TheHalc

@TheHalc@sopuli.xyz

A Brit in Helsinki who likes games, tech and burgers.

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TheHalc,

One of my workmates has been in one of their places for a while now. I’ve heard they’re particularly fun for young professionals.

TheHalc,

Sounds like your dad was taking about software daemons and Maxwell’s demon.

TheHalc,

But I would suggest that any band names that use umlauts/foreign letters should be pronounced accordingly.

Motörhead still kind of works.

TheHalc,

I’ll accept that, only as long as Americans learn that route is pronounced “root”, not “rout”.

TheHalc,

Oddly enough, it’s safer than wind.

Solar’s a little better in that regard, but all three are so much safer than any high-carbon sources of energy that any of them are great options.

TheHalc, (edited )

It’s been long established that coal produces more radioactive waste than nuclear power, and largely dumps it straight into the environment.

Somehow people think it’s worse if you keep it contained rather than massively diluted. If we thought of it like we do radiation in coal waste, we’d be happy to just dump it in the ocean.

Living in Finland, I’m proud of the fact that we’ve got one of the first long-term/final storage sites for nuclear waste in the world. YIMBY.

TheHalc,

I understand where you’re coming from, but some of the strongest communities are in rural places where public transport is unfortunately not a sustainable option.

TheHalc,

take responsibility [… like] human drivers do.

But do they really? If so, why’s there the saying “if you want to murder someone, do it in a car”?

I do think self-driving cars should be held to a higher standard than humans, but I believe the fundamental disagreement is in precisely how much higher.

While zero incidents is naturally what they should be aiming for, it’s more of a goal for continuous improvement, like it is for air travel.

What liability can/should we place on companies that provide autonomous drivers that will ultimately lead to safer travel for everyone?

Tory MPs submitting letters of no confidence in Sunak (www.thelondoneconomic.com)

I would be amazed if this actually came to fruition. It would paralyze the country yet again while they play party politics. That would be four PMs all from one election result. Four sets of resignation honours lists. yet another round of all change in ministerial positions. What would a new face actually achieve with so little...

TheHalc,

Nuclear submeringue. The new season of Bake Off is getting spicy.

TheHalc,

We desperately need electoral reform.

In a more diverse political landscape like the ones enabled by proportional representation, it’s very hard for a single party to be able to reach a majority without coalition partners.

If the Tories had to rely on coalition partners, there’s no way they’d have been able to hold a coalition together this long - they can hardly hold their own party together at this point.

[Game] ‘Starfield’ Steam Deck review in progress - "good in some parts but struggles in cities" (toucharcade.com)

“After dozens of hours on just Steam Deck, Starfield feels good in some parts, but really struggles in the bigger cities. Turning everything to low and enabling FSR2 is basically the only way to play it right now on Valve’s handheld, and even that drops to 20fps often in the first major city (New Atlantis). The game itself...

TheHalc,

While I appreciate a 60fps experience as much as the next gamer, this game targets 30fps on consoles. A 60 fps guarantee for Verified status is totally unrealistic.

I agree that there needs to be some sort of performance standards, but not everything has to run at 60 fps to give an absolutely fantastic experience. 30fps (as long as it’s a solid 30 fps) can do that too.

TheHalc,

Archive.is used to block people with Finnish IPs too, allegedly because of personal immigration issues.

I don’t get the impression it’s something anyone should ever rely on.

TheHalc,

“We trained it on social media.”

“Why does it keep making stuff up and then getting argumentative if called out?!”

TheHalc,

Hopefully you’re in a better situation now, I’m sorry to hear you’ve had to go through that.

I guess I’m fortunate that I tend to associate it with some of the worst conversations I’ve had with people on Reddit rather than anything more personal.

TheHalc,

X+4 what? Hours?

TheHalc,

Because it’s toxic for the type of brexiteers who objected to the EU because it meant there were more foreigners in the country. Even “worse”, these people will mostly be visible minorities.

This is a crucial constituency for the Conservative party.

TheHalc,

Ah yes, a statement on copyright thanking someone for buying an authorised edition of Great Expectations, a book whose copyright expired in 1940 at the latest…

TheHalc,

Perhaps there’s a danger that, by normalising self-identification as a thief, campaigns like this might have unanticipated societal results.

I’d hate to see shoplifting/burglary/mugging stats climbing in a few years time.

TheHalc,

Nieces, nephews & godchildren.

TheHalc,

Spreading and sharing those thoughts and memories, fragments of our selves, so that they can live on in everyone we ever interact with. People who will, in turn, spread those fragments on even further.

TheHalc,

The development cost for building it out in the new engine would probably be an order of magnitude higher than the simple upscale.

If they thought they’d get an order of magnitude more sales from doing things that way, they’d have done it that way.

I’m with you, though. I’d love a proper remaster that also came as a native PC edition.

TheHalc,

You don’t get rich by turning down easy money.

TheHalc,

Did your “friend” make you feel bad for getting mad at him? Frankly, it doesn’t sound like you owed him an apology at all - and if he didn’t apologise, he absolutely should have done.

When people get justifiably angry because their boundaries have been broken, emotionally abusive bullies often try to make their targets feel bad for “getting emotional”. It’s all an attempt to redirect the fact that they wronged you, not the other way around.

TheHalc,

Laughing when someone’s angry at you for something you’ve done isn’t a very positive reaction.

Of course you know your friendship better than we do, but nothing you’ve written makes it sound like you ever owed him an apology.

TheHalc,

To what extent is the issue of using screens before sleep a question of mental overstimulation as opposed to specific frequencies of light?

Genuine question.

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