shiroiuma

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by shiroiuma 6mo ago
>But it's hard to go back to just a few colors, low-res graphics, often no way to save, etc... for me at least, the modern affordances mean something. All those old games have a way to save now, if you run them in an emulator as is
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by shiroiuma 6mo ago
>Sure, if you don’t count safety features like memory management, crash handling, automatic bounds checks and encryption cyphers; as anything useful. >Networking stacks, safety checks, encryption stacks, etc all contribute massively t
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by shiroiuma 6mo ago
In the US today, they try to entice people to those places by forgiving their student loans if they work there long enough.
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by shiroiuma 6mo ago
I think in reality, it shouldn't be hard to find people willing to take out garbage by simply paying a little better than other manual-labor jobs. There's always going to be people who can't work other jobs for some reason,
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by shiroiuma 6mo ago
Not for that task, you don't. Just get a washer/dryer. They're very common where I live: the machine both washes and dries your clothes, and uses a heat pump system on the dryer side for high efficiency. What's missing
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by shiroiuma 6mo ago
The problem is that if you make the place feel very unwelcoming to newcomers because you don't want the people who bring problems, the people who bring value don't come either unless you're offering extremely high pay, which
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by shiroiuma 6mo ago
Yep, this is the same almost everywhere. You're not going to find many young people who will go to a university to get the qualifications to be a medical professional, and then willingly move back to their middle-of-nowhere small town
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by shiroiuma 6mo ago
Society cannot function without garbage people. It must be done or society will collapse quickly, so society better find a pay rate that gets the job done.
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by shiroiuma 6mo ago
Another magazine I think they should have mentioned: "Radio-Electronics".
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by shiroiuma 6mo ago
From what I've read, the crew capsule really is all-new and very different from previous NASA capsules. However the engines and other launch stuff is just reused old stuff or a little modernized (SRS main engines + SRBs).
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by shiroiuma 6mo ago
We didn't have robots in 1969, and the Apollo missions resulted in many of the technologies that make modern robotics (and robotic space missions) possible.
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by shiroiuma 6mo ago
It's probably unaffordable for anyone to buy things from the US due to shipping costs, because the Trump administration has completely screwed up everything there with tariffs and mismanagement of the USPS and more. But the US is not
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by shiroiuma 6mo ago
That's all nice and well, but what exactly is the point if it's not going to be enforced *at all*? So we can feel smug and superior?
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by shiroiuma 6mo ago
The Shahed drones have more than enough range for this, easily. Whether they're "cheap" I guess depends on your perspective; they're certainly not as cheap as some handheld drone, but they're still pretty cheap com
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by shiroiuma 6mo ago
What's the problem. The Russians do stuff that you say are "war crimes", and what happens to them? Nothing. So why should anyone care if some person on the internet says these are war crimes? There's obviously no pen
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by shiroiuma 6mo ago
There's no good excuse for countless bad and stupid things Trump has done, but he did them anyway and no one has bothered to stop him.
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by shiroiuma 6mo ago
I disagree: lots of cheap drones would be extremely effective against an aircraft carrier. They don't need to sink the ship; they just need to damage the jets or disrupt operations on the flight deck. Even a small drone is a serious
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by shiroiuma 6mo ago
Drones have limited range. Perhaps a submarine would be better: sneak close to your target, raise a pipe from the sub to the surface, then launch a bunch of drones from it.
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by shiroiuma 6mo ago
No big loss here: Sony memory cards have always been massively overpriced.
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by shiroiuma 6mo ago
>They don’t joke around with lives on the line. They don't? They sure seemed to back when they ignored the engineers and launched Challenger, and again with Columbia. And those were times when the country had competent political l
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by shiroiuma 6mo ago
>But most importantly, airbags explode with serious force that can break bones in a kids face. They've been known to knock children's head off even. Because of that, they started putting switches in trucks to disable the passe
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by shiroiuma 6mo ago
Not a terrible idea really: Victorian times were also when the industrial revolution was happening, and unregulated coal plants and factories were belching out unimaginable amounts of pollution into city air. Getting away from that mess an
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by shiroiuma 6mo ago
There's different kinds of costs: cost to the government, and cost to actually build the thing. The contractor has no trouble inflating the first one whenever they can, but they want to strip the second one to the bone to maximize prof
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by shiroiuma 6mo ago
>I've often thought world leaders, upon election/selection, should get a free few orbits of the earth, to give them some perspective on the job they're about to undertake. Perhaps, but they should also get a few free orbit
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by shiroiuma 6mo ago
The thing that killed the Concorde was a fatal crash that killed everyone on board. The thing was already losing money because it guzzled fuel and was horribly loud and uncomfortable inside, while still costing a fortune for tickets. Not m
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by shiroiuma 6mo ago
>but now a lot of job applications require that you give them a LinkedIn URL. I haven't seen this at all, but I normally do provide my LinkedIn URL to companies that I apply to through that platform. I don't really see the pro
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by shiroiuma 6mo ago
>On LinkedIn this is mandatory, your "avatar" must mirror your physical self. Huh? On LinkedIn, the only thing that's mandatory is to have a profile that maybe looks like your resume, and that's about it. A photo
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by shiroiuma 6mo ago
Yes, I can see how some people might think the same system would work in the US too, with a HSR network going from Boston to LA, with stops along the way in NYC, Chicago, Louisville, St. Louis, Denver, and maybe some smaller cities too. But
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by shiroiuma 6mo ago
I have dual 27" monitors, both at work and at home. At work, they're 4K monitors, because that's all they have in this size for some reason (LG if it makes a difference). At home, my own monitors are ASUS ProArt 1440p monit
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by shiroiuma 6mo ago
>Remember that the goal here is to end rent seeking, not allow it but only for the wealthy for as long as it's profitable for them. Society would work a LOT better if there were a lot more rent-seeking against extremely wealthy peop

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