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- Comment on Overwatch 2 Is Just 'Overwatch' Again And Five New Heroes Arrive Next Week 1 week ago:
Well Ana now has a perk that gives speed boost to nano. That combo has always been good, but with that it would be even better.
- Comment on Overwatch 2 Is Just 'Overwatch' Again And Five New Heroes Arrive Next Week 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t know anything about that, but with respect to the overwatch team, they don’t seem to be implicated in that controversy.
I can’t imagine the fight for equality in game dev is over, but at the same time I haven’t heard anything particularly controversial. If you have other evidence of wrong doing do let me know.
- Comment on Overwatch 2 Is Just 'Overwatch' Again And Five New Heroes Arrive Next Week 1 week ago:
I took a long break from overwatch after the release of overwatch 2, but they have been made some big changes that have brought me back.
No more heros locked behind battle passes, free loot boxes, 6v6, great performance, sound design and the new perk system is nice. The game is more balanced than it ever was as overwatch 1, even it it’s still not perfect.
I don’t agree with everything, paid skins are absurdly expensive, and heros do seem designed to sell skins, but that’s really not new either.
- Comment on Is it possible to cool my body enough to not sweat while exercising? 2 weeks ago:
Instead of trying to stop sweating, work at making it more effective, and dry faster.
A powerful highspeed fan will do the most, and if your house is humid, maybe a dehumidifier to help your sweat evaporate.
Counterintuitively, lowering your excerise temperature may make your sweat accumulation worse. You’ll sweat less, but it won’t evaporate as quickly leaving you more drenched.
- Comment on Fun fact: you can't upload this image on piefed.social 2 weeks ago:
If 0/0 < 0 would error?
If 0 < 0 evaluates false
That makes it even worse???
- Comment on Fun fact: you can't upload this image on piefed.social 2 weeks ago:
Every user (remote or local) has an “attitude” which is calculated as follows: `(upvotes cast - downvotes cast) / (upvotes + downvotes)`. If your “attitude” is < 0.0 you can’t downvote.
This pains me because it is functionally equivalent to
If downvotes < upvotes - Comment on Why do some car lovers oppose bike infrastructure, when more bikes would mean fewer cars on the road? 3 weeks ago:
An astonishingly easy fix would be to just add a tax like a property tax based on vehicle weight. Make it scale enough to be prohibitive, but anyone who needs it will be willing to pay.
- Comment on How do I properly and safely clean smartphone? 4 weeks ago:
No, don’t use soap! It changes the surface tension of water and can allow to enter your phone when it otherwise wouldn’t be able to.
- Comment on At this point, what should we do about the ICE raids? If an ICE agent breaks in without a warrant or holds you at gunpoint, what do you do? 5 weeks ago:
Honestly if I value your own life and survival, which most people do, your best bet is to be docile and comply.
Actual resistance is better done planned in advance, the US even helpfully write its own guide during WW2
- Comment on Is there a science educator who shows in a video how they hand wash dishes? 1 month ago:
It’s certainly not going to dry very much in 30 seconds though
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 1 month ago:
Don’t forget the fundamental scaling properties of llms, that openai even used as the basis for strategy to make chat gpt 3.5.
But basically llm performance is logarithmic. It’s easier to get rapid improvements early on. But at later points like we are now require exponentially more compute, training data, and model sizes to get now small level of improvements.
Even if we get a 10x in compute, model size, and training data (which is fundamentally finite), the improvements aren’t going to be groundbreaking or solve any of the inherent limitations of the technology.
- Comment on How do you feel about the removal of tokens from arcades ? 1 month ago:
Even accounting for inflation arcades should be cheaper.
The compute hardware costs much less and is much more power efficient.
Other power hungry features like lights and displays are both cheaper and more power efficient.
The argument that they still need to be expensive makes so little sense, other than the physical space they occupy.
- Comment on The case for a land value tax is overwhelming 2 months ago:
- Comment on Investors are making up the highest share of homebuyers in 5 years 4 months ago:
Yes of course, but how do you propose we get that to happen?
Why are these homes empty in the first place? Are they in the same places where housing is needed?
And even if you could house all homeless people, that still leaves the problem of the crushing expense of housing in many places.
- Comment on Investors are making up the highest share of homebuyers in 5 years 4 months ago:
That’s kinda exactly my point? If someone could print a fuckton for new bitcoins it’s value would drop. The same is true for housing. We may have technically enough housing for everyone, but that means nothing if that housing is not also where people want to or need to live.
- Comment on Investors are making up the highest share of homebuyers in 5 years 4 months ago:
While these investors are absolutely soulless and deserve to be called out, there’s another aspect of this problem that I feel doesn’t get talked about enough.
If we just built enough housing this problem would go away. And it would be easy if we had a system that allowed people to build new things and undercut competition. But we can’t because regulations make it nearly impossible to make anything other than houses.
People investing on houses are a symptom of the larger overall problem, of there not being enough fucking housing.
- Comment on Constitutional right to a wild garden with weeds and bees to be tested in Ontario court 5 months ago:
Even better for hummingbirds is native plants that feed them. We have planted red cardinal flowers that attract them and butterflies
- Comment on Apple sued by shareholders for allegedly overstating AI progress 7 months ago:
I mean you do have a messaging problem. Your leadership has received bad messaging about what “AI” can do!
- Comment on Cleaning plastic containers in a dishwasher is a source of microplastic pollution, study finds 8 months ago:
No offenses, but I’m gonna put a lot more weight behind a peer reviewed Nature paper, rather than some random podcaster.
The explained their methodology pretty well. They extrapolate the microplastics amount from a small bit of cortical tissue, and compared it to previous results. Yeah there might not be as much in other parts of the brain, but we don’t have a reason to think it would be drastically different.
- Comment on Cleaning plastic containers in a dishwasher is a source of microplastic pollution, study finds 8 months ago:
It’s up to a credit card now (9g)
- Comment on If I have a cupcake. And then I take the frosting off the cupcake. Is it still a cupcake, or a muffin? 8 months ago:
Neither are really bread as they are not leavened with yeast.
- Comment on Every time you eat, you're trusting many strangers to not have tampered with your food 10 months ago:
I feel it’s rude to call them freeloading, without them we wouldn’t be able to digest nearly as much food.
- Comment on Bigscreen Announces the Beyond 2 VR Headset 10 months ago:
Why is the resolution limited at 90hz?
There should be plenty of bandwidth to run 2x2560x2560 at 90hz. That should only be ~28.3gbps, which is less than dp 1.4 max of 32.
And it’s less bandwidth than a 4k monitor at 240hz, though that requires DSC.
- Comment on How Three Alleged Tesla Vandals Got Caught 10 months ago:
These people got caught because someone found their car and thus license plate.
Another had left a fingerprinted bottle that went missing when watching surveillance footage.
And then were able to confirm after finding the same outfit from the surveillance footage.
The lessons to be learned are to not use cars anywhere near the scene, leave no trace, fingerprints or digital evidence, including a phone, and make sure any recognizable clothing is well hidden, or even better thoroughly destroyed.
Oh and don’t post anything on social media.
- Comment on Every hour children spend on screens raises chance of myopia, study finds 11 months ago:
I think part of it is sun exposure, my eyesight is much worse than my close relatives, and I was born in Iceland which has much weaker sunlight.
- Comment on Every hour children spend on screens raises chance of myopia, study finds 11 months ago:
More likely a lack of sun exposure
- Comment on Every hour children spend on screens raises chance of myopia, study finds 11 months ago:
This is old science.
Increased time outdoors is correlated with a lower risk of myopia. It’s no surprise that more screen time = less time spent outdoors
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- Comment on Why is space 2 dimensional? 1 year ago:
The original question was why solar systems and galaxies are in planes, and your explanation is wrong.
What do you even mean by similar orbits? Most orbits are circular for a totally different reason, and that is tidal interactions.
- Comment on Why is space 2 dimensional? 1 year ago:
I hate to be that guy, but this is wrong.
The solar system is mostly in one plane because it formed from a cloud of gas. The cloud of a gas has some total non zero rotation and interactions flatten the cloud into a disk, where all of the planets formed.
This same principle applies to galaxies.
