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by bluescrn 4mo ago
What also happened around 2009?... Smartphones taking off in a big way. Distracted pedestrians must be a significant factor too. Especially if they've got noise-cancelling Airpods or similar in their ears while looking at their phone.
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by bluescrn 4mo ago
Nah, just rewarding loyalty
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by bluescrn 4mo ago
The people buying this will be a small niche who have a lot of disposable income, already have a high spec gaming PC and a Steam library, and likely already have a laptop or handheld before considering this as a third device for the living
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by bluescrn 4mo ago
Vandalised military assets on a miltary site. Actions of a traitor or enemy saboteur. Lucky they didn't get shot. Some of these protesters seem to think they're invincible these days because they support a popular cause (Palestine
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by bluescrn 4mo ago
Locking up placard-wavers is stupid, but so is intentionally waving a placard with the name of a proscribed group, when just about any other message supporting the cause would be fine. If you do a million pounds in criminal damage and attac
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by bluescrn 4mo ago
And he'll be just as powerless to solve any of the big problems as the last half a dozen PMs.
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by bluescrn 4mo ago
About 4x what they've spent on Starship development so far. They're not a space company any more. They're just part of the AI bubble.
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by bluescrn 4mo ago
Influencers, activists, narcissists, and grifters And then there were no 'safe spaces' for socially awkward/on-the-spectrum nerds. The spaces once created to escape the school bullies had let in new types of bully.
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by bluescrn 4mo ago
> For example finding nursing staff is very challenging No. Finding staff that'll work for very low wages is very challenging. It's not really about bringing in essential skills, it's about driving down wages.
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by bluescrn 4mo ago
But they still make repairs very difficult in case of accidental damage, random failure, or inevitably battery wear. Glued batteries, soldered storage, keyboards and screens that absolutely aren't designed to be swapped out in the even
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by bluescrn 4mo ago
The purpose of a foldable is to reduce the lifespan of a device, and therefore sell more devices
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by bluescrn 4mo ago
'The benefits of continuing the existence of the species are not clear'
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by bluescrn 4mo ago
We're also teaching the younger generation imminent climate apocalypse is coming, and therefore bringing kids into this dying world would be cruel, or at best contributing to the problem. (And now there's also an AI apocalypse of
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by bluescrn 4mo ago
But bombs apparently use bluetooth now, so he can't detonate it from more than a few metres away...
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by bluescrn 5mo ago
The 'struggle' is that they seem to have regressed from that point, and that the scale of Starship is perhaps too big for a 'fail fast, iterate rapidly' approach. Especially now that every failure results in a massive wa
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by bluescrn 5mo ago
While the Starship project may be struggling, Falcon 9 is still a massive success, with a successful launch every couple of weeks, making up most of humanity's access to space/LEO right now. And Starlink is a pretty big deal, part
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by bluescrn 5mo ago
I’m much more concerned by the skyrocketing cost of housing, energy, food, and transport than the cost of tech luxuries. If I never buy another GPU or console again, there’s more than enough quality gaming for several lifetimes available on
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by bluescrn 5mo ago
BBC BASIC was far better than C64 BASIC. It had a nice set of built-in graphics functions and an inline assembler, amongst other things. I can still remember that VDU 23 was the command to redefine a character, so much easier than doing the
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by bluescrn 5mo ago
Experimenting with C64 BASIC taught me a lot back in the day, but it quickly became clear that for any real game dev you need to be using assembly. But a few years later, the Amiga brought us DPaint and Blitz Basic, and suddenly it was very
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by bluescrn 5mo ago
Really doesn't look like a supercar, let alone a $650k supercar. Looks more like a design for a premium fairly-mass-market EV from any number of other brands.
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by bluescrn 5mo ago
Do other budget brands really print as well as Bambu out of the box with no tinkering? Going from an old Prusa MK3s to a Bambu P1P+AMS was a huge upgrade. Mostly speed, reliable bed adhesion, and easy material swapping, it’s made printing a
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by bluescrn 5mo ago
displayedBatteryHealthPercent = max(80, actualBatteryHealthPercent); (I suspect the health figures displayed are already somewhat fudged to try and downplay the reality of battery degradation?)
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by bluescrn 6mo ago
> I think models are going to be local-first. Why on earth would that happen when everything else is moving into the cloud to tie it to ever-escalating subscription fees and prevent piracy? Even with gaming, where running high-end 3D gam
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by bluescrn 6mo ago
Did anyone really expect AI to be cheap? If/when it gets to the point where it can replace a skilled worker, the service can be sold for close to the same price as that skilled labour. But the AI can run 24/7, reliably, and scale
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by bluescrn 6mo ago
What we need is a single MacOS that can run an iOS-like touchscreen launcher and dumbed-down 'apps' while operating via touchscreen, but with a keyboard+mouse connected switches back to 'productivity mode', exposing the
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by bluescrn 6mo ago
We need EVs with standardised modular battery packs, designed to be replced/upgraded without replacing the entire car. But instead, we're getting EVs that are built more like smartphones.
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by bluescrn 6mo ago
Unity 4.x to 5.x (removal of Beast lightmapper) remains the worse transition in Unity’s long history. The more recent frequent breaking changes around URP custom renderer features and render textures haven’t been much fun either, but nothin
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by bluescrn 6mo ago
Net Zero, here we come
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by bluescrn 6mo ago
Vibe-named
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by bluescrn 6mo ago
Wondering how long I can hold out on Win10...

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