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- Comment on Why do cooks and chefs cook in base 5 increments? For example setting the off at 350 , 375, 450 and so on. Is there a reason for this or is this how it always has been done? 1 day ago:
In metric countries, it tends to be in multiples of ten (180, 190, 200, etc). In imperial, it tends to be in multiples of 25 (350, 375, 400, etc) rather than strictly 5. And that’s largely because, as you’ve noted, that’s the smallest meaningful resolution; the difference between 210 and 212 in either system is essentially random noise. Even a very good oven is going to fluctuate in temperature more than that.
Want to know something crazier, though? Before cheap and accurate thermometers, bakers obviously couldn’t use degrees in recipes. Instead they used “slow oven,” "moderate oven, and “fast oven” or “cool oven,” “medium oven,” and “hot oven”–clarified with “very” intensifiers as needed–to describe cooking temps for food.
- Comment on Killing ownership is the method, killing the secondary market is the objective. 5 days ago:
We’re not at any kind of crisis point.
Blu-ray discs are still perfectly usable. A quad-later Blu-ray could still hold a modern AAA title like Call of Duty, and a good many indie titles. Maybe it won’t be able to hold GTAVI, but we’ve put games on two discs in pretty much every console generation.
After AAA games get too big for Blu-rays, there’s still flash memory. Nintendo has been using flash carts for two console gens with no problem; there’s no reason Sony and Microsoft couldn’t design their own flash cart slot. The nice thing about those, you probablynever have to change compatibility due to file size ever again; since flash memory is always getting smaller. And if you design the physical object correctly, you can leave room for a lot of extra chips.
But that’s not all. Nobody would be complaining about the end of hard copies if the publisher just gave you the files to do with as you please. No DRM, no “anti-cheat” crippleware, no day one updates that finish the actual game, no launcher.
Deliver that via online service, add some retro game preservation projects, and now you’re a Good Old beloved pillar of online game storefronts.
- Comment on This Apple Lie at the grocery store 1 week ago:
I was with you at the beginning, but—
This pie alone contains 400% daily value saturated fat, which is terrible for long-term health.
A single serving only contains 40%. Not great, but not as terrible as you’re making it out to be. Very few foods are good for long-term health when eaten alone, and singling out this particular one because it doesn’t fit with your specific use case weakens your argument.
They are lying about the ingredients. That’s true, and it should be noted because false advertising is terrible for consumers. Not because it’s bad for a one-meal-a-day fad diet, but because it’s bad in general for anyone who buys a product based on what is on the label.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It’s sadly real. From a few years ago. www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-48225646
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 1 week ago:
It’s probably on the plastic wrap inside. I don’t know why they do this, but I’ve seen it happen more and more often. I like having it on the plastic, but I don’t love the fact that they take it off the box.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 3 weeks ago:
They keep saying we’re going to get left behind, but then they never actually leave.
- Comment on Patricia Bath 5 weeks ago:
Ruby Bridges–the little girl featured in maybe the most famous photo of desegregation, being walked home from school by US marshals, the photo that inspired Norman Rockwell’s “The Problem We All Live With”–she’s still alive. And not super old, either; she’ll turn 72 this September.
“The past is never dead; it isn’t even past.”
- Comment on timely 1 month ago:
Nah, RUDs happen, and everyone knows it. It even happens to NASA—in fact, if I recall correctly, the only major spaceflight operator it hasn’t happened to is ULA. SpaceX even publicly released a video supercut of all their explosions on some anniversary or another. The risk of this is built in to the entire industry; this won’t change anything, and probably shouldn’t.
Billionaire vanity spaceflight shouldn’t be a thing, but this isn’t what should change that.
- Comment on ELI5: How does Frame Generation even work? 2 months ago:
Interesting. That makes frame gen sound like “tweeners” in animation.
- Comment on Why would anyone doordash food from a place that already does delivery? 2 months ago:
Conversely, I think Papa Johns (?) has offloaded all of their delivery to Doordash. I remember ordering from their app and a DD driver rolling up.
- Comment on snow isn't real 2 months ago:
My brother in Amerigo Vespucci, there are maps from 500 years ago that show sea serpents on them. Are those real, too?
- Comment on Land where 2 months ago:
That’s true. Honestly I remember being a kid, learning about the Soyuz recovery system and being shocked. A 20mph collision with the ground (without the baking SRs, 5mph with them) doesn’t sound like much, but it can still ring your bell pretty good.
- Comment on Land where 2 months ago:
“Touchdown” on land.
- Comment on Land where 2 months ago:
In fairness, if you can throw a person at a person, one or both of those people are probably going to think twice about crossing you.
- Comment on Land where 2 months ago:
Or if they encounter space-bears before reentry
- Comment on Land where 2 months ago:
Also
We did land on land
For like forty years we did that exclusively
It’s called the Space Shuttle and it’s pretty cool
- Comment on The End of an Era 2 months ago:
The Karman Line’s lowest theoretical point is still substantially higher up than commercial airplanes and its highest is substantially lower than the ISS. Most nations agree on it as the boundary for the purposes of law and regulation. Commercial airplanes fly about half as high as the line, while spacecraft orbit at four times its altitude or more.
It may be scientifically arbitrary, but it’s got a lot going for it as a rough approximation.
- Comment on Ant warhammer 2 months ago:
Amazing. I’d love to be able to see inside his brain.
- Comment on Ant warhammer 2 months ago:
Around the time of the SimCity games, Maxis released a game called SimAnt. It’s pretty much this.
- Comment on Witness 3 months ago:
Partially, yeah. Crewed spacecraft by necessity weigh significantly more than uncrewed, because life support is very heavy. But they also want to take that very heavy spacecraft further away from Earth than any crewed spacecraft has ever been before, which means they need to take a lot of fuel; yes, it’s a gravity-assisted free-return trajectory, but it still needs fuel for course corrections and other orbital dynamics. Plus, it’s a two-stage spacecraft, while the Saturn V was three-stage, so it’s got to carry a lot more dead weight a lot further than before.
All of that together means they needed the most powerful rocket ever. The lander mission will almost certainly be even more powerful than that, because while it won’t need to go as far, it’ll be carrying another spacecraft.
- Comment on Sway 3 months ago:
Yeah, honestly, this is kind of a banger.
- Comment on Just like me fr 3 months ago:
Nah, that’s just a strip of raw bacon.
- Comment on If someone opened a store and just sold stuff at cost, which undercuts every other competitors by alot. Would this not for the big corps to come way down on their prices? 3 months ago:
He simply realized that the markup on drug prices was so mind-bogglingly absurd (oftentimes over 2500% markup) that he could undercut the market by thousands of dollars and still make a tidy 15% profit.
When the libertarians tell you fan fiction about the “invisible hand of the free market,” this is what they mean. And the fact that it took this long for someone like Cuban to come along should tell you how viable a strategy it is.
- Comment on Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced 3 months ago:
Yeah, agreed. This is the sort of thing smaLLMs would be fantastic for: humans can’t do it at scale so it’s not taking any jobs, you can run it locally so it won’t cost any extra energy, it’s not making things slop, just give it a back story and let it do its thing.
- Comment on What is likely to happen when/if trump dies? 3 months ago:
In my opinion, the best case scenario is that the GOP dies (it happened with the Whigs!) and a new, more progressive party (maybe DemSoc) becomes relevant to the left of the Democrats. The Dems become the new Conservatives (since they basically are anyway) and the left wing becomes the moderate left. The overperformance of Abughazeleh (even though she didn’t win) and the shocking effectiveness of Mamdani now that he’s in office make this slightly less impossible than it would’ve seemed even a year ago.
- Comment on What is likely to happen when/if trump dies? 3 months ago:
There is a long list of politicians who have tried to do the Trump thing ever since the stupid escalator. Florida Governor DeSantis made a tiny little bit of headway that ultimately collapsed around him, Marge Greene has been setting herself up as the post-Maga maga leader, and Ted Cruz of Texas has been trying for the longest time to position himself as heir apparent of the current GOP, but there hasn’t been anyone who has been able to capture the same spectrum of blind devotion to grudging acceptance that Donald Trump has somehow managed to unite into the Maga movement.
JD Vance certainly isn’t it, and while he’ll certainly get the Oval Office when Trump dies before completing his term, I think his presidency will be fairly unremarkable and rather short, and afterwards he’ll move into private equity consulting or some such and never be seen in politics again.
But without Joe Rogan and Charlie Kirk, and with a ton of the other influencers either jumping ship or losing face, I don’t think we’ll see the same focus on a single candidate again. Since 2016, we’ve had a historical alignment of domestic influence and foreign interference that focused on Trump specifically, and he has used that (as he always does) to build the Trump brand and only the Trump brand. Nobody else can use it; not even Don Jr., who has tried dipping his toes in and mostly been ignored.
So I think the answer is, the maga cult sputters and dies. Maybe it sticks around long enough to poison the waters for a couple more election cycles, but it won’t elect another president. The best case scenario, in my mind, would be maga breaking away from the GOP and trying to field candidates for a few years that become spoilers.
Either way, the Republicans will eventually put the mask back on and try to pretend like nothing ever happened (though I can’t possibly predict whether that’ll work. My gut says yes, but maybe that’s just me being cynical).
- Comment on Asset reuse in videogames is essential, and we need to embrace it, says Assassin's Creed and Far Cry director: 'We redo too much stuff' 3 months ago:
Ok wait what? Was the game not called Concord? What’s Wildlight? I’m confused.
- Comment on Asset reuse in videogames is essential, and we need to embrace it, says Assassin's Creed and Far Cry director: 'We redo too much stuff' 3 months ago:
Yeah, for sure. Definitely agreed. However, the specific examples cited in the article could’ve been done better. You can modify existing assets to make them less-obviously reused.
- Comment on 'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN 4 months ago:
OMG, a Pokemon All Stars would be amazing. But I do want them to get fancy with it: with every new game that starts, make me start with a starter as usual, but once I get access to trading, let me pull Pokemon that are below the soft level cap out of my boxes.
- Comment on it keeps getting momentum 4 months ago:
As for the “Constantly being wrong.” At somepoint, these people forgot that “having an idea” does not mean “Having a useful idea.”
Absolutely. They can’t fathom anymore that, just because they want something, it doesn’t mean that anyone else does. Or that they’re not already getting it, even if they do.
You hear arguments about all these flash in the pan bull shit concepts like “People said the same thing about the internet or the iPhone.”
Right, and I always think, “both of those solved actual problems that hadn’t been solved before.” Problems that I remember feeling, as a person who was conscious in the 90s: the need for quick, efficient, long-distance information transfer, and the problem that computers were stuck in your house when a lot of what you needed them for was while you were walking around.
Cryptocurrency didn’t solve a problem that most people feel (and, I would argue, it didn’t efficiently solve a problem that anyone actually has). The metaverse didn’t solve any new problems at all (as you noted, the one thing it could do that anyone wanted was something that was already being done). And AI was already being used for anything it was good for long before Sam Altman convinced a dozen billionaires to give him multiple small-countries’-GDPs.
And since being a good businessman really means finding a solution and offering a product that solves it, they’re just proving how bad they are at business.
