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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Airbus previews next-gen airliner with bird-inspired wings⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was meaning that the blade count and detachability was the difference in definition between turboprop and propfan/open turbofan, not that it was necessarily the thing making the engine more efficient.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Airbus previews next-gen airliner with bird-inspired wings⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen turboprops in museums and on the internet with around six or eight blades. When I looked on the Wikipedia page for propfan engines, which seems to be another name for an open turbofan, the distinction seemed to be mainly how the blades were shaped (like propellor blades or turbine blades) and how tightly-integrated everything is (you can swap the propeller out on a turboprop).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Airbus previews next-gen airliner with bird-inspired wings⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How many blades do you have to add to a turboprop before it’s promoted to an open turbofan and touted as a major new innovation?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Morrowind game engine OpenMW gearing up for a huge new 0.49 release⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not so much a loophole as they’d reasonably have expected mods that chopped up voice lines to make new sentences, and mods have been doing that for Bethesda games for years, sometimes with surprisingly effective results, but that’s obviously super time-consuming and not as good as someone just reading aloud, let alone actually acting. Generative AI can suddenly chop up voice lines to make newer ones way faster with next to no effort, and give comparable quality to the original voice actor reading lines aloud, even though it can’t do the acting part.

  It’s no skin off Bethesda’s nose if people use generative AI to voice modded dialogue, but it could be a problem for the voice actors. Wes Johnson’s done voice work for mods before, so mods aren’t operating in a completely separate space to the voice actors who worked on the games. From a quick search, it doesn’t seem like he charged for any of the work he did for mods (one was specifically for a charity fundraiser), but it wouldn’t be immoral of him, or any other voice actor, to take paid commissions for mod dialogue. That’s not as viable if generative AI can compete.

  Anyway, none of this is really relevant to OpenMW specifically - sound files are game content, and we don’t deal with game content

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Morrowind game engine OpenMW gearing up for a huge new 0.49 release⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You have made a mistake and in doing so summoned an OpenMW developer to this thread. Lua is not an acronym, it’s Portuguese for moon, so should not be written in ALL CAPS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Morrowind game engine OpenMW gearing up for a huge new 0.49 release⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a fringe example where it’s legally okay as the Construction Set EULA that you have to agree to to use the original engine’s modding tools grants you the right to make derivative works of the game’s assets (including the sound files) provided it’s only to make mods for Morrowind (and some other restrictions, e.g. not charging any money). For nearly any other game, no one’s granted you that right, so it’s not legal, but any other kind of modding that requires you to make things based off the game’s original files and distribute them wouldn’t be legal either.

  Morally, it’s dicey as a modern voice actor contract would either have a clause about being unable to use the recordings to train voice synthesis, or charge more for the privilege, so the voice actors for Morrowind signed a right away that they didn’t intend to because their agents failed to realise it was something they could do or predict that it would ever become relevant. No one tricked anyone, but it’s not what would have been agreed to if everyone involved was clairvoyant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  People fall off rooftops fitting solar panels, burn to death repairing wind turbines that they can’t climb down fast enough to escape, and dams burst and wash away towns. Renewable energy is much less killy than fossil fuels, but per megawatt hour, it’s comparable to nuclear, despite a few large incidents killing quite a lot of people each. At the moment, over their history, hydro is four times deadlier than nuclear, wind’s a little worse than nuclear, and solar’s a little better. Fission power is actually really safe.

  The article’s talking about fusion power, though. Fission reactions are dangerous because if you’ve got enough fuel to get a reaction at all, you’ve got enough fuel to get a bigger reaction than you want, so you have to control it carefully to avoid making it too hot, which would cause the steam in the reactor to burst out and carry chunks of partially-used fuel with it, which are very deadly. That problem doesn’t exist with fusion. It’s so hard to make the reaction happen in the first place that any problem just makes the reaction stop immediately. If you somehow blew a hole in the side of the reactor, you’d just get some very hot hydrogen and very hot helium, which would be harmless in a few minutes once they’d cooled down. It’s impossible for fusion power, once it’s working, not to be the safest way to generate energy in history because it inherently avoids the big problems with what is already one of the safest ways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hope you weren’t planning to play PhysX games on Nvidia’s new 50-series GPUs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s misleading in the other direction, though, as PhysX is really two things, a regular boring CPU-side physics library (just like Havok, Jolt and Bullet), and the GPU-accelerated physics library which only does a few things, but does them faster. Most things that use PhysX just use the CPU-side part and won’t notice or care if the GPU changes. A few things use the GPU-accelerated part, but the overwhelming majority of those use it for optional extra features that only work on Nvidia cards, and instead of running the same effects on the CPU if there’s no Nvidia card available, they just skip them, so it’s not the end of the world to leave them disabled on the 5000-series.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it normal that I get wet water all over myself when taking a shower?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wet water is the water with added wetting agent used for firefighting. That stuff shouldn’t be coming out of your household plumbing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yo, Duplo, what you doing on the 24th?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Once I worked out that Lego work to the same tolerances as the transistors in a Pentium II CPU. It’s probably a better example than NASA as NASA makes huge things that don’t require submillimetre tolerances and tiny precise instruments that couldn’t have been made a couple of decades ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USB-C cable CT scan reveals sinister active electronics — O.MG cable contains a hidden antenna and another die embedded in the microcontroller⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The intended use for this kind of product is that you hire a company to break into your company, and then tell you how they did it so that criminals (or, if you’re someone like a defence contractor, foreign spies) can’t do the same thing later. Sometimes they’re also used by journalists to prove that the government or a company isn’t taking necessary precautions or by hobbyists at events where everyone’s aware that everyone else will try to break into their stuff. There’s typically vetting of anyone buying non-hobbyist quantities of anything, and it’s all equipment within theoretical reach of organised crime or state actors, so pentesters need to have access, too, or they can’t reasonably assess the real-world threat that’s posed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨flouride⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Real men make chlorine pentafluoride anyway. We have no use for pathetic hypergolic oxidisers with only three fluorine atoms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Fennec Android browser is currently behind on Firefox security updates, deemed unsafe by F-droid⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Upstream Firefox doesn’t comply with FDroid’s rules (thanks to the ‘proprietary bits and telemetry’ Handles mentioned), so is only available from the Play Store or as a loose APK that won’t auto-update.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A plumber or a sparky doesn’t just maintain one house, and if they’re just doing maintenance, probably work on hundreds of houses a year. Maintaining your own house takes a fraction of the time and effort of working a housing-related trade full time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honey⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m referring to arguments I’ve had in person against native English speakers. If they were online arguments, the ability to use mobile data to show someone a citation wouldn’t be a new development.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨House Centipedes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have seen one of these in my life. I found it in my hair. I’m glad if already seen pictures of them on the Internet as the experience was already unpleasant enough when I could recognise what if found and knew it was harmless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honey⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had an unreasonable number of arguments against people who seemed to think animal was a synonym for mammal. Thankfully, we’re now in an era where you can look it up and show them now mobile data is cheap, so it’s become a winnable argument.