chonglibloodsport
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- Comment on Coin-sized nuclear 3V battery with 50-year lifespan enters mass production 15 hours ago:
Why not Solar? I have fairly recent Casio (FX-260 Solar II) and it works in dimmer lighting conditions than I’m comfortable working under anyway. Under normal lighting (for being able to see while doing math with pencil and paper) it’s rock solid!
- Comment on Batman has an awful lot of villains with doctorates. 15 hours ago:
A billionaire beating up a bunch of starving postdocs!
- Comment on Why do news articles and such call the governments of countries/groups of countries after the capital? 1 week ago:
It’s Synecdoche, a figure of speech where a part of something is used to refer to the whole.
- Comment on BlackBerry may have the perfect opportunity to produce a Canadian made cellphone to compet with Apple and other America brands. 3 weeks ago:
LineageOS is Android. If you use that then you’re not competing with Android, you’re joining it. The OP wants BlackBerry to provide an alternative to iOS and Android.
We’re not talking about hardware startups trying to build a minimum viable product, we’re talking about a company trying to market a product to regular consumers.
BlackBerry had a successful consumer product prior to the launch of the iPhone. Since then, the bar has been raised to the stratosphere and BlackBerry no longer comes even close. With thousands of employees they couldn’t do it.
- Comment on Apple reveals M3 Ultra, taking Apple silicon to a new extreme 3 weeks ago:
No, the ram is integrated into the CPU.
- Comment on BlackBerry may have the perfect opportunity to produce a Canadian made cellphone to compet with Apple and other America brands. 3 weeks ago:
They could stick to a tiny market share but not a profitable one.
The problem is you need a large team of developers for the operating system and designers and engineers for the hardware. This means thousands of employees. Do you know many phones you have to sell to pay the salaries of 2000+ employees? At least a million phones a year at a gross profit (retail price minus total cost of manufacturing) of $200 per phone.
- Comment on Why does it seem like many Americans have an arrogant personality trait? 4 weeks ago:
buried deep in the American zeitgeist
I think you mean American psyche. Zeitgeist means the spirit of the times. It usually refers to the present way of thinking or the way things were at one time.
The American psyche is much more of a timeless thing, stretching all the way back to the attitudes and beliefs of the founding fathers when they drafted the Declaration of Independence. Norman Rockwell’s paintings, Robert Frost’s poems, John Steinbeck’s books, the games of baseball and (gridiron) football. These are just some of the cultural artifacts said to be part of the American psyche.
- Comment on A funny thing in Iran is how they repackage old PlayStation consoles 4 weeks ago:
Oh I agree! I loved that startup sound! Compared to the SNES I was used to it sounded sooo next gen!
- Comment on Why Are Conservatives More Susceptible to Believing Lies? 5 weeks ago:
But that doesn’t explain why some people are way more susceptible to being stuck in a cult than others.
Personally I think it’s genetic. It’s some kind of brain feature that leads to people having beliefs that are extremely hard to change. I say this is a feature, not a defect, because you only have to go back a few hundred years to find a society where not having the right belief system can quickly lead to ostracization and death.
It’s a survival tool that has suddenly found itself in the modern informational environment and it can’t cope. See it in action and it’s incredibly tragic.
- Comment on ACkShuLly iT wAs AbOuT StATEs RiGhtS!! 5 weeks ago:
What’s the second picture from? A movie?
- Comment on Psychology 5 weeks ago:
Pure psychology research definitely has its methodological and rigour issues that cast doubt on all its findings. However I think working psychologists in industry have validated psychological methods (A/B testing) and theories (dark patterns) for making profit at the expense of users’ privacy, mental health, time, and attention.
- Comment on Can I still consider myself a “young woman” after I turn 24? I turn 24 in March (next month). 5 weeks ago:
Not a woman but I just turned 41 recently. Here’s the secret to life from here on out:
While your body keeps changing (slowly) your mind really doesn’t. So you’re going to feel the same as you always did! This is pretty cool!
- Comment on Meta approves bonuses of up to 200% of company executives' salaries as it trims stock awards for employees 5 weeks ago:
They’re still working for a company that engages in mass data collection and selling people’s private info to the highest bidder. A union at the company doesn’t make that ethical.
- Comment on Why We Love to Get Lost in Games: The Enduring Appeal of Metroidvanias 5 weeks ago:
Yeah I don’t like banging my head into a wall either. What I mean by enjoying getting lost is being in a dangerous area where I don’t know how to get back to safety. It’s a mini adventure within an adventure to figure out how to escape without dying.
One game I play, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, has a built in mechanism to create situations like that: shafts you can fall down that put you into an unexplored level that’s deeper and more difficult than the one you were on. It’s pretty effective at creating these mini adventures though fans of the game complain about them all the time.
- Comment on Why We Love to Get Lost in Games: The Enduring Appeal of Metroidvanias 5 weeks ago:
Does it have an auto-map feature? That’s the biggest difference for me. I enjoy the newer MVs but the auto-map feature makes it impossible (for me) to get lost. I’m used to games without any kind of auto-map.
- Comment on Why We Love to Get Lost in Games: The Enduring Appeal of Metroidvanias 5 weeks ago:
Getting lost is definitely a love it or hate it kind of thing. I love getting lost in games. I wish more games had it as a feature. It’s extremely rare these days. Most games hold your hand like a toddler at Disneyland.
It’s okay to hate getting lost. There are loads and loads of games out there for you. I just cross my fingers for a few more games for me!
- Comment on Amazon is changing what is written in books 5 weeks ago:
Not sure what that means. He’s not Jesus. There’s no need to worship him! We can take the good and criticize the bad.
- Comment on 'Uber for Armed Guards' Rushes to Market Following the Assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO | Are you scared to walk down the streets of NYC and also have too much money? There's an app for that 1 month ago:
Luigi could’ve passed the screening check to become the guy’s bodyguard. Maybe he even would’ve had a better opportunity to escape.
Many, many ruthless tyrants and other nasty people have been killed by their own bodyguards over the years. And these are often guards who have been properly vetted.
How vetted are these Uber rentacops gonna be? No criminal record doesn’t mean you can trust the person if you’re some ruthless bastard with a lot of enemies.
- Comment on US fab construction costs twice as much, takes twice as long as Taiwan 1 month ago:
There’s a big cultural difference. Taiwanese workers, like Chinese, Korean, and Japanese workers as well, have a much higher tolerance for long work hours and less pay.
All of these East Asian cultures have long-standing social norms against complaining and refusing to work hard. It’s a collectivist culture of work that puts the success of the company ahead of the individual’s interests. In return, companies tend to be loyal to workers so it’s very common to stay at one company for your whole career.
We westerners used to have similar values back in the 1950s and earlier. That all changed during the counterculture.
- Comment on China berates US for changing state department language on Taiwan 1 month ago:
- Comment on Why are there so many graybeards in FOSS? 1 month ago:
A lot of FOSS development isn’t rich developers donating their free time, it’s paid developers who were hired by their company to work on an open source project the company deems crucial to their business.
- Comment on Why Gen Z Is Ditching Dating Apps 1 month ago:
It is enshittification and it’s how they make money. But my point is that fixing enshittification doesn’t fix daring apps in the long term.
- Comment on Why Gen Z Is Ditching Dating Apps 1 month ago:
I can’t blame enshittification on this one. The dating app model doesn’t work, period. Even in the case of a completely free, non-profit app, you still have the problem that as people pair off they leave the dating pool.
The fundamental problem is that there’s a nonzero subpopulation of people who either have no interest in or are incapable of forming a stable long term relationship. As the dating pool filters over time, these folks get more and more concentrated in the population. This leads to the experience getting worse and worse for people who are interested and capable because they keep matching up with the wrong people.
- Comment on Why do the femcels and the incels not.... date each other? 1 month ago:
Incels don’t actually want to solve their problems. They’ve adopted them as an identity and joined a cult.
- Comment on AI Will Save Dating Apps. Or Maybe Finally Kill Them 1 month ago:
The issue is if those new singles enter the rough zone (full of people who have not had much success) they’re going to have a very bad experience. Probably the best experience is for then to pair off against other new singles and depart. Some will end up doing that but others will end up stuck in the mud like everyone else.
- Comment on AI Will Save Dating Apps. Or Maybe Finally Kill Them 1 month ago:
And that’s the point. When it works, they lose 2 customers forever.
It’s a filtering process that removes all the diamonds in the rough. All that’s left is the rough.
- Comment on AI Will Save Dating Apps. Or Maybe Finally Kill Them 1 month ago:
And how much do you use dating apps now?
- Comment on Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction 1 month ago:
More like a brothel for sex addicts.
- Comment on Colombian president says cocaine 'no worse than whisky' 1 month ago:
Yeah. The stereotype of the cokehead is the asshole trader who works at Goldman Sachs. Rookie numbers and all that…
- Comment on Patch this Bish! 1 month ago:
You say that now but wait till you’re sleeping in a tree (to escape the dinosaurs) and start to fall and there’s nothing to wake you! Then you’ll be sorry you wished away that “glitch!”
