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- Comment on Draw your own conculsions 1 week ago:
And it’s a hard sell to get a girl at a bar/club to come back to your mom’s house.
- Comment on MKBHD - Do Bad Reviews Kill Companies? 3 weeks ago:
As long as they are truthful they only report on the quality of the product and prevent many people of spending a lot of money from losing it by buying something that doesn’t work.
Well, yeah sure. The problem is whether or not that’s actually what’s happening in any given circumstance. Most reviewers I’ve seen are more than happy to include personal opinion, and some will exagerrate points for the sake of getting views.
Things get even more fraught when the reviewer is a bigger company than the company whose product is being reviewed. For example the debacle with Linus Tech Tips and Billet labs that they were dragged for. That’s the kind of coverage that absolutely can sink a company that seemingly only ever did exactly what they said they would.
Reviews are good if they present the important facts and generally act with integrity, but sometimes that’s a really big ‘if’.
- Comment on Whoops 3 weeks ago:
Not always a choice we get to make, but I see your point
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I wonder who’s fault that is fucking BlackRock
- Comment on Cory Doctorow gets scammed 1 month ago:
Props to him for talking about it. A lot of people get too embarrassed to tell anyone they got scammed. The reality is that phishing works on a ton of people and we should avoid shaming the victims. Everyone’s acts like they’re a digital security expert until their credit card gets stolen.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow gets scammed 1 month ago:
It’s a credit card, they don’t typically have pins like debit cards do. They do have a 3 digit CVC code on the back, but 3 digits is pretty easy to get just by brute force guessing.
- Comment on YSK: it's not just Tesla, 1/3 of cars in built in the last ten years have passenger/rear windows that are almost impossible to break in an emergency. 1 month ago:
I would guess you could use a regular tool for breaking a normal window, then cut through the plastic with a sturdy knife. Not great to need two tools in an emergency though, and keeping a combat knife in your glove box might raise some eyebrows.
Unfortunately, being difficult to get through is the whole point
- Comment on YSK: it's not just Tesla, 1/3 of cars in built in the last ten years have passenger/rear windows that are almost impossible to break in an emergency. 1 month ago:
Laminated, not just tempered. There’s a strong layer of plastic inside the window. Even if you shatter the glass you still can’t get out.
- Comment on efficiency 2 months ago:
Tons of games do that now. Usually they get scans and models from other companies, like Quixel Mega scans. It makes for a relatively fast workflow. Pretty much any photo-real game is doing something like this, it’s just more affordable than paying people to digitally sculpt rocks by hand.
- Comment on efficiency 2 months ago:
Setting aside that asset production is genuinely one of the most expensive parts of game dev, if they’re smart they can use some clever GPU instancing to improve performance by reusing assets
No clue if that’s happening here, though
- Comment on [Politics] Have phobia, will travel 2 months ago:
There’s a kind of always a constant undercurrent of hatred for the lower class with them. I wonder how far the GOP can push that before their voters realize they’re the butt of the joke.
- Comment on What, Exactly, Is Xbox Thinking? 2 months ago:
Yeah, in the long run this could be good for the industry.
That said, if I’d bought a series x on the promise of many years of high quality exclusives (a promise Xbox explicitly made) I would probably be a bit upset in the now…
It’s shaping up that a ps5 is gonna be just the flatly superior console, and Xbox owners will be stuck holding the bag
- Comment on What's stopping you from coding like this ? 2 months ago:
Opaque thorax
- Comment on Tough break, kid... 2 months ago:
It’s not engineering either. Or art. It’s only barely writing, in an overly literal sense.
- Comment on I like women but I also like cock but I'm not otherwise attracted to the male body at all. Wtf is my sexual orientation? 2 months ago:
I guess you’re some flavor of bisexual as you are attracted to some men (based on the femboy remark) though you’ve got a distinct preference for femininity even in men. If you go scrolling through old Tumblr posts long enough you’ll probably find a term someone coined back in 2013 for your exact orientation… But, like, IDK man don’t overthink it. If anyone asks just say whatever feels right in that moment, straight/bi/pan/whatever.
And remember saying you identify with a particular orientation isn’t some huge commitment. Saying you’re bi (for instance) doesn’t mean you’re attracted to all men, and no reasonable person would expect that. We all have preferences within our orientation.
AITA?
No. You’re figuring it out. It’s okay to not have all the answers
- Comment on Which option lads? 2 months ago:
Steps then hike the Appalachian Trail
- Comment on Doing the important work 3 months ago:
Well, if you were eating it with a fork anyway the I don’t see the problem… A lot of Mexican places (as opposed to Tex Mex) will also pou salsa or queso or something over the burrito, which then obviously requires a fork, but it’s also different from the burrito pictured.
And you know you can just ask them not to put any cilantro on? It’s a garnish that typically isn’t added until the very end and a lot of people can’t stand the stuff, they probably won’t mind leaving it off
- Comment on Doing the important work 3 months ago:
Neither? The whole point of a burrito, at least one of these style of burrito that isn’t swimming in some kind of sauce, is that it holds together well enough that you can eat it while holding it in your hand without making a mess. If it’s poorly wrapped then yeah it’ll come apart and you might want a plate and flatware to finish the job.
- Comment on Doing the important work 3 months ago:
This is only a problem if you can’t roll a burrito…
- Comment on Gen Z is choosing not to drive 3 months ago:
“choosing”
- Comment on Ultraviolet light can kill almost all the viruses in a room. Why isn’t it everywhere? 3 months ago:
I’ve been in a restroom and had the lights turn off on me because a sensor didn’t detect someone was still I the room. I’d bet good money I’m not the only one. Sensors, presently, are either invasive or inaccurate. Or both.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Most people just don’t have a 12" dong.
The others take Poseidon’s kiss as a compliment.
- Comment on Does anyone wish they could go back to the beginning of schooling and re-live their education/school experience from the start? 4 months ago:
If I get to keep my memories and personality from now… Maybe.
It would trivialize most of the coursework and I’d be a lot more confident in general… But
It would be difficult to be an adult trapped in a child’s body. People would notice how much of a complete weirdo you are. I think at most I’d go back to my freshman year of college.
- Comment on If only it was like that 4 months ago:
I love how half this thread is solely comments making unit conversions.
Also 77°F/25°C is pretty mild. A crisp mid-spring day. -American Southerner
- Comment on If only it was like that 4 months ago:
Depends entirely on where you live. Surprising what people will accept as normal when their gas/electric bill is on the line.
- Comment on If only it was like that 4 months ago:
Why not? Most people only meaningfully engage with temperature scales when checking weather forecasts. It’s all pretty subjective.
If course there’s a need for Celsius or Kelvin in scientific applications, but that’s not for the overwhelming majority of people.
- Comment on If only it was like that 4 months ago:
There are many people (particularly in northern regions) who would consider 50° to be quite mild/pleasant
- Comment on If only it was like that 4 months ago:
Isn’t basing a temperature scale on the freezing and boiling points of water a bit arbitrary in and of itself?
The reason they are arbitrary numbers in Fahrenheit is because they weren’t considerations when the scale was made.
- Comment on How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone? 4 months ago:
I don’t have one. When I did I used it every day.
Now I have a stupid dongle which I use nearly every day.
- Comment on Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023) 4 months ago:
I’d be interested to see how different it would look if we only counted average active daily users