rtxn
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I take my shitposts very seriously.
- Comment on WordPress maker Automattic lays off 16% of staff 20 hours ago:
Can’t wait to see Mullenweg’s next feat of mental gymnastics about how this was also caused by WP Engine
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Since the article fails to link it (and also reads like slop), here is the actual publication: …europa.eu/…/8af13e88-6540-436c-b137-9853e7fe866a…
- Comment on Signal downloads spike in the US and Yemen amid government scandal | TechCrunch 6 days ago:
“When something is made idiot-proof, they will just make better idiots.”
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 6 days ago:
Did you hallucinate that I said anything like it or something? Obviously not every situation is solved by the same concept. Dense city centres – sidewalks, bike paths, trams, human-scale infrastructure. Suburban areas – abolish Euclidean zoning, European-style grid streets, buses, local light rail services. Inter-city transit – high-speed rail. Smaller villages and towns – regional rail. It’s an issue that most of the developed world has solved.
Public transit is not supposed to replace cars altogether, but give people another choice. A transit system that is built well, operated well, and cheap, will reduce the reliance on cars, and make the streets safer for people or services that have to use cars.
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 6 days ago:
Uh, yes, actually. I know someone like you can’t even fathom the possibility of a public transit system being well-built, but we’ve got 80 bus and trolley lines criss-crossing the city.
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 1 week ago:
Yes it does, if done properly. I have stops for four bus lines within walking distance. During peak hours, buses come once every 15 minutes. Trolleys in the city centre, every 10 minutes. Trams, every two minutes. Most of the surrounding villages have bus stops. A lack of perspective is not an excuse.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 1 week ago:
I’ve had the same mechanical pencil for ten years. It’s comfortable, reliable, easy to reload, but if I had to choose one for the rest of my life, I’d still go with the traditional wood/graphite pencil. It’s cheap, it’s everywhere, it’s durable, and not a great loss if you lose it.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong updated Steam page with 2025 copyrights and cloud gaming jnfo 1 week ago:
Tomorrow for sure!
- Comment on Elon Musk gives off final boss energy with those monologues you press 'b' to skip 1 week ago:
He’s The Sergeant from Warframe at best.
- Comment on Teslas have been consuming a lot of gasoline lately. 1 week ago:
Keeping in mind that this is a hypothetical scenario and that I did point out that the overall efficiency is dependent on how much of the power is generated by renewables and how much by the on-site diesel generator:
- An ICE skips the conversion to electricity and its storage.
- An ICE vehicle weighs less because it doesn’t have batteries (see this chart to compare the energy density (MJ/kg, horizontal axis) of lithium batteries to gasoline and diesel)
- There is a point in the diesel/solar ratio at which the system’s overall efficiency is higher with an EV than an ICE, but I don’t know where that is because, once again, you’re pissing yourself over a hypothetical scenario.
- Comment on Teslas have been consuming a lot of gasoline lately. 1 week ago:
Debatable, it depends on what fraction of the power was supplied by the generator. The chemical-thermal-kinetic-electric conversion incurs great losses because of waste heat, and portable diesel generators are not always built with efficiency in mind. A charging station operating on 100% diesel to power an EV is much less efficient than a modern ICE vehicle of a similar mass sans batteries.
- Comment on Teslas have been consuming a lot of gasoline lately. 1 week ago:
I know it’s a joke, but many Tesla “solar” charging stations did actually use diesel generators a few years ago.
- Comment on Measles was eliminated from Australia. Experts warn US and Asia outbreaks may bring back this ‘heat-seeking missile’ 1 week ago:
Australia already has a pretty good system of screening animals that aren’t immunized to rabies from entering. The same should be implemented for people. No proof of vaccination – back where you came from.
- Comment on Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem? 1 week ago:
But how will Americans justify their private arsenals if they don’t have 30-50 feral hogs running into their yards while their small kids play?
- Comment on Late 1900s 2 weeks ago:
Funny how time works.
- 1995 was ten years ago.
- 1997 was three years ago.
- Every year of the 80s was 20 years ago.
- 2010 was 10 years ago.
- 2016 was two years ago.
- 2018 was two years ago.
- 2019 was one year ago.
- 2020 lasted for six years, but ended three months into the year.
- 2021-2022 didn’t happen.
- 2023 ended just a few weeks ago.
- 2024 still hasn’t ended. We also invented time travel. Consequently:
- 2025 takes place in the 1960s, rapidly progressing towards the 1940s.
- Comment on Which game is it? 2 weeks ago:
Pretty good, and somehow getting better with time.
The game’s main premium currency is platinum. There’s no way to get it through in-game activities. You can buy it directly, it is included in most cash-only purchases, or you can trade it freely with other players. Most of the trading is organized on the third-party market board warframe.market, and the in-game trading chat… exists, I guess.
Most of the game’s items (weapons, warframes, companions, upgrades) can be farmed through regular gameplay from random drops, from specific missions or boss fights, crafted from gathered resources, or bought using in-game currencies. You can buy most of them for platinum, but don’t have to. The only payment-exclusive items are cosmetics (skins, helmets, color palettes), but not all of them, and inventory slots. There are also many late-game items that are impossible to buy and have to be earned. Some items are also sold in discounted packs. As of the latest major update (released literally a few hours ago), you get an additional discount for items of a pack that you already own.
The worst limiting factor for a new player is warframe and weapon slots. Your account can only hold a limited number of certain items, and slots are almost exclusively purchased with platinum (a small number can be earned through Nightwave, a free battle pass-like system). A new account starts with 50 non-tradable platinum – my recommendation is to buy 2 weapon slot packs (12p for two slots, 24p total) and a warframe slot (20p for one).
- Comment on Which game is it? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve had Friday evening sessions that were ended by the morning sun. I wasn’t kidding about the crack simile. Time is just a suggestion when you have an assembly line to complete.
- Comment on Which game is it? 2 weeks ago:
I have the most hours in Warframe, but Factorio is on a different level. If you’re anywhere on the spectrum, it is pure crack cocaine. The only reason I haven’t bought the DLC is because I know it’ll consume a month of my free time.
- Comment on Untraceable airplanes 3 weeks ago:
ADS-B can be disabled (not unexected for military aircraft) or made private at the request of governments.
- Comment on Spent half an hour on it. Felt good. 3 weeks ago:
You wrote an SQL statement?
- Comment on Every gram count. 4 weeks ago:
Fun fact: Linux gaming wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for 2B’s ass.
Philip Rebohle said in an interview that he started work on DXVK (compatibility layer between DirectX 11 and Vulkan) to get “one specific game to work”. That game was likely Nier Automata, the first high-profile game that ran on DXVK.
- Comment on GitHub - LadybirdBrowser/ladybird: Truly independent web browser 4 weeks ago:
Congratulations on completely misunderstanding the comic.
Ladybird is not a new standard. It is a new implementation of existing standards. Nobody has to change or adapt anything.
- Comment on Two conversational AI agents switching from English to sound-level protocol after confirming they are both AI agents 5 weeks ago:
Not the point. I’m bringing up the geth because they also communicate data over sound.
- Comment on Two conversational AI agents switching from English to sound-level protocol after confirming they are both AI agents 5 weeks ago:
When I said I wanted to live in Mass Effect’s universe, I meant faster-than-light travel and sexy blue aliens, not the fucking Geth.
- Comment on which softwares can I self host without public IP? 5 weeks ago:
As long as you’re not behind CGNAT, you can use a dynamic DNS provider (like duckdns.org) and its web API to keep a record pointed at your IP. If you’re behind CGNAT, Tailscale also has a service (Tailscale Funnel) that can expose an internal service to the internet.
- Comment on For those of us that can spot the URL for "Never Gonna Give You Up" at a glance, we are getting rickrolled without ever clicking the link. 1 month ago:
Kinda feels like losing the game, doesn’t it?
- Comment on Microsoft gives up on users experiencing problems updating their Windows 11 machines. Now recommends a "manual correction" 1 month ago:
There’s a massive difference between the average Windows user and the average PHP developer. It’s a false equivalence.
The regular computer user who just needs their apps to run won’t likely make the effort to enter an entirely new ecosystem as long as those apps run. And when they break? They’ll reinstall Windows or pay someone else to fix it.
I love shitting on Microsoft as much as the next penguin, but they’re not idiots. Even if some of their decisions are questionable, Windows is still a major part of their business, and they won’t just let it degrade to a point where Linux converts are a significant threat to their profit.
- Comment on Microsoft gives up on users experiencing problems updating their Windows 11 machines. Now recommends a "manual correction" 1 month ago:
the only way that’s going to keep Microsoft on top in the long term.
You underestimate the complacency of the masses.
- Comment on Reddit Refugees 1 month ago:
Spez.
He’s spreading cheeks to the muskrat with both hands, and in the process, “accidentally” banned a ton of NSFW subs.
- Comment on Single-photon LiDAR delivers detailed 3D images at distances up to 1 kilometer 1 month ago:
I bet Styropyro has a box of them tucked away somewhere. His laser defense turrets will have unmatched accuracy.
