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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Signal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Human is endoskeleton optimized crab. Arthropod crab is exoskeleton optimized crab.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Generational Trauma⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Garbage in garbage out” “Garbage in garbage out” “With enough garbage the model will become sentient”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If buying it isn't owning it...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is kind of a shit metaphor because if we extend it to how piracy actually works it highlights how stupid DRM is in the first place. A lock on your house has to be picked by each individual robber, unless they all show up on the same day. A cracked game would be like if only one person has to pick the lock on your house, but they don’t actually take anything they just make a perfect copy of your house without the draconian 12 step lock you installed and gives copies to whoever wants one. If you never noticed all the people sharing magical copies of your house with each other you would never know you lost anything, because you didn’t. Only your blind greed was injured by the thought that those people might have been willing to pay to use your house if only it had been locked down against those damn house copiers. On your next house you make the locks even more invasive and complex, to the point they block half the driveway or make the oven and bathroom unusable. Then that same one person spends an extra half day to pick it and makes a copy but without the crazy lock so they actually get a better house than you’re selling. Whether people like it or not, digital media has always been on the honor system, and always will be. DRM just punishes people for doing the honorable thing and paying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Science is Magic⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone raised by Christians I’m glad you made it out too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Science is Magic⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just want to say that string theory is in all likelihood complete bullshit and I’m tired of people acting like it’s not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda Game Studios workers have unionized⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fire is a natural and necessary part of many ecosystemsm. It keeps parasitic insect populations down, stuff like ticks and chiggers, and some plant species rely on fire to prepare the soil for seeds and even is required for some plants to release their seeds. In dry ecosystems like the western USA it also consumes old dead plant material, reducing the fuel available for future fires and reducing fire severity overall. Many foresters and fire fighters advocate for increasing prescribed burns, essentially forest fires that we light on purpose in cooler and wetter times of the year to consume the fuel without risking a catastrophic fire that is difficult to control. I just think that’s neat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yet closer to divine happiness.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you accept for a moment that an all powerful god exists and created everything, then that means they made us this way on purpose, knowing we would be horny kinky degenerates. If there is a god, they’re the biggest pervert of all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Astra loses 99 percent of its value, founders take rocket firm private⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They didn’t have zero experience. There were two full rocket designs that were built and flown before rocket 3, hence why it was called rocket 3. It also achieved orbit successfully two times, which only a limited number of companies have ever achieved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Astra loses 99 percent of its value, founders take rocket firm private⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The first offer wasn’t rejected, they didn’t have the money on hand at the time. Between the first offer and the second they got investor funding together and the cash on hand dwindled, so the second offer was with cash to cover the offer and some to cover running the business between acceptance and closing. After the second offer the board released a statement saying it’s this or liquidate the company, so they went with this because it’s the best outcome for everyone with the current state of things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gemini WONT SHOW C++ To Underage Kids "ITS NOT SAFE"⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Memory unsafe languages will always have value in applications where speed and performance mean anything. Embedded programming and video games are the obvious examples, but pretty much any application taken far enough will eventually demand the performance benefits of memory unsafe languages. Some even require writing assembly directly. Contrary to common dogma, the compiler isn’t always best.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One of capitalisms biggest tragedies⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow I’ve never thought of it that way. That makes so much sense. This kind of implies all subscription based services will inevitably devolve into paying more for less in a race to the bottom until the whole thing collapses. Which is interesting because I remember hearing about an economics paper that showed that the most profitable business model is bundled subscriptions. It’s kind of amazing someone can say that with a straight face looking at what has happened to cable TV.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Finally Know How Ancient Roman Concrete Was Able to Last Thousands of Years⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m guessing they do, but it does also reduce the life of the concrete. Modern concrete structures would be impossible without rebar, so that makes it a good trade, but it doesn’t change the fact that it’s a trade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Exec Says Gamers Need to Get 'Comfortable' Not Owning Their Games for Subscriptions to Take Off⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Laughs in yo ho.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t feel like there’s any real alternative to Google search. Most of the privacy based search websites are really just Google or Bing on the backend. The only other index is Yandex the Russian one, which, yeah. I’m happy to be proven wrong, but the internet search space is approaching peak enshittification, and it doesn’t look like anyone is stepping up to meaningfully change anything. No private companies seem willing to actually square up with Google, considering the investment it would take. Honestly I don’t see things getting better anytime soon. This is just another symptom of the erosion of the social contract in the US and the rampant greed that’s driving it. Nothing we can do can’t be enshittified by bad actors in this environment. Not to be too US centric, most of the big tech companies are based here so our garbage culture fucks over everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam keeps on winning⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yo ho yo ho a repeat of history for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For the homies⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. I made it myself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google admits it's making YouTube worse for ad block users⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Google is literally an ISP. They provide my internet service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1.1 History⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t feel gravity. What we feel really is acceleration, the acceleration of the earth pushing us up against gravity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Reddit Crushed the Internet's Largest Protest⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it did all those assholes would look for somewhere else to go. They might come here…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'll just be a quick 3h⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At that point you teach them how to do it themselves. Isn’t there a way to give them an account that only has read access so they can’t inadvertently screw up the database?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda Is Responding to Negative Reviews of Starfield on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean fixing these things can definitely increase sales, but you’re right not in the sense that they are directly marketable. The thing that makes games really blow up is word of mouth, people recommending them to their friends, and you get that best by making a game with overall quality. It’s basically a given at this point that Bethesda games are buggy messes that get fixed by modders. Every time you have a major bug, game crash, or save corruption it takes you out of the world and forces you to remember you’re playing a game that barely works, which makes you like it less. All of this hurts sales, if not today in the future. So yeah, they probably aren’t prioritized by management, but management is wrong. They often are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda Is Responding to Negative Reviews of Starfield on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah to be honest what strikes me the most about companies like Bethesda is just how little they’ve improved over the decades. There’s nothing stopping them from making major improvements like removing loading screens, adding vehicles finally (I wonder if the ships are really a hat like the train in fallout 3), fixing the buggy ass collisions and physics, or any number of dumb shits they just keep leaving in game after game. It really speaks to the institutional inertia and spaghetti mess their code must be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda Is Responding to Negative Reviews of Starfield on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I also loved starbound. My problem was the late game became very gamey, with the linear planet tier progression to get better materials. Once I got past the progression and beat the final boss there was nothing fun left to do, even with all the base building stuff they put in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a JSON file in Windows 11 enables Edge, Bing, and Search ads removal⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The future is now old man.

  …arcgis.com/…/welcome-to-the-portal-for-arcgis-in…

  Looks like the other three aren’t natively supported though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prehistoric shitposting⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Necessity is the mother of invention. One day somebody was just that hungry, a cassava plant was available, experimentation ensues, bam staple crop. It’s not that huge of a leap though. Most societies have some kind of root or tuber food, and once you’ve got the idea that roots and tubers can be food it’s not a huge stretch to go looking for others. Pretty much all of them have to be cooked at least to be edible and palatable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over half of all tech industry workers view AI as overrated⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve found the free one can sometimes answer tip of my tongue questions but yeah anything even remotely obscure it will just lie and say that doesn’t exist, especially if you stray a little too close to the puritanical guard rails. One time I was going down a rabbit hole researching human sex organ variations and it flat out told me the people in South America who grow a penis at 12 don’t exist until I found the name guevedoces on my own, and wouldn’t you know it then it knew what I was talking about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose wisely!⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Conservation is a law of nature, making it natural to assume it would still hold even with a hypothetical power. But you do you. It’s ok to be wrong sometimes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crispr gene editing shown to permanently lower hereditary high cholesterol⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like if we know enough to fix this with gene editing on purpose, we know enough to unfix it on purpose too. If we later run into a situation as a species where having high cholesterol is somehow a major improvement for people, we can give everyone high cholesterol pretty easily.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose wisely!⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with your choices but your logic for the teleportation doesn’t hold up. You’ve assumed your momentum wouldn’t be conserved through the teleportation in a weird way. Assuming momentum is conserved, you would still fall just as quickly. In fact, you would reach terminal velocity in short order, and would have to continually teleport to keep yourself from crashing into the ground. By itself that would be bad enough, but you moving through the air between teleports would cause the air to move as well, so assuming you could keep up and hold your elevation, your velocity relative to the ground would increase to some number higher than terminal velocity. Think Chell continually falling through portals. Now you’re stuck unless you can also teleport slightly to the side without falling. Best case you go to one of those indoor skydiving places and get in so you can slow down without dying. I was going to explore what would happen if your momentum somehow wasn’t conserved, but that would imply some absolute fixed frame of reference or magical mumbo jumbo, neither of which exist.

  You could totally travel faster though, without even needing to walk. You would also be super dangerous in one on one combat sports. A well placed 7 inch teleportation can easily get the win in the right sports.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨StarCraft could return, according to Blizzard president, but not necessarily as an RTS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I doubt they could at this point. With how much time has passed since Blizzard was any good, the people and culture that produced their best stuff are gone. It’s more like a company of theseus now, it’s name being the only vestige of what once was.