qanael

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by qanael 6y ago
Do you think playing video games a lot is comparable to excessive sugar consumption or sedentarism in terms of harm?
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by qanael 6y ago
This is highly dependent on the user, though it is a common problem. I've personally never had any motion sickness in VR, whether playing flight sims (including helicopters) or driving sims.
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by qanael 7y ago
I've always felt like flying cars are a solution looking for a problem. Massive deployment of flying cars has similar problems to cars on the ground (need space to land/park, airspace isn't unlimited, humans can't be tru
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by qanael 11y ago
Is that a meaningful distinction?
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by qanael 11y ago
It's kind of mind blowing that our cheap peripherals are driven by what used to be top-of-the-line processors only a few decades ago. I guess all that firmware has to run on something.
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by qanael 11y ago
I'm pretty sure the largest predictor of your wealth during your life is whether you were born wealthy, regardless of how strategic you are.
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by qanael 11y ago
If I'm not mistaken, those ships are more efficient per unit of cargo than smaller ships. It's one of the main reasons they were built.
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by qanael 11y ago
Sometimes you gaze into the abyss, and the abyss goes "yeah, that seems fine."
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by qanael 12y ago
Newegg has a "large format display" category for big monitors. 46" seems to be a popular size. There's some pretty cheap 1080p ones in there, but I don't know anything about their image quality.
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by qanael 13y ago
Getting thrown into the deep end is the best part about programming, IMO. It keeps me on my toes and constantly learning new things.
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by qanael 14y ago
Heat pipes are passive, though - there's no pump to carry the heat as far as you need to.