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- Comment on We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem 2 days ago:
Prisencolinensinainciusol an Italian song that is complete gibberish but made to sound like an English language song. That’s what AI is right now.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 2 weeks ago:
There are a subset of vegans who are very vocal an pushy about being vegan.
There are a lot people who think vegan food is just salads.
Vegans often don’t actually remember what meat tastes like. I have several very nice vegan friends. They sometimes that something tastes just like meat and you can’t tell the difference. In sorry but I can tell and vegan meat substitutes are often bad.
It’s too bad because there are a lot of tasty and satisfying vegan dishes but they are usually not trying to mimic meat. I love fried tofo or mapo tofu. I’ve never had a good tofu burger.
There are also a lot of vegans who are all or nothing. I eat meat but I also try to limit the amount. I don’t need meat at every meal. Some act like that’s the same as eating streak for the meals a day.
There is also a lot of complexity eating vegan. Just cooking for vegan friends can almost double the complexity.
I primarily limit meat because of environmental reasons. And frankly my backyard chickens are lower impact then that avocado at the store.
- Comment on can't stop won't stop 2 weeks ago:
In other news Ben Franklin steals time machine hits all the best parties throughout time.
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 4 weeks ago:
Most mods shouldn’t require the dlc unless they are based around it. Royalty is very good and add a lot of game play improvements like high tech melee weapons and psi powers. The system around psi powers is innovative and new. Boitech has cool new races with specialities and weakness. You can get very overpower with the right combos. The mechs are super disappointing as their unique drawback toxic waste is extremely had to deal with without cheese until late game when you can magic it away with some difficult to obtain parts. Ideology has fun ideas and roleplaying potential but it’s implemented in a meh way. It’s nice to be able to say my colony doesn’t care about cannibalism or likes nutripaste but it doesn’t add much beyond that. I haven’t played the new horror one. It doesn’t look very good. I’ll see what kind of reviews it gets.
- Comment on Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don't come with a requirement that drivers watch the road 4 weeks ago:
Berkshire Hathaway owns Geico the car insurance company. In one of his annual letters Buffett said that autonomous cars are going to be great for humanity and bad for insurance companies.
“If [self-driving cars] prove successful and reduce accidents dramatically, it will be very good for society and very bad for auto insurers.”
Actuaries are by definition bad at assessing new risk. But as data get collected they quickly adjust to it. There are a lot of cars so if driverless cars become even a few percent of cars on the road they will quickly be able to build good actuarial tables.
- Comment on Boston Dynamics introduces a fully electric humanoid robot that “exceeds human performance” 4 weeks ago:
We have set up the world to be very usable and traversable by humans. A robot in that form would be able to go and do most things. Think of all the changes to places that needed to be made as part of the ADA. And those were for humans with relatively small changes such as wheels instead of legs.
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 4 weeks ago:
You misunderstand potatos. Rice and corn both have high sensitivity to soil quality. Potatos have low sensitivity. So with normal or better soil rice and corn both get a big speed boost and potatos get a small speed boost.
With poor soil rice and corn get a big speed penalty potatos get small speed penalty.
So normal or better soil plant rice or corn. Poor soil plant potatos.
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 4 weeks ago:
I’ve got way to many hours in rimworld.
Some tips.
Psychic shock lances are must haves. You can’t make them but they are easy to buy from traiders and settlements. Two uses and they are gone but so worth it. They cost about 600 with two uses so 300 a zap. Here are some great ways to use them.
Raider with a great set of skills and traits. Zap him and stockholm syndrom him. Raider with nice very expensive armor. Zap and strip. You just spent 300 silver to buy a few thousand worth of armor and removed a strong enemy. And it doesn’t have the tainted trait because he didn’t die. Raider with a mini gun or doomsday launcher. Zap now you have it and they don’t. Raider grabbed one of your pawns and leaving the map. Zap.
Insanity Lance is also good. Notably against any pawns with a rocket launcher. Have it shot it’s friends. Or a good meele raider. Zap and the raiders are dealing with it while you are getting in position.
Both are consumables that you have to find or buy but are so profitable and can save your bacon.
You can pause and see all stats and equipment. When raiders show up check for pawns with skills you need or dangerous weapons like doomsday launchers.
Home zone is also where they clean. Turn it off in areas you don’t need cleaned like crops. This saves a ton of pawn time. It’s also where they fight fires. So you need to add it back when there is a fire.
If you are using mods complex jobs is a great choice. It breaks down jobs into more categories. So for example anyone can tend wounds but only good doctors can do surgery.
Combat keeps ramping up if you don’t take losses and as you gain wealth. So you can end up with a very brittle base where any attack that can hurt you also is a almost total wipe. Look up kill box designs. They are almost required.
If you don’t have a kill box. Having a pawn in armor and a shield belt with a smoke launcher firing at it behind cover is great in combat. Put it just in front of your shooters. The raiders shot at it and it doesn’t take much if any damage. Letting your shooter pawns fire away.
If you want other tips let me know or check out Francis John. He has good guides and some of his playthroughs are great. I recommend the tribal wizards playthrough for fun.
When that poor pawn gets stuck in Australia having to wall him self in to hide from the mechs, raiders, and bugs. Rebuilding the wall from the inside as they chew at it from the outside.
- Comment on How does South Park get away with trashing identifiable people? Are they sued often? 5 weeks ago:
I did. My mobile keyboard sucks and changes things when I start a new word. I often miss it.
- Comment on How does South Park get away with trashing identifiable people? Are they sued often? 5 weeks ago:
Simple answer is they are careful about what they say and have good lawyers that review it.
A few examples.
Calling Tom Cruise a fudge packer in the context of him being in a bathhouse could eaisly open them up to liability for calling him gay. But doing it in a fudge factory while showing him putting fudge in a box gives them a clear defense that they meant it literally.
Simmaraly telling him to come out of the closet while he is actually in a closet provides cover.
Making things so absurd that a reasonable person wouldn’t believe it and know it’s a joke also works. So having Barbara Streisand aquire an artifact that makes her into a giant robot monster works but something plausible wouldn’t.
Having Kanye open up and admit he is a gay fish is absurd enough to provide protection. However they probably couldn’t get away with him simply coming out as gay.
Of course the genius of south park is they use these legal protections in ways that make the story funnier and not just for cover.
- Comment on Texas got more electricity from solar than coal last month 5 weeks ago:
Solar has another huge advantage. No moving parts. Moving parts mean more complexity, more maintenance, and more failures. We need wind but it’s never going to be as simple and reliable as solar.
- Comment on RimWorld - Anomaly (DLC) Store page is up 2 months ago:
The base game is fully playable without any of the expansions and has a solid amount of content.
- Comment on Command & Conquer™ The Ultimate Collection now available on Steam 2 months ago:
Dune 2 is generally considered the first RTS game.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Not quite. Some is lost in magnetic flux and mechanical deformation. But that is a VERY small about.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
To be fair we have two alphabets upper case and lower case. The hiragana and katakana are basically the same. One to one equivalency between them. The kanji does add a lot of complexity.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Banana peels were used as a visual euphemism for dog shit for so long people stopped realizing they were a euphemism.
- Comment on Arizona's solar-over-canal project will tackle its major drought issue 5 months ago:
It’s also a win win design. Shade from the panels reduces evaporation in the canals and the water helps cool the panels which improves their efficiency.
- Comment on One thing the fandoms can agree on. 6 months ago:
Is he good at pacing? His movies are just go go go go without any room to breathe.