No, I don’t think so. There is cleanup required on the rails of course, but it’s used fairly regularly in some places I think when the tracks are wet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbox_(locomotive)

A lot of trams carry sand that they can put on the rails to get more grip when they need to break really fast. That might be what happened there

You know, the new word is ‘affordability.’ Another word is just ‘groceries.’ It’s sort of an old-fashioned word but it’s very accurate. And they’re coming down

such an eloquent speaker

I’m very proud of my budget server setup. around $220 in total for an i7 6700 thinkcentre from the university surplus store, plus 16 gb ram, a 256 gb sata SSD and an 8tb hdd

I don’t use it for media hosting or anything, so the 8tb drive is mostly just for backups of the server and my desktop.

there’s contexts where it could be fine I think, like if you know your friend will take it lightly, and you’re not taking it seriously either. but actually trying to test someone with that is stupid

Yes, if you’re limited on money you certainly don’t need that much. You could get very similar setup with Seagate’s 8tb drives for like $200. And things don’t need to be stored in archival quality either. Just saying that amount of storage isn’t crazy expensive nowadays.

Also you forgot the $700 Mac pro wheels lol (yes they cost that much now)

I don’t do this, I just don’t think it’s particularly unreasonable to have that much storage. It’s less than what apple will charge you for a 2tb ssd

get 2 for redundancy and better read speeds, that’s ~$670 and some space to spare (they’re 26 tb each)

https://serverpartdeals.com/products/seagate-exos-st26000nm000c-26tb-7-2k-rpm-sata-6gb-s-512e-cmr-3-5-recertified-hard-drive

storage isn’t that expensive nowadays, and density is still going up. Seagate is expecting to be able to make 80 TB drives in the early 2030s

Have you heard about the plant Siphilim? Apparently it was fairly prevalent and very highly valued in ancient times, but was lost by the middle ages.

hm i thought it would be further in the future

I suppose it depends on if you count conservation as philanthropy. Like I said though, it’s not that significant compared to his overall wealth.

But it seems like almost every other storefront operates under those margins for digital sales (not just in gaming)

Notable that Epic Games takes only a 12% cut, and 0% of the first $1 million in sales (effectively 0% for the vast majority of indie games). A cynical take is that they’re just doing this to attract developers to their store, which is almost certainly true, but it doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll take a higher cut if they become dominant. Unfortunately the Epic Games platform is missing the majority of extra features that Steam has (built in streaming, family share, input binding, big picture mode, etc)

Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, is about 80% as wealthy as Gabe Newell, and has done much more philanthropy, although it only represents probably less than one percent of his net worth.

I would not interpret it that way. Also, even just looking at its literal meaning, I don’t think it’s saying that the other person needs to get their shit together, as that would imply they don’t have their shit together, which is something that it doesn’t explicitly state and rarely implies in practice. The only implication I hear from it is “be involved in things that affect you [and this doesn’t affect you]”

people are saying that the witcher 3 works really well with the winulator app (uses wine and box86, which i’ve heard usually performs a tiny bit better than FEX, what valve is using, at the cost of occasional innacuracies)

not disagreeing, but if you just want to run the witcher 3 on your phone you can do it right now

get rid of the vr stuff and add a normal touchscreen instead, make the UI a bit more phone-like, add a cellular connection, get rid of monochrome and add color cameras, make it a little thinner, integrate the battery, add a bunch of phone apps (calculator, texts, calls, browser, notes, email, camera, etc)

computing-wise, it is very similar tho, it has the exact same processor that’s in my phone, just a bit more ram, can be configured to have the same amount of storage

I think linux is the point. Because Valve has put SteamOS on their VR headset (which uses the same processor I have in my phone) it would be expected for them to do the same to a phone. Having a phone with an optimized emulator, a normal linux for arm desktop mode, and Steam built in would be very nice IMO, there are a lot of PC games that play fairly well with on-screen controls or even one of those controller phone cases that you can buy, and it’s very hard to find good mobile games in comparison. I have the app Winulator on my phone, which sort of does that same thing, except not insanely reliably, and with meh UX, and it can’t really run Steam (last I checked, I couldn’t get it to work, it might be easier now idk), and you can’t run linux x86 or ARM apps or windows ARM apps through it like I think people will be able to on the Steam frame.

the gpu is weak, but with proper foveated rendering it is absolutely good enough I think

I’m someone who has gotten sick in cars before (rarely) but I have done a lot of crazy stuff on VR and never felt remotely sick. I’m an outlier though

It sounds like they weren’t being particularly secretive about anything. I think this was not an expected move

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nOwjeznjI

As a native English speaker I certainly won’t process the words of a lot of songs without a conscious effort

Lyrics are so often indecipherable as well. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jGLYJQJh9c8

One that I remember is that I had heard the song “believer” a number of times before learning its name, I always thought they were saying “pick me up and pick me up and leave me, and leave me”. I don’t think I even tried to decypher the rest lol