Abnorc
@Abnorc@lemm.ee
- Comment on Windows 11 takes a break on updates until 2025 | Digital Trends 4 days ago:
Looks like it’s to lower activity for the holidays, which is a good move. Hopefully they don’t need all hands on deck for some kind of urgent issue until after the holidays are over.
- Comment on Horse denier 4 days ago:
They’re going to be in for a rude awakening when horses start eating people.
- Comment on Magic Mineral 5 weeks ago:
The issue is that some day someone may have to work on your home, even if it’s just getting demolished decades or more from now. I don’t know how difficult it is to work with if you know that it’s there in advance.
- Comment on Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic 1 month ago:
Driverless cars can work if enough vehicles are replaced with them. I agree that a few driverless cars in a sea of regular drivers is not optimal though.
- Comment on All Of Apple’s Foldable iPhone Prototypes Have Visible Creases, Which May Explain The Company’s Apprehension Towards A Launch 1 month ago:
I’d rather a simpler phone at this point. I don’t think I’ve ever looked at my phone and felt that it’s too small. I can think of other ways that I’d want phones to be more functional, like connecting to external external peripherals and a keyboard.
Lots of people are excited about folding phones too though, so more power to them if companies are willing to go that way.
- Comment on reDUcTIon iS gAIn 1 month ago:
In Benjamin Franklin’s experiments, he came up with the convention that we use today to define a “positive” charge. As it turns out, electrons, discovered much later, are negatively charged according to the convention. Lots of chemical and physical reactions involve electrons as charge carriers, so lots of physical phenomena have this weird opposite thing going on. E.g. electric current or “conventional current” flows in the opposite direction of electron current. Chemical reactions are also weird. Reduction reactions involve a reduction in electric charge, but gaining an electron. The model works just fine, but it can be tricky and/or annoying at times.
- Comment on End nuclear fusion! 1 month ago:
I want a balloon full of uranium hexafluoride.
- Comment on Paralyzed Jockey Loses Ability to Walk After Manufacturer Refuses to Fix Battery For His $100,000 Exoskeleton 1 month ago:
For a $100k device, I would expect better long term support.
- Comment on California’s new law forces digital stores to admit you’re just licensing content, not buying it 1 month ago:
But the steam network is still around. When steam actually shuts down and no longer has the infrastructure to provide downloads for games, I have no idea what their plan is. They hypothetically could provide a way to remove the DRM, but I doubt that it’s something the publishers of games would allow.
- Comment on It's coming! :( 1 month ago:
M-x eww
- Comment on Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots 2 months ago:
Where do we draw the line for “rich people?” You can’t just have a system where you can hurt and steal as much as you want from rich people. What you’re describing is closer to a revolution, and carrying that idea to its conclusion usually involves a ton of bloodshed and putting new people in power who are just as bad.
- Comment on Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots 2 months ago:
Yeah I have no sympathy for advertisers, but this seems like it’s pretty clearly fraud.
- Comment on Sign of the times? 3 months ago:
GENTLEMEN
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO 3 months ago:
I thought that most people from here are just from various influxes of redditors.
- Comment on YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete 3 months ago:
It was going to happen eventually. It sucks since so much good content is still housed on youtube. The bright side is that I’ll probably read more when uBlock stops working so well.
- Comment on Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees 4 months ago:
They kind of have to be about making money. No company survives by putting the needs of the customer above all else, unfortunately.
- Comment on Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees 4 months ago:
I think publishers value the fact that steam is essentially a form of DRM, so we got fairly lucky all things considered. Imagine if steam didn’t exist and we had to deal with software like Uplay and Origin.
- Comment on Post a prompt, have an art from this insane russian 4 months ago:
Small fandoms? Engineer from Risk of Rain 2 kneeling down and petting a turret like it’s a cat. If you feel up to it, they have bustling fungus.
- Comment on “Immensely disappointing”: Nike killing app for $350 self-tying sneakers 4 months ago:
We need self tightening AI nuts and bolts. We could sell them to Boeing or something idk.
- Comment on “Immensely disappointing”: Nike killing app for $350 self-tying sneakers 4 months ago:
I think the villain in Law Abiding Citizen killed somebody using a trap tie of some sort.
- Comment on 🥬grocery shopping🥬 4 months ago:
Other than just being the common word here, etymonline does have some explanation.
- Comment on Baidu: Driverless Car Hits Jaywalker in China 4 months ago:
Maybe it could scrape against the barriers to slow down without such a sudden stop for the passenger. IRL it’d depend on how well they’re lined up.
- Comment on noplace, a mashup of Twitter and Myspace for Gen Z, hits No. 1 on the App Store 4 months ago:
Wait until these people hear about geocities.
- Comment on Air Friar 4 months ago:
I think the acceleration may be an issue too. It’s hard enough to do when you’re still, but it may be harder when you’re plummeting and trying to slow down.
- Comment on When a non-binary person uses a computer 4 months ago:
And the other 9.
- Comment on Ironing 4 months ago:
Where I work the staff still wear full suits for the most part. I think it’s a more traditional workplace though.
- Comment on Ironing 4 months ago:
Iron sympathizers will be dealt with harshly.
- Comment on So is Israel just going to finish Palestine off? 4 months ago:
This guy in the comments.
- Comment on Oh god, kill it! 5 months ago:
can you stop posting the ice emoji? not everyone has a smasnug.
- Comment on who's tried it? what does it taste like? 6 months ago:
I enjoy it. Good texture and slightly above average taste for the price in my opinion.