commented on The teenager who lives like it's the 1940s   bbc.com/news/articles/crg... · Posted by u/pepys
garbanz0 · 2 years ago
Minimizing it like this is a great way to neglect kids.
jiminymcmoogley · 2 years ago
I don't think it is, but you havent really given me anything to present a counter argument against... i just dont think there is any abuse for me to minimize, if it wasnt clear from the sarcasm oozing off my previous comment
jiminymcmoogley commented on Apple to halt Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales in the US this week   9to5mac.com/2023/12/18/ap... · Posted by u/dm
aeturnum · 2 years ago
I think there are many problems with the patent system but the way you are describing it is overly broad. There are lots of technical details in this patent that describe a way of doing that. Once the period of exclusivity is up anyone can use that technique freely - but for now other people would have to pay or use an inferior technique that doesn't violate the patent. Arguably there's not a lot of value in every device working as perfectly as possible, but there's a lot of value in giving inventors temporary monopolies on truly new things.
jiminymcmoogley · 2 years ago
yet as technological innovation gets faster over time, you would've thought the optimal patent term length to balance the innovation-incentivizing and innovation-chilling effects would decrease
jiminymcmoogley commented on The teenager who lives like it's the 1940s   bbc.com/news/articles/crg... · Posted by u/pepys
asylteltine · 2 years ago
Seems to be an unpopular opinion to see this as child abuse and brainwashing. Sad. He’s going to have quite a rough life as he grows older.
jiminymcmoogley · 2 years ago
It gets worse, it seems even his great grandfather was participating in the abuse from beyond the grave. From the article: "When I was younger, I looked at my great grandad's prisoner-of-war diaries and I just love everything about the period."

Even his teachers were getting in on the sickening brainwashing operation: ""Callum went away on a school trip when he was about 12 and came back with an old-fashioned hat on," she says. "I thought it was funny, and I just asked him, 'Where did you find this?'. "He said 'that's the way I want to dress, that's going to be me'. "Ever since then, that's just been Callum," his mum says."

jiminymcmoogley commented on Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules   arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/thunderbong
nabakin · 2 years ago
Resisting arrest is both non-cooperation and an offense so idk where you're getting that from.
jiminymcmoogley · 2 years ago
you can be non-cooperative without meeting the bar for resisting arrest though, for instance if you refuse to incriminate yourself
jiminymcmoogley commented on Fairphone 5: Keeping it 10/10?   ifixit.com/News/87664/fai... · Posted by u/DamonHD
rootusrootus · 2 years ago
You tossed it onto a tile floor, and it broke. That's unfortunate, but not entirely a surprise no matter who manufactured the phone. Glass is glass.
jiminymcmoogley · 2 years ago
technically they tossed it onto the earth's core, which is estimated to be around 5000°C. though even if it had been a (completely uncovered, unrugged, and un-folded-up-sweatered) tile floor, i would absolutely expect most manufacturers' phones to hold up just fine at that height...

to get serious for a moment though, id like to go against the anti-glass grain by pointing out that supposedly, successive generations of Corning Gorilla Glass get stronger by some multiple each time, yet we see phone screens smashing with the same regularity because manufacturers are just using thinner panes each time (probably chasing thinner phones more so than some kind of planned obsolescence conspiracy, although both explanations are credible). so we end up with a tradeoff between thickness, durability and glass backs, but that beats having to rule out durable phones with glass backs entirely from being able to exist

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