AwesomeLowlander
@AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Couple spends close to $1,000,000 making their Texas family home 'optimized for LAN parties' and the result is pretty staggering 1 day ago:
From the article, they made it an emphasis.
- Comment on Couple spends close to $1,000,000 making their Texas family home 'optimized for LAN parties' and the result is pretty staggering 1 day ago:
TBF, some OEM mouses are among the best I’ve used in my life.
- Comment on Where can I buy a mosquito laser system? 3 days ago:
See the linked article elsewhere in this post, they had to wear safety goggles around it when it was in use.
- Comment on Where can I buy a mosquito laser system? 4 days ago:
You cannot scale it. It is dangerous. It is expensive to keep running / maintained.
Your source:
for the demonstration, I had to wear protective goggles since that type of laser is not safe for your eyes; And no one has yet worked out how to make the device cheap enough to be useful in the places it is most needed, places where most people’s mosquito-defense system consists of sleeping under nets every night.
You were saying?
- Comment on Where can I buy a mosquito laser system? 4 days ago:
But despite Myhrvold’s enthusiasm, the Photonic Fence hasn’t been all that easy to actually build. It’s taken years of development to figure out how to continuously track and identify a specific type of insect and then dispatch it safely and efficiently. For instance, for the demonstration, I had to wear protective goggles since that type of laser is not safe for your eyes; I was assured that when it’s market-ready, the laser they deploy will not potentially blind human passersby. And no one has yet worked out how to make the device cheap enough to be useful in the places it is most needed, places where most people’s mosquito-defense system consists of sleeping under nets every night.
You mean the patent on an item where they haven’t figured out how to make it work yet without blinding its users? Yeah, it’s definitely patent trolls and not user safety /s
- Comment on Where can I buy a mosquito laser system? 4 days ago:
Source?
- Comment on Where can I buy a mosquito laser system? 4 days ago:
Probably haven’t solved the issue of friendly fire, i.e. potentially blinding users.
- Comment on If a leftist ran for president, would liberals support him? 4 days ago:
They totally would, until they disagreed with a single one of his policies.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 5 days ago:
A hundred years supply, probably more, at the current market rate, is not enough of a reserve?
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 5 days ago:
Oh gee, that’s your best argument right now? Usage of caps? Lmao
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 5 days ago:
Oh this is hilarious how badly you’re misunderstanding your own source. This is akin to ‘peak oil’ 30 years ago. The reserves listed in the article are about how much known reserves are capable of supplying AT FIXED MARKET RATES OF $130 - $230 / KG.
Some choice quotes from YOUR linked source:
Further exploration and higher prices will certainly, on the basis of present geological knowledge, yield further resources as present ones are used up.
An orebody is, by definition, an occurrence of mineralization from which the metal is economically recoverable. Orebodies, and thus measured resources – the amount known to be economically recoverable from orebodies – are therefore relative to both costs of extraction and market prices. For example, at present neither the oceans nor any granites are orebodies, but conceivably either could become so if prices were to rise sufficiently. At ten times the current price*, seawater, for example, might become a potential source of vast amounts of uranium. Thus, any predictions of the future availability of any mineral, including uranium, which are based on current cost and price data, as well as current geological knowledge, are likely to prove extremely conservative.
They even SPECIFICALLY addressed your concern!
Of course the resources of the earth are indeed finite, but three observations need to be made: first, the limits of the supply of resources are so far away that the truism has no practical meaning. Second, many of the resources concerned are either renewable or recyclable (energy minerals and zinc are the main exceptions, though the recycling potential of many materials is limited in practice by the energy and other costs involved). Third, available reserves of ‘non-renewable’ resources are constantly being renewed, mostly faster than they are used.
Did you just try to google and link the first result or something? HALF THE ARTICLE IS SPECIFICALLY ABOUT HOW WE HISTORICALLY KEEP TALKING ABOUT RESOURCES RUNNING DRY, AND WHY THAT ENTIRE IDEA IS NONSENSE.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 6 days ago:
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No
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Because #1 is no
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- Comment on You know what would be cool? If all those (job name) simulator games could all be joined. 1 week ago:
They did. Support was discontinued from the start of 2024. That you’ve been using it up to now without any problems is literally because they didn’t break anything on purpose. As long as none of the software changes it will continue to work.
- Comment on You know what would be cool? If all those (job name) simulator games could all be joined. 1 week ago:
MICROSOFT cut off support for windows 7. Is steam supposed to continue support for the entire OS?
- Comment on Illegal land grab in Bosnia-Herzegovina? - Chinese company built wind farm on private property without the owner's consent 1 week ago:
This is a news article, not the actual lawsuit. Since when do news articles show proof? They’re just reporting on the matter. The proof or lack of it is for the courts to decide.
- Comment on Illegal land grab in Bosnia-Herzegovina? - Chinese company built wind farm on private property without the owner's consent 1 week ago:
That doesn’t mean no land grab happened, just that the Chinese company may not be at fault.
- Comment on ‘It should not taste marine-like’: Would you eat a burger made from processed sea squirts? 1 week ago:
Taste and mouthfeel, generally
- Comment on Preview: The Cerritos Crew Starts A New Comic Book Adventure In First Issue Of ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ 1 week ago:
Maybe someday there’ll be a show based on the comic! They could make it an animated series!
- Comment on A 30-Megawatt Space Solar Power Plant Is Scheduled For 2030 1 week ago:
This is wrong on so many levels, I don’t know where to start.
- Comment on Trying to Help 1 week ago:
- Comment on 'It even breaks my heart a bit': Denuvo pushes back on its haters, says Steam forums are a 'very toxic, very hostile environment' 4 weeks ago:
What’s with all the recent articles whitewashing Denuvo?
- Comment on Denuvo respond to their rep for tanking games - "I'm a gamer myself, and therefore I know what I'm talking about" 4 weeks ago:
What makes you think he’s an idiot as opposed to lying through his teeth?
- ‘It’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it’
- Comment on Why should we have to continue seeing people's replies when we block them? 4 weeks ago:
Is that not how it currently works? I was under the impression that’s how it works for me at least. What behaviour are you seeing?
- Comment on A little essay I wrote about "mods are power tripping" 4 weeks ago:
By the same logic however, mods would have no power to actually moderate. Their moderation ability is directly proportional to their potential for abuse. And I think we can all agree we’ve long passed the point where communities are able to survive without moderation, at least in their current form (which is what OP is discussing).
- Comment on Is a filter for muting Lemmy 'power users' possible? 4 weeks ago:
If you’re going to remove 90% of the content on lemmy, is there even a point staying on it?
- Comment on Factorio 2.0 and Factorio: Space Age DLC are out now 4 weeks ago:
It’s also got more attention and care to detail than any 3 other AAA games combined. At this point, AAA is not a compliment to a game
- Comment on Magic Mineral 5 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure we could go back to using it, with more precautions in place, better binders, etc. Hell, it’s still used in many parts
Is there a way to keep it inert when the next homeowner starts tearing down drywall and drilling holes in stuff?
- Comment on 18 treated for severe nausea in Stuttgart after opera of live sex and piercing 1 month ago:
Prions are extremely scary but rare. In the event they start becoming more widespread, there’s no reason to think we couldn’t invent treatments for the condition. Whether by specifically targeting the misfolded proteins, or by removing the vulnerable protein from the body
- Comment on This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates. 1 month ago:
I mean, most of the masses already do meet that requirement. OP seems to think there are only ‘masses’ in the US and nowhere else.
- Comment on This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates. 1 month ago:
I have never understood people who make this argument. In all of history, can you point to a single time when technology wasn’t eventually commercialised and made available to the masses at affordable prices? The billionaires don’t want to keep it to themselves, they want you buying more stuff from them.