bryndos
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- Comment on take their money and arrest those responsible 6 days ago:
Are you an AI? It sounds live you live in a binary world.
- Comment on take their money and arrest those responsible 6 days ago:
I also they've that a large amount of the bottom 90% are paying the top 10% to do it.
Also the difference between create and consume is important. even if shell only had 1 employee and 1 shareholder, that person would have many customers paying. you can measure both of course.
- Comment on Would people like a "X posts per Y" rate limit for this community? 1 week ago:
3 per 12h.
Anyone spamming more than that can create their own, "spam stupid questions" community.
- Comment on Steam Deck Sales Reportedly Plunge 80% After Price Hikes 1 week ago:
Don't worry, your pension fund or bank can.
They will gladly use your savings to print money to give to people (not-you) to bid up the price. - Comment on What does "Woke" mean to you? 2 weeks ago:
Not being asleep any more.
Like Bill and Ted after they meet Woke-rates. - Comment on Why is gun violence lower in Switzerland than in the US? 2 weeks ago:
I'd have to guess they have a better distribution of good guy with gun vs bad guy with gun?
Or just fewer bad guys? or less-bad guys?
- Comment on Can someone explain how this wiring works? 2 weeks ago:
You can also ask here:
https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/askelectronics - Comment on Chat, is this accurate? 2 weeks ago:
Can you lick a gas?
Or do you have to cool it down until liquid? - Comment on "My 'Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand' statement isn't aging well" - id Software co-founder John Carmack speaks out after devastating Xbox layoffs 3 weeks ago:
I think I had a demo of one of the mechwarrior games, but it ran slow on my PC, or was a bit boring, or something, I never got on with it.
It was in the doom era though , and very little could compete (from my perspective) - so probably i just played doom coop (until it turns into defacto deathmatch) anyway. I mean that was most of the 1990s the way i remember it.
Certainly the mechwarrior demo wouldn't have had networking anyway - but i feel like maybe it got less out of my meagre hardware than doom did.
- Comment on "My 'Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand' statement isn't aging well" - id Software co-founder John Carmack speaks out after devastating Xbox layoffs 3 weeks ago:
Honest question:
What were the best games developed directly by ms on it's own. I can only think of flight simulator, and that's not really a game. I just genuinely don't think I've played any.I mean ignoring minesweeper and space cadet pinball or whatever.
Oh maybe like forza motorsport? was that them?
It's weird that they don't brand them - I guess B2B is too important to them to risk reputation on frivolity. Which is odd because of all the f-words i could use about sharepoint, i think frivolous is about the nicest.
- Comment on Why do cooks and chefs cook in base 5 increments? For example setting the off at 350 , 375, 450 and so on. Is there a reason for this or is this how it always has been done? 3 weeks ago:
I know yanks hate decimal and stuff because of how hard the mental arithmetic is, but it's half of the more significant digit.
I guess and they wanted more precision than 10s, but don't see the need for sx, so they split it in half or the equipment is not capable of more precision.TBH - I don't know what a dungaree fezundheit is anyway, but I'd imagine 5F is way spurious accuracy already for a domestic oven. I reckon you'd need an industrial or scientific kiln for that type of accuracy - so it's probably more a psychology / user interface thing.
In which case the answer is, 'because enough customers are happy enough with it as it is.' - Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Is there a way to make a recovery USB just in case shit happens? Will it still work without a recovery moment? 3 weeks ago:
There's a boot key press combination to interrupt normal start up and select an alternative boot medium. Usually things like f12, f1, del, or esc, mashed at the right time after power-on.
For locked down devices like modern smartphones and probably games consoles etc, it's a lot more involved, and it may be next to impossible to boot a different OS, but there's often a combo to get at least into a factory reset boot menu.
Edit:
lookinto 'system-rescue-cd' or 'knoppix' which are pretty useful USBs to have around lots of tools to try to mount and recover disks and move data . 'clonezilla' can also be useful to create a disk image before you try any risky steps.Beware Modern windows likes to encrypt which might impede those tools.
I've seen cases where the user doesn't know (claims to never have been told!) the decryption key.
In those cases recovery may be hard/complex in some scenarios.But a proper backup system (3-2-1 , fairly often) for important data is a far better way to prepare for "shit". And "the cloud is not a complete backup system" is not a bad a general rule.
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 4 weeks ago:
oh right, cool. i'll stick to my chunky chunks then.
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 4 weeks ago:
Is there such a thing?
I've had a few crappy ones, they're basically e-waste after a few uses or trips.
So I revert to a full size internal sata one or the same but in a 5.1/4" external caddy (powered). - Comment on 4 weeks ago:
You don't download or install aur itself. It's a repository of packages.
Helper programs like paru make it easier for you to connect to, search, download, build and update packages from the repo.
You can also use other methods, for example 'git' to clone the source for the package and build it yourself, but the helper programs should also help fetch dependencies.
As with everything in arch, the wiki is recommended reading:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_helpers
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository - Comment on Why Aren't there More Fem-Focused Werewolf Stories? 4 weeks ago:
Angua without the i.
I was going to mention her if no one else did.Maybe supports your point though as IIRC she was sort of forced into the watch by an affirmative action campaign from the city. I think there were some sexist attitudes from the male coppers.
Slightly tangential but there was a teenage fantasy series by David Eddings featuring some sorcerers who were basically clarting about as wolves half the time, one of the main characters, Polgara was i think effectively a werewolf, but it was by choice rather than forced by the moon.
Heh, this is interesting, i had no idea male werewolves went back as far as Gilgamesh. https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/although-male-werewolves-have-appeared-in-fiction-since-the-very-beginning-female-werewolves-are-relatively-new-literary-monsters-so-where-do-these-female-werewolves-come-from-and-what-baggage-do-t/
- Comment on Shrinkflation hits again! 4 weeks ago:
Straw is cheaper than rasp by weight.
- Comment on Was there ever a solid or scientific answers to which came first chicken or the egg? 4 weeks ago:
I think it you take any example of a chicken that is alive today and were able to trace back its ancestry far enough then you'd eventually find an ancestor that most reasonable people would agree is not a chicken. And probably many of those "non-chicken" ancestors did hatch out of "non-chicken" eggs. So I think that it is most likely that some "non-chicken" egg existed before, and forms part of the direct ancestry of, every chicken that has ever lived. If that's what you're asking.
Many of the arguments to support 'chicken' being first seem to add the assumption that "egg" must mean "chicken-egg". That assumption doesn't seem reasonable to me, especially in the context of ancestry. Maybe it would be reasonable to creationists though - so frankly if someone does believe that I'd just walk away and let them "win". I'd rather find a natural history museum and see if they have any proto-chicken exhibits than waste time with people like that.
My answer is also based on extra assumptions too. I've slotted the indefinite article in to the gap "[a] chicken", and worse replaced the definite article "the" with the indefinite "an" in reference to 'the' egg. People will argue about that, but the question is ambiguous, and needs to be more specific.
'Which came first the troll or the bait?' - Comment on Google reCaptcha intentionally failed without telling me, how is this allowed?? 5 weeks ago:
spoiler-title
She's a robot who thinks she's human.
Something, something, electric sheep.
- Comment on How did we reach to having 18 required for voting in elections? 5 weeks ago:
I think tellytubbies might make better leaders than my country elects.
- Comment on Google reCaptcha intentionally failed without telling me, how is this allowed?? 5 weeks ago:
Is this you by any chance?
https://www.alamy.com/sean-young-blade-runner-1982-image475408091.html
- Comment on Are there words in reverse order between two languages using the Latin Alphabet? 5 weeks ago:
This is not quite the same, but:
May day. (English)
M'aide. (French)
Help me. (English)
La Fête du Travail (French) - Comment on 5 weeks ago:
no
- Comment on Solved or not, what games have great detailed mysteries/conspiracy theories that you can completely miss? 5 weeks ago:
Did you hear the one about what the bishop did to the horsey in chess?
- Comment on What do you do if you lose an argument, but it turns out that you were actually right? 5 weeks ago:
It's a Doberman. Let it have its ears.
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/arresteddevelopment/images/d/db/1x01_Pilot_%2827%29.png/revision/latest?cb=20120301045528 - Comment on What's a word for "I actively endorse it for others even though I dislike it”? 5 weeks ago:
Your sentiment is both positive and negative, so probably too subtle for one single word you might need a phrase or a clever oxymoron or something like "enthusiastic nonchalance".
Maybe you "critically champion" or "gallantly tolerate" it or something. Maybe try German.Frankly though, I'd save your hatred for the worthy, keep it pure otherwise you might not get the right mix of fear and anger to reach true endarkenment.
- Comment on Some of Android's Most Interesting Games Aren't on the Play Store 1 month ago:
unciv and mindustry maybe the most polished i've played on f-droid. they're probably on play store too idk.
pixel wheels is ok, but controls finicky - there's one lap record that i just cant get, but i'm sure on a keyboard i could.
- Comment on What do you do if you lose an argument, but it turns out that you were actually right? 1 month ago:
As soon as you're in an argument it's probably a waste of time.
Only continue if it matters to a real decision.
If it's a real decision and you have reached the point of an argument then it might be better to try to propose experiments or tests to increase the evidence base and directly address the differences of opinion.
- Comment on I'm a dev who has been working on my game for 2 years and my game title got stolen on Steam and they plan to release before I do. What should I do? 1 month ago:
https://steamcommunity.com/dmca/create
But be warned that it might tie up both games in bureaucracy.
You might hope that steam has the timestamps readily available to prove the sequence of events - though I'm a bit skeptical of cloud storage about that stuff. So you might want your own evidence from your own storage.It'd be good to try to find someone who has gone through it on steam, and of course a lawyer, if you can afford it.
