benlumen

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by benlumen 5y ago
Fair enough, not sure where I heard that from. Maybe it's more troublesome in the UK, or just a misconception on my part.
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by benlumen 5y ago
I think about this apocalypse scenario more than nuclear war or anything else. In no time at all we've made the systems that underpin our survival dependant on brand new, high technology that can be blown away like a cobweb. If we lear
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by benlumen 5y ago
Exactly.
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by benlumen 5y ago
The RX-8 just ended up being a discontinued anomaly that needs specialist mechanics to get serviced, to my knowledge. Can’t see this taking off at this juncture unless I’m missing something.
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by benlumen 5y ago
I've used adblockers since they were invented and rarely experience the unfiltered internet. In recent years, though, I've wondered if it might actually be better to turn that all off. Are we adblockers just getting a more purifie
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by benlumen 5y ago
Here you go: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Panasonic-2400DEB-K-Portable-Radio-...
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by benlumen 5y ago
It still should radiate into the house, helping to bring the temperature up to the thermostat point. If you're capturing any of that heat and converting it for any reason, your boiler's simply going to have to work harder to do it
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by benlumen 5y ago
On desktop sure, but just plain safari on iPhone. If I hit an article like this one I just click straight off it.
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by benlumen 5y ago
Right, got it. I was feeling a bit slow yesterday. Thanks!
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by benlumen 5y ago
Might be a daft question - will people eventually be able to write their own PS2 games using this engine?
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by benlumen 5y ago
I wasn't keen on Crash 4. I appreciate they were trying to do something different, but whacking up the difficulty and having to scrap the lives system to compensate just felt lazy and disappointing. Striking a reasonable difficulty bal
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by benlumen 5y ago
I've read that the PS4 ports are bad and that the PS3 ones were the way to go. I haven't compared myself, though.
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by benlumen 5y ago
I absolutely loved Jak and Daxter and still run through it every few years. I think it was the peak of the 3D platforming era. Jak 2 with its fantasy take on GTA was excellent, too. I'll never understand why, compared to the other Naug
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by benlumen 5y ago
I don't click Guardian links and haven't done for years, even if I'm interested. It's gross.
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by benlumen 5y ago
You're right - but when you look at the list of Playstation exclusives vs Xbox exclusives, you'd hardly know it. A lot of people buy Playstations because there's nothing of interest on Xbox that they can't have.
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by benlumen 5y ago
It's not like Microsoft couldn't have done that from the start. They were the software company, after all, so they probably should have done. They're both over 20 years into the game, now.
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by benlumen 5y ago
> Microsoft has not been making money on xbox. They're not investing money made with xbox. They're using Office/Windows/Azure funds to boost Xbox, and it's not a fair fight. Sony and Nintendo don't have that
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by benlumen 5y ago
I'm just glad I didn't buy a PS5. I'd be worried if I were Sony. Unsurprisingly, their stock is off by 6%...
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by benlumen 5y ago
I use an Everdrive GB
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by benlumen 5y ago
Spot on. The UK is a particularly acute example. Dwindling fossil fuel reserves is something that most people have known about for decades, now. I used to frequent forums, read books and watch documentaries about Peak Oil as a teenager in t
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by benlumen 5y ago
At this point, SpaceX is an important strategic asset to the US govt. Would they let it go under?
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by benlumen 5y ago
This is an excellent summary of tech consulting.
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by benlumen 5y ago
“We had a chance in the beginning of this pandemic,” Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO’s technical lead on Covid-19, said Tuesday. “This pandemic did not need to be this bad.” Like in February 2020 when the WHO was downplaying the risk on a daily
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by benlumen 5y ago
I don't remember the details, but remember reading that attack wouldn't have worked under US aviation rules, that it took advantage of some EU protocol oversight which was subsequently rectified. Don't quote me on it though.
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by benlumen 5y ago
First gen Ryzen is unsupported? That's hilarious. My 1800X goes like a bat out of hell for everything I need it to do and I have zero intention of upgrading it. They can keep Windows 11.
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by benlumen 5y ago
I love the idea of planting trees on every available patch of land too, but won't that just fuel more wildfires at this point?
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by benlumen 5y ago
Completely agree. The "average" language always used is largely responsible for the apathy, I think. It's effectively meaningless.
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by benlumen 5y ago
If UFOs are real and their existence has so far been dismissible by benefit of the doubt (that the pictures and footage are fake), then the era of deniability may be ending. We’re surely not far from cryptographically verified social media
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by benlumen 5y ago
Isn't Neuralink (and other brain interfaces, I assume) also based on the idea that you can pinpoint which neurons are responsible for each function in the brain? If I've read the article correctly, it seems to suggest that they&#x
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by benlumen 5y ago
Is "reprograms innate immune responses" not just another way of saying it does what a vaccine is supposed to? All I got from it was that it might cause you to react more strongly to fungal infections.

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