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- Comment on Another angle of this modern art installation 2 days ago:
It’s a deadlock situation and can arise without any screw ups. Imagine the buses being 5x as long and all reach the intersection at the same time as an example. All have space to enter the roundabout but they’ll reach the same situation as in the picture.
To fix this people uses signals and can be done by having the buses follow “Only 1 or 2 articulated (double) buses are allowed into the roundabout at a time”. A rule like that might be required if you have a lot of articulated buses. The risk of this happening depends on how many ways you can enter a roundabout no a bus like that, how long the buses are, how frequently they run and how big the roundabout is.
- Comment on 🐑🥁🐍 4 days ago:
They’re used differently, which trumps historical meanings.
- Comment on 🐑🥁🐍 4 days ago:
It’s based on usage. R word is tainted now, this might change in the future or not. Language doesn’t care about etymology, only about usage. If the usage is generally negative and implies inferiority of a minority it’s a slur.
Calling someone an idiot doesn’t imply that disabled people are inferior, which makes it ok to use.
- Comment on This comic is missing a chunk of asbestos. 5 days ago:
Wikipedia agrees with you. Commonly viewed as a psuodoscience. The equipment is very good at amplifying subtle hand movements.
- Comment on Feeling that groove 5 days ago:
It’s true that the ears receive stereo input, but brain postprocesses it to make surround sound. It uses the time difference from sound hitting your right and left ear to do some black magic and figure out at which angle the sound is coming from.
- Comment on Feeling that groove 5 days ago:
That’s the neat part, the brain does that using some black magic. You just have to add all the sounds individual waves together and the brain deciphers it.
- Comment on Why civilians don't crowdfund bribe money for politicians? 1 week ago:
One potential organisation type to do this would be a labor union. If multiple unions pool their resources they could make a super PAC and lobby hard.
- Comment on Windows 11 could actually become the same kind of mistake Sony made with the PS3 1 week ago:
This is my impression also. Most people are just “Meh” about it since it’s not that noticeable. A bit more ads, bit more bandwidth use, bit more ram use and a bit slower CPU when performance of websites sucks ass is not that noticeable.
- Comment on Well that showed them 1 week ago:
Ah, the power bottom.
- Comment on Me when Valve releases a phone 1 week ago:
Fuck it, just make them work like Flatpaks or snaps and run a minimal android session on top of virtual hardware and install like normal.
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 1 week ago:
On the steam hardware page it says the CPU and GPU are discrete although also “semi-custom” which I think means it’s not Gigabyte and has some cooling features that are tailored to the form factor.
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 1 week ago:
I know my case is specific but having a Jellyfin running on a Steam computer looks to me as good case for having a computer in the living room. Adding a TV applications to Steam such as Netflix is also a case. Then there are people who have their workstation close to the TV so they can use it instead of their laptop and just switch displays with one of these HDMI branching dongles.
- Comment on How do you beat post-work floppiness? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, and once you get going it’s easier to keep going because of momentum
- Comment on We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30. 2 weeks ago:
Only good way to get a house by age 30 is to become a plumber, electrician or other type of job that pays well with minimal study and save up while living at parents or sharing a flat with 3 mates.
Then you need to save heavily and invest in stocks and/or bonds with the saved money so you can beat inflation. With around 30k saved per year it’s possible to get pretty early onto the property ladder.
Going to college and living somewhere in NYC for example will get you nowhere close to 30k a year with student debt and if you have a kid you’re screwed.
- Comment on If Naruto was an American show it would be about a cowboy named Hammy McBurgers 2 weeks ago:
Also remember the ~~shinobi tournament ~~ school shooting.
- Comment on xkcd #3165: Earthquake Prediction Flowchart 2 weeks ago:
I live in Iceland and we try to predict volcanic activity all the time and it’s off by weeks or months. To be fair, that’s a blink of an eye on a geological scale so it’s pretty accurate but the nature of the problem is that you have so many forces that all interact with each other.
It’s pretty similar to “how far can you tip the chair back before it falls” but we don’t know the size, weight and shape of the chair really well. You just need one fracture in the rock from previous earthquake to throw all the calculations off.
I don’t know the context of the post but I imagine it’s media related, like a seismologist saying “could be as soon as tomorrow” and the journalist just saying “earthquake tomorrow”. Also seismologist don’t shut up is true.
- Comment on ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Is Postponed Again — to November 2026 2 weeks ago:
When it goes on sale 5 years later probably
- Comment on There's a trick to it... 2 weeks ago:
Also that he’s just blindly following a false emperor so easily while never having even seen his rotting carcass
- Comment on Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies" 3 weeks ago:
I really liked the first AC game but when I played Odyssey I was disappointed. Beautiful game, fun mini-games, nice subsystems like upgrading the ship and whatnot. After the initial couple of hours I started to feel like everything is a chore.
Need a map? No way to buy, you have to run/ride and climb the chore tower.
Want to use equipment? Grind chore for the XP to meet the level requirement.
Want to beat a quest handed to you early? Grind XP
Want to complete side quests? All of the boilerplate fetch/kill quests.
Just please, give me a starting weapon that’s good enough and I can just stealth kill my way through the main quest. Also, just allow me to buy the map.
- Comment on Sunday update from the Prime Radiant 3 weeks ago:
It’s a writing thing they did so they didn’t have to swap actors all the time. The first book spans several generations after all.
- Comment on Over the past ~20 years, Google became the de facto entry point for learning new skills and information. Google also sucks now. This is a really big problem. 3 weeks ago:
That’s fair, but looking at papers is not really a good entry point for people getting into skills like the title of the post is talking about.
Getting into car repairs, plumbing, woodworking and more can be done with YouTube and is frequently recommended by people in the trades.
Getting into running is and weightlifting is also pretty good with YouTube since you have “Göran Winblad” physio and a running coach which does some quality content and “House of hypertrophy” is just weightlifting research news and he makes sure to mention caveats, holes in the research etc.
Notably bad examples are programming and guitar playing which offer close to no value in my opinion but I’ve heard some people have had success with it. However when you get into music theory YouTube becomes good again.
So in general LLM for basic info on what exists, YouTube for some examples on how to do it but the other >90% should always be practice.
- Comment on Over the past ~20 years, Google became the de facto entry point for learning new skills and information. Google also sucks now. This is a really big problem. 3 weeks ago:
Google is bad now but we have more powerful tools than Google ever was. LLMs are good for an overview of whatever skill or research you’re doing as long as it’s a common skill.
Then you have YouTube which takes some navigating but there are a lot of YouTubers that cover recent papers and studies in a field they have a degree in.
Those two together can pretty much give you a road map towards learning a skill. I’d personally avoid all short form videos since explanations will either be oversimplified and they “give you the fish” instead of teaching you how to fish.
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 3 weeks ago:
Anything Warhammer 40k. The universe and the lore are amazing because they absorbed a lot of SciFi elements from literature. The games have often been underwhelming but when they’re good they’re really good.
- Comment on Got Banned for Fixing Roku — The Paul Blart Mod Chronicles 3 weeks ago:
Yepowertrippingbastards I think
- Comment on You're so predictable 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, my first thought was it’s a, um, yeah, 4.8T. Then I realised my autism ruined the joke.
- Comment on #environmentalist 5 weeks ago:
Don’t you need to use the metal straws some ridiculous amount of times before it saves more carbon than the plastic single use?
Also, plastic multi use is probably better.
- Comment on true love is rare 5 weeks ago:
Screw the size, tell me the girth
- Comment on YouTube will help you quit watching Shorts 5 weeks ago:
Also possible to hide them from the feed.
- Comment on Vert is the best self-hosted file converter out there, and it's not even close 5 weeks ago:
ffmpeg is the best file converter
- Comment on Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again? 5 weeks ago:
I heard subnautica 2 has some drama