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- Comment on Performative Perp Walk 1 day ago:
I have had a lot of opportunities to post this lately, so here we go again:
- Comment on We tested the Nvidia App performance problems — games can run up to 15 percent slower with the app 3 days ago:
Here’s the quote, for people allergic to reading the update in the article.
Update: Nvidia sent us a statement: “We are aware of a reported performance issue related to Game Filters and are actively looking into it. You can turn off Game Filters from the NVIDIA App Settings > Features > Overlay > Game Filters and Photo Mode, and then relaunch your game.”
We have tested this and confirmed that disabling the Game Filters and Photo Mode does indeed work. The problem appears to stem from the filters causing a performance loss, even when they’re not being actively used. (With GeForce Experience, if you didn’t have any game filters enabled, it didn’t affect performance.) So, if you’re only after the video capture features or game optimizations offered by the Nvidia App, you can get ‘normal’ performance by disabling the filters and photo modes.
So, TomsHW did indeed test this, and found that its the filters and photo mode causing the performance hit.
Still a pretty stupid problem to have, considering the old filters did not cause this problem, but at least there’s a workaround.
… I’m curious if this new settings app even exists, or has been tested on linux.
- Comment on Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking? 4 days ago:
So I have no actual source on any kind of coinshot…
But why not use half pennies?
…wikipedia.org/…/Half_cent_(United_States_coin)
Yes, the US used to have half pennies.
Imagine buying an apple for $0.03½
Anyway, they stopped being minted in 1857, but that’s still within the early timeframe of ‘The West’, and I’d bet they were still used in circulation for another decade or two.
That’d be cheaper than using nickels, haha.
- Comment on We need a new Amazon 4 days ago:
The even shorter, more direct version is:
‘Local community’ actually means ‘Official representatives of the local community.’
… Also… I’m in America so… maybe this is somehow different in various Euro countries, but I seriously doubt it…
There’s no way Amazon invests in local roads.
They’re more likely to strong arm a city, even literally sue them, into upgrading their roads than they are to… like directly contribute some share of their revenue or profit directly into the city’s road maintenance or construction budget.
Provide computers to schools? Sure, I believe that.
But I am highly doubtful that Amazon directly contributes to building local roads.
Only way I can even see that _kind of_making sense in a roundabout way is if the city has some kind of specific tax on heavier vehicles or vehicles used in delivery/logistics…
In which case … this would apply to any delivery/logistics vehicle of any kind that either transits through or is based out of the city.
By that logic anyone that pays a sales tax or property tax in the city pays for new roads.
- Comment on I'm literally a thinking lump of fat 4 days ago:
acid metal
- Comment on We need a new Amazon 4 days ago:
“Amazon wont pay a living wage due to its great relationship with the local community”.
So, taken by a normal person, not aquainted with corpo speak… that is some astounding anti-logic.
But if you know a bit of corpo, what that actually means is something like:
We have the local city government by the balls, got them to subsidize our construction costs, relax zoning laws or fees, change tax laws or give us a special carve out so that we pay less than if anyone else tried to build a warehouse here…
… and now if the ciry gov goes for policies/laws we don’t like, we’ll just shut down this location, I’ll go work the same job somewhere else, everyone else is unemployed, and then we’ll tell the media that’s because of the city government.
- Comment on Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking? 4 days ago:
Oh yeah, I was trying to stick to retailed products, but yes, homebrew shotgun rounds have been around for basically as long as shotguns.
Another kind of homebrew shot is coin shot:
www.alloutdoor.com/…/shooting-pennies-shotgun/
I’ve heard anecdotally that people have been doing that for quite a while.
- Comment on Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking? 4 days ago:
I did not know an actual anti drone, net round existed!
Not especially useful against drones, nor open warfare, there are also less than lethal rubber rounds…
… and a self contained taser round:
forgottenweapons.com/taser-x12-xrep-a-taser-in-a-…
I don’t know if the xrep is still actually manufactured though.
Oh right! Dragon’s breath! Illegal in half the country!
- Comment on Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking? 5 days ago:
I heard that guy’s a real crack shot.
- Comment on Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking? 5 days ago:
Hah, I suppose that could work!
Reminds me of ratshot .22 rounds.
Maybe somebody will start properly manufacturing basically ratshot 5.56 rounds.
- Comment on Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking? 5 days ago:
Other people have already pointed out that your conception of shotgun spread is essentially based in video games, where the spread is (in all but basically milsim games) greatly exaggerated.
You’ve countered that drones can fly higher than an actual shotgun range.
Yep. They can.
… Did you read the article I posted?
Shotguns are being used fairly commonly by both sides.
It doesn’t matter what you or I think about how practical or useful they are…
The people fighting the war think they are practical and useful.
…
Nonetheless, here’s my attempt to explain the popularity of shotguns in Ukraine as anti drone weapons:
This is not a solution geared toward being able to shoot down any drone, of any size or capability, at any range, at any altitude.
Obviously a shotgun is not going to be able to shootdown a greyhawk or reaper style drone.
Most of the small FPV drones that attack infantry or ground vehicles do so by basically either dropping a bomb or grenade or mortar round from maybe 25 to 150 feet in the air…
Or just being rigged with some kind of an explosive to explode on contact or via a remote trigger.
These kinds of drones are extremely cheap, plentiful, and effective against infantry and many ground vehicles.
When it comes to these kinds of drones, shotguns are also extremely cheap and plentiful, and practical self defense weapons.
Shotguns are more useful against these kinds of FPV drones than an average assault rifle, due to the spread of shot.
They are way, way more cost effective than using a tunguska or gephard or some kind of MANPADS platform designed to shoot down jet aircraft.
Shotguns are also just more numerous, and don’t require specialized training/equipment like a dedicated AA platform or EM jamming and all the equipment that entails.
You can just give a few out to every squad or vehicle crew, and thats way, waaay better than just hoping you’re operating near enough to an expensive friendly AA platform that exists in far more limited numbers, or being SOL if you’re not.
Further, a shotgun is also just useful as a general combat weapon.
Sure, buckshot has limited range, but sometimes fights occur within tight conditions… namely trenches or an urban environment.
Also slug rounds exist and can give you more range than buck or birdshot.
Also you can use door breacher rounds, or slugs in a pinch, to blow apart door hinges and locks.
- Comment on Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking? 5 days ago:
There are some, handheld firearms that are used as a last-ditch / cheap anti drone solution in Ukraine, by both sides.
Drum roll…
armyrecognition.com/…/analysis-shotguns-emerge-as…
Its shotguns.
Because they have a spread of shot instead of a single bullet.
Fucking obviously duh, they’ve been used to hunt small, evasive birds routinely, everywhere, for like 150+ years.
Hunting a nimble flying object with a sniper rifle is a laughably absurd idea.
- Comment on TW: suicide 5 days ago:
Yep. Thats actually even less bone thickness in the way than the roof of your mouth, and is more likely to destroy more of your brain, with the bullet trajectory going through most of it.
- Comment on TW: suicide 5 days ago:
Short version:
Basically, the roof of your mouth presents skull bones which are much thinner than many other parts of your skull.
Longer Version:
If you hold the gun with the grip facing downward, as others have said, I guess the hope is you get a shot straight through your medulla oblingata.
If you obliterate that, bam, instant brain death basically.
But if your angle is off, you may only sever your spinal cord, now you get to be mostly conscious, in extreme pain, as you collapse and asphyxiate.
Or you may just blow part of your jaw off. That might not even kill you.
If, on the other hand, you go grip facing up, the ole’ Bud Dwyer…
You have a much greater liklihood of obliterating a whole lot of your brain’s frontal lobe, the executive decision part.
probably? You’d lose consciousness completely within seconds, 10(s?) of seconds at most, your brain activity would grind to a complete halt as the massive bleeding would just stop the remainder of your brain from working.
But also: Phinneas Gage.
Sometimes people can survive insane bullshit like this.
Personally, I once met a guy that claimed he’d been shot with a .22 in the forehead, that that was the source of his scar there, and that his forehead skull was actually just thick enough that it stopped the .22 without the fracture creating any spall of loose bone fragments into his brain.
- Comment on Better hurry, before they run out of....1's and 0's... 1 week ago:
Doordash only picks SNAP food from basically gas stations, good luck ordering fresh fruit and produce from Amazon.
Instacart does do pickup from some local grocery stores that take SNAP, kind of, barely, but thats waaaay outta my budget.
- Comment on Better hurry, before they run out of....1's and 0's... 1 week ago:
I have a Walmart+ subscription, literally the only thing I’m subscribed to (beyond utilities or whatever).
Why?
I’m disabled, live off of only disability, my car got stolen.
Walmart accepts SNAP, and a + subscription gets you free, same day deliveries from your local store.
A subscription costs a bit less than $15 bucks a month, and deliveries cost $10 bucks.
… Had I a car, I’d hobble to food banks. But I don’t, and am basically immobile.
- Comment on Depressing awful town 1 week ago:
This is a fucking culinary crime.
- Comment on Anon hears a noise 1 week ago:
Post bereavement hallucinations are a thing.
Sorry anon.
- Comment on Nobody will question you 1 week ago:
I was assuming its a simple linear regression fit, and attempting to eyeball the r², haha.
- Comment on Nobody will question you 1 week ago:
What’s the r² on this, like … 0.3 ish?
Less?
- Comment on Steamy 1 week ago:
Ask an astronomer to explain the differences asteroid vs meteor vs comet vs dwarf planet and see what dirty looks you get in response.
A meteoroid is a comet or asteroid.
A meteor is the visible phenomenon that a meteroid creates as it burns.
A meteorite is any part of a meteoroid which survives burning through the atmosphere and impacts the earth.
Asteroids are primarily comprised of more dense rocky and metallic substances, they’re more like rocks.
Comets are primarily comprised of ice and very non dense bits of dust, they’re more like snowballs.
… I knew all of this by the time I was in 5th grade.
I am not an astronomer.
These are not difficult concepts.
…
Dwarf planets can be comprised of many things, but a very significant attribute they have is that they are massive enough to have gravity form them into spherical shapes, whereas asteroids and comets are much smaller and have very irregular topographies.
If you want to get into the exact distinction between a planet and a dwarf planet, basically the main difference is that a dwarf planet is not massive enough to achieve local orbital dominance, whereas a planet is.
A more thorough discussion of that would involve more referring to complex concepts, as well as math with letters in it… but seeing as you’d rather pretend that words with straightforward meanings that most people understand by the age of 10 are actually all stupid and arbitrary, I doubt it would be a very productive discussion.
- Comment on Alfredo Linguini 1 week ago:
You can get like, cooked noodles with shredded, decent quality cheese, from some places delis, that are microwaveble and actually pretty decent…
But yeah, the infinite shelf life, dry noodles and cheese powder, just add water… shit is disgusting when microwaved.
- Comment on Steamy 1 week ago:
Isn’t it a meteorite once it touches the ground?
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 2 weeks ago:
Nope.
If Trump can get alway with almost all of his bullshit, if the Supreme Court can just hurr durr away a hundred + years of legal precedent, then this whole system is bullshit.
- Comment on Germ Blaster 2 weeks ago:
I mean sure, but!
… It trains everyone to make the silly nyaa anime catgirl poses with our arms and hands.
- Comment on TikTok set to be banned in the US after losing appeal 2 weeks ago:
While the justification for this is primarily based on TikTok being a privacy and data security risk due to it being owned by a Chinese State Organ/Corporation… which is hilarious bullshit because the US does exactly the same thing with all the net data that goes through US corporate social media…
Brainrot is a real thing.
Shortform video platforms are addictive the same way cigarretes or heroin is, extended use ruins your cognitive ability, sruin your attention span, and fhe format promotes an absurdly fake, narcissistic culture, scams, and mis or disinformation.
Algorithmic profiling is definitely not unique to TikTok, but it is used by the app, and this often pigeonholes the user into content that often becomes more and more extreme, manipulative and exploitative of the user.
Though this is being done mostly for stupid reasons, and it isn’t stoping US Corpo brainrot inducing social media platforms, I’ll take what I can get.
- Comment on Authorities urge U.S. citizens to use encrypted messaging apps to combat Chinese telco hackers 2 weeks ago:
Yep, Signal has been the obvious best combination of actual security and ease of use for quite a while now…
But most people that I interact with are still on the level of ‘everyone knows Apple is more secure than Android, so anything on an iPhone is fine’ or ‘wtf undont have a SnapChat? Everyone has a snapchat’.
- Comment on Share holder value 2 weeks ago:
Their ‘work’ is among the easiest to automate.
But, automation for thee, profits for me, says C Suite, and so it shall be.
- Comment on Boil em, Mash em, Stick them in a Stew 2 weeks ago:
Well that settles it, from now on I’m only drinking raw milk and eating boiled, sprouted potatoes for breakfast, to establish my rugged masculinity and stick it to the man.
- Comment on Boil em, Mash em, Stick them in a Stew 2 weeks ago:
I am kind of sorry that I accidentally turned this into a potato discussion thread.
