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- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 1 week ago:
“Fancy graphics” also doesn’t correlate well with how visually appealing a game is. I would take Ori graphics over CoD any day.
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 1 week ago:
Which is to say that prices did increase every generation.
- Comment on Why don't these AI data centers build by the ocean? 1 week ago:
I wonder if it would be worthwhile to colocate large greenhouses with datacenters. The exhaust temperatures seem compatible with hothouse growing. The heat would still end up in the atmosphere, but at least it could enable growth of fresh local produce first.
- Comment on The Substack app sent a push notification promoting a Nazi newsletter to several users. 3 weeks ago:
Definitely, any changes natural or anthropogenic would be measured and to great accuracy. I just wanted to point out that the notion of the general public, especially if conditioned to distrust scientists and authorities, not noticing changes isn’t the outlandish part. See global warming denial despite years of record setting temperatures.
- Comment on The Substack app sent a push notification promoting a Nazi newsletter to several users. 3 weeks ago:
Ignoring conspiracy theory stuff, people aren’t very good at detecting changes in light levels if they happen gradually. During any solar eclipse there are wide bands where only a partial eclipse is observed. It’s pretty common for people in those bands to not notice that something has changed even with 50% occlusion.
- Comment on Why do some companies like a utility put out ads? 4 weeks ago:
Is your utility requesting rate increases from a public utilities commission?
- Comment on Hotels have developed a new revenue stream: "algorithmic" smoke detectors 5 weeks ago:
Isn’t this a textbook candidate for a class action suit?
- Comment on Can I lick it? 5 weeks ago:
Radon should be yellow. You don’t want long term exposure of it in your lungs, but it’s still mostly chemically inert and not a significant immediate danger.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 1 month ago:
Sure, but it’s normalized to kgs of product. With two lattes a day, 2kg of coffee lasts me about 2 months. 2kgs per person of beef would last many households less than a week.
If you were to normalize to average daily consumption, coffee and chocolate would be significantly lower ranked. It’s ok to keep some indulgences while focusing on higher impact reductions.
- Comment on How can I start getting familiar with the plants, trees and animals around where I live? 1 month ago:
It is available on android as well.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 1 month ago:
I just leave the adapter plugged into the headphones. Then there’s nothing extra to manage.
- Comment on VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website. 2 months ago:
It’s not about that either. It’s about connecting photo ID to browsing profiles and deanonymising the internet.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The trick to getting the pit off the knife is to not whack it in to begin with. Hold the knife parallel to the first cut and use the point on the heel to pry the pit up. It doesn’t take much force and the pit pops right out without sticking to the knife.
- Comment on The world was a nicer place before the advent of leaf blowers 3 months ago:
I had a neighbor who was rather compulsive about her yard. She would mow her yard/have it mowed 2-3 times a week and would use a leaf blower to push the grass clippings onto her neighbors yard every time. She would also leaf blow her roof with surprising frequency.
I gotta say, I was a little relieved when I saw the for sale sign in the yard earlier this year.
- Comment on If my county passes a new tax for um lets say a new jail. They staff it and build it and everything with the tax money. How come it seems the tax is there forever? Why not get rid of it when built? 3 months ago:
Usually that kind of thing is done through a bond measure. The increased tax isn’t enough to pay for a big project while it’s under construction. Big projects are financed by selling bonds. Those bonds need to keep being payed back well after the project is complete.
- Comment on Stardew Valley creator says he might make Stardew Valley 2 3 months ago:
He hasn’t had a great streak in completing progress in haunted chocolatier because he keeps getting pulled back into stardew valley ports and making new content for stardew valley. If he and his collaborators soon have to support both stardew valley and haunted chocolatier across multiple platforms, I don’t expect development on a new stardew valley game to progress quickly at all. I would expect half life 3 like timelines.
- Comment on Ping pong bot returns shots with high-speed precision 3 months ago:
Based on the subject matter, I thought this was going to be a StuffMadeHere video.
- Comment on What should I do if someone applied to a job at a company I work at without being able to legally work in my country? 3 months ago:
The recruiter sent you a non-elligible candidate. That’s just as much their problem as it is yours.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
The North Carolina legislature has a supermajority of far right republicans. The NC GOP is currently brazenly attempting to throw out legitimate ballots to steal a state supreme court seat, and the courts are going along with it. If they want to move for political concerns, I don’t think NC is enough of an improvement to justify the disruption involved.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Another way to view it is that college classes are filled with your future colleagues, and should be treated similar to a workplace. Students should generally dress similarly to how they expect to dress in their future workplaces. Whether that excludes a tank top is a matter of discretion, but clearly the proffesor did not find it to be professional. There’s no hard and fast rule, but I am surprised by the indignant tone in the comments here. Lectures are the domain of the professor and its not outlandish for them to set expectations about what they consider acceptable conduct for their lectures.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
They already thought of that. The department of education has already been dismantled. If there are no school nights there’s no problem, right?
- Comment on What is happening with Tesla (TSLA) stock currently? 📈 4 months ago:
Is the sales tax in your area 7.5% by any chance?
$16 x (100/107.5)= $14.88
I don’t see any gloves priced at 14.88 on their website at a quick check. I wonder if the store is trying to set a price that tallies to an even dollar amount and doesn’t know the connotation. I only recently learned about those numbers being associated so I would like to believe a benign explanation. Maybe you could ask to talk to a store manager next time you see it an make sure they know to avoid that price point.
- Comment on CISA fires then rehires security crew, and puts them on hold 5 months ago:
Do the terms of their employment change when they get rehired?
- Comment on New technology could save declining honeybee populations 5 months ago:
Honeybees are not the bee population that needs to be saved.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Taking an oral steroid like prednisone can help prevent asthma attacks for milder allergies, but that might not be sufficient for a severe peanut allergy.
Epinephren is not a gentle drug. You do not want to have to use an epi pen if you can avoid it. It causes the heart to race and result in lots of side effects that would make a flight extremely uncomfortable. I think it’s also metabolized quickly enough that a single dose is not going to last a whole flight.
I’m not an expert though, I just have multiple family members with moderate to severe allergies.
- Comment on People who say water doesn't help after eating piment are just wrong 5 months ago:
Maybe make it into a white Russian?
- Comment on US could cut Ukraine's access to Starlink internet services over minerals, say sources. 5 months ago:
I see it as an extension of the myth of American purity and external corruption. “This person is evil, some outside power must have compromising info on them.” “Immigrants are violent criminals preying on innocent americans.”
These attitudes ignore the reality that bad people can come from anywhere. There are plenty of villians with very mundane origin stories. What matters is if everyone else has the will and ability to keep bad people in check and hold them accountable.
The grifters in charge need no other motivation than a sense of superiority and an opportunity to make a buck.
- Comment on Business school professors trained an AI to judge workers' personalities based on their faces. 6 months ago:
They’ve been doing this with “natural intelligence” for ages.
- Comment on Intel Becomes Potential Takeover Target Of Broadcom, TSMC: Reports 6 months ago:
The scavenger predator formerly known as Avago Technologies Limited currently wears Broadcom as a skinsuit to disguise hostile takeovers as normal tech mergers.
- Comment on PayPal owns brands like Venmo, Honey and is heavily integrated into eBay - if you're looking to stop giving your money to bad companies, take a second to search their subsidiary brands as well. 6 months ago:
From wikipedia
Zelle (/zɛl/) is a United States–based digital payments network run by a private financial services company owned by the banks Bank of America, Truist, Capital One, JPMorgan Chase, PNC Bank, U.S. Bank, and Wells Fargo.
So PayPal does not seem to own an interest in Zelle, but the group of owners isn’t necessarily better than PayPal.