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- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 1 day ago:
And I say we don’t have enough names, we should have names for at least 30° and 45° increments.
- Comment on It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it 4 days ago:
Jedi Fallen Order was good though (also Respawn).
- Comment on What did I forget? 1 week ago:
No idea. Cat ears seem to be more popular with computer science people, should’ve put them on the Rust logo instead.
- Comment on No one else in the world matters but me 1 week ago:
Where I’m from you’re still limited to the speed limit when passing.
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 2 weeks ago:
It gives them excuse to shut down their servers if they can point to these.
I’m pretty sure they already shut down all their servers. They refunded everyone and try to forget the game ever happened.
- Comment on Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline 4 weeks ago:
acoustic vacuum
Not a native speaker, is this even a word?
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 5 weeks ago:
That’s the morning after pill, completely different thing and depending on the country way harder to get than the regular pill.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 5 weeks ago:
Not in your dong, the only thing in there is the urethra, and unless you never want to pee again you don’t want to block that. The injection would probably be somwhere close to where you would cut the sperm duct in a vasectomy.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 5 weeks ago:
If you did a trial for a new pill for women you bet there will be some who will drop out because of side effects like acne or mood swings, that’s expected to some degree. The thing with that trial for the male pill is, that people always twist it into sounding like the study was cancelled because of some people dropping out over these side effects, but it wasn’t.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 5 weeks ago:
They stopped that one trial because a participant tried to kill himself and that’s basically the only real trial that was ever done with a larger number of participants.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 5 weeks ago:
And every time male birth control does make it to trials, guys tap out the second they get a mood swing or a cramp.
This is false, it’s based on a single study and twists facts. Some participants dropped out because of side effects, but those not dropping out said they would actually continue using the pill if it were available. The study was stopped because one participant tried to kill himself.
- Comment on PC Master Race 5 weeks ago:
500 non-gaming PC because your ps5 isn’t a useful alternative
That’s kind of a non-argument. I know a lot of people with desktop gaming PCs who also have a laptop (for school, uni, whatever). The people I know who only play games on console usually don’t have a desktop, they only have a laptop that’s not suitable for gaming. I also know a lot of people who play games on console and PC and therefore have both, plus usually a laptop. And then I also know a lot of people who don’t have ps+/xbox-whatever because they don’t play online games.
- Comment on What's your answer? And in the picture which news story is being reported? 5 weeks ago:
I remember seeing Yasser Arafat on TV.
- Comment on Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, the usual startup approach. Burn investor money to get into the market (or in this case create a market) by offering services below cost. Once they have enough users and their investors want their money back they’ll ramp up prices.
- Comment on Gotta get those tickets! 1 month ago:
That’s the mother.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
No, that’s because they’re racist. They can have different motivations to do what they do.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
The right loves meritocracy. To them it means everyone got what they deserve, from the homeless to the billionaires.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Yes you should.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Remember not so long ago when people noticed that Rise Against makes political songs? A lot of people are blind to stuff like this until you point it out.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Yes, it’s from Deep Space Nine Season 5, Episode 6 “Trials and Tribble-ations”.
- Comment on Public service announcement 1 month ago:
It’s called digital exam.
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 1 month ago:
Does it actually get more popular? I see Lemmy, Piefed and Mbin together at around 40k monthly active users. It hasn’t really gained a lot of new active users, the peak was 50k monthly active users a while ago, so it seems to get less popular.
- Comment on [Technology Connections] Video projectors used to be ridiculously cool [34:39] 1 month ago:
If I’m thinking about it correctly then either the standing wave is intentional or the oven is designed badly. You know the wavelength so you can make sure the oven is not an integer multiple of it and the hot spots move around on their own, no fancy frequency shifting required.
- Comment on Any swifties here to verify this? 1 month ago:
There are like two good songs on it. She peaked with Folklore.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 2 months ago:
Yeah, lack of empathy on her side, I know. If you think your date is a potential rapist/murderer/… then why are you trying to date them?
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 2 months ago:
If you can’t trust a stranger even a little bit then don’t date complete strangers. Limit your dating pool to your circle of friends, friends of friends, people you already know or that your friends vouch for.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 2 months ago:
Trying to start a relationship by playing games is very much a good place to find red flags.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 2 months ago:
Not even proprietary, just niche things. In other words anything that’s rarely used in open source code, because there’s nothing to train the models on.
- Comment on Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme crushes Apple M4, Intel, and AMD in new benchmarks 2 months ago:
Elite Extreme
Sounds like it focuses more on shiny RGB than performance.
- Comment on transformation 2 months ago:
Well, this is the darkest timeline, turning evil is just natural now.