Technus
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- Comment on Looks like something straight from Warhammer 40K 4 days ago:
That’s one of the fundamental disagreements between Catholics and Protestants.
A Catholic would argue that veneration of saints isn’t worship, it’s showing respect for someone who exemplified Christian ideals, or died as a martyr. Canonization is basically the religious version of the Medal of Honor.
A Protestant would argue that the distinction between veneration and worship is arbitrary, and veneration of a saint essentially amounts to idolatry anyway.
- Comment on Help me out here 5 days ago:
Well shit, that’s a non-starter then.
- Comment on There’s something in the water: PowerWash Simulator’s trippy Alice in Wonderland DLC arrives next month 1 week ago:
The consensus on Powerwash Simulator DLC from what I’ve seen so far is that it’s not a lot of content for the price.
What do ya’ll think?
- Comment on I’m ashamed I asked but this post is not about me 1 week ago:
If that’s WolframAlpha Classic, you probably paid for it a decade ago like I did.
- Comment on I’m ashamed I asked but this post is not about me 1 week ago:
I paid like $5 for the Android app (now WolframAlpha Classic) like 10 years ago and it’s been worth every penny. I use it for anything that needs complicated unit conversions.
- Comment on I’m ashamed I asked but this post is not about me 1 week ago:
WolframAlpha will do the right math, and walk you through it (though IIRC you have to pay for that part).
- Comment on I’m ashamed I asked but this post is not about me 1 week ago:
This is because LLMs do not inherently understand math. They stick characters together that are likely to go together based on the content they were trained on. They’re literally just glorified autocorrect.
If you want a tool that can actually do math from natural language input, try WolframAlpha.
- Comment on Star Trucker delivers its chill mix of Euro Truck Simulator and Freelancer onto Steam and Game Pass this September 2 weeks ago:
Good suggestion.
It runs okay, but the segment after the jump gate didn’t run very well with everything on screen, even at low settings.
Besides that, the flying itself feels sluggish and unsatisfying, and the demo has you fucking with the radio while you’re trying to drive.
Also, I could swear it had an AI trucker steer into me so it could teach me about crash penalties, but then it made me deal with the radio shit while my truck was yelling at me for leaking air. I rage quit the demo at that point.
Overall, not very impressed. It’s got too much going on for a truck sim.
- Comment on Star Trucker delivers its chill mix of Euro Truck Simulator and Freelancer onto Steam and Game Pass this September 2 weeks ago:
No mention in the article or on the Steam store page of whether it’s meant to be compatible with the Steam Deck or not.
This game has been on my wishlist since I spotted it on Steam a while back, but I’m not likely to buy it unless I can play it on the Deck. I’ve got too many other games in my backlog already that don’t run on it, but I need more casual games I can play on my Deck while watching TV.
- Comment on Heh 2 weeks ago:
A lot of physical laws are really just the inverse-square law in a new wig.
- Comment on wait for it 3 weeks ago:
For a second, my dumb ass thought someone just had a bunch of uselessly inaccurate spirit levels.
- Comment on Underrepresentation 3 weeks ago:
Black Friday is a better fit.
- Comment on Spilled! is PowerWash Simulator’s oceangoing cousin, and just as chilled 3 weeks ago:
The Steam store page says the game only takes about an hour, but it doesn’t say anything about replayability.
I love Powerwash Simulator so much because it has enough levels to play all them through multiple times without getting too tired of them. It’s a game I can play absentmindedly while watching a show.
It is starting to get old though, so I’ve been trying to find games that scratch the same itch.
- Comment on Ok. Which one of you has been annoying the teacher? 4 weeks ago:
The full screen series is easier to watch because you can just load up a playlist, and there’s even compilation videos of a whole “season”, but it can be a little jarring sometimes because Youtube mutes some of the copyrighted music in the full videos.
Shorts apparently fly under the copyright radar, however, likely because most of the content on the platform is set to copyrighted music.
- Comment on It is shitposting. 4 weeks ago:
I wonder how many people have been turned away from adopting a more sustainable, plant-based diet simply because they don’t want to be associated with self-righteous assholes like this.
- Comment on 🗜️🍋 4 weeks ago:
I dunno if there’s a deeper reference to it, but to me it’s just a simple visual pun.
You know how licking a lemon makes your face scrunch up?
The folder licked the lemon and it scrunched up so tight it’s now a ZIP file.
The reason laughing at it makes you an old fart is because it uses the WinRAR icon.
- Comment on Anon is a Tunisian gamer 4 weeks ago:
Motherboard: emission control unit for 2004 Toyota Hilux
- Comment on 🗜️🍋 4 weeks ago:
To everyone else who laughed at this: how are your knees doing, old timer?
- Comment on Anon is a Tunisian gamer 4 weeks ago:
Ironically I feel like PC parts would be easier to get. Just call it something generic on the customs declaration, they won’t know the difference. A corrupt customs official or post office worker isn’t gonna steal something if they’re not sure they’ll be able to fence it easily.
- Comment on "there is little incentive not to use it" 4 weeks ago:
I actually wonder how much in the article is actually deliberate misinformation meant to trip up anyone trying to build their own device.
For example, this bit caught my attention:
In modern weapons, the neutron generator is a high-voltage vacuum tube containing a particle accelerator which bombards a deuterium/tritium-metal hydride target with deuterium and tritium ions. The resulting small-scale fusion produces neutrons at a protected location outside the physics package, from which they penetrate the pit.
That seems really finicky to me.
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- Comment on Falling for keto and other anti-carb lies is as unscientific as being a climate denier. 4 weeks ago:
How do you know when someone is a vegan?
Don’t worry, they’ll tell you.
- Comment on Out shopping, found this: 4 weeks ago:
Oh it definitely eats something, that’s for sure.
- Comment on Out shopping, found this: 4 weeks ago:
You think that lemon mascot fucks?
- Comment on What are you playing this week? May 27 2024 Edition 4 weeks ago:
PlateUp, it’s surprisingly addicting. Very similar core loop to Unrailed but more much more open-ended.
Runs well on the Steam Deck but really chugs battery for what it is, even on low settings.
Plays better with a controller; the keyboard controls are kind of weird.
- Comment on Atari acquires Intellivision brand and over 200 games 5 weeks ago:
Wait, what year is it?
- Comment on Salt :) 5 weeks ago:
You can apply this same logic to basically all of chemistry:
H: explosive, the main ingredient in syars
O: literally the reason fire is a thing, causes rust and kills cells via free radicals
H2O: I’m so wet, UwU
- Comment on Pills (Take Two) 5 weeks ago:
I think you’d have an even harder time offloading the diamonds than gold. They might retail for that much, but wholesaling is another issue entirely.
- Comment on Pills (Take Two) 5 weeks ago:
You wouldn’t even need to take Bitcoin someone has access to.
There’s tons of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies that are theoretically unrecoverable because the private keys to the wallets containing them have been lost, or the hard drives they were on were sent to a landfill (and thus began the world’s shittiest treasure hunt).
However, by spending any of that Bitcoin you’d probably make international headlines and end up starting a market panic, because the most likely explanation for gaining access to that Bitcoin is that you found and exploited some vulnerability in the protocol itself.
- Comment on Pills (Take Two) 5 weeks ago:
The shoebox full of gold would be worth around $12M at current prices.
(First Google result for size of a shoebox: …usps.com/…/priority-mail-shoe-box-P_0_SHOEBOX
I just rounded down the measurements for a quick and dirty estimate of the internal volume.)
The downside is that would be 341 pounds of gold so maybe specify for it to be in bars instead of a solid block.