bluescrn

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by bluescrn 4y ago
Redundancy is good. If you can cook and keep warm on both gas and electricity, then an outage of one or the other is much less of an issue.
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by bluescrn 4y ago
Well, before long that choice to eat meat will likely be taken away to 'save the planet', so that one will be solved...
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by bluescrn 4y ago
Building a small quadcopter back in 2012 or so (before cheap toy/consumer drones were everywhere) was a fun project. Back then, it involved an Arduino, the internals of a Wii MotionPlus (cost effective way to get the gyro sensors), a p
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by bluescrn 4y ago
Many slopes do turn out to be fairly slippery, despite frequent claims that low-friction inclined surfaces are merely logical fallacies. People complained about the very mild language policing of 'political correctness' way back i
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by bluescrn 4y ago
The problem is that before long, the edited version becomes the only available version. And once we start with these edits, say for blatant racism, do we also have to appease groups who are deeply offended by sexism/misogyny, profanity
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by bluescrn 4y ago
Yes, if you're using Unity and primarily developing on Windows, most things will 'just work' on Mac. But if you're a big studio with an in-house engine and toolset, supporting a new platform and additional graphics API c
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by bluescrn 4y ago
> Now we live in an age of mass transportation where people routinely leave their towns to venture elsewhere Future generations may grow up in a world of much more limited travel, existing in small areas of '15-minute cities' w
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by bluescrn 4y ago
There's not many Macs with suitable GPUs for higher-end gaming, are there? And between the move to Metal as a graphics API and the transition away from Intel CPUs, porting PC games to Mac seems like it'd be rather more of a pain t
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by bluescrn 4y ago
Platform-exclusive titles have been around for as long as games consoles, that's not going to change. It's annoying that so many great Nintendo games are only available for Switch, and I can't run them at 4k/60fps+ on PC
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by bluescrn 4y ago
Is it? Putting MS in charge might have saved Blizzard from Activision. Maybe they'd have brought WoW to Xbox, or done something new with the Starcraft IP. Perhaps even a new Blizzard MMO...
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by bluescrn 4y ago
> We're not going beyond our solar system. Ever. We're not going within my lifetime, but we don't know what currently-unimaginable technologies could be developed in the future (if we don't destroy our civilization wi
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by bluescrn 4y ago
I used to spend money on apps, back when it was possible to buy them. Unfortunately, that's very rare these days. I'm not paying exorbitant subscription fees for relatively trivial apps, let alone falling for the manipulative an
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by bluescrn 4y ago
Mars isn't the end goal. It's a step on the way to going even further, beyond our solar system.
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by bluescrn 4y ago
Musk defends freedom of speech. In his own flawed way, but better than many. And that makes a lot of people incredibly angry/scared.
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by bluescrn 4y ago
> If mega wealthy man boys like Musk want to waste money in boys own adventure science fiction instead of making real change here in earth well that’s their decision. If the really big problems here on Earth could be fixed by throwing a
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by bluescrn 4y ago
But even after almost 20 years, there's never been a real 'WoW beater', an MMO with comparable 'game feel', decent endgame PvE content, and a very customisable UI.
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by bluescrn 4y ago
I don't really understand how legalising weed makes sense amidst a push to eliminate smoking (in a world where freedom is increasingly seen as dangerous/selfish) Yeah, it may well be less harmful than cigarettes or alcohol, but if
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by bluescrn 4y ago
Before long, we could end up with left-leaning and right-leaning AIs autonomously fighting the 'culture war' over social media, much more advanced than simple bots spamming copy+paste comments. Combined with ever-improving ways to
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by bluescrn 4y ago
I wonder whether all that debris was a factor in the engine failures?
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by bluescrn 4y ago
I've always been an atheist, but I'm starting to wonder whether the decline of religion has done more harm than good. We've certainly lost some of the basic human decency that was once passed on via religion. The concept of f
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by bluescrn 4y ago
The Internet, through social media and clickbait news, encourages people to get ever-angrier and ever-more-radical until they attempt to 'change things' by smashing and burning, or justifying violence against political 'enemi
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by bluescrn 4y ago
If children/teens weren't exposed to so much online doom-mongering, they would be finding things to live for rather than fearing the future. Even if the world is a bit shit, there's still plenty of opportunities for love, fam
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by bluescrn 4y ago
Compared to the mess that is Win11, and the previous agenda of Win8/Metro (locking down and dumbing down, replacing 'real windows' with a touch-centric mess), Win10 is wonderful.
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by bluescrn 4y ago
Even the rubber keys of a ZX Spectrum were better than trying to type on a small touchscreen, though.
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by bluescrn 4y ago
Isn't the era of air travel coming to an end due to climate change? The winning airport design will probably be an ex-airport, returned to nature as a forest, or repurposed as a solar/wind farm.
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by bluescrn 4y ago
That relies on a functional and very-well-resourced police force. We're in a world where an increasing number of crimes have essentially been decriminalised due to lack of police resources or due to politics, from minor drug offences t
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by bluescrn 4y ago
Maybe the only realistic option is secure, completely enclosed 'bike lockers' for bike parking in town centres, instead of creating such easy targets for kids with battery-powered angle grinders. But people would complain about th
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by bluescrn 4y ago
The younger generation are screwed regardless. Parented by screens and educated by activists.
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by bluescrn 4y ago
Depression is very real, and can be fatal.
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by bluescrn 4y ago
Nothing compared to what a world of full-size EVs will produce when they start piling up on scrapheaps in more significant numbers. (Ideally we need recycling solutions for both) But moving people around on 20kg electric scooters has got to

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