AllNewTypeFace
@AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
- Comment on I used to always insert something inappropriate to the Nativity scene and my parents never noticed 1 day ago:
In Catalonia, there’s a tradition of putting in a figurine of someone taking a dump.
- Comment on I understand the dedication but that's way too much effort for me 2 days ago:
Ah, a fan of the classical Persian poets, I see
- Comment on I never understood what it was people did on Twitter. I understand it even less now that it is X. 3 days ago:
Masturbating their hindbrain to feel something
- Comment on It's Fun For The Whole Family 3 days ago:
“I know that sound! My husband plays that mobile game all the time!”
- Comment on Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading 3 days ago:
Then the AAA studios will use some of their Saudi cash to buy out the most prominent indie developers, only to slowly strangle their products
- Comment on Peace 3 days ago:
No, you’re thinking of “woman who fly upside down always have crack up”
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 4 days ago:
But no, someone thought it’d be cool to be able to surf the web on the fridge. Well, here you are.
- Comment on I wonder what the Hapsburgs would have thought about pugs 4 days ago:
Or Xi Jinping about Winnie the Pooh.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
FoxNews reinvents libertarianism
- Comment on Oh, that's... umm.... 4 days ago:
It’s a relief that this is an isolated anomaly, not a common phenomenon, and only a few rich, depraved Italians did this that one time. We can sleep soundly knowing that the people who rule us and own the world we live in aren’t monsters who kill for pleasure.
- Comment on I didn't verify the headline. 4 days ago:
Transgender God Magnets are the new Jewish Space Lasers
- Comment on Why a new Steam Machine when the first ones flopped? Because this time, Valve say, it'll actually have games 4 days ago:
If there’s a safe subset of the Windows API defined as a virtual machine for gaming on x86-64 machines, and running with next to no overhead on Linux, does it really matter that the binaries are PE-COFF . EXE files assuming their world to have DirectX rendering and drive letters rather than POSIX?
- Comment on We like to party 4 days ago:
She’s probably glad to be rid of them
- Comment on TIL there was a TV tuner attachment for the Game Gear! 5 days ago:
I wonder whether it digitised the video signal and sent digital RGB data over the connector, or whether there were analogue video channels provided for such a device.
Also, in any case, whether any hobbyist hackers have built adapters to use their Game Gear as a monitor for anything else through the same mechanism. (A HDMI in adapter would be cool, if slightly ridiculous.)
- Comment on Dyslexia 6 days ago:
I think they prefer the term “juggalo”
- Comment on I've heard New Yorkers are devastated 6 days ago:
“How could Nixon have won? I don’t know anyone who voted for him “
- Comment on I've heard New Yorkers are devastated 6 days ago:
Presumably some of the people who consider Trump to be presidential material also consider his music to be good.
- Comment on I've heard New Yorkers are devastated 6 days ago:
What in fuck’s ever-shitting name?
- Comment on Use Case Scenario For Generative Artificial Intelligence 6 days ago:
* Elon Musk has entered the chat
- Comment on The inconvenient truth about the anti-vegan backlash 6 days ago:
This headline could have been written 15 years ago, in response to the carnicore hipsterism, with its gentrified takes on meat-heavy fast food and artisanal butchering being the new playing bass in a hardcore band. (That particular subcultural current is also probably not unconnected to the hipster-culture-to-alt-right pipeline, as exemplified in Vice Magazine-adjacent edgelordism. After all, making eating meat part of one’s identity serves well to own the libs.)
- Comment on Air Tag Alternative 6 days ago:
The problem is that GPS signals are weak, and generally need a line of sight to the sky. Phones don’t rely on GPS alone, but also get location data by triangulating base stations and/or querying databases of WiFi SSIDs over the internet. And AirTags don’t contain either a GPS receiver or an internet connection: they’re just simple, low-power Bluetooth beacons which send an encrypted ID to any nearby iPhones, which add their locations and forward it to Apple.
Basically, all the smarts are in Apple’s infrastructure (including the numerous privately-owned devices running Apple’s location services). Replicating this without a network of roving receivers is a nonstarter.
- Comment on Should Newcastle to Sydney bullet train really be first link built of Melbourne to Brisbane route? 1 week ago:
The sharing is better than nothing. For the first/last mile of accessing central stations, that is the norm in countries like Germany, and a Sydney-Melbourne Shinkansen turning into a XPT somewhere around Wagga Wagga where it rejoins the legacy line is also doable, and better than the status quo. And gauge seems to be a settled issue everywhere except for Queensland north of Brisbane and the Victorian suburban/regional networks, whose interstate-reaching routes have all been regauged.
Trickier details would be electrification (you’d want 25kV AC to deliver enough power to accelerate fast, but in Melbourne/Sydney, you may need to either make do with lower legacy voltages, necessitating multi-system capabilities as in Europe, or have a dedicated road).
- Comment on Should Newcastle to Sydney bullet train really be first link built of Melbourne to Brisbane route? 1 week ago:
Neither did Japan until the Shinkansen. (In fact, aren’t both Cape-gauge?)
Any interstate HSR link to Brisbane would be standard gauge, as the XPT is. An intrastate link going north towards Cairns/Townsville may be classic-compatible Cape gauge if done incrementally, though given that one would typically break one’s journey in Brisbane, this is not catastrophic. Unless suddenly funds become available to build a new Shinkansen-style network from scratch, in which case standard-gauge would be the way to go.
- Comment on Should Newcastle to Sydney bullet train really be first link built of Melbourne to Brisbane route? 1 week ago:
Surely Sydney-Canberra would be better for a prestige generation-defining nation-building project than what any other country would call a regional line. It’d actually make sense as a federal project, in a way that a purely intrastate line in NSW would not, it would all but kill a busy aviation corridor that only exists because the existing link is pathetically slow, and (especially if you terminate it at a new station in/under central Canberra with a through connection) would form the start of a link to Melbourne, joining Australia’s two most populous cities via the capital.
That’s if you think of these things as once-in-a-generation Snowy Mountains-style prestige projects that the country can only do one of at once. If we’re building high-speed rail as a utility rather than just to be able to say that we’ve joined the HSR big boys’ club just like Algeria and Indonesia, we should parallelise. Establish national standards for high-speed rail, in a way that is classic-compatible, so that trains can run slowly on legacy lines (once they’re relatively cheaply electrified, at least) until faster lines replace them, electrify lines and pick the low-hanging fruit of the particularly slow, winding sections. Build a showcase HSR line to Canberra whilst quietly upgrading the rest of the network. Get Melbourne-Sydney down to 8 hours and increase train frequency from 2 a day to 4, while upgrading the trains with modern amenities like fast WiFi and power sockets do that the time isn’t dead time. Then, once Canberra HSR is up and connecting Sydney and Canberra within an hour, punch through and connect to the legacy Melbourne line, bringing the time down further, and then gradually replace legacy segments with high-speed bypasses.
- Comment on Why is the package that you want to check feel so warm? 1 week ago:
That’s my emotional support Saddam Hussein
- Comment on Therapy works 1 week ago:
Give them enough of a reason, and they may respect you as a fellow asshole.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved 1 week ago:
“takes a massive hit of ketamine and says”
- Comment on whoopsie 1 week ago:
Find the guy who genetically engineered algae to secrete THC and get him to repeat that for caffeine and theobromine.
- Comment on Don't let your pets go to waste 1 week ago:
Given the condition cats’ coats stay in, there are probably enzymes in cat saliva that evolved to have conditioning qualities. So a shampoo made with cat saliva is not entirely implausible.
- Comment on Norway struck oil in the 60s. Now it has trillions. This is how Australia compares 1 week ago:
That’s what you can have when your national motto isn’t “she’ll be right, mate”