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by vimacs2 5y ago
There is no good reason to think that we will in fact scale to the point where we can "simulate physics to the smallest quantum details, at a universal scale, at a fraction of the energy cost of our own universe". Computing cannot
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by vimacs2 5y ago
"CONTROLLER SUPPORT in steam valve never encouraged people to support controllers, WORSE, 99% of games expect you to use XBOX controller, as a result XBOX controller are displayed even if you use a DUALSHOCK one valve could have provid
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by vimacs2 5y ago
In orders of questions asked, probably not and probably not. There isn't really a particularly strong case to be made for the simulation hypothesis because it's unfalsifiable and the entire premise of it's alleged liklihood r
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by vimacs2 5y ago
While I actually do believe in the Dryas impact hypothesis myself, there is definitely quite a bit of stigma surrounding the idea, especially since controversal figures like Graham Hancock have embraced it. While I think a lot of his ideas
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by vimacs2 5y ago
This seems more like an opportunistic rant about Valve's marketing than a sincere response to the particular situation. The name makes perfect sense given its a slab that plays steam games and if you'd pay attention to the website
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Why on earth would you think trying to incentivise developers to release native Linux builds would be a more worthwhile investment than simply improving Proton? Linux desktop probably occupies about 2% of the steam market and that's be
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Yes but that's not really the same thing as real nationwide public healthcare. Going by my experiences in the UK at least, people tend to have a lot of pride with them even if they also will complain about issues with it. It's con
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by vimacs2 5y ago
I'm aware of that workaround but there shouldn't be any need for a workaround in the first place. Valve shouldn't get to freeze my entire library when I want to share a single game with a family member or friend.
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by vimacs2 5y ago
My personal number one issue with Steam (aside from the obvious fact that it's still DRM at the end of the day) is that I think their family sharing feature is kind of bullshit. You cannot let somebody play a game in your library and b
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by vimacs2 5y ago
I wonder how well would things turn out if people were given the choice to opt out of public healthcare. You don't get taxed on it but also cannot use it (except in ER situations obviously). I'd imagine that most people would stay
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Agreed, great movie. Only thing that I dislike is it does that trope where it makes a waaaaaay bigger deal out of somebody killing the villain than would actually be realistic, almost implying that somehow the protagonist has somehow become
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by vimacs2 5y ago
"Terrible" might be a little extreme but it's a little hard to argue that Wikipedia has not seen better days. The moderation culture has seemingly been taken over by deletionists who seem more concerned about some arbritary m
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Oh right, the controller has a gyro as well - something which for some reason Valve completely failed to advertise. You can use it both to aim and as a kind of spatial D-Pad (among a lot of other options).
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by vimacs2 5y ago
He also hired a private investigator to target the guy. I'm a huge fan of his work with SpaceX but let's not downplay what a petty asshole he was during that whole thing.
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by vimacs2 5y ago
I am definitely a SC Stan too. I learned how to truly master it playing Hollow Knight funny enough. Have a setup where I literally do not need to use anything but the trackpads and the occasional turning over of the whole controller to invo
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by vimacs2 5y ago
A shame because I personally found it funny and completely non-offensive as an Emacs user. This weird fake editor war is part of the culture of both editors and I'd prefer this kind of banter to the boring and tired jokes of "it&#
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by vimacs2 5y ago
> claiming Assad never used chemical weapons You mean the assertion made by western governments without any actual evidence and which was later confirmed to be politically motivated by OPCW whistleblowers? Where have I seen this script b
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Your view of gaming laptops is a couple of years out of date. There are plenty of capable gaming laptops now with slim profiles and while battery life is still not their forte, that's only when they are actually gaming which isn't
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by vimacs2 5y ago
. . . That's not what people mean when they say "half finished". It's when a game with a defined scope fails to meet that scope. You might not like the dearth of content with those titles but there is no indication that
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Not to mention much of traditional media are geared against the interests of the tech giants. It's older villains going after the newer villains.
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by vimacs2 5y ago
I do not disagree here. That being said, I fucking hate wasps so while I wouldn't hold a grudge over it, I'd definitely have mixed feelings about having a wasp named after me myself.
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by vimacs2 5y ago
I agree that it was petty of her but unless if anybody else steps up in her place in a substantial way and fight the major publishers, I think we should be a little lenient on her idiosyncracities. I don't know what the real story behi
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by vimacs2 5y ago
The nice thing is that we got plenty of time to study Venus since we do not really even need to terraform Venus to colonise it in the short term. At a high enough altitude, both the pressure and temperature drops to Earth's equivilent.
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by vimacs2 5y ago
>He left it to Republicans in Congress to do the right thing but they failed to do so. This is the fallback excuse Democrats always play when they either don't really want to implement something (such as a $15 minimum wage) or they
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by vimacs2 5y ago
>Yet they don't kill them or fabricate charges. While I cannot disconfirm the former (though there have certainly been some high profile cases with fishy circumstances- such as JFK), what about the Russiagate nonsense with Trump? I
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by vimacs2 5y ago
I think their point was your joke doesn't make much sense when only a small subsection of the entire telescope was ever replaced.
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Considering that they themselves made the telescope, do you consider all forms of self expression propoganda?
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by vimacs2 5y ago
You can "protest" sure for a given definition of the word but the US absolutely will go after any organisation or group that plan anything beyond ineffectual picket waving. While they might not be going full Maoist China on it&#x2
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by vimacs2 5y ago
This is one of the main reasons why I vape. I first got interested in the nootropic properties of nicotine long before I took up the pen when I came across Gwern's article on it. In particular, the possibility of reinforcing habits usi
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by vimacs2 5y ago
You're correct in the short term but Venus only has four times the nitrogen content of Earth which might sound like a lot for now but in a fully developed Dyson swarm, will prove to be inadequate. It might turn out to be a non issue si

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