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by bluescrn 7mo ago
Probably this one: https://brickset.com/sets/8865-1/Test-Car The difference in the instructions between classic and modern sets is interesting too, instructions for both the main and alternate build in just 38 pag
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by bluescrn 7mo ago
> The best way to enjoy Lego is to give it to some kids and watch them get creative with it. But there's a very limited age range in which todays kids will appreciate physical toys, before they're introduced to screens...
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by bluescrn 7mo ago
They're a bit too simplistic though. Some of the classic 80s themes, like Space and Castle, primarily used regular bricks of reasonable sizes in a very limited palette of colours, with a few special parts unique to the theme. They were
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by bluescrn 7mo ago
Classic Technic was brilliant, but when they switched to 'studless Technic' it became far more difficult to build creatively with it (even if it enabled far more intricate builds with complex mechanisms, like the gearboxes in the
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by bluescrn 7mo ago
The entire point is to de-anonymise adults. Especially in countries that are escalating the policing of online speech. If it was actually about kids, we'd have done it a long time ago. With more focus on things like porn and gambling (
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by bluescrn 7mo ago
> Now we are rich it’s only fair we lead in transitioning to renewables Unfortunately it's not the people/generation who reaped the rewards from cheap energy and polluting who are now being made to feel the pain of the transiti
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by bluescrn 7mo ago
> Ireland is richer than it has ever been. Isn't that more about big tech companies using Ireland as a tax dodge, rather than a sign of average people doing well? For less-well-off people, energy costs in the UK are a huge issue, t
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by bluescrn 7mo ago
Avoid complete silence (a bit of white noise or other background sound helps to mask it for some people), and try to avoid threads like this. Anything that makes me actively think about tinnitus is the absolute worst trigger, suddenly makin
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by bluescrn 8mo ago
Gaming created Nvidia And now Nvidia is destroying gaming
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by bluescrn 8mo ago
https://osxdaily.com/2024/04/11/opinion-shiny-keys-on-macboo...
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by bluescrn 8mo ago
Shame the keycaps wear so poorly. Just a cosmetic issue, but on a £3k machine that’s otherwise amazing, it’s annoying to have keycaps that look rather dirty/greasy as they wear and develop shiny patches. (Can at least replace them via
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by bluescrn 8mo ago
That would make retro computing illegal :( They’re trying to destroy all the best nerdy hobbies. First drones, then 3D printing, now even my precious Amiga!
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by bluescrn 8mo ago
But the Iranian regime isn’t at all fascist, right?
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by bluescrn 8mo ago
> Attempting to manage this as a parent is hellish. Doesn't matter what you do as a parent so long as kids are allowed smartphones at school. You can set up perfect filtering for your own kids, but that won't help when some oth
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by bluescrn 8mo ago
'Input lag' should really be called 'Output lag', as most of it usually comes from the display device and/or graphics pipeline, not input devices
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by bluescrn 8mo ago
Why on earth would they need something as visible and aggressive as DOGE to extract data? Can't it simply be a case of aggressive and overoptimistic attempts to cut spending (especially spending viewed as ideological) doing far more ha
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by bluescrn 8mo ago
Common trend with online activists is that they clearly don't want to risk jail themselves, but they like to actively encourage others to get violent.
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by bluescrn 8mo ago
I'm amazed that they still haven't added any way to organise/categorise your subscribed channels, it's just a big flat list.
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by bluescrn 8mo ago
There is no infinite scrolling. There’s a finite (albeit vast) amount of content to serve up.
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by bluescrn 8mo ago
I may well have done more hobby-related shopping 'binges'/impulse buying in place of eating/drinking binges while on Mounjaro. But that wasn't such a bad thing - it was mostly due to feeling a bit more awake/al
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by bluescrn 8mo ago
The most surprising effect of Mounjaro, at least initially was that it drastically reduced by desire to drink beer, and when I started, my drinking was at a very unhealthy level (beer calories being a major factor in my weight problem). But
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by bluescrn 8mo ago
Creating some sort of genetically-engineered dinosaur-derived ‘dragon’ may be more plausible than actually reaching another star system. It’s not going to breathe fire though.
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by bluescrn 8mo ago
The frame buffers/render targets alone for 8K are massive. Basically 400MB for 12 bytes/pixel (64bit HDR RGBA + 32bit depth/stencil) vs the 64000 bytes that Doom had to fill...
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by bluescrn 8mo ago
We can’t render modern games at decent frame rates at 4k without going down the path of faking it with AI upscaling and frame generation. There was no hope of actual 8k gaming any time soon even before the AI bubble wrecked the PC hardware
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by bluescrn 9mo ago
Last time I looked, the MK3->MK4 upgrade kit is basically the same price as a complete MK4 kit (very little can be reused. New electronics, motors, extruder) The upgrade kits are definitely a good thing, going from MK3 to MK3S to MK3.5S
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by bluescrn 9mo ago
Prusa may still be king if you're using printers commercially, running them hard 24/7 in a print farm, wanting to be sure your investment has a decent lifespan with readily-available spare parts and upgrade options. But it's
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by bluescrn 9mo ago
3D printer hardware is pretty simple. All the magic happens in software, and there's plenty of open-source options.
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by bluescrn 9mo ago
They don’t provide a large platform for political speech. This isn’t about AI or CSAM (Have we seen any other AI companies raided by governments for enabling creation of deepfakes, dangerous misinformation, illegal images, or for flagrant i
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by bluescrn 9mo ago
More likely the videos of FPV drones from Ukraine showing that an inexpensive quadcopter can be a very effective weapon of war. And that radio jamming no longer neutralizes that threat.
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by bluescrn 9mo ago
Governments don't care about minor scams. Political speech against them, on the other hand...

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