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Comment Re:Antitrust klaxons (Score 1) 61

It's integrating the browser with the os that is problematic.

That's not new, though. The whole point of ChromeOS is to deliver Chrome, and Android has a System Webview based on Chrome. They both already have the browser integrated with the OS, so now instead of two such operating systems there will be one.

Comment Re: How it's made (Score 1) 96

I'm clear about what the complaint is.

My point is that the word choice is bullshit.

If you want real, you go see live and if not unamplified acts, at least those which aren't using so much as an effects pedal. Or, for that matter, the reverb knob on the amp. You're not listening to canned modern music where the "real band" may or may not have skills or talent.

If you're willing to listen to music which was cooked up in a lab, what's the difference between that and listening to fully computer generated music? It's not like the fans have an actual connection with any of the band members, who are just taking up some of the slots in their head which could be filled with real people they actually know. (Yeah, there's no slots, but humans can only actually maintain a developed internal representation of so many people at once, which yes varies from person to person.)

Comment Re: How it's made (Score 1) 96

People are free to listen to what they want but they should know whether they are getting AI stuff or real stuff

What does "real" mean? How much autotune is allowed in that?

If people care they're welcome to follow bands which exist.

But people don't care about bands because of people, they care about the people because of the bands.

Comment Re: Anyone is surprised about this? (Score 2) 53

Trains use an air brake system with glad hand connections so that if a coupler fails (or more likely, wasn't correctly secured) the pressure is released and the brakes set on the entire train. The device we're talking about, which is known as FRED (on railroads the F is considered to be an F-Bomb) replaced the caboose in the 1980s. It monitors brake system pressure to ensure that it is in the operating range, and can also release the system pressure from the rear. This is needed so that the train brakes more from the rear than the front, although there is not much difference in timing unless the train is very long because the hoses are fairly high diameter.

Comment Re: Somewhat regional issue (Score 1) 163

If he wanted to help me with that he could have made the phone call, which either also would not have helped or would have done. He also didn't offer to call when I told him what happened, he acted like it was my fault.

Yeah I'm aware he was a shit father but there's lots of those

Comment Re:Somewhat regional issue (Score 1) 163

It's bullshit advice in general anyway. My dad thought he was friends with some guy who was an exec who worked for Diversey-Lever (initials J.L.) and he gave me "his" number to call to allegedly get an interview. So I called up about it and got a receptionist who I couldn't get past, and never got a call back. People like that don't have friends, just people they can use, and they have people in between to protect them from people who think they are their friends.

Comment Re:Ok boomer (Score 1) 163

#1 - Did you somehow entirely miss the part that the nephews older brother - in the same generation with the exact same upbringing - is doing fine?

They don't have the exact same upbringing, in particular first and second siblings are typically treated differently in a number of ways. They also are not the same person, and different people are able to take advantage of different opportunities for multiple reasons — not all people have the preparation to take the same opportunities, and not all people will have the same opportunities handed to them. So no, you are factually incorrect, they did not have the exact same upbringing, and even if they did that would only be partially relevant.

Logic, you fail it.

If you think the government paid 70% of your tuition 30 years ago - I have a bridge to sell you. It simply didn't work that way, ever. In fact, most people in the 90's and 00's worked their way through school.

Oh look, more clown shit. The government provided more funding to those schools instead of offering predatory loans directly to students, so the tuition was a lot cheaper for the student, because so much of the cost was paid before they were billed.

You fail at facts, too.

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