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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Somewhere out there, there may be an alien life form imagining how terrible a planet with molten dihydrogen monoxide in the atmosphere might be.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Here, water is mostly a liquid but there’s a ton in the gaseous state in the air.

  A lot of places, water is just another type of rock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Phone is an Entire Computer⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m annoyed at the state of Apple’s app ecosystem. MacOS is worse this year than it’s been in a long time and I’m not updating on Macs that I control.

  But have you used a windows pc recently? It’s like banging rocks together. Somehow, they keep finding ways to make it worse every year. Or month. So yeah, I’m using a Mac because it’s the less terrible option.

  (And good luck getting your IT people at work letting you put Linux on your laptop.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Phone is an Entire Computer⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We have been complaining about this shit for YEARS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re saying something wrote it for you. So you didn’t write it. The plagiarism robot wrote it.

  Get your head checked, dude.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should Scientists and Engineers Run Society?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not gonna watch the video, but I’m a scientist. I work with engineers.

  The answer you’re looking for is no. (Maybe hell no.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you have to throw punches, make sure to punch upwards.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you punch down, towards people that are less influential or less capable than you, someone “upward” of you is probably benefitting from the lower people fighting each other instead of themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even their fish are fucked up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, I’ve read this one before! The cocaine was so pervasive, they even found it in the blanks! Too bad publishing that makes the report kind of useless.

  If you really want to see something, and you’re sloppy with your blanks, an LCMS can detect anything you want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix Becomes Max-Level Patron Of Blender's Development Fund⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  People have been begging for big tech companies that rely on open source software to support development. Netflix finally did the dang thing.

  More, please!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which one is it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I could usually hear the gasp.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which one is it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  D) Gasp, then quickly look around to see if the TA saw

  I was a TA. The answer was always D.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Gee golly, I’m so glad my eyes didn’t have to see the f word, my goodness, that would have been disastrous

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Steam dev is deleting his own game after girlfriend made him realize AI is bad⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Again, reading the announcement, it sounds like the advice the developer received in school was to use it. He’s realized now that it was a bad call.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Steam dev is deleting his own game after girlfriend made him realize AI is bad⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The announcement suggests the developer wrote all the code, but used the slop robot to generate assets. Sounds like the issue is that making art assets actually takes skill, and is something most programmer types underestimate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's called traditional medicine sweety, look it up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I usually don’t scope someone’s history because of one bad comment, but yeesh. You’ve been here for one day and it’s just about 100% bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump, 79, Rants Incoherently About Robots and AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am once again begging people not to post a headline that starts with “Trump, 79,” that doesn’t end with. Well. You know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have An Idea for A Better Space, SciFi, Exploration Entertainment, Than Even ‘Star Trek’.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You have some good replies here, but I’ll add one piece. You’ve imagined a world where your primary characters are Good. No killing, just defensive armaments, all about diplomacy and exploration.

  Consider, though, that interesting stories have conflict. Conflict needs to have consequences to the characters you’re following, or it’s not very interesting.

  You’re describing a world that would probably be better to live in than that of Star Trek. But I’m not sure it would result in better stories.