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- Comment on Best vertical games on Android? 19 hours ago:
The original Shapez is vertical. I don’t love how it plays on mobile in terms of controls but it works
- Comment on Insulin 4 days ago:
Exit tax is only if you give up your US citizenship, which you definitely can’t do if you don’t have another citizenship and even then it’s very often not required
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 1 week ago:
Tunic is so damn good.
- Comment on Me when Valve releases a phone 2 weeks ago:
I hope for Steamie Boi
- Comment on Valve has ‘a pretty good idea’ of what Steam Deck 2 is going to be, but it’s not ready yet [VGC] 2 weeks ago:
I would guess and kinda hope so? And then merge the steam machine/deck verified status together later in life?
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 2 weeks ago:
So that’s a great picture I think for the difference between the loan durations.
I of course think the real problem is that average people might need a 50 year loan to barely pay for a house these days. But it isn’t “nothing” between the terms, it does help in the super short term
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 2 weeks ago:
Fair, but it also shouldn’t affect the relative prices from 30 and 50 year
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 2 weeks ago:
The calc I used for that number put $3k property tax annually amortized, good call
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 2 weeks ago:
What?
Some random numbers that are of course VERY variable, but I just ran the calcs with 400k, 5% down, 6% APR for 30 and 50 years
$2648 for 30 years $2369 for 50
Now that is of course not a great deal, presumably you’d also get a little better rate for the longer loan (more points) but it’s not a dollar.
- Comment on Learning to drive 2 weeks ago:
Yup, exactly this.
Coached race cars (and bikes) at tracks for years, and amateur raced for more than a decade.
Try just pushing (not pulling). You have a LOT more range and more comfortable control from 9/3 than 10/2
- Comment on ...will continue until... 2 weeks ago:
It always gets there
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 5 weeks ago:
Surely this comes from the American, not European point of view, yeah?
- Comment on My AYN Thor 5 weeks ago:
Super super cool. I don’t have a need for this since I have a nice modded 3ds lite, but the youtube on one screen and gaming on the other is absolutely sick. The screen size and color depth looks great too.
Does it have an SD card slot? I didn’t see it on their site but I assume so.
- Comment on A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley 1 month ago:
That’s fair, Shor’s algorithm would probably break a bunch of older encryption. It’s a little further out of reach, in terms of feasibility but who knows how fast it could speed up
- Comment on A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley 1 month ago:
That’s how it’s been explained to me by laymen many many times. Just casually (ish, I have a math degree) looking at the math, chatting with a friend who is a quantum physicist, being involved with computers, etc I find that Grover’s Algorithm is not at all capable of something like that. I’m not sure there’s anything better in terms of breaking encryption
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover's_algorithm
Grover’s algorithm could brute-force a 128-bit symmetric cryptographic key in roughly 264 iterations, or a 256-bit key in roughly 2128 iterations. It may not be the case that Grover’s algorithm poses a significantly increased risk to encryption over existing classical algorithms, however.[4]
I am stoked for what it could do for protein folding, or other heavy simulation work, but in terms of proper encryption I don’t believe it actually will change much.
- Comment on A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley 1 month ago:
Nah I’d put money on it being quantum computing. I think quantum has some neat applications, and the tech is cool as hell. But I think it’ll be sold like “this is gonna instantly transform business overnight” and people will try to sell quantum computing power
- Comment on Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Terraria 1 month ago:
I’ve had a lot of trouble getting started with this. I have 4 figures of hours into Factorio, I LOVE 2D side scrollers. Any advice? Maybe it’s like starting build problems or something
- Comment on Trivago 1 month ago:
Can anyone explain for someone really out of the loop? I don’t know this person or what trivago is
- Comment on I am a solo developer creating a horror game where you can pet your cat to restore sanity! Here is the new trailer for The 18th Attic! Let me know your feedback :) 1 month ago:
Wow this looks cool. Wish listing it now!
- Comment on Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies 2 months ago:
I was working in pure software engineering and we had to attend a meeting/presentation about some use cases for it.
It’s one of things that any useful tech would never need. Do you think the airplane, the cell phone, the internet, any other useful tech you can think of needed brainstorming sessions for use cases? Hell no, they couldn’t implement their ideas as fast as they wanted because the uses are so obvious
- Comment on International travel 2 months ago:
US ex pat living in Europe: 100% agree. I’ve actually not had a single person be mean or negative about where I’m from. Either jokes about how it’s going or more likely, curiosity about how things actually are.
It’s just like if you meet a Russian who left. I would hope you’d have the nuance to think “oh, they escaped, fantastic for them and I’m so sorry about their country” not “oh they must love Putin”
- Comment on Anon is in boadcasting 2 months ago:
Q104.3 was dank as fuck
- Comment on The world seems just a tiny bit better... 2 months ago:
In case you don’t know your Bible stuff
May his days be few; may another take his place of leadership. 9 May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow. 10 May his children be wandering beggars; may they be driven from their ruined homes. 11 May a creditor seize all he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor. 12 May no one extend kindness to him or take pity on his fatherless children. 13 May his descendants be cut off, their names blotted out from the next generation. 14 May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD; may the sin of his mother never be blotted out. 15 May their sins always remain before the LORD, that he may blot out their name from the earth. 16 For he never thought of doing a kindness, but hounded to death the poor and the needy and the brokenhearted.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Silksong news, probably??
Oh wait, autopilot.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 2 months ago:
Let me start by saying I have a few thousand hours in Hollow Knight and I do for the most part enjoy the Git Gud type of games.
There are entire genres of games that I can’t enjoy because they’re too open/chill and if they had a hard mode I would probably really like them. This is the same problem the other way.
Maybe wait and some modders might make the QoL parts you want available, maybe never play it, maybe watch a streamer do it. But not every game has to be fun for everyone.
- Comment on Gamers frustrated as Hollow Knight: Silksong crashes stores on launch 2 months ago:
I noticed, and did a lot of refreshing to eventually get it (over 2 hours after launch) but mostly it’s just funny and so so cool that a few Australian guys can make a game and it takes down every store. Straight badass.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 2 months ago:
Same, right back to it but now there’s a ghost item in my cart. Maybe this is worse than having it
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 2 months ago:
I got it into my cart!
I can’t open my cart, but it’s in there
- Comment on Call of Duty: Ghosts – Power, Paranoia, and Orbital Tungsten Rods | Folding Ideas 2 months ago:
Man that was funny. Dan is the best
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer (September 4) 3 months ago:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=WSkbylysplI
This is a great watch on the internet degeneracy of Silkposting