dejected_warp_core
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- Comment on linus tech tip 1 hour ago:
Thing is, this kind of content is already out there. Shoutout to the professional and amateur psychologists of youtube that dispense “Psych tips” all day, every day.
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 1 hour ago:
This is exactly like the pearl-clutching we had back in the 1980’s around D&D and music lyrics. At least we moved the goalpost from satanic panic and thinly-veiled racism, over to “art that features sexual expression I don’t understand.”
If history is any indicator, their actions are only going to increase awareness of this kind of stuff.
- Comment on Everybody gets one [choose wisely] 15 hours ago:
Yeah. Good news is that’s more than enough money for the rest of your life. Bad news is: that might not be for very long.
- Comment on Everybody gets one [choose wisely] 15 hours ago:
Had me in the first half. Nice hack. Why rewrite reality when you can just send one person to the mirror universe?
- Comment on Everybody gets one [choose wisely] 15 hours ago:
To be fair, I’ve had IBS that was exactly that disorienting. No need for magic on that one.
- Comment on Please help 1 day ago:
Gotta send that off to Rossman Repair Group first. Mobo looks like it got a little wet.
- Comment on Everything is a problem 1 day ago:
I may be in the minority here, but I absolutely know how to rock every corner of a modern Linux setup and I avoid OS-tinkering at home like the plague. I have better things to spend my time on, so the bar for user-friendly computerized things in my home is incredibly high. In fact, to circle back to OP’s point, such things have to “just work”, be secure by default, and require minimal hacking and tinkering to function reliably.
- Comment on Everything is a problem 1 day ago:
I agree completely. But now I can’t get the image out of my head, of the maniac that has done the complete opposite of this. Like putting the sink disposal unit, door locks, and flush toilets, all on a publicly accessible “smart” network.
- Comment on Would you rather unionize or buy some videogames? 1 day ago:
Other than more job opportunities, zero. To be clear, I still would love the added insurance of having a Union at my back.
- Comment on feeley feels 1 day ago:
A really great rundown of ‘Anglish’ is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMA3M6b9iEY
That whole channel is a goldmine of quirks, curiosities, and facts about English in general.
- Comment on Would you rather unionize or buy some videogames? 1 day ago:
Not that I was ever anti-union, but rather I work in an industry that has none. After coming back to work after a layoff, the daily grind has been an exercise in constant, agonizing, anxiety, as I have now experienced the horror of free-fall into an society with no safety net. I have seen the light. Having some additional insurance would feel really amazing right now.
- Comment on Smart option 2 days ago:
It still works on people, so probably never.
Unless there’s a real term for this, “functional math illiteracy” is a thing. If people can get by with reading a 5th-grade level, they absolutely can get by with calculating at a 2nd or 3rd-grade level. Rounding, fractions, multiplication, are probably out of reach for more people than you think.
I once new someone with dyscalculia, which is way worse than all that, and they worked behind a cash register for a living.
- Comment on Choose Wisely 5 days ago:
I disagree. Under those circumstances, one is skydiving for longer than average. Sounds like a pro move to me.
- Comment on Antz in my Pantz 5 days ago:
Like petroleum. Well, stuff made from it anyway.
- Comment on It’s the little things 1 week ago:
I’m not a geologist, but I’m imagine that the deep ocean would be a colossal underwater glacier, with intermixed sedimentary layers. Kind of like what we have with methane hydrate deposits, only much, much deeper. The super-deep ocean simply wouldn’t exist, and we might not even know about the Mariana Trench, or a lot of other sea floor features. Also, it’s possible a different proportion of the world’s water would be frozen in this way.
With ice as a part of the sea floor, it would also interact with subduction zones at continental edges. That might push a LOT more superheated water into volcanoes, faults, and everywhere else water could go. That would probably make for a lot more geysers in such areas, and volcanic eruptions would be far more energetic.
The trajectory of human history and technology would also be changed. There might have been fewer ice bridges between continents during the last ice age. Ice-skating wouldn’t become a thing. Harvesting ice in the winter would require bodies of water to freeze solid first, making it impractical except in shallow areas.
I’m also going to wager that glaciers would behave differently too. I don’t know enough about their dynamics, but I wonder if having meltwater on the bottom helps lubricate their movements somewhat. Kind of like a lava flow, only slower. Inverting that relationship might make glaciers far less mobile.
- Comment on Anon takes shots at Donkey Kong 1 week ago:
I won’t deny the technical achievement that this game was for Nintendo, and the coup it was for Rare (at the time). And i would never take pot-shots at anyone’s joy of nostalgia around this game: Not all of my own favorite picks are winners. But I absolutely agree with this greentext. I recall getting this game new and just feeling underwhelmed by it.
- Comment on Ubisoft EULA demanding consumers destroy delisted games adds fuel to Stop Killing Games movement 2 weeks ago:
The best take on Black Flag I ever read was something like: “It’s a great game, except for all the Assassin’s Creed parts.”
- Comment on My son got Nikes so he doesn't get teased. 2 weeks ago:
Yup. Learned that one back in the 3rd grade. This stuff is hard if you’re not experienced enough to know how people work.
On the upside, I learned that one cannot buy their way into other’s good graces, especially if they’re going to require you to modify your behavior to get there; they’re lying and that was never the issue. On the downside: holy shit that hurts once it goes wrong the first time.
As an adult I can also appreciate that there are situations where you can “buy your way in” to a club or status of some sort. IMO, those situations are generally not worth it to begin with, requiring an never-ending stream of cash to keep up appearances. Plus, it surrounds you with other people that also believe, and are invested, in the program. It’s a recipe for elitism at best, and a big 'ol grift at worst. Better friends and relationships can be had for $0 everywhere else.
- Comment on Just.....why? 2 weeks ago:
Whoa, you are not kidding. The toilet is powered (not so unusual for bidet toilets), but it looks like there’s no mechanical override. Just a ‘remote’ control panel with a flush button (among many other features). That I’m sure is hygienic.
The video is about how to bluetooth pair the remote to the toilet. There are so many points of possible failure here, I can’t even.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 3 weeks ago:
Watching people repair old electronics on Youtube has opened my eyes to the realities of real-world electrical engineering. In short: it’s all about tolerances.
A power supply may have a nominal voltage of 5V, but anything from 4.8 to 5.2 is a-okay. Why? Because your TTL components downstream of that can tolerate that. Components that do 5V logic can define logic zero as anything between 0 and 0.8 volts, and logic one as low as 2 volts. That’s important since the whole voltage rail can fluctuate a lot when devices use more power, or draw power simultaneously. While you can slap capacitors all over the place to smooth that out, there’s still peaks and dips over time.
Meanwhile, some assembly lines have figured out how to aggressively cost-reduce goods by removing whole components from some circuits. Just watch some Big Clive videos. Here, the tendency is to lean heavily into those tolerances and just run parts hot, under/over powered, or just completely outside the published spec because the real-deal can take it (for a while). After all, everything is a resistor if you give it enough voltage, an inductor if the wire’s long enough, a capacitor if the board layout is a mess, and a heatsink if it’s touching the case.
- Comment on Anon loves The Lord of the Rings 3 weeks ago:
As far as labors of love go, Stardew Valley is probably the most current example. People paid for this thing years ago, but Concerned Ape keeps adding new features anyway. The retro graphics give this thing a timeless quality out of the box, so it already looks “dated” - this hasn’t stopped the robust player community around it. We’ll probably see this game stay relevant for a long time.
- Comment on Anon loves The Lord of the Rings 3 weeks ago:
Unusually long development time
No joke, I installed the open-beta/pre-release years ago, played for a bit, and uninstalled it. When the actual release dropped, I had the most intense déjà vu about it all because I forgot that had even happened. I had to go back to my Steam library to puzzle it all back together.
- Comment on Don't tell me what to do. 3 weeks ago:
If only there was a better way…
- Comment on Anon watches The Whale 3 weeks ago:
RoboCop and Starship Troopers (by the same director, no less) are other examples of people completely missing the point, and taking the film at face value.
- Comment on Anon watches The Whale 3 weeks ago:
I know it’s violent, campy, and corny, but it’s a damn good lesson in what Narcissistic Personality Disorder is and what it does to people. It helped me frame my own abuse and trauma at the hands of abusers NPD, in ways that helped me break free from those people later on. Moreover, once you’ve been victimized this way, one has a tendency to fall back into bad habits with abusers. The film just gave me something profound to recall when exercising mindfulness around this cycle, and how to exit quickly.
- Comment on Moon Dust 4 weeks ago:
IMO (not a scientist), moon dust is basically pulverized glass, only without the benefits of weathering and erosion. So think of lots of microscopic sharp, abrasive, shards of finely pulverized volcanic rock and obsidian. Get that stuff anywhere near a mucous membrane - eyes, nose, mouth, throat - and it’s going to irritate you. At the same time, it’s pretty much intert; well, at least the parts that don’t instantly react to oxygen or humidity that is. My guess is that Schmidt is just a little more sensitive to it, or perhaps he rubbed his eyes with a glove by accident.
And for the uninitiated, it’s well documented that everyone in the lander was physically exposed to moon dust. There was no airlock on the lander, so every excursion resulted in bringing whatever was on the suits right into the cabin. They reported that it “smelled” like burned gunpowder, so they were at least all inhaling the stuff.
- Comment on spicy one 4 weeks ago:
I was gonna say. With a crater that large, we all lose.
- Comment on The future is amazing 4 weeks ago:
“AI e-girl” you say? I know a contractor that might have what you’re looking for.
- Comment on A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit 4 weeks ago:
Yup. They’re called “Whole Paycheck” for a reason.
- Comment on Midweek feels 5 weeks ago:
This moment calls for more beans. Image
