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- Comment on The Way Forward, an update from the team behind Cities: Skylines 4 weeks ago:
FF7 and supreme commander were complex. And devs then didn’t have the tools we have today. Not to mention game engines (there were, but not like today). And ps3 was a pain to program for. And, and…
- Comment on What characterizes feminine strength? 5 weeks ago:
I was gonna go with the other guys sensible answer, but i like yours more.
- Comment on Snikt 1 month ago:
I thought it was obvious I meant has more oxygen. You know… the thing in air that matters to us humans.
- Comment on Snikt 1 month ago:
Wait so air is stronger near a magnet ?
- Comment on Do straight lines and flat planes exist in nature? 1 month ago:
Also mica for flatness.
- Comment on This was the first result on Google 1 month ago:
I measured my fridge. You could, in theory. Problem is that the motor in the fridge (and in power tools) is an “induction load”, meaning it draws a lot more power in a split second when starting. Inverters have to be built with that in mind, or just stronger (killowats range).
- Comment on Good job man 👍 2 months ago:
With a bit of patching, yea shingles can be 30. Unless air circulation is bad, then 10. I worked on one re-shingling the west side, when the east side looked good as new (10yo roof, iirc). Just some weird airflow on that side (neighbours house maybe).
- Comment on What if all the motion sensors in restrooms are secretly cameras? 2 months ago:
And ir only. They are (usually) just thermal sensors.
- Comment on Radical Equality 2 months ago:
PDF can… embed javascript. So, sadly it is possible.
- Comment on Tesla's Cybertruck may not be so stainless after all 2 months ago:
Paint, they always need paint. A lot of science went into that. www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_hgPinCZks
- Comment on Mozilla 2023 Annual Report: CEO pay skyrockets, while Firefox Marketshare nosedives 4 months ago:
They get roughly as much in donations as they spend on ff dev. They get a LOT more from google, that they spend on… bs.
- Comment on Why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes 4 months ago:
You don’t have to know. It does not matter because your 8GB stick can’t fit 16 512MB files anyway. Funny enough it might fit 500MB files if it is FAT32.
Being consistent with base10 systems does not matter in real world usage. Literally nobody cared before the asshats changed it.
- Comment on Why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes 4 months ago:
It’s the size in bytes as the os sees it (and in SMART). And i do know how to use a calculator, thank you.
There is also no benefit to using 1000. Except to hdd makers.
- Comment on Why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes 4 months ago:
Checked and true. 500107862016 bytes.
Still, ssds are made of n^2 chips.
- Comment on Why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes 4 months ago:
SSDs are.
- Comment on Why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes 4 months ago:
The mistake is thinking that a 1000 byte file takes up a 1000 bytes on any storage medium. The mistake is thinking that it even matters if a kB means 1000 or 1024 bytes. It only matters for some programmers, and to those 1024 is the number that matters.
Disregarding reality in favor of pedantics is the real mistake.
- Comment on Electric eel 4 months ago:
No. It would not kill.
- Comment on Plummeting interest rate 4 months ago:
I played 3d peron games (not online). Always picked girl for that reason. Never mattered because i’d end up focusing on the game.
- Comment on The Hyperloop was always a scam 4 months ago:
No, it’s just not viable. Just maintaining the vacuum is hard and takes a lot of energy. Keeping it from imploding on the high speed train is also very hard.
It does not need experimenting, it is known already.
It is and always was a scam (or just simple stupidity, or both).
- Comment on NASA uses laser to send video of a cat named Taters over 19 million miles 4 months ago:
The beam is reeeealy wide by the time it gets there. Still a great achivement, though.
- Comment on But I eat when I'm sad 5 months ago:
There’s a playground next to where i live. I sometimes hear kids (like 5yo) say some of the funniest things, so different that i forget them.
- Comment on Microchips 5 months ago:
It’s worse then that for the very rich. Their “charities” are made up of their friends and family, and the money eventually circles back to them. It’s literally tax evasion.
- Comment on Microchips 5 months ago:
Again, all rich ppl charities are money laundering. It has to do with how economics (epecially usa taxes) work. And those charities are useless, even more then carbon offsets.
I never said Gates is the greatest angle to ever grace us, all i said is that he is not a completely heartless cunt of a person like Jeff or Elon.
And it’s not about giving charities, it’s about the initiatives.
Also go fuck yourself. I can talk shit about Gates for hours. I’m just not an extremist to see only black or white. Cunt.
- Comment on Microchips 5 months ago:
No, he does do stuff. I already said about their charities, and you tell me of like i know nothing. I also know about his boat and planes.
I said that he, unlike all the other rich cunts, does something. Do you see the nuance in my words ? Do i need to both italize and bold it for you ?
- Comment on Behold The Hyundai Uni Wheel. Transportation May Never Be The Same 5 months ago:
Yea. They have worse efficiency. To get better efficiency from them you would need to run them hotter (afaik), and if you do that they would last even shorter.
It’s great if you want a smaller but still strong engine, but it’s not efficient and those seals are a big problem.
- Comment on Microchips 5 months ago:
Gates at least does something. Yea all rich people charities are tax evasion schemes, but at least he does something. Musk kills turtles and strokes his rocket to it.
- Comment on Can someone open this pickle jar? 5 months ago:
More then SNW, by a good margin.
- Comment on The Cybertruck Is a Disappointment Even to Cybertruck Superfans / Looking at the specs alone, the car is delivering 30 percent less range than expected for 30 percent more money 5 months ago:
Back to PS1.
- Comment on Automakers must build cheaper, smaller EVs to spur adoption, report says 5 months ago:
They did make the e-golf. Not gti, but still a golf.
- Comment on Job losses likely at VW as the people’s car brand becomes uncompetitive 5 months ago:
It’s probably not just because ev. Golf has become a high end brand even before that. Not really a peoples car if parts cost a lot.