sushibowl

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

It is also essentially a variation of Monty python's merchant banker skit. Nothing new under the sun.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm not British or anything, but I always thought that in the UK the local pub filled this function? A place to gather socially, eat, drink. I understand most people would go and drink beer there but do they not serve coffee? Tea, at least?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Having played a lot of Dwarf fortress in ascii mode as well as with tilesets, I agree with you. It's not especially difficult to make a successful fortress. However the game is definitely obtuse, even more so with the ascii graphics. Just figuring out what is happening on the screen and which combination of buttons to press to do what you want is quite difficult.

The steam release does some work to remedy the situation though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Why is it weird? It's just your butt. Are you scared of your butt?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (9 children)

It really depends on the sensor tech. The fingerprint reader in my pixel 7 pro is absolute dogshit. I've heard the pixel 9 line improves things though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

You now need to remember his velocity, his position on the map, the direction of his flight, his altitude, his plane's weight and who knows what else, I'm not a pilot.

You're not wrong per se, but I'm having trouble fathoming gigabytes of data being consumed by these types of parameters. You could probably track hundreds of thousands of airplanes with that much space. The only thing that I could imagine taking up that much memory is extremely detailed airflow simulation.

However, as a rule of thumb, the vast majority of memory data for video games is in most cases textures and geometry, and not so much the simulation. Based on the article, it seems this game streams high resolution geometry data based on your current location on earth, which I would say is the most probable reason it asks for so much memory.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Nonprofit environmental organization the Ocean Cleanup has announced that it's on track to eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by 2034.

If it can get the necessary funds, that is. In a press release, the organization claimed that eliminating the patch once and for all would cost a whopping $7.5 billion

The title seems rather misleading. "We're on track if someone just gives us 7.5 billion USD" is a really big if. It doesn't seem like they are close to raising those kinds of funds either.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

The title is a lie, and it becomes clear in the very first sentences:

the Ocean Cleanup has announced that it's on track to eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by 2034.

If it can get the necessary funds, that is.

That's a big if.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Also, sour patch kids have a weird ingredient in the coating that most electrolyte stuff doesn't have. Potassiumsomething something, irrc?

Probably you're referring to tartaric acid, potassium bitartrate. It's added to candy to stabilize invert sugars, keeping them from crystallizing. You can buy it in powder form, usually called cream of tartar.

I don't know what it does for hydration, but I suppose it would help top up potassium levels.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Wait, but it's on track to being completed.

Except it actually isn't. If you read the article, they say they could clean up the whole thing by 2034 but they need 7.5 billion dollars. So in fact people with money haven't actually done anything yet.

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