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- Comment on Anon is worried about men 15 hours ago:
Its a pretty big assumption that I am not also in that position.
And not that it matters, but I’ve moved almost every year since I was about 10 years old. Sometimes multiple times a year. And I’m not going to pretend I’m besties with every single person I’ve ever lived next to but it was also beneficial to be a friendly neighbor.
People are mostly willing to help their friends.
- Comment on logs are for quitters 1 day ago:
That’s only about 180,000km (~112,000 miles) or just under half way to the moon.
- Comment on This is unfair! 2 days ago:
Damn that’s a shame. My team would also do this like once a month and the buffet we went to absolutely loved us. They would keep the party room open for us and prepare extra food the night before. Hell the owners came to some of the bigger meets too when they could.
Then someone drove a semi truck through the front of the building (nobody was hurt, it was overnight) and they never reopened :(
- Comment on Anon makes life choices 2 days ago:
I’m making almost double what I was as an electrician in IT.
- Comment on Anon makes life choices 3 days ago:
Funny enough i switched from being an electrician to doing IT a few years ago.
I’m making a ton more money and I’m inside all day. Which is nice today because it’s 25°F and windy as shit here today. Its less nice when it’s 70°F and sunny though.
- Comment on p r e s s u r e 4 days ago:
Bah I messed it up again! I have no excuse now 🤦♂️
- Comment on p r e s s u r e 4 days ago:
Ah you’re right. I misread your comment. I thought you were calling gas a fluid haha
- Comment on Which actor did not have a single bad film? 4 days ago:
Plus Saving Private Ryan directly allowed him to make Band of Brothers which is easily one of the best wat shows of all time.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 5 days ago:
October is when security patches for windows 10 will stop. Its when it goes full out of support. LTSB will continue getting security patches for a couple years though.
- Comment on p r e s s u r e 1 week ago:
Gas can behave like a fluid. Or rather, the two can behave similarly, but they aren’t the same thing.
- Comment on Anon orders food 1 week ago:
Yeah I assumed so. It was a few years ago so we probably talked for a bit at the bar (I am not allowed to go get drinks by myself cause I’ll end up talking to strangers for 45 mins haha) but I don’t remember her from any other point in the night.
Idk it was just really strange haha
- Comment on Anon orders food 1 week ago:
One time a buddy and I were out drinking and on our way out he ran into a childhood friend. So while they were catching up I was just leaning against a table and listening to their conversation and people watching.
A pretty attractive woman came up to me, looked me dead in the eyes, and said “you’d be more attractive if you had some self-confidence”, and then walked out of the bar.
I think about that every day. Because I have never in my life been told I need “more confidence” (actually, it’s usually the opposite haha).
- Comment on Based on a true story 1 week ago:
Its still sometimes possible. Manufacturers will periodically run 0% interest loans specials for people who qualify. Tesla (don’t actually buy one) runs the deals all the time actually.
- Comment on Based on a true story 1 week ago:
What’d you buy?
- Comment on Anon is worried about men 1 week ago:
the dismantling of any kind of reciprocal relationship
This! I’ve been saying this for years now. “The village” that it takes to get through life in a healthy way has been completely dismantled and commodified.
You hear people who don’t know their neighbors names, or just call the cops on kids in their neighborhood cause the parents aren’t around instead of just watching out for them, or people saying they wouldn’t take their friends to the airport cause “there’s nothing in it for them”, and a million other little things.
We are social creatures, we need other people to help us out. But people seem to be uninterested in anything further than their own nose.
- Comment on How Ubisoft spent $2.1M on influencers to secure the launch of Assassin's Creed Shadows 1 week ago:
someone who promotes a product while hiding the fact that they’ve been paid
Streamers generally say “this is a sponsored stream”
So by your own definition streamers are generally not shills?
- Comment on How Ubisoft spent $2.1M on influencers to secure the launch of Assassin's Creed Shadows 1 week ago:
My buddy is a little streamer (gets maybe a few dozen viewers) and he got early access to it as well. Although he doesn’t add any fake hype, he’s just a very good hype man.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 1 week ago:
I’m not a scientist, I’m just in IT haha
I figured there was a way to measure that small of weight but I didn’t know!
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 1 week ago:
So 1 inch of your wire would weigh ~0.0987 grams, so to measure down to 8.6350242338508 inches of wire your scale would need to weigh down to ~0.00000000000007 grams. Which is the weight of about a dozen atoms or so.
- Comment on How would world politics be like if the top 100 countries (in terms of military strength) all had their own nuclear arsenals? 2 weeks ago:
a few days after a bomb explodes, most of the radiation would have depleted.
I know this is a settled fact, and supported by the fact that Japan had rebuilt both cities in under 6 years. But I wanted hard facts on this. Which, as it turns out, is really hard to find. I see a lot of reports basically echo what you said but nobody seems to have actually really measured this.
The best sources I found was this document from the which claims that soil radiation fell from 4.31 micro Curries per cm3 in hour 3, to just 0.23 half a day later, and 3.1x10(-5) 45 days later.
This site from the Japanese government claims that 24hrs after detonation the radiation at ground zero was 1/1000th of what it was immediately after.
- Comment on Struggling 2 weeks ago:
I thought this was funny lol
- Comment on Is there a good way to buy chrome lettering in the same font as the brand's original lettering on the back of the car? 2 weeks ago:
Most car badges aren’t actually plated anyways, they could save themselves a whole lot of trouble and just get some chrome spray paint and make it shiny still
- Comment on Is it better to leave a country, or stay behind to fight for it? And what about the ethics of fleeing instead of staying behind? 2 weeks ago:
If the United States goes down it’ll also trigger a global economic disaster as well.
- Comment on Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today 2 weeks ago:
PSVR2 works on PC now :)
- Comment on Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today 2 weeks ago:
I’ve used pretty much all of the headsets on the market. I still haven’t tried a Big screen VR headset though :(
For popular headsets I’d rank them kinda like this
- Valve Index - it’s just really old and really expensive now, don’t buy one unless you get a hell of a deal on it used
- Quest 2 - Still very very good, screens are getting a little dated now
- PSVR2 - its a little janky on PC but it works fine and the OLEDs are sublime
- Pixmax Crystal - Money not a problem this is the best headset I’ve tried. The FOV is crazy, displays are beautiful, and tracking is damn near perfect. Its just like $2300 for the whole lot
- Quest 3 - Overall the best headset on the market. Its $570 (just get the pro strap, trust me) and gets you so close to the big boys in screen quality, plus it’s wireless, plus it has crazy good passthrough (I use it a lot, most people don’t), and streams PC games perfectly.
PSVR2 has really really really good looking displays, but it has some other downsides which really bring it down in the rankings. I’d stay away from it unless you get a deal on a used one, then it would absolutely be worth it.
- Comment on Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today 2 weeks ago:
- the walking dead games
- Walkabout VR (putt-putt game)
- Dungeons of Eternity (quest exclusive)
- Any flight/racing sim (this is actually the biggest selling point I can make. Seriously if you like flight/racing sims, please get one. It’ll change your life)
- No Man’s Sky (one of my demo games)
- Comment on Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today 2 weeks ago:
I’m not the person who originally replied but locomotion is significantly more comfortable than teleports. The teleporting makes me dizzy and messes with my sense of balance and orientation.
I also don’t get motion sick in any non-vr setting either.
- Comment on Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today 2 weeks ago:
It was made as a tech demo to show off next gen VR hardware and tracking. Why would they port it?
- Comment on Enshittification 2 weeks ago:
Honestly you still kinda can, just instead of going into the store, go to Rtings and just find the TV that is the size you want, has the features you want, and is currently the highest rated on the site.
They have incredible reviews that go into very minuscule detail which, if you aren’t a TV person, will mostly mean nothing to you. But look at the scores at the top of the review, and read the little blurb to make sure there aren’t any deal breakers for you. And then just order it from whichever big box store in your town has the best deal.
- Comment on Enshittification 2 weeks ago:
also in the world of consumer facing software, nobody wants a big upfront payment
I think this is a much bigger thing than people realize. Like it’s all great to say “I would pay much more for a one time payment”, but when it actually comes down to it most people won’t.
Look at something like Plex, they offer both a subscription as well as a one time purchase. But in 2023 (the newest data I could find) the subscriptions make up 84% of Plex’s entire revenue stream. And the plex lifetime subscription really isn’t that bad either, it’s only $120 and it’s supposed to go up to only (I know how y’all feel about it being “only”, I don’t care) $250 at the end of April. It’s really not that expensive for a lifetime cost.