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- Comment on Anon did philosophy 23 hours ago:
There’s another version I’ve seen of this where some commenters don’t understand and are arguing about it which is pretty entertaining
- Comment on Anon did philosophy 23 hours ago:
All other things being equal I’d generally say bigger is better, but size is nowhere near the top of my criteria. That’s what I mean if I’m saying I don’t care about size; maybe that’s what others do too?
- Comment on Commit culinary crimes in management sim The Diner At The End Of The Galaxy 1 week ago:
From a studio that also released a winemaking sim called Terroir. Seems like an interesting outfit!
- Comment on Tomb Raider video game composer jailed for Covid loan fraud 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Stellantis abandons hydrogen fuel cell development 2 weeks ago:
I get annoyed when articles talk about one of hydrogen’s problems being a lack of infrastructure to deliver the fuel. Of course there’s not today since there’s no demand for it. If the cars start to develop as a market then the infrastructure would be built as well. The same thing has happened with electric cars. But it would take some entity investing in the infrastructure and being willing to wait years to see a return on the investment.
Of course, hydrogen has a lot of other problems that mean it’s probably not viable. Lack of infrastructure is just a weak argument against it.
- Comment on BulletVPN Closes Down, Pulling The Rug on Lifetime Subscriptions 2 weeks ago:
Stop buying lifetime subscriptions to services! They’re not sustainable!
- Comment on anything but metric 3 weeks ago:
!anythingbutmetric@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game 3 weeks ago:
And at those prices I’ve bought it at least twice
- Comment on Which one are you? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Which one are you? 4 weeks ago:
Yes, normally Neutral Good but will go Chaotic Good if the corral is empty or pretty much empty. I’m lawful good if I only have a free things or there is no corral, but in those cases I try to avoid bringing the cart back to the car.
- Comment on Which one are you? 4 weeks ago:
Spent the past couple weeks in France visiting my wife’s family, and was surprised that most of the stores had the coin locks but were not using them, as in they had all been disconnected so you didn’t need to use a coin to release them. I think the only store we needed coins at was E.Leclerc.
- Comment on Spidey Senses 4 weeks ago:
Spider-Ant
Spider-Ant
Does whatever a spider can - Comment on VMware perpetual license holder receives audit letter from Broadcom 5 weeks ago:
I’d be surprised if this takes down Broadcom altogether, but could certainly kill the division. Oracle still exists, after all, even though they basically killed Sun and Java.
- Comment on Anon has fries 1 month ago:
Fries are usually not going to get you laid. But sharing a couple fries would’ve improved anon’s likability among that girl and maybe her friends, which is probably not a bad thing.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Wouldn’t breaking something make the exercise more difficult?
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- Comment on Trending Communities for Tuesday 10th June 2025 1 month ago:
That would seem a little odd given the person behind it has listed their account as being on a PieFed instance.
@andrew_s@piefed.social do you know if your bot is/should be tracking PieFed communities?
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 1 month ago:
My school offered (from most popular to least popular):
- Spanish
- French
- Chinese (I think Mandarin)
- German
I think my child’s high school offers the same, although I don’t know the relative popularities. I’m confident Spanish is still most popular, and judging by the number of posters around the school from German classes trying to convince kids to take German, I’m thinking German is still not very popular.
- Comment on Zynga shuts down Torchlight 3 developer four years after its acquisition 1 month ago:
TIL Zynga still exists
- Comment on How does HTML actually run on a computer? 1 month ago:
If it was pre-compiled that could also cause issues not just across operating systems but also the architectures, right? Like x86 on desktop versus the ARM architecture most mobile devices use?
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 2 months ago:
I always have a case. Basically every phone I’ve tried has felt too slippery without one to me, so I get one that’s a little more grippy
- Comment on No time to explain, grab a milk and look at the camera 2 months ago:
As it got dark they began the arduous procedure of aiming the laser and something very quickly dawned on everyone: While considerable attention had been made in the design and alignment of the laser’s optics and in achieving good sensitivity of the optical receiver, no-one had really thought too seriously about the practical difficulties of aiming a very narrow beam over a distance of 118+ miles! Using a number of improvised techniques, the laser crew managed to get the beam “close”, setting the elevation with various shims and other pieces onhand, but getting both azimuth (horizontal) and elevation (vertical) dialed in proved to be a hair-pulling task.
After a bit of fussing, the receive site crew was tantalized by the occasional brief, bright flash from the distant laser but it seemed as though the transmit site crew could never repeat the maneuver - plus the necessary corrections - to get the laser back and on-point! When the receive site crew queried the Grassy Hollow folks about this on the radio it turned out that they were using two primitive tools to adjust the aiming of the laser: A large rock tapped at the end of the metal channel in which the laser was mounted for coarse adjustments and a much smaller rock for fine-tuning!
- Comment on No time to explain, grab a milk and look at the camera 2 months ago:
I haven’t finished but this is a very interesting read
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 2 months ago:
The role of the county government can vary significantly from state to state too.
My understanding is that in Virginia the city/town that serves as the county seat is explicitly not a part of the county it’s located in!
- Comment on Why are American animations more expensive than Asian animations? 2 months ago:
It’s why a lot of American cartoons like The Simpsons or Futurama are animated in Asia, usually Japan or Korea. They might have American animators do the key frames and then pay Asian animators to do the tedious in-between frames, or just send it all to Asia.
This also puts a downward pressure on American wages, with the threat effectively being, “take a pay cut or lose the work entirely.” Seems to be what Hollywood is hoping to do with “AI” also.
- Comment on Shats 2 months ago:
!nominativedeterminism@feddit.uk
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- Comment on It's just for testing, promise 🤞 2 months ago:
“Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.”
- Comment on It's just for testing, promise 🤞 2 months ago:
So you just had that laying around, or you bought it for that purpose?
- Comment on I’m very good at math and would like health insurance. What is the easiest option? 2 months ago:
Sorry for the slow reply; just remembered to ask her. For bookkeeping you don’t need anything. It could be valuable to get a certification in QuickBooks, but not required. It just seems to be the most common software.
