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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

My interpretation is that synthehol isn't supposed to be a copy of alcohol, it's designed to give the positive effects of alcohol without the downsides, so that taste is likely not the main consideration.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

More like Sony doesn't want to cannibalize selling their own dedicated Blu-ray players for a much higher profit margin.

A $100 bluray drive, an Ugoos am6, and coreelec can get play everything for way less than a high end bluray player that can cost $1000.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I think we are entering a different era.

Once upon a time shrinking nodes came with cost reductions for the same amount of compute.

With the new bleeding edge nodes, this is not so true, you can increase compute density, but the cost of new nodes is astronomical, so prices go up too.

Many improvements recently are more architectural in nature, like zen ccds to decrease costs.

The architectural improvements will continue to scale, but node improvements are slowing, we are right on the edge of what is physically possible with silicon.

The improvements in games have slowed a ton too.

Each new generation of consoles has started to reach diminishing returns for graphics. Ray tracing seems more like a technology that is being pushed to sell hardware, rather than actually improving graphics efficiently.

The next high compute case might need more creative solutions other than throwing more compute at it. Like eye tracking for VR which reduces compute demand greatly

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Shame it doesn't support dolby vision though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Transporting food halfway across the world ain't free either.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Not in one exposure. Human eyes are much better with dealing with extremely high contrasts.

Cameras can be much more sensitive, but at the cost of overexposing brighter regions in an image.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

While pork and poultry are not great for the environment either, they have nothing on the methane emissions of ruminating animals like cows.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

I can't control the infrastructure that requires me to drive a car.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

The speed of light is fast, like stupid fast.

Some napkin math puts the travel time from Denver to DC at 1/100 of a second which for a human should be unnoticeable.

I doubt you could tell the difference between two watches with that difference.

 
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

The original question was why solar systems and galaxies are in planes, and your explanation is wrong.

What do you even mean by similar orbits? Most orbits are circular for a totally different reason, and that is tidal interactions.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

I hate to be that guy, but this is wrong.

The solar system is mostly in one plane because it formed from a cloud of gas. The cloud of a gas has some total non zero rotation and as the cloud collapses interactions flatten the cloud into a disk, where all of the planets formed.

This same principle applies to galaxies.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Except that cars are heavy, so multi-level parking is prohibitively expensive.

 

System shock was before my time, but starting it now and its clear some of the mechanics inspired Prey.

The setting that they both have is also something that I'd love see more of slightly horror set on a space station.

 

I have noticed that its much more difficult when you get a lot of the new mobs.

The corrupter is a pain to fight on uneven terrain, which is most caves.

The septic spitter creates painful hazards, but is at least easy to identify and kill.

I've seen the stingtail down so many people by moving them out of position repeatedly, so I've found i need to protect teamates it's targeting.

I love the jet boots, especially as gunner, but even as scout its useful. I just wish I'd see them more.

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