Thorry84
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- Comment on Trump, in blue, sleeping at Pope Francis' finera;l 12 hours ago:
When my grandpa used to visit every Tuesday, he would join us for dinner, then some coffee after dinner. We would sit on the couch and chat a bit and at some point grandpa would fall asleep. The rest of us just went about our evening, watching some TV, playing a game, just chatting or whatever. After an hour or so, he would wake up, slap his knee, tell us it was a great evening and head home.
It was actually kind of sweet how that old man would fall asleep. That’s why you don’t fucking elect grandpa to run the country.
- Comment on TIL about dating 2 days ago:
Yeah we’ve had snow in the end of April, spring just does their own thing. Today it’s 10 C outside, you most definitely need a jacket.
- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #59 - Far Cry 5 2 days ago:
Far Cry 5 is by far my favorite of the franchise. Interesting world, good gameplay, fun mechanics. It doesn’t take itself very seriously, but still has a more serious story. Everything meshes really well and it’s a ton of fun in coop.
Far Cry 6 was a huge letdown, I hated it. Lots of re-used assets, dumb game mechanics, story very predictable and not interesting. When it released performance was terrible with lots of crashes and bugs. And not the fun kind of jank like in most FC games, the this is annoying my mission is softlocked kind of bugs. Plus it felt like 3 games in 1 which didn’t really have anything to do with each other. Later I found it this was because multiple teams worked on the different parts which didn’t really communicate as much due to covid.
- Comment on [Angela Collier] women in space but it sucks 1 week ago:
“I try my best, but I’m not a perfect person” - Dr. Collier 2025
Right in the feels…
- Comment on Project to suck carbon out of sea begins in UK 1 week ago:
- Comment on Project to suck carbon out of sea begins in UK 1 week ago:
If you want to embed gifs you have to toggle the switch from suck to blow
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 week ago:
Yeah it’s so dumb, like we have amazing technology, yet the software is fucking terrible.
For example with most keyboard you can have a heat map of where you hit each button. So you can clearly see where the buttons should most comfortable be. However I’ve never seen any keyboard that could ever make use of that data to morph the shape of the buttons to my patterns. It seems so obvious, otherwise why collect that data?
Instead we keep making the same shitty keyboard over and over again. And big companies monitor all our keypresses because number must go up. And put dumb ass AI powered autocorrect that are trained on all data ever instead of my personal data. I swear that thing “corrects” the right word into the wrong word more often than the other way around.
Somehow touchscreens and keyboard have also gotten worse. I remember my old IPhone 4 I could type so fast without errors. And that screen was fucking tiny. Maybe I’m just too old but modern phones make my hands hurt and I still have errors all the damn time.
- Comment on Even his doctors are full of it 1 week ago:
And Trump wears those weird lift shoes all the time as well
- Comment on Give us your craziest ocean facts. 🦑 2 weeks ago:
While this is funny and all, this isn’t really true for a couple of reasons:
- We know a hell of a lot about the oceans, we’ve studied them for hundreds years. There has been extensive mapping of the seafloor. All of the areas close to land have been thoroughly studied. And where we’ve spotted interesting stuff, we’ve investigated for sure.
- We haven’t thoroughly explored the moon. Sure we’ve had nice pictures for a long time. But we’ve only recently seen the rear side of the moon, as we more or less always see the same side from Earth. Not till recent orbiters we’ve had a high resolution map of the moon, comparable to maps we have of the oceans.
- Only a dozen or so people have ever been to the moon and the amount of research they did was very low. They also haven’t brought back many samples. And the amount we can do from orbit and with rovers is very limited. At this point I would say we know more about Mars than we do about the moon, depending on how to count. The moon isn’t that interesting, so we haven’t done much with it. It’s made of the same stuff as the Earth and without an atmosphere and biosphere, it’s kinda dull.
- This is basically impossible to measure. What is knowledge? How is it quantified? We could say it’s relative. But since there isn’t a way to know how much total knowledge there is available to learn, I’d say that’s not possible. What does it mean to “explore”? Do people need to go there? Because a hell of a lot of people have been to the seafloor than to the moon. Hell going to the seafloor is a basic tourist activity these days. I’ve been to the Maldives and did some crazy dives looking at life on the bottom of the sea.
- People might argue the Moon is basically all the same, so once you’ve seen one spot you’ve seen them all. I’d argue that’s not true, we’ve only recently learned the moon’s poles are very interesting and we know very little about that. And I’d counter that argument with the fact the same goes for the deep oceans. A whole lot of it is just barren wasteland, an under water desert. We haven’t explored because there is nothing to see. We select interesting locations and study them thoroughly, instead of studying a lot of it a little bit and wasting huge amounts of time.
- Another argument often repeated is new species are discovered every day in the ocean. Whilst this is true, we are also destroying a lot of species, so the total number might actually go down instead of up. And a lot of species are variants of already known species. Only expert biologists can differentiate between the species and know what to look for. And I’d argue they don’t change the big picture or understanding at all. Still interesting, but not an indication there is so much more to find out there.
- But what about something huge living down there? Like a Kraken or dinosaurs? Well no, we don’t have to have studied every square inch to know about big life. Big life is messy, requires a lot of resources and is part of a food chain. You don’t need to see the dinosaur if you can see their giant mountain of crap amidst broken trees. There might be some kind of large squid or something down there, but they will probably be extremely similar to other large squid we already know about. So a new species, but not changing the overall picture. If there were any big monsters down there, we would know about them by now.
So this is one of those things that might feel true, but in reality it really isn’t.
- Comment on SPIRIT WEAPON 3 weeks ago:
You know you are in for a good time when you get to the chapter called “Sexual connotations”.
I’m not an expert on the field, so I’ve read the paper, but am not qualified to draw conclusions from it. But as I read it, the focus is more on the role of ritual and religion in the making of the iron. And the transfer of knowledge through this process and hypothesize the addition of the burning of bone is actually beneficial.
However they do not approach this from a material technology standpoint. So I would love for someone with knowledge on this point to chime in. It’s very interesting if the people back in the day knew how to make low carbon iron and the little bit of carbon they did add came from the burning of the bones. But as I see it the burning of the bones is more a ritual kind of thing and getting all of the carbon out of the iron is the harder thing to do, not putting the carbon in.
- Comment on SPIRIT WEAPON 3 weeks ago:
Is this actually true? Because all the YouTube videos I’ve seen of people trying to make iron in primitive ways have the issue of too much carbon in the iron. This causes the iron to be very brittle and hard to work. The trick about making good steel is to get just the right amount of carbon.
- Comment on We are so cooked 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Anon watches It 3 weeks ago:
Lime is a color
- Comment on Why don’t brands make simpler names? 4 weeks ago:
Well you’re always limited to what the distributors have selected for a certain region.
However you can get around this sometimes with so called “grey” import. That’s when you buy something meant for one region in another region, which happens a lot in Europe because the differences don’t really matter. For example something made for Germany is perfectly fine in the countries around Germany, they all use the same plugs, same regulations, the manual is often in every language anyways (plus who reads the manuals). But it can cause trouble when you need warranty as the manufacturer doesn’t like this, so they will refuse service. The EU has gotten on the ass of manufacturers to tell them to just service the customer, but it can be a hassle sometimes. In this case the reason for the different SKU has nothing to do with anything physical to the product, but instead the market it’s meant for. In some countries people are a bit richer and thus prices are higher, but smart people know you can just buy the German product from a shop in Germany and even with a bit more shipping it can still be cheaper. So sometimes it’s worth the effort.
This is also done for certain shops (for example Saturn/MediaMarkt in Europe) who get special SKUs just for them. These are often just the exact same SKU as available for the general market, but with a different number. They do this because a lot of countries have sites to compare prices at different shops. MediaMarkt had this strategy where they would heavily discount one model and market the shit out of that. This gave the public the idea MediaMarkt always had great deals. While in fact most models they sold were much more expensive than elsewhere. But nerds figured this out and created websites to compare prices between shops. So it would be obvious when the price was good at MediaMarkt and they would all buy that one, but when the price was higher they would know and not buy it. This destroyed the MediaMarkt strategy, so they made a deal with manufacturers to create different SKUs especially for them. This made it harder for the nerds to compare prices, as they used the SKUs to differentiate between different models.
For the different SKUs available in a region there are often shops available that sell them. Some shops select a certain amount of SKUs to a have a good selection from different manufacturers and have a simple selection for the customers. However other shops just sell everything the distributors have to offer. These often employ systems to automatically enrich and publish products as soon as the distributors lists them. With drop-shipping directly from the distributors, this gets even simpler. So you can recognize these shops as they have a lot of products and often don’t have great filter and search options.
Another excellent place is for example sites like Ebay, where you can find all sorts of products from all different regions. And they even have shops on there that buy stuff the distributor meant to sell, but for some reason (for example delays in shipping) couldn’t sell. Parties just buy up the entire stock and sell it through places like Ebay.
But in some cases, the manufacturer had some very weird SKUs that they could technically made, but nobody wanted them, so they never got made. This can lead to hobbyists to having easy modification options. For example a feature could be completely available on the PCB and even in the software, but the parts not populated because that SKUs didn’t include that feature. In that case it’s easy to just populate the parts and get the feature up and running.
In case you want something like 500 - 1000 parts (depending on the manufacturer and what kind of device it is, could be at least 5000 - 10000) you can often get the manufacturer to create a SKU especially for you. When this is one of the SKUs they initially planned but hadn’t selected, the costs isn’t even that high most of the times. But they can even make completely custom products as long as you are willing to buy enough volume.
- Comment on Why don’t brands make simpler names? 4 weeks ago:
The number advertised is not actually the name of the product, but the vendor code or manufacturer SKU.
I’ve had some experience in how these SKUs come to be for large brands. In a lot of cases the people developing the new models have like a whole list of monitors they could create. Out of these a selection is made for which they will create, which capabilities are good etc. This is done per region and even if the capabilities are exactly the same, it will get a different SKU for the different region. This is important because the labeling could be different, often different plugs and manuals are included. Sometimes different paperwork needs to be filed, so it’s important the SKU matches the region. From this list of product SKUs the manufacturer can create for a region local distributors choose which ones they think are good for their market. This can often be hard and different distributors can choose different SKUs (depending on the manufacturer). Out of this list of available SKUs in the channel the shops can select which ones they want to carry. Some shops just carry them all (especially when dropshipping), other shops carefully select which ones they like.
This leads the shops to have seemingly random SKUs and nonsense numbers. But that’s because those SKUs were figured out all the way back in step one. Those lists can be huge and all the numbers need to be unique. Normally there is some sort of internal structure used to generate the SKUs. But the end result is just a confusing mess of numbers.
When looking at for example distributor level at what they carry or what is offered, the numbers make a little more sense.
So it isn’t ideal, but there is reason to the madness.
- Comment on What's the problem sweetie? You've barely touched your eggsicle 4 weeks ago:
Oh no, you misunderstand, this isn’t frozen at all. It’s like this at room temperature
- Comment on What's the problem sweetie? You've barely touched your eggsicle 4 weeks ago:
Yes the clear stuff being not plain water but somehow meat based surely makes it better
- Comment on Nintendo Announce Virtual Game Cards (Digital Game Sharing) 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think you can share with friends? Only if you have a Family account and all the Switches are signed into the same Family.
- Comment on What is happening with Tesla (TSLA) stock currently? 📈 4 weeks ago:
I think the March 24 jump was directly caused by stuff Trump said about Tesla and the protesters being terrorists.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
In my experience, all the Gen X people I’ve ever met were smart and kind people. It’s often the Boomers who are total assholes.
- Comment on Meep 4 weeks ago:
Somehow up 10% today and 20% for the past 5 days. And the price is still double it was 1 year ago. So whatever they are doing to inflate the stock is still working, even though any other company would be folding with the amount of backlash they have received and the utter crap their products and numbers are.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong updated Steam page with 2025 copyrights and cloud gaming jnfo 4 weeks ago:
Beep beep beep
Huh? What’s that? Oh it the COPIUM truck backing up!
- Comment on Dark Souls Remastered Seamless Co-Op Mod: Announcement 5 weeks ago:
I’ve been having a lot of fun with DS3 Seamless Co-op since it released recently.
It’s so much fun to play these games with multiple people. And it was surprisingly stable. We’ve had a couple of crashes, but not worse at all. The only boss that was too bugged to play was Wolnir. Luckily it bugged out so hard it beat itself.
Can’t wait to play DS with 2 players as well
- Comment on New Portal pinball table may be the closest we’re gonna get to Portal 3 5 weeks ago:
For people that don’t know about this: If you want the unofficial Portal 3 check out Portal Reloaded. It’s a crazy mod for Portal 2 with excellent puzzles, new mechanics and a really polished feel to it. It’s probably as close as we are ever going to get to a Portal 3.
- Comment on Trump Has Gone From Unconstitutional to Anti-Constitutional 5 weeks ago:
Turns out if you stack the supreme court, the constitution goes out the window.
- Comment on "Saw XI" has been canceled 5 weeks ago:
Next thing you know they will stop making new Spiderman movies
- Comment on A book doesn't have to be long to be good 5 weeks ago:
He was a boy, she was a girl. Can I make it any more obvious?
- Comment on rule 1 month ago:
I’m not even sure this guy is using Arch…
- Comment on You have to pick one 1 month ago:
Both are moving just under Mach 1
- Comment on That was a hell of a bender, hope yours goes well also. 1 month ago:
Here I am, an old man. Waking up on Saturday feeling like shit. Thinking damn I shouldn’t have had that 3rd beer while watching a movie in bed Friday night and falling asleep at 23:00.
