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- Comment on A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code 1 day ago:
You realize that the spam is not coming from the actual line owning the number, right? They can spoof the number, so they could make it look like it came from any number. If they put some effort into researching you, they could make the spam look like it came from your mom.
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 2 days ago:
Ah. I guess that’s why people were so excited about Valve making one. I’m not really that interested in VR, so I never really evaluated their vs the competition’s offerings.
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 2 days ago:
May I ask why? It seems like a huge risk due to being tethered to a Facebook account which could get banned at any time. Was the price too good to pass up?
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 2 days ago:
Facebook once explained that their mobile app is so huge because they encourage everyone to just roll their own thing instead of sharing code, because it’s faster to not have to coordinate or something. Well, if you never leverage other people’s work ever, you’re going to spend a lot of time reinventing wheels, and a lot of those wheels will look more like hexagons.
- Comment on An argument for using plastic straws: 5 days ago:
TIL mate is to Uruguay what durian is to Thailand.
- Comment on how do plants in a green house get enough co2? 1 week ago:
Not sure how they capture the carbon dioxide, but it’s delivered to the greenhouse itself from a giant tank outside the building. I realize that’s probably not the part of the process you were interested in, but it’s all I’ve got.
- Comment on how do plants in a green house get enough co2? 1 week ago:
Mostly it’s fine as others have stated, but sometimes they pump CO2 in there. One example is Friðheimar tomato farm in Iceland, which enhances photosynthesis by using carbon dioxide produced from natural geothermal steam](fridheimar.is/sustainability/).
- Comment on Vintage 3dfx Voodoo 2 cards may inevitably fail due to pyroelectric capacitors — retrocomputing channel investigates [Bits and Bolts] and recommends preventive maintenance 1 week ago:
Plus the cost of a regular graphics card. You also had to buy a sound card in addition to all the components you still need today. And I was 15 years old, so coughing up another ~$700 for two of the beefier cards would mean a whole lot more working during summer break.
- Comment on TFW you get the old gang back together 2 weeks ago:
Grossest president so far
- Comment on Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away 2 weeks ago:
I have a job like that, but I also have kids, so…
- Comment on Legendary game designer, programmer Rebecca Heineman has died 2 weeks ago:
An upvote is to spread awareness. It doesn’t necessarily mean you like the message.
- Comment on Vintage 3dfx Voodoo 2 cards may inevitably fail due to pyroelectric capacitors — retrocomputing channel investigates [Bits and Bolts] and recommends preventive maintenance 2 weeks ago:
Someone I knew had two 12MB Voodoo2 cards in SLI. I couldn’t believe anyone could shell out that much. My build was a single 8MB Voodoo2, which was already mind-blowing, especially since I never had 3D acceleration before that.
- Comment on turing completeness 3 weeks ago:
Does following the 3 laws of robotics increase profits? Does ignoring them increase profits? Are tech bros empty husks without a shred of shame or empathy? Is this too many rhetorical questions in a row?
- Comment on Dear neighbor... 5 weeks ago:
That battery will be low for a long time before it is fully dead.
- Comment on #environmentalist 1 month ago:
What happened to those Italian pasta straws? They looked promising.
- Comment on Not stealing 1 month ago:
A friend of mine does that for group lunches. If everyone is humming and hawing about where to go, he’ll suggest McDonald’s. This reduces the threshold of making suggestions significantly for the others, because they no longer need to find a great place. They only need to come up with somewhere better than McDonald’s.
- Comment on How does Edward Scissorhands pee? 1 month ago:
Spray and pray
- Comment on Commercials seem to be normalizing an unhealthy work-balance more. 1 month ago:
Ads don’t need to make you explicitly go out to buy the product to be effective. All they need to do is make you feel more familiar with the brand next time they and a competitor are next to each other in the store, and you need to decide which one to pick.
TL;DR: For stuff you’ll need to buy anyway, brand awareness is all the ad needs to do.
- Comment on Excel's AI: 20% of the time, it works every time 2 months ago:
Except if you’re calculating dates from a long time ago. It famously takes some liberties with leap years.
- Comment on Why can't countries with vast deserts make solar farms to power the world? 2 months ago:
From what I remember you get pretty close to AC mid-conversion anyway, but I looked it up and there are some other reasons to use DC:
From en.wikipedia.org/…/High-voltage_direct_current:
HVDC lines are commonly used for long-distance power transmission, since they require fewer conductors and incur less power loss than equivalent AC lines. HVDC also allows power transmission between AC transmission systems that are not synchronized. Since the power flow through an HVDC link can be controlled independently of the phase angle between source and load, it can stabilize a network against disturbances due to rapid changes in power. HVDC also allows the transfer of power between grid systems running at different frequencies, such as 50 and 60 Hz. This improves the stability and economy of each grid, by allowing the exchange of power between previously incompatible networks.
- Comment on Why can't countries with vast deserts make solar farms to power the world? 2 months ago:
Why DC? I’ve always been taught AC was better for long distances. What am I missing?
- Comment on Age check 2 months ago:
Technically a cigar, IIRC.
- Comment on Trump Admin Warns GOP: Demanding More Epstein Files Is an ‘Act of War’ Against the White House 2 months ago:
To be fair, that is a more accurate name.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 2 months ago:
If side loading is actually allowed on iOS it’s exclusively because the past few years of lawsuits forced them to, and they keep trying to block it in new ways. Android can only be equally bad as Apple at worst, because Apple is as bad as they are legally allowed to in a given jurisdiction. So picking iOS over Android over that specific issue seems odd. They get brownie points for having blocked it from the start?
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 2 months ago:
Doesn’t iPhone already have pretty much the exact restrictions that are coming to Android?
- Comment on I saw what you did there 2 months ago:
You can make your own bootleg track saw out a regular skilsaw and some scraps. Personally I haven’t even bothered doing that, and just clamp a straight edge to whatever I’m cutting when I need to make a long straight cut. It’s a lot slower and more fidgety than having a real track, but I rarely make cuts like that.
- Comment on Not stealing 3 months ago:
I’m not a total asshole: After he’s had his “oh shit” moment I give him one more chance to choose. He’s usually a lot better at picking one of the two options on his second try.
- Comment on Not stealing 3 months ago:
I present two options. If my kid doesn’t pick one of those two options, either by not responding or by requesting a third thing, I’m picking one of the two options for him. And I’m always picking what he’s least likely to want.
- Comment on YSK that despite being outside of US jurisdiction, Lego has dropped diversity and inclusion terminology from its annual report 3 months ago:
Someone did invent stackable blocks with four round pegs on them, but saying Lego stole the entire concept is like saying whoever invented the wheel stole the concept because they didn’t invent the circle. You have to allow for iterative design to some extent.
To your second point, you are right that they have got “enough credit”, considering that the patent is expired. This is how patents work: In exchange for sharing your idea with the world so it can be iterated upon, you get to keep exclusive rights to use it (which you can optionally license to others) for a limited time. So the patents expiring is literally the system saying they got their due.
That being said, they still can get brownie points in public opinion for coming up with all this, and the competition has done very little iteration on the concept as far as I can tell, beyond making cool designs with existing brick designs. But considering that the competition so far has mostly been playing catch-up, this may change. Also, considering the vastness and versatility of existing brick designs, there wasn’t much to iterate upon, so maybe set design is really where we’re going to see most of the movement.
It’s basically down to “name brand vs generics” now with the patent expired, and some people will prefer name brand stuff.
- Comment on YSK that despite being outside of US jurisdiction, Lego has dropped diversity and inclusion terminology from its annual report 3 months ago:
I get your point, although I’m not sure that’s a good example. I’d be very wary of anyone promising not to stab me out of the blue :-)
That being said, I’d be very surprised if Lego isn’t still doing largely the same things they did before, except they’re no longer publishing what they’re doing. For the Danish part of their operations I’m guessing most of it mandated by local law anyway.