Qwazpoi

@Qwazpoi@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to clean a rescued pigeon⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it took note of it being about rescue pigeons and assumed they would have a tag on them and then gave cooking directions for them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games popularized certain mechanics?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While I don’t know much about video cards, the IBM Monochrome Display Adapter (MDA) is often called the first video card and had a couple of contenders for first that were either designed earlier or released at almost the same time in 1981 and were all for displaying text only. The first GPU card sold to the public was the GeForce 256 in 1999. I’m assuming there’s some in between that were not really used by the public that would have been used in movies and whatnot.

  The reason why nobody was selling GPUs before Quake was because quake was THE first 3D game. Doom and other games before Quake were 2.5D and didn’t have 3D models only sprites. Games before Quake essentially mimicked 3D while Quake IS 3D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'If You Give A Dev A Tricked Out Xbox, They’ll Patch Halo 2' - Hackaday article⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m fairly certain that the left one is Combat Evolved

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games popularized certain mechanics?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d argue that quake did far more for 3D graphics then it did for FPS. Like Doom is what got FPS into the spotlight even though Wolfenstein 3d came first. Like quake is pretty much what made real 3D possible and doable on the hardware of the time thanks to everything going on under the hood

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ah sweet!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the process still relies on fetal bovine serum (FBS) as a protein-rich growth supplement for animal cell cultures.

  FBS, which costs around £300 to £700 per litre

  Also this all comes from a 4 submission to and art museum in 2020, it’s not supposed to be an actual product it’s more of a proof of concept type of thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Daily Pay" Is Just Another Way to Keep You Living Paycheck to Paycheck⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This definitely falls into a lot of the same territory as most other gig work. A lot of the problems of the gig economy are showcased with jobs that pay like this. It lures in people who would be making $40-120 more in a week doing the same thing elsewhere

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have found it.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Echoing malthusian sentiments of “there’s not enough food for everyone” is not helping anyone.

  Pointing out the actual problem which is that big farms that exist right now aren’t there to get food to people they are there to make money and they don’t care if it’s sustainable or if anyone gets to eat, is what I did. You’re the one glossing over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have found it.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think “Food crops cannot sustain the current human population” is the most accurate. I think adding on an “indefinitely” or something similar would be more accurate. The problem is that there’s plenty more land and resources that could go to crops, but it’s more of a problem of how sustainable it is long term.

  Topsoil erosion could outpace soil conservation especially with synthetic fertilizer, but if people aren’t getting food now or in our lifetime then it’s not caused by an inability to grow enough crops. It’s caused by companies being driven by the profit motive. It’s more profitable to let food go to waste than get it to people who can’t afford it.

  Currently the technology is there to make more than enough crops for everyone, but how sustainable that is in the long term is not something that has been a priority. If more effort is put into making factory farming actually sustainable, which is the way things are starting to go although pretty gradually, then the only thing stopping people from getting food is the incentive to destroy/ let it rot rather than take any potential loss from not artificially inflating prices

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many keurigs would I need to daisy chain together to replace a water heater in an average house?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If we’re looking into their heating capacity they should be able to heat approximately 7 and 1/2 gallons of water an hour. A lower end water heater can supply about 85 gallons of water per hour so you’d need about 11 of them to meet a small house capacity.

  If we’re looking at their water holding capacity and power consumption. The average house has a 40-60 gallon water heater and a Keurig has a 48oz reservoir. 10 Keurigs would give you around 4 gallons of hot water. You would need 107 to get to a 40 gallons capacity. When heating they use 1500 watts according to the Internet, so you’d need 160,500 watts (or 1,345.75 amps) of Keurigs to be the equivalent of a low end water heater for a house. The average 40 gallon heater uses between 4500 and 5500 watts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any recurring charges (or other downsides) that come with having a driver's license but not owning a car or regularly driving?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t need to get insurance just because you have a license. You can have a license and no car.

  It could help you as far as some employers will ask if you have one and a few situations like that.

  There’s no real downside other than paying for the drivers license test. Even after it expires it’ll still work for an ID.