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- Comment on Revolutionary cooling technology emerges from Slovenia 4 days ago:
It says the current tech is only 15% efficient vs current AC which is 20-30%, so no it would be more expensive to run. Since it doesn’t exist as a product yet, we can’t really compare initial installation costs, and probably not maintenance costs either. Hopefully they can improve on the efficiency, but there may be a theoretical maximum efficiency and I have no idea if that’s higher than 30% or not
- Comment on Meta Reportedly Eyeing 'Super Sensing' Tech for Smart Glasses 2 weeks ago:
But people have different abilities and some of us are REALLY bad at remembering names…uh…Greg.
- Comment on How Clair Obscur’s Composer Created An Incredible Soundtrack 2 weeks ago:
Try switching down from expert mode for one fight.
- Comment on And then I'll sell my AI, so everyone can make drawings - EVERYONE can be an artist! And when everyone's an artist... no one will be 4 weeks ago:
I’m curious how you feel about something like this reddit.com/…/inpainting_is_a_powerful_tool_projec…
- Comment on Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2 5 weeks ago:
As relevant now as it was over a decade ago.
- Comment on Dear Big Tech, Stop Shoving AI Into Operating Systems 5 weeks ago:
I made a new computer in November, and while I didn’t try Mint (I don’t think) I installed 3 or 4 different versions if Linux. In them, I installed steam and Nvidia drivers, but most of my game library said they weren’t playable. If I didn’t have kids I could have spent more time and gotten it working, but is Mint different? Would they have been playable on it?
- Comment on The IP Laws That Stop Disenshittification. 1 month ago:
You’re not wrong
- Comment on DNA testing firm 23andMe files for bankruptcy 1 month ago:
A person is born every day.
You are not born every day.
Seems clear that you must not be a person.
- Comment on Longtime buddy of mine just got a gaming PC. What games would make up a good "welcome to PC" care package? 4 months ago:
Outer Wilds is one of my favorite games. If he likes the explorey/other worldly feel of souls games, he might like it, but it certainly doesn’t have any combat.
As for fighting, I’ve recently started replaying Returnal, and I really enjoy that. It’s a well known console game, but I think it came out after 2020. It’s a roguelike format so slightly different from souls, but I love it.
- Comment on Fired Employee Allegedly Hacked Disney World's Menu System to Alter Peanut Allergy Information. 6 months ago:
IT systems need a way to pre-enter an account deactivation, and when HR sends a text to the system it make it live, or something. I’ve been the IT guy who was told to disable an account, and the user found out before the news was broken so they asked me what was going on. No bueno.
- Comment on YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know 6 months ago:
I guess I was thinking of how to videos like how to fix a part on your car. But yeah I can see how how to videos like that still being an opportunity for Google to make money.
- Comment on YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know 6 months ago:
People who watch tutorial videos only get on, watch the video and then leave. How are they supposed to make tons of advertising revenue from that? No, we must sacrifice that class of video from the platform, in pursuit of the almighty dollar.
- Comment on Which adjective should come first, modular or versatile? 6 months ago:
Neither sounds “wrong” to my ear, but if I had to pick one, hmmmm…I think modular things are inherently versatile, but versatile things aren’t inherently modular, so I would go with “versatile and modular” so it gets more specific from first word to second word.
Or consider not using both those words.
- Comment on I don't want to call Twitter X out of spite, but calling the travesty that is X Twitter is an insult to the people that made Twitter what it was. 7 months ago:
I mean, what you personally call it isn’t really going to make any difference, so if we’re trying to optimize your mental health, just reframe the naritive in your head. You’re still calling it Twitter to honor what it used to be, back when you respected it. You are refusing to acknowledge the nazi dumpster fire it has become, even if you still need to talk about it.
I personally basically never have a reason to mention the site when taking to another person, but if/when I do, I’ll call it Twitter just because I think it would annoy Elon, if he somehow knew.
- Comment on How do our brains process reality? I heard our eyes were just low-res cameras and our brains were doing all the heavy lifting in 'rendering' reality. 7 months ago:
We definitely are seeing things faster than 24 Hz, or we wouldn’t be able to tell a difference in refresh rates above that.
