HiddenLayer555

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[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

Don't salt your food before you eat it.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Depends on the species. Some birds (usually birds of prey) are extremely territorial especially to members of their own species which are obviously their biggest competitors.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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HAHAHAHA!

Imagine thinking you're one of the smartest people in the world yet you still can't get a job without your special club for alleged geniuses helping you.

Wonder how many of those people flunked their interview by mentioning their IQ.

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This is just pathetic and certainly not beating the narcissism claims.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Also, "smart" and high IQ are different things.

There's no way to objectively measure how "smart" someone is, but if you think the bogus test and bogus score developed by eugenic pseudoscientists looking for an excuse to prevent the untermensch from breeding is the objective measure, you are in fact stupid.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Larger and more dangerous in comparison. A lot of animals will see the increase in height and be less willing to attack, and the predators that commonly hunt red pandas are usually not much larger than them to begin with.

Animals are aware of the fact that even a small injury while hunting can kill them through infection. All they really have to do in most cases is make the predator think they're more trouble than they're worth, not that there's no way they can kill them.

In this image, the adversary is not a predator but another red panda, so it's likely a territorial dispute where you're trying to make your competitor think that fighting you is not worth it. Sizing each other up is a common behavior when animals compete with each other, because if it's clear that one animal is larger or stronger than the other, the conflict will usually end in the smaller animal walking away, saving both from potentially deadly injuries.

Animals are nowhere near as savage and mindlessly bloodlusted as people assume.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago

The most desperate US citizen is still far more privileged than the people overseas they were sent to murder.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago

A private condemnation is a commendation but they're too afraid to outright say it.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's fitting because at the end of that episode, they learn that the US was in fact the alien invaders declaring war on other planets.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Stockholm syndrome

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Genuinely curious: why use an AI image instead of the many real Constructivist buildings?

I especially this one, nice balance of raw concrete and ornamentation:

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Brutalism. The few brutalist buildings in my city are a welcome respite for the eyes against the blinged out crap they're building nowadays.

 
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Receiving a spam call puts you in a bit of a dilemma, or at least it does for me: How do I deal with this call that doesn't alert the spammers that this is an active number that they can call again? Answering the call is obviously the wrong choice, but I always assume that rejecting the call outright will also be detected as a deliberate action and therefore a person is on the other side. Some people have suggested answering the phone but not talking, so they think it's a dead number, but I want something more definitive.

My idea is to have a "spam" button on the incoming call screen, that answers the call but doesn't connect the microphone. Instead it plays either the standard "the number you're dialing is not assigned, please check your number and try your call again" recording, or a fax/modem sound to make them think the phone number belongs to a machine and not a human.

Would this work? Or would they still be able to determine that the recording is spoofed by the phone itself? Does anything like this already exist?

 

Also, do y'all call main() in the if block or do you just put the code you want to run in the if block?

 

Also, do y'all call main() in the if block or do you just put the code you want to run in the if block?

 
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