toddestan

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[–] toddestan@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago (3 children)

That's true, but the supply vastly outstrips the demand. They may make great Linux machines, but the majority of 10-15 year old computers have little to no economic value.

[–] toddestan@lemm.ee 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Theoretically, yes. A human would be smart enough not to drive right into a painted wall, using only their eyeballs combined with their intelligence and sense of self-preservation. A smart enough vision system should be able to do the same.

Using something like LIDAR to directly sense obstacles would a lot more practical and reliable. LIDAR certainly has enough distance (airplanes use it too), though I don't know about the systems Tesla used specifically.

[–] toddestan@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

I remember my first game of Stellaris many years ago - I had bought some pack that included some of the DLC out at the time. The crisis was bugged so that even after I beat the crisis and wiped it from the galaxy, the game didn't recognize that I had done so which left the game unbeatable. This was my first playthrough, no mods or anything like that, and I hit a game-breaking bug.

I played quite a bit of Stellaris as it was (still is?) a fun game, but I am more of a casual gamer and every time I picked the game up again they had changed at least one major mechanic, and there was yet another DLC out if you wanted the full experience. Encountering bugs in a play through was common, and game breaking ones would still pop up from time to time. Finally I just got fed up, especially for the cost of some of the pricier DLC you can buy a game like Factorio which is a much better value.

So at this point I'm done with Paradox. I suppose if I really had the urge to play Stellaris again I'd find something out on the high seas, but there's enough other, better polished, games out there to keep me busy.

[–] toddestan@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It wouldn't happen. The Republicans would either gerrymander the hell out of Canada in their favor, or Canada would just be another unincorporated territory like Puerto Rico - part of the US but no representation in Congress.

[–] toddestan@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

The Republican propaganda machine has already convinced a bunch of people who grew up during the cold war that Russia is now the good guys. It'll take some time, but I don't doubt they could do it.

[–] toddestan@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

When I was at college us physicists would joke about the biologists and the chemists and the mathematicians and the engineers, and in turn they'd joke about us, and we'd all have a good laugh over it.

I suppose it would come down to the context and how it was said.

[–] toddestan@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

And for all the money you spend on a Paradox game, you end up with something that feels like a half-finished beta.

[–] toddestan@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Have they watched it more than once? I actually thought it was okay after watching it the first time, despite the confusing plot and a bunch of minor characters I just couldn't keep straight. So I decided it was worth another watch so I could pick up more of the story, but instead the second viewing was just painful as I ended up realizing how terrible and nonsensical the movie was.

[–] toddestan@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago

While we're at it, let's also vent about cars and trucks with loud modified exhausts.

[–] toddestan@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

Rock n' Roll Racing.

[–] toddestan@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Generally, Google shows the appropriate name based upon where you are located. So for everyone outside of 'murica, it's still the Gulf of Mexico.

[–] toddestan@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago

And you'd know they'd gerrymander it into a small handful of high population blue territories and a giant pile of mostly empty red territories.

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