Jesus_666

@Jesus_666@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Absolute slander⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, come on! The second picture shows that the three-packet hypothesis isn’t accurate either. It’s a 2.8 sauce packet cat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Answer very carefully⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is your meme about oil rig explosions related to reposts you’re making this weekend?

  ○︎ No, it’s not related to weekend reposts
  ◉︎ I’ll repost this both on weekend and weekday
  ○︎ Yes, both for this and future weekends
  ○︎ Yes, I’ll repost this on every future weekeend
  ○︎ Yes, I’ll repost this purely on this weekend

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions our energy sector⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, I’m thinking of sodium-ion batteries. That’s 1990s tech and is currently in use for grid storage. Several manufacturers are currently bringing car-ready Na-ion batteries to market and there seems to be one production car using them in China (a version of the JMEV EV3, which I hav enever heard about before).

  Now, Na-ion is still less mature than Li-ion and that Chinese car gets about 17% less range compared do the Li-ion version.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions our energy sector⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re currently bringing sodium batteries to market (as in “the first vendor is selling them right now”). They’re bulky but fairly robust IIRC and they don’t need lithium.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨l fixed it!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, it had its moments. Windows 95 was a pretty big step forwards and the alternative was OS/2 Warp, which has some nice features but was from IBM, who were still dreaming of replacing the PC with a vertically-integrated home computer again.

  Windows 2000 (or XP starting with SP2) was also solid. 7 was alright. None of those had too much bullshit bundled with them.

  Everything since Windows 8 has been some flavor of shitty, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are Minimum Wages, Why Not a Maximum Wage?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree that going for wages in the traditional sense doesn’t catch many of the most relevant income streams. However, I think that a “maximum wage” makes sense as a theoretical construct used to create a sensible income tax scheme.

  Essentially, tax brackets and rates could be defined in relation to the median income. Go too far above that (hitting the “maximum wage”) and your tax rate rapidly increases, maybe even going as high as 90%. Of course this would have to cover all sorts of income, not just plain money.

  This scheme would effectively box people into a certain band of acceptable wealth and would create an incentive to raise wages – after all, if the average worker makes more, so can the most wealthy.

  (Also, full agreement on needing to talk about better labor protections. American labor law is really lax.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are Minimum Wages, Why Not a Maximum Wage?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mind you, people probably don’t think of your standard high earner they they think of an income cap. They think of people who make four (or even five) digits an hour, a rate that maybe high end lawyers can match. Maybe.

  CEOs of large companies can easily make that much, often not even tied to performance but contractually guaranteed. The super-rich make that much simply by existing.

  Basically, if your labor (or mere existence) isn’t even worth 1000 bucks an hour to your clients you’re a peasant like the rest of us and an income cap is probably never going to be relevant to you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop whining. Do it yourself.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Especially if you didn’t have a lot of spare time. With an active community you can just dip into discussions when you have the time. With a community you’re trying to establish yourself you absolutely have to provide a steady stream of content until it (hopefully) takes off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Magic Words⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The software development industry version of this is “we really need to fix that soon but it’s beyond the scope of this PBI”.

  “Soon” is a shorthand for “we’ll put this on the backlog and never pull it into a sprint until it blows up in our faces, at which time we will gripe about how nobody bothered to fix it earlier”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 104 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “You finished a computer game, Atticus.”

  *The truth was a burning green crack through my brain.

  Credits scrolling by, a reminder of the talent behind a just-finished journey. The feeling of triumph, slowly replaced by the creeping grayness of ordinary life.

  I had finished a computer game. Funny as hell, it was the most horrible thing I could think of.*

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why does every single flashlight have multiple settings that you have to scroll through?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anduril is way overengineered. I like this UI that some of my lights have:

  While off:

  • One push: Turn on at the last used brightness.
  • Two pushes: Turn on at maximum brightness.
  • Three pushes: That strobe mode that you don’t need but seems to be obligatory.
  • Hold: Turn on at the lowest brightness (or moonlight mode if the light has one).

  While on:

  • One push to turn off.
  • Two pushes to toggle between maximum brightness and the last used “regular” brightness.
  • Three: That strobe mode that someone has to have some use for.
  • Hold: Alternately increase or decrease the brightness.

  That’s pretty easy to learn and gives you all the functions you’d reasonably need (plus that strobe) without a lot of clutter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fear⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I fix that problem by forgetting to turn off Do Not Disturb mode.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explain why the US bail system is not insane⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And this is why stuff should be defined in terms of day’s earnings to provide scaling. If an ultra-rich person gets jailed and has to post 20 billion dollars in bail, they can’t treat jail as a minor inconvenience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women in STEM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My reaction exactly. I studied there as well. Lise Meitner may be underappreciated but at least someone made sure she’s not forgotten.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You forgot the degaussing sound for those screens that had that feature.

  *KLONK*

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we talk about? - Fan service getting out of control.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Matrix 4 was specifically made to bury the franchise. It goes out of its way to make fun of its own existence and couldn’t be more obviously a lame rehash of the first one. And as a franchise killer I can respect it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You probably shouldn't trust the info anyway.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Bonus points for not turning your parents’ backyard into a Superfund site.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your favorite controller?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, it’s still the F310 for me. I have mine since the early 2010s and it’s still working perfectly. Those things are built like tanks and between XInput and DirectInput are compatible with just about any PC game of the last forty years, no extra software required. Also, they’re dirt cheap.

  Honorable mention to the F710, the wireless version. While Windows 10’s USB stack unfortunately broke compatibility with it (causing randomly dropped inputs), Linux does not have that problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm seein' double. Eight Links!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Well, excuuuuuse me, princess!”

  gets shot twice, just to make sure

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands stunt coordinator says the film was originally shot with an R-rating in mind⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tina actually is the most emotionally vulnerable major character in Borderlands 2, as Assault on Dragon Keep shows. However, she’s also a deeply disturbed demolitionist who tortures someone to death on-screen.

  Trying to turn her into an innocent little girl feels utterly bizarre.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Say it.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Manga is typically read right to left.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon notices a trope⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tropes can absolutely be based in reality. A trope is simply a commonly used stylistic device or convention in media. Sometimes it’s commonly used because reality just works that way. There nothing inherently cheap about it.

  Cutting the hair short as a trope tells us that the character is in an extremely stressful or even traumatic situation and is trying to regain a sense of control. That’s a complex situation but can be told in seconds by relating to actual reality.

  It’s not a trope in reality but it is one when used to convey a characters emotional state in a story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evolution isn't linear.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, “proto-chickens”, let’s say.

  Also known as red junglefowl.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's brother hates concrete⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s nothing to stop you from using concrete as a structural material and covering it with brick. That’s how most single-family houses in Germany work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's brother hates concrete⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately many brutalistic buildings are far off from its peak and just look like lazily designed gray blobs. High-effort brutalism can look good (or can look inappropriately evil but that’s besides the point); low-effort brutalism always looks cheap.