[-] darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works 55 points 1 year ago

Hard to find on non-pc gear, but that’s a fair point

[-] darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works 276 points 1 year ago

Sounds like hdmi Forum are a bunch of twats. Time for a new format.

[-] darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works 41 points 1 year ago

Homeschooling is child abuse, in the majority of cases. Kids need to interact with other kids, and be taught by people who are trained to do it effectively with curriculum that isn’t based on the invisible man in the sky’s alleged preferences.

[-] darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works 78 points 1 year ago

Literally the only property of Eidos that I care about, and it was bad enough that the studio wasted so much time on that garbage avengers game rather than finish the deus ex story they left hanging.

[-] darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works 124 points 2 years ago

The graphical user interface.

They don’t invent it (xerox PARC did), but Apple correctly identified that the user experience of existing computer systems was holding it back from being a thing everyone owns, and made computers a bad fit for many types of work that seem extremely obvious now (digital media creation particularly)

They did this more or less again with the smartphone: business folks and super nerds were the smartphone market before Apple. Now it’s the average person’s computer.

[-] darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works 65 points 2 years ago

Maybe it’s because cars suck now: filled with spyware, massively complex systems that aren’t better at doing car things than similar systems in the 90s, and with a price tag that considers this garbage as worth something to the consumer.

[-] darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works 42 points 2 years ago

We didn’t need any more supporting data to cement “cleaning out the holodecks” as the worst job in starfleet

[-] darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works 59 points 2 years ago

Give it 5 years and the board is going to have the “I told you so” of a generation

[-] darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works 79 points 2 years ago

Moving too dumb. Something caused Microsoft to ban OpenAI for its employees last week, probably a massive security blunder that we hopefully get to find out about eventually.

[-] darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works 39 points 2 years ago

Idk, if it keeps incels from shooting up schools let them fuck their computers.

[-] darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works 46 points 2 years ago

There is a whole lot of sky, my dude. I don’t think it’s plausible that we could capture even 1% of the kinetic energy of wind currents if we wanted to.

But also, wind is ultimately solar energy: the sun heats up parts of the planet at a time, the temperature differences cause pressure differences, and pressure flows from high to low. If we could somehow capture most of that kinetic energy, the result would be that areas which heat up stay warmer, and areas which don’t heat up as much stay cooler.

But we’re talking about gravity-bound gases, here. If we tried to capture too much, the gases would just find an easier route to equalize, such as going above our turbine network.

[-] darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works 39 points 2 years ago

Well, to be “fair,” a significant portion of homophobes believe an invisible man in the sky said it was bad, according to some guys who knew some guys who knew a guy that died several hundred years before they wrote that into their “things the invisible man in the sky said” collection of fan fiction.

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