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  • Interesting, but this isn't an entire heart, is it? Only half? Or isn't a human heart? Human hearts have separate left and right pairs of chambers which pump oxygenated and de-oxygenated blood separately. Or am I mistaken?

  • I don't even understand the appeal for either of the involved parties. I don't want things in or around my asshole, nor do I want any involvement with those of others. For reasons that completely elude me there seems to have been a cultural shift during my life from butt stuff being deviant behavior and fodder for jokes to almost a default expectation.

    I don't actually believe that it is a common expectation in real life dating between actual non-terminally-online people, but it certainly seems to be portrayed as such.

  • Bad design. Plenty of EVs have their brake pedal apply a mixture of regen and friction braking, with the actual proportions dependent on factors like how quickly you hit the brake (soft braking is entirely regen, slamming the brakes apples almost entirely actual brakes in my experience), or how much charge is in the battery (you can't safely pump power from regen into a nearly full battery).

    Plenty of them also let you control how much passive regen happens when you lift the pedal, with the default on mine at least feeling very similar to the slowing you get when lifting off the gas with an automatic transmission. It's adjustable from none at all to moderate braking force, and when I turn it up lifting my foot from the gas illuminates my brake lights.

  • The actual amount of centrifugal force is also tiny. Sure, it's a relatively fast linear speed compared to something like a merry-go-round, but a merry-go-round's angular velocity is much higher, and that's the one you use when calculating the force trying to fling you off.

    Also, centripetal force is the inward force observed by an external non-rotating reference frame which deflects motion into a curve. You've conflated it with centrifugal force, which is the outward "fictitious" force experienced in a rotating reference frame.

  • They're absolutely being disingenuous, but I think it's important to keep in mind that the purpose of debate is not generally to change the mind of the person you're debating with. It's intended to be done with an audience (or judges in a formal competitive debate), and it's the audience that you're trying to sway to your side.

  • Honestly it's an easy trap to fall into if you enter the space without prior knowledge and taking everyone at their word. I almost fell into it years back when gamergate was just getting rolling. I don't think anyone can reasonably deny that nepotism, preferential treatment, and paid shills are a major part of modern game marketing. But they'll get an initial hook in based on that idea and then slow-boil you on the idea that diversity and inclusion are also part of the problem. Soon that becomes the focus and people find themselves arguing that Aloy having visible peach fuzz if you zoom the camera a quarter inch from her face in photo mode is evidence that they're trying to erase "real women" from games.

    It's crazy.

  • usually, by "woke" movies people mean movies only made for the sake of being "woke", no?

    This is what people using the term really want you to think. That they're fine with incidental/statistically correct/non-performative diversity and inclusion and are just pointing out when it happens for the sake of itself to the detriment of the quality of media.

    The reality though is quite different, and people will call "woke" at almost any non-white, non-straight, or non-male character in a major role, or a non-cis character in even a passing role.

  • It doesn't matter if you have 2 Gigabit internet if no one in the world is uploading even half that fast. A single download on Steam is like 450 Mbps

    This sounds more like the infrastructure in your area just isn't up to delivering those speeds, regardless what the last mile to the home is.

    I promise you Steam's CDN absolutely can deliver more than 450Mbps. It regularly maxes out my 1.5 Gbps at home, and I have no doubt that it could potentially go even faster than that if I had a better connection.

    Like plugging a 10Gbps network switch into a 100Mbps gateway, it sounds like a fast final link to the home is being choked out by poor infrastructure in the region and can't be fully utilized.

  • Even more ridiculous since a 1.4x performance increase is already incredible news for anyone who makes regular of this.

    If someone found a software optimization that improved, say, blender performance by 1.4x people would be shouting praises from the rooftops.

  • I know someone who has a company with the word "technology" in the name, like "Smith Technology". They use .technology because it's literally the name of the company, which I think is good for the brand identity, but have run into issues where people just don't think it's a correct url because "smith.technology" looks like it's missing its TLD.

  • Also, this is tangential to the rest of our conversation, but I appreciate the dedication to the comment chain required to actually set up something with similar composition to the red man image and take a picture of it. Even has some black in the image in roughly the same size and area as his sweater. :D

  • For what it's worth I agree that AI images will generally have "tells" that give away their nature. It's just they aren't quite so straightforward as being able to check that average values are within a range. It would be nice if it were that easy though.

    While I do dabble with AI image generation I'm not a lunatic who calls themself an "artist" for doing so, nor do I think being a "prompt engineer" is any kind of expression of creativity or skill. I think the people who do are completely self-deluded.

  • Odd. I tag your red at 78%. And for what it's worth this RGB to HSV converter agrees with that number taking your colour hex as C92D20. I certainly don't know enough about it to offer an explanation as to why it might be different.

    edit: Ah, I think it's HSV vs HSL, which I'm just now learning are different things. :D

  • I'm not sure what you mean by the saturation being around 50% across the board. If I peek the HSB of all of the averages only that first teal-ish one appears to be around the mid point for saturation.