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by atoav 2mo ago
For as long as I remember I never had a summer this warm and this dry. And I don't even have to rely on memory alone here as this is backed by actual historic measurements all the way back since humans started to record temperatures in
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by atoav 2mo ago
Well that is how it can feel, but sometimes the reason you die is just because the game design sucks. E.g. the car chases in the Yakuza series are super managable when played with a mouse and a keyboard, but suck when played on a gamepad.
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by atoav 2mo ago
Huh? I am a passionate programmer and I always say that code is not the hard part. And what that means is simple. Beginners in the field of programming will say things like: "Do you really understand what all this gibberish looking t
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by atoav 2mo ago
The good way of doing this is to ask the player if the difficulty shall be lowered temporarily just for that level of they keep dying. Then it is transparent and the choice is theirs.
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by atoav 2mo ago
This mixes several different things into one causal puddle. Yes, keeping the remaining nuclear plants running would have reduced emissions and electricity prices somewhat. A 2024 Energy Policy study estimates the 2022/23 extension lowe
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by atoav 2mo ago
I have seen digital audio gear that solved firmware transfer like that. You basically go to a website on your phone and it flickers the screen and you hold it in front of a photosensitive bit of the device that needs to be updated for 20 se
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by atoav 2mo ago
No it isn't, to quote another article by the Washington post: "We were shovel-ready". Meaning they cut forest fire prevention measures that would have been deployed before the dry season. These measures are typically aimed to
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by atoav 2mo ago
Yeah? I live in Northern Germany for more than a decade now and in the past months I have witnessed multiple of the hottest days during these ten years, including one where my thermometer measured a whopping 37°C at midnight .
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by atoav 2mo ago
I once had a geography teacher who had the absolutely unhinged habit of asking spontaneous gotcha questions designed to make himself look good. The kind where the question doesn't contain enough information to get to the answer he had
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by atoav 2mo ago
I think it was electric, given the scale.
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by atoav 2mo ago
No of course not. But using the heat directly is of course favourable, since you don't have conversion losses. But that doesn't mean you can't use it also to power turbines as you wish to. The advantage of that type of storag
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by atoav 2mo ago
Use it directly, see my silbling comment.
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by atoav 2mo ago
I know someone who runs a mineral water company. His biggest expense was the energy cost for washing the glas bottles. He now built a absolutely massive solar farm that feeds directly into heating a well insulated underground water tank. At
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by atoav 2mo ago
Totally on your side here, asking for the accomplishments of a tool is strange. Isn't it easy to envision two people using the same note taking system extensively, with one achieving nothing and one really making it a tool that is esse
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by atoav 2mo ago
We can all be pedantic, why do you have to be alive to exist? Depends on the specific definition of the verb existing we are talking about, right? 90% of "I'm too autistic"-insecurities boil down to words being not clearly de
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Mixxx – Free and open source DJ software(mixxx.org)
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by atoav 2mo ago
The examples are not good. In one example (incident report) the agent turns a generic "something went wrong" into overly precise error descriptions that may or may not spill internal details. Then it proceeds to make a promise t
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by atoav 2mo ago
Sure. You earn 5k a month. The fine is 10k a month. I'd like to see you "budget that in". It is hard to "budget in" a expense that is multiple time your earnings. Especially if that expense is growing exponentially
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by atoav 2mo ago
With great power comes great responsibility. Beyond a certain size of corporation that may just be the only way to retain a scintilla of accountability. But some people still appear to labour under the illusion that unchecked corporate gree
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by atoav 2mo ago
I am for more maths in laws like these: frist_fine = 0.06 × anual_global_sales fine(n) = first_fine * n^x And the exponent x is to be chosen by how harsh you want to be. Repeat offenders will quickly run out of money as long a
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by atoav 2mo ago
This is what drives me to sometimes DIY devices instead of buying them. There is so much crap on the market and it gets increasingly hard to tell where the catch is. Does it only work with the manufacturers weird cloud? Which feature(s) do
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by atoav 2mo ago
On a side note: I spent the night in an alpine shelter a while back. Every piece of food that was there had to be carried there. Water was rationed. Abundance, by it's definition would not only mean everyone, but everywhere . As I arg
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by atoav 2mo ago
Well yes. The land where milk and honey flows in rivers and the fried chicken flies into your mouth (unless of course you, yourself are a chicken, in which case that would be horrible). The take of "if there would be no resource distri
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by atoav 2mo ago
Abundance for whom, exactly? And if the answer is everybody : who in charge has an incentive to do this? Sorry to ruin your day, but if the people with money could have introduce equal society, you would have noticed their attempts by now.
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by atoav 2mo ago
A good overview on the topic. My general issue with things like these is the simple fact, that as a lifelong musician I find the "less worse" harmonic combinations (to quote the abstract) often very boring. Aside from great compos
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by atoav 2mo ago
For all I, a Victorian everyman, know the world is built from small pistons, gears and pulleys. Every age has their technology which they will project onto the world. A century ago one may have started to talks about everything being electr
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by atoav 3mo ago
Well I also do not really know the legitimate use case for infinite scroll (other than trying to push gambling/slot-machine tricks onto your userbase). I get lazy-loading for pages that contain a ton of media of which the user will lik
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by atoav 3mo ago
Well I have worked as a camera operator. You can pan a tad bit slower or faster and this is a non-problem (and good camera operators know that and do that without even looking at the footage). The much more pressing limitation on cameras is
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by atoav 3mo ago
Well I prefer simply to stay out of countries that haven't got their ducks in a row when it comes to freedom. Saves a lot of hassle.
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by atoav 3mo ago
As a mediatec guy I think the idea that everything needs to be 60 fps is a pest. I understand the idea in gaming, but it is not needed elsewhere. A train stop display can easily do its job at 1 fps or lower. You do not need to display motio

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