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Re: Evening Consolidation
Mar 8, 2024, 08:36
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Re: Evening Consolidation Mar 8, 2024, 08:36
Mar 8, 2024, 08:36
 

I can understand console exclusives early in a console's lifecycle, but were way past that now. If someone hasn't already bought a PS5 by this point, they won't because of an exclusive so late in the cycle, it doesn't make any sense at all.
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So want to play Mortal Kombat with real body odor…
Feb 28, 2024, 18:49
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So want to play Mortal Kombat with real body odor… Feb 28, 2024, 18:49
Feb 28, 2024, 18:49
 

Including when they die and shit themselves?
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Kellogg's CEO faces backlash for saying people should eat cereal for dinner to save money
Feb 28, 2024, 18:46
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Kellogg's CEO faces backlash for saying people should eat cereal for dinner to save money Feb 28, 2024, 18:46
Feb 28, 2024, 18:46
 

A modern take on "Let them eat cake".
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Re: ELDEN RING: Shadow of the Erdtree in June
Feb 21, 2024, 18:50
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Re: ELDEN RING: Shadow of the Erdtree in June Feb 21, 2024, 18:50
Feb 21, 2024, 18:50
 
phinn wrote on Feb 21, 2024, 17:40:
Simon Says wrote on Feb 21, 2024, 17:32:
This has cheapass moneygrab written all over it.
Congrats on having the worst hot take of the year so far.

If they ever get their lazy asses in gear and finally implement DLSS and/or FSR like all the other titles with RT effects ( which would be a breeze considering they already have TAA and I bet Nvidia would send them a team to help em do it for free if they ever whistled ), wake me up and I'll recant.

Not holding my breath for it tho, not for their #VomitDLC either.
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Re: ELDEN RING: Shadow of the Erdtree in June
Feb 21, 2024, 17:32
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Re: ELDEN RING: Shadow of the Erdtree in June Feb 21, 2024, 17:32
Feb 21, 2024, 17:32
 
jacobvandy wrote on Feb 21, 2024, 11:28:
Holy shit, $40? And no upgrade for existing owners? This had better be MASSIVE.

About as big as "Limgrave", 10 new bosses, 8 new weapons...

60$ used be a full game... I should pay 2 thirds of that for what's maybe a fifth ( at best ) of the original game?

I'm not impressed, and I'm not paying 40$ for that.

This has cheapass moneygrab written all over it.
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Re: Five reasons to heat your home using infrared fabric
Feb 17, 2024, 21:05
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Re: Five reasons to heat your home using infrared fabric Feb 17, 2024, 21:05
Feb 17, 2024, 21:05
 
Cutter wrote on Feb 17, 2024, 16:00:
Here, cold climate heat pumps are seriously expensive 10k-20k on average and can soar past that.

You're in Canada too right?

2024 source: https://www.furnaceprices.ca/heat-pumps/heat-pump-prices/

"At the low end, a ductless heat pump may cost only $4,000 to $8,000 with installation."

So in some cases the government subsidies can cover the whole costs.

But if you go with geothermal, yeah, it can go past 20k.
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Five reasons to heat your home using infrared fabric
Feb 17, 2024, 14:37
1.
Five reasons to heat your home using infrared fabric Feb 17, 2024, 14:37
Feb 17, 2024, 14:37
 
Radiant heating sounds good... until you put it in practice.

Switching to radiant heating has doubled the electricity bill of my uncle. I never saw someone switch back to ground level plinth so fast in my life.

Also with the advent of efficient heat pumps with a CoP of 2 to 3 even down to minus 30 celsius, why pump 1000 watts in radiant or plinths that return 1000 watts of heat when you can pump 333 to 500 watts in a heat pump and get the same return of 1000 watts of heat for half to a third the price in electricity?

You can even boost heat pumps with underground loops and a water tank to have a CoP of upto to 6 which also helps with air conditioning in the summer.

Also, heat pumps have government subsidies in a lot of countries right now, odds are it won't cost you a dime.

This comment was edited on Feb 17, 2024, 21:06.
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In America, Headlights are blinding but not in other countries, this tech is why
Feb 16, 2024, 14:57
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In America, Headlights are blinding but not in other countries, this tech is why Feb 16, 2024, 14:57
Feb 16, 2024, 14:57
 

ADB is mostly useless with anything else than another car.

What? Only cars exist?

What was wrong with the older yellow tinted headlights?

That madness with the absolutely fracking blinding blue tinted headlights just needs to stop.

We know human eyes are much more sensitive to blue light. 5000 lumens of yellow light is several times less blinding than 5000 lumens of blue light.

Just regulate the tint and be done with it you dumbasses.
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Re: Morning Metaverse
Feb 16, 2024, 14:52
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Re: Morning Metaverse Feb 16, 2024, 14:52
Feb 16, 2024, 14:52
 
"Stephen King
@StephenKing
Dear Elon:
Twitter.
Twitter, Twitter.
Twitter, Twitter, Twitter.
Twitter, Twitter, Twitter, Twitter.
And so on.
Fuck your need to put your personal brand on everything."

Nuff' said... lol.
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Windows 11 may soon get a must-have feature for all PC gamers
Feb 14, 2024, 17:56
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Windows 11 may soon get a must-have feature for all PC gamers Feb 14, 2024, 17:56
Feb 14, 2024, 17:56
 

I'll never migrate to Win 11, forget it MS, not now, not ever.
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Re: Morning Mobilization
Feb 14, 2024, 17:54
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Re: Morning Mobilization Feb 14, 2024, 17:54
Feb 14, 2024, 17:54
 
RedEye9 wrote on Feb 14, 2024, 15:40:
You’ll want to wear fire retardant gloves and use a Pyrex receptacle to catch the lithium you drain out of those batteries.
That stuff is pretty reactive.😵‍💫
Also be sure to keep it out of reach of pets and small kiddos.☠️

Haven't read the article or you're joking? Can't tell...

Anyways... drain here means discharging the battery ( not opening it and letting whatever liquid is in it drain out ).
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Re: SUVs Now Account More Than Half Of All Cars Sales In Europe
Feb 13, 2024, 19:34
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Re: SUVs Now Account More Than Half Of All Cars Sales In Europe Feb 13, 2024, 19:34
Feb 13, 2024, 19:34
 
Prez wrote on Feb 10, 2024, 17:08:
My opinion remains unchanged: It's still not anyone's place to tell someone else what they 'need'. It's pretty arrogant to take that right.
(...)
I believe you have the right to live how you choose. If it's legal, I mind my business.

You want to go there? Ok, let's go there.

A SUV is not a need unless there is a real life practical need for it. If you don't have a real life practical need, it's a DESIRE.

Unless you live in the boonies ( or have a very rare and specific need for a SUV's capabilities above and beyond what a sedan can do ) you really don't NEED a SUV, you just DESIRE it. A desire is a PRIVILEGE, not a right.

And when someone's desire, someone's privilege, results in someone else's avoidable death or a lifelong handicap instead of minor wounds, that's where I draw the line. You don't have a right to put someone else's life in danger because of a selfish desire.

Legality doesn't mean morality. Slavery was once legal ( some can argue it still is in an "evolved" form ), did that make it moral? Would I "mind my business" about slavery? Fuck no. That's why I loathe prison systems in countries where it's legal to exploit the inmates for labour as an example among many others.

In a nutshell, please stop mistaking "need" and "desire" as well as "legal" and "moral".

That being said, if only the "nose" of those SUVs was lowered to the same height as a sedan, it wouldn't even be an issue. Very few SUVs do have a lowered nose and they are mostly sold in Europe where there is regulation regarding that issue. Lower all SUVs noses and I couldn't care less even if 100% of all vehicles sold were SUVs as long as the casualties drop back down to sedan levels.

As a side note, the same problem has been noted about pickup trucks, older pickups had a lower nose, newer pickups higher nose also cause the same issue as SUVs higher nose. Regulation ( or the manufacturers collectively putting their "man pants" on and solving that problem ) that solves that issue would also be welcome by me.

This comment was edited on Feb 13, 2024, 19:58.
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Re: Morning Tech Bits
Feb 13, 2024, 16:05
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Re: Morning Tech Bits Feb 13, 2024, 16:05
Feb 13, 2024, 16:05
 
Tom wrote on Feb 13, 2024, 15:09:
Perf per watt is what really matters now, given the now reasonably common ability to throttle by power or temp. Can the CPU get up to 300W or 400W? Great, who cares, as long as it can be reliably capped at a preferred power or temp and deliver good results that way. I need a CPU, not a space heater.

Nowadays if your priority is perf per watt, you want an AMD chip, X3D if gaming or your workload loves cache.

As for "Chat with RTX", there has been GTP4All that has been doing the exact same thing ( less the video ripping thing ) for a long time now and their choice of models is far larger.
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Re: SUVs Now Account More Than Half Of All Cars Sales In Europe
Feb 9, 2024, 12:09
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Re: SUVs Now Account More Than Half Of All Cars Sales In Europe Feb 9, 2024, 12:09
Feb 9, 2024, 12:09
 
Prez wrote on Feb 8, 2024, 16:34:
No I think I get your point. I just choose to subtly remind people that they don't get to dictate what other people 'need'. But I would agree; you don't need to walk me through it, and in fact I would rather not hear it.

As I thought, you're unaware of the problem and the consequences.

If you want to stay that way, I won't interfere.

Only reveal the secret/"invisible" text below if you're curious:

A simple internet search regarding the sharp increase in the quantity and also the severity of road casualties caused by the move to SUVs will do the trick.
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Re: SUVs Now Account More Than Half Of All Cars Sales In Europe
Feb 8, 2024, 16:30
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Re: SUVs Now Account More Than Half Of All Cars Sales In Europe Feb 8, 2024, 16:30
Feb 8, 2024, 16:30
 
Prez wrote on Feb 8, 2024, 14:40:
Simon Says wrote on Feb 8, 2024, 13:14:

World has gone mad, unless you live out in the boonies, you don't need a SUV.

Maybe so, but no one needs video games either, but here we are. 🙂

You're missing the point too much for me to walk you through it...
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SUVs Now Account More Than Half Of All Cars Sales In Europe
Feb 8, 2024, 13:14
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SUVs Now Account More Than Half Of All Cars Sales In Europe Feb 8, 2024, 13:14
Feb 8, 2024, 13:14
 

World has gone mad, unless you live out in the boonies, you don't need a SUV.
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Re: Evening Tech Bits
Feb 8, 2024, 09:46
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Re: Evening Tech Bits Feb 8, 2024, 09:46
Feb 8, 2024, 09:46
 
ZeroPike1 wrote on Feb 8, 2024, 06:19:
Far cry from the „AI“ from the movie War Games. Which came to the conclusion that the only way to win nuclear war is to not start one to begin with.

80's AI > 2020's AI

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Re: Saturday Tech Bits
Feb 4, 2024, 00:41
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Re: Saturday Tech Bits Feb 4, 2024, 00:41
Feb 4, 2024, 00:41
 
RedEye9 wrote on Feb 3, 2024, 12:21:
I loves me some ads in my os.

I swear they will not rest until they achieve Idiocracy level ads.

#AllYourScreenAreBelongToUs
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Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin
Feb 2, 2024, 21:11
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Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin Feb 2, 2024, 21:11
Feb 2, 2024, 21:11
 
"The mining operations fall in two major clusters: one in Texas"

Well, here it is... The stupidest thing I saw on internet today.

That's a lot of wasted electrons.
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Re: OotB: Where does the time go?
Feb 1, 2024, 16:36
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Re: OotB: Where does the time go? Feb 1, 2024, 16:36
Feb 1, 2024, 16:36
 
Burrito of Peace wrote on Feb 1, 2024, 13:26:
The idea of SMRs (the nuclear power plants in the article linked) used for civilian power production is not a new one. We, the US, have deployed our aircraft carriers in the past to aid missions where they do just that. In addition, the Tennessee Valley Authority is already working on both SMRs and micro reactors for civilian power production and has been for a while. Source.

I really like the concept of micro reactors. McMurdo Station in the Antarctic ran one for a decade and generated 1.8MW of power daily. This was in 1962.

They have their very niche uses, but the main problem with SMRs is they're awfully inefficient compared to full sized reactors in terms of construction materials, fuel and costs.

This contributes a lot to the prohibitive cost per Kw of SMRs which results in noncompetitive prices. Heck, even traditional reactors have had trouble competing on price for years now.

Add to that the inherent disadvantages to fission, waste disposal, risks, acceptability, etc. and you have a "solution" that doesn't really solve anything.

That being said...

Thorium reactors might prove an alternative, but they're unproven, untested, have no track records to analyse and there are still way too many other unknowns yet. Not to mention they seem to be having very difficult issues to solve before being even barely viable.

This comment was edited on Feb 1, 2024, 16:53.
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