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toddestan

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  • How gamers were nickel and dimed in 80s and 90s (besides arcades)

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  • That was there for a CD-ROM add-on, which was planned from the start but never actually released. Nintendo was working on it as a collaboration with both Phillips and Sony. After it got canned, both Phillips and Sony still had rights to some of the technology as part of the collaboration. So Phillips decided to release their own gaming system based upon what they had, and that was the (largely forgotten) CD-i system. And of course Sony did the exact same thing, and that became the Playstation. The rest is history.

  • Americans can’t afford their cars any more and Wall Street is worried

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  • I'd really like to know where you are buying 15 year old GMC trucks for $2000-$3000 that presumably run and aren't beat to shit.

  • What technologies are ubiquitous today which will be irrelevant in ten years?

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  • SD cards. They won't be completely gone, but will probably be regulated to pro cameras and a few niche applications. As storage goes, hard drives outside of data centers. Right now they are still hanging in there as cheap external storage for things like backups, but in 10 years they'll probably be gone in that application.

    Fluorescent lighting. Granted it's already on the way out, but in 10 years you may have trouble finding bulbs and your only options for an old fluorescent fixture will be either to replace it or an LED retrofit kit. Possibly the same thing will apply to sodium vapor lighting.

    Manual transmissions. While the internal combustion engine will probably still be hanging in there, my guess will be finding a new car with more than 2 pedals might be a challenge.

  • Would you press it?

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  • Pro.... you're transported to the Star Trek Universe. Con... it's still year 2025.

  • Every time!

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  • Meanwhile, my work Windows laptop is significantly slower to wake up now as I'm forced to hibernate it thanks to them removing S3 sleep in favor of the modern standby shit.

  • What is your favorite version of FTL in science fiction?

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  • I thought the Ender's game universe was interesting with the instantaneous FTL communication with the ansible, but no FTL travel. They had some tech that could accelerate ships quickly to very near-light speed, which meant you could travel between planets in a few weeks ship-time thanks to time dilation, but years would pass for the people on the planets. So while you could talk with people on other planets instantly, if you wanted to visit them, they'd have to wait decades for you to arrive.

    Then later in the books they figured out ...

    that you can more or less travel FTL instantly to anywhere you want just by thinking really hard about it.

    The Conquerors trilogy by Timothy Zahn had the opposite - FTL travel but no FTL communication. Smaller ships could also travel FTL faster, so you had a bunch of small ships running around to different star systems essentially delivering the mail. It's been a while since I read the books, but I don't really remember it playing a big part of the story other than a way to isolate the battlefronts because once the mail service gets shut down by the enemy you have absolutely no idea what's happening outside of your local star system.

  • This is not how we treat aliens

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  • That's pretty much how the game is designed.

    With that said, I always thought it would be a bit interesting in Factorio if the bugs were at first neutral towards the player and only got hostile after the player started polluting too much or chopped down too many trees.

  • The demise of Flash didn't bring any big HTML5/JS equivalent for watching animations; fast internet and better video compression made those types of animations become raster videos as well

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  • I actually had some hope for that because we needed something to break the Flash monopoly, and I trusted Microsoft slightly more than I trust Adobe.

    However, it never went anywhere because everyone expected Microsoft was just going to kill it, and of course Microsoft killed it, and that was that.

  • What technology would you give to ancient people just to fuck with them?

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  • Walkie-talkies would be fun. They'd figure out how to use them pretty quickly and what they could use them for. At the same time they'd be completely like magic to them.

  • Rescuer at Fatal Tesla Cybertruck Crash Says Car Doors Wouldn't Open

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  • The disagreement doesn't really seem like a contradiction from my reading. The studies that give Tesla good marks are doing it based upon crash test results, which Teslas tend do pretty well on. The studies that give Tesla bad marks are doing based upon actual statistics from the field, and the numbers don't lie.

    My assumption would be there's a few factors for this. It could be partly due to the sort of people who drive Teslas are more likely to crash them (this is probably why Buick is also so high on the list - too many senior drivers). Though my hunch is Tesla's self-driving implementation is a major part of it.

  • What controllers are good?

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  • I have the Logitech F310 and I can also say it's a good controller. Works flawlessly on Linux, and has never given me any trouble. Buttons always worked, no drift issues. Can't really ask for more.

    I realize it's a fairly basic controller, but every time I've taken a look at maybe upgrading I've ended up concluding that just sticking with using the F310 is the best option.

  • How long can someone physically walk for?

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  • If you use the book's pace of 4 MPH, which is actually what many people would consider a brisk walk, 300-400 miles would take 75-100 hours, or around 3-4 days. That's a long time to stay up without sleeping, let alone being physically active the entire time. I'd guess someone who is really fit might be able to do half of that before collapsing, with most people probably not making past the first 24 hours.

    Someone who was using drugs or doping might be able to do it, but even then I'd be skeptical.

  • Thinkpad meme

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  • The last of the IBM-branded ones are Core 2 Duo machines that can, with some upgrades, passably run a modern Linux distro. With that said, they are still nearly 20 years old.

    The last of the IBM-built ones are still 32-bit machines.

  • Just got this flyer in the mail today.

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  • Summer is ending up here in the Northern hemisphere, so I'm going with this being in New Zealand, which makes it about $4600 US.

  • Samsung fridge subscription fee

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  • The one smart feature I could see useful on a fridge would be for it to send me some sort of notification if the door is left open. Perhaps it could also send a notification if the temperature inside gets too warm (or too cold) - which assuming the door is shut would probably mean the fridge is broken.

    With that said, I'm perfectly happy with a dumb box that gets cold inside and has a simple electro-mechanical switch to turn the light on when the door is opened.

  • Samsung fridge subscription fee

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  • My fridge is about that old too. It's entirely possible that fridge will still be chugging along in 2050. Whereas a brand new Samsung fridge has about a zero chance of lasting until 2050.

  • Hannity is wrong: Trump hoped for Jimmy Kimmel’s firing

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  • The really stupid thing about the party line is the thing they are attacking Kimmel for wasn't even about Charlie Kirk. Kimmel was talking about MAGA.

  • Stuff...

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  • I do like that phone, but it's 5 years old now. Do they even make it any longer?

  • Nopin' Right Outta There

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