atomicbocks
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- Comment on Missing banana for scale. 8 hours ago:
It’s super cool that we can still see it even though the photograph isn’t real.
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 4 days ago:
As would I. There is an existing line from Kansas City to Tulsa to OKC that has been talked about being opened for passengers for a couple decades.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 4 days ago:
The fucking MythBusters did an episode on that like 20 years ago.
- Comment on Wobble wobble 1 week ago:
I’m not sure about the more classic devices but a lot of game controllers and phones these days use linear motors or similar piezoelectric devices for vibration. For instance Apple’s “Taptic Engine”.
- Comment on Ripperonis 1 week ago:
Cotard’s Syndrome is close to that.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Patch Due Out Today, PC Performance 'Our Top Priority,' Gearbox Says 1 week ago:
I think they do think that though. Companies seem to have realized they can make more money with less sales by pricing the lowest bidding consumer group out of the market.
- Comment on Nearly 1,000 ‘worker over billionaire’ actions planned for Labor Day in US 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Child sex abuse victim begs Elon Musk to remove links to her images 4 weeks ago:
I don’t have time to visit the hospital right now so why don’t you check it the separate Wikipedia articles yourself.
- Comment on Child sex abuse victim begs Elon Musk to remove links to her images 4 weeks ago:
I wasn’t being pedantic, It’s an important distinction. You don’t have to think so though, you don’t have to be rude about other people’s opinions.
- Comment on Child sex abuse victim begs Elon Musk to remove links to her images 4 weeks ago:
Not the Internet, the World Wide Web. But yes.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 5 weeks ago:
Often yes, but not always.
And, bonus HP douche.
- Comment on Every dam time 5 weeks ago:
Nobody wants to advertise that they don’t support the latest and greatest tech. Also regulatory capture to an extent.
- Comment on Every dam time 5 weeks ago:
In the US HD and even some SD OTA (antenna) channels are usually broadcast in at least 5.1 Dolby Digital and the upcoming ATSC standard update will allow 7.1 and Atmos broadcasts. This is also true for most streaming services, DVDs, Blu-ray’s, and even some VHSs and video games going all the way back to the N64 (Dolby ProLogic).
That people are watching (or listening to in this case) that kind of signal on a basic TV is the issue being described.
- Comment on Every dam time 5 weeks ago:
Most systems should be capable of downmixing to stereo. I have found that sometimes this issue comes from a double downmix where the streaming box converts to stereo but still sends it encoded in DTS or similar so the TV or soundbar downmixes it again. The result is that it reduces the volume of the left and right where the dialog now is and increases the now silent center channel.
- Comment on Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow 5 weeks ago:
Sega had an earlier console in 1983 called the SG-1000.
- Comment on IYKYK 5 weeks ago:
Yes, we have even made bacteria that excretes fuels. But nothing that competes with just pulling hydrocarbons out of the ground at scale like we have with diamonds.
The main scaling issue is that the constituent carbon still has to come from somewhere, and one of the main carbon sources we have is… oil.
The best solution is to move away from carbon based fuels.
- Comment on Me too. 1 month ago:
Conscious (sentience / sapience) is an ineffable, unmeasurable, quality. There is no way to say that one sentient being is more or less sentient than another. In fact there is no way to tell that I am not the only consciousness in existence but it feels rude not to give others the benefit of the doubt. We can create neurons and even small brains in the lab but we don’t have any way to instill life into that neuron. Consciousness simply emerges out of the constituent parts of being alive, possibly even as a result of the interactions of such a complex system.
- Comment on Me too. 1 month ago:
Consciousness is 100% an emergent property.
- Comment on Help. 1 month ago:
Wasn’t there a guy who married his 3DS dating game girlfriend a while back? I’m not sure this is exactly a new phenomenon.
- Comment on California is debating whether or not to remove the bike lane on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. During the public hearing, a politician was driving his car 1 month ago:
I think that’s part of the problem though. Downvoting isn’t for disagreeing it’s a vote that a comment detracts from the conversation as a whole.
- Comment on California is debating whether or not to remove the bike lane on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. During the public hearing, a politician was driving his car 1 month ago:
Based on this and a couple recent other threads I am becoming pretty convinced that more and more of the people on Lemmy are children.
- Comment on The design is very human 1 month ago:
Not necessarily, lots of old TVs and console radios only had one speaker. As well many old LPs split the lyrics onto the separate channel with the intention that it would be listened to in mono with one speaker. This is why some old masters still have all the lyrics on one channel and all the music on the other.
- Comment on stupid sexy apples 1 month ago:
The allergens in honey are from where the honey was made. If you haven’t already you might try locally sourced honey as it will have the allergens that are already in the air where you live.
- Comment on Instacart is urging the Mayor of New York City to veto a bill that would require the company to pay its workers minimum wage 1 month ago:
There is a whole group of people that actually believe that some jobs should not provide a living wage. They will argue that high school students don’t need a living wage and then unironically still want McDonald’s to be open during a school day.
- Comment on flowers for the lost 1 month ago:
You forgot Sojourner.
- Comment on In New York City, Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Court Dates. 2 months ago:
- Comment on In New York City, Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Court Dates. 2 months ago:
Mopeds have been a thing for a long time and electric has been an option for a long time. Also bike delivery has been a thing in NYC for a long time. That they are not street legal doesn’t make sense to me. Unless for the same reason a Mustang is street legal but a Mach E is not.
- Comment on After 18 years, a surprise Half-Life 2 update makes it once again possible to beat a honking train on Highway 17 2 months ago:
I played through recently and I beat it but I distinctly remember thinking that I didn’t remember it being that hard. It took me several tries and very precise timing, I think I even ended up coming back to it the next day.
Glad they are fixing it, though it makes it hard not to speculate more about an upcoming sequel. I think they will call it HL2 Episode 3 just to fuck with everyone.
- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 2 months ago:
I’ve literally never heard anybody pronounce them differently, your comment confused me at first but TIL.
- Comment on we must protect them from exotics 2 months ago:
Ugh. We have spent so much on blackout curtains because of our neighbor’s insistence on having outdoor lights on all night. Same neighbor who once said to me “I just hate clover, don’t you?”…