CancerMancer
@CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 3 days ago:
The costs used for wind/solar energy never included the cost of the required buffer storage, and even the rare few people who include that never factor in frequency stability which to this day is maintained by the giant steam turbines everyone wants to get rid of. It will not be trivial to solve the frequency stability problem; it will likely require massive investment in pumped water storage, flywheel storage, or nuclear energy, and these costs once finally included in the real cost of wind/solar will hurt its value prospect considerably.
As for nuclear waste: the overwhelming majority of nuclear waste generated over the lifetime of a reactor is stored onsite. Only the smallest amount of material is what will actually remain dangerous for a long time, and many countries have already solved this problem. It’s a seriously overstated problem repeated by renewable-purists who usually haven’t even considered how much frequency stability and grid-level storage have and will add to the cost of renewables, meaning they have not given a full accounting of the situation.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 3 days ago:
The curse of Private-Public Partnerships (P3s) means middle-men sapping all the value out of long-term government projects. We simply cannot trust these organizations with our energy infrastructure.
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 2 weeks ago:
It’s more better lol
Seriously though it’s really well thought out actually. Each planet has unique challenges you will have to deal with and it’s clear they put a lot of effort into designing these challenges and their solutions. Each planet grants new features that give you options you wouldn’t otherwise have to help solve other problems. Lots of quality of life changes and an ever-improving user experience.
It won’t win over people who didn’t like Factorio but fans of the game will get more of what they love, which I guess is just about the best possible case scenario for an expansion.
- Comment on Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing 2 weeks ago:
What does getting bigger actually accomplish? I’ve been through enough Eternal Summers to know it sucks to lose a place you like to the swarm of terminally online bootlickers who infest every place that actually has people they can rule over. I’m good
- Comment on Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing 2 weeks ago:
You need clearer language? Only immature people worry about being “grown up”, well-adjusted people just get on with it.
- Comment on Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing 2 weeks ago:
Normie filter, based in Canada, less tankies, fun name. I mean those are strong selling points.
- Comment on Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing 3 weeks ago:
“when you grow up” is what people say when their skin starts to grow over the mask they wear.
I got tired of half-assing being someone else. Frankly I’m too busy to bother.
- Comment on Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing 3 weeks ago:
“I can’t link this, it doesn’t fit within my corporate values!”
Yeah that’s why I’m here. The name makes this place much more difficult for corpo scum to infest it.
- Comment on Not allowed to work from home 3 weeks ago:
I keep critical applications running at work that thousands depend on. While I was at a union convention, one of my apps broke. I had to login that day and fix it while going over the budget with other members.
This is how the IT world is. I’m the only person capable of maintaining it and I must be available if things go wrong. The show must go on.
- Comment on Just So 5 weeks ago:
Like many things, people hate it because of its associations with other things. They will happily throw it out even if it has good uses. Here have some spicy examples:
Some people experience gender dysphoria and may benefit from medical intervention? Nah it got abused by ideological idiots so it must always be bad. Karl Marx says workers must arm themselves? Nah guns are bad, I know this because rightoids like them.
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 2 months ago:
People are still playing? That’s tempting, I still haven’t found something that hits the spot this game did.
- Comment on August 30th 2024. America adopts the metric system. Never forget. 2 months ago:
Quick Celsius breakdown from a Canadian:
40+ - most Canadians stop eating food and hope for a quick death 35 - you might just be able to live with this if you do nothing at all 28 - right about the place where comfort gives way to a general sense of warmth, something that makes any Canadian uncomfortable 23 - room temperature, and why “room temperature IQ” is an insult only Americans could have come up with because their scale was made by a madman 15 - If it’s Autumn you are wearing a light jacket, if it’s Spring you are sweating 5 - sweater time 0 to -10 - that stereotypical TV winter experience, where everyone is skating and sipping hot chocolate? Yeah that’s like half the year here. You better like hot chocolate. -15 - We enjoy the fresh air, others will probably find it painful to breathe directly; put on a scarf! Do not brush your teeth immediately before going outside unless you want to experience mint-flavoured pain. -20 - Canadians put their boots on by now. Exposed skin on a windy day can get frostbite in as little as 10 minutes. -30 - We will debate putting a coat on to put the garbage out at this temperature, usually erring on the side of caution in case your kids lock you outside again. Seriously invest in good winter gear for this, this temperature can kill surprisingly fast and it only gets increasingly unpleasant from here. -40 - turns out you can’t form snowballs in hell because the snow is too crispy
- Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? 2 months ago:
Here in Canada I’ve seen much the same behaviour for both Liberal and Conservative voters. “I vote Liberal because I’ve always voted Liberal” is a surprisingly common statement especially among the older generations, and to a small extent even the Green party has a few loyalists in BC.
Always voting the same way no matter what happens is just giving your vote away for free.
- Comment on Interesting to see how dead the MMO genre has become. Are there still players around? 2 months ago:
I used to be a heavy industrial player in EVE Online and Foxhole fills the hole, surprisingly. Each faction has at least one group whose sole purpose is logistics, and they’re both decent.
- Comment on Interesting to see how dead the MMO genre has become. Are there still players around? 2 months ago:
How the hell are League of Legends or Valorant considered MMOs? Are Rocket League or Team Fortress 2 MMOs? Is Battlefield 5 an MMO now?
The expansion of this term to include 5v5 games is never not going to piss me off.
- Comment on Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon 2 months ago:
The alternative is to just keep getting fucked by Microsoft…
- Comment on Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon 2 months ago:
no u
- Comment on Nothing is requiring employees to be in the office five days a week 2 months ago:
The communities are very small on Lemmy, I gave search terms to use here and elsewhere instead. Also I just can’t be assed to link them.
- Comment on Nothing is requiring employees to be in the office five days a week 2 months ago:
It’s such bullshit too because drastically changing someone’s working conditions is clearly a constructive dismissal and should lead to severance payments.
- Comment on Nothing is requiring employees to be in the office five days a week 2 months ago:
Sounds like you want smart devices, wearables, DIY electronics, home assistant, etc… “Technology” communities are pretty much always about the tech community and not the actual tech itself.
- Comment on Can someone explain why so many people here are FOR blocking Threads.net on a server level? 3 months ago:
Or people checked your comment history and saw that your first ever comment was to vote against defederation, and you haven’t done anything besides drop pseud-posts whenever people expressed their desire not to federate with Threads. That does not look like good faith engagement to me.
- Comment on There is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs — any damage is permanent 3 months ago:
Yeah Intel really needs to recall these things. This shit isn’t right.
- Comment on There is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs — any damage is permanent 3 months ago:
It will put it into “safe” parameters, but I mean you should give it an additional undervolt to increase its longevity.
- Comment on There is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs — any damage is permanent 3 months ago:
I ran an AMD Phenom II x4 955 Black Edition for ~5 years, then gave it to a friend who ran it for another 5 years. We overclocked the hell out of it up to 4ghz, and there is no way in hell you were getting gaming performance that good from Intel dollar-for-dollar, so no AMD did not suck from Core 2 on. You need to shift that timeframe up to Bulldozer, and even then Bulldozer and the other FX CPUs ended up aging better than their Intel counterparts, and at their adjusted prices were at least reasonable products.
Doesn’t change the fact AMD lied about Bulldozer, nor does it change Intel using its market leader position to release single-digit performance increases for a decade and strip everything i5 and lower down to artificially make i7 more valuable. Funny how easy it is to forget how shit it was to be a PC gamer then after two crypto booms.
- Comment on There is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs — any damage is permanent 3 months ago:
You’re in it. Get those bios updates and look into undervolting your CPU ASAP.
- Comment on If malls continue to shut down and decay over the next twenty years, someone should turn them into retirement communities for GenX and Millennials. 3 months ago:
I’ve seen some concepts for mall-like communities based around retirement homes and elementary schools. Add a library, some shops, and other services, and you’re off to a great start.
The old-but-still-able folks can serve as crossing guards, read books to kids, play games with them, perhaps help with coaching or other tasks, etc… The young kids benefit from the wisdom and time spent with good role models, the retirees get much-needed social interaction, structure, and purpose.
A man can dream.
- Comment on Looking for games that feel like a summer adventure 3 months ago:
The vombats even poop cubes man.
- Comment on Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees 4 months ago:
They also offer the Steam multiplayer backend, workshop, and Steam’s social system which is becoming enticing again given Discord’s latest behaviour.
GOG’s gimmick is no DRM, Itch.io has the cheapest self-publishing costs, and Epic has… well I’m not sure really, but the other two have their place, but it’s no coincidence Steam is the biggest.
- Comment on Looking for games that feel like a summer adventure 4 months ago:
I think you might like Superliminal or Hardspace Shipbreaker.
I’m less sure about the following but still wanted to suggest them:
- Dinkum (it’s like Animal Crossing but in Australia)
- Astroneer (pretty chill exploration and mining game)
- Roots of Pacha (a more story-focused Harvest Moon like game)
- Comment on Are there any games you're planning to pick up during the Steam and GOG sales? 4 months ago:
Appreciate the opinion, I’m thinking I’m just going to go ahead and pick it up