LastYearsIrritant
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- Comment on Subnautica 2 teases new creatures and co-op among the coral 1 day ago:
This is a game I’m not going to preorder, but watch for a few months until the bugs are worked out, then when it’s 20% off I’ll play the shit out of it!
- Comment on Don't make it "like Google" 1 day ago:
What? There’s so many limitations on how you can move and manage files! You can’t even copy directories! That was a basic command in the 80’s.
Sure it has a UI, which makes some things easier, but there were fewer limitations in the 80’s on what you could and couldn’t do.
- Comment on Hottest Star Trek character? 4 days ago:
I guess the discussion is over, cause I find no fault with these selections.
- Comment on NonPlanar Interlocking Walls for Stronger 3D-Prints 4 days ago:
Glad he’s back at it after the data loss.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
By not filming back to back.
It could be that each round is a different day.
- Comment on Why do some say they own or have bought something that they technically haven't (e.g. domain names, expensive things, etc.)? 3 weeks ago:
If you’re behind $1000 in taxes for a $250000 house doesn’t mean the government takes your whole house and you get nothing.
They typically sell it at auction and you get the leftovers.
www.michigan.gov/taxes/…/forfeiture-foreclosureIf you’ve lived in the house after a lifetime, you’d either have to be extremely behind in taxes, have not maintained the house, or both, for it to be a complete loss.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 3 weeks ago:
I write an average of about 3 checks per month, even now.
- Comment on 90s band alignment chart 3 weeks ago:
Easy, be me.
- Comment on Two Open Source Projects Combine to 3D Print a Working Replica Key Using a Flipper Zero 4 weeks ago:
You just need a picture of a key, a key blank, and a file.
It’s always been extremely easy to copy standard keys.
Yes, this automates some of it, but honestly if you’re smart enough to know how to use a flipper Zero and a 3d printer, you can cut a key by hand (assuming no disability prevents you from having fine motor skills)
- Comment on FL wants more child labor 4 weeks ago:
30 minute PAID break. The break lets them be more productive. The pay helps them be less stressed.
It’s good policy that helps the employers, even the ones too dumb to know it.
- Comment on Why DO credit card companies make a stink about adult content anyway? 4 weeks ago:
PH purge was more about being unable to validate that the content was consensual/legal.
- Comment on Who needs retirement when you can buy an asset that loses value over time? 1 month ago:
You have to be correct TWICE in order to make money off that bet though. Unless you buy back in right now, the chances you’ll get back in at the right time are very low.
- Comment on Who needs retirement when you can buy an asset that loses value over time? 1 month ago:
9/10 times you’ll miss the dip and get behind the curve. You have no idea how the market is going to react in the next 6 weeks, much less in the next 6 years.
Trump could have just as easily not implemented the two days of tariffs and the market could have gone up.
Now that the tariffs are off again, the market might bounce back higher than ever on Monday and you’re going to miss the bounce.
Of course he might say something incredibly stupid tonight and the market crashes, but again, 9/10 times pulling money out of the market means opportunities lost, not bullets dodged.
- Comment on Who needs retirement when you can buy an asset that loses value over time? 1 month ago:
Same as every other time in the US’s existence.
Invest in an index fund, let money sit. Repeat.
The US has been through turmoil before. Nearly every country in the world has had similar experiences. Unless you think the concept of capitalism is ending, just prepare for the future the way that’s been done for the last 100 years.
- Comment on does someone who lives very far away from me (for example 1900 miles) see the same night sky as me? (as in moon, stars, etc) 1 month ago:
If you lived 1900 miles West or East, you would see the same sky, just at different times. In this case, the difference in timezones would approximately be the difference in the sky you see. So if your husband is 3 hours ahead, he’d see the same sky about 3 hours before you.
If you lived 1900 miles north or south of each other, your horizon could be pretty different. But the stars directly overhead would be pretty similar.
If you lived on opposite sides of the equator, you might start to see different angles of the sky such that things directly overhead look flipped upside down. People in the southern hemesphere see the moon as upside down to people in the northern hemesphere.
- Comment on Sadly, Athena toppled over on the moon. With a lunar eclipse coming shortly, why didn't they design in a secondary power source over solar? 1 month ago:
You’re looking at it with hindsight. Sure it feels like spending another million $ designing, testing, and adding additional weight, along with removing weight from other parts looks like the right decision now.
Every design makes compromises, and every failure looks stupid when looking at the end result. The team had decisions to make and if they had the extra time and money, then making the existing design more robust with more testing and reliability would have been the better solution.
- Comment on Sadly, Athena toppled over on the moon. With a lunar eclipse coming shortly, why didn't they design in a secondary power source over solar? 1 month ago:
Good explanation. People that design space missions have a lot of restrictions, and things that seem obvious on the surface can cause a lot of problems in practice.
- Comment on Sadly, Athena toppled over on the moon. With a lunar eclipse coming shortly, why didn't they design in a secondary power source over solar? 1 month ago:
Weight. That’s the only actual answer.
It’s extremely expensive to send weight to the moon, everything you list is more weight.
- Comment on Realistically, how feasible is it to 100% boycott a massive corporation (such as Amazon) for an extended period of time? 1 month ago:
Amazon doesn’t make anything. There’s very little on Amazon that can’t be purchased somewhere else.
- Comment on Brother denies using firmware updates to brick printers with third-party ink 1 month ago:
Customer service reps have almost the same information that a customer would have. The only difference is they have a few more tools available to them.
Asking policy questions or anything at this level would likely get no useful info.
- Comment on Does it make sense to buy a lifetime supply of honey? 1 month ago:
If the bees die off, you’re going to have a much bigger problem than lack of honey.
- Comment on Mullvad's privacy-focused search engine Leta is now free for all users | Leta acts as a proxy for Google and Brave search results 1 month ago:
Gemini is wrong quite often. You shouldn’t rely on it to tell you facts.
If I need to double check it, then it’s worthless to me.
- Comment on Who gets all the tariff money about to be collected from US citizens buying products from Canada? 1 month ago:
The referee assigns points to teams, but doesn’t need to collect those points from another team or earn them to assign them out.
It’s a decent metaphor.
- Comment on Mullvad's privacy-focused search engine Leta is now free for all users | Leta acts as a proxy for Google and Brave search results 1 month ago:
It’s also underselling what they are providing.
You get to skip all the AI garbage, all the sponsored links, and the “what other people are asking” sections and just go straight to the search results.
Privacy is the primary selling point, but the clean “old school” google interface is what I’m really excited about. I’ve set my default search in the browser to Leta for now.
- Comment on How does one go about curing a pill hangover? Never had one but a patient of me asked me this and I had no answer. I know how to get over alcohol hangover but not a pill hangover? 1 month ago:
Patient?
- Comment on EA has open sourced Command & Conquer: Red Alert under GPLv3 1 month ago:
Fallout source is gone too. There was just no reliable way to store source code back then, a lot of times it was just one of the developers that had it sitting in a desk drawer.
If it’s new enough, maybe a burnt CD.
- Comment on EA has open sourced Command & Conquer: Red Alert under GPLv3 1 month ago:
Sometimes licenses get in the way, it’s possible they bought em engine or tech from a 3rd party and don’t have the legal standing (or don’t know if they do or not) to release the source.
- Comment on Jay Doscher Revisits the Recovery Kit Project, Replacing the Pelican Case with a 3D-Printed Chassis 2 months ago:
Curious why he didn’t start with one of the Parameterized “Waterproof” boxes.