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Have you notice more verbose posts in your feed ? Llama is allowing everyone to sound more knowledgeable than they are. AI based content generation is like an instragram filter for intellect; everyone is pretending to be thoughtful.


Joy Con Drift. Can they please solve for that ?

Chat Button ? Camera ? are they intentionally driving away parents who buy Switch for their kids ?


Announcing a solution to joycon drift would require acknowledging drift at all, which would open them to another class action. The camera is sold separately, so you can just not plug it in. The parental controls also lets you turn off chat.


Technically they could market "the Joy-Con 2 sticks uses Hall Effect for better precision" to convey the implication that they will avoid drift without admitting culpability (and being factually true about better precision). If they were using HE, they likely would have noted it IMO.


These guys are so cheap you know they didn’t add them in


In the direct they took several moments to describe how parents can lock away this feature from children using the Nintendo app.


>> But I can go ride in a Waymo any time I want

Can you do this in the winter when it's snowing on the unmarked roads with near zero visibility ? And the maps and destination change at the whims of a manager?

Software development is sort of like that. Writing code is the least of your problems; helping businesses understand what they need and holding them to those requirements is the challenge.


Also most of the buyers prefer to buy from their preferred vendors. Good luck trying to get on that list. Your products will have to be priced at a fraction of your competitors for them to even evaluate you.

My employer buys a crap load of crap stuff from Broadcom just because the procurement is easy.


>>Not really the kind of place that most people want to buy to live in for the remainder of their lives

That is purely subjective. I would rather live in a condo in Manhattan than a single family home in Long Island.


> condo in Manhattan

I can see how this relates to housing affordability.

Would you rather live in the projects than a mansion in Bel Air?


I feel like you are trying to draw a false equivalence in both directions to create a loaded question. Obviously the parent is comparing housing of approximately similar value, with different densities and local amenities. My answer is neither: I don't want to live in and maintain a massive mansion nor have to drive 20+ minutes to do literally anything in Bal Air. I'm also not interested in living in apartments which are often not representative of the advantages of urban living because they are frequently built away from transit and business districts.


would you rather live in poverty or be wealthy enough to afford one of the most exclusive neighborhoods in Los Angeles? lol

A better comparison might be: would you rather live in a 4,000 sqft mcmansion in Santa Clarita or a modest 1200 sqft 3 bed 2 bath condo in Santa Monica?


> would you rather live in poverty or be wealthy enough to afford one of the most exclusive neighborhoods in Los Angeles?

What's that rhetorical question even relate to? Will increasing housing supply somehow make everyone more wealthy? The OP article claims not, and that's because that stock is going to rent-seeking investors, not buyers.

> A better comparison might be: would you rather live in a 4,000 sqft mcmansion in Santa Clarita or a modest 1200 sqft 3 bed 2 bath condo in Santa Monica?

Long Island vs condo in Manhattan wasn't really on even footing either.


Not sure what your point is. Nijjar was a terrorist linked to assassinations in Punjab and committed to destruction of India. A nation , democracy included, has a right to protect itself.


A nation has a right to protect itself.

It does not have a right to use extrajudicial assassins in a foreign country to kill someone who does not actively pose a threat. In a democracy you have a right to a trial, to see the evidence against you, etc. you don’t just kill people.

By the same logic, India would be fine if Canada sent covert assassins to India to go after the assassins and the people that ordered it? Should Canada send assassins into India to go after the people that have been illegally influencing Canadian elections? After all, they pose a threat to the country, and a country has a right to defend itself…

There is a process for extradition, and international prosecution. India chose to not pursue that process, and assassinate a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil.


That's a interesting point considering that Nijjar had been denied asylum more than once and caught lying on his application. Giving him asylum was a result of weird ghetto vote bank politics of Brampton and Surrey.

It's not that Canada has never sent assassins to foreign nations. Canada participated in Afghanistan war and people including children, in Pakistan were killed by NATO airstrikes. Where was the due process for those kids playing soccer who were killed?

I do not condone any killing by anyone. But people in glass houses shouldn't be throwing stones.


> Canada participated in Afghanistan war and people including children, in Pakistan were killed by NATO airstrikes.

That's horrible. It should not happen. I was very clear that extrajudicial killings of civilians are wrong.

> I do not condone any killing by anyone. But people in glass houses shouldn't be throwing stones.

Agreed. If NATO did something that you find comparable and you condemn it, then by your own standards, what India did is also a violation and never should have been done.

What India did is arguably even worse, since the killing of kids in a war zone at least had no intent or malice, just incompetence. Whereas the killing in Canada was a purposeful and intentional violent and public assassination, performed by hired civilians outside of internationally agreed military command and justice structures, it should be seen as an even more egregious violation of international standards.


> A nation , democracy included, has a right to protect itself.

They were not doing that when they committed an assassination and violated a nations sovereignty to do so.


Thanks for posting this. I can not t use Graphviz as the diagrams look too amateurish to be shared in a presentation . But D2 diagrams look amazing and polished. I will try it out and maybe I can finally get rid of Visio. I find working with Visio very tedious.


Visio.

I have tried Graphviz but the diagrams looked shoddy.


As a Canadian Citizen with a extra serving of Melanin, what are the chances of my getting detained by ICE when visiting my family in USA for a week ?

https://globalnews.ca/news/11080371/canadian-woman-detained-...

Edit : fix typo Also added context.


If you cross into the US at a port-of-entry and are admitted as a visitor then you are good whether or not you took Melatonin supplements. If you enter illegally or associate with people who entered illegally, don't be surprised if you are caught up in a raid. However, even if you get detained, if you have no criminal history, you will get released after arrested because there are no more beds [1].

Seriously though, if you are going to make a cheeky reference to race, at least get the reference right. Melanin is responsible for darker skin [2].

[1] - https://www.newsweek.com/ice-seeks-more-bed-space-detainee-n...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanin


Lighten up dude !


Canadian here.

If /r/conservative is not representative of conservative side of America, and the conservatives control the US Congress , I am puzzled that not one of the conservatives has pushed back on annexation of Canada or Greenland . Not One.


The voting public is not the extremely online, totally batshit, completely cognitively owned by the GRU, republican activist and acolytes as well as Republican elected and leadership.


I agree, but it's the conservative voting public that reliably returns these people to office even though many of them have a long track record of frothy rhetoric and legislative hyperconformity. This kind of aggressively loudmouthed conservatism has been a fixture in Congress since the Tea Party and arguably back to when Newt Gingrich was speaker. IT's not at all a new phenomenon.

Political scientists have visualized legislative partisanship in Congress, and this feels like the 10th time I've posted this in the last decade :https://www.vox.com/2015/4/23/8485443/polarization-congress-...

Now, voters may not like this and feel trapped by the way the primary system works and so on, but the reality is taht they keep giving in to the partisans.


The other side is made up of and cares about the wellbeing of people they don’t like (people of color, lgbtqia, traditionally oppressed people, disabled people, etc.)

That’s it: extinction burst because winning because of attributes you inherited wasn’t working.

Also, real easy to say “shit sucks”. Really hard to actually make things that don’t suck.

That, plus a healthy dose of anti-intellectualism, is a ratchet to hell.


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