GreyEyedGhost

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[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay, I'll give you a bit of a pass based on the truly lousy headline, but there was another article posted before your post which mentions that the city existed for centuries and was covered by the water from a dam in the 1970s. Dinosaurs not included.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you can't make a plan to get home safely while you're sober, maybe you should go to a different bar, or not go altogether. Your right to get shitfaced doesn't cover being a danger to the public.

Yes, I'm the guy who would go to the bar with his friends, maybe have one drink at the beginning of the night, and make sure they got home safely.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

NonCredibleDefense, not sure which instance it's on, but they hit all on the regular.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

This looks very much like an upgrade. Components of the VR system are not included, such as controllers and a base station. Buying those from Steam to go with this headset adds $570 CAD to the price for a new setup.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And also that advanced materials science is hard. Yes, there will be a lot of apparent dead ends as well as a lot of dead ends that lead to new paths of research when coupled with as-yet unperformed research. It may be cool to say, "Yet another piece of research that won't leave the lab," but all comments like that (and the upvotes they receive) indicate is the complete lack of understanding those users have about the field in question.

Anti-intellectualism is the bane of progress.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Battery technology is changing all the time, but it's only highly visible when we switch fundamental systems. NiMH batteries had a number of improvements that increased energy density and charge cycles, but most users only saw they were NiMH batteries. The same applies to Li-ion batteries. Overall, rechargeable batteries have gotten 6 to 10 times as energy dense and cost has been reduced to about 5% per Ah over the last 30 years. This didn't happen because research wasn't leaving the lab.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago

Or my mom.

Me: Don't just click OK without reading the message first.

Mom: Don't click OK. Got it.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 37 points 1 year ago

This is part of what helped the I love you virus to spread. Not too many idiots would open a file titled ILoveYou.txt.vbs, but even some smarter people will turn their brains off if they get a file titled ILoveYou.txt, possibly even me, except the first thing I do with a new computer is unhide file extensions.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

I was going to say they didn't used to require that, but that's about 20 years ago, now...

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, I see you read the article. Now we're back at the start and you can continue to go in circles without me.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They need continuous profit. The CEO swears an oath to shareholders to prioritize profit quarter after quarter ad infinitum.

So root comment did.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's really a question of time or money for me. Whichever I have enough of first will decide which option I go with first. I don't expect I'll be buying Windows again.

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