Takumidesh

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[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

Sorry 15 years 2010 midterm and forward.

[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Most states as far as I know, count votes upon receipt, only a few states have to wait until the last day that polls are open.

I'm not asking why the polls are open more than one day, moreso, why everything is consistently referred to as 'early' or in other words, why does the media in general encourage people to wait until the deadline?

[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world -4 points 7 hours ago (7 children)

I've voted 'early, in every election I've participated in. For as long as I've known, which is about to be 4 presidential and all of the elections in between, the polls have always been open for weeks.

That's approaching 20 years, I don't think it's a new concept really at this point.

[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (11 children)

Right I get that.

But why is it marketed, for lack of a better term as early. Why wouldn't it be, 'the polls opens on October 20th, and you can vote late up to November 5th'

[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

TPM isn't inherently bad, it's just a way to cryptographically store keys. TPM overall is great as it gives you a very secure way to store things like encryption keys.

You also don't need TPM to lock down a system. Locked bootloaders have existed for decades and platforms have historically rolled their own encryption modules as they wanted, like your ipad example, or any video game console in the last 20 years, or most mobile phones, etc.

The 'knows enough to be dangerous' crowd has been fearmongering about tpm since it's been introduced, it isn't some magic bullet for vendor locking, since vendor locking is already achieved.

 

It seems deliberately confusing to me since there is no fundamental difference between voting now and voting on the day of the deadline, but the way it's discussed and referred to seems to imply that the correct day to vote would be waiting until the last minute instead of voting just getting it out of the way weeks ahead of time.

[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago

How uncanny that our perception has changed so much. The pose, grip, and direction of the phone just made me instantly assume the dude was taking a picture, but reflecting back to that time and not a single person would have made that assumption.

[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I agree with you, but Nintendo's arguments are that the emulators pirated their code in order to develop the emulator and for it to function.

[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

It's just a road and sidewalk in front of the building where people who are giving rides pull over so their passengers can get out.

[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 86 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I got downvoted for this before, but, when you sublet your property like this, you take on an inherent risk. This isn't any different to a bad tenant, or an investment not panning out.

Any business who accepted these red boxes should have either a) established contingency with Redbox themselves or, failing that, b) established a contingency through their own means by keeping liquidity to handle disposal of the machine (or something like insurance)

Don't feel sorry for these businesses, they took a calculated risk, likely made lots of money over the last decade, and now are faced with potentially needing to use some of that revenue to dispose of the machines. Any normal business keeps assets and liquidity available to cover expenses of doing business, the same way a landlord needs to use some rent money to clean up after a bad tenant, it's part of their business model. If a business thought these machines would just live there forever and magically go away when they aren't making money anymore, that's their fault.

[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Ok but linear equations are like early highschool, like the slope intercept y=mx+b and all that. I would hope that most people at least know of them.

[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

At 65mph, you cover two car lengths (~30 ft) in about 1/3 of a second.

Typically human reaction time for braking is about 1.5 seconds.

If something went seriously wrong in front of you (like a sideways car, or a hidden obstacle in front of the car in front of you) you would have covered 10 car lengths before your foot touches the brake pedal.

[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 57 points 1 week ago

These isekai titles are getting too much.

 

For example, I would like to group many related communities together and then browse just that grouping.

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