halcyoncmdr
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- Comment on "All I want to do is get off work and go have maximum BroTime at the Make America Gay Again rally." 1 day ago:
Note this is not ICE. This is the Diplomatic Security Service, the State Department’s agents.
It’s not just ICE that get the dipshits nowadays apparently.
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 1 week ago:
Oh no nothing so user-friendly. They’re gonna require them to be loaded via adb every time. And they’ll say that’s the only way they could do it for security or some shit.
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 1 week ago:
$100 says they’re just going to make it require adb.
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 1 week ago:
That was 2023, and one of very few things made not to specifically promote their hardware or as a cheap spinoff of existing IP. And define “actively maintaining”, because general bug fixes for decade old multi-player games and managing item marketplaces doesn’t require much manpower.
Going further back there’s Aperture Desk Job which was a tech demo for the Steam Deck in 2022. Then an extended cut version of Artifact originally meant as a sequel in 2021, which is a Dota 2 card game, but still remains unfinished, so effectively abandoned. Then Half Life: Alyx in 2020 which 90% of gamers can’t play because it’s VR only, and clearly made to further promote their VR hardware. Dota Warlords in 2020 which was originally a community game mode. The original Artifact in 2018, which had abandoned iOS and Android ports. The Lab in 2016 which was made to promote the launch of the HTC Vive. A zombie CS spinoff in 2014, Dota 2 in 2013, CS:Go in 2012, Portal 2 in 2011, and Left 4 Dead 2 in 2009.
If you remove the spinoff and niche stuff from the list you get game releases in 2023, 2020 (arguable since it’s VR only and thus inherently niche), 2013, 2012, 2011, 2009.
That’s a pretty big gap of not much for the last decade game-wise. Its been previously documented and published that Valve has issues getting games developed because of the flat organization structure. Articles like this.
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 1 week ago:
Which is also one of the reasons so few new things get done, and why they (until now) haven’t been able to count to 3.
To get anything done you either have to be able to do it entirely by yourself which is unlikely, or get enough others organized and on board to make it happen.
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 1 week ago:
The numbers just show that they are 8x as efficient. I only referenced Facebook because they’re the next closest company for comparison.
I never said they were worse than Facebook. That’s your assumption, reading what you want, not what’s actually being said.
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 1 week ago:
Notably Epic charges less than 30% to try to get more of that market. They even give away games. But their app is still inferior so it gets less use.
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 1 week ago:
That’s because they make an insane amount of money by taking 30% of every sale on their platform, which nearly everyone uses because they’re a near monopoly and the alternatives are terrible. Around $3.5 Million per employee, nearly 5x the next highest company, which is Facebook at around $780,000 per employee.
- Comment on Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console 1 week ago:
While the main cooling system is important, the thermal interface material they pick is also a big deal with systems intended to not be user serviced and with long lasting lifetimes like consoles… It honestly depends a lot on what TIM they decided to go with. Traditional thermal pastes are cheap but almost always dry out after just a few years causing much higher temps. Liquid metal is great, but more expensive and you must design it right, vertical orientation can cause leakage if not properly designed (some laptops end up having issues because of this). Phase change material is probably the optimal middle ground for ease of installation, and simplified design.
- Comment on A Man Brought His Father’s ‘Piece of the Parthenon’ to Greek Officials. They Said It Was From an Even Older Temple in the Acropolis of Athens 1 week ago:
Most of the planet probably has more respect for historical artifacts than the British Museum.
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 2 weeks ago:
It will definitely burst, and might take out some fairly large companies with it. Potentially even one or two tech companies that have been around for decades depending on how large it gets before that burst. One or two companies will end up with the IP all of them are “building” and it will fizzle into the background of daily use just like the previous assistants like Alexa, Cortana, etc. have.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Our dishwasher has a bright ass white LED when it’s done and clean. As long as you don’t open the door it’s lit up like the Lighthouse of Alexandria. If you’re opening the door, you need to just empty it. Even with that we have a magnet that says “Hella Clean” on one side and “Dirty AF” on the other, makes people actually want to swap it around since it’s not just a basic boring ass dirty/clean sign.
- Comment on Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies" 2 weeks ago:
Black Flag was a mediocre Assassin’s Creed game, at best. It was a phenomenal pirate game
- Comment on With how shitty some Christians are, you really have to wonder if Lucifer or Satan is truly "evil" 2 weeks ago:
I mean… God literally commits genocide multiple times, and that’s just from the stories that they chose to actually include. Satan/Lucifer mostly tempts people to do things they want to do anyway.
Seems pretty cut and dry honestly.
- Comment on With how shitty some Christians are, you really have to wonder if Lucifer or Satan is truly "evil" 2 weeks ago:
Lucifer’s crime was daring to question his father.
- Comment on If I can only find an artist on streaming platforms and no other search hits, does that most likely mean it's an AI generated artist? 2 weeks ago:
I bet that he has something like Bandcamp though. Most of these| AI “artists” don’t even bother to set anything like that up.
- Comment on Why are Michelin Stars so highly revered when they originated from a tyre company? 2 weeks ago:
That was almost certainly to help settle bar arguments before they became bar fights.
- Comment on We could have lived in a world where Hideo Kojima made a Matrix game, if only someone had told him he was offered to make one 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, those are the exception to the general rule that licensed games suck.
And the LEGO games are sort of cheating. They have no right to be as good as they are.
- Comment on Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman 3 weeks ago:
That just means it is purified enough to be usable in a weapon. There’s also lots of different plutonium isotopes, each with various suitability to weapons vs energy.
We need a lot more info to have an informed conversation than a blanket statement like “weapons-grade plutonium”. And I definitely don’t trust any major media outlet journalist at this point to have any idea what the fuck they’re talking about, especially with regards to anything nuclear. They regularly get things wrong or even completely backwards from reality with less complicated topics.
- Comment on Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman 3 weeks ago:
Fossil fuels are only as cheap as they are because of subsidies. We should remove the fossil fuel subsidies from the equation then if we want to talk actual cost.
That’s about $30 Billion each year in the US, $660 Billion or so internationally. And that’s only direct subsidies. Granted, that’s total fossil fuel subsidies not just energy related, it’s much more complicated to split it out, and this is a random Lemmy comment so not worth the time.
And since we don’t really tax carbon pollution at any discernable level, if we actually required that to be included for the environmental damage from fossil fuel energy production, since we do require nuclear plants to plan for their waste production, it wouldn’t be even close to competitive at all.
- Comment on Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman 3 weeks ago:
So what if any of this material slips out?
You don’t want to look up how many orphan nuclear devices exist in the world.
Just to whet your whistle a bit… this is by no means an exhaustive list. en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_orphan_source_incident…We’re still discovering lost nuclear power devices from the collapse of the Soviet Union. Nuclear accidents have happened from abandoned medical radiotherapy machines, and from radio imaging equipment used in industrial applications. It’s not actually that hard to find nuclear material in the wild you could use in a dirty bomb.
- Comment on Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman 3 weeks ago:
Nuclear isn’t a replacement for other renewable resources and people need to stop thinking of it as such. As soon as I see that comparison, it is apparent that the poster either:
- Has done no actual research on the topic, and are probably just regurgitating random posts they’ve read on social media.
- Posting in bad faith because they’re just anti-nuclear.
- They think that grid-scale battery tech to assist renewables like solar and wind is much more capable than it really is.
That last one is only partially true. Grid-scale battery tech has come a long way. And it works phenomenally well as a sort of capacitor to help smooth out grid power and to provide some capacity during the natural lulls in most renewable options like wind and solar when they can’t generate. However, there is no battery solution currently on this planet that can provide the power necessary for an entire active grid region for the amount of time renewables aren’t generating, like solar overnight, when there’s simply no wind to utilize. There is still a base load level needed to provide power regardless of natural forces.
Nuclear is a replacement for the base power load that is currently handled by fossil fuels like Coal and Natural Gas. Much of the spent fuel can now be recycled for reuse even in the same reactors. Some new experimental reactor designs also use spent nuclear fuel from current, mostly 1970’s era, designs to provide seed fuel for their reactor processes.
Most nuclear waste, is also short to medium half-life waste, and will decay within years or decades, not millennia. The actual long term-nuclear waste is a very small portion of the total “waste” produced. And even then, most regulations still use Liner No Threshold for their storage requirements, despite virtually no actual nuclear physicists or scientists supporting LNT anymore with hundreds of studies since the 1950s proving it has no basis in reality. If LNT was in fact reality, then radiotherapy for cancer wouldn’t work, and we know it does. People in regions like the Colorado Plateau around Denver, receive around 3x the annual radiation dose limit of a nuclear plant worker, simply from the background radiation in the area, yet they have lower than average cancer rates.
Nuclear is the technology we have NOW to be able to remove our reliance on fossil fuels, but the public needs to be educated about reality, not just having the same misinformation spread about constantly online.
- Comment on Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman 3 weeks ago:
New experimental reactor designs, YES.
Sam Altman and anything, NO.
The public’s perception of nuclear energy is ridiculously misinformed. Combined with international policies for things like radiation limits largely being based around Linear No Threshold, which is based on assumptions made in the 1950s almost solely about the bombs dropped on Japan, and ignoring all research since that proves the exact opposite, simply because it’s easy to understand and form policies around.
- Comment on Yo, fire fox what the fuck? 3 weeks ago:
I feel like a year ago, Windows was much better at not interrupting. There is literally a setting to engage Do No Disturb mode when playing a game. But it definitely seems to have stopped doing that from my experience despite that being a default setting and still enabled on my gaming rig. Something changed, and I doubt it’s every game.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
My absolute favorite bit of social media was this instagram exchange. It just encapsulates so much that’s inherently stupid with it.
- Comment on Ex-PlayStation boss says the games industry is "littered" with Fortnite clones and "people trying to do Overwatch with different skins," but keep dreaming if you're just trying to get "big sacks of money" 3 weeks ago:
Nearly everything is a derivative of something from before. Occasionally something new comes up though. I don’t remember anything like Getting Over It seems to have created the Foddian game genre for example. And while Balatro uses relatively normal cards for its base, the gameplay itself is unique.
- Comment on Why did Thanos, with the power of all the infinity stones, never think to try doubling the amount of resources in the world? 4 weeks ago:
First… Not everyone is just hiding being a dick because it’s socially unacceptable. Most people just aren’t dicks and don’t want to be. Just like most people don’t have to be told not to kill others, that’s just not something they’d do. They don’t have to be threatened with prison, or eternal damnation, or anything like that to stop themselves.
Second… Superman is an alien. How do we know what is normal for his species? The only insight we have is the comic universe.
- Comment on Louvre security vs CVS 4 weeks ago:
Well, they did. That’s why the deodorant is now locked up.
- Comment on Elon Musk says he needs $1 trillion to control Tesla's robot army. Yes, really. 4 weeks ago:
So how is that fake? I can’t do any of those things you mention in the first paragraph.
You’re not rich enough where banks know you always have stock available to give them. Where there’s virtually no limit to your stock pool that the bank can just liquidate after the fact. You need to be in the top .1% for that. The fact you’re on lemmy means that’s not a possibility in the slightest.
Getting loans based on assets is not at all the same as selling those assets.
It is for the rich. That’s why so many don’t care about their traditional salary. That’s why so many went out of their way to advertise they were taking a $1 salary during the recession, or even today. Because their salary is subject to income tax, but loans are not. You can get the same end result of cash in hand by receiving your pay in stock, then taking loans against that stock.
- Comment on Embark Studios confirm rollout of Denuvo Anti-Cheat for THE FINALS 4 weeks ago:
Denuvo does anti-cheat? I thought it was anti-pirate?
