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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Hell of an uphill battle against MQ-9s, hellfire, and LRAS.

Too many people stayed home when they should have voted. It was their civic duty and moral goddamn obligation to the rest of the world. Fuck....

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

Dude, you got plenty of time. Look for remote jobs. Somebody needs you and your computer engineering skills! Speaking English also unlocks a lot of potential opportunities for remote work.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

This is a seriously cool article. An accretion disk tens of thousands of light-years across is fucking wild. That's getting awfully close to our own SMBH at our galactic core, sag A* if LID was placed between us and our SMBH.

A fucking plasma of superheated matter from a black hole could be crisping our black hole and Earth simultaneously. Jesus.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

It fucks with me in that I lose focus, but it's depressing AF to work while the sun is shining and leave as it's going down. I'm not a farmer, give me that mf sunlight back so I can hang out with friends :p

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Just like Venezuela. Jesus.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Not to be a downer, but the political ramifications matter significantly, and vice versa. This planet is way too small now, and I patiently monitor the politics of many countries to see how the world shifts in relation to peace and climate change.

This corresponds to everything, including games and distros if one country (not just the US) suddenly collapses.

I happily await the day politics calms down, the wars settle, and we focus primarily on climate change and science as our main passions once again.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Registering to vote is EZ too, as someone who bounced between states after uni.

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

Yes! Whole family AND friends and even friends who were gonna throw away their votes (changed their mind and voted well). Got people in big big online group chats to vote as well. Fingers crossed for the good outcome :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Even if they did, starting a chip company is fucking difficult AF. You don't want one mega company. You end up in a situation like Canada where they have one airline company and barely any cell carriers.

Competition is healthy. Fingers crossed that Nvidia starts making x86 CPUs as well as Qualcomm. AMD needs more competition too.

The GPU industry also needs some real competition.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Tbh, I'm fine with big AAAA games burning in financially, like Anthem or Redfall. The AA games from smaller devs are great, and I just don't buy the next game if they buy out a smaller studio and all the OG devs go on to building a new company. That's how we got games like Half Life, when MSFT devs got sick of working for a mega company and decided to build their own game.

If they buy out a studio and all the devs leave and form a new studio with the proceeds of the prior studio, it means more quality indie titles.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago

I actually ate the onion. Spooky that this one feels believable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

There are a few uses where it genuinely speeds up editing/insertion into contracts and warns of you of red flags/riders that might open you up to unintended liability. BUT the software is $$$$ and you generally need a law degree before you even need a tool like that. For those that are constantly up to their chins in legal shit, it can be helpful. I'm not, thankfully.

 

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RealPage, maker of YieldStar, is almost singlehandedly the ones causing rent to skyrocket across much of the United States.

One of the algorithm’s developers told ProPublica that leasing agents had “too much empathy” compared to computer generated pricing.

You can learn more about them here and why this antitrust case is so important:

https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-realpage-rent

 

Perhaps we shouldn't start deep sea mining yet.

 

There are geothermal solutions for geothermal features near the surface already. This article is about advances in deep geothermal solutions: 15,000+ feet of pipe, deep into the earth. Utilizing the falling cost of horizontal drilling equipment from the fracking industry, there are now solutions to drill 10,000 feet down, and 5,000 feet sideways to improve the likelihood of running into superheated rock. Currently, drilling will be limited to geothermally gifted areas of America, but may be able to expand to less fortunate areas as the technology improves and gets even less expensive.

 

For context, a water main blew, and the city of Calgary has been under strict water rationing for the past handful of days. The new pipe should arrive later this week from California :)

https://www.calgary.ca/emergencies/critical-water-main-break-june-2024.html?redirect=/16avewatermain

 

It's pretty cool that the government has a department that can delicately extract damaged money and return new bills to people. I wish this article went into the process of how they do it!

 

They found a plant thought to be exinct in the area, and got super excited when they found it. Seeds have been forwarded to a seed bank. The article is worth a read and is fairly short :)

 

It was a very unlikely win. Some, if not all players on this team have day jobs.

Paywall free version here: https://archive.ph/uQcS4

 

In effect, Mr. Trump’s candidacy is becoming a referendum on what kind of justice system the country believes it has now and wants to have in the future

 

I'm sure they are working on a youtube messaging app behind the scenes.

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