ozymandias117
@ozymandias117@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why is voting before the deadline in US elections referred to as 'early voting'? 1 week ago:
Is that how you think about your bills?
“Your rent can be paid on the 10th, and you can pay late up to the 31st”
- Comment on [USA] How can sales tax brackets affect purchasing behavior when prices are pre-tax? 1 month ago:
I agree it’s dumb, but I’m also trying to understand how politicians think changing the tax rate for healthier or less healthy foods can possibly affect behavior in the USA when it’s set up this way in stores
There’s some evidence it somehow works publichealth.berkeley.edu/…/do-soda-taxes-work
But I’ve never known what I’ll be taxed on a specific item
- Comment on [USA] How can sales tax brackets affect purchasing behavior when prices are pre-tax? 1 month ago:
My belief that it’s intended to incentivize behavior is from talks about things like the “soda tax,” where some goods are taxed at a different rate to try to reduce consumption
I don’t understand how they can be effective when you don’t see the price on the sticker, though
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- Comment on Do you prefer to buy games on Steam or GOG? 2 months ago:
I was all in on GOG 10-12 years ago when they said they were working on Linux support “soon”
After so many years of promises and no action, while Valve pays developers to improve Linux gaming, I’d rather buy from Steam
Prices tend to be similar between the platforms here, though
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- Comment on Why is the US not considered a third world country? 3 months ago:
North/south imply certain regions can’t improve and is far worse than developed/developing
If layperson words didn’t have an issue with 1st/3rd world, you wouldn’t see so many comments about it
- Comment on Why is the US not considered a third world country? 3 months ago:
Yup, it does change. It was attempted to mean “poor” and it’s been reappropriated since
If you’re trying to use modern language, it’s “developed” and “developing”
- Comment on Planning to propose in a few months, what should I look for in a good value engagement ring? 3 months ago:
We went with moissanite, and everyone thinks its an insanely expensive diamond
Moissanite is sparklier than diamond, so for what people look at in rings, it ends up looking better than diamond
- Comment on Saw this and thought it was fake until I googled. It's real. 4 months ago:
Yeah, just wanted to make sure people knew this wasn’t some new thing. It’s been going on since at least the 90’s, and I’d bet if you found someone older, they’d say it’s been going on longer
- Comment on Saw this and thought it was fake until I googled. It's real. 4 months ago:
Not that it’s better, but it’s not new
I did something similar as a kid in the 90’s at a papa johns
- Comment on How are Book Bans Constitutional? 5 months ago:
My assumption is that because “the state claimed the rights” for that specific book makes me think this is a special case in their laws
Can a US state or the federal government claim the right to someone else’s writing?
- Comment on How are Book Bans Constitutional? 5 months ago:
The Netherlands use the same copyright laws?
I always assumed that was just the US copyright system
- Comment on How does SecureErase work? 5 months ago:
Yeah, and as densities have increased, fewer passes have been needed to even do that
- Comment on How does SecureErase work? 5 months ago:
With an HDD, your operating system can (mostly) directly access bits on the magnetic disks, so you can wipe them by just writing 0 to it over and over (historically, there was a paper saying 7 times would make any bits unrecoverable - this changed as density got higher)
With SSDs, your operating system has very little control over what bits a write is touching, a lot more was moved into the firmware on the flash memory itself
So SSDs need a special command “Secure Erase” to wipe them
- Comment on Someone purchased the old domain of a FOSS app, then it's using it to deceive users to download adware 5 months ago:
If it used to be a valid website, and is now a scam, that’s a mole worth whacking - even if they’ll try again with a previously unknown url
- Comment on LPT: Free Money 6 months ago:
On top of that, another problem that was reported last total solar eclipse is that your eyes will dilate because it looks dark
Enough of the UV radiation will still reach them, though, and especially right as the sun comes back into view, while your eyes are even more vulnerable than normal while they’re dilated
- Comment on SPD officer that hit and killed Jaahnavi Kandula in crosswalk will not face charges 8 months ago:
The article you’re responding to specifically states he didn’t have sirens on
- Comment on MSI CLAW gaming handheld leaked, features Intel Core Ultra 7 155H with Arc graphics and 32GB memory 9 months ago:
SteamOS is already open source, and they’ve even offered to help other integrators put it on their handhelds
- Comment on Why using the search bar to find emojis, does it display the male and female forms, but never show the gender neutral version even though such an emoji does exist? 11 months ago:
These come from the fonts on your device - there isn’t some “official” image for each, just what code point is what
- Comment on Why using the search bar to find emojis, does it display the male and female forms, but never show the gender neutral version even though such an emoji does exist? 11 months ago:
These come from the fonts on your phone - there isn’t some “official” image for each, just what code point is what
- Comment on How do poor people in the states give birth without money? 1 year ago:
My credit score want good enough, so I had to give the last place I rented 6 months of my employers payments to rent
I’ve never missed a payment, nor do I have any debt. I just don’t exist in the system enough to rent
- Comment on How do poor people in the states give birth without money? 1 year ago:
Yeah, just the American version
- Comment on How do poor people in the states give birth without money? 1 year ago:
Depends on the severity of the issue.
For a life threatening emergency, no
For like pain relief, yes
- Comment on How do poor people in the states give birth without money? 1 year ago:
Do people ever avoid hospital visits
At least in my experience, we’ll generally be able to go to the hospital
Do hospitals put people on a payment plan
Generally, I’ve just seen the debt transferred to a debt collection agency afterwards, since there’s no money for them to take. They’ll harass you, and it affects your credit score, but they can’t send you to jail
- Comment on Use of AMD Anti-Lag+ technology in Counter Strike 2 will result in a VAC Ban, Valve confirms 1 year ago:
That’s sort of my original point - bringing VAC into the discussion of “it’s a sport” isn’t very meaningful
VAC has never, and will never, affect professional esports
- Comment on Use of AMD Anti-Lag+ technology in Counter Strike 2 will result in a VAC Ban, Valve confirms 1 year ago:
I mean… professionals always have to spend dramatically more on hardware…
There are rules around the engines and bodies f1 and nascar drivers can use, there are rules around what shoes runners can use…
A slimmed down operating system on a specific hardware configuration isn’t unreasonable
- Comment on Use of AMD Anti-Lag+ technology in Counter Strike 2 will result in a VAC Ban, Valve confirms 1 year ago:
Professional players should all be using the same hardware and software configuration
VAC is to keep the game fun for more casual players
- Comment on So why is 3 nm chip better? 1 year ago:
Yeah 😂
I was specifically thinking about pentium 4 when I said long pipelines aren’t always better 😂
Speculative execution has wound up having security implications as well
- Comment on So why is 3 nm chip better? 1 year ago:
This is also why we use speculative execution and various length pipelines per core for single threaded execution
A long pipeline creates big delays when an instruction wasn’t the correct one, but on average it saves time