zaphod
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- Comment on Questions about the insides of this optocoupler (TLP250) 1 week ago:
rectangle is a black box (“don’t worry what’s in here, we promise it’s not gremlins”).
It’s where they store the magic smoke.
- Comment on Can you see yourself cutting off by a generation of gaming? 2 weeks ago:
It’s just like books, just because the are lifetimes worth of old books doesn’t mean I should ignore the new books. I read a mix of classics and recent releases, both usually through the library.
And it’s not like all the old books are interesting, same with games. Just because there is a lot doesn’t mean it’s all interesting, or maybe it’s not what I’m currently interested in.
- Comment on Germany hits 62.7% renewables in 2024 energy mix, with solar contributing 14% 3 weeks ago:
Prices mainly go up due to things like transmission fees.
- Comment on Fucking pigeons 3 weeks ago:
I’m proud of them, they’re doing their best.
- Comment on Pointless existence 4 weeks ago:
If only there was a way to be a non-religious monk.
- Comment on Absolute slander 2 months ago:
This is completely ignoring perspective, and I’m also questioning the entire methodology how the length of this cat is measured. It’s like measuring how tall someone is while sitting.
- Comment on Two kind of YouTubers 2 months ago:
Link to the Shrek Burger King toy video?
- Comment on Optimisation is a Slow Process 2 months ago:
Works well enough in most cases #wontfix
- Comment on Pants 2 months ago:
Depends on the problem you’re trying to solve, just keep it consistent and don’t mix the two.
- Comment on I hate that that happens 2 months ago:
Oh, you mean word endings for plurals, well those depend on the gender and the singular word ending. They can be a bit confusing, because they’re not always regular like local -> locaux, but naval -> navals. You have that in other languages too, even in english, like goose -> geese, but moose -> moose, mouse -> mice, house -> houses, and so on.
- Comment on I hate that that happens 2 months ago:
French has different pluralization rules for up to four objects
What?
- Comment on Radio station uses AI to interview the ghost of a dead Nobel-winner with 3 quirky zoomers who don't exist, seems baffled people don't like it 3 months ago:
“Fake” interviews with dead people is surprisingly a common thing in journalism.
- Comment on Pstpstpst 3 months ago:
Looks more like Windows 7, the start menu button has the same height as the task bar, in Vista the start menu button is higher than the task bar. Also apparently Prof. McGonagall is teaching French.
- Comment on brown recluse 4 months ago:
You can tell by the fact that jumping spiders are cute and recluse spiders are not.
- Comment on Day 46 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 4 months ago:
Oh, I was talking about driving with a controller.
- Comment on Day 46 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 4 months ago:
Good game, had a lot of fun with it. It seems a lot of people didn’t like the game because the graphics got downgraded from what they showd in the first trailers. They only real complaint I have is the handling of cars is weird.
- Comment on Is the US finally getting ‘all aboard’ with electric trains? 5 months ago:
Battery and hydrogen-powered trains exist, they’re mainly used on less frequented lines because it would be more expensive to electrify them.
- Comment on Ecovacs home robots can be hacked to spy on their owners, researchers say 5 months ago:
Am I the only one who thinks vacuums, washing machines, fridges and so on shouldn’t be connected to the internet?
- Comment on TSMC Arizona struggles to overcome vast differences between Taiwanese and US work culture 5 months ago:
It goes both ways, your employer can’t fire you at will either. But it goes further, usually you have a probation period, in Germany it’s up to 6 months during which you can leave any time, or be fired at any time. Beyond that there’s always the option to agree on a shorter notice period, but if you’re getting fired and you agree to a shorter period you won’t get unemployment compensation for that time.
- Comment on Quick Chat 5 months ago:
You can put the new name up Urectum.
- Comment on Space Marine 2 feels even more explosively, grimly, and hilariously authentic to the Warhammer 40,000 universe than the first game 5 months ago:
Heresy!
- Comment on The Google antitrust ruling could be an existential threat to the future of Firefox | Financials show 86% of Mozilla's revenue came from the agreement keeping Google as Firefox's default search engine 5 months ago:
I’ll add:
- Buying some random companies
- Comment on NASA Ping 5 months ago:
Radio waves always propagate at the speed of light, it’s just that the effective speed of light in copper and glass fibre is lower than that in air/vacuum.
- Comment on Megacerops 5 months ago:
I don’t know why, but to me it looks like their eyes should be further back, closer to their ears, or maybe their ears are too far back. I assume that’s why they went extinct.
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 5 months ago:
Deathloop.
- Comment on Day 10 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 5 months ago:
The “quad A” game?
- Comment on Day 10 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 5 months ago:
Not the name, the AC game mechanics. It could’ve been an even better pirate game if it had focused on its strengths and dropped the AC baggage.
- Comment on Day 10 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 5 months ago:
The best AC is either Origins or Odyssey.
- Comment on Day 10 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 5 months ago:
Would’ve been a really great game if it weren’t an Assassin’s Creed, but just a pirate game.
- Comment on Day 5 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 6 months ago:
More like an open hub world and several linear levels instead of the interconnected linear levels of Fallen Order.