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- Comment on anyone have personal experience with industrial tourism? 18 hours ago:
Don’t forget to paint over those cracked weld joints!
- Comment on Water Snek 5 days ago:
Hawaiian bunker hobbies!
- Comment on Water Snek 5 days ago:
Facebook has lots of interesting groups for hobbies and other interests. Yes, you can find groups like that outside of Facebook but they’re often much smaller and less active (unless you go to Reddit).
- Comment on The way two of the usb's are one way while the other is another way 6 days ago:
It’s not smaller but it is faster.
- Comment on It would get old fast 1 week ago:
I’ve seen this show! Ted Danson punts a little dog into the sun!
- Comment on Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises 1 week ago:
It’s not a quirk of LLMs, it’s a quirk of human cognitive biases.
See: Gell-Mann amnesia effect.
- Comment on I just dont seem to ever learn 1 week ago:
Sounds very cozy! I suppose you could also simply carry the carafe to your coffee mug and pour it there, as though you were working at a diner with you as your favourite customer!
- Comment on I just dont seem to ever learn 1 week ago:
Move your coffee machine to your desk so you can make and pour coffee without having to move the mug!
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Don’t use it on glass or enameled cast iron either! Great for carbon steel and cast iron though.
- Comment on Get out of my head 2 weeks ago:
At first I saw the pink as the foreground and the forks as some kind of weird, wet background. Then I noticed the shape of the forks and everything flipped!
- Comment on Valve is redesigning the Steam Store Menu and Search, wants user feedback 2 weeks ago:
Yeah that’s the thing. People compare Valve to Apple all the time but it’s not a fair comparison. Apple controls the hardware platform while Valve does not. Many devs publish their games on multiple platforms including their own websites as well as Steam. Gamers are free to buy on any platform yet many choose Steam. If a dev decides not to publish on Steam that’s fine but they’ll have a harder time getting visibility.
- Comment on Resources 2 weeks ago:
So it’s not really giving everyone in the world an exactly equal share of resources. Not to mention there’s a natural component to inequality that’s independent of resources: location. A 10 m^2 per person shack is a lot more bearable on a beach in Southern California than it is in a desert or an insect-infested swamp.
- Comment on Resources 2 weeks ago:
Prison in a hot climate with no AC. No thanks!
- Comment on Resources 2 weeks ago:
The other question is: where are we living? It takes a lot more resources to live in Canada than it does to live in a warm climate to the south. Does that mean we all have to abandon Canada and crowd ourselves into the hot equatorial regions?
- Comment on Is Mexican food uniquely good with alcohol or have I just been conditioned? 2 weeks ago:
Chinese food with baijiu.
Korean BBQ with soju.
Yakitori with sake.
Pub/bar snacks with beer.
- Comment on Nintendo can disable your Switch 2 for piracy in the U.S., but not in Europe, as confirmed by its EULA 3 weeks ago:
Seriously! Just buy a used 3DS and hack it to run every game, emulator, etc. You can actually play DOS games and ScummVM games on it!
- Comment on USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 USA 4 weeks ago:
We’d all be sitting on the back porch, enjoying an ice cold ginger beer at the end of long summer day!
- Comment on USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 USA 4 weeks ago:
More people ought to learn about the programming language concept of namespaces. Generalize from that and you realize that every domain of discourse has its own namespace of words that have different meanings from those same words outside the domain.
My favourite is math which has loads of wonderfully generic-sounding terms such as rational, irrational, radical, real, imaginary, complex, group, ring, field, category, set, operator, element, and unit which all have radically different meanings from the everyday senses of those words.
- Comment on Why don't Americans use electric kettles? 4 weeks ago:
It was mentioned above that British kettles are 2 kW, not 1.5.
- Comment on Why don't Americans use electric kettles? 4 weeks ago:
2 kW @ 120 V is 16.7 A, which exceeds the 15 A limit on most household wiring in North America. To be able to achieve that you’d need to get a 20 A rated circuit installed by an electrician which means pulling out and replacing the wiring with a heavier gauge.
The advantage of 240 V rating in the UK is that you can draw more power with less current, so you don’t need the wiring to be so heavy for a high power appliance like a kettle.
- Comment on Anon is a game dev 5 weeks ago:
Here’s the reason AAA devs are obsessed with graphics:
It’s the only thing that differentiates them from indie devs.
Once you realize that indie devs can do anything and everything that a AAA game can do, except for creating tons of high detail 3D models, levels, and textures, you begin to see the AAA studio’s dilemma. If they don’t hire all those artists, level designers, and animators then they’re forced to compete with indie devs on gameplay, story, and features — none of which they can do!
Why is that? Because there are millions of indie game devs out there who are willing to spend many years of their lives trying out ideas that have close to zero chance of being successful and all the gamers out there are happy to pick that one in a million game which actually succeeds! For a AAA studio to step into that arena would be absolutely foolish.
It’s the same reason big corporations dominate book publishing but they don’t even bother trying to write books themselves.
- Comment on US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives 5 weeks ago:
The Bible is notably silent on government social programs. Many Christians have taken it upon themselves to believe that social programs are evil, that they perpetuate the problems they’re intended to address, that they destroy the nuclear family, etc.
They sincerely believe that they are doing good by getting rid of these programs because they want to see the Christian family and the church take the central role on these issues, not the government. Furthermore, they believe that a government which tries to solve all social problems and create a utopia for everyone is fundamentally evil, hence the phrase:
“Don’t immanentize the eschaton.”
- Comment on US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives 5 weeks ago:
In their view, he would. They believe that Jesus wants people to give directly to charity, not to create government programs for it.
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 5 weeks ago:
Canadian here. I spent most of July 1 in bed! Was not feeling patriotic! Did not watch any fireworks.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Lots of people drink bottled water, soda, beer, or other drinks not immediately connected to the water supply. Furthermore, poisons are unlikely to remain undetected long enough to kill the entire population. While a strong dose of a deadly poison like cyanide can kill in minutes it’s likely to be detected quickly due to how rapidly its effects begin to show up.
A slower-acting, accumulating poison like dimethylmercury could potentially kill more people because its effects don’t show up immediately. On the other hand, the delayed effects of the poison would provide the victims a chance to retaliate against the poisoners.
Either way, it’s a very crude and unfocused attack against a population which is unlikely to achieve any political aim besides wanton destruction and outrage.
- Comment on Is there a medieval equivalent of the youtube channel "Primative Technology" 1 month ago:
Medieval technology is vastly more complex, broader in scope, etc. compared to the Stone Age stuff on Primitive Technology. It’s actually extremely challenging to go from scratch like he does and then achieve medieval-level ironworking. He can barely make a few little iron pellets which are excessively-hard (too much carbon) and need further processing to become workable. He is a very long way from building a proper medieval smelter capable of producing pig iron or other cast iron products.
- Comment on Is flirting redundant? 1 month ago:
Same with any pair activity. Paddling a canoe is no fun if one person doesn’t like water and wants outta there ASAP!
- Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 1 month ago:
So the entire point of my original comment was to give Indiana Jones a bit of vindication from the thinly veiled slander that he was nothing more than a tomb robber working for the colonialist west. How does your correction that Belloq was scamming the Hovitos, not paying them, make any difference to Jones’s character?
- Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 1 month ago:
Scamming them is even worse, no?
- Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 1 month ago:
He narrowly escapes with his life after having the idol stolen from him by his rival, Belloq, who works for the Nazis and actually hired that Peruvian tribe to be his little private army. Belloq is the one who orders the Peruvians to attack Jones.