[-] vithigar@lemmy.ca 6 points 15 hours ago

Unless you really need to optimise for land use. An arbitrarily large solar array in space could transmit to a fairly small collector in the surface.

As for losing power to atmospheric attenuation, high frequency microwaves will pass right through most everything that would scatter visible light. Clouds, dust, etc wouldn't really impede it.

I won't say it's not a silly idea, because it is. It's fun to think about though.

[-] vithigar@lemmy.ca 110 points 2 days ago

For reasons similar to why plain bread doesn't show up in sandwich recommendations.

[-] vithigar@lemmy.ca 90 points 7 months ago

I love the detail that she put "+ AI" on both sides of the equation so that it's still technically correct regardless of what the AI stands for.

[-] vithigar@lemmy.ca 107 points 1 year ago

D-Brand paid him to bleach it.

[-] vithigar@lemmy.ca 67 points 2 years ago

What is this person even talking about? There's no dedicated button to post screenshots. There's a screenshot button, but you had to go into the album menus to post them.

[-] vithigar@lemmy.ca 120 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The hell are you even talking about? Neither giving, receiving, paying for, nor being paid for a blowjob are the problem. Paying $230k for a momentary indulgence while simultaneously defaulting on other obligations is the problem.

[-] vithigar@lemmy.ca 135 points 2 years ago

According to a recent DoorDash blog post, the ordinance has resulted in an “unprecedented drop in order volume,”

No, you disingenuous stink sacks. Your $5 "you made an order in or around Seattle" fee did that. Orders would've continued unchanged if you hadn't raised fees.

[-] vithigar@lemmy.ca 98 points 2 years ago

At the time of this post both the game and proton had been updated and the game was working again.

Adding DRM to a two year old already cracked game is still an insane decision, but the problem of it breaking the game was fixed relatively quickly.

[-] vithigar@lemmy.ca 77 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Honestly though if they just added "extract to {archivename}\" as a right click option it would cover more than 90% of my usage.

[-] vithigar@lemmy.ca 85 points 2 years ago

Have done this several times for content on Disney+. I have an ultrawide, HDR1000 display. The movie I'm trying to watch is in 21:9 and available in HDR. Why in God's name are you delivering it in SDR and in a letterboxed 16:9 which is in turn pillarboxed on my display?!

[-] vithigar@lemmy.ca 113 points 2 years ago

And asking for a picture resolves any of these questions... how?

[-] vithigar@lemmy.ca 68 points 2 years ago

It is good, if the competing products/services are interchangeable and they need to compete on factors such as price, convenience, or reliability. For example, competing grocery stores, all of which offer by and large the same products. Or competing mechanics, all of which can perform service on your car.

Streaming services don't do this. They have carved up the market and "compete" by making you choose which products you want more.

Imagine two grocery stores, one of which had all the ice cream, and the other had all the chocolate, and neither could carry things that the other stocked. That is what streaming services are doing.

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