Cort
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- Comment on Ad companies should just cut out the middle man and pay me to watch their ads 1 day ago:
I think the reason why it doesn’t work is because it allows the user to minimize their ad exposure, not maximize.
I’d think the opposite is also true. If you’re trying to maximize your exposure to ads and increase your income, you’re probably not the target audience for the advertised products. If you’re relying on fractions of a penny per ad viewed, you’re not likely to be able to afford the product they’re hocking
- Comment on Does the filament path of ruby nozzles degrade + is DUROZZLE any good? 5 days ago:
Ruby isn’t quite as hard as diamond, but it’s close. Technically it’s just red sapphire, and they’ve been manufacturing sapphire for a while to use as lens protectors for phone cameras. Am I missing something?
- Comment on Rock Band 4 to be delisted on tenth anniversary following the expiration of its licenses 5 days ago:
What like the songs or Kindle books that can be removed from your library next time your computer logs onto the Internet due to a licensing dispute?
With more games and systems requiring online access every X number of days, downloads don’t mean shit.
- Comment on if we all lived within close proximity of sock processing facilities we'd have fewer problems with socks 1 week ago:
This is a friendly reminder to check your carbon monoxide detectors.
- Comment on be gay, do crimes (in space) 2 weeks ago:
Yup:
The claims were later found to be false, and McClain was cleared.[28] On April 7, 2020, Worden was indicted on two charges of making false statements.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
It looks like they did announce that a month or two ago, but they also said that the new policy wouldn’t apply to Disney+ & hulu until 2026. Espn+ numbers though won’t be reported for Q4 this year.
Then again, it looks like the cancellations aren’t immediate; they are still subscribers until the end of the billing period/month, so it may not affect the total subscriber count too much.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Oh shit, and the current fiscal quarter ends in like a week, so we should hear about the numbers near the first week of November.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
The 30-06 round allegedly used has a 5cm casing fwiw.
And harbor freight sells handheld electric engravers which are typically used to put your name/initials on (harbor freight tbf) tool steel, so brass would be fine.
But also, pics required before I’d consider believing it. It switched from trans writing on the bullets to Internet/Reddit subculture memes pretty damn quick after the Internet erupted into bloody Kirk memes.
- Comment on Many of the younger generations of folks don't know what it's like to watch TV series out of order by virtue of channel surfing on live TV and grabbing random episodes here and there 3 weeks ago:
ErsatzTV let’s you do channel surfing with Plex Media. Crate your own channels, make a schedule or randomizer, then flip through to find something to watch
- Comment on It's banana, pineapple and cherry. 3 weeks ago:
They do, it is called ‘cool blue’
- Comment on Too soon? 3 weeks ago:
So not a full Marvin, from pulp fiction?
- Comment on Fake history porn 4 weeks ago:
The cake was, indeed, a lie.
- Comment on DDR4 costs soar as manufacturers pull the plug — panic buying and stockpiling impact DDR4 spot pricing as supply dwindles 4 weeks ago:
It’s not like I’m manually clearing things out of the ram. And before the power outage last weekend I had an up-time over 2 months.
It’s there a way to have the OS utilize more?
- Comment on DDR4 costs soar as manufacturers pull the plug — panic buying and stockpiling impact DDR4 spot pricing as supply dwindles 4 weeks ago:
I also have 64, but I’ve seen up to 34 in use a couple times. I could have stayed with 48gb, but the timings/cas latency was much better on the 64gb kit, than running mismatched sizes across 4 slots
- Comment on Most people don't have boxes of USB flash drives sitting around 4 weeks ago:
Yes. Multiple live operating systems on one USB that have persistent storage without install would be neat, but sounds like it’s distro dependent
- Comment on UK Cops 'Ashamed and Sick' of Enforcing Ban on Anti-Genocide Group Palestine Action 4 weeks ago:
This. Right here. Don’t make it easy on the brass by quitting
- Comment on Most people don't have boxes of USB flash drives sitting around 4 weeks ago:
Can you do a live os with ventoy? With like, persistence^? for data after restarts?
- Comment on YSK that hand sewing is a stupid cheap hobby to get into and reduces your impact on the environment 5 weeks ago:
PLEASE DISREGARD THE PREVIOUS POST, NORMAL SIZED PEOPLE HAVE PLENTY OF CLOTHING OPTIONS. LEAVE THE ODD SIZED CLOTHING FOR ODD SIZED PEOPLE
- Comment on A bit.. bigger. 5 weeks ago:
I’m guessing 40cm x40cm based on the measurements on the small plate
- Comment on Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s 5 weeks ago:
This just gave me an idea for a new movie rental service.
- Comment on Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s 5 weeks ago:
Yep, obviously a government funded drone if it only has 2Mb uplink
- Comment on 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law 5 weeks ago:
Last I heard 4chan-ers were referring to the owner as “Jap-moot”
- Comment on Framework unveils a second-generation Framework Laptop 16 with a swappable Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU, an industry first, shipping in November 2025 5 weeks ago:
The new GPU also has the same 100w tdp as the last one
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 1 month ago:
- It is lighter and cheaper, as you can use thinner materials. This is because pointy is a stronger shape than flat.
- It gives more interior space.
If you’re using lighter cheaper materials you’ll need all the added interior space for roof trusses, none of it will be livable space.
- It allows more sunlight to reach the street.
No, for the same amount of occupiable space the shorter flat roof blocks less light than a standard 10:12 or 12:12 roof
- It has a smaller area-to-volume-ratio through which heat can escape.
The greater surface area of a pitched roof means this is absolutely not true. The hypotenuse is always longer than either leg.
- Solar panels get a higher efficiency.
This one actually depends on latitude, equatorialy it’s better flat. And don’t forget that the minimum summer angle is limited by the pitched roof.
- If a city has the same height restrictions for flat roofed buildings as for pointy roofed buildings, and the architect is too lazy to go to the city council to explain to them that that doesn’t make sense, the architect can design a building with more volume by making the roof flat.
No it makes perfect sense. It goes back to your comment on letting sunlight through to the street. The maximum height is the maximum height so everyone gets the same amount of light.
In other words:
the only reason any architect would design a building with a flat roof is because they are either lazy or they have no idea what they are doing.this guy thinks their habitat is the only kind over the whole planet and can’t imagine people living in areas where snow load wouldn’t need to be considered. - Comment on Solar panels in space could cut Europe's renewable energy needs by 80% 1 month ago:
Back of the napkin math:
Largest solar sail (much lighter than panels, but doesn’t produce electricity) 2000 sq meters
200w/sq meter
400kwp
Also iirc the space solar farms plans I’ve seen call for re radiating the energy back via microwaves to dedicated receiving towers on the ground
- Comment on Milliamp-hours per hour 1 month ago:
Similar to how EU efficiency labels show power draw in W as kWh per 1000h of use
That sounds nice for appliances that run intermittently like refrigerators
- Comment on Shit like this is why we need open source printers! 1 month ago:
Would you accept a printer that works like a typewriter with arms that strike the page to lay down text?
What about a 2d pen plotter? Not nearly as fast as an inkjet, but still open source
- Comment on Or at least I will when I find another FWB 😅 1 month ago:
Mermaids appear to be mammals based on the tail fin orientation, so it’d be similar to dolphins.
- Comment on It's all a game for them and we are always the losers 1 month ago:
As I understand it, nothing is dismissed, it’s either approved or it’s ‘left to die in committee’ because anything that doesn’t make it out of committee by the end of session it dies and just be re submitted to the committee next session.
- Comment on It's all a game for them and we are always the losers 1 month ago:
Wouldn’t it have to be reproposed since it was still in committee at the end of last session?