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bobbean··on ‘BlueLeaks’ Exposes Files from Hundreds of Police Departments
Are you saying that people are more likely to be murderers if their skin is black? If you took someone who was black and raised them in a world where racism never existed, would they still be more likely to be murderers than someone who was, for example, white?
bobbean··on Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since May 28
Who decides when to enforce that law? Who decides if something is lawful or not?
bobbean··on De-Escalation Keeps Protesters and Police Safer
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests 200 cities have had protests. Out of the probably hundreds of thousands of people protesting, guns have been responsible for one death of an officer (as far as I know)
bobbean··on CNN team arrested by Minnesota police on live television
Ahh, I see. Okay thank you.
bobbean··on CNN team arrested by Minnesota police on live television
The full video shows all 4 crew members being arrested one at a time. They left the camera rolling on the ground.
bobbean··on MS Flight Simulator vs. Real Life
I'm actually looking at how to import lidar data into a game called BeamNG (It's a super realistic driving simulator, with accurate body deformation, aerodynamics, etc). Long stretches of mountain road I'm familiar with are a great to drive down especially since you can fly around corners.

Right now the process to create these maps is a pain, you have to find the lidar data online, smooth it out and get rid of any weird artifacts. Then putting into the game requires more processing: drawing the roads, texturing hills and cliffs, etc. You have to place all buildings manually (which also means creating the meshes)

Overall, it's technically possible in this game, just a ton of work. There is definitely ways to automate and speed up the process. The terrain processing could probably be entirely automated, maybe building meshes could be taken off Google maps or something. Even with no buildings though, it's still a fun experience.

https://beamng.com/

bobbean··on Floatplane – Linus Tech Tips launches their own video hosting platform
To answer shortly: Yes No
bobbean··on Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair
Honest question, what use would Lineage be on a pixel? I've used it a few times for older phones, but that was mainly to get rid of a bunch of the stupid restrictions and bloatware those phones had. Pixel phones seem like they wouldn't benefit too much from it. (Again I haven't looked into it in a while so I'm not sure of the benefits)
bobbean··on Ask HN: Do you have personal bots?
Money can be exchanged for goods and services. Even if you don't use a bot, you could just buy like, 5 things you need.
bobbean··on Bullshit.js
It says: Putting things in your cloud butt since 2014.

If you're looking for that other site, stuff redirects there other than this page

(Cloud is striked through)

bobbean··on Ask HN: What things do you wish you discovered earlier?
No amount of telling yourself you're happy will make you happy. You can't just "make yourself happy", it's a side effect of other things you do in your life.
bobbean··on Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users
Depending on how powerful your laptop is, you could always install a lightweight version of Linux using Hyper V (assuming you're running Windows), and install a pihole server in that. It might be a bit of a pain changing the dns settings for every network, but maybe someone else knows a way to make that easier.
bobbean··on Starbucks' music is driving employees nuts
I really hope you've seen the How I Met Your Mother scene with that song.

https://youtu.be/QYpSniiZhpg

bobbean··on Cigarette butts are the single greatest source of ocean trash
I honestly don't care. I've always known they last for years, I know they end up all over the place, and that it's disgusting, but I don't care. I'll throw it away if I'm close to a trashcan, ashtray, etc, but otherwise I just flick it away and go about my business. I never litter otherwise, I always chase down trash if the wind takes it from my hands, and I pissed when I see someone throw trash on the ground. When I was a kid, I put my chewed gum in my pocket without a wrapper because I didn't want someone to step on it. I like to think I'm considerate to the world and the people I share it with. I never smoke next to someone unless they say it's okay, otherwise I find somewhere else to go, or just don't smoke. There's just something about throwing butts on the ground, I can't get myself to feel bad. I know I'm doing something wrong, and I know I should feel guilty, but I don't. Guess that feeling goes for smoking as well... (I apologise for this intoxicated ramble, a few of the other people who responded to you had irked me)
bobbean··on Night Sight: Seeing in the Dark on Pixel Phones
I think you may have misread his post.
bobbean··on Poll: How old is your current smartphone?
Pixel 2 xl, probably going to keep a hold on it for a while
bobbean··on Evolutionary algorithm outperforms deep-learning machines at video games
There's an entertaining guy on YouTube, Code Bullet, who does a bunch of stuff like this, genetic algorithms and neural networks. It's pretty interesting because he rewrites all the games from scratch.

Here's a video of him playing with The Worlds Hardest Game: https://youtu.be/Yo2SepcNyw4

bobbean··on Donkey Kong scoreboard strips high score claim
I made an account purely to express how strange it is that I just found this guy no more than a week ago, and now I'm seeing people talk about him somewhere that I never would have expected. It's weird.
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