bermuda
@bermuda@beehaw.org
not the country or the triangle :)
- Comment on Hey, I'm new to GitHub! 2 months ago:
Plenty of developers also use GitHub for software distribution for end users, so that’s where the problems lie. I’m not saying GitHub should change their UI to match something the site wasn’t made for, but it’s still an issue for people who choose to use it that way.
- Comment on Never start vaping, says 12-year-old girl with lung damage 6 months ago:
Where I live I rarely see people against vaping for anti smoking usage. Mostly people I meet are against the recreational use.
- Comment on Martin Scorsese urges filmmakers to fight comic book movie culture: ‘We’ve got to save cinema’ 7 months ago:
The Irishman got 9 Oscar nominations so I’m not really sure he’s “fighting for his own relevance.”
- Comment on Stop doing Computer Science 7 months ago:
Thanks for the correction about ethanol, I’m not big into alcohol so I didn’t know what to write lol
- Comment on Stop doing Computer Science 7 months ago:
Leaded gasoline has a really crazy story. People have known that lead is highly toxic since the mid 1800s, and when tetraethyl lead was invented by Thomas midgley Jr in the 1910s, pretty much everybody at GM knew how toxic it was. Dozens of workers died from exposure, and Thomas himself was sick with lead poisoning when it was unveiled to the public. GM even went as far as naming it “ethyl” to avoid public backlash.
The reason it wasn’t banned until the 90s was because health officials in the 20s thought that exposure to drivers was so low that it wouldn’t reach toxic levels until decades down the line. Like, the 1970s. This wasn’t reviewed until the mid 70s and by that point the consequences were disastrous.There were some studies between the 20s and 70s, but most didn’t gain much traction. Many adults and children had increased levels of lead in their blood and lead has contaminated the groundwater and polluted the air. For instance, there is NO safe level of lead in blood, and Herbert needleman in the early 70s found some American schoolchildren had as much as 14 micrograms per deciliter This is the reason it wasn’t banned until the 90s in most countries. One could say we’re still recovering from that in some ways.
And the worst part? They could have used ethanol, an organic substance that’s a major additive in alcoholic beverages. It also prevents engine knocking and is highly flammable, but otherwise not even close to as toxic as TEL was. You still woudlnt want to breathe it in, but it probably wouldn’t have polluted our air and ground so much. GM refused to use ethanol though because it couldn’t be patented (being naturally produced?) and it wouldn’t be very profitable to use it to prevent knocking. TEL was far more profitable.
- Comment on Grisham, Martin join authors suing OpenAI: “There is nothing fair about this” 7 months ago:
Exactly. It’s called “chat” for a reason. Not wikipediagpt
- Comment on Grisham, Martin join authors suing OpenAI: “There is nothing fair about this” 7 months ago:
In another thread I saw today somebody said the best way to learn how to make an Android app was to buy chatgpt. That was their advice…
- Comment on Some of Starfield’s planets are meant to be empty by design - but that’s not boring, Bethesda insists 8 months ago:
arcade style racers just aren’t fun
Sad trackmania noises
- Comment on Who else has booked time off work to play Starfield when it releases? 8 months ago:
You’re using present tense for bugs that happened 5 years ago.
I played the game about a year ago and it was good. Very few bugs and a friendly community. Only downside from my perspective was poor optimization and a gigantic file size but I suppose thats to be expected from a multiplayer rpg.