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by samplatt 3y ago
We've all played enough Factorio/Satisfactory to know what the end result is going to look like.
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by samplatt 3y ago
Not Op, but I suspect the use of "efficient" here is used more in terms of "usefulness of output" rather than pure turbine efficiency. For example, you might have a VERY efficient turbine, but if they're constraine
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by samplatt 3y ago
Apparently coined by Cory Doctorow in January this year - https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/
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by samplatt 3y ago
My first thought, too. Fuck that was an amazing piece of worldbuilding. Really allowed me to recognise the sorts of shell-games people play everywhere in everyday life: the more "strategic" social butterflies, the corporate power
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by samplatt 3y ago
Tales From Earthsea was a passable Le Guin adaptation with some wonderful visual moments... but From Up on Poppy Hill is just drop-dead gorgeous. It's not a spectacle, but it's just amazingly visually rich, and tugs at every h
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by samplatt 3y ago
....I've watched the movie like four times and I think this is the first time I've noticed there's not 'also' in the title.
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by samplatt 3y ago
>the data engineers, who got their jobs because they kinda knew SQL a decade ago, are incompetent. I don't think I've ever been called out more in my life.
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by samplatt 3y ago
Offtopic, but as a VR gamer that article just made me very sad. I was really hoping to see NVidia produce some decent cards in the near future, but looks like their main revenue is really going to be gargantuan number-crunchers. They'l
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by samplatt 3y ago
Housing supply is kept artificially low; this a generally-accepted fact. "Assuming they are plotting a corporate takeover" is hardly misguided. It's an already-well-trod and completely-legal path for banks and developers to t
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by samplatt 3y ago
>- They weigh less and are more compact than bottles This is the real key one. My intel from a brewery that was sadly bought by Coke was that the savings in transit & shipping is staggering. More beverages in the same amount of space
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by samplatt 3y ago
>this makes it better for renters as corp owners give long term stability for a 'home' I can't take this seriously. Given who writes the rules the end result will always be "better long term stability for whoever can
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by samplatt 3y ago
Agreed. It's almost impossible to REALISTICALLY interpret "addressing barriers to investment within the housing sector" in any way that would benefit the working class. What is this "round table" going to propose? T
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by samplatt 3y ago
Which will then mean that it's a good investment.
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by samplatt 3y ago
Oh, thank goodness for that.
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by samplatt 3y ago
>Treasurer Jim Chalmers has met with... Can I get a source on that? As an Australian this affects me.
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by samplatt 3y ago
Well, let's start with some basics. 100% of a farming town/community are going to hold "don't grab an unknown fence, as it might be electric" to be common sense. Yet there's going to be a sizable portion of the
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by samplatt 3y ago
We have to actively TRY to stop killing other human beings; animals and plants haven't got a chance.
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by samplatt 3y ago
Curious. How do you go with 'normal' VR? Are there any problems playing games?
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by samplatt 3y ago
I don't disagree with your other points AT ALL, but given how repeatedly proven that common sense is entirely a fiction, if any argument falls back on it you have to be immediately suspect of it.
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by samplatt 3y ago
Wood in today's society needs chemical treatment or physical isolation before we use it a construction material.
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by samplatt 3y ago
39 here, but I really cannot imagine ever leaving my triple-screen [tie-fighter]( https://i.imgur.com/DkqkER7.jpeg)-style setup, unless it was for an unlimited number of unlimited-resolution screens. If I could have one scre
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by samplatt 3y ago
Yep, it takes about 15 years to read Anathem, so that tracks.
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by samplatt 3y ago
Can't go into specifics due to privacy issues, desyncs being common is well-known enough though. It's just unreasonably hard to build a service that's resilient, that doesn't require manual intervention or maintenance.
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by samplatt 3y ago
You would be _amazed_ how many issues you can get with so-called synchronized time. Ship on-board NTP servers are currently a thing of my team's nightmares.
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by samplatt 4y ago
Doctors only know what they've been taught or experienced. You'd hope specialists would know these things, but even they miss things and forget things. And GP's? fuggeddaboutit
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by samplatt 4y ago
Mine has an enclosed back verandah, a 3x15 meter space with lots of hideyholes. She also gets (supervised) time in a backyard with long grass. Doubtless she kills lizards and rodents during this time. But it's about as good a compromi
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by samplatt 4y ago
Indoor cats live longer and have fewer health issues. Sorry kitty, I like the idea of native wildlife existing and less vet bills more than your freedom.
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by samplatt 4y ago
I've always been suspect of the 'kills birds' argument. I lived near some turbines on an extremely windy coast, and never EVER saw any dead birds anywhere near it. Daily cleaning up the evidence with ruthless efficiency or ju
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by samplatt 4y ago
>Almost nobody who makes a big deal out of this has ever actually been affected by it, they're just parroting what they're told. Either that or they're paid to come and clean up the mess after a company has been hacked due
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by samplatt 4y ago
Most of the "real" truths psychedelics reveal are about ourselves, and they do it the exact same way a therapist does - by showing us there's a different way to think, exploring the results, comparing those results to what yo

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