CookieOfFortune
@CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world
- Comment on why are fitness weights filled with sand? 3 days ago:
Note that it’s usually not fresh sand. It’s whatever the cheapest sand-like material they can get their hands on. Which is likely mining waste. Which might not be great for your health.
- Comment on Baby boomers want to axe property taxes. Millennials and Gen Z would pay for it. 4 days ago:
But it would increase the supply of homes since it disincentivizes investment properties.
- Comment on People are playing fewer games and new releases are "struggling", say Ubisoft UK, warning of falling revenues 6 days ago:
Ubisofts full releases this year:
- AC: Shadows
- Just Dance 2026
- Anno 117
So literally all sequels. They’re just hoping people will dish out their annual franchise spending.
But the bar is so high these days. Spending millions on graphics just isn’t sufficient.
- Comment on Why do so many services require email configuration? 1 week ago:
What was their reason for declining?
They are, actually. They’re a registered non-profit.
I see they’re a non profit business. That doesn’t make them a charity. They have paying customers.
- Comment on Why do so many services require email configuration? 1 week ago:
This is the repo.
However, it seems they’re running a business, which means revenue generating features will probably be prioritized. They’re not running a charity.
I’m sure if you donate enough money you can probably get them to implement better self hosting functionality. Chances are the email requirement is just what they have for other features.
- Comment on Where do you typically leave/read reviews 2 weeks ago:
The last like… 5 times I’ve left an Amazon review with some criticism, I’ve gotten full refund offers. The most recent one they want to send me a new version.
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 2 weeks ago:
I’m just saying it’s more feasible than mirrors. Not that it’s actually feasible.
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 2 weeks ago:
Would be cheaper just to launch the solar panels.
- Comment on 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower 2 weeks ago:
The previous version is already in the Temerario. This is more of an evolution of an existing design.
- Comment on From what I've seen, public transit is either expensive and terrible or cheap and good. 3 weeks ago:
I’d argue Switzerland is an example of good but expensive.
- Comment on How are computer chips designed? 3 weeks ago:
When I was studying this formally they were using VHDL and Verilog which are programming languages to do circuit design.
Roughly they can take a logical description (input A goes to output B, etc), do A LOT of math and create the circuit layout.
- Comment on Posers 3 weeks ago:
Fluid dynamics could apply to both air and water.
- Comment on Posers 3 weeks ago:
Biochemistry for the blood bending.
- Comment on Peter Parker/Spider-Man should just get a job in fashion 4 weeks ago:
He’s a genius though… he could just be a freelance software developer that works remote.
- Comment on Peter Parker/Spider-Man should just get a job in fashion 4 weeks ago:
Is fashion a good job? I don’t think it generally pays very well.
- Comment on what country would you never go to again? 4 weeks ago:
Probably Indonesia. Went to Bali and it was underwhelming. Unlikely to have a reason to see the rest of the country. Too many other places I’d like to visit for the first time or revisit.
- Comment on Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site 5 weeks ago:
lol he first said he directed Titanic.
- Comment on Permanent Debuff 1 month ago:
Just consider what would happen if you lost a limb!
- Comment on They're coming. 1 month ago:
Hmm… do you actually need thumbs to fly a modern commercial jet?
- Comment on Lara Croft is a Sociopath 1 month ago:
At least in some stealth games you can avoid confrontation and killing.
- Comment on The absolute WORST 1 month ago:
Is this common? I don’t think it’s ever happened to me.
- Comment on How Chrono Trigger Taught Me The Word ‘Epoch’ 1 month ago:
Just Phoenix Feather would be fine. Better than Down.
- Comment on If sexuality is a spectrum, does that mean one person is the gayest? 1 month ago:
Doesn’t this imply gayness is discrete and there is a quanta of gay?
- Comment on Wobble wobble 2 months ago:
And the FAA!
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Well you want some weight which is why I’m suggesting the whole car but sure if you want some custom solution you can build something better.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Hmm… this might be easier to do with an electric car. Put it on an inclined track, and then drive uphill to store energy, and go downhill to release the energy.
- Comment on If you had to buy a new TV, what brand would you get? 2 months ago:
Yeah monitors typically cost more than the equivalent TV as it’ll have more features.
- Comment on Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels? 2 months ago:
This depends on the country. Switzerland has excellent transit to even remote towns. And it has an excellent car culture for this reason as well.
- Comment on Researchers revive the pinhole camera for next-gen infrared imaging 2 months ago:
Hmm, so if I understand the paper (which I might not), the lens is created by one laser beam, and then light from the sample causes a two photon effect in the lens area. Since two photon effects continue propagation, it’s in effect a pinhole which can be used for imaging. This seems like quite an elegant experiment.
- Comment on xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure 2 months ago:
Can still work as long as you use the same ruler and just use referenced measurements.