Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.
STAR voting
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Alternative vote
Ranked Choice voting
Why are these presented as different systems? The Alternative Vote is just another name for Instant Runoff Voting. And ranked choice voting is a name for a whole class of systems which includes IRV, as well as Single Transferable Vote and some others not linked here, but in practice someone who says “ranked choice voting” usually means IRV, and it’s IRV that the video describes.
A friendly reminder that cars are still highly destructive, whether powered by petrol, battery, or hydrogen, and whether driven by a human or automation. The only real environmentally, economically, and socially responsible solution is to drastically reduce the amount of trips made by car, by introducing road diets and modal filters, by having mixed-use medium or higher density zoning, by building high quality safe separated bike paths, and good quality, frequent, affordable public transport.
Also, keep your pets on your property. If there’s no way to keep them from leaving your yard, keep them inside. It’s better for them (they live longer on average, even if you control for the increased likelihood of getting run over) and for the environment.
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Yup, sounds great to me. I could see a world in which it becomes a bad thing because they try to enforce it by pulling a Google and blocking users from installing extensions that aren’t through their official add-on store, but as it is, it’s hard to see any reasonable criticism.
The entire world of home IoT devices shouldn’t need an Internet connection. They should be able to work entirely based off of local network requests or other local connections (e.g. Zigbee or Thread).
Ludo? I haven’t played that since I was a tiny kid! I can’t say I remember much about how it’s played.
I understand the argument in favour of dangling commas, but oh gods I hate it. Aesthetically it’s just so awful.
I’ll add, not me personally, but I do know two people who had a similar arrangement. I don’t know the precise details of the reasons, but I believe it had something to do with dysfunctional parents or finances. In both of those cases, the couple are now happily married and well-integrated into the broader extended family.
I haven’t even looked but I can almost guarantee you this already exists.
Surely you can sue Samsung here? The cost of that hotel and rescheduled flight (and, if he’s American, the emergency hospital cost) are some pretty damn obvious damages even if other factors like emotional impact are not permitted.
“hmm so these women abandon their ‘motherly’ duties of raising children and staying in the home
More than that! When Lucy is turned into a vampire, she feeds on children. She turns into the very opposite of the motherly feminine ideal. The same is true of Dracula’s brides, who feed on a baby in one of the early chapters. Dracula, by contrast, feeds on adults. He shows an interest in Jonathan (bisexual? Eww, that’s not natural!—side note, Stoker himself was likely bi) but most of his attention is focused on women like Lucy and Mina. The expectation of a gentleman being a chivalrous protector of ladies is inverted.
There’s also the fact that Lucy, who early in the book expresses her wish to marry all three of the men who proposed to her:
Why can’t they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble?
It’s the very sexually-forward woman who ends up succumbing to vampirism and being killed for it. But not before receiving the bodily fluids from all three of those propositioners—plus van Helsing. The sexual undertones of the blood transfusions are hardly subtle, but this also ties into another major theme of the book, which is how powerful modern science and technology can be as a tool to defeat strange unnatural superstition.
We’ve recently been doing a Dracula bookclub over at !vampires@lemmy.zip, reading through each diary entry/letter/newspaper clipping on the day it is set. We are, as we speak, amid the section between when Lucy has died and arisen as a vampire, but before she has her final death at the hands of the crew of light. In fact, as soon as I’m done with this thread I’m gonna go and do today’s reading, and I think that might be Lucy’s last. edit: I was wrong. Lucy unlives for another night…or two…
Provided it’s got a decent narrator, audiobooks are like literal bedtime stories
One of my favourite books I’ve literally only read on audiobook. I don’t love ebooks, and this book is out of print with second-hand copies going for $200+ online, so audiobook is basically the only option. It’s not the same experience as reading with your eyes, but it’s still a great way to get the story.
Same on Dvorak.
Though the custom coder’s Dvorak I use while programming has a dedicated ! key. Shift still needed for : though.
My experience is that on Reddit it replaces the comment with [], similar to [] when a mod removes it, or [] when they delete it themselves.
And that on Lemmy, it depends on client. On lemmy-ui (the default web client), it sometimes shows up as that “1 more reply” option, but when you click it, it never loads in. On Jerboa, it says something along the lines of “unable to retrieve this comment”.
Both of those are what happens when you come across a comment from a person who blocked you in the wild. It may or may not be different when it’s in your inbox.
I’ve been blocked by at least one person on Lemmy, for reasons that I honestly have no idea, and have come across this in the wild a couple of times, including opening something I originally found on my computer in Jerboa to double-check, as well as opening up incognito where I’m logged out and therefore not blocked.
Also replying to @MagicShel@lemmy.zip, @wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Sure, but the mayor is the one whose face is being eaten.
If you block someone, you don’t see their replies
On both Reddit and Lemmy, blocking someone prevents them from replying. It prevents them from even seeing your final word*
* sort of. Depending on exactly where and how they look.
I thought that too, until I read this comment. So nah, it’s a leopards eating faces situation.
that goes onto a separate device only for those purposes
Or in a VM if you don’t have any spare devices available. VM escapes exist, but they’re a pretty rare and severe type of vulnerability that’s unlikely to be casually utilised by proctoring software.
I’ve found out people have no problem logging into their Google or Microsoft account on public PCs. I brought the PDF on a CD
With 2FA I probably wouldn’t have too much of a problem with doing this. Especially if I then change password afterwards.
Another option would be to host it somewhere that you can remember the URL. If you don’t care for the privacy of the document itself, just using a URL shortener and Google Drive’s public sharing would work fine, or hosting at your own domain.
Personally though, I’m glad that on the rare occasion I need to get something printed (I have my own black and white laser printer at home for 99% of my needs), my local company for that sort of thing lets you upload it from home and pick up.
That tardigrade is clearly playing a tiny cello, and not a tiny violin.