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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You have my consent to kill me⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe the idea of eldritch is in being able to comprehent the true form - but only temporarily, since our minds cannot hold that knowledge, only to be left with a frayed hole in our thoughts

  But also as people mentioned, there’s some cursed geometries. Hyperbolic and parabolic geometry is interesting (see Hyperholica and Hyperrogue), but things get worse with Nil and Solv

  For a more plain existential horror also see Fractal Block World, pretty fun seeing the sense of scale as you shrink yourself ever further revealing detail you couldn’t perceive before, and also the sense of scale, as a tiny room becomes an incomprehensibly vast space you cannot hope to cross in your lifetime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blurble⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No, no, they have a point - if they can imagine something that’s perfectly uniform and sparkly, then that’d actually be something novel

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Overproduce to cover everybody’s needs, and if you want to use that overproduction to cover somebody else’s problems, make that the new target and produce over it to keep a safety margin. Otherwise you’re just going to hide the problem and run into trouble when production dips.

  Not saying this is the right approach, but this is the idea I’m getting from the thread. I feel like it might not work with the economics of supply and demand combined with capitalistic greed, but if a margin exists as safety, allocating it removes that safety.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the point is that if you do that, then you’re just increasing the amount of people in the equation, and if they become dependent on you and the production drops, somebody will be lacking food again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Innövative sölutiön⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not if the sphere is solid!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  email is high bandwidth

  I don’t think the reasons you stated are about bandwidth, and considering writing an email is IMO more effort than explaining on a phone call and will take me longer, I’d argue phone calls are higher bandwidth than email - at least in one on one conversations, since things change when you want to inform multiple people.

  Though of course what you listed is important, and it sucks when people refuse to write out basic details that you could come back to later or forward to somebody else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SteamOS finally released by Valve⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it? Or did they choose Arch because of the ease of setting it up with all the latest software the community was already packaging?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My password is not accepted because it is too long⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Obligatory xkcd.

  I don’t know enough to say how accurate the numbers are, but the sentiment stands - if it’s a password you’re memorizing, longer password will probably be better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't know who The Rizzler is and Im not interested.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My phone keyboard can’t comprehend what I’m about to write, looks like I’m on my own…

  Aren’t rizz and gyatt separate though? Isn’t it that you want to have one of them, either rizzin or using that bussin’ gyatt, as you put it? Or is it that “skibidi rizz” is the gyatt, because skibidi=toilet? Am I reading into it too much?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Philosophy moment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a suspicion most networking hardware would be affected by that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should we boycott games with loot boxes?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As for android games… If you like puzzles like sudoku, check out Simon Tatham’s Puzzle collection. Simple ad-free online experience with a varied collection of puzzle games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please choose one⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure it is a wrapper in the way it looks up game-specific information to apply specific tweaks to how the game is ran and how the prefix is set up… But it is also true that it does also include a modified version of wine, so the terminology is difficult to pin down.

  That said, I don’t mean it in a disingenuous way, at least I don’t think it is such. I do believe valve is often attributed excessive credit for proton’s creation, but I don’t think they did anything wrong, much less “just nab it”. Open-source is open-source, and I’d imagine people who put work towards making wine viable are happy that Valve brought it to the mainstream.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please choose one⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  also literally wrote proton

  It’s getting weird how often I find myself saying this… But Valve mostly took already existing software and built a wrapper around it, integrated into their platform. I love what they did, but the credit for literally writing it goes to all the people who spent years building wine and related software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you're still on Reddit...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You should probably start by washing your hands though, and maybe touching less grass

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG seems to be considering paid membership option⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, seems you’re partially correct - steam has a command for downloading a specific depot version. You need to know the specific ID to download, and notably games can use multiple depots to form the game files, but I thought you needed to use something like SteamCMD or DepotDownloader for that.

  I’m still upholding the fact that it’s not a “proper” feature, while I appreciate having those kind of utilities put in the user’s control, this isn’t something most people could figure out themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG seems to be considering paid membership option⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not like they have to create the compatibility layers from scratch; Valve did it for them.

  I do just want to point out, Valve didn’t do that - Proton is mostly just pre-existing software that they packaged together into an officially supported feature. I love that they did it, and having it in the biggest PC game platform presumably did wonders for Linux gaming, but it was most certainly not made from scratch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG seems to be considering paid membership option⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not an official/proper feature on steam, there’s nothing in the interface to select an older version, right? Just the beta system that lets developers have multiple branches available, which is often used to keep a limited number of previous versions available.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I kinda do know but I'm posting this as a joke.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, speak for me too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨genotype rarity: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A three years old apparently male child was referred to Anhui Provincial hospital with a complaint of undifferentiated external genitalia.

  It might just be that that’s what they’re registered as, or how parents referred to them, I guess?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patch this Bish!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The issue is, plants do that by combining water and CO2 into energetic compounds, with an oxygen byproduct - then they do the same our bodies do, which is breaking up those energetic compounds using oxygen to release the stored energy. And yes, plants consume oxygen and produce CO2 - they just do more of the opposite turning the excess into structural materials.

  This requires a supply of energy in a form that can be consumed (laws of physics prevent you doing it by cooling your body down), so you’d need to, for example, receive enough energy from sunlight to match your energy consumption, and generating oxygen through that would actively make you fatter.

  Oh, and as an addendum, we could maybe use less oxygen to break up those energetic compounds, similarly to how fuel can burn with reduced oxygen - but the fun thing about that is, that produces carbon monoxide, actual poison, so that’s also a no-go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This one is going to be controversial⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a food opinion on a meme community, why the hell would that need a sarcasm tag?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This one is going to be controversial⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Please don’t fuck everyone who criticizes your food choices

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got any must-play games for strategy fans?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While it might not fit the vibe (and you might already know it), I feel like Songs of Conquest needs to be mentioned, being a Heroes spinoff. It’s an interesting twist on the formula, with lovely graphics, some things streamlined and some interesting new mechanics (like the essences for spellcasting).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Le Reddit Army is Here⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or, hear me out, maybe people were tied of way too many posts in the community being about recent politics, so moderators took action on that?

  It’s not a good look to be broadly banning those words, but it seems to me like there’s a reasonable and obvious expansion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Think twice before gifting someone an M dwarf this holiday season⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Skip the planet sized computer, build a matrioshka brain around your star!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Captain Disillusion: SNL VFX Mystery⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From the very first video in glorious… Was it 240p? Well, since the very early days he’s had this great vibe of an edutainment program with the host being a metallic alien with holograms and stuff, and it’s definitely part of the appeal. You claim he could get more followers by dropping the whole gimmick, but I have to question how many regular viewers he might lose if he stops it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a math prodigy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe PHP? Since it runs as a server and returns computed results in a browser… Though I’m pretty sure it’d just return the compiler error text

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ohh ...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s fair, I’m not from the US, and when talking about private healthcare I’m thinking of my own experiences, paying out of my pocket.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ohh ...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds entirely reasonable, and pedantic ;D

  I don’t mean it to imply lack of competence, and both issues you mentioned sound like they’d qualify as that “work” for me, notably would probably need legislations drafted and passed. Bureaucracy is slow, but hopefully things will steadily improve.

  Notably, public institutions are gonna be inherently tied into politics, having to deal with bureaucracy to get things done and subject to the whims of politicians playing their games for influence. It’s not that public administrators are dumb, but they’re part of a much bigger system that is funded by public money, and that presumably makes everything harder.

  One big issue is that, to my knowledge, there simply aren’t enough doctors. That’s not something that can be fixed just by working more on it, but hopefully it could improve with better technology and more funding!

  I will also say, I think one issue that can be improved rather directly is coordination - some private institutions can give you a list of timeslots available to sign up for and receive you in your allotted time, but in other places (both private and public) you might be waiting an hour for the doctor to show up, with no information on what’s going on and three people ahead of you. Shit happens, but it seems like the systems in place are severely lacking, if present at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ohh ...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also the issue of waiting times - you might need care somewhat urgently, but need to either wait for multiple months or pay (or hope that when the issue becomes more immediately life-threatening they can handle it in time). Public healthcare isn’t perfect, and at least in many places still needs a lot of work.