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by bluescrn 3y ago
We can't really build useful railways any more, though. Towns and cities are too large and too dense and too insanely expensive in terms of property prices to get new lines into or even close to. (This might be less of a problem for fr
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Would you want to remove all unnecessary humans from rural areas just to get rid of cars? Completely shut down tourism to areas of natural beauty and other recreational outdoors activities too far away from the prison-city? Except for the e
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Large cities couldn't exist without rural areas and their food production.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Most taxes on motorists outside of large towns/cities (where there's no viable alternative to cars). Of course, climate catastrophists want everyone living in pods in dystopian mega-cities as the solution for this. Ok, 'get
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by bluescrn 3y ago
When I ran into the adblocker-blocker (Firefox + uBlock Origin), I noticed that I could watch videos if logged out. So I just stayed logged out, and haven't seen an anti-adblock message since. Or an ad. Added bonus, I'm less tempt
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by bluescrn 3y ago
People spend vast amounts on luxury mechanical watches, when a $10 digital watch does the job of timekeeping just as well, if not better. 'Luxury Software' hasn't become a thing (beyond ludicrously priced free-to-play whaleba
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Who else can land and reuse boosters? Learning from repeated failure and incremental improvements made it possible. They'll get there with Starship too, if not too obstructed by red tape or unrelated Twitter/politics stuff.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Ideally they'd make the S-Pedelec class of bikes (up to 28mph) much easier to own and operate legally. The requirement for insurance and a helmet seems fine, but putting a full-size car number plate on an e-bike looks ludicrous (they n
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Meanwhile, the UK government seem to be cracking down on them (lots of people are using bikes above the legal power limit), and seem absolutely determined never to legalise e-scooters.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
‘Input lag’ in games is rarely about input. It’s usually all about the latencies involved in getting graphics onto the screen after responding to the input. Even an FPGA-based ‘emulator’ or real retro hardware with the fanciest low-latency
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Surely there's a non-adhesive material that'd serve that purpose though, some sort of foam or rubber perhaps?
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Is there any real justification for glueing batteries in beyond obstructing replacement? It's not as if there's any space for them to slide around, they're a fairly tight fit in a compact device, and there's got to be pl
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by bluescrn 3y ago
The need to fight with adhesives via heat or chemicals is the main problem, that and the availability of the batteries. Earlier iPhones were quite easy to swap a battery in, the main issue then was availability of decent-quality replacement
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by bluescrn 3y ago
The trend has been for larger phones with great big screens, though.
585.
by bluescrn 3y ago
And it's certainly more important than making a 2mm thinner phone
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by bluescrn 3y ago
That happened a good few years ago really. For a while, phones were gaining 50-100% performance per year and noticably better screens+cameras. Now it's down to a few percent and minor camera updates are the main selling point.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Non-user-replaceable batteries in phones+laptops should be banned outright. While people generally won't admit to replacing an entire phone/laptop due to a degraded battery, it's a significant nudge to get people to do just t
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by bluescrn 3y ago
The more recent unofficial sequel to the Sokal Hoax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_studies_affair
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by bluescrn 3y ago
The 'only challenge'? The problem with most diet/fitness advice is that it comes from fit+healthy people who've never had serious weight/health problems, and for whom it's all easy.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
It's not about being 'comfortable with density', it's about having a society where neighbours respect each other, behave decently, and keep noise/mess under control, don't keep setting the fire alarm off, etc.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Unity's killer feature is its C# support. It's enabled small teams to do far more in less time that they could ever hope to do using C++, and avoiding some of the nastier types of bugs that C++ game developers have to deal with. A
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Who can afford to live in a city (the only place you can really have most of that)? And of those who can afford to, do they want to, given rising crime and unrest. Cities just to have an obvious purpose, but can successful cities be sustain
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by bluescrn 3y ago
How long does a bike last in the Netherlands before it gets stolen? These days (in the UK) the thieves have battery-powered angle grinders to defeat locks. A fancy new bike, especially a costly e-bike, won't last long in many places. A
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by bluescrn 3y ago
He could fund a new company elsewhere in the world and start from scratch, perhaps. But even if he was super-careful about ensuring that restricted information wasn't shared with the new company, I'm sure his political enemies wou
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by bluescrn 3y ago
The billionaire class will own all the self-driving EVs and sell rides to the diminishing remnants of the middle class. The growing masses of 'the poor' (formerly 'the working class') will have no transport, no jobs, and
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Nuclear doesn't work with Elon's approach to development. You can't blow up multiple nuclear rockets within the atmosphere just to learn what needs fixing for the next attempt. Then again, it's looking like the whole &#x
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by bluescrn 3y ago
> Angry Birds itself was sufficiently fresh and well made so people liked it. 'Crush The Castle' was an earlier Flash game with the same mechanics as Angry Birds. Angry Birds just gave it appealing characters and visuals.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
If you fed a competent human massive quantities of human-created code and artwork, they could fairly quickly mash it up and produce a clone of a simple game, too. Have we created real AI, or merely 'AP' - Auto-Plagiarism?
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by bluescrn 3y ago
I'd be more interested in seeing AI create a game that doesn't already exist. AI auto-plagiarism is a neat party trick, but can it create something new?
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Emulation is one case where specific refresh rates are desirable. Would be nice if I could force my MBP to run at 100Hz for PAL Amiga/C64 emulation - or even better if emulators could/would change the refresh rate at least when ru

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