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- Comment on Nintendo Is Already Punishing Switch 2 Users Over Piracy ‘Suspicions’ 4 hours ago:
Because in the US and several other countries you can legally back up a cartridge that you have bought. Meaning it’s not piracy.
- Comment on These captchas are getting ridiculous 1 week ago:
They can produce an unlimited number of CGI challenges and know what is correct so collecting AI training data only makes sense for classifying images from the real world.
In some cases they’re testing for the most common solutions human use for a problem with multiple paths and choices.
- Comment on I've hated donald trump since day one but then I saw this and thought.... 1 week ago:
A photojournalist was hit over the weekend and is still in the hospital after surgery.
- Comment on These captchas are getting ridiculous 1 week ago:
That’s literally not a captcha, that’s “AI” training. You could probably input anything.
- Comment on Anon watches a romance movie 1 week ago:
While there are quite a few people who would jump ship from their marriage, that’s not why the trope so popular. It’s just that a lot of people like “forbidden love” tropes. Although most don’t actually dream of doing those things, it’s pure fantasy.
- Comment on Everyone has a special talent. You just have to discover yours's 1 week ago:
Then why didn’t you post a picture from that? This is from the indy500.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO on going AI-first: ‘I did not expect the blowback’ 1 week ago:
Yeah, he’s still just as delutional and thinks the problem is everyone else.
- Comment on That's a good question 1 week ago:
Do you have any sources on the claim that it wasn’t a cross and was changed later for pagans?
No they do not, because the early symbol was already T.
There are writings from ~200s talking about how the letter T looks like the execution cross.
- Comment on Fractured Blooms - Official Announcement Trailer 1 week ago:
It honestly wouldn’t surprise me if it’s actually set in a more anime-style world, and that the “real” looking one in the trailer is imaginery or something.
- Comment on Bait or r*ta*d*ti*n. Call it. 1 week ago:
Please don’t migrate to a new instance.
- Comment on Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games? 1 week ago:
Stuttering and changing FPS.
And it’s not exclusive to modern games, just a lot more common now if you don’t lower settings or lock the fps to keep it consistent.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 2 weeks ago:
The “collected data types” in that comment seems to be copy/pasted from the actual one:
- Comment on Warner Bros. Discovery Lost $11.5 Billion in 2024. So How Did CEO David Zaslav Exceed His Bonus Targets? 2 weeks ago:
At this point you can’t convince that he was anything but a plant to lower the company value.
- Comment on This fell off my car, can I just rip it off and not care? 2 weeks ago:
Depends on the car, but they’re usally there to protect something. Removing it could mean water and mud splashing up near the belts, potential damage to the oil pan, etc.
It appears that it was just zip tied back on…
yeah that’s not uncommon, just drive the front onto a curb and zip tie it again.
- Comment on what is north? 2 weeks ago:
It’s not just kids, gen-z’s are legal adults now.
And for further clarification:
The Antarctic Peninsula(the long bit sticking out) is the furtest part away from the south pole in the antarctic and is thus the northernmost part, and is generally considered to be the “north” when using cardinal directions there. The Weddell Sea is off the coast of the peninsula.
- Comment on Anon misses the classic design 2 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, that is by far the best device used these days. Although that has little to do with grenades per se, since they can use all kinds of different explosive devices.
- Comment on Anon misses the classic design 2 weeks ago:
Frisbee golf players being drafted…
- Comment on Anon misses the classic design 2 weeks ago:
Grenades are used at closer and more hectic ranges that most people realize, so it’s often much faster to just throw it instead of having to prepare some sort of implement to increase range.
There have been instances of things being used, like slings, slingshots and even devices similar to those things you use to throw tennis balls for dogs. But at the end of the day, the increased range is rarely worth the extra time. You would only get an advantage as an opening attack from a longer distance. And for that we already have underslung grenade launchers on weapons, or mortars from much further out.
- Comment on Anon misses the classic design 2 weeks ago:
You are seemingly correct:
According to the British War Office, the stielhandgranate had a throwing distance of up to 27m while standing, compared to the 35m distance of the M67. Which weighs 30% less and take up 75% less space lengthwise.
- Comment on The UK government is considering mandatory chemical castration for sex offenders – it’s an ethical and legal minefield 3 weeks ago:
No, just no.
Even if you think it’s a good idea, there’s way too much room for error. Hundreds of people in the UK have been charged with falsely accusing someone of rape. Just two years ago a woman beat herself with a hammer to accuse someone. Multiple innocent people where harassed, had their homes vandalized, there was attempted suicide, etc. And now they want to add more trauma?
It’s not an “ethical minefield”, it’s sociopathic to even consider.
- Comment on No time to explain, grab a milk and look at the camera 3 weeks ago:
I’m guessing he was from the New York area. Since it had been spreading from upstate New York since the 30s and 40s among people working in freezing buildings like warehouses.
- Comment on Weapons trafficking 3 weeks ago:
I don’t remember it being revealed what Rob’s job is, but he is transferred from New York to Paris. And it’s his former townhouse that is used in Home Alone 2.
- Comment on Sarah Michelle Gellar Promises ‘Buffy’ Reboot Will Honor the Late Michelle Trachtenberg 3 weeks ago:
Either type is known to cause an increase in mortality rates for transplant patients, especially if it is not discovered early. And it can occur in up to 30% of liver-transplants.
- Comment on And I was just about to register :/ 3 weeks ago:
Same thing that’s wrong with imgur and many other websites: It was made for a singular purpose, but over the years it was turned more and more into a commercialized social media platform.
If you open fandom now, about half the page is filled with links, images, notifications, etc. trying to get you to join their “community”, and things like that. And that’s with adblock. Without it’s actually hard to find what is the real content.
- Comment on This ad that claims that windows 11 is 3 times faster than windows 10 3 weeks ago:
It’s misleading, but not wrong based on the hardware…
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i3-6100U - 2015, 15W TDP base speed 2.3Ghz (has no turbo), 3MB cache
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Ultra 5 125U - 2023, 15W base TDP, base speed 1.3Ghz, turbo 4.2Ghz(57W), 12mb cache.
Honestly I’m surprised they didn’t go for the Ultra 9, with a 2.3(45W) base and 5.1 tubo(115W) and 24MB cache.
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- Comment on Sarah Michelle Gellar Promises ‘Buffy’ Reboot Will Honor the Late Michelle Trachtenberg 3 weeks ago:
She’s had some sort of chronic illness for a while. And diabetes isn’t that rare for people who have a liver transplant(which she did last year).
- Comment on Weapons trafficking 3 weeks ago:
I really wish this stupid meme would die.
They say it and refer to it multiple times during the opening: THE UNCLE THEY ARE VISITING IS THE ONE PAYING FOR THE VACATION.
- Comment on Star Wars' Showcase of AI Special Effects Was a Complete Disaster 4 weeks ago:
As someone who has been the “deal with C-suite issues” IT guy, that is honestly accurate.
- Comment on France’s new laser rifle silently melts electronics at 500 meters — and Ukrainian infantry could really use it 4 weeks ago:
It’s pretty common to avoid using products from other companies in PR photos(if there’s no deal). And the prominant picatinny rail is enough to tell any potential buyers that they can attach almost anything they want.
- Comment on Star Wars' Showcase of AI Special Effects Was a Complete Disaster 4 weeks ago:
It’s all C-suite executives pushing this onto executives below them, who push it onto their organizations as mandates.
That is currently the core of the issue. It’s tech-bros and executives gassing eachother up, and most are too far gone to realize that they’re heading for a cliff.