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They are a very efficient way to get both AC and Heating:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J52mDjZzto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zrx-b2sLUs

Unless you live in a cold climate, they are worth it for a discounted energy bill =3


"A Specialist knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

A Generalist knows less and less about more and more until he knows absolutely nothing about everything"

Getting paid well doing something you actually enjoy doing is key =3

https://stevelegler.com/2019/02/16/ikigai-a-four-circle-mode...


All gas masks simply buy the wearer time, and not much time at that...

Automotive Painter shops use an actual filtered external fresh-air feed medical-grade pump, as it avoids whatever mystery compounds are in various paints and cleaners.

Don't cheap out on PPE, as 3M does make good quality filters. =3


This article was not about using gas masks for industrial purposes lol

Indeed, but it seemed like the simplest way to explain shorter protection times with higher exposure levels. =3

Unity has always had janky shaders, the fact people still use it over Unreal Engine or even Godot is completely baffling.

Unity is getting way too cheeky considering how they started out. =3


For anything smaller than AAA, C# is just generally much more pleasant to work in than C++. That's Unity's edge. And Godot is the "new" kid on the block

I'd agree that between Unreal and Godot, Unity doesn't look very attractive right now. But inertia will carry them for a long time


Programming semantics is a large part of the equation, but it's a secondary part. Unity is just too damn EASY for spinning up a prototype and gluing other modules onto it. C# is a part of that but simple implementation is so much easier and powerful than other engines.

This goes out the window for polished end products but that's a different argument... but by then the ship has often already sailed and you're already using Unity.


A few of those Unity store Assets are Copyright submarines. Where the original rights holders work was slightly tweaked to avoid detection for royalty fees in some jurisdictions.

Those assets end up being a liability later after publishing, can get your content DMCA flagged, and a firm sued (you will 100% lose in court if you don't settle.)

The Unity store does not prevent this issue, and kit bashing fun became dangerous to a publisher on the platform. It was impossible to determine what is safe with the new LLM tools, so the board banned the platform and engine.

Firms do make this mistake everyday, or just license generic Reallusion content. =3

"There is a bear in the woods. For some people, the bear is easy to see. Others don't see it at all. Some people say the bear is tame. Others say it's vicious and dangerous. Since no one can really be sure who's right, isn't it smart to be as strong as the bear? If there is a bear." (Hal Riney)


RF chokes on the cables are sometimes necessary. The clip-on ones work well, and are cheap. Part of being a Ham is mitigating EMI your broadcasting may cause.

As a side note, intentionally jamming or interfering with other peoples signals can carry up to a $1m fine and several years in prison. =3


You are probably right, but for the wrong reasons =3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_cat_bounce


The stock market is not a place most amateurs make money. In some cases Vegas would give you better odds. lol =3

Unless you are talking about owning a casino, I can't think of any interpretation of what you are saying that is true. Index funds have a long history of steady growth. Las Vegas businesses make their profits off of the reliable losses of their customers.

What people say they do, and what they actually do... are very different events. =3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning


I don't like your non-genuine engagement with this conversation. You've made outrageous claims, backed up with no data, and then seemingly pre-emptively linked to a page about trolling by asking for evidence. Well I'll ask you for evidence anyways lol. And I'll also give some that points against your outrageous claims: Retail investment in the stock market is at all time highs [1], and the percentage of investment in passive indices is also at an all time high [2]. It is _possible_ that retail investors are perversely fighting the trends and increasing their investments primarily by engaging in day-trade-esque behavior, but that would surprise me. Especially given that retirement accounts strongly encourage funds. I'd love to see some data pointing definitively either way though.

[1] https://www.jpmorganchase.com/institute/all-topics/financial...

[2] https://www.morningstar.com/funds/8-charts-us-fund-flows-202...


>You've made outrageous claims, backed up with no data

In general, over the long term most amateurs do better investing in real-estate rather than the stock market. This is a well proven fact true for over a century, and making it some sort of personal argument is bizarre behavior.

You can spend 30 seconds looking it up, or continue to shovel your BS. =3


A Steam Deck won't fight you every step of the way.

Proprietary closed hardware is not great for home brew projects. =)


I have a Steam Deck instead of a Switch for that reason. Doesn't stop me from admiring and envying the form factor, unfortunately.

I do think it would be fun to have a plugin and be able to control lights from the Steam Deck menus, too, though. Just haven't gotten around to trying.


Right, because the Deck is open source hardware...

Nobody has to have instructions on how to "hack" the Steam Deck because it's a computer and you just run whatever you want on it.

The instructions on how to crack open the immutable OS image are readily available from Valve but you probably won't need them since it's already got a lot of power even without that.


SteamOS 3 is Arch Linux-based, and should allow most popular game engines to run fine. =3

If open _hardware_ is the requirement, rather than just a nicety, how many graphics cards can you actually support?

I mean, I know there are a bare handful that can run Quake I. But I don't think there are that many, that can do more.


A Steam Deck is also X times more powerful.

The decision-making here involved more passion than logic, clearly. And that's good. :)


I have heard emulation works well on the platform. =3

rather get a used DS for cheap than help pay for GabeN's next hyper-yacht.

Indeed, a lot of folks liked the R4 cartridge for playing a wide DS title portfolio for free. However, piracy doesn't sustain a platform economically, and Nintendo is famously litigious.

In general, home brew people actually interested in building their own unique indie games often do not port to systems people have zero interest in supporting. Even publishing to Android/iOS would have less problems with <12% of users actually buying anything. =3


Hard pass...

In general, a public security policy is pointless. It is the one layer you want people to trip over when breaking a system. =3


Why do you say so?

Best to look at security policy using ecological predator-prey models. If you don't, than you fall victim to the assumption a "puzzle" you can't break is unbreakable in general.

Nuisance users don't publish CVE, and a zero trust model shows you something important. =3


Joel a little offtopic but looks like we have bumped into each other 3 times now (I remember you from VM comment and then today on a different comment and now this)

I am curious to ask now but why do you end every message with =3 & when did you start with this trend, really curious now xD


Don't worry about it... =3

yeah, really curious at this point.

Some see a patina with weathered surfaces as desirable.

The beauty of Kintsugi can also be difficult for people to understand. =3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9LMKGte0UU


The Statue of Liberty would be red without her patina and would look weird ;). I’m not talking about the beauty of weathering. I think a dirty glass roof which no longer lets any light through a planned weathering tactic. The point was that the plans architects make are always showing the building in prestine condition. And they never reflect how this building will look like in a few years. One example I see every day is a Train-station entrance. It has a very dramatic metal ark that stretches up. Looked great in the past. Now you see dirty water running down the surface. The brushed metal is stained with grime that pilled up. Every time it rains the grime runs a bit deeper. They tried to clean it a few month back. They have to come with a special crane and water jets to remove the grime. But nobody takes the time to polish the surface back up. Is this bad? No of course not. But don’t plan and sell something that will only last for half a year. That’s why I also think this post is brilliant.

The Art Deco architecture of New York city is often lost on many visitors.

Lady liberty is showing her age, but only requires a few people still care. She was always beautiful. =3


I love NY. Not only for the art decor but als the human weathering ;) I meant that Lady Liberty would look weird because she is known to be green. I know that the early advertisements showed her red as well. Also when the torch was shown in NY to fundraise the pedestal.

Bringing kintsugi into this conversation is like saying “being underwater can be quite advantageous!” and linking a video on fish, when the main topic is about people drowning in the ocean.

Art is everywhere, and starts with a simple philosophy of making things slightly less awful everyday. Initially focused on your own mind, body, and soul... then recognizing you were always part of something a lot bigger and older than most imagine.

I do appreciate your poetic tone though =3


Bad bot

You will learn this fact in time.

And bots are not "good" or "bad", but rather an imperfect mirror of statistically salient nonsense. =3


> You will learn this fact in time.

> And bots are not "good" or "bad", but rather an imperfect mirror of statistically salient nonsense. =3

I think that you are a human and surprised to see you be calm when someone calls you bot because I usually flip out.

If you are a human, I think that one of the things that I am starting to think to do is reply with I am human only after all video.

I am only human after all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3wKzyIN1yk

Or in this case about fishes, we can have the video parody of I am just a fish!

I am just a fish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1goAp0XmhZQ

(this last video is a parody-ish but really great music unironically out of the original music being I am just a freak, both music are really great in my opinion unironically haha!)

I am just a fish!


Patina and rot are very different things.

Not necessarily. On a design that requires being new to look good, all weathering will be perceived as rot, never as patina.

The point is that some approaches to architectural beauty make it more or less impossible that any amount of weathering could ever be perceived as patina, while others look good both new and old.


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