Krudler @ Krudler @lemmy.world

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC

It ended all hope. Now everybody's just screaming into the void.

Well then if I must answer the question to satisfy you, the answer is it's too difficult and expensive to manufacture them right now

You may have a great battery, I'm proud of you for making that consumer purchase

But the technology is still in its infancy

It's been known for years that silicon is much better at storing lithium ions, like insanely more efficient than graphite which is what's currently used in anodes. But it's ability to pack in the lithium ions is its downfall... Charging and discharging embrittles it by actually and expanding/shrinking the lattice

So it took a few years to surmount that challenge. Figuring out how to not have the material destroy itself, and finding the balance of how much energy to store. As far as I know there's a few different approaches that involve deposition of individual molecules into crystals.. and nanotech photo lithography and crazy shit that's honestly too hard for me to keep up with.

There's all kinds of hype surrounding them and people talk about them being like an order of magnitude more efficient than current LiPo technology, but that's a lot of hot air, we're looking at like 30% improvements now with slightly increased charging times... huge complexity increases in manufacturing... cost... We don't even know what's going to happen when we deploy a couple hundred million of these.

They're going to be the next big thing for batteries but we're kind of in the early adopting phase right now.

That really dramatically takes the steam out of your argument though.

If the same conditions for you existed today, any modern game would blow qbert out of the water, and indeed you would put thousands of hours into it.

Also, Atari games were $20 when they were new not 10. So with inflation it's about the same as an $80 game today.

https://www.co-optimus.com/system/4/pc.html

This is not Guile... Cut to throwing sonic boom

I'm not sure but I'm sharing this for interest sake

Fighter's History vs. Street Fighter II Character Comparison - Lawsuit Exhibit

In a way yes. There are times when I am so sick of dealing with people who cannot organize their thoughts - it becomes just exhausting.

So consistently being the most analytical, on-the-ball, ahead of the curve, able to predict the future, able to see-through people within seconds of meeting them, being generally good at most things, adept automatically the first time I try anything... It's a burden.

But at the same time I'm not so dumb to think I don't choose this burden.

Yes I'm being a jerk. Dude is a complete addict and needs HELP

I went back and played The Dungeon about 15 years ago and I just about cried because it was so fucking bad by modern standards lol

The hard truth is that if you want change you have to change and there's nothing else to it

You have to try new things even if you think you're going to hate them

There's no getting around it

I took my own advice. I'm not saying it's easy, it's work

I guess if you find it funny it might help you ease feelings

All that conjures in my mind though is a mouse furiously hammering on a lever trying to get a pellet

It's also the 1st round top left question

I felt extremely sad reading this. I understand what your perspective is, but what I'm hearing is an addict freaking out.

Doubtful

I'm not talking out my ass, a good buddy of mine worked for frantic films for decades and I myself learned 3D alongside him... We would squabble over the rendering farm too..

Anyways most of the renderers made for those early movies were custom built. And anytime you custom build, you can't generalize to output to a different system. So it's a long way of saying no but maybe, if you wrote a custom renderer that was specifically designed to handle the architecture of the scenes and the art and the lighting and blah blah blah

Edit oh and you would probably need the Lord of all graphics cards, possibly multiple in a small array with custom therading software

The ones that do it for family and friends get away with it, the ones that get peppy and decide to start flogging groceries, etc on Fb Marketplace get watched. It's really not something you want to try to profit from!!

All the word games in the world don't change the underlying truth and you know it. McDonald's is awful it's not even food, music is similar, most of it is not really even music, the same way McDonald's isn't even food, it's hyper engineered food ingredients. I know it hurts to accept that most popular music is dog shit but that's the truth and you know it's true.

Last year, it's shit you're not going to change my mind

I really don't think I'm overstating things, I go back to the early 90s, I started with Harvard graphics and stuff like that.. I have used so many damn image editing softwares, and I've even made a few of my own.

I'm honestly going to just plant my foot and say gimp is a misbegotten atrocious lump of shit from a UI perspective - a complete embarrassment, and a complete failure from any perspective of usability science

It is absolutely at the bottom of the pack of any piece of software I have ever used, it's hard to pick up various bunches of shit and decide what lump smells the worst, so I'm not going to say gimp is the worst, but it's floating at the bottom of the septic tank

I cannot believe that people continue to step up and defend it, it's garbage.

I disagree.

Just in the same way we can point to McDonald's and say there is nothing good about it from a food perspective; that it barely even qualifies as food...

We can say the same thing about music. There is music that is so devoid of any kind of artistic output and merit, that no one could say it's good. In 2025 are still listening to musical greats from several hundred years go but in 50 years, nobody will have a clue who Nikki Manaj is