[-] commandar@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

lol and this is exactly why that decision was so baffling.

The game has absolutely nothing to do with the 3D Realms Prey game. It's truer to System Shock than the Bioshock series ever was. It routinely goes on sale for next to nothing -- highly recommended if you're a fan of SS2.

[-] commandar@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

This is ridiculously well trod ground, but Prey also wasn't at all helped by Bethesda's marketing.

They had what is probably the truest successor to System Shock 2 that's been made on their hands and Bethesda made Arkane use the title of a 15 year old portal based shooter that had absolutely no relation to the game and didn't do particularly well because they owned the IP.

The entire Bethesda-Arkane relationship has been pretty thoroughly mismanaged.

[-] commandar@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

A cheap Allwinner SoC has enough compute to do what they're showing. So, yeah, China.

[-] commandar@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

Likely more expensive since you need enough onboard compute to run the computer vision.

That said, it's potentially reusable. The next logical step would be to add some sort of tether that entangles the target drone. Right now, it's just relying on direct impact to knock the other drone out of the sky, but all you really need to do is ensnare the props. That's doable without destroying the hunter drone.

[-] commandar@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Wattage = V x A.

They're pointing out that it's impossible to hold both wattage and voltage constant while changing the amperage.

[-] commandar@lemmy.world 98 points 4 weeks ago

Because Google holds a monopoly position and Epic doesn't.

That said, the irony didn't escape me either.

[-] commandar@lemmy.world 80 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don’t like him at all, but he was articulate and not at all unhinged.

I get what you mean here, but it's also what makes Vance and whatever else comes after Trump so dangerous: the bar has been lowered so far that people now view "able to form coherent sentences" as "not at all unhinged."

The man stood there and repeated the bald faced lie about Haitian migrants' legal status and then had a temper tantrum that the rules said he wasn't supposed to be fact-checked.

The substance of what he was saying was absolutely unhinged. But the Overton window has shifted so far that, because his delivery was neatly packaged, it doesn't look that bad compared to what we've gotten used to.

[-] commandar@lemmy.world 81 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

We also have real world examples like Alabama passing a voter ID law and then almost immediately turning around and closing DMV offices in poor, black counties, making getting an ID even more difficult for at-risk communities:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-01/alabama-closes-dmv-offices-a-year-after-voter-id-law-kicks-in

Voter ID laws are very much about cloaking intentional disenfranchisement of legal citizens in a veil of preventing virtually non-existent voter fraud.

[-] commandar@lemmy.world 56 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The Soviets moreso than the US in the case of Afghanistan.

The country actually received substantial modernization aid from both, but eventually went through a series of coups that culminated in the Soviet invasion of the country and the rise of the mujaheddin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan#Barakzai_dynasty_and_British_wars

The US isn't blameless in how the country turned out, but it's a much less direct line than it is with Iran.

[-] commandar@lemmy.world 74 points 3 months ago

This matches the broad strokes of the approach I favor as well.

There are 13 Federal circuits. Expand to one justice per circuit, then double that.

But the core of the approach, regardless of the exact number, is to shift to having cases heard by randomized panels of judges. The amount of power wielded by individual justices right now is just insane. Dilute it down so that the power rests with the body rather than individuals.

Further, randomizing who hears any given case would help curtail the current environment where test cases get tailored to the idiosyncracies and pet theories of individual judges.

SCOTUS should be deciding cases based on rational reading of the law, not entertaining wing nut theories that Thomas or Alito hinted at in previous decisions. That sort of nonsense becomes a lot less feasible if there's no guarantee a case will actually end up in front of Thomas or Alito.

[-] commandar@lemmy.world 85 points 4 months ago

According to the affidavit, Prieto said: “The reason I say Atlanta. Why, why is Georgia such a f------up state now? When I was a kid that was one of the most conservative states in the country. Why is it not now? Because as the crime got worse in L.A., St. Louis, and all these other cities, all the [N-words] moved out of those [places] and moved to Atlanta. That’s why it isn’t so great anymore. And they’ve been there for a couple, several years.”

Yes, black people have only been around in significant numbers in Atlanta for a couple years.

Certified stable genius.

[-] commandar@lemmy.world 85 points 10 months ago

There hasn't been a truck sold under the Dodge brand in over a decade at this point.

It's a pun, not an ad. Dodged a bullet.

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