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- Comment on What are super-computers used for ? 1 week ago:
If your gaming computer can do x computations every month, and you need to run a simulation that requires 1000x computations, you can wait 1000 months, or have 1000 computers work on it in parallel and have it done in one month.
- Comment on At what point do you consider a person an alcoholic? 1 week ago:
These are the official diagnostic criteria, which helped to open my eyes and stop drinking:
- Alcohol is often taken in larger amounts or over a longer period than intended.
- There is a persistent desire or unsuccessful efforts to cut down or control alcohol use.
- A great deal of time is spent in activities necessary to obtain, use, or recover from the effects of alcohol.
- Craving, or a strong desire or urge to use alcohol.
- Recurrent alcohol use resulting in a failure to fulfill major role obligations at work, school, or home.
- Continued alcohol use despite having persistent or recurrent social or interpersonal problems caused or exacerbated by the effects of alcohol.
- Important social, occupational, or recreational activities are given up or reduced because of alcohol use.
- Recurrent alcohol use in situations in which it is physically hazardous.
- Alcohol use is continued despite knowledge of having a persistent or recurrent physical or psychological problem that is likely to have been caused or exacerbated by alcohol.
- Tolerance, as defined by either a need for markedly increased amounts of alcohol to achieve intoxication or desired effect, or a markedly diminished effect with continued use of the same amount.
- Withdrawal, as manifested by either characteristic withdrawal syndrome for alcohol or alcohol (or a closely related substance) is taken to relieve or avoid withdrawal symptoms.
In a 12 month period:
- 2 - 4 criteria met: mild
- 4 - 5: moderate
- 6+: severe
- Comment on Radiating 5 weeks ago:
Her chair is still radioactive.
- Comment on It will be great, they said... 1 month ago:
Been self hosting mail for over a decade and its never been easier thanks to stalwart. The IP block list thing is true though, but mostly you request removal once from Microsoft and spamhaus and that’s it.
- Comment on Sorry guys 1 month ago:
Ants running in a circle lost the pheromone trail and keep running in circles until they die.
- Comment on Anon is a fan of GabeN 1 month ago:
BTW the way refunds work is that steam withholds the money for a month to pay refunds with it. The publisher has no say, they just get gross - 30% - VAT - refunds.
- Comment on Soup 1 month ago:
TIL humans are broth.
- Comment on It's nothing 1 month ago:
Do they go away if you breath in deeply? Does it hurt more when you breath in? Then it may be back related. There are nerves going from your back under the ribs to your chest.
- Comment on I'm in a hotel in America with no kettle in my room, if I want tea I have to microwave it. 2 months ago:
Because of lower voltage in the US, total available power of a wall socket is lower. So kettles take forever.
- Comment on When a humble bard Graced a ride along 3 months ago:
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Try /sys/firmware
- Comment on EU tax officials confront the most pressing legal question of our time: If you sell RuneScape gold to someone and they use it to buy a magic sword, do you still have to pay taxes? 4 months ago:
This is actually really interesting!
This taxable individual, Kokott explains, was found to have bought and resold through “various forums, groups, and platforms such as Facebook, Discord, and Skype” enough RuneScape gold to earn €415,484—approximately $488,000 USD—between 2021 and 2023.
They then were ordered to backpay VAT because they made above 45k. Defendant says trading virtual currencies is like trading crypto, and VAT exempt. Government says its like selling a voucher instead.
Its corner cases like this one that make taxes complicated for regular people.
I also find it hilarious that tax lawyers and accountants will have to read that court decision.
- Comment on Rust 4 months ago:
When oxygen was first released during the great oxygenation event, it killed all other life on earth.
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 4 months ago:
If the first game you ever played with a stick was a flight simulator, then down is up.
- Comment on Elephant 4 months ago:
Its a thing in Thailand. Family elephants.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 5 months ago:
Let’s be fair: no one ever warned that this could happen.
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 5 months ago:
Its not guaranteed. They may keep a copy of the original post around.
- Comment on Valhalla awaits 5 months ago:
You can also hang yourself from an ash tree!
- Comment on Hope you like math 5 months ago:
0+0i
- Comment on Is it okay to cover the outside of a microwave in aluminum to prevent or lessen microwave WiFi interference? 5 months ago:
I mean don’t see why not, but you need complete coverage around it, including underside.
You could also try switching to 5 GHz wifi if your walls allow it.
- Comment on Resources 6 months ago:
Its not about giving people resources, merely estimating what it would take for everyone to meet DLS requirements if they live where they currently live.
- Comment on Resources 6 months ago:
They talk about it in the PDF. Basically its a weighted average. Some people live in colder climates and need more heating/clothes, others need less. It then averages out to those numbers.
- Comment on Resources 6 months ago:
Yeah but DLS would be a significant downgrade for many people, who already fight the suggestion to only eat meat six days a week tooth and nail.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6013539/
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10537420/
pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/…/es3c03957_si_001.pdf
Things that count as DLS:
- 10 m² of personal living space + 20 m² for every 4 ppl as bathroom / kitchen
- 2100 kcal/day
- 1400 kWh/year, but this already includes public services (education/healthcare)
- 1 washing machine per 20 ppl
- 2.4 kg clothing / year
- wear tops for three days and bottoms for 15 days without washing
- 1 laptop per 4 people with a yearly power consumption of 62 kWh. (bizzarely they talk about an 800 MHz computer and seem to confuse HDD and RAM). If your gaming computer used 400 W you could use it for 150 hr/year.
- Comment on Maybe just do the hard work yourself 6 months ago:
I just want to point out that it doesn’t fake or lie or anything. That is giving machine learning too much credit. Just picks the statistically most likely next thing to say from its training data.
I guess training data includes reddit twitter Facebook etc. and so humans probably sometimes say that in that context.
- Comment on Any nominations? 6 months ago:
Its wild mustard all the way down.
- Comment on Could you fcking not. 6 months ago:
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 6 months ago:
Look I get it. The planet is dying, income inequality, it seems everything is unfair and going to shit. People yearn at an opportunity to help make things better. But yelling for simple solutions is the opposite of helpful. Because there are no simple solutions.
Saying to “just open source it” does not make sense.
What do you do about:
- proprietary codecs
- proprietary software that just does not exist as open source
- the fact you need a copy of the game engine to actually build the game from sources
- assets that have been bought on asset stores. Do the people who make those for a living not have a right to continue to make a living?
Making single player games without always online DRM: yes totally doable
Running game servers of online games forever: not really doable, as soon as all the libraries etc. they depend on are unsupported they will shut down one way or another. You need staff basically forever. Not even mentioning the maintenance headache that every legacy system always turns into.
Letting people run their own dedicated servers: sometimes doable, depends on the game though. Some games do not have “a server” but a whole infrastructure of stuff, look at foxhole. Some “servers” are a house of cards barely held together by duct tape.
This initiative all comes down to the definition of “reasonable”. What is reasonable, actually? Running an infrastructure at a loss until bankruptcy? Or just keeping it online until it starts making a loss.
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 6 months ago:
There is a reason it’s included though. Stuff like fmod, bink video etc. does complicated things that you otherwise need to implement yourself.
- Comment on Injured dog walkers could be costing NHS £23m a year 7 months ago:
I btlet they are saving the NHS multiple times that amount due to having an enforced consistent sleep rhythm and going for walks twice a day.
- Comment on Reappraisal of the Geologic Time Scale: Evidence for a 6,001-year-old Earth 7 months ago:
The earth is only 6001 years old [1]!