Not even playing lip service to supporting the open source stuff they built upon. They’ve also recently been trying to lockdown and paywall (or just drop) features. Including legal action against people trying to undo the damage.

The general sniff test is they are trying to lock people in before milking them for all they can.

Both of those have a lot of bang for their buck. I had also missed both completely. 👍

Valve just realised that killing the golden goose, for a quick buck, is a bad plan.

A smooth, efficient customer experience keeps us around.

A low friction, but not aggressively in your face sales setup makes getting us to pay them very easy.

Streamlining the developer toolchain and sales path means more games to sell to us.

It’s not a hard formula, but apparently MBAs can’t keep with it long enough to let it snowball. They keep trying to cash out early, and cook the goose.

QM isn’t insane to understand. It’s main issue is that it doesn’t map well/at all to our normal experience. You need to dive into the maths, and accept what falls out.

The main deeper level here is how the blurring happens. The photons explore all possible paths. The result is an integral of them all. In general, vast areas cancel out, leaving classical (ish) behaviour. This makes sense mathematically, but has no classical analogy to compare to.

It’s quantum mechanical, so the maths gets complex. It can be simplified in a useful way however.

Basically, atoms can absorb photons and then re-emit them. You can think of the photon flying past at C, but getting absorbed and emitted along the way, adding delays. In QM however, neat particles don’t exist, it deals with quantised, probabilistic waves. The above effect gets blurred over the waveform. No one atom definitely absorbs it or doesn’t, it gets blurred together into a general slowing of the wavefront.

I’ve taken to refering to it as “going grey”. It’s like the chroma on my emotions has been turned down. The shape is still there, but the colour is leached out of it.

It’s particularly nasty when paired with ADHD, since it robs you of drive, which is already in short supply.

What coping mechanisms do you use?

My main one is ‘anchoring’. I have core activities I aim to keep up, no matter what. Otherwise, when what colour I get comes back, I can be left with a ruin of a life (particularly social life) structure to rebuild from. It might not help much in the moment, but it at least speeds up the recovery phase.

I’ve got a ulefone 27T pro. It carries a lot of weird functions, despite being a modern phone.

It’s frustrating. My phone is fairly new, but also has the IR emitter. In a perfect world, I would set it up as a “TVbGone” type setup. Unfortunately all the apps have disappeared from the play store. Also, all the GitHub repositories are so old they don’t work with modern android.

Have you found an app that still works with an IR blaster? My phone has one, but none of the apps work anymore.

It can be formed, just not in the vast quantities it was back then. It requires unusual conditions to stop fungi making a meal out of it, before it gets buried deep enough.

I live in the UK. At this point, most of the polite smokers have moved over to vapes. Those left are almost entirely rude wankers who don’t care where their smoke goes and who it affects. The smoking ban came in because 1 smoker can affect dozens of unwilling people.

I have zero issues with vapes. The effect on others is quite minor, outside a few fog machines disguised as vapes.

It’s a universal problem. Good men/women/other spend far less time “available” than their fellows. A (straight) man like that would likely be snatched up and hung onto by the first woman smart enough to realise what she’s got. If she’s also a good option for him, then both are off the market permanently.

It’s like a box of chocolates. It’s not that the good ones don’t exist. The box just gets picked clean, and you’re left with the weird nuts to choose from.

(P.s. I stumbled in here from /all, so only have experience with how it plays out for straight foke. I presume it likely plays out similarly for queer etc too)

Most home storage is Lifepo4, rather than lithium ion.

It’s a bit more expensive, and only has 80% of the capacity. In tradeoff, it gains 3-5x the lifespan, and an inability to burst into flames.

Bigger brands tend to be more reliable in capacity and lifespan. Cheap ones are more hit and miss. It might be fine, it might fail after 3 years, rather than 10.

It could be worse. A “more information” button that automatically starts a voice/video call to the restaurant.

https://youtu.be/p9adIGy674g

The chances of a “missing” tourist’s body being found are also low, but not zero!

He just really likes pressure.

If it’s something new, stolen food is best food. Have something different yourself and let them try some from your plate. There’s no expectation that they have to eat more, if they don’t like it.

If it’s something they chose then they have a choice to eat it or not. It doesn’t get replaced however.

If it’s something you chose, then that’s more on you. As soon as my minion was talking, she started getting a say in what she wanted. Even if it did mean a mixed bowl of peas and sweetcorn became a staple for a while.

Assuming 1MW of transfer, and a 10m diameter beam, your looking at 12.5kW/m^2 . Not instant vaporisation, but dangerous in seconds to humans. The penetration was also mean the energy is delivered internally, where it’s harder to deal with (short term).

Any viable power transfer beam also, inherently, makes a good anti personnel weapon.

While the maths is slightly better for short range transfers, like drones, it would still definitely not be something you want hitting your body.