SenorBolsa @ SenorBolsa @beehaw.org

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Immediate red flag to me, when one of the sponsors of the research is someone who directly benefits from its findings.

Literally the most common reason anything ever has received funding, it doesn't mean it's wrong. They don't really benefit unless it actually works in this case, unlike a sugary drink manufacturer looking to show that sugar is healthy on paper. This is too technical to be helpful to them optically rather it's helpful in that it actually reduces the impact of their products on the environment in a provable way if implemented allowing them to avoid tighter regulation or outright bans of them. (for better or worse)

That or their motives are less self serving, which is rare in the corporate world but does happen. Sometimes enough people at a company care to make things better.

Also I'm sure they'd love to be able to take those plastics and turn them back into feedstock hydrocarbons to get nice virgin plastic on the cheap as oil prices inevitably rise in the coming decades.

The methane just breaks down into an equivalent amount of CO2 when vented anyways and until then is a much more potent greenhouse gas. That's why it's usually flared off apart from safety.

They cannot void your warranty over that, maybe for the computer you modified but the Magnuson Moss warranty act means they have to honor the warranty unless they can prove your modifications caused the damage.

Also, who cares if it gets updates? It will continue to work as it did from the factory indefinitely. Security updates aren't necessary if the car isn't connected to the internet and those updates cant change how the immobilizer/keys work anyways.

I'm probably never buying a car newer than the one I have. Everything is so ridiculous now. Though if I can just physically disable the WAN communication it uses I guess that's fine too, though it would likely be expensive to get working again for resale.

It bothers me enough that my car is even capable of doing any kind of steering input I didn't give it myself, brakes are by wire too, but fully depressing the pedal still connects you to the hydraulics directly so kind of a non issue, it allows for AEB which is a good safety feature though I'll likely never trip it.

My current car I think can do some kind of connection but I disabled it in the firmware when I flashed the BCM. Not missed, did nothing of benefit to me afaik.

Yeah you can get drives that can rip them with third party firmware installed, (I have drives with custom firmware for other things) but the cheapest way is to just use an actual Xbox 360. Doesn't need to be modded, Xenia can just use an installed game, so you just install the game to a flash drive then you can move it to your PC and run it from there.

360 games require original hardware unless there's been some breakthrough recently. They use their own kinda weird dual layer DVD format.

Yup, it's not in the specs that it supports intel graphics.

These days it's expected that any directX/Vulkan supporting card can run just about anything with varying levels of performance, back in the day it was very very specific what a 3d game engine supported. If your card wasn't on the list it wasn't going to run outside of software mode unless the newer version of that card had backwards compatibility features. Also later on you had to worry about very specific shader features and direct x features being supported to even get the game to look right.

Just a bit interesting how times change. They definitely should have worked with intel a bit to get it to work, at least given them a copy with some time for them to work out their drivers to support it.

That said, it's perfectly valid to complain about a product not meeting expectations or realistic standards that have been set. That's just business, if the product is no good it doesn't matter how much time and money you put into it.

Though I'm nice about it, no one sets out to make a shit product apart from actual scammers. I'm usually more interested in breaking down how something failed to deliver.

~30% natural rubber with the rest being synthetic polymers, woven fabrics, steel, stabilizers, and carbon black, silicates are also included to change the properties of the tire.

If you don't account for the structural components and just tread composition it's probably closer to 40%

Bunch of it is in my lungs too I assume from my days driving trucks, you could see the black rubber dust getting kicked up off the pavement at truck stops when it hadn't rained in a week. Not surprising to me that rubber dust is a particularly prevalent and pervasive pollutant. Also as someone who go karts often you get absolutely covered in it.

This is one of the biggest bummers about trying to be a responsible car enthusiast and track driver to me, there's no real good way around it, and I'm a worse offender than most chewing through sets of soft performance tires.

The only good solution is fewer road vehicles because nothing will replace rubber and plastics for tires, though maybe the compounds can be made less damaging in general that's not going to really solve the issue and it will be made worse with heavy electric vehicles.

Unless you have bleeding edge hardware yes, the highest end stuff usually requires that you dissipate 600+w of heat continuously at full tilt. I'm fine with running the hardware just below it's stock throttling limits (which are well below safety cutoffs) which these days is in the 90s. It's just kind of the reality of it if you don't want to experience what it's like to game on the deck of an aircraft carrier or go through the trouble of water-cooling everything.

FWIW I've put a lot of cards through this kind of "abuse" and then handed them down, they all worked for many years after.

My GPU is even hotrodded with the fans and shrouds removed and two side panel fans close to it, and the gaps sealed with gaffers tape to improve static pressure. Works really well but still, it's a lot of heat to move out of a relatively small device.

Just a heads up with short throw you have to be really sure to have a perfectly flat screen surface to project on, even just .5 throw means any kind of pull down screen will be a nightmare to use, even tab tensioned isn't great (but acceptable)

Putting it in a bigger box with more cooling capacity will always make a much faster computer, so that's not going away anytime soon and someone will always find a way to use 20% more power than is available every time a faster computer is made. A lot of things just come down to how well you can cool something, engines, brakes, lights, computers, batteries... how hard do you want to go and how long do you want to do it often determines the form of things.

My computer fits on my desk as it is so making it smaller gains me nothing and just makes it less useful.

Maybe tower PCs will become slightly more niche again in the future, but they'll always be around for enthusiasts like me.

It Mako me angry. There's enough there I think it would be nice to have a little rover that could go like 30 mph and haul your loot.

If you liked that it's based on a browser game called Kingdom of Loathing, the gameplay is not as tight or refined but there's plenty to do and it's pretty enjoyable to play when you have some time to kill on a work pc lol.

You could say I'm a fisting artist.

RPGs almost always need a little hint on what's actually useful, this game doesn't have respecting AFAIK and is obviously quite long.

I've thought about this, I'm afraid my take won't be too deep, but that's just the cycle.

You pull things apart or away from their natural state and destroy what their original properties were to create something with different properties. There's no other way to make anything, creation is destruction, destruction is creation, and so the cycle will continue.

Even when. Your intent is purely destructive in nature you are creating something new, disordered and chaotic though it might be.

And it's not just humans doing it, it's happening all around you all the time, the universe breathes in this constant cycle of destruction and creation, no moment existing twice.

They want to get paid and it's much easier to get paid from someone willing to work out a deal.