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Inityx··on You can use lightguns on LCDs sometimes
That's almost how the Wii remotes worked, they just used the infrared sensor bar dots instead of the corners of the screen
Inityx··on McDonald's to retire self-service soda fountains by 2032
That's not necessarily the case

https://youtu.be/2uCpY3tFTIA

Inityx··on Are cooking videos making us better cooks?
I'm a big fan of Helen Rennie on YouTube, since she spends a lot of time talking about those types of things

https://youtube.com/@helenrennie

Inityx··on Spotify looked to ban white noise podcasts to become more profitable
Did you read the article?
Inityx··on Why not tax private jets out of business?
Both aspects of this, choosing who is taxed and choosing where the money goes, are political choices.

The choice is not "agenda" vs. "no agenda", it's "stated agenda" vs. "tacit agenda".

Inityx··on NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2
https://youtu.be/NT8-b5YEyjo
Inityx··on The Wikipedia War over Barbenheimer
The movies seem refreshingly original and good, and the subjects are things people care about. All those things you said are also symptoms of legitimate interest. Attributing them to a conspiracy with no other evidence is kind of a reach.
Inityx··on A proto-pizza emerges from a fresco on a Pompeii wall
> Systematic attempts to evolve a system of perspective are usually considered to have begun around the fifth century BC in the art of ancient Greece, as part of a developing interest in illusionism allied to theatrical scenery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspective_(graphical)

Inityx··on Microsoft has no shame: Bing spit on my ‘Chrome’ search with a fake AI answer
Not if you play PC VR games :(
Inityx··on A rant on bus stops
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_capitalism
Inityx··on California approves rule phasing out big diesel trucks and buses in 2036
> starting in 2036

WAAAAAAY too late. Even if it were "by 2036", that would STILL be too late.

Inityx··on Newest Linux Gaming Predictions for 2023
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/02/linux-on-steam-deck-w...

https://www.makeuseof.com/reasons-why-people-stick-with-linu...

Inityx··on Overhead of Returning Optional Values in Java and Rust (2021)
Also from the beginning of the article:

> The task was to compute a sum of all the numbers, skipping the number whenever it is equal to a magic constant. The variants differ by the way how skipping is realized:

> 1. We return primitive longs and check if we need to skip by performing a comparison with the magic value directly in the summing loop.

> 2. We return boxed Longs and we return null whenever we need to skip a number.

> 3. We return boxed Longs wrapped in Optional and we return Optional.empty() whenever we need to skip a number.

Seems pretty reasonable to me.

Inityx··on Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach
Swatting and stalking may end your life, but...
Inityx··on C99 doesn't need function bodies, or 'VLAs are Turing complete'
Most mainstream compilers aim to be standards compliant
Inityx··on Repurposing the cadaver of a spider to create a pneumatically actuated gripper
The history of aviation is full of people taking inspiration from flying animals
Inityx··on Copilot sells code other people wrote
Sure that's possible, but there's a huuuge difference between Possible and Default Behavior.
Inityx··on Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
I did not, but the source footage I was editing was 720p 30fps so I don't think that would have been much help
Inityx··on Do kwon sent $80M a month to secret wallets?
This is definitely one of the opinions I've ever heard
Inityx··on Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
I had a really bad experience last time I tried to use Kdenlive.

Even on a pretty powerful system, having a project timeline longer than an hour made the entire interface run at ~5fps for me when adjusting cuts. After that, I started using DaVinci Resolve, which definitely still has problems, but runs like nothing else I've seen.

Inityx··on We should have a $25 minimum wage
You do realize that minimum wage has not kept up with inflation, and much less the cost of living?

> Increasing their pay of made up units (dollars) doesn't actually make them any richer, it just moves the scale and prices go with it.

This take is completely divorced from the reality of the current world economy. We currently have a situation in which value is being squeezed out of the working class, and into the pockets of ogliarchs. Increasing the minimum wage would compensate for the massive deficit between produced value and wages, to the benefit of the people actually doing the work.

Inityx··on We should have a $25 minimum wage
>Should a 17 year old who is still in high school while living with his parents be paid $25/hour for working at McDonald's?

Yes.

>his parents are already providing what he needs

And what about people who aren't in this particular situation? What is the policy solution to filter out people who you feel don't deserve this level of compensation for their labor?

Inityx··on Python’s “type hints” are a bit of a disappointment to me
On the one hand yeah, I agree with this, but on the other hand you have a lot of enormous software projects written in Python that are decidedly not simple, and would be extremely difficult to completely rewrite in a different language. Type hints do offer some value in this circumstance, by making it easier for disparate groups to modify the same large codebase though static analysis.
Inityx··on Redactle–Wordle for Wikipedia
I'm frustrated that the site does not render block quotes... An important feature when trying to guess adjacent words, given that the authorial voice is subject to change between paragraphs
Inityx··on YouTube is emailing users to say “members of the community” are “concerned”
Marques Brownlee talked about YouTube's current comment problems in a recent video, and touched on why it would be so bad for YouTube to disable comments entirely

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cw-vODp-8Y

Inityx··on The Ivermectin Guys’ Whole Thing Has Fallen Apart
A rebuttal of this site specifically: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-t...

>Ivermectin doesn’t reduce mortality in COVID a significant amount (let’s say d > 0.3) in the absence of comorbid parasites: 85-90% confidence

Inityx··on Doom3 Source Code Review (2012)
> Even 8 years later the first encounter with the HellKnight in Delta-Labs-4 still looks insanely great

18 years now, keeping this in mind when watching the included clip ;)

Inityx··on US will now offer gender-neutral X option on passports
Why would you need to determine their sex?
Inityx··on Lebanese turn to cryptocurrency as economy tanks
The video goes into great detail about cryptocurrency
Inityx··on Lebanese turn to cryptocurrency as economy tanks
>cryptocurrency deniers

lmao, nobody's claiming that cryptocurrency doesn't exist...

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