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- Comment on All downhill from there 3 hours ago:
Atlanta!!!
Atlatl. Or simply spear-thrower.
It’s a bit like a fing-longer, but for your whole arm, and therefore more useful.
Same principle as the sling: they make your arm longer so the “hand” moves faster when you swing it, allowing you to throw stuff at higher and more lethal speeds, and farther.
We’re still quite lethal even without these tools though, just look at baseball pitchers.
- Comment on All downhill from there 9 hours ago:
Also our accuracy and reach when throwing stuff.
Especially when combined with our ability to make stuff sharp by banging it against other stuff and breaking it just the right way.
- Comment on Anon describes apple's practices 16 hours ago:
Android is the bastard that just rapes you and punches you in the face, unlike the other bastard, who rapes you and your cat and stabs you in the eye.
- Comment on Anon describes apple's practices 16 hours ago:
computers
Apple don’t make computers, they make wealth extractors.
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 1 day ago:
Of course it’s limiting your options!
Screwing up the customer should not be an option you’re allowed to take!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
I did warn you.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Krokodil, probably.
(Seriously, don’t look up images of its effects, it’s extremely NSFL shit.)
- Comment on Enjoy 5 days ago:
Not sure if adulthood or chronic depression.
Not sure there’s a difference.
- Comment on Anon plays cyberpunk 1 week ago:
I don’t know about Silverhand (not enough chrome, really, he’s just a natural asshole), but most Vs, definitely.
- Comment on Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions? 1 week ago:
The index is there (the NTFS file system maintains it automatically) and is fast (as programs like Everything Search demonstrate)… Windows Search is simply not using it anymore, probably so it can shove sponsored shit in the results, or maybe due to lost knowledge due to lay-offs.
- Comment on Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions? 1 week ago:
Yes, but no.
The NTFS file system does maintain an index, and software like Everything Search or WizTree can use it to produce almost instantaneous results (probably faster than back in the XP days, even with larger discs).
The problem is that Windows Search stopped using the damn index for some reason (probably to provide sponsored web results and whatnot instead of whatever you were looking for).
- Comment on Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions? 1 week ago:
Just get Everything Search and you’ll be able to search just as fast as you could in XP, and with no Bing spam messing up the results.
Funny¹ thing is that Everything (and similar programs like WizTree) can be that be that fast because Microsoft’s own NTFS file system has a built in file index, which is what Windows Search used back in XP; the search programs practically don’t have to do any work, NTFS has already done it for them.
Of course, though, that’ll give you the results you want, not the results Microsoft wants, which explains the change in later further enshittified versions of Windows.
1.– And by funny I mean not funny at all. Sad, in fact. Tragic, even, maybe.
- Comment on Let's gooooooooo! 1 week ago:
Oxidane.
- Comment on wtf 2 weeks ago:
lizard that can spray blood from its eye, but nothing in the animal kingdom past or present has a human’s innate ability for ranged attack
I don’t know, a hawk plummeting from the sky at 190km/h onto something the size of a small rodent is kind of impressive, too, if you count the bird throwing itself as throwing…
- Comment on wtf 2 weeks ago:
Also in very short races (up to 100m) if the human is an olympic athlete, though mostly because momentum is a bitch and it takes time for the horse to accelerate all that mass, and by the time it’s done the race is already over (it also probably helps that the athlete knows what they’re doing while the house is just along for the ride and wondering where it can get some grass).
- Comment on wtf 2 weeks ago:
Most animals know humans are too much trouble to mess with.
Sure, you can kill one human. But next thing you know your whole species has gone extinct, or worse, has been domesticated into pocket yappy dogs that can’t breathe properly.
In places where we’ve been around long enough staying away from humans has practically been bred into every surviving predator’s instincts by now (which is what makes polar bears so terrifying, they’re about the only dangerous predator that doesn’t have this instinct yet, and probably never will, now that murdering whole species has become a bit of a bad look); anything that considered us prey and didn’t learn not to simply doesn’t exist anymore.
Wolves in particular (in the few places where they survive) definitely know not to mess with us, except maybe in the frozen depths of Canada, and so do most bears (again, with possible exceptions in the least populated bits of North America) except polar ones.
- Comment on Anon likes trains 2 weeks ago:
True (though the AVE also stops at Atocha, as it did back in 2004).
They also tend to carry more passengers, which means the number of victims was significantly larger than if it had been an AVE.
And yet, your prediction of a nine-eleven-like security theater didn’t come to pass. 🤷♂️
- Comment on Anon likes trains 2 weeks ago:
Those are dense packed commuter trains from more than 20 years ago
So, even fucking worse when it comes to number of victims.
If you search for “bomb train” you’ll get results
I don’t need to search for it, it was all over the news for months.
And yet, we got over it.
- Comment on Anon likes trains 2 weeks ago:
Don’t jinx it.
As I said in another reply, too late, by twenty-one years.
And yet, no TSA-like bullshit.
- Comment on Anon likes trains 2 weeks ago:
Didn’t cause security theater, though. 🤷♂️
- Comment on Anon likes trains 2 weeks ago:
one terrorist attack
Had one in 2004, didn’t result in security theater (though its mishandling did almost certainly result in the ruling party losing the election).
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Because IBM built the PC as a side project out of mainly off-the-shelf parts, except for the BIOS, never intending it to be more than one of many personal computers in the market… and then Compaq and Columbia Data Products reverse engineered said BIOS making PC-compatible clones a possibility.
Open BIOSes and a personal computer made of essentially off-the-shelf parts led to everyone and their aunt making PC-compatible machines, and the personal computer boom, and most personal computers being able to run mostly the same software.
IBM tried to lock it back down with the PS/2, and Microsoft also later tried to lock it down to Windows with some shady schemes like ACPI, but all attempts ultimately failed because by that point the PC ecosystem was so large that any attempts at lockdown were sidestepped by other vendors, or eventually reverse engineered or bypassed.
Sadly the same never happened with phones. The PC thing was a serendipitous fluke to start with, phones aren’t made of off-the-shelf parts, and manufacturers were wise to the “risk” and made sure to keep as much control as possible.
- Comment on Radio transmissions 3 weeks ago:
Rocky from Hail Mary is sort of crab-like, and I think they’re making a film adaptation…
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
No, you’re not overreacting.
But, if you’re in north America, you’re probably fucked.
(If you’re in the USA, though, good news is you’d be fucked anyway, so the car thing is mostly irrelevant, except as a means to get out, fast.)
- Comment on *pat pat pat* 3 weeks ago:
Doesn’t really show the friggin’ massive wingspan of the damn things, though…
- Comment on Anon predicts the future 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Why are you here and not on Reddit? 4 weeks ago:
The obvious example of lemmy-like federation is email.
There’s lots of email servers, but all of them can send emails to each other (unless blacklisted, which would be the equivalent of defederation), and their users can read emails regardless of which server the sender has their account on.
- Comment on Why are you here and not on Reddit? 4 weeks ago:
Not using Lemmy
I think if you’re looking at a piefed or mbin/kbin community (magazine?) from lemmy you might be able to see replies from mastodon users through the magic of federation (mastodon —> piefed or mbin/kbin —> lemmy), and the other way around, even if mastodon and lemmy can’t directly federate with each other…
- Comment on Why are you here and not on Reddit? 4 weeks ago:
Some greedy little pigboy decided to lock down the API and kill third party apps.
- Comment on The Expanse: Osiris Reborn Announcement Trailer 4 weeks ago:
Thanks, seems extremely irritating for a franchise that — except for the protomolecule (and related sufficiently advanced alien shenanigans) and the Epstein drive — prides itself on its realistic physics, you’ve convinced me to blacklist both the game and the publisher on Steam.
