wewbull
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- Comment on Delicious 3 days ago:
Dramatic actor? Yes, agreed. I just never liked his film comedy.
- Comment on Reform UK to accept donations via bitcoin, Nigel Farage says 4 days ago:
Really? There’s a register of bitcoin wallet IDs to names and addresses?
- Comment on Delicious 4 days ago:
I assume you only know his film work then.
- Comment on Delicious 4 days ago:
…in America
- Comment on Reform UK to accept donations via bitcoin, Nigel Farage says 5 days ago:
Reform open the doorway for anonymous unregulated donations
- Comment on Half-Life 3 Has Been Designed to be ‘The Final Chapter’, It’s Claimed 6 days ago:
Hardly. HL:A is the only game that would interest me in the slightest on VR platforms. No “upgrade” involves buying a dead end platform for one game.
- Comment on Jobcentres will no longer force people into ‘any job’ available, minister says 6 days ago:
You regret not taking it?
- Comment on When I was a kid, "thongs" were footwear... 1 week ago:
Bum bags.
…but nobody wears them since a very brief stint in the 80s.
- Comment on When I was a kid, "thongs" were footwear... 1 week ago:
I always assumed you called them thongs because the bit that goes between your toes looks like the underwear going up a butt-crack.
- Comment on Prototype of RTX 5090 Appears With Four 16-Pin Power Connectors, Capable of Delivering 2,400W 1 week ago:
All UK plugs are 13A.
- Comment on Prototype of RTX 5090 Appears With Four 16-Pin Power Connectors, Capable of Delivering 2,400W 1 week ago:
10A. That’s fine.
- Comment on Half-Life 3 Has Been Designed to be ‘The Final Chapter’, It’s Claimed 1 week ago:
A game 90% of people can’t play.
Should have left the main narrative alone.
- Comment on Half-Life 3 Has Been Designed to be ‘The Final Chapter’, It’s Claimed 1 week ago:
We’ve been needing something since Duke Nukem finally shipped.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 1 week ago:
As someone who can command the end of other people’s lives on a whim, you also qualify. Snapping your fingers ends your life too.
- Comment on The technology to end traffic deaths exists. Why aren’t we using it? 1 week ago:
It’s still bad.
My old commute was a 25-30 minute drive. For a while though, I had to do it by public transport.
I’d be walking for less than 10 minutes because both my house and my work were close to the train station. The rest of it was on 4 different trains, but all within one metropolitan area. The changes were no more than 5 minutes each, pretty good really. However, the number of stops and the number of changes killed any progress. The end result was that it took 1h45m to 2h.
Changing a 8hr + 2x30m day into an 8hr + 2x2h day is a significant change in lifestyle. Losing 3hr day means you don’t enjoy your evenings, you don’t socialise, and life is only work. It’s miserable.
On a different job I worked at I could get there with just 1 train. That was about 35 minute drive or 55 minutes by train once you included the walk (again about 10-15 minutes total). Even with that you’re asking yourself “Why am I not driving?”.
- Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year 1 week ago:
yikes
- Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year 1 week ago:
Pretty sure Musk has had a significant shift. Not saying he started out as a nice normal guy, but something cracked for sure.
- Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year 1 week ago:
Half life: Alyx required VR.
Half life 3 requires neural integration.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
On one hand I agree with you, but I can also see that you can’t let every class decend into a debate about the material. Unless you have the time to build every “scientific fact” up from the evidence that led to it (and you don’t) you’ll forever be having arguments against every idea coming out of a bunch of 10 year old’s heads.
So you teach it all as solid fact, and then add the nuance later when they’re older. Trouble is, a lot of people either didn’t really understand the impact of the nuance or didn’t connect the dots back to the things they were taught early on.
As for the maths thing, consider that maybe…just maybe…they were teaching you a more advanced technique using a simple example. You didn’t need that technique for the simple example. You needed it for the next part of the course, but you learnt it before you needed it so you understood it when you did need it. You didn’t understand that because you only saw what was Infront of you.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Not currently recognised as a dwarf planet. A bit of scanning seems to suggest there’s a good argument that it’s should be designated a binary planet system, but that would call into question if the Earth - Moon system is too.
The Moon not being a moon would really mess with people.
So, currently, no not Charon.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
That’s correct by definition, but the reason the definition was changed to exclude pluto was because our knowledge changed.
We found more Pluto-like objects and it became clear they weren’t the same thing as the other 8 planets. They needed their own classification. So we created one (Dwarf Planets) and put Pluto in it along with its brethren.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Here’s the thing with “facts”. Every scientific explanation is just our current best explanation. They’re not all perfect and as we learn more the explanations change.
The lesson of Pluto is that science evolves and you have to stay up to date. They’ll be a bunch of stuff you learned as facts that has now been revised, corrected, reclassified or revoked. The other obvious one is how much the appearance of dinosaurs has been revised over the last few decades.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
All because of a cartoon dog.
I don’t think they’d care if Neptune and Pluto swapped names.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
- Comment on A “victim blaming” row has broken out on social media, after a cyclist uploaded footage of what he described as the “closest pass I’ve ever seen” 1 week ago:
Well looking at that still image, it appears that that cycle lane is of a decent size and has double yellows. Looks like the safest place for a cyclist to be in that case as it allows people to pass safely. If I saw someone cycling out of the cycle lane in that situation I’d think they’re being foolish. Taking a greater risk than necessary and causing an obstruction.
Is someone not being in the cycle lane an excuse for road rage? Of course not. There’s no excuse for road rage.
- Comment on Mom sues porn sites (Including Chaturbate, Jerkmate, Superporn and Hentaicity) for noncompliance with Kansas age assurance law; Teen can no longer enjoy life after mom caught him visiting Chaturbate 1 week ago:
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 1 week ago:
How can they sell your details if you don’t register for an account?
I’d personally much rather sync was done with no account. More like synching where clients connect directly to each other with a QR code (or cut&paste code)
- Comment on Speak American 1 week ago:
🏴 English (Dragon tongue)
- Comment on Speak American 1 week ago:
Or in American …
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- Comment on Some people have it worse 1 week ago:
I’ve been to Egypt several times, and sometimes I’ve stayed with people who have moved there.
The impression I get is that there very few ways for people born there to raise themselves up above what I call “The Hustle”. There’s a state of being where the key to survival is extracting money out of everyone you meet. By fair means or foul, you must make money.
It can be making sure every person that walks into your shop buys something. It can be being a kerb crawling tuk tuk driver pestering walkers by. It can be thieving. It can be taking bribes in local government. Everybody is on the hustle. You can’t afford to trust people because they’ll take any advantage they can. It’s a permanent state of stress and fear.
…and then there are the immigrant whales that move there, buy a big house on the coast and exploit the locals by flashing the cash.
All of that said, when people do manage to find something stable, they’re a great people, but there are so few decent ways to make enough money.