ApatheticCactus

joined 1 year ago
[–] ApatheticCactus 3 points 10 hours ago

I don't think bite marks last like that that long. My guess is the OP is the biter and faker.

[–] ApatheticCactus 1 points 1 day ago

I just got a new phone, and the ai voice assistant is actually good. It's what people imagined it was going to be when they first came out. It doesn't have access yet to a lot of things, so it can't 'act' on things, but it actually gives consistently relevant info.

One thing I've used it for recently is I was in a game and knew there was a secret chest and it could accurately tell me what to do to get it Way better than looking up a video.

[–] ApatheticCactus 10 points 1 day ago

Not to mention the weight. Those premium vehicles with long range stats are very heavy. That's what makes them so terrifying to me.

[–] ApatheticCactus 9 points 1 week ago

I was never really social to begin with, so I just resumed being my normal introverted self.

[–] ApatheticCactus 6 points 1 week ago

I have to do similar things when it comes to 'raytracing'. It meant one thing, and then a company comes along and calls something sorta similar the same thing, then everyone has these ideas of what it should be vs. what it actually is doing. Then later, a better version comes out that nearly matches the original term, but there's already a negative hype because it launched half baked and misnamed. Now they have to name the original thing something new new to market it because they destroyed the original name with a bad label and half baked product.

[–] ApatheticCactus 4 points 4 weeks ago

Even if it were thicker I'd still slap on a sacrificial glass screen protector atop it. I've dropped my phone only a handful of times, and so far have only ever broken the protector.

Just slap a shield on it, there's your added thickness and better drop resistance all in one!

[–] ApatheticCactus 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That or build something that can stand up to being hit. Tall order, but the inner armchair engineer in me thinks it's like, totally possible.

[–] ApatheticCactus 4 points 1 month ago

No. Absolutely not. Lots of future tech comes from sci Fi fiction, which sometimes becomes real. Fiction about 'what if' scenarios give insight into how things could happen given certain events taking place, helping decision making for present events. Relationship books? I mean, those can be great examples of how healthy or unhealthy relationships work, and can help one identify the status of their own relationships. Fantasy books and sometimes a combination of the above, and all useful.

Nonfiction helps one understand what has happened. It gives context to the world we live in now, and what came before. Both are valuable, just in different ways. Reading anything helps your ability to empathize and think of alternative perspectives and is always useful.

[–] ApatheticCactus 2 points 2 months ago

Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.

...OW!

[–] ApatheticCactus 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Would creating the cyber truck be considered as a suicide attempt?

[–] ApatheticCactus 5 points 2 months ago

Generally speaking, you learn more about how something works when the core functionality is exposed to the user, and just janky enough to require fiddling with it and fixing things.

This is true of lots of things like cars, drones, 3D printers, and computers. If you get a really nice one, it just works and you don't have to figure anything out. A cheap one, or something you have to build yourself, makes you have to learn how it actually works to get it to run right.

Now that things are so comodified and simplified, they just work and really discourage tinkering, so people learn less about core functionality and how things actually work. Not always true, but a trend I've experienced.

[–] ApatheticCactus 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I still get hit hard from just the trailer.

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