olafurp
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- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 1 hour ago:
Also most Ubisoft games in the last 10 years overall
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 10 hours ago:
I’m on the opinion that marketing anything related to addiction is immoral and should be illegal. This includes cigarette, gambling, sugar, drugs (looking at you oxycontin), alcohol and even caffeine.
There is a backdoor into people’s brains that should not be used. Allow people go get their own coffee and sugar but don’t remind them it’s missing when they’re quitting.
(Coffee has been shown to be beneficial in reducing the overall death rate in adults when consuming something like 2+ cups a day so marketing it could be beneficial but the chance kids getting addicted to caffeine is something to avoid regardless.)
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 11 hours ago:
Those people are parroting harmful ideologies or have shitty sense of taste.
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 11 hours ago:
You should try it in Iceland. Tap water is so clean you practically ruin it by putting it in plastic.
- Comment on Why can computers, like even very old laptops can seemingly get OS updates forever, while mobile devices hardly get a few years of updates before getting stuck out of date? 15 hours ago:
Not necessarily. The drivers in the kernel are already released and free to use and can be linked to as long as the software linking it retains the GNU license or can claim that it’s a separate service (such as an API or separately installed service) or it has to be installed afterwards like proprietary nvidia drivers.
Either way the source code is released and if the drivers want to retain the proprietary license they the community can make a way to download and compile the driver for the current OS after install. This will save a ridiculous amount of dev time and make Linux phone OS development much easier.
- Comment on Why can computers, like even very old laptops can seemingly get OS updates forever, while mobile devices hardly get a few years of updates before getting stuck out of date? 23 hours ago:
We need some regulation that makes driver APIs and a linkable compiled version of drivers mandatory to be available upon request.
- Comment on Leaves have evolved at least twice 🤔 1 week ago:
This, and your explanation below is fantastic. I had no idea that this was known and thought it plausible to have evolved many times like crabs.
Also, name checks out
- Comment on Leaves have evolved at least twice 🤔 1 week ago:
Good question my son, define “seed”
- Comment on Why do I drag my feet when it's time to start a new task even if I know I'll enjoy it once I get started? 1 week ago:
You are the most qualified person to diagnose yourself since you’re the only one that knows what happens on the inside which is where autistic symptoms predominantly are.
Neurotypicals lump themselves to early with autism and autistic people do it too late since they feel the criteria is very strict. Think NT saying “yes, I have autism because…” and autistic people say “no, I don’t because of…”.
Honestly, just take some tests and use them as a screening tool and take it from there. Good luck!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
My wife is Muslim, had a very similar experience
- Comment on I feel attacked 2 weeks ago:
Running is in most cases good for knee health in the long term. It could be that you just need to take it slower to build up the knee strength.
Important: If you feel pain, stop and wait for it to recover.
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 2 weeks ago:
The numbers are pretty funky depending on who you ask. City nerd on YouTube has a nice video on it how people view themselves as rural/urban and what city planners think of it.
You have a lot of people that identify as rural even though they live in exurbs (town adjacent to city) and a lot of people that live in remote areas identify as urban people.
I’d personally say that people that live in a urban/metro area are not rural. People who live on a farm 50km from the next population center of 1000 people is definitely rural. Everything between depends on a lot of factors like how big is the village, what is the village close to etc.
- Comment on SteamOS massively beats Windows on the Legion Go S 2 weeks ago:
That’s all because Wine is not an emulator
- Comment on Dave2D - Windows Was The Problem All Along (Lenovo Legion Go Windows 11 vs. SteamOS) 3 weeks ago:
YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP
- Comment on My password is not accepted because it is too long 4 weeks ago:
I think if people have 400 page book long passwords it doesn’t really need a unique hash
- Comment on You just want a break sometimes 4 weeks ago:
You boil a full kettle with citric acid and you’re done.
- Comment on My password is not accepted because it is too long 4 weeks ago:
Long here means a 400 page book as a password.
- Comment on You just want a break sometimes 4 weeks ago:
I use instant coffee, I just need a kettle.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 5 weeks ago:
Patents have an expiry for a reason and the expiry date is pretty generous IMO. It’s thought as “Startup x can invent and make money off it but after it the market should take over so further improvements can be made.” Imagine if they patented CRISPR Cas9 or the first DNA sequencing method. It would limit science for the entire time of the expiry but not after.
Claiming invention patent for the pokeballs more than 20 years after the game came out is absurd. They can keep the brand, trademark and IP for their weirdly long time but innovations should become public so the market can continue innovating.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 5 weeks ago:
So are they next going after unicorns that you capture?
- Comment on Anyone? 5 weeks ago:
Very relatable
- Comment on Do you know the answer? 5 weeks ago:
Correct, including 0% as a part of the answers would make 0% a wrong answer.
- Comment on Do you know the answer? 5 weeks ago:
You can never answer this question correctly. If the correct answer is 25% there’s a 50% chance you guess correctly but that would make the 25% wrong.
But if the answer is the 50% then it implies that 25% is correct which implies that 50% is wrong.
We reach a contradiction for both 25% and 50% making the correct answer to make the whole statement truthy 0%.
- Comment on The inevitable symbol 1 month ago:
It’s the fork in the background that’s unacceptable
- Comment on The inevitable symbol 1 month ago:
It’s the fork in the background that’s unacceptable.
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 1 month ago:
1 looks decent.
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 1 month ago:
It’s a trick question, they’re all bad.
(I have autism)
- Comment on Anon gets dommed by his barber 1 month ago:
This is the way
- Comment on Anon studies Buddhism 1 month ago:
In response to calling a prophet bald:
“So he turned around and looked at them, and pronounced a curse on them in the name of the LORD. And two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.” -New King James bible, 2 Kings 2:24
This is the real way to turn the other cheek
- Comment on I get that america is failing if it's duty to suppress the rise of fascist but did the rest of the world just put all its eggs in the america basket? 1 month ago:
For further reading on this agreement it’s called the Bretton Woods agreement if anyone is interested.