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- Comment on [Ahoy] What genre is DOOM? 2 days ago:
And what defines that genre?
- Comment on NASA remotely reprogramming Voyager 1 also means that aliens can reprogram all of our satellites. 2 days ago:
Can you reprogram the satellites? Because it must only be easier for you to do it than aliens at least you understand human languages.
- Comment on Gender-specific toilets to be required in non-residential buildings in England 3 days ago:
Well even if one did it won’t be prevented by gender separation of toilets.
- Comment on "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" 3 days ago:
Did that actually break computers? I remember hearing about it at the time but I also don’t remember having a problem. I didn’t think I took any real precautions either, I just carried on as per and nothing ever happened.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 3 days ago:
But the game isn’t even available on PlayStation so why am I creating an account? At the very least it’s pointless busy work. And apparently not even well thought out.
- Comment on With two Boeing whistleblowers dead in one month, either Boeing is actively killing them, or there are enough whistleblowers that this rate of death is not statistically significant 5 days ago:
It statistically significant because middle-aged people who were about to give evidence at a trial dying is not a common occurrence. Happening once is suspicious happening twice is extremely suspicious.
It is not like Boeing is staffed by geriatrics on the edge of life as it is
- Comment on recruiting theocracy 5 days ago:
Pot calling the kettle black is used when somebody is making a hypocritic statement.
- Comment on recruiting theocracy 6 days ago:
I’m worried that you don’t know what that aphorism means, because that comment made absolutely zero sense whatsoever.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app 6 days ago:
The processing was done server-side as it is with the other thing. If you find a way to do it client-side let me know otherwise I’m not interested in your dumb product.
- Comment on Why data centers want to have their own nuclear reactors 6 days ago:
Nuclear power is complicated because it still involves mining. Which will inevitably damage the environment even if all the mining equipment are electric vehicles run on solar power.
- Comment on The retro Nokia phone everyone owned 25 years ago will get a reboot soon – and yes, it has Snake 6 days ago:
A modern smartphone has a screen that’s going to break. Those old phones had a block of plastic that was an LCD screen and then some buttons made out of some form of rubbery sponge.
They broke all the time, the point was that you could just put them back together again in 30 seconds. Everything is glued in place now, so when shock happens they rip and snap.
- Comment on Sunak to allow oil and gas exploration at sites intended for offshore wind 6 days ago:
This won’t go anywhere. It takes absolutely ages to do these investigations, I can’t imagine the conservative government will last that long. Besides the oil companies will highly suspect drilling licenses will be denied when Labour are in government, so they’re not going to spend the money on the investigations if they’re pretty confident they won’t be allowed to actually drill.
This is just him showing everyone how massively Tory he is to all the upstanding voters that have left for reform (please come back, we need the scumbag vote).
- Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 6 days ago:
The campaign should have very much steered away from using the word video game at all. It allows them to dismiss the entire ideas oh look at them nerds. If they’d said software, and emphasized the corporate angle, we may have got a better response.
- Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 6 days ago:
You are probably better off for asking that same question in 6 months, maybe less.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 is Just an Android App 1 week ago:
I’ve met them they seriously don’t think like that. They have so much money that they can afford to be completely irresponsible with it. From that standpoint it is easier to just throw money at the wall and see what sticks and go through the effort of actually working it out.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 is Just an Android App 1 week ago:
So it was faked. The ship of Theseus was still a ship with the same capabilities at the end. They didn’t add an engine to it.
- Comment on Royal Mail waives £5 penalty charge for fake stamps 1 week ago:
What happened here is basically the private company that took over didn’t care because they had no competition. They were also incredibly corrupt and evil which didn’t help but they also didn’t do basic maintenance and stuff on the infrastructure so everything fell apart.
It all works as long as the government actually puts money into public services but every now and then you get one that seems to think that the solution to a tiny bit of debt is to spend no money at all, on anything.
- Comment on Royal Mail waives £5 penalty charge for fake stamps 1 week ago:
They take pictures of the letters as they come in from all angles, and then a computer algorithm builds a 3D structure of the letter so they know how big it is and which machines it can and can’t go through if it’s too big to go through a particular machine it gets redirected to another process. Also they have metal detectors so the keys would be detected right away.
Maybe in the '90s this was a problem with large items in envelopes but not anymore because they can detect it before it gets anywhere near the problem machine.
They have a whole list of things you can and can’t post and one of the things you can post is live insects so obviously they’re not mangling everything to an auto sorter.
- Comment on Royal Mail waives £5 penalty charge for fake stamps 1 week ago:
They already had a perfectly good method for preventing stamps from being used more than once which was to stamp them. But sometimes they fail to do that too.
- Comment on Royal Mail waives £5 penalty charge for fake stamps 1 week ago:
The only people who like the RM the way it is is the government. Everyone else would be quite happy for it to go back into public ownership. But for once they’re not actually at fault here. Charging the recipient is just how it works.
- Comment on Royal Mail waives £5 penalty charge for fake stamps 1 week ago:
How?
The only thing someone could do is send me a lot of annoying mail. I just never pick it up and it never costs me any money.
- Comment on Royal Mail waives £5 penalty charge for fake stamps 1 week ago:
I am confused how the QR code was supposed to stop forgery. I have never seen anyone scan the code at any point in the process so I don’t understand how it was supposed to help.
I’ve scanned the code myself and it’s just a number sequence. Unless you’re checking that against some sort of database, which I assume is the idea, then the existence of the number sequence itself proves nothing. But as I have said I’ve never seen anyone actually scan the damn things. I don’t even understand who’s supposed to do it.
- Comment on Xbox Console Sales Are Tanking 1 week ago:
It was also different platform. Ps5 games are not compatible with PS4 consoles.
- Comment on Xbox Console Sales Are Tanking 1 week ago:
The switch 2 it’s just an upgrade. You’re still going to be able to play all the same games
- Comment on Xbox Console Sales Are Tanking 1 week ago:
Microsoft have sucked at naming things basically forever. Look at their windows versions. First they were numbered after the year release which made sense, they kind of break the trend with millennium edition but it’s still sort of worked because it came out in 2000. Was also a 2000 which confused things and then after that it just continued to go downhill.
95, 98, 2000 (presumably because they didn’t want to call it 00), XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 (because nine is evil for some reason), 11
There’s a rumor the next version is going to be called X, I assume because they haven’t really advanced as a company since the '90s and they still think that’s cool.
- Comment on ONS staff refuse to work two days a week in office 1 week ago:
My employer requests all sorts of things, but I simply ignore any email that doesn’t say the things I want it to say
3 years later and I’ve not been fired, so I guess they don’t really care that much.
- Comment on ONS staff refuse to work two days a week in office 1 week ago:
That’s a deflection. Not a retort.
- Comment on ONS staff refuse to work two days a week in office 1 week ago:
So why are they allowing part-time work then. If working in the office is necessary then surely it is necessary 100% of the time. So if they are allowing anyone to spend some time working outside of the office then clearly they can spend all their time working outside the office.
The managers just don’t want them doing that.
- Comment on ONS staff refuse to work two days a week in office 1 week ago:
I’m also a big fan of being able to work from home a couple of days a week
Partial work from home is ridiculous. They fully admit that it isn’t necessary to be in the office but at the same time still want to have some kind of control. So they settle for this not at all a reasonable compromise compromise.
If you want to go into the office fine that’s your prerogative, but I don’t think it’s fair to pretend there’s some kind of justification for it.
- Comment on Ever notice mammals never seem to come in green? 1 week ago:
What about a moldy sloth?