I always find it funny the reactions of men who seek hair loss treatment with a real medical service and learn that they’re most likely going bald because genetically they have way too much testosterone.
Double funnies when conservatives have to face the fact that the treatment for their bald head is hormone therapy and the irony of taking hormone blockers for gender affirming therapy never crosses their mind…
Just remember that the hard part is not buying the thing, but keeping it clean. I’ve seen some filthy MFs drinking swamp water with a dash of mold. Some of those chic water bottle designs are nearly impossible to keep clean.
Nolan is an elitist asshole and his movies are not that great, actually. That is just him going “kids these days” like an old fart. He is all in on the IMAX scam. He insists on bad audio mixing (horrible even on theaters) hiding under the “I only mix for IMAX theaters” excuse. At least he acknowledges that it is Hollywood that is terribly out of touch with reality. Backrooms is successful because it connects with the audience nothing to do with whether it uses CGI or not (the Oppenheimer nuclear explosion scene is SO bad in an otherwise fine movie). And Backrooms was filmed on a regular digital 35mm Red camera at 1.85 ratio with regular Dolby Atmos and you can absolutely hear the dialogue. He might denounce AI slop but doesn’t realize that he’s also been using tech as a crutch to his creative shortcomings.
Richie said no cocaine.
I have a joint in the car.
Now that’s what I’m talking about!
It sends a wrong impression because the show is 100% not entirely about that (it might be a little bit about that, but also about all the different ways obsessions and insecurities kill ambitions), but that one scene was so weird and funny in an awkward out of place but somehow not surprising kind of way.
Wow, way to be super narrow minded. Baby boomers are a worldwide category. The US is not the only country that experienced a population boom after the second world war, they didn’t even experience the largest population boom by a long mile. The cultural markers are usually slightly different, but they also have a ton of overlap, over all continents and countries. Anyway, I agree with your points elsewhere on the thread, but you’re kind of a cunt.
Gen Alpha did not invent funny numbers. Every single generation has had some version of random meaningless silliness.
The US is not the only country in the planet nor is its creation the epoch of the beginning of time. You do know that legal frameworks and other countries also existed before the US?
I don’t think that boring is the operative factor in this situation. But otherwise I would say you are technically correct.
Apps will only keep getting ram hungry for little while due to inertia. But that era is over. Programmers got away with demanding more ram because ram was cheap. Each new device doubled or tripled their ram capacity every year. That era is over for good. Even if the LLMs bubble pops today, prices won’t go down for the next decade at least. With these new devices—consoles, phones, computers—keeping or even reducing ram capacity from previous generations, developers have no choice but to hold back their ram race.
Add: eventually the developers will have to optimize or there will be no market capable of running the software.
It’s not about typing faster. Effectively the difference of speed between qwerty, dvorak, colemak, etc. Are significant but not very big.
It’s about avoiding repetitive strain injuries. If you type all day long for a living, something like carpal tunnel syndrome can destroy your career. Did you know that Emacs pinky is actually a type of injury. Anyways, keyboards are the number one source of RSI in office workers. Alternative keyboard layouts reduce fatigue and strain to hand ligaments by reducing the need for repeated awkward finger motions.
If you actually wanted to type as fast as people speak, you need something like a chorded steno keyboard. If you think you can type fast on qwerty, you have never seen a stenographer doing their thing.
Phillips is meant to slip, on purpose. It is designed so factory workers in the past, who used manual drives, could quickly assemble things without over torquing the screws. Just go firm and continuous until the thing slips, then switch to the next step, if you have to use force to avoid slip, you are doing too much. It was simple and easy. Pozidrivs are meant to withstand and impart way much more torque, but, they are supposed to be used with a torque limited electric drive. So assemblers, and even robots, can do the job fast and to exact torque specifications. The result is that people use PZ drives on PH screws and immediately obliterate them, because the drive has too much grip. While the PD drive fits PZ screws but won’t grip and will slip much more, causing a ton of damage to both screw and drive. It is not entirely the material’s fault. Using the wrong drive or choosing the wrong screw head is what usually leads to failures.
The smartphone represents the death of ergonomics.
A featureless and unremarkable slab of plastic, aluminum and glass. If one is to think that form follows function, then the function of an object should be obvious from analyzing its form. The smartphone defeats itself, its shape says nothing of what it does. Is it for taking pictures? is it for writing? is it for reading? is it for communication? When every answer is yes, then what is it good for? It’s not particularly good at any of those, it is just good enough. The most basic of the common denominator, an abstract rectangle, a basic black mirror of nothingness.
Ergonomics are about shaping an object so perfectly to its function and to human biomechanics that its use becomes spontaneous when the object is used and it doesn’t hurt or harms the user. “The maximum of comfort, security and efficiency.” The smartphone is not any of those, for any of the things it does. It is awkward to hold for a call, it is strenuous to read or even watch media in, it is uncomfortable to hold to take pictures with, touch control are inefficient for gaming or typing.
There’s one thing the smartphone is though, it is small and it is portable. That’s it.
When you experience the functions of dedicated devices, the shortcomings of the smartphone show up even more evidently. Holding even a hobbyist camera, reading on an e-ink screen, playing games with an actual controller (or mouse and keyboard), writing even on a basic mechanical keyboard. A smartphone will never compete on that level of tactility and comfort.
The smartphone is the death of ergonomics.
Kobo offers one of the most open and cheapest platforms. Great variety as well in features and models.
I want to upgrade my really old kindle for a Clara colour.
Maybe, but it is not like I have free access to Europe. I was there by chance, it’s not like I live there. Steam historically has never sold hardware anywhere in the global south, specially in latam, at least Asia get some official sell channels.
They didn’t even accepted my appeal that I was on vacation. Just plain old “take your ban time and fuck off” from support.
Steam nukes accounts for region hopping. I got threatened once for buying on Europe and then on Latin America in too short a period of time and my account was on probation for a while. God forbid one travels internationally with a laptop.
Also, steam explicitly forbids shipping to forward freight services or PO boxes.
Not 100% accurate. The Steam Machine has the smallest form factor at that power capacity. It is reportedly the quietest piece of hardware for its size. And it also solved the wake with controller issue.
None of those things are available in any other hardware package. I game on a laptop connected to my living room TV. It is somewhere midway between a deck and the Steam Machine. I can hear the fans over the TV speakers on intensive games and the setup is awkward. I have to walk to the tv to startup the laptop and use wireless keyboard and mouse to handle the laptop until I get to desktop and only then the controller can summon big screen mode.
That’s not what’s happening to OP. It’s not that they can get into a raffle and wait their turn. As I’ve said elsewhere, 90% of Steam users can’t even get to the raffle as the Steam Machine is not sold to their region. Due to the hardware supply chain constraints. Fuck AI.
You are both right. Arguing for completely unrelated things. Potatoes with pasta is indeed way too much starch for a healthy diet, if you are eating it on the regular and doubling your ingestion of carbs and starch. But it has nothing to do with taste, they taste fine together, as the many fine recipes and dishes everyone else have posted. They will make you bloaty though, the best is to regulate the portions back to a recommended protein/fibre/carb proportion, and you won’t even notice.
For a lot of people tattoos are indeed a luxury they indulge in. Also, for a significant amount of people who get tattoos, the pain is part of the point.
It all went to shit when advertisers realized that they don’t actually have to sell anything. The ad is the product. That’s why so much advertisement is a scam now. Regulation is so far behind the problems of the internet it is ridiculous. Some companies entire business model is to put out ads, then funnel the data straight to data brokers. The products aren’t real, they just have to get prints, eyes and occasional curiosity or accidental clicks, and they make a margin over it. It is madness.