ashok36
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- Comment on All these hurricanes might kick off a new modular house trend. 4 weeks ago:
Modular or not, when there’s 10-12’ of storm surge and/or river flooding, it doesn’t matter. Houses built today generally handle cat 3 and even cat 4 storm winds without much problem. It’s the flooding that’s the killer.
- Comment on This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates. 1 month ago:
No. Absolutely not. Whenever anyone says, “wouldn’t it be great to live forever” remember that means people like trump and Musk are with us forever. Unless people take things into their own hands, but that’s another issue.
- Comment on Assassin's Creed Shadows delayed to February 14, 2025, abandoning season pass strategy, Steam launch day 1, and more 1 month ago:
These idiots could just release a high quality story expansion for Black Flag every year for ten years and make a billion dollars. Instead they do… This.
- Comment on Do all there former Republican leaders endorsing Harris do her any good? 2 months ago:
If your predecessor beat the guy by using platform A, it stands to reason that a pretty safe campaign strategy is to not deviate from platform A very much.
- Comment on Satisfactory 1.0 2 months ago:
That’s your right and I support you but… If your standard is “I don’t buy products that are made by bad people”… You’re gonna have a tough time. No such thing as ethical capitalism and all that.
- Comment on Bluetooth 6.0 adds centimeter-level accuracy for device tracking — upgraded version also improves device pairing 2 months ago:
If your phone has Bluetooth turned on, it’ll track you.
- Comment on Revised Raspberry Pi 5 chip comes with unexpected power savings 2 months ago:
I literally just went to the links provided by the Buy Now buttons on the raspberry pi website and they’re all there.
I feel like there’s a Mandela effect thing going on with how people remember the price of pis several years ago. If anything, because of inflation, pis are cheaper now than when they released.
- Comment on Revised Raspberry Pi 5 chip comes with unexpected power savings 2 months ago:
The pi3B+ and pi4B are still $35 for the 1GB models and have the same performance today that they did when they came out (and way more compatible software).
If all you’re doing is setting up a tinkering lab at a school, which everyone and their mom seems to want to do judging by the comments, you can still do that. The only thing that has changed is the entry of the sbc choices. Raspberry pi hasn’t gotten worse, the market has just caught up with them to some degree and that’s fine.
- Comment on Revised Raspberry Pi 5 chip comes with unexpected power savings 2 months ago:
More for the rest of us, I guess.
- Comment on It genuinely upsets me that Valve spent their time and resources on another Dota variation 2 months ago:
I’d much rather have a game like deadlock developed out of love and passion than some suits dictating to the devs to make games they don’t want to. That’s how we get Avengers, Redfall, Gotham Knights, etc…
- Comment on Starbucks' new CEO will supercommute 1,000 miles from California to Seattle office instead of relocating 2 months ago:
You can record a zoom meeting easily with obs. Same for teams. I know, I’ve done it.
- Comment on Starbucks' new CEO will supercommute 1,000 miles from California to Seattle office instead of relocating 2 months ago:
A zoom call has the possibility of being recorded. I’m 90% sure at this point all these execs insist on in person meetings is so they can plan and discuss illegal and unethical shit without worry.
I’m only in middle management and I know I feel the difference in the way I talk about things on zoom calls VS in person.
- Comment on The Elon / Trump interview on X started with an immediate tech disaster 3 months ago:
Elegant, efficient code? Who needs that shit?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
When you realize all the people you admired for their love of freedom actually just meant the freedom to be an asshole… That’s a hard lesson to learn.
- Comment on Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees 3 months ago:
I can’t read the link but if we just gauge the health of the indie game portion of the industry by how many games are released, I think the only conclusion you can make is that it’s quite healthy. In no small part due to steam which provides discoverability for smaller titles and handles a lot of the technical stuff (downloads, multi-player, even drm) so indie devs don’t have to.
You just seem to have a chip on your shoulder in this department and it’s not clear why other than “billionaires are bad”.
- Comment on Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees 4 months ago:
Well, that sure took a turn I wasn’t expecting.
- Comment on Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees 4 months ago:
Provide one example if it’s so ubiquitous. I have been following the EGS discourse for years and never seen anyone complain about the free games.
Maybe complaints about how the games aren’t worth it because you have to use EGS, sure. I’ve made that joke myself. That’s a different complaint though.
- Comment on Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees 4 months ago:
Go ask any indie developer if they think the 30% cut valve takes from sales through steam means they’re “getting fucked”. I can assure you, the vast majority do not.
Serving files, absorbing the costs of credit card payments and charge backs, and maintaining community forums is worth the 30% alone. Hell, just being able to list your product on the most popular store is worth it for some people.
In my industry, physical stores won’t even consider stocking your product for less than 40pts of margin and the big guys expect you to absorb the freight costs as well.
30% on storefront sales and you can sell your own keys for 100% profit on your own site is more than fair.
- Comment on Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees 4 months ago:
I’m sure you came up with that 5% number after careful research and didn’t just pull some low round number out of your ass.
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- Comment on Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees 4 months ago:
Nobody shit on epic for giving away free games. You can’t just make a completely false statement like that.
Please don’t like epic because they bought games and made them exclusive to their store.
- Comment on Las Vegas' dystopia-sphere, powered by 150 Nvidia GPUs and drawing up to 28,000,000 watts, is both a testament to the hubris of humanity and an admittedly impressive technical feat | PC Gamer 4 months ago:
Turns out you’re correct. I appreciate the correction.
- Comment on Las Vegas' dystopia-sphere, powered by 150 Nvidia GPUs and drawing up to 28,000,000 watts, is both a testament to the hubris of humanity and an admittedly impressive technical feat | PC Gamer 4 months ago:
Vegas is almost entirely powered by the hoover dam. It’s already pretty green as far as energy goes. The question will be where do they get their power from in a few years when lake mead dries up.
- Comment on Why is Horizon: An American Saga flopping in theaters? 4 months ago:
I don’t like Kevin Costner.
- Comment on My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore 4 months ago:
I’m not passing blame. Just giving an example.
- Comment on My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore 4 months ago:
I can kind of feel the author on this. I’m in charge of a lot of “special projects” at work that basically come down to, “figure out a way to replicate this extremely expensive technology or software using low cost or free alternatives”. It ends up being an unholy mix of programs and hardware that is held together with duct tape and super glue and any minor perturbation means something breaks.
- Comment on China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report 4 months ago:
Ehrlich Bachman, this is your mom and you, you are not my baby.
- Comment on Palmer Luckey's FPGA Game Boy clone lands just in time for the holidays | TechSpot 5 months ago:
He also has a company that does anti drone tech for the Department of Defense.
- Comment on Objectivity 5 months ago:
I would highly highly doubt it. He’s just the “science man” of memes so he’s used as a stand in for all scientists, or at least science communicators.
- Comment on Neuralink's first in-human brain implant has experienced a problem, company says 6 months ago:
The older I get, the more becoming a robot tiger seems like as good a retirement plan as I’m gonna get.
- Comment on Just used spray foam for the first time... 6 months ago:
The foam gets on the gloves and then you take them off. Et Voila, no foam on your hands.