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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes Wi-Fi guidance, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Well, that’s the excuse at least. The law would have to effectively kill 3D printing. Is that the goal? Idk.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Without a hint of irony, Russia mocks US for 'miscalculating' Iran war⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Man, you are so far deep in your bubble. You think Russia can fight a war for years, but the US is out of munitions in a few days? I don’t care about your opinion if the country. You have to be really stupid to believe the US munitions stockpile is hardly even scratched by this so far. Hell, the ships that have expended munitions probably aren’t even low.

You’re allowed to think it’s bad and wrong without purposefully being an idiot. Your opinion should at least attempt to be based in reality. The weapons used in Iran were already in the region, and that’s obviously only a small fraction of what exists back home. The stockpile likely isn’t strong enough for a “forever war”, like Trump says, but this so far was nothing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Without a hint of irony, Russia mocks US for 'miscalculating' Iran war⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Not really?

First, the US stopped sending aid a long time ago. It’s currently just that some of it is allowed to be sold to Ukraine by weapons manufacturers.

Second, most of what was sent was stuff that was sitting around that was required to be replaced anyway. It was created with the intent to fight Russia, and it was just wasting away. It literally has to be thrown away after a period, if it isn’t used, and replaced.

Whatever happens in Iran, it isn’t because of a lack of munitions. That pretty much been proven. It’s because the US can’t fight the kind of war that needs to be fought, and it never has been able to. Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan prove that. Iran can hide out in their mountains and nothing can be done about it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An investigation of the forces behind the age-verification bills⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
To all the people saying “but have you checked if it’s wrong”, think about what that implies. Someone can generate way more garbage using an LLM than you can verify. If we need to check it all first, before dismissing it, that means we need to just accept all LLM garbage, because it’s practically impossible to check it all. No, it should be dismissed first, and someone can check it to tell if it’s accurate. I don’t care that it supports your biases. This is much larger than that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
More of a reason to do it then. That’s scummy. I guess I’ll be avoiding them like the plague.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yann LeCun just raised $1bn to prove the AI industry has got it wrong⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I’m skeptical, but it makes a lot more sense. You don’t just “learn to code.” Writing the text is the easy part. It’s about solving problems. This is next to impossible to do reasonably without actually understanding what the solution needs to do and what capabilities you have to do it. That’s why the LLM method has produced such shit code. It’s just reproducing text. It doesn’t actually understand the problem or what it can use to get it done.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Fall, Florida Students Will Be Forced to Take “Anti-Communist” Classes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

i have an honest question and not a snarky one, if you really love communism, why not move to a communist country?

You say this is honest, but this question has never been asked in good faith. Is the only reason you live where you live because the economic system it uses? Do you have no ties to the area besides? No family or history, or national pride? No job or property, or friends, or anything else? Do you speak every language and are accepted and accepting of every culture, so you can just go anywhere and feel at home?

Anyone who asks this can fuck right off. At minimum, seeing issues and wanting to fix them for other people is enough of a reason to stay and try to change things. If you can’t see why people don’t want to uproot their lives to go somewhere else, even if that somewhere else existed and was exactly what they wanted, you aren’t actually being honest.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
They’re explicitly creating a database of people they don’t like. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a draft that only selected people from that list to send to die. However, I could also see that backfiring pretty bad. Training them up to use weapons and fight, and handing them rifles, probably isn’t the smartest move.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ray is basic.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
To be fair, the entire thing could be made up. This post is likely to get far more likes and comments than just stating sharks are older than trees.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
It keeps some of the coffee flavor if you think coffee flavor means burned. It doesn’t though. Good coffee has fruity or flowery notes. None of that remains with Starbucks coffee.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, it’s not the worst, but it’s still shit compared to any other light roast. It’s good for Starbucks, but that’s a low bar. They often don’t even have it available.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch emulator Eden is surviving life after Nintendo kicked it off GitHub⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
They can be compared in that they’re both open-world action-adventure games. I can’t play every game, and of those I’m much more interested in Outward, because it’s trying (and often failing, but still trying) to do something really interesting. BotW was trying to do something others have done, just very polished. I’m more interested in the games who are experimenting, even if I have to deal with a bunch of jank.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch emulator Eden is surviving life after Nintendo kicked it off GitHub⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
It looks fine. It’s more the gameplay that doesn’t seem appealing. It seems almost frictionless. There’s too many games that do something similar that are more appealing to me. I’ve been meaning to get into Outward (I own it, but I haven’t put the time into it to get far), but now Outward 2 is on the horizon. It’s open world adventure, but it actually asks the player to think and put some effort into it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NVIDIA could enter the desktop CPU market with performance equal to AMD and Intel⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I’m likely never buying one, but more competition is good. It’ll bring prices down because some people won’t care.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Suing U.S. Government Over Tariffs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
It’s big, but it’s not really impressive. It’s just for restitution, because the tariffs were already ruled illegal. This is just suing to see how much will be returned. It’s interesting, but it doesn’t effect much. It’d be nice if the money went to the consumers that paid the increase in prices, but we know that isn’t going to happen.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch emulator Eden is surviving life after Nintendo kicked it off GitHub⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I keep wanting to check things like this out, and then I remember there’s not even any Switch games I want to play. I tried the open world Pokémon game when that came out years ago, purely just to see what they did (it was boring as fuck, as pretty much everyone agree). The only other thing is maybe TotK, but there’s better things (in my opinion) that I still need to play. Shadow of the Erdtree, for example, is something I still need to get around to.

If anyone actually does think there are Switch games worth playing, in your opinion, what are they? I’m curious. I have to admit I avoid most advertising and don’t follow Nintendo stuff, so there could be things I’m not aware of.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Copilot to hijack your browser... for your own convenience⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
You have to be ashamed of it to be blackmailed. Just don’t watch anything illegal and don’t be ashamed of what you’re into and you’re fine.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good News! EA Is Expanding Its Anti-Cheat to ARM64, and Linux Could Be Next⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
IIRC EAC is also usually called kernel-level AC. It isn’t on Linux though.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good News! EA Is Expanding Its Anti-Cheat to ARM64, and Linux Could Be Next⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Now I get to not buy their games by choice!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going to happen to gas stations as cars electrify?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
They could make for an alright brewery. Sure, it wouldn’t be the prettiest, but a pre-built covered outdoor seating area is hard to come by. The entirior would need a lot of work though.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox as a platform is officially dead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Isn’t the whole point, since the Xbox One, that they didn’t want it to just play games? We don’t consider it dead just because it does more stuff. I guess you can have whatever definition you want for your personal view, but I don’t really think anyone else would agree with it. It’s still going to be a Microsoft controlled platform that’s typically in the living room on a TV. Most people would say it’s dead when they stop having a device in the living room, not when that device gets extra features.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox as a platform is officially dead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Saying this is the death of the platform is stupid. Worst case, it’s at least better than current Xbox, which doesn’t have the option to play PC games. Yeah, it’s going to have all of M$'s spywhere and AI slop, but so would any MS device. I’m not buying this crap, but if you already wanted an Xbox then this is an improvement. Yeah, you’re better off with a PC, especially one running Linux. This has been the case for decades, yet the consoles still sell.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Oh, sorry. You’re right. I forgot I have my phone on a battery saver mode where “fully charged” is not fully charged.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Also, with breaking recovering energy, this negates some of the issues too. The inertia is used to recharge the batteries, so the losses are from friction and heat losses. Obviously lighter is better, but a lot of the issues of weight on efficiency can be reduced. Weight is bad for safety though, so there is that to consider.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Never heard the “above 80%” thing. I’m pretty sure you’re wrong about this. With lead-acid batteries, this was optimal. I’m pretty confident that lithium ion batteries it’s best to keep the charge as high as possible. Ideally you’d only ever use it fully charged. It’s health is harmed by draining it low/fully.

I don’t own an EV, but I know enough about it that I’m pretty sure this is the case. You should look it up for your vehicle though. This advice also applies to phones and other lithium ion batteries too. Lead-acid was damaged by keeping the charge high, but lithium ion is damaged when low, and almost all devices are lithium ion now.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just one more square bro⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Even when it can’t be generalized, you still often learn something by trying. You may invent a new way to look at a set of problems that no one’s done before, or you may find a solution to something totally unrelated. There’s a lot to learn even when it looks like you’ll gain nothing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornography depicting sexual relationships between step-relatives set to be banned⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I think a lot of it is because it makes writing really easy. You don’t need to come up with a reason for these two people to be near each other in an intimate setting, which they can easily turn into something more sexual. Not many people are watching for the plot, so they just need a bare bones contrivance for it taking place.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the USA attacking Iran?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

He’s also pathetically insecure, and history has traditionally looked back fondly at wartime leaders like Churchill and the like. He’s hoping for that

A key thing to note is that it’s normally defensive leaders that are looked back on fondly. Attacking another nation usually doesn’t give this boost, or at least not as significantly. Frequently it’s negative in fact.

He’s too stupid to understand this though, if this is his reason. I don’t think it is though. At best, it’s a distraction. At worst, and more likely, it’s an excuse to implement policies that expand his powers, and maybe to prevent elections from taking place.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Maybe they don’t fit under the term of “paleoartists” (they are artists of Paleolithic creatures) but the most popular modern depictions of dinosaurs are presumably the Jurrasic World movies, and I think they are almost universally lacking plumage. I’ve only seen the first, but the images I’ve seen I don’t have any feathered dinos. So, no. This is still an ongoing issue.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord delays global age verification rollout after backlash - Dexerto⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The only way you should trust them, or anyone else, is if they don’t collect your personal data at all. There is absolutely no way I’d trust any website or service with information like what they want. All of these laws are explicitly designed to create a digital profile of every person so they can track what you do. It can’t be done safely because it isn’t supposed to be done safely.