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Trainguyrom

@ Trainguyrom @reddthat.com

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  • China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs

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  • The article is like 5 paragraphs, not even a single sheet of paper if printed (with the unneeded images and ads excluded of course). Why does it need a summary‽

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    New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion

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  • Probably by getting hired in a companies marketing department. Realistically these astroturfing campaigns are either farms of accounts managed by ad agencies to push whatever they're getting paid to push at the moment, or smaller campaigns run by individual companies marketing departments, and not just random people getting paid to mention specific products on their personal accounts

  • I broke my hip bone a month ago and have to be robocop for the rest of my life... Can't imagine the pain this person felt.

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  • Basically its the application of an airbag upon a human body positioned in a way no vehicle was ever designed to accommodate forcing the body to bend in half in ways it shouldn't. Basically, never put your legs over the airbags while in a moving car and you'll probably never suffer injuries like this

  • YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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  • Fuschia did get used on some of their smart home stuff that they've shifted focus away from. I suspect they were just building a dedicated embedded OS to standardize on for non-phone gadgets that don't need full fat android

  • If a Great Depression happened again, would people still stand together like they did during the penny auctions?

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  • I watched part of one video a few years ago because the title said something about crashing a train and I just wanted to see what kind of equipment they were destroying and how they managed safety. Instead my main takeaways were

    1. The videos have such insanely fast pacing I needed a proper break from the screen after skipping through a few minutes of it
    2. They had some guy spending shitloads of money to try to protect a pile of cash from a pile of explosives (and whatever cash he protected he got to keep), also dubious on safety but with the way they edited and of course basic knowledge of explosive safety (such as, everybody stay away from the explosives and don't leave random explosives lying around in disorganized piles), I'm guessing the pile of explosives was entirely digital
    3. The train was in fact nothing special. Just some old equipment from the 80s that already have some examples in preservation. Also I'm guessing they weren't aware that most American trains do not have much in the way of crumple zones due to FRA regulations because they really set it up for what would be an impressive crash for a car which is built with tons of crumple zones and instead the train got dented up as it bounced

  • If a Great Depression happened again, would people still stand together like they did during the penny auctions?

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  • Abortion is totally moral up to about 8 years of fetal development!

  • If a Great Depression happened again, would people still stand together like they did during the penny auctions?

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  • I'd imagine in such a scenario it would be pretty easy for community members to take direct action to make the property extremely expensive for the outside investor though. Releasing animals into the property, quietly installing holes in the envelope to allow for water and wildlife ingress, stink bombing, etc. Really anything that slowly destroys the value while preventing an insurance payout

    Raise the risk profile enough and outside investors will go for something else

  • If a Great Depression happened again, would people still stand together like they did during the penny auctions?

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  • Most of the tax delinquent auctions I've glanced at have a minimum bid of the entire assessed value of the property, which usually that assessment predates the tax delinquency so they end up being more expensive at auction than in normal property sales

    I've not learned where to find foreclosure auctions listed yet but I would expect those to be similar

  • If a Great Depression happened again, would people still stand together like they did during the penny auctions?

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  • He likes views, he'd make the farmer do some stupid challenge to win back some portion of the land, selling off whatever the farmer couldn't "win"

  • If a Great Depression happened again, would people still stand together like they did during the penny auctions?

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  • A story my parents shared with me as a kid, allegedly from somewhere in family history was of an individual taking a wheelbarrow of cash to the store to buy a loaf of bread, heading inside and learning the price had further increased and upon returning outside finding the cash dumped in the street and the wheelbarrow gone since that was the (relative) valueble left unattended.

  • Whats the worst game mechanic?

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  • Whats the worst game mechanic?

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  • The indie game Sable had brilliant climbing mechanics. You have limited climbing like in most games, but you literally don't need the extended climbing range for almost the entirety of the main game except for like one or two not-required missions, you only really need it to collect all of the collectables that extend your climbing range. You know how I know? I didn't find the way to extend climbing range until like the very end of the game. Somehow completely skipped over it!

  • Whats the worst game mechanic?

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  • Oh don't forget MechJeb. Some call it cheating, but ain't nobody in the real world docking 2 craft in orbit by hand, so why should I be required to do so in my space-lite simulation game? Plus if your craft is weird enough (or your mission has become funky enough) you still have to do some things manually because MechJeb can't quite figure it out

  • Whats the worst game mechanic?

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  • I've got kids, if I'm playing while they're up I have to be able to drop everything on a dime to go stop them from managing to kill themselves because that happens about 3x an evening

    There's several games I'd like to play but simply don't because I cannot pause. Like I get it, single player is just booting up the multiplayer server without networking so only you can join, but also it's only a single player so they should be able to pause the engine whenever they want to

  • Whats the worst game mechanic?

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  • I love how for a chunk of Portal 2 you're playing through the exact same chambers from Portal 1

  • Whats the worst game mechanic?

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  • I played Assassin's Creed Origins during a free weekend a few years ago and it automatically set its own graphics settings and dumped you into the game without being able to access the menu so it looked like my screen was covered in patrolium jelly half the time. About an hour into the game when I could finally access the game menu I learned why. It set all settings to their absolute highest but resolution scaling was enabled so it was trying to render graphics my PC couldn't handle then internally reducing the resolution down to 360p or so. Once I dialed in settings that my computer could actually handle without resolution scaling it looked a million times better

  • Whats the worst game mechanic?

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  • Ehhh it really depends on the game. Some games with loot boxes have zero need for them so even if it was an in-game mechanic for in-game items it still just feels wrong

  • Whats the worst game mechanic?

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  • Even freaking RuneScape had a keyring and that's an MMO famous for using limited inventory slots as a game mechanic

  • Health plan enrollment period is set to be horrifying for everyone this year

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  • Oh hospital billing is absolutely fucked up. Usually the bill you receive isn't itemized and simply requesting an itemized bill can be enough to knock some amoint off of the bill because even the hospitals billing staff are often not entirely certain exactly how they got that number they're now billing you for.

    But yeah, anyone who does receive a large hospital bill, engage in some negotiations, ask for an itemized bill, state you will be paying the lower amount that is billed to insurance, advise that you're in a tough financial spot and ask what discounts or community care programs are available, and once all of that is done ask if you can settle for a lower amount by paying as a lump sum. My youngest's birth resulted in an $8k bill and ultimately the entire bill went away after a community care application (there were also some other unpaid bills that got forgiven because this hospital is horrible about actually sending bills, only ever sending statements that clearly say "this is not a bill" on them) so definitely use that bill as a starting point for negotiations!