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- Comment on I mean......if you really think about it..... 2 days ago:
"A Connecticut Yankee in king Arthurs court" by Mark Twain is a true isekai.
- Comment on Tesla lost more than one-third of its value in first quarter 2 days ago:
Yes, one thing people are ignoring in terms of the political stuff is that Tesla is just plain overwhelmingly overvalued. It still has a greater market cap than most other car companies combined, but it's a barely profitable fairly low volume manufacturer. It has just a couple models, and other manufacturers have just one model of many which sell as many and then they also have entire business lines Tesla doesn't. Even Tesla's core auto business is only "profitable" due to government incentives such as green credits, and it isn't obvious they're guaranteed to continue.
I saw a video this week suggesting that stocks have 2 modes: "voting machine" and "weighing machine", and while Tesla has been winning the irrational "voting machine" game for a long time, it's probable the game will change at some point and it'll mean a huge reduction in market cap because the company isn't sanely valued.
Unlike a lot of people who flipped because the media told them to (or because they like or don't like his current politics), I've been telling the same story for years, because it was true, is true, and likely will continue to be true in the near future.
- Comment on 'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media 6 days ago:
A perfectly modernist take.
The problem is that modernism is wrong. The universe cannot be explained through that outdated mode of thinking, it just leads to totalitarianism and human suffering.
- Comment on Raymond Chen on connecting USB to PS/2 6 days ago:
That is probably the coolest thing I've read today. Thanks for posting it.
I sort of wondered how they did that, and it makes sense from that point of view -- the mouse could do both. Also explains why those adapters probably wouldn't work on other mice today.
- Comment on That Pac-Man, but what if he was a little bit evil, Metroidvania now has a summer release date 1 week ago:
"Remember Secret Level, that Amazon show that came out last December? I wouldn't blame you if you already forgot about it"
Imagine assuming people are still watching streaming services.
- Comment on 'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media 1 week ago:
I can absolutely understand why he'd say that.
It's a tough thing, complex. Human beings can be (creative) hacks too, copying something without any soul. But humans only have two hands and need to sleep and eat. An AI just needs a power supply and an Internet connection.
- Comment on Progress on system sustainability 1 week ago:
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- Comment on Self-hosting minecraft 3 weeks ago:
Not saying nothing, but there's always luanti and voxelibre.
- Comment on Warren Buffett: Tariffs are ‘an act of war’ 4 weeks ago:
You might want to read a bit more of history to find out what happened to the guys who actually used them.
- Comment on Warren Buffett: Tariffs are ‘an act of war’ 4 weeks ago:
Oh wow, an act of war?
That's crazy! I can't believe that Canada, with its 250% tariffs on dairy products, 40% tariffs on aluminum, and 25% tariffs on steel before Trump ever entered office, would commit such acts of war against America!!!
And then there's all the tariffs China has had against the US for all these years! How dare they!!!
I guess it's time to nuke Beijing and Ottawa. You'd better hit Toronto and Vancouver while you're at it, just to be safe.
- Comment on Donald Trump imposes tariffs but Canada and Mexico hit back 1 month ago:
I'd argue the opposite.
Canada's Liberals are bullies. Massive bullies. They bully their own MPs and ministers, they bully their own people, and when they felt like they could get away with it they bullied the US president. And they spent 10 years spitting on the retarded kid in charge of the United States, And now they're shocked that the retarded kid is fighting back.
We'd be in a totally different scenario if we had a leader like Chretien in charge, he dealt with the bully George W. Bush by being wily and clever, not by trying to out-bully the bully. But that's not how der fuhrer Trudeau functions. He only has one mode, and it doesn't work when he's not the most powerful person in the room. His little toadies only know the same language by the way. Freeland is claiming she should be the next party leader because Trump is afraid of her. No, he isn't. He just doesn't like you because you're a jerk.
Trump isn't like a native justice minister, Trudeau can't just kick him out of the party for not doing as he's told. He can't tell Trump to sit down and shut up like he did his first secretary. He can't demote Trump like he did to Freeland when she didn't go along with his vote buying scheme late last year. When he's not able to do that, the pathetic nature of his one note bullying becomes clear.
- Comment on Anyone knows what's this on the 5.25" bay? 1 month ago:
Looks like a hard drive to me. All my hard drives used to look like that except with a black faceplate.
- Comment on What do you use for notes? 1 month ago:
Nextcloud notes is just my life now.
- Comment on North American companies brace for fallout from Trump tariffs 1 month ago:
As a Canadian, I can't help but point out that our retarded leaders brought this on themselves.
We spent the past 10 years falling over ourselves to be the people who hated orange man the most, and now we're shocked that he doesn't really care to be nice to us.
And every single person who ran on the conservative ticket was magically "Canada's Trump" up to and including Poilievre, and it was meant as an insult and an attack. But a lot of Canadians actually sort of want a Trump right about now. Even Erin O'Toole, who lost the election for being far too lefty was "Canada's Trump" to them, because "Trump" is just a synonym for "Evil enemy" and now we've got 25% tarrifs incoming.
- Comment on From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad's Been Reincarnated! • Akuyaku Reijou Tensei Oji-san - Episode 4 discussion 1 month ago:
"mayonnaise and rice!"
I like the line from Tanya the evil, something like ""I come from a world that is scientifically, technologically, economically, and socially superior!"
Nobody will forget Tanya isn't from isekai Germany.
- Comment on Transgender inmates panic as Trump's order sends them to men's prisons 2 months ago:
Yes, well good arguments require taking into account all the facts. Bad arguments refuse to consider facts that don't fit.
- Comment on trying to test washing machine motor; saw a white flash, voltage dropped, what happened? 2 months ago:
I feel like if a motor is showing resistance properly, the "safety capacitor" is a spot I'd look, since caps can fail pretty easily, especially at 220vac. You'd just get a replacement and try that.
- Comment on Will solar panels overrun farmland? The two are more likely to coexist. 2 months ago:
Of issues I have with solar, "we won't be able to farm" isn't one of them. The amount of space required for even gigawatt level solar farms is relatively trivial. I think I did the math and it was like 30km square or something, which is enough to convince a lot of greens it's a bad choice because it's big and ugly, but on a map isnt really that that much.
- Comment on Will solar panels overrun farmland? The two are more likely to coexist. 2 months ago:
Of issues I have with solar, "we won't be able to farm" isn't one of them. The amount of space required for even gigawatt level solar farms is relatively trivial. I think I did the math and it was like 30km square or something, which is enough to convince a lot of greens it's a bad choice because it's big and ugly, but on a map isnt really that that much.
- Comment on Were Sony and Microsoft Truly Worried About The Google Stadia? 2 months ago:
Especially when you're a company with a history of shutting down products people liked.
The Google graveyard is a website that will repair any urge to rely on a Google ecosystem.
- Comment on Doom: The Dark Ages Dropped Multiplayer In Favor Of Doomslayer's Cyber Dragon And Giant Mecha 2 months ago:
Jeez, that's exciting. Giant doom mech.
- Comment on California just debunked a big myth about renewable energy 2 months ago:
California is a best case for the worst renewables. I always use Manitoba and Quebec as examples of good renewables done well. Norway as well. Cold places that need heat or you die, and lots of people can afford to heat their homes with carbon neutral hydro power.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 Has Finally Hit Overwhelmingly Positive On Steam 2 months ago:
Honestly, I played it at launch and it was pretty good. I'm told my experience was unusual
- Comment on Transgender inmates panic as Trump's order sends them to men's prisons 2 months ago:
I mean, it's represented in the DNA by having the one or two X chromosomes. You could grab some zygotic DNA and run a PCR test and see which it's going to be before it ever stops being a blob of cells.
Your logic is totally broken. "What they feel like" is completely different than an actual genetic marker which can be measured and quantified. This DNA has this, This other DNA has that. Feelings have nothing to do with it. The legal definition becomes about a quite simple PCR test, rather than the fuzzy world of infant development or the fuzzier world of gender identity.
As I've already mentioned, this test won't be correct in a small number of cases, but as a general rule it'll be correct 99.95-99.99% of the time which is good enough for government work.
- Comment on New survey reports one in 10 game developers have lost their jobs in 2024 2 months ago:
It's gonna keep happening until they start making games for people who play them again.
A chunk of the games industry is making games for board room executives.
A chunk of the games industry is making games for the media.
A chunk of the games industry is making games for political insiders.
Problem is,
Board room executives are supposed to be selling games, they aren't the primary customers themselves.
The media is supposed to be talking about games for people who play games, they aren't the primary customers themselves.
Political insiders are just hoping to use poorly produced propaganda to change hearts and minds, they aren't the primary customers themselves.
And so most people just keep playing and buying games that were made for people who play games, since they aren't board room executives, part of the media, or political insiders.
A lot of the more simplistic things said about games today are actually just heuristics for games only made for these three groups. "Oh, it has X, it was made for the New York Times, not for me." "Oh, it has Y, it was made for continuous monetization, not for me." "Oh, it has Z, this was made to spread a message, not for me." Then people get all defensive about X Y and Z, not realizing it's just a heuristic and most people will play a good game with all 3 if it's good, but given how expensive games are, a heuristic that's mostly accurate is enough to scare a lot of people away from a game. How many hours does it take you to earn the 100 dollars they're floating for GTA6?
- Comment on Transgender inmates panic as Trump's order sends them to men's prisons 2 months ago:
Do you think Chromosomes are purchased at the dollar store when it's convenient?
They're determined at the moment of fertilization when the sperm and the egg combine their DNA to create a new set of DNA. Then, at the moment of conception, you either have Two X chromosomes or One Y Chromosome (like the subreddits) and you get a male or a female 99.95-99.99% of the time if the pregnancy makes it to term.
It's like the subreddits. Two X Chromosomes for women, One Y Chromosome for a man. There's exceptions but it's an extreme rarity so to make the federal rule "What do your Chromosomes say" is an achievable and consistent standard the vast overwhelming majority of the time.
- Comment on Magic Maker: How to Make Magic in Another World • Magic Maker: Isekai Mahou no Tsukurikata - Episode 3 discussion 2 months ago:
I vaguely remember reading a manga like this, but I don't remember much from here. It's interesting enough for me to watch this season.
- Comment on Rare & Blessed Off Brand W 2 months ago:
Can you eat them just the same? Or do they taste off?
- Comment on Trump pardons Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht 2 months ago:
That would make more sense to me tbh. The guy seemed clearly guilty.