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PuddleOfKittens

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  • Interactive Fiction Games Could Make A Comeback With This E-reader Handheld Console

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  • The PineNote. Depending on your definition of "proper", since it ships with GNOME and AFAICT only supports Wayland, and Wayland doesn't have many compositors that work well on a device with no keyboard.

  • How smaller, more affordable electric cars can accelerate the green transition

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  • wut

    no, it's this

    There's only one door, it opens from the front, it's gorgeous. I just wish the door opened upward, instead of sideways.

  • Balatro dev: Talked with PEGI and they do not see anything wrong Balatro being rated 18+, nor with EA sports FC (and similar games) having a 3+ rating

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  • Opinion | We Have to Stop Underwriting People Who Move to Climate Danger Zones

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  • A side-effect? No. You're just describing climate-safe housing being more valuable. It's always been more valuable.

    In a functional market system, higher rents will result in more housing construction in those areas. I'm not delusional enough to think that the housing market is functional, but that's a can of worms that will exist regardless of the climate problems or not.

    Or to rephrase a bit: yes, if people all try to move to more climate-safe areas, then we'll need to build more housing in the climate-safe areas for them to move into. Obviously.

  • Opinion | We Have to Stop Underwriting People Who Move to Climate Danger Zones

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  • Some places are being hit harder than others. All else being equal, people should move to the places being hit the least.

  • First sodium battery urban e-bike offers 45-mile range and operates in cold weather without capacity loss

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  • There are salt flats and salt mines, which are potentially cheaper than desalination (they're literally just digging up the ground and putting it into a truck), but desalination also has a huge excess of salt that ends up being dumped into the ocean; more sodium demand would be good for the environment.

  • The Los Angeles fires won’t affect climate denial. They should. | The disastrous California wildfires are another undeniable sign of the dangers of climate change.

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  • I think the people talking about climate denial are missing the real star attraction here - the LA fire dept competence denial is the important thing to see. See, the point of denial isn't to actually convince people that climate change isn't happening, it's to weaken the evidence down to something ignorable if you want to ignore it.

    The Unwoke Right make some bullshit claims about LA firefighters being defunded and incompetent due to DEI blah blah, and the Left debunks those claims but most people who see the Right's claims will also see the debunking of all the claims they saw, so there's a plausible possible alternative explanation that people can assume explains the fires if they want to. They can tell themselves "the fires aren't getting worse, the LAFD is just getting less competent, those people aren't dying from climate change they're dying from DEI".

    Plus, a lot of people subscribe to the "if there's smoke there's fire" logic, and the Right have built a giant smoke machine on the whole "LAFD DEI" thing. Even if they're all debunked, determined deniers can assume there are undebunked claims that they haven't seen.

  • The Los Angeles fires won’t affect climate denial. They should. | The disastrous California wildfires are another undeniable sign of the dangers of climate change.

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  • There’s a reason they don’t have these devastating fires in Sweden or Finland…

    https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/08/27/why-is-lapland-on-fire-finlands-far-north-set-for-record-breakingly-hot-summer

    In Finnish Lapland’s Inari region, locals and wildlife have suffered 17 fires this summer so far. Timo Nyholm, duty fire officer at the Lapland Rescue Department, has said that’s well above the seasonal average of 10. He expects the summer total to blaze past 20 fires.

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    "Climate change is extending the fire season,” FMI researcher Outi Kinnunen told YLE News.

    “As the climate warms, snow cover diminishes earlier, summer temperatures rise, and land surfaces become drier, even though overall precipitation is expected to increase.”

  • I wonder how many countries would get annexed before somebody realizes that it's not exactly the most effective method to combat inflation

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  • They keep saying "51st state", which implies Canada will only be a single state under the electoral college, and thus will be shafted just like California.

  • Open source e reader

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  • The price has nothing to do with patents, it's economy of scale - LCDs ship at a rate of billions per quarter, and are included in every device under the sun, whereas e-ink screens basically only ship in niche luxury devices (ereaders/enotes) that can be replaced by your phone and an ipad respectively. As a result, LCDs ship several orders of magnitude more screens, and reap the resulting economies of scale.

    Yes, EInk corp has patents, but that doesn't prove that the price is caused by the patents.

    Currently, our best hope of seeing prices come down is 1) if the fast-multidye tech (i.e. the Gallery 3 thing) takes off enough to give e-notes mass market appeal (color drawing and comic book reading could be huge, maybe) and thus some extra economy of scale, or 2) if GoodDisplay's DES screens get their PPI up to 300 and thus are able to compete in the ereader space against E-Ink's MED.

    DES = Display Electronic Slurry, AKA the cofferdam tech. It's a different method of creating an e-ink screen that (apparently) doesn't touch E-Ink's patents, and it works by creating a grid of ditches to be filled up with the e-ink liquid and ink (where 1 ditch = 1 pixel). In contrast, E-Ink's MED (=Microencapsulated Electrophoretic Display) produces self-contained microcapsules that have the liquid/ink sealed inside, and then the microcapsules are sprinkled onto the screen's pixel grid like Hundreds And Thousands, and each microcapsule is substantially smaller than a pixel, and each pixel toggles several microcapsules. The microcapsules sometimes overlap the border of the pixel grid (since they're a bunch of packed circles basically), which breaks up the straightness of the pixel grid and is what gives E-Ink screen their 'grainy' look where DES screens are more noticeably checkerboarding. This could potentially give MED a long-term aesthetic advantage, although that might turn out to be a non-issue for DES with sufficiently high PPI.

    The advantage of DES is that because it skips a layer (the slurry is directly on the substrate, rather than in microcapsules on the substrate) it could potentially be higher-resolution(/PPI), and higher contrast. Also possibly cheaper, since it might be able to skip a manufacturing step of making the microcapsules. Maybe.

  • They are truly masters of disguise

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  • They fought in the Ukrainian Foreign Legion. Which is distinct from mercenaries AIUI because Ukraine is 100% in charge of the chain of command and takes full responsibility for their actions.

  • Should Airships Make A Comeback?

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  • Blimps would have to somehow fit in. Having considerable air resistance, blimps cannot travel as fast. Being unable to travel as fast, they would fall behind at moving X people per hour - while a blimp makes one roundtrip, a jet aircraft would make multiple roundtrips.

    Blimps are far worse than airships; the fundamental advantage of airships is that they scale up well (doubling the size nets you 8x the volume), which blimps just don't. And blimps are far less safe, due to their gas bags needing to be pressurized where airships' gas bags can be unpressurized. More specifically, if you puncture a pressurized gasbag, then its contents spray out due to the pressure, which in the context of hydrogen would mean it rapidly mixes itself into large amounts of hydroxygen just begging to explode, whereas unpressurized gasbags will just slowly diffuse hydrogen like piss in water. Still potentially dangerous, but far less so.

    Weirdly, when it comes to cargo airshipping, airships are actually faster than cargo freight (not to be confused with parcel freight, which is what post (e.g. Amazon packages) uses). Cargo freight takes 4-5 days, which airships can easily beat via shipping point-to-point.

  • They are truly masters of disguise

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  • Ukraine has had a "no mercenaries" policy IIRC, if NK troops are seen as mercenaries then maybe it'll legitimize Ukraine shopping for manpower.

  • Vote on your cellphone now!

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  • Neither are ATACMs. They aren't air force though.

  • I've played Duck Hunt, how hard can it be

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  • What if they switched to shooting sand? Raining sand isn't too deadly, it's not dense enough right? And if it's not lethal enough to the drones, then they can just up the caliber to shoot more sand.

  • Balatro dev: Talked with PEGI and they do not see anything wrong Balatro being rated 18+, nor with EA sports FC (and similar games) having a 3+ rating

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  • Okay then, how does Hungry Jacks fit into that chain of logic?

  • Vote on your cellphone now!

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  • How much obsolete tech does the WW2 infantry have, is the question - e.g. if it's US troops then they'll have Garands, which are only obsolescent, and they only need to stall until the modern air force can come help.

    ...actually, no. The modern air force could split up, put 10%ish of its forces into ROFLstomping the WW2 air force and the other 90% into supporting the WW2 infantry. So the WW2 infantry will always have air support from the moment the war starts. If the air force can obliterate a few platoons of modern infantry, then the WW2 infantry can scavenge some of their equipment and level the playing field a bit.

  • Vote on your cellphone now!

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  • What exactly does "take a city" mean? If you're not too squeamish then you'll find you don't need infantry, just a few MIRVs.

  • Vote on your cellphone now!

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  • Aren't those planes brought up to the air by actual planes? If modern planes have air dominance, then those plywood planes had better have a functioning plywood engine because there won't be anything else to get them skybound.