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- Comment on Games you fell out of love with. 1 hour ago:
How many other games from 2011 just got re-re-re-released on the Switch 2 for a full $60, though?
- Comment on New nickel-iron battery charges in seconds, survives 12,000 cycles 1 day ago:
Poorly. According to a random Wikipedia query, commodity lithium ion is 250 Wh per kilogram. So this is around 20% of that, according to the above.
“Excellent” may be in comparison to other byzantine specialty battery chemistries, but lithium ion remains resolutely enthroned.
- Comment on My only response to Discord 2 days ago:
As any night club bouncer or liquor store clerk knows, ZIP code 12345 actually resolves to Schenectady, New York.
- Comment on PROTIP 3 days ago:
I carried my Schrade Switch-It every day in the little seam pocket of my carpenter’s jeans (as was the style at the time) and the only flak I ever caught for it was one day the principal spotting it and telling me he didn’t want to see me with my “pager” at school anymore.
I told him he had my scout’s honor that he would never see me with a pager so long as a lived. Yes, this sailed right over his head. I still didn’t get into trouble, though, which is surprising given the sheer variety of other stupid and highly spurious things that somehow got me in trouble in school.
- Comment on PROTIP 3 days ago:
- Comment on What to do with a roll of unprintable filament 5 days ago:
Filament hinges. Filament hinges everywhere.
- Comment on All fight no flight 6 days ago:
I don’t think I’ve ever been in a meme before.
- Comment on People don't really know their own motivation for their actions 1 week ago:
The most succinct summation of this I’ve seen is a turn of phrase once again lifted from Daniel Rutter:
You are not your brain. You are something that your brain does.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 1 week ago:
Not until somebody shuts off the investor money faucet for AI. Then they’ll come crawling back — although inevitably not until after they go whining to all the world’s governments about wanting a bailout.
But hey, look at the bright side. We’ve already had the cryptocurrency mining boom and bust, and “AI” boom and soon to be bust. There’s still time for some idiot to invent the next tech scam fad which will conveniently require a shitload of hardware for no recognizably useful purpose.
- Comment on xkcd #3204: Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs 1 week ago:
Basically all life on Earth that’s not some bacteria or fungi originally developed in the oceans, and only later adapted to life on land. If you go back far enough, the common ancestor of anything that walks, crawls, or flies ultimately originally swam.
- Comment on Anyone old enough to have used this before GPS? 1 week ago:
I have seen guys do it, though. I suppose in certain specific scenarios it might make sense. I’m in agreement there, though, I think I’ll give it a pass unless I absolutely have to.
- Comment on Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” 1 week ago:
Hey, man. I am four stars at least.
- Comment on Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” 1 week ago:
“Everything I don’t like is terrorism.”
What is this, 2001 again?
- Comment on Anyone old enough to have used this before GPS? 1 week ago:
For anyone wondering what the heck this thing is, it’s called a roll chart. Usually these are loaded with turn-by-turn instructions for rally racing or similar, but as you can see you can also stick a map in one.
If you’re going to do the map thing it kind of helps for your overall route to be oriented vertically, or else otherwise you have to stick the map in it sideways.
- Comment on Anyone old enough to have used this before GPS? 1 week ago:
It’s a map in a roll chart holder. These days they’re used in rally and off road racing, and sometimes motorcycle touring.
- Comment on What's with companies naming things "MyNoun"? 1 week ago:
I can confirm this to at least some degree. Part of my job involves marketing and this unfortunately requires at least some minimum peripheral contact with professional marketing people.
They’re idiots, at least on the creative side. They live in a bubble of their own making and are among the worst people on Earth for predicting how regular people think, interact with products or websites, or make decisions.
However, they also get piles and piles of cash shoveled in their direction by executive types who are also idiots, in the vain hope of an ROI that is legendarily fuzzy and also extremely easy to fudge. Thus, the machine churns on.
- Comment on Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company 1 week ago:
Elysium actually had some semblance of working technology, though.
- Comment on General tso chicken is just chinese 10 piece nuggets with McDonald's bbq. 1 week ago:
That’s basically what it is. The stuff is incredibly sweet.
- Comment on General tso chicken is just chinese 10 piece nuggets with McDonald's bbq. 1 week ago:
Yes, I worked in a Chinese takeout retaurant, too.
There is no “technically” about it. Your list of ingredients there quite carefully left out the entire ladle full of cane sugar. By volume it’s about one third of the sauce by way of how every takeaway place I’ve ever seen prepares it.
- Comment on General tso chicken is just chinese 10 piece nuggets with McDonald's bbq. 1 week ago:
Random General Tso’s fact: It’s the same sauce as the sesame chicken, but the latter has sesame seeds in it and the former has crushed chili pepper paste instead. Otherwise the base is the same (i.e. mostly sugar).
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 1 week ago:
I’m not going through all that BS just to reward the manufacturer with a sale. It went back, fuck 'em, and I replaced it with a normal cheap computer monitor which is what I told him to buy in the first place.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 2 weeks ago:
That won’t save you anymore. My boss bought a smallish smart TV in contravention of my explicit instructions for use as a CCTV monitor because it was “cheap.” It nags you on power up with a popup whining about not being able to access the internet, and if you don’t feed it your Wifi password it will subsequently display that same popup every 30 minutes or so requiring you to dismiss it again. And again. And again. Apparently the play is to just annoy you into caving and letting it access your network.
Instead I packed it up and returned it. Fuck that.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Existing roomscale VR games already come pretty damn close.
- Comment on How would you spell the sound Transformers make when they transform? 2 weeks ago:
As usual, this is thoroughly documented to a perhaps ridiculous degree on the Transformers Wiki:
tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformation#Onomatopoeia
There is an official answer to this question. It’s Transformers; of course there is an official answer to this particular question. Actually, there are several. Jury’s out on which of these interpretations in particular have caused the franchise to be Ruined Forever, but surely at least one of them has.
- Comment on Fediverse needs a Q&A (Questions & Answers) service before Quora runs out of money 2 weeks ago:
I think before any technical aspects are considered, you need to figure out what to do with the gibbering hordes of idiotic users who seem to be drawn to these sorts of forums as if by powerful magnetism.
I have been led in desperation many times to a Quora thread in my search results. I have never in many years, not even once, arrived at a Quora thread that actually contained the correct answer to the question being asked at the top. It’s useless cesspit and insofar as I can be bothered to determine it always was.
- Comment on smh 2 weeks ago:
I’m convinced that the majority of whinging about metric in the US is actually coming from old machine operators tucked away somewhere in the industrial sector who don’t want to give up their old decimal inch Bridgeports and Shipleys, or have bosses who wouldn’t buy them new machines anyway. Everything else stems from there, bubbling on up through the pipes as it does.
- Comment on FreeCad in docker 2 weeks ago:
FWIW, FreeCAD does not use the GPU for geometry calculation at all. That’s done purely in software and insofar as I’m aware it’s not even multithreaded. Your GPU is only used in any capacity for final display, i.e. spinning the already calculated model(s) around in the preview window which it does via OpenGL. Otherwise it’s all CPU.
Spinning a complicated model around at 244 FPS (my monitor’s maximum display frequency) makes my GPU peak at all of… around 3.5%. Doing a total recalculation on said model or changing a feature on it spikes CPU load momentarily but doesn’t register on GPU usage at all. Doing the same on my laptop which instead has the usual early-gen Intel Graphics Decelerator in it doesn’t provide much of anything different in the speed and usability department. OP’s problem therefore surely lies elsewhere.
- Comment on My country's police just busted a dangerous 3d printed weapons manufacturer. 2 weeks ago:
Well, I guess if I ever move to Italy I’ll be screwed…
- Comment on Just Noticed One of My Center Caps Mysteriously Went AWOL 3 weeks ago:
🐿️
- Comment on If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED. 3 weeks ago:
More or less, yes. That’s also why it appears more red/orange as it gets closer to the horizon from your perspective, since at that oblique angle the light has to pass through more of the atmosphere to get to you and more of it gets scattered or absorbed by particulates in the air.
