IrateAnteater

@IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to bring back physical media on PC?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I doubt it. At least for all but the most viral of indie games. Manufacturing physical copies is expensive and would involve minimum order quantity from suppliers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not going to lie, if you make a cereal with scantily clad women on the box, I’ll probably buy it at least once, just out of curiosity. Definitely taking that through the self checkout though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One can dream⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds kind of like the ideal wedding attitude to me. Light on the symbolism, heavy on the “one last rager to remind ourselves that we’re actually kinda too old to be doing that anymore”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have brownouts in the summer and Kevin O'Leary wants a Data Center built here.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That probably factors into it too. The automakers have always preferred to have strong control over their suppliers, and doubly so after they played themselves with the chip makers during the pandemic. Battery plants take time to bring online, and unfortunately Trump’s bullshit kicked into high gear just as capacity was coming online, giving everyone cold feet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have brownouts in the summer and Kevin O'Leary wants a Data Center built here.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The small size isn’t specifically what is intended to make SMRs cheap; it’s the reproducibility. Not every location will be suitable for gigawatt scale reactors, but smaller reactors, made of components you can throw on a rail car, will bring cost down as production scales up. And there would likely be more reactors built, since there’s more flexibility in application.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have brownouts in the summer and Kevin O'Leary wants a Data Center built here.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d put a bit of an asterisk beside the carmarkers. In most cases, they are only pro gas due to demand and cost. For the most part, they are perfectly willing to switch if they know the sales will be there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's the information superhighway!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure it was created for watching porn and selling drugs. All the arguing is an unfortunate side effect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does the word data mean per se ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The GB version is more specific than the general term “data”. In this case, it specifically refers to 2 billion bytes (each byte being 8 bits, a “bit” being a 1 or a 0). But in the general sense, “data” can be a synonym for “information” which has many definitions, some of which are pure physics concepts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do I think music sounds better on my old MP3 player?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It does technically hurt the quality, but 320 kbps mp3s are largely indistinguishable from lossless to most people.

  On a side note, why mp3 instead of a lossless format?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's a no⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that’s the big asterisk on the “zipper merging is more efficient” premise. It assumes that things are already bottlenecked. If you have the space to merge early without slowing down, you do that. People trying to force their way in at the last minute (when they didn’t have to) is one of the things that triggers the bottleneck in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve has raised Steam Deck prices in the US⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If they structure their supplier contracts anything like the auto industry does, that would only be because they are on the back end of the product’s production lifecycle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve has raised Steam Deck prices in the US⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Less of an issue with Valve. They don’t have as much of a need for a hardware loss leader since they earn from Steam regardless of which hardware it’s running on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨borger⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, seems to be missing the rest of the toppings. No way there’s any lettuce, tomatoes, pickles, bacon, or any combination of the above, on there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have a busy morning planned⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I’ve had days where that is the literal plan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doomer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s pretty much implied by WW3.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doomer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The water supply issue is super location specific, which is why it will likely be one of the triggers of WWIII. Certain parts of Canada, for example, are basically a fractal of freshwater lakes and not among the areas likely to suffer desertification.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Haxxed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I do get a good laugh when every once in a while a flat earther comes up with a newer and more convoluted way of proving that the earth is in fact round. Then there’s the bonus round where they do the Olympic level mental gymnastics to explain why their own results don’t prove anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Close enough⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Racists” would be just a circle of the whole map.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And toxic in large amounts!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say it’s more of a tea than a soup. Unless you leave the grinds in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Theories on Theories⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Physics: oh, and if you look close enough, it’s actually all probability too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's already running⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Me: “Do the thing.”

  OS: “no.”

  Me: “Fuck you. Sudo do the thing.”

  OS: “yes sir. Right away sir.”

  That is the way it should be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's a matter of motivation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think I can see a way to actually accomplish that without still ending up with negative outcomes.

  Take for example a surgeon, one who is a specialist who’s time is 100% occupied saving people. Does he get taken away from that to do his time as a garbage collector? Do you tell the patient “sorry, you are going to die. You could have been saved, but we needed your surgeon to go pick up garbage.”, or do you have an exemption list?

  And if there’s an exemption list, you will never convince me that people wouldn’t start abusing who is and isn’t on that list. You arrive right back to having a class society.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's a matter of motivation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like that entire passage completely ignores the fact that last time the bulk of humanity lived a communal lifestyle, the number of humans on the planet was a few orders of magnitude smaller. It’s a fairly easy setup to maintain when settlements are small and the bulk of people’s time is spent as hunter-gatherers or subsistence farmers. As soon as you put a very large number of people into a city, the communal arrangement falls apart. And many people like living in cities. That genie is out of the bottle, and people are not going to be willing to go back to being a subsistence farmer in a commune.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's a matter of motivation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s been one of the goals of just about every socio-economic system, but since are not yet at the point where we can completely automate away all undesirable jobs, it all circles back to being shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon cares about the environment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think I’ve ever come across a situation where the environmentalist and the phone seller were the same person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switching from openSUSE Tumbleweed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So from two seconds of Googling, it looks to be a proton issue, which zypper dup would do nothing to change. Proton versions are controlled from within steam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switching from openSUSE Tumbleweed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does the game have kenal level anticheat? Because if it does, it doesn’t matter what distro you choose, it’s the anti-cheat blocking the game from starting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon dips⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I never really understood the fascination with ranch that some people have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come if my dog is sick and I take him to get put out of his misery its ok? On a human its not? How come human laws don't apply to animals? I think of our dog as family and he's one of us?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some countries allow it. The major difference is that other people cannot choose for you. Your family can’t “put you down” but you can choose to have a doctor assist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wise Choice 👍⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The best thing that ever happened to me cell phone-wise was Shaw being forced to sell Freedom. I’ve been with Freedom since they were Wind, and the only good thing that the Shaw ownership ever did was leave existing contract prices alone. I would have been extremely unhappy if Rogers had gotten their hands in Freedom.